He is a king, a warrior, the last hope of his people–and the chosen one of the sidhe … journey with Cade and Rhiann to a world of myth and magic in Dark Age Wales!
Rhiann knows demons walk the night. She has been taught to fear them. But from the moment Cade is dragged before her father’s throne, beaten and having lost all of his men to her father’s treachery, he stirs something inside her that she has never felt before.
When Cade is revealed to be not only Arthur’s heir but touched by the sidhe, Rhiann must choose between the life she left behind and the one before her—and how much she is willing to risk to follow her heart.
Hotel mogul, Liam Bryson, has never believed in love at first sight, but when a sexy little siren twenty years his junior tempts him into a night of high stakes Blackjack, he’s suddenly playing for keeps.
Alisa wakes up in Liam’s bed the next morning, cursing Tequila and the five carat diamond on her left hand. She demands an annulment before her over-protective father finds out she reneged on their agreement, but her new hubby isn’t prepared to let her go without a fight.
FRIENDSHIP…
Lady Theodora Montgomery departed Miss Emmeline’s School of Education and Decorum for Ladies of Outstanding Quality to attend her first London Season–her three dearest friends by her side. With her sharp wit and skill on the archery field, Theo is far more interested in winning a large purse prize than securing a husband. But when she is unmasked on the tourney grounds, her face exposed to all, she fears her identity and days spent gallivanting around London will cause not only her undoing, but the downfall of her friends as well.
LOYALTY…Mr. Alistair Price, heir to the elderly Viscount Melton, arrived in London with his eight younger siblings in tow. He is charged with keeping his family name above reproach until the Season starts and his sister, Miss Adeline Price, is presented to society–though that proves far more difficult than Alistair ever expected when he discovers his rebellious sister climbing down the side of their townhouse and scurrying off to Whitechapel for an archery tournament. His focus remains on saving his family from the certain ruin and disgrace Adeline’s actions invited–until Alistair catches sight of another female archer, her arrow connecting with far more than the center of her target.
Patient 7
Patient numbers rather than names suggest an institution more interested in cases than people, and Sabrina Wade builds her thriller around exactly that clinical dehumanization, following a protagonist whose identity as Patient 7 starts to feel less like a label and more like a trap. The setup promises an unreliable environment where nothing and no one can be taken at face value. 🏥
Wade writes psychological thriller with an emphasis on institutional dread, the particular terror of being in a setting where your own perception of reality is being systematically questioned by the people around you. The patient-in-a-facility premise is a well-worn thriller setup, but the numbered title suggests a narrative more interested in what the system does to identity than in a simple escape plot. 🔍
Readers who enjoy psychological thrillers built around unreliable perception and institutional menace will find Wade’s premise immediately unsettling in the right ways.
Why this unsettles: it strips its protagonist down to a number and then slowly makes both her and the reader question everything they think they know about why she’s there.
The title alone is doing considerable work here, and Roxie Ray clearly knows it, leaning into the inherent absurdity and charm of a premise that puts a wolf shifter in the very mundane role of someone’s emergency contact. The gap between that bureaucratic normalcy and the supernatural reality underneath it is exactly where the comedy and the romance live. 🐺
Ray writes paranormal romance with a light, self-aware touch, using the modern real-world framing to give familiar shifter romance tropes a fresh contemporary angle. The emergency contact framing suggests a relationship built on proximity, obligation, and the gradual discovery that whoever you’d call in a crisis reveals more about your actual attachments than you’d planned to admit. 💕
Readers who enjoy paranormal shifter romance with a contemporary, lightly comedic premise that doesn’t take its supernatural elements too seriously will find this an entertaining, charming read.
Why this charms: it grounds a shifter romance in the most ordinary modern paperwork imaginable, mining real comedy and sweetness from the gap between the mundane and the supernatural.
Kristen Proby has built one of contemporary romance’s most devoted readerships by writing emotionally rich stories about people carrying real damage into relationships that ask them to be vulnerable anyway, and Pretty Little Scars opens the Silver Springs series firmly in that tradition. The title signals a story where the wounds aren’t hidden, just carefully managed. 💔
Proby writes with the emotional intelligence and character depth that’s made her previous series, including Fusion and Boudreaux, consistently popular with readers who want romance with genuine weight behind it. This series opener establishes Silver Springs as a setting worth returning to while delivering a complete, satisfying emotional arc for its central couple. 💕
Readers who enjoy emotionally layered contemporary romance with characters who have real histories and authors who take those histories seriously will find Proby’s latest series launch a compelling, heartfelt start.
Why this resonates: it opens a new series with the emotional depth Proby’s readers have come to rely on, giving its protagonists damage that feels real and a connection that earns its happy ending.