Good Afternoon everyone! We are officially four days into the month of May, and I’m feeling like today is going to be a beautiful day. Today is the perfect day for mowing the lawn.. or sitting on my porch swing with a good book. We’ll see where the day takes me. Anywho, let’s get to the reason you all are here.
There are so many great romances releasing this month. I decided to narrow my list down to my ten most anticipated. Meaning, these books are going directly to my kindle as soon as they release! So let’s get started with all the books I’m looking forward to!
Crave
By: Chelle Bliss
Release Date: May 2nd, 2024
Read Today: https://amzn.to/44v7Gju
Synopsis:
Tate Gallo had a type – emotionally unavailable bikers who were more feral than serious relationship material.
The day she turned thirty, she decided to make a change: No more biker boys. She deserved more. She wanted to be someone’s world.
But then he stumbled in bloodied, bruised, and in need of help. One look into his dark eyes, and Tate realized her life would never be the same again.
She wouldn’t fall for him.
She couldn’t, not for her heart’s sake.
But one kiss never hurt anyone…right?
But with one taste of his lips and touch of his hand, Tate knew she couldn’t escape his pull forever.
Entangled With You
By: Liss Montoya
Release Date: May 6th, 2024
*Will be Available in Kindleunlimited*
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4drKBSV
Synopsis:
When we met years ago, sparks flew when we became entangled with each other for a magical night.
Cattleya
A soccer star whose dreams are finally coming true. She has a burning desire in her soul to score in life and love.
But when her professional dreams become her reality, she’s still stuck on that night four years ago on the beach with him.
He comes back into her life in an unexpected way, but he doesn’t know it’s her. Is that same magic still there or has she lost him forever?
Matías
A brilliant engineer who keeps a playbook of methods in place to keep his mind from taking control of his actions.
But when it comes to Cattleya, there is no playbook that will keep his thoughts from running wild. When he’s convinced to move on, he meets an angel on a dating app who makes the guilt of forgetting Cattleya subside.
But when he finds out she’s behind the photos he’s fallen for, his mind is set on a whirlwind path to overthinking on how to become the man she deserves.
Will Matías and Cattleya be able to rediscover each other when victory on and off the field comes with a dangerous ultimatum?
This is the final book in the With You Series and although it can be read as a standalone, it’s best if you read the series in order. Starting with A Lifetime With You.
Trigger warnings:
Threats
Mental Health Rep (Anxiety of the MC)
Non descriptive sh00ting
D$ead of a non main character
The Five Year Lie
By: Sarina Bowen
Release Date: May 7th, 2024
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4a0RdFb
Synopsis:
Bestselling romance author Sarina Bowen’s debut thriller, about one woman’s search for the truth after receiving a text from her deceased ex.
She thought it was love. Then he vanished.
On an ordinary Monday morning, Ariel Cafferty’s phone buzzes with a disturbing text message. Something’s happened. I need to see you. Meet me under the candelabra tree ASAP. The words would be jarring from anyone, but the sender is the only man she ever loved. And it’s been several years since she learned he died.
Seeing Drew’s name pop up is heart-stopping. Ariel’s gut says it can’t be real. But she goes to the tree anyway. She has to.
Nobody shows. But the text upends everything she thought she knew about the day he left her. The more questions she asks, the more sinister the answers get. Only two things are clear: everything she was told five years ago is wrong, and someone is still lying to her.
The truth has to be out there somewhere. To safeguard herself—and her son—she’ll have to find it before it finds her. And with it, the answer to what became of Drew.
For fans of Laura Dave and Julie Clark, but with a heart-stopping romance that only Sarina Bowen can execute, The Five Year Lie is a page-turning, spine-tingling thriller that will have you guessing until the very end.
Smooth As Whiskey
By: Lyra Parish
Release Date: May 9th, 2024
*Will be Available in Kindleunlimited*
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/3Qyevv3
Synopsis:
Top three reasons why I shouldn’t eff around and find out with Cash Johnson.
1. He’s eight years older than me.
2. He’s best friends with my broody, older brother, who’s overly protective.
3. He’s hiding something.
So we become roommates. And I become his greatest temptation.
I play his dangerous game of cat and mouse until we collapse between the sheets with a promise to tell no one.
The only problem is that secrets don’t stay hidden in our small town for long—not our forbidden relationship or the pasts we’re both running from.
Smooth as Whiskey is book 4 in the Valentine Texas Series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone, but they do interconnect. This is a small-town, older brother’s best friend, secret relationship, contemporary romance book with a happily ever after.
Slow Southern Kisses
By: TC Matson
Release Date: May 9th, 2024
*Will be Available in Kindleunlimited*
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4dk9Nel
Synopsis:
Wrenley
When my grandmother asked me to run her bed-and-breakfast while she took a three-month vacation, I should’ve said no.
Now I’m stuck in this godforsaken town hours away from the pampered life I live in New York City.
Gone are my days filled with luxury and glamour. I’ve been reduced to being domesticated.
What can possibly go wrong?
Decker Black, that’s what.
He walks into my life—more like breaks in, but whatever—and immediately irritates the hell out of me.
I can’t stand him. He’s moody, grumpy, and surly all rolled into one annoyed glare.
Until one severe storm changes everything.
I never could’ve imagined a slower, simpler life was everything I was missing.
Unfortunately, my home is in New York and my heart is stuck in Alabama.
