I hope you’re having a beautiful day!
Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought about swimming in October, but here I am! Mr. Man and I have been ready to shut our pool down since the middle of September. However, the water is still far too warm to safely shut it down. This weekend we are throwing my mom, Mr. Man’s mom, and my uncle a birthday bash and for the first time ever, there will be swimming….. 85 degrees in October?! Seriously, I’m ready for the fall vibes and this heat isn’t screaming fall vibes. It’s a weird year for weather. I’m not complaining, it just means winter is going to come faster than the initial seasons. But anywho, this weather is perfect for some much needed reading on my porch swing time. And there are a few new releases I have my sights set on, so let’s dive into the new releases I’m most anticipating this month!
Loved Out Loud
(Blue Sunday Series, Book One)
By: Nichole Greene
Release Date: October 2nd, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3Wj0G69
Synopsis:
Hazel Archer is my new addiction.
Nearly a year after becoming sober and staying out of the headlines my band, Blue Sunday, is back on the road with a new album. The last thing I expected was to be joined by the gorgeous, curvy author I met on the set of a morning news program, but I’m not complaining. She has a long history of being around shitty men and I’m happy to be her plot twist.
Stone Tyler is larger than life and I’m locked in his orbit.
He came into my life like a vengeful god, vaulting over a sofa to save me as if I was a damsel in distress. When my agent informed me the following day that my book tour was going to be combined with his album tour I didn’t know what to expect. I certainly didn’t think he’d be showing up in my room to spend hours writing together. Or that those nights would turn into something else entirely.
Now we’re so wrapped up in each other there’s only two ways this will end. We’ll either get an angsty breakup album or our happily ever after.
Beyond The Blue Horizon
(Moonlit Ridge Series, Book Four)
By: A.L. Jackson
Release Date: October 7th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/475Kg7o
Synopsis:
I should have known I’d break the promise I made when I found her stranded in a blizzard…
Feisty as hell and the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen.
With the cutest kid and her grandmother in tow, she’s completely off limits.
I don’t get involved with women like that.
I learned long ago I don’t have the ability to love.
My life is sordid and danger is always hiding in the shadows.
Only I can’t turn my back on them when I realize she’s in trouble, and I insist on them staying in a cabin at the motel I own.
As penance for my sins, I promised my life to protecting others.
Except she becomes so much more.
A need I don’t recognize. A desperation that burns beneath my flesh.
One kiss, and I’m falling for her.
One touch, and I’m at her feet.
But when my dark past comes back to haunt me, I’m in a race against time to save the only woman I’ve ever loved. Only it may be the demons that have been chasing her that destroy what we built…
The Infiniteness Of Yesterday
By: Micalea Smeltzer
Release Date: October 14th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4nAORo3
Synopsis:
An angsty, love triangle romance from bestselling author, Micalea Smeltzer
He was my first love, but it doesn’t mean he’s my last.
I fell in love with Spencer when I was only a teenager. He was the sun, the moon, and the stars in my young eyes. But our lives were turned upside down when I got pregnant. A baby wasn’t part of the plan. Neither was him becoming one of Hollywood’s hottest young actors. Suddenly, he wasn’t mine anymore. He belonged to the world and I was his past and just the girl he had a child with.
He’s my present, but it doesn’t mean he’s my future.
I didn’t expect Jameson, but life works in mysterious ways, giving you what you need when you least expect it. He picked up the pieces of myself that were shattered in the aftermath of Spencer. I’m older now, not blinded with stars in my eyes like I once was. Jameson is my safe harbor in all of life’s storms.
But just like the twinkling stars in the sky, love soars, changes and burns with the passage of time.
When my past returns to collide with my present, only my forever love will remain…
Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal
(How My Neighbor Stole Christmas Series, Book Two)
By: Meghan Quinn
Release Date: October 14th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4gUk7f1
Synopsis:
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a brand new holiday rom-com with all the humor and heat her fans adore.
Nothing says I love you like trespassing, public humiliation, and a town-wide Christmas spectacle to win your crush back.
Atlas “Max” Maxheimer did not sign up for this. One minute, he’s anxiously trying to keep his family’s Christmas tree farm from imploding. The next? He’s passed out in the snow after getting clocked by a suspiciously strong bottle of soda.
Enter Betty: new in town, full of holiday cheer, and helping her uncle open a rival tree farm next door. Max is convinced she’s out to destroy everything Evergreen Farm stands for. Betty thinks Max might be one sleigh short of a winter parade.
Cue the holiday chaos.
Between blizzards, blown reputations, wildly misguided romantic plots, and one stolen ornament with a seriously tragic backstory, this small-town war turns into something far messier―and much more delicious―than either of them expected.
Learn The Play
(Nashville Rampage Series, Book Three)
By: Kaylee Ryan
Release Date: October 14th, 2025
Amazon: https://amzn.to/42k3ofk
Synopsis:
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Learn the Play is a coach’s daughter, forbidden, one-night stand, surprise-pregnancy romance.
Bellamy
I watched my parents’ marriage crumble when my father chose football over family. His love for the game destroyed us. It’s why I loathe it. It’s also why I don’t trust easily.
So when I meet a handsome stranger at a hotel bar, we trade nothing but first names. I’m miles from home and I’ll never see him again.
Until I do. At a family event with my dad, he’s there—my mystery man from weeks ago. Only now, I know who he is: a football player on my father’s team. Which means I need to forget him… and his tight end.
