Does a second chance at happiness include your husband’s three best friends? Miles, Deacon, and Cassidy are Franklin’s best friends, brothers in every sense of the word—when Franklin asks his brothers to do something unorthodox as his dying wish, the trio has some reservations. T.M. Richardson launches The Secrets Series with polyamory romance where when they tell his widow about the oath they were bound in brotherhood to uphold, the question becomes whether she’ll run or embrace a new phase of her life that includes the three of them. 💕Tatum thought she’d found forever until tragedy struck and her husband of twenty-two years dies, feeling her world has ended—little does she know that Franklin’s last request opens a Pandora’s Box to something even greater and fulfilling than she ever imagined. Richardson explores grief, loyalty, and unexpected second chances when a dying man’s final wish creates possibilities his widow never considered. The author examines how love can expand rather than replace when the right people offer their hearts. 💔
The first Secrets novel delivers polyamory romance about honoring impossible last wishes and discovering that forever can have more than one meaning, proving that sometimes the greatest love story begins after you think yours has ended. Richardson writes about widow’s grief transforming into something new when three men bound by brotherhood to her late husband offer her not replacement but addition. The oath that seemed impossible becomes the doorway to healing none of them expected. 🌟
What makes this compelling: Polyamory romance launching The Secrets Series where Miles, Deacon, and Cassidy—Franklin’s best friends and brothers in every sense—have reservations about his unorthodox dying wish but tell his widow Tatum about the oath they’re bound in brotherhood to uphold, asking whether she’ll run or embrace a new life phase including the three of them when Franklin’s last request opens a Pandora’s Box to something greater than her twenty-two-year marriage.
Staff Sergeant Eli Vanhorn isn’t the man he used to be—once a proud member of the Fleet Marine Corps’ elite Terrestrial Advance Combat teams, the battle on colony planet Luyten C left him broken and scarred, but after a year of surgeries and physical therapy, he’s ready to complete his enlistment as Master of Arms on the exploration vessel Rihla, which should be a simple, stress-free assignment except things rarely work out as they should. Toby Neighbors delivers space exploration science fiction where for decades humanity’s efforts to spread across the galaxy have been hampered by the violent Orrkasi, an intelligent, space-faring race of which little is known. 🚀Staff Sergeant Vanhorn is no stranger to the Orrkasi—he’s a veteran with eight combat engagements, a hardened warrior who knows how to improvise, adapt, and overcome, but he’s facing challenges he never expected before with his body crippled and scarred, the TAC Team brotherhood seeing him as a pariah, and haunted by the horrors of combat. Neighbors explores how physical wounds heal faster than psychological ones, examining whether a warrior defined by his body can find purpose when that body has failed him. Just getting through his first cruise after returning to active duty won’t be easy. 💪
When the explorer ship Rihla reaches the Leonis system after almost a month in hyperspace, they find a habitable planet with rich atmosphere, liquid water, and ideal climate—a perfect world for human colonization, but they aren’t the first to arrive, and the Orrkasi have a surprise waiting for them. The first SSG Vanhorn novel combines military science fiction with exploration adventure, proving that surviving war doesn’t mean you’re done fighting. 🌍
Why I’m including this: Space exploration science fiction launching SSG Vanhorn where Staff Sergeant Eli Vanhorn, once proud Fleet Marine Corps elite TAC Team member left broken and scarred by battle on colony planet Luyten C, completes his enlistment as Master of Arms on exploration vessel Rihla—a veteran with eight Orrkasi combat engagements facing new challenges with his crippled body, pariah status, and combat horrors haunting him when they discover a perfect habitable planet in the Leonis system where the Orrkasi have a surprise waiting.
As a basilisk, Bain Ophion has lived over two hundred years, and for the last ten he’s worked for his best friend, a sorcerer who runs Protective Solutions—Bain loves his work as a bodyguard and especially loves proving his skills when clients take one look at him and doubt. Rinda Elliott launches Mystic Guardians with paranormal romance where yeah, he may dress flashy and have androgynous looks, but he also comes with preternatural strength that humans don’t know about because, like all his fellow bodyguards, he uses a glamour to hide what doesn’t blend since most humans aren’t ready to know about the supernatural world around them, but he’s about to learn that there are a few who are special. 🐍Clive Manning has no idea which of his new clients is threatening his life, but when they send someone to break into his home, he knows he can’t handle this alone—he lives a perfectly ordered life and works from home for a reason: lifelong fear. Elliott explores what happens when someone who’s built their entire existence around avoiding danger suddenly needs protection from a bodyguard who looks like a rockstar but fights like a supernatural predator. He calls Protective Solutions and hires a bodyguard, expecting a man in black but getting Bain instead, shocked and highly attracted to this colorful protector. 💕
Clive is cautious yet compassionate and soon Bain proves he’s very good at his job among other things, with Elliott delivering paranormal romance where a two-hundred-year-old basilisk bodyguard who dresses flashy and looks androgynous falls for the fearful client he’s protecting. The author examines how someone who’s lived perfectly ordered to manage lifelong fear responds when chaos arrives in rockstar packaging with preternatural strength. The first Mystic Guardians novel establishes a world where supernatural bodyguards protect humans who don’t know monsters are real. ✨
What makes this essential: Paranormal romance launching Mystic Guardians where two-hundred-year-old basilisk Bain Ophion works as bodyguard for Protective Solutions, dressing flashy with androgynous looks and preternatural strength hidden by glamour—when Clive Manning calls for protection after someone breaks in, expecting a man in black but getting a rockstar, he’s shocked and highly attracted as Bain proves very good at his job among other things while Clive’s perfectly ordered life built on lifelong fear collides with supernatural danger.
