Home for a family wedding, Chase Baron has a plan to avoid his grandfather’s matchmaking—hire an actress to be his date. No strings and no commitments is just the ticket for no complications 💍
When CJ Lawson’s ditzy sister takes a last minute acting role out of town, CJ has to take over her sister’s local job—cozying up to a wealthy and sinfully handsome billionaire. The gig sounded simple when her sister described it: show up at a wedding, smile, and collect a check. But CJ quickly realizes she’s in way over her head 💰
What could possibly go wrong? Everything, as it turns out. Chase’s grandfather isn’t fooled for a second and decides to test whether this relationship is real. The entire Baron family is watching, judging, and creating situations designed to expose the fake romance. Meanwhile, Chase and CJ have to maintain the charade while developing very real and inconvenient feelings for each other 🤠
The Texas setting adds charm—the Baron family ranch, the small-town wedding festivities, the matchmaking grandfather who’s determined to see his grandsons settled down. CJ, who’s used to being the responsible one cleaning up her sister’s messes, finds herself enjoying the role of Chase’s fake girlfriend a little too much 💕
Chris Keniston writes clean romance with humor and heart. The fake dating trope gets fresh energy from CJ stepping into her sister’s role and Chase’s plan backfiring spectacularly when genuine attraction develops. The wedding setting provides built-in romantic moments that blur the lines between performance and reality 🌟
Why this charms: Chris Keniston launches the Billionaire Barons of Texas series with fake dating gone real—Chase hires an actress to avoid his grandfather’s matchmaking, but when her ditzy sister bails, responsible CJ takes over. The wedding, the meddling family, and undeniable chemistry create clean romance with Texas charm and genuine laughs.
It should never had happened. They should have never met. Neither should have been where they were in that moment in time in the crossroads of history 🌍
But it did happen, and they did meet, despite the million to one odds that so often left forks in the path during World War 2. Almost every life on the planet was changed to some degree, some most profound. Some entire generations were destroyed, while others were created. The chaos of war created impossible meetings, unlikely love stories, and connections that defied all probability 💕
Somewhere in your recent past, there is a story not unlike this one. World War II touched nearly every family—whether through service members, wartime workers, evacuees, or those who simply lived through the rationing and fear. The ripples of those six years still shape families today, though many stories remain untold ⚔️
What was history like before it was history? What was it like in their world? Robert Gerard Anstey asks readers to imagine the war not as dates and battles in textbooks, but as lived experience—the daily fear, the small moments of joy stolen between air raids, the impossible choices ordinary people faced 📖
This true story captures one such impossible meeting, one such unlikely love, preserved before memory fades and the generation that lived it is gone. Anstey writes with the urgency of someone racing against time to document what happened before it becomes just another forgotten casualty of war 🌹
What makes this essential: Robert Gerard Anstey preserves a true World War II love story that defied million-to-one odds, reminding readers that history was lived experience before it became textbook dates. For anyone interested in personal WWII narratives and the unlikely meetings that shaped families across generations.
Desperate to escape her abusive past, Sarah Cooper disguises herself as a governess in the employ of Christian Trent, Earl of Markham, the man who, long ago, she fantasized about marrying. Despite the battle scars that mar his face, Sarah finds being near Christian rekindles her infatuation 💕
A governess, however, has no business in the arms of an earl, and as she accompanies Christian on his voyage home, Sarah must resist her intense desires—or risk revealing her dangerous secrets. Every moment on the ship increases the danger of discovery. Christian might recognize her. Her abuser might find her. And the feelings she’s suppressing might overwhelm her carefully constructed disguise ⚓
One of the renowned Libertine Scholars, Christian Trent once enjoyed the company of any woman he chose. But that was before the horrors of Waterloo, his wrongful conviction of a hideous crime, and his forcible removal from England. The man who once moved through London ballrooms with confidence now bears facial scars and a ruined reputation 💔
Far from home and the resources he once had, Christian believes the life he knew—and any chance of happiness—is over, until his ward’s governess sparks his heart back to life, and makes him remember the man he used to be. Sarah sees past his scars to the person beneath, treating him with genuine warmth rather than pity or horror 🌹
Now Christian is determined to return to England, regain his honor, and win the heart of the woman he has come to love. But clearing his name means facing the forces that destroyed him, and winning Sarah means she’ll have to trust him with the secrets she’s been hiding. Bronwen Evans writes Regency romance with genuine stakes—both protagonists are damaged, desperate, and deserving of the redemption they find in each other 👑
What makes this compelling: Bronwen Evans delivers three Disgraced Lords novels where damaged heroes seek redemption and second chances. Sarah disguises herself as governess to the scarred Earl of Markham while fleeing abuse, and their attraction develops during a voyage that could expose both their secrets—Regency romance with emotional depth and genuine danger.
The Doctor
Is he the perfect man or the perfect liar?
