Promo Blitz: Checking Out the Librarian by Anna Richland

 

PROMO BLITZ: Checking Out the Librarian by Anna Richland

Length: 145,000 words
Series: standalone
Prior Reading: n/a
Genre: Contemporary, Sports, Rom-Com
Tropes: opposites attract; golden retriever x black cat; banter; messy-texting himbo; low angst; grumpy x sunshine; one night stand; hookup turns into more; role play; soft dom; rescue kitten; they are like their pets; food is a love language; birthday parties; jock x librarian; hurt/comfort; characters who enjoy books; and cutthroat amateur sports competition in a queer sports league.
Trigger/Content Warnings: - At 2/3 of the way through the book, a minor secondary character forces a nonconsensual kiss on one of the MMCs. During that scene there is pushing and a physical confrontation, but nothing further than nonconsensual kissing. -There is a brief instance of homophobic behavior, but MMC's father steps up and shuts that down.
-Brief references to parent with alcohol problems and toxic perfectionism.
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A new romance from award-winning author Anna Richland, perfect for readers who enjoy banter-filled MM contemporary romances like Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall, A Time to Shine by Rachel Reid, The Unlikely Heir by Jax Calder, or Cat Sebastian's Star Shipped.

When Connor's out-of-town hookup turns out to be the library's new hire, he gets busy CHECKING OUT THE LIBRARIAN.

Connor McMillan has his life together. Mostly.

Teaching second graders is a perfect job for his high energy, but why can't he find a boyfriend who likes his enthusiasm too? He wants someone in the bleachers cheering just for him, someone to cook dinner with, someone who will maybe, possibly, dress up and do a little Regency cosplay, but that last thing he doesn't say out loud.

Starting over in Oregon means Jonathan Park has to try new things, meet people who don't work at the library, and hope that this time he won't repeat the same mistakes.

Who's he kidding? He self-sabotages the hell out of anything good, but maybe the first step to self-improvement is saying yes to a real date with his internet hookup.

And step two? Learning to pet Connor's dog.

Connor's friends suggest he dial himself back and be more chill with Jonathan, but every time he looks at the man he wants to call his boyfriend, his brain chases his tail.

Unlocking the librarian's fortified heart will be a challenge, but he's taught kids to read. How hard can it be to teach Jonathan to say I love you?

CHECKING OUT THE LIBRARIAN is a spicy male-male romance for readers who want a fun, happy read with a library kitten, queer softball games, and county fair food. (145,000 words, dual POV).

📚❤️ Checking Out the Librarian by Anna Richland ❤️📚 I’m so excited to dive into this one! Connor is strong, caring, and absolutely deserves the love he’s been searching for. Jonathan, on the other hand, is a closed-off, burned-out former athlete who’s trying to figure out what comes next. 

 These two are such complete opposites, yet somehow they fit together perfectly. Their journey is beautifully written, filled with humour, incredible banter, and those little moments that make you fall for the characters right alongside them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Anna Richland (she/her) writes award-winning romances about geeky characters falling in love. She is a former US Army officer and ex-lawyer who now fills her days with imaginary people and very real coffee. When not wearing pajamas at her computer, she takes watercolor painting classes, plays decidedly mediocre pickleball, and maintains a fifty-year habit of reading too much.

She lives with her quietly funny Canadian husband and two occasionally-resident young adults in a very old house in Seattle. Raised in the Midwest, she’s lived on both coasts and visited more than twenty-five countries, half of them courtesy of her former army career.

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RELEASE BOOST - Axe Backwards by May Archer

 

Title: Axe Backwards

Series: Axford Brothers #3

Author: May Archer

Genres: Contemporary Gay Romance

Tropes: Fake Relationship, Hidden Identity, Small Town

Opposites Attract, Only One Bed, Forced Proximity

Release Date: September 15, 2026

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A fake engagement to the hot sheriff who escorted me to family camp? Weirdly delightful.

Failing to tell him that my family is a bunch of professional thieves? Small oversight.

