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Releasing This Week

Ugly Cry Anthology (Available Now)

ugly cry anthologyA compilation of novels at one low price to help raise money for the community. 100% of the sales proceeds while Ugly Cry is available will go to the Moyer Foundations, Helping Children in Distress. Books include:

Kismet by A.E. Woodward

Unspoken by Brenda Rothert

Broken Wings by Erika Ashby

Drifting into Darkness by J.M. LaRocca

Therapy by Kathryn Perez

Change of Hart by M.E. Carter

Out of Reach by Missy Johnson

Totaled by Stacey Grice

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Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell (Jun 23)ย 

killing monica coverThis is the book fans of Candace Bushnell have been waiting for. From the author of Sex and the City,Lipstick Jungle, and The Carrie Diaries comes an addictive story about fame, love, and foolishness that will keep readers enthralled to the very last enticing scene.

Pandy “PJ” Wallis is a renowned writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films. After the success of the Monica books and movies, Pandy wants to attempt something different: a historical novel based on her ancestor Lady Wallis. But Pandy’s publishers and audience only want her to keep cranking out more Monica-as does her greedy husband, Jonny, who’s gone deeply in debt to finance his new restaurant in Las Vegas.

When her marriage crumbles and the boathouse of her family home in Connecticut goes up in flames, Pandy suddenly realizes she has an opportunity to reinvent herself. But to do so, she will have to reconcile with her ex-best friend and former partner in crime, SondraBeth Schnowzer, who plays Monica on the big screen-and who may have her own reasons to derail Pandy’s startling change of plan.

In KILLING MONICA, Candace Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and the meaning of identity. With her trademark humor and style, this is Bushnell’s sharpest, funniest book to date.

Standalone novel.

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1001 Dark Nights: Dream of You (Wait for You novella) by Jennifer L. Armentroutย (Jun 23)

dream of you 1001 dark nightsAbby Erickson isn’t looking for a one-night stand, a relationship, or anything that involves any one-on-one time, but when she witnesses a shocking crime, she’s thrust into the hands of the sexiest man she’s ever seen – Colton Anders. His job is to protect her, but with every look, every touch, and every simmering kiss, she’s in danger of not only losing her life but her heart also.

Reading Order: Wait For You | Trust In Me (novella) | Be With Me |ย Stayย With Meย | Fall With Me |ย 1001 Dark Nights: Dream of You

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On My Kneesย (#2, Stark International) by J. Kenner (Jun 23)

Jackson Steele and Sylvia Brooks continue to thrill in the second novel of a scintillating, emotionally charged new trilogy that returns to the world of J. Kennerโ€™s beloved Stark novels: Release Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me.

I never thought Iโ€™d lose control, but his desire took me right to the edge.

Powerful, ambitious, and devastatingly sexy, Jackson Steele was unlike any other man Iโ€™d ever known. He went after what he wanted with his whole mind, body, and soulโ€”and I was the woman in his sights. One touch and I surrendered, one night together and I was undone.

Jackson and I had secrets, dark pieces of our pasts that threatened to swallow us both. We couldnโ€™t outrun our demons, or the people trying to tear us apart. But in our passion we found salvation, and in each otherโ€™s arms we found release.

I was scared to trust Jackson fully, to finally let go. Yet no matter the dangers that lay ahead, I knew I was hisโ€”and now that weโ€™ve laid claim, thereโ€™s no more holding back.

Reading Order: Say My Name |ย On My Kneesย | Under My Skin

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Wicked Whiteย (#1, Wicked White) by Michelle A. Valentine (Jun 23)

wicked white coverAfter his mother dies, rock star Ace Whiteโ€”lead singer of the red-hot band Wicked Whiteโ€”is done with the celebrity game. The phony people, the meaningless one-night stands: he doesnโ€™t want any of it anymore. Quitting in the middle of a sold-out tour, Ace sets out to find some placeโ€”any placeโ€”where he can be alone.

Aspiring singer Iris Eastonโ€™s life has never been easy. First, her mother walked out on her when she was a kid. Now sheโ€™s buried in debt, weeks after losing her beloved grandmother. When a mysterious and sexy new guy moves in next door, Iris canโ€™t help but be drawn to his soulful gaze. She can tell thereโ€™s something from his past haunting himโ€”something heโ€™s not telling her.

Just as Ace starts falling for Iris, the media go on a worldwide hunt to find the missing rocker. Will true love conquer all, or will the truth be the very thing that tears the couple apart?

First book in a rock star romance series.

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Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway (Jun 23)

Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. In Emmy’s soul, despite the space and time between them, their connection has never been severed. But is their story still written in the stars? Or are their hearts like the pieces of two different puzzlesโ€”impossible to fit together?

Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life. . . . She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beachโ€”go anywhere without her parents’ relentless worrying. But Emmy’s parents can’t seem to let her grow upโ€”not since the day Oliver disappeared.

Oliver needs a moment to figure out his heart. . . . He’d thought, all these years, that his dad was the good guy. He never knew that it was his father who had kidnapped him and kept him on the run. Discovering it, and finding himself returned to his old hometown, all at once, has his heart racing, and his thoughts swirling.

Readers who love Sarah Dessen will devour these pages with hearts in throats as Emmy and Oliver struggle to face the messy, confusing consequences of Oliver’s father’s crime. Full of romance, coming-of-age emotion, and heartache, these two equally compelling characters create an unforgettable story.

Standalone YA novel.

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Fighting for Forever by JB Salsbury (Jun 23)

Slut. Hooker. Whore.