Decker
My life is quiet and calm. Just how I like it.
Until Wrenley comes barreling in out of nowhere and disrupts everything.
Gone are my days of balance and routine. She brings turbulence and chaos.
She’s quick-tempered with a bold mouth full of sharp jabs and is entirely ungrateful.
She’s a headache, and I’m ready for her to go back to where she came from.
So why can’t I stay away from her?
The more time we spend alone, the more I realize underneath all the anger is something beautiful. And I like it. I like her.
I never thought love and happiness was missing in my life.
Unfortunately, my small town no longer has everything I need.
It doesn’t have her.
Meant For Her
By: Natasha Madison
Release Date: May 10th, 2024
*Will be Available in Kindleunlimited*
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/3Us4Ozp
Synopsis:
From Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestselling Author Natasha Madison comes new enemies to lovers, forbidden, single mom, hockey romance.
Christopher
I came from the biggest hockey family in the NHL.
Records were set by my grandfather, my father, and now my brother.
I was taught to love the game, but more than that, I learned early the men you play with are your family.
You get on the ice every night and protect them, celebrate the wins, and pick each other up when you fall.
So when we lost Benji, I stepped in to help his wife and kids, but this pull I feel when it comes to them is something more than I can even understand.
Dakota
My life was perfect, until it wasn’t.
Gone was the husband I thought I knew and in his place was a stranger.
I saw him change before my eyes.
Then he was gone, leaving me and our girls alone.
I wanted nothing to do with anyone or anything that took him away from me.
But no matter how many times I’ve told his best friend I don’t need help.
He’s here doing things for us, and the worst part is, I want him to
Before We Were Us
By: CA Harms
Release Date: May 14th, 2024
*Will be Available in Kindleunlimited*
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4beM0um
Synopsis:
She stepped up to my side in a dark club and ordered a whiskey.
My go-to drink.
I didn’t know her name, I knew nothing about her, but every part of me came alive.
For more than a year my life had been turned upside down. I’d hit a wall at every turn, but suddenly the weight had lifted.
And the minute she stepped away, I felt the loss.
Things are not always as they seem.
We all have regrets; parts of our lives we wish we could erase.
For me, I wish I could change the order in which those choices were made.
Had I only met her first.
Had it been her that said yes.
Brynn is everything I could ever want, the problem is, my past may keep us from ever having a future.
Because before we were us, I was a version of myself I’d like to forget.
But that version of me has not yet been laid completely to rest.
Stay Anyway
By: Kaylee Ryan
Release Date: May 21st, 2024
*Will be Available in Kindleunlimited*
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4dqcvyM
Synopsis:
Stella
Getting pregnant in college wasn’t part of the plan, but I’ll never regret giving birth to the best part of me. Even if my parents did disown me for it.
A fresh start in a small town seems like a good idea, until a handsome stranger shows me a little kindness and has me feeling things, I thought I’d never feel again… things I have no business feeling about a man I just met.
Every time I turn around, Maverick is there. One thing inevitably leads to another and my newfound friend comes with benefits. I’m doing my best to hold it all together, but the truth is, when I see him with my daughter, I know I’ve already fallen too far.
Maverick
From the moment Stella rolled into town, she’s had my attention. Since that moment, I’ve been determined to befriend the sexy single mom who’s down on her luck.
Stella has fallen on hard times, but something tells me she’ll never take a handout. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to try to help, so of course I put in a good word to get her a job. She’s smart enough to know I had a hand in it, but that’s what friends are for, right?
With each day that passes, Stella becomes more than just a friend. She’s my best friend—who I apparently can’t keep my hands off. She’s worried we’re complicating things, but screw that. Blurred lines or not, I ask her to stay anyway.
Sizzling
By: Abbi Glines
Release Date: May 26th, 2024
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/3JKB6Rp
Synopsis:
Briar
Running. It seems that’s all I ever do. I’ve been running since I was fifteen. Some days I wonder if I’ll ever be able to stop. Would I even know how to live a normal life if I could? Doubt it. No reason to waste good time thinking on it either. Sitting around wishing for something never did anyone a favor. If you want it, then you go and get it. By any means necessary. And I was an expert at using my strengths. I’d been born with beauty, and it had been a curse that haunted me until, one day, I grabbed it and used it to my advantage. Don’t judge. You have no idea the demons I’ve fought… and the ones I still do.
Storm
Sure, I was raised to kill when needed and to protect the family. However, my momma also taught me to open doors for women and respect them unless they prove they’re not ladies. It was a damn shame the sweet little piece I’d been unable to get out of my head had never been a lady a day in her life. That gorgeous face and mouthwatering body were real nice wrapping paper to distract men. Briar Landry was a liar, a thief, a cheat, and a very talented gold digger. She disgusted me. The more I was forced to be around her, the more I hated her. I knew the evil inside her and I had enough twisted darkness of my own. Treating her with cruelty, I hadn’t known I possessed, was the only way to keep from letting her pull me inside her web.
Fall With Me
By: Brooke Montgomery
Release Date: May 29th, 2024
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4a6ksGB
Synopsis:
A dislike to lovers stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a barrel racer who loses her memory and the rowdy cowboy she once hated but no longer remembers…
*Full synopsis to come*
Fall With Me is book 3 in the Sugarland Creek series. Each book in this Southern, small town series is a stand-alone and ends in a happily ever after.
Which new releases are you anticipating this month?
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