Reid
The night I meet the dark-haired beauty at the bar, everything changes. We talk, laugh, and our connection is unlike anything I’ve ever felt. The next morning, she’s gone, leaving me with only her name.
I think I’ve lost her, until she walks into my stadium, standing right beside my coach. Fate hands me a second chance, and I’m not letting it slip.
To her, I’m just another football player. But I’ll prove to her that I’m not her father… I’m my own man. And my dream girl, she was meant to be mine.
The Older Brother
By: Ginger Scott
Release Date: October 16th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4mR4c2D
Synopsis:
Rowan Anderson was always my fantasy, until suddenly . . . he was intimately real.
My relationship with the Anderson boys would always be doomed by complications.
They were rich, and their father…was my mother’s boss. Her hard work for them paid for my private school education, yet we barely got by.
Caleb, the youngest brother, was my first everything.
But it was Rowan, the older brother, who I saw first.
Last.
Always.
It was one slip in judgement, one night of giving in to temptation, and suddenly I was buried in the Anderson family’s bitterness, secrets and lies. The more I learned, the more I fell. And soon, I was in too deep.
Getting hurt is inevitable, but when Rowan looks at me, I just don’t care.
The question is, does he see Saylor Kelly, his little brother’s ex, or does he see the woman I’m becoming? Or maybe this is all just pretend.
Take My Love
(Nashville Rampage Series, Book Three)
By: Brooke Montgomery
Release Date: October 22nd, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4gSIzxh
Synopsis:
A forced proximity stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a heartbroken man who finds himself without a job or place to live and the country girl who owns a goat farm with an open position and spare bedroom…
I’ve crushed on my brother’s best friend since I was twelve. He never gave me a second glance until I was dared to kiss him.
The following summer, we drunkenly hooked up at my brother’s wedding. Finding out he had no memory of our night together made it my dirty little secret.
I spent years avoiding him, but then he shows up at my goat farm needing a job and place to live after his fiancée calls off their engagement. Reluctantly, I agree to give him a chance.
But that doesn’t mean I have to make it easy on him.
Keeping things strictly platonic between us, I suggest he date again to get over his ex. When he needs a plus-one, I offer to be his wing woman.
After a night of drinking, I stupidly confess the reasons guys keep breaking up with me and he offers to help me instead.
Lines blur when “just roommates” turn into roommates with benefits, but I’m still determined not to let him break my heart a second time.
Even if it seems inevitable.
Stand Your Ground
(Kings Of The Ice Series, Book Five)
By: Kandi Steiner
Release Date: October 24th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/42oxxtQ
Synopsis:
I wrote up the contract myself.
Legally binding. Crystal clear. No strings. No feelings.
Just sex — and two million dollars in exchange for my time and expertise.
Carter Fabri may be Tampa Bay’s newest rising star, but off the ice, he’s all Bambi eyes and inexperience. He’s a virgin in desperate need of lessons in dominance, seduction, and everything in between.
And I happen to be just the woman to teach him.
I don’t need his money.
But I do need what it can give me.
I’m thirty-two, cut off from my family, and one bill away from drowning in student debt. The fantasy I’ve built around my lifestyle is getting harder to maintain. This pay day would secure the lifestyle I’ve worked too hard to let slip through my fingers and finally give me the chance to save for something I’ve always wanted — something I’ve never told anyone about.
So, I take Carter on as my student. I lay out every rule, every boundary, every carefully controlled term of our arrangement.
What I don’t plan for is how quickly he’d catch on — or how much I’d enjoy letting him take the reins.
This was supposed to be a lesson in power.
But somewhere along the way, I stopped being the one in charge.
I thought I could keep my heart out of it.
I thought I’d accounted for every risk.
But some consequences you can’t predict — no matter how carefully you draft the terms.
The Secret We Keep
By: Emily Catlow
Release Date: October 28th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3WiplaS
Synopsis:
Morgan
Everyone around me seems to be growing up and moving on, while I am stuck. Isolated. Still living at home.
Until Paddy O’Keefe comes back into my life.
Our friendship blooms and our connection grows, although he refuses to cross the line into something more.
He encourages my dreams and teaches me new things. All while trying to sort through his own trauma.
But in doing so, he sees the truth: that I have to let go of the one thing I cherish most that will change my life forever.
I’m not sure if I’m strong enough to do that… Or if I’m brave enough to make the first step.
But for the first time in forever, Paddy makes me believe it might just be possible.
Until Nalia
(Until Him/Her Series, Book Fifteen)
By: Aurora Rose Reynolds
Release Date: October 29th, 2025
Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gPFWfI
Synopsis:
Nalia never expected to move back to her hometown, especially not with her ten-year-old sister in tow. But when her biological mother is sent to prison, she finds herself stepping into the role of parent. Overwhelmed with her new reality, she turns to the one place she has always felt safe. Home with her family.
What she doesn’t expect when she moves home is him.
After getting divorced, Logan Rafe is not interested in another relationship. His world revolves around his two kids and the auto shop he built from the ground up.
But then he meets Nalia Mayson. Beautiful, brave, and completely uninterested.
Using everything at his disposal, including their kids’ friendship, as an excuse to get closer, Logan slowly breaks down her walls. And before long, what began as an unlikely friendship becomes something deeper, something only he saw coming.
But healing takes time, and Nalia will need to accept herself and her past before she can fully let herself fall in love. And the two of them, well, the two of them will need to navigate having children, a school bully, and a complex family situation if they are going to find their happily ever after.
Are you looking forward to any new releases this month?
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