From the moment I first see Doctor Drew Devlin, I want him to be mine. Drew is the perfect man—he’s charming, handsome and wealthy. And I need the security that comes from being with someone like him 💍
I’m at my lowest point and I have nothing to lose; this is my chance to escape my troubled past. So I’m going to stop at nothing to ensure that Drew marries me… Whatever it takes, I will become the doctor’s wife 💕
Except when I get closer to Drew, I realise the doctor isn’t who he says he is. He’s hiding a dangerous secret. But so am I… Daniel Hurst writes dual-perspective psychological thriller where both narrators are unreliable, both hiding dangerous secrets, both manipulating the other 🔍
The narrator’s determination to “become the doctor’s wife” at any cost immediately establishes her as morally questionable. She’s not falling in love—she’s executing a plan. Drew represents security and escape, which suggests her “troubled past” is serious enough that marriage to a doctor seems like salvation ⚡
But Drew’s perfection is facade. The charming, wealthy doctor is hiding something dangerous enough to threaten everything. As the narrator gets closer and discovers his secrets, she realizes she’s not the only one playing games. The question becomes: whose secrets are more dangerous? 💔
The “but so am I” revelation promises that neither character is innocent. This is a collision course between two people who are both lying, both manipulating, both hiding pasts that could destroy them. The marriage becomes a battle of deceptions 🌹
Why this grips from page one: Daniel Hurst’s new release delivers dual-perspective thriller where a woman determined to become the doctor’s wife at any cost discovers he’s hiding dangerous secrets—but so is she. The collision of two manipulative liars makes this twisty psychological suspense where neither narrator can be trusted and both have everything to lose.
Justice has a sound. This time, it’s silence.
When Deputy Attorney General Eleanor Vance dies in an apparent suicide, DOJ prosecutor Alex Hayes is left holding fragments of a conspiracy—evidence of a covert network placing corrupt judges on the federal bench. Vance had hinted at a link to Alex’s own mother, then vanished before revealing the truth ⚖️
The deeper Alex digs, the more contradictions she finds. Some files paint Vance as a whistleblower. Others as an architect of the scheme. Sealed records, secret payoffs, and a single white queen chess piece point to a dangerous double life. Was Vance exposing the conspiracy or running it? 🔍
To expose the truth, Alex must untangle Vance’s role in the conspiracy before the same silent gavel that ended her career—and her life—comes down on Alex. The title’s metaphor is chilling: justice should make noise, but corrupt judges silence it. The gavel falls silently when the system itself is compromised 💔
L.T. Ryan and Laura Chase write legal thriller that tackles judicial corruption at the highest levels. The conspiracy to place corrupt judges threatens the entire justice system—every case they hear, every verdict they deliver, every sentence they impose is tainted by their allegiance to whoever placed them on the bench ⚡
Alex’s personal connection through her mother raises the stakes impossibly high. This isn’t just professional—it’s about understanding her own family history and whether her mother was victim, whistleblower, or participant in a conspiracy that’s been running for decades 🎯
What makes this a must-read: Ryan and Chase deliver new legal thriller where DOJ prosecutor Alex unravels a conspiracy placing corrupt judges on federal benches after Deputy AG Vance’s suspicious suicide. The contradictory evidence, connection to Alex’s mother, and the silent gavel metaphor create legal suspense where the justice system itself is compromised.
The dirt under Jonathan’s fingernails used to be the dust of Kandahar and Caracas. As a former operator for the CIA’s Special Activities Division, Hunt was a “Gray Man”—a ghost trained to dismantle insurgencies and vanish without a trace 🎯
His speciality was asymmetrical warfare, until he faked his death two years ago. He thought he was out. He thought he could replace the violence with the silence of the vines. The vineyard represented everything the CIA wasn’t—peaceful, productive, rooted in one place instead of constantly moving through war zones 🍷
He was wrong. When his boss gets entangled with local thugs, Hunt steps in to handle it the only way he knows how—quickly and brutally. But he unknowingly kicks a hornet’s nest. The thugs aren’t just low-level criminals; they are the foot soldiers for Vissarion, a sadistic cartel enforcer with big plans for the small town 💀
Vissarion isn’t just moving drugs; he’s testing a terrifying new synthetic weapon, VX-9, on the American heartland. The choice of a small town isn’t random—it’s a testing ground for a chemical weapon that could devastate entire populations. Hunt’s interference has put him directly in the path of someone who sees American lives as disposable test subjects ⚡
Wagner and Cook write military thriller that examines what happens when operators try to retire. Hunt has the skills to handle local thugs, but those skills also make it impossible for him to walk away when he sees what’s really happening. The vineyard life was always going to be temporary 🔥
Why this grips from page one: Wagner and Cook launch Jonathan Hunt series with ex-CIA “Gray Man” who faked his death for vineyard life—until local thugs reveal connection to cartel enforcer testing synthetic weapon VX-9 on small-town America. Hunt’s asymmetrical warfare expertise meets chemical weapon conspiracy in explosive military thriller debut.