Moby: A Whale Shifter Romance
Darla is desperate to escape her overbearing parents on their Hawaiian vacation—who could have expected a whale to swim up beside her on a boating excursion and become her closest confidant? Jessa Kane delivers magic romance where there’s something about the whale’s soulful gray eyes and powerful demeanor that Darla finds intriguing, but alas, she must return to shore with the rest of the humans until later that evening when a seven-foot-tall man with an odd dialect approaches her on the beach, and there’s something strangely familiar about him. 🐋Moby never intended to utilize his power to shift from whale to human until he met Darla with her melodic voice and a body that grips him with sensual urges—urges he has now come to land to fulfill, and fulfill them he will. Kane explores what happens when a whale shifter becomes harpooned by love, forcing him to confess his true identity to Darla and even worse, that his time on land is limited. The author delivers shifter romance that takes “different species” to oceanic extremes. 🌊
Unless Moby and Darla can together break a decade-old curse, he’ll return to the sea forever—Kane asks whether love between a human and a whale shifter can survive when time is literally running out with every moment on land. The magic romance balances sensual urgency with the ticking clock of Moby’s curse, creating stakes where happily-ever-after means breaking ancient magic or accepting heartbreak. The author proves that some love stories require believing in impossible things. 💕
What makes this compelling: Magic romance where Darla desperate to escape overbearing parents on Hawaiian vacation befriends a whale with soulful gray eyes who becomes her confidant, then meets seven-foot-tall Moby with odd dialect on the beach—a whale shifter harpooned by love who has limited time on land unless they break a decade-old curse together.
She inherited a freaking family, thanks to Gramps—expecting the lake house, the repairs, and the weird little secrets he left behind, but sharing this place with Kane Saint and his kids wasn’t part of the plan. Nicole Snow delivers grumpy single dad romance where there’s nothing holy about a man this guarded and growly and scary fine, at war with everything except his adorable munchkins, with a classic standoff erupting the instant she lets him stay after an awkward mix-up. 🏡She goes to work looking for her grandfather’s final cryptic gift while Saint Dadzilla goes to work on her—a helping hand she never asked for, the warmest laughs over breakfast feasts, and when one stolen kiss claims her soul, she forgets this is clinically insane. Snow explores what happens when playing house with the wrong man feels like coming home, examining how forced proximity with a grumpy single dad can shatter all your careful plans. Every flaming night whispers promises they can’t keep, especially when Gramps’ legacy has teeth. 💕
The author asks what happens if the inheritance bringing them together also threatens to tear them apart, delivering romance where family secrets complicate everything just as feelings deepen. Snow writes a hero who’s scary fine and guarded for good reasons, a heroine searching for closure about her grandfather, and adorable munchkins who make it impossible to maintain emotional distance. The second Blackthorn Inheritance novel proves that sometimes the most insane choices lead to the truest homes. 🔥
Why I’m including this: Grumpy single dad romance continuing The Blackthorn Inheritance where she inherits her grandfather’s lake house expecting repairs and secrets but not sharing it with guarded, growly, scary fine Kane Saint and his adorable kids—Saint Dadzilla goes to work on her with helping hands and breakfast laughs while she searches for Gramps’ cryptic final gift, one stolen kiss claiming her soul as playing house with the wrong man feels like coming home.
Wren Waterstone isn’t just one of the most decorated equestrians in the world—she was also his best friend for as long as he can remember until she wasn’t, and now she’s back in Rosewood River where thanks to a temp agency, Wren has been placed at his ranch. Laura Pavlov delivers the fifth Rosewood River novel with small town friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance where he has no intention of allowing his ex-best-friend to work for him, but when he sees the desperation in her eyes, he can’t turn her away even though he knows he should because old habits die hard. 🐴Seeing her every day is more challenging than expected—she’s guarded, wounded, and looks at him like he’s the enemy, and he needs to know why. Pavlov explores how proximity forces confrontation when someone you loved like family becomes a stranger, examining what happens when the more time they spend together, the more the lines between past and present blur and they find their way back to one another. The only problem is she’s got big dreams to chase, and he only wants to chase her. 💕
He’s loved this girl his entire life, and their time apart didn’t change that—he let Wren Waterstone get away once, and Pavlov asks whether he’s really going to make that mistake again when she’s standing right in front of him, vulnerable and desperate for a fresh start. The author delivers romance about second chances that feel like first chances, proving that sometimes the person who hurt you most is the one who understands you best. The fifth Rosewood River installment examines how coming home means facing what you left behind. 🌟
What makes this special: Small town friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance continuing Rosewood River where world-renowned equestrian Wren Waterstone returns and gets temp-placed at her ex-best-friend’s ranch—he can’t turn away the desperation in her eyes despite knowing he should, seeing her daily as guarded and wounded while the lines between past and present blur, loving her his entire life and refusing to let her get away again even as she chases big dreams.