In Fairview Heights, everyone knows one rule: don’t cross the Black Rose gang. Her father broke it. Now he owes the notorious Black Roses a favor, and to make sure he pays up, they’re taking her as collateral. Until her dad completes whatever job they’ve given him, three gang members will be her keepers. Sloan, the boss’s son. Rory, the man with a secret. Levi, the flame from her past. They’re all dominant, cocky, and dangerously attractive—and she knows from personal experience that one of them is a very good time. But none of that matters. They shouldn’t be allowed to run people’s lives like this, and she doesn’t plan on letting them get away with it. If they’re looking for a pawn, they picked the wrong girl. Because her dad raised her to be a fighter, and she fights dirty. Eva Ashwood delivers all four books of the Black Rose Kisses series in this complete omnibus—Fight Dirty, Play Rough, Wreak Havoc, and Love Hard. 💕
Ashwood writes with the specific combination of genuine tension and dark humor that distinguishes her reverse harem work—the enemies-to-lovers arc builds across all four books, and the gang-world conflict gives the romance its stakes. Readers consistently report being unable to stop between installments. This omnibus includes the complete series resolution. Explicit content; violence; recommended for adults only. 🔍
Ashwood is an Amazon bestselling author of over a dozen dark romance series. The Black Rose Kisses series is her most popular work. ⭐
Why this hooks you: Her dad crossed the wrong gang, she’s their collateral, her three keepers are infuriating and irresistible—and she has absolutely no intention of being anyone’s pawn.
Autumn Kulis wants a baby. She’s almost forty, she doesn’t have a man in her life, and she’s tired of waiting for circumstances to cooperate. On a two-week stay at her brother Ben’s lakeside cottage—the kind of Michigan lake house that technically qualifies as a cottage despite having six bedrooms—a plan forms: make a list of three men, sleep with each of them, and allow nature to take its course. It’s practical. It’s efficient. And it falls apart immediately when Logan Anders walks through the door. Logan is Ben’s best friend from college, divorced, a single dad, and considerably hotter than Autumn remembered him being. He absolutely does not approve of her baby-daddy list. He intends to get himself on it—then tear it up and remove the competition entirely. He’s had feelings for Ben’s little sister for years, and finally, fate has handed him two weeks at a lakeside cottage to do something about it. L.B. Dunbar opens the Lakeside Cottage series with the midlife romance that readers say requires multiple boxes of tissues. 💕
Dunbar writes with genuine emotional depth and a specific understanding of what romance looks like at forty—the grief, the biological clock, the friendships, the specific bittersweet quality of second chances—and this novel has all of it. Andrea on Goodreads described it as a book that “will break your heart on so many levels, give you joy and happiness, and make you grieve…all at the same time.” 🔍
Dunbar is the author of over 60 novels across multiple series. The Lakeside Cottage series runs four books. ⭐
Why this hooks you: She made a practical list of baby daddy candidates, her brother’s best friend found out about it, and he has spent years waiting for exactly this moment to ruin her plan.
American heiress Miss Elizabeth Armstrong has had it with fortune hunters who want her money rather than her. Jaded and entirely finished with the marriage mart, she’s settling for enjoying her London visit before sailing back to New York. Her desire for adventure, however, ignites the moment she has a chance encounter with James, the Duke of Basil—a seasoned rake with an unshakeable personal rule against entanglements with innocents. He’s evaded the parson’s trap seven times and has absolutely no intention of falling into it now. She doesn’t want to marry him. He doesn’t want to want her. What follows is neither of their plans. As their passionate connection deepens and James becomes more thoroughly ensnared than he has ever been, a social disaster orchestrated by Elizabeth’s scheming relatives shakes the foundation of what they’ve built together—and forces both of them to decide whether they’re willing to risk everything to recover it. Stacy Reid opens the Sins & Sensibilities series with the steamy Regency romance that readers are calling one of her very best. 💕
Reid writes with the sharp wit and sensual heat that has built her USA Today bestselling career in historical romance—the banter between Elizabeth and James is electric throughout, and both characters are drawn with real intelligence and self-possession. Reviewers consistently describe it as “wonderful Regency romance with plenty of heat and charm.” 🔍
Reid is the USA Today bestselling author of over 20 novels. The Sins & Sensibilities series runs six books. This book contains explicit content. ⭐
Why this hooks you: A wealthy American who gave up on marriage meets a duke who gave up on entanglements—and neither of them has any idea what’s about to happen.