The taunts never bothered me. They only see what I allow them to see, and a Las Vegas stripper is the perfect cover.

My life had direction. I had a missionโ€”until the man I needed vanished and is presumed dead.

Itโ€™s time to move onโ€”give up the dream for revengeโ€”and no one shows me that more than the mop-headed fighter with eyes the color of the ocean.

If anyone can teach me just how sweet life can be, itโ€™s him. But first, Iโ€™d have to let go.

Mase. Baywatch. Mayhem.

Iโ€™m known by many names, but thereโ€™s only one that stirs panic and worry in my gut every time Iโ€™m called it.

Brother.

Iโ€™ve bailed him out of trouble for years, so when he turns up in Vegas and asks for me, Iโ€™m prepared for the worst. And the worst is exactly what I get in the form of a lilac-eyed beauty named Trix.

Sheโ€™s everything I hate about Vegas: a stripper, loose with her body and her morals. But thereโ€™s something about her, a complexity that she buries deep, and Iโ€™m determined to uncover it.

The deeper I go, the less I understand. When I finally learn the truth, we engage in a battle where life and death hang in the balance.

Fighting could kill us both, but if we win, forever is the prize.

Sixthย book in the contemporary romance series, Fighting.

Reading Order:ย Fighting for Flight | Fighting to Forgive | Fighting to Forget | Fighting the Fall|ย A Fatherโ€™s Fightย |ย Fighting for Forever

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The Leveller by Julia Durango (Jun 23)

the levellerโ€œNixy Bauer, Home in an Hourโ€

Nixy Bauer is used to her classmates being very, very unhappy to see her. After all, sheโ€™s working with the enemyโ€”sheโ€™s on their parentsโ€™ payrolls.

Nixy is a bounty hunter in a virtual-reality gaming world. Kids in the MEEP, as they call it, play entirely with their minds, while their bodies languish in a sleeplike state on the couch. Irritated parents, looking to wrench their kids back to reality, hire Nixy to jump into the game and retrieve them. Luckily for Nixy and her wallet, sheโ€™s the best leveller out there.

But when the gameโ€™s billionaire developerโ€”and Nixyโ€™s parentsโ€™ bossโ€”loses track of his own son in the MEEP, Nixy is in for the biggest challenge of her bounty-hunting career. Wyn Salvador isnโ€™t some lazy kid looking to escape his homework, and this is no ordinary levelling job: Wyn does not want to be found. And heโ€™s left behind a suicide note.

Nixy takes the job but quickly discovers that Wynโ€™s not hidingโ€”heโ€™s being held inside the game against his will. But who is holding him captive, and why?

Nixy and Wyn attempt to fight their way out of a mind game unlike any theyโ€™ve encountered. And the battle brings them closer than either could have imagined. But when the whole world is virtual, how can Nixy possibly know whatโ€™s real?

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A Girl Undone (The Girl Called Fearless) by Catherine Linka (Jun 23)

a girl undoneFrom Catherine Linka, the sequel and explosive conclusion to A Girl Called Fearless.

Having survived a violent confrontation with the US government, Avie is not out of danger. Both she and the young man she loves, Yates, have been declared terrorists, and Yates is hospitalized in critical condition, leaving Avie with the perilous task of carrying information that can bring down the Paternalist party, if she can get it into the right hands.

Forced on the run with handsome, enigmatic woodsman Luke, Avie struggles when every turn becomes a choice between keeping the two of them alive or completing their mission. With her face on every news channel and a quarter million dollar reward from the man who still owns her marriage Contract, Avie’s worst fears are about to come true.

Equal parts thrilling and romantic, A Girl Undone is sure to keep your heart racing right until the very end.

Reading Order: A Girl Called Fearless |ย A Girl Undone

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The Forgotten Mountain (#3, The Collectorsโ€™ Society) by Heather Lyons (Jun 25)
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the forgotten mountain collectors societyAfter years spent in Wonderland, Alice Reeve learned the impossible was quite possible after all. She thought she left such fantastical realities behind when she finally returned to England.

Now Alice has become a member of the clandestine Collectorsโ€™ Society, and the impossible has found her again in the form of an elusive villain set on erasing entire worlds. As she and the rest of the Society race to bring this mysterious murderer to justice, the fight becomes painfully personal.

Lives are being lost. Loved ones are shattered or irrevocably altered. Each step closer Alice gets to the shadowy man she hunts, the more secrets she unravels, only to reveal chilling truths. If she wants to win this war and save millions of lives, Alice must once more embrace the impossible and make the unimaginable, imaginable.

Sometimes, the rabbit hole leads to terrifying places.

Reading Order: The Collectors’ Society | The Hidden Library |ย The Forgotten Mountain

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Sins of the Innocent (Providence novella) by Jamie McGuire (June 28)

sins of the innocentIn the horror show of gods and monsters, Eden Ryel was the star. Conceived of her mother, a Merovingian–a direct descendant of Christ–and her father, the half-human son of a fallen angel, her very existence had prompted The Great War. Prophesied to be the Keeper of the Balance, Eden struggles to realize her purpose.

Levi, the overconfident and charming half-human son of Lucifer takes nothing seriously. Not even when he finally meets the young woman who is destined to end his existence. A common bond is formed under the pressures they face from both sides, but their respective religious texts predict opposite outcomes. Either way, they must choose: war, death, or love.

Reading Order: Providence | Requiem | Eden |ย Sins of the Innocent

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