I left the Callahan family business years ago. These days I’m a law-abiding citizen. A photographer who takes nothing but pictures. A man who’s learned not to get greedy for anything… or anyone.

But my family hasn’t gotten that memo, so I expect my week at family camp to be filled with guilt-trippy attempts to lure me back into the fold.

Until Holden Axford comes along… and everything goes axe backwards.

Winsome’s gorgeous sheriff was supposed to be nothing more than a one-night-stand.

He doesn’t have a clue why I’m dreading this week, but he takes his protection game seriously.

So when he thinks I need a rescue, he steps in and declares himself my fiancé… and I’m too busy swooning to argue.

Now Holden’s sharing my bed, stealing kisses like Callahans steal Rembrandts, planning a camp heist (for fun, obvs!), and charming my family of criminals.

Our motto is ‘Callahans don’t get caught’ but nobody warned me about catching feelings.

Unfortunately, secrets don’t stay buried forever. And when someone forces the Callahans toward one last impossible job, protecting the family I love means becoming the man I swore I’d never be again.

But if Holden learns the truth about my past, it’ll be goodbye fake engagement, goodbye sheriff… goodbye heart.

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May is an M/M author who lives in Boston. She spends her days raising three incredibly sarcastic children, alternating eating Jax and Tostitos, planning beach vacations, avoiding the gym, reading M/M romance, and occasionally writing it.

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New Release: FALLEN ROOK by L.J. Shen

 

FALLEN ROOK

L.J. Shen 

Release Date: September 22 

Meet L.J. Shen:

L.J. Shen is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of contemporary, new adult, and young adult romance. Her books have been sold in twenty different countries, and she hopes to visit all of them.

She lives in Florida with her husband, three rowdy sons, and rowdier pets and enjoys good wine, bad reality TV shows, and reading to her heart’s content. Connect with her on her website at www.authorljshen.com or on Instagram (@authorljshen), or join her Facebook group at http://goo.gl/QZJ0NC. Sign up for her newsletter at https://bit.ly/3LhsIrb, and text SHEN to 313131 to get new release alerts (United States only).

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From New York Times bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a sizzling age-gap, forbidden MM romance about an FBI agent and the Camorra enforcer who thaws his frozen heart.

Tom

I know a secret that can destroy the most powerful crime organization in America.

For years, I’ve watched Enzo Ferrante get away with murder. Literally.

He’s slipped between the FBI’s fingers time after time, spreading terror and mayhem on the streets of New York, masked beneath a gorgeous face and elegant pedigree.

A sloppy error on his part results in an incident that unexpectedly binds us together.

Suddenly, I’m no longer the special agent who is thirsty for his blood.

I’m his savior. His god. The light in his pitch-black existence.

Now that I caught the social butterfly in my spider web, I’m never letting go.

He is about to taste the venomous kiss of betrayal as I put him and his entire family behind bars for the rest of their lives.

Because when the night falls, the Camorra’s enforcer crawls between my sheets and whispers all his sordid secrets in my ear.

Enzo Ferrante is completely and utterly mine, and nobody knows.

Not even his lovely fiancée.

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Promo Blitz: Bonded to Leo Caparucci by Cali Kitsu

 

PROMO BLITZ: Bonded to Leo Caparucci by Cali Kitsu

Length: 116K words
Series: Standalone
Prior Reading: Prior reading NOT required
Genre: Western, Small-Town, Mafia, Contemporary
Tropes: Cowboys, Mafia, Stepbrothers, Enemies to Lovers, Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Hurt/Comfort

Trigger/Content Warnings: Religious Guilt, Religious Intimidation, Past Mention of being hit by parent, Loss of Parent, Mention of Cancer, Gun Violence, Character Death (Not MC), One character is drugged (Not for sexual purposes)
Designer: Cover design by Ave

Carter

I've worked hard my entire life to be the person that everyone expects me to be, the perfect son and the perfect little Catholic, bound by the rules and expectations of others. But underneath those masks I crave someone I can never have, a relationship that goes against God’s law, and the freedom to live the way I want.

After years of shoving my feelings down, I’ve finally gotten to a place where I don't even consider them any longer.

Until the night he showed up and ruined everything.

My stepbrother, Leo Caparucci, is the opposite, a walking nightmare, a spoiled, self-centered, openly bisexual mafia prince who couldn’t care less about others, and he just became my biggest problem...

Leo

I shouldn’t even be here.

The plan was always for me to be named the next Don of my family, but somehow I ended up on my dad’s cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere, stuck with my bratty stepbrother.

Carter Montagna is hot as hell, smart and self-confident…well, at least that’s the image he tries to project, but I see right through his perfect cowboy persona. Underneath the façade there’s a man starved for affection, too concerned with pleasing others to act on his own desires.

But there’s more beneath the surface, and if anyone is gonna crack that mask he's wearing—it's gonna be me.

This was such a fun read! 

A forbidden romance between a perfect Catholic cowboy and his spoiled mafia stepbrother. The chemistry, banter, forced proximity, and slow burn were everything. I loved watching Carter and Leo break down each other’s walls and fall for each other.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hi, I’m Cali!

I live in a very sunny state with my amazing husband and daughters, and I enjoy making people smile. I try to bring a little bit of my Cali sunshine and energy wherever I go. I believe that love is for everyone and I've found my newest passion in writing. I absolutely love writing - I'm having so much fun! Other hobbies include watching Anime, reading Manga, baking, and I’m an avid gamer in all forms: console, tabletop, strategy card games…Magic the Gathering is probably my favorite strategy card game. Console wise - I couldn't begin to choose a favorite :)

Me and my bestie, who is also my editor and Co-Owner of the publishing house, have a super fun Podcast called "Cali and Craig Talk..."    We're usually talking about books, butts, or bundt cakes... We don't take things too seriously. We have a ton of episodes with other authors, and lots of great advice for new writers, along with inside looks at what it's like at the publishing house. We have a bunch of fun baking episodes, too. You can hear us on all major podcast networks.

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RELEASE BLITZ - Crow's Shadow by Kathleen Kelly

 

Title: Crow's Shadow

Series: Grave Prowlers MC: Oregon & Idaho #1

Author: Kathleen Kelly

Genre: Dark Paranormal MC Romance

Tropes: Secret Supernatural Society, Magic & Witchcraft

Protective Hero, Found Family, Dark Secrets

Release Date: September 8, 2026

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A Dark, Obsessive Paranormal Grave Prowlers MC Romance.

The Grave Prowlers MC was born from death—coffins, cremations, and the kind of secrets that should never see daylight. In Grimstone, Oregon, the club handles the bodies, buries the evidence, and keeps the rest of the world at arm’s length.

Crow is no exception. Cold, controlled, and more comfortable among the dead than the living, he’s a ghost in leather and ink who has mastered silence, shadows, and the art of making people disappear.

Yet for all his carefully constructed distance, he’s never truly been alone, because Shadow has always been there.

She grew up on the edges of the club, quiet and watchful, a little wild, a little broken, and fiercely loyal to the people who became her family. She’s also spent most of her life loving Crow, the man who carried her out of a burning house when she was five and has spent every year since pretending he doesn’t see the way she watches him.

But Crow sees her.

He always has.

He simply knows some lines should never be crossed, and Shadow is the one temptation he refuses to touch.

Until she vanishes.

One day she’s there, moving through his world as she always has, and the next there’s nothing left but blood and the sickening realization that Shadow didn’t walk away. Someone took her.

For the first time in twenty years, Crow’s iron control fractures.

He tears through anyone standing between him and the woman he should never have wanted, leaving bodies in the Oregon dirt and coffins for the Prowlers to fill. He’ll do anything to bring Shadow home, but the deeper he digs, the more he realizes her disappearance is tangled in secrets buried long before either of them understood what they meant.

There’s something waking inside Shadow, an inheritance tied to her mother, to witchcraft, and to a past someone has killed to keep hidden. Worse, the fire Crow carried her from all those