The Attributes of God Volume 1
What does it actually mean that God is holy? That He is omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, or self-existent? These are not merely abstract theological questions—A.W. Tozer believed that what we think about God is the most important thing about us, and that the failure to know God deeply, accurately, and personally was the root of most of the spiritual poverty and ineffectiveness in the modern church. The Attributes of God Volume 1 collects ten of Tozer’s most profound and beloved sermons, delivered with his characteristically direct, searingly honest voice, and focused on drawing believers into genuine, experiential knowledge of who God is—not merely intellectual knowledge about Him. Each chapter examines one divine attribute: self-existence, self-sufficiency, eternity, infinity, immutability, omniscience, omnipotence, transcendence, omnipresence, and faithfulness. 📚
Tozer writes with the rare combination of theological rigor and pastoral heat that has made his work outlast generations of more fashionable writers—he was as likely to challenge comfortable Christianity as to comfort troubled Christians. James A. Snook’s study guide questions accompany each chapter, making this ideal for both individual and group study. Reviewers consistently describe it as life-changing and regularly rereread it annually. 🔍
Tozer served as pastor of Southside Alliance Church in Chicago for 31 years and is the author of the devotional classic The Pursuit of God. Volume 2 continues the series. ⭐
Why this matters: A.W. Tozer’s ten most searching sermons on who God actually is—written for believers who want to know God deeply rather than merely know about Him—for $3.99.
Everyone knows the story of the girl from Widow Hills. Arden Maynor was six years old when she sleepwalked into a storm drain during a torrential rainstorm and went missing for three days. The whole country held vigils. She was found—miraculously alive, clinging to the drain—and became a national story, a living miracle. Her mother wrote a bestselling book. The fans arrived, and so did the stalkers. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared. Now she’s Olivia Meyer, quietly building a life far from Widow Hills—until the twentieth anniversary of her rescue brings renewed media interest and her old sleepwalking starts again. Then she jolts awake in her backyard at night and finds a dead man at her feet. A man she knew from her previous life. Megan Miranda delivers the New York Times bestselling thriller that Kirkus called “her best book yet.” 🔍
Miranda structures the novel around the unreliability not just of memory but of an entire identity—Olivia’s narration is threaded with transcripts, news reports, and media coverage from her past, building the kind of claustrophobic dread that made The Last House Guest a Reese’s Book Club pick. Chandler Baker called it “Hitchcockian” and said it gave her “the creeps in the best way possible.” 💙
Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of eight psychological thrillers. The Girl from Widow Hills is a standalone. ⭐
Why this grips you: She changed her name and disappeared after a childhood that made her famous—then woke up in her yard next to a dead man she recognized—for $1.99.
Mateo Palmer swore he’d never risk his heart again. Being left at the altar a decade ago will do that. Since then, he keeps things casual—never serious, never lasting—running his Winding Creek Ranch with the wall firmly in place. Then Nicole Reynolds walks through his door looking for a fresh start and a job to support her six-year-old son, Paxton. She never expected her new boss to be Mateo—the boy she secretly adored all through high school. He’s charming and infuriating and just as handsome as she remembered, and she knows perfectly well that a man like him won’t want forever with a woman like her. He is determined to prove her wrong. She is just as determined to protect herself. But love—and a shy little boy with a big smile who has already decided he loves horses—might just rewrite both their stories. Natalie Dean opens the Palmers of Copper Creek series with the sweet small-town second-chance romance her loyal readership has ranked among her very best. 💕
Dean writes with the warmth, faith, and family-centered values that have built her the enormous following she has among Christian contemporary romance readers. Young Paxton steals every scene he’s in, and the arrival of the vile Carolyn deepens the stakes considerably. Clean with a gentle faith thread. 🔍
Dean is the author of over 100 novels across multiple Copper Creek series. The Palmers of Copper Creek series is the newest. ⭐
Why this charms: He was left at the altar, swore off serious, and then his secret high school crush showed up needing a job—with a six-year-old son who already loves his horses—for $2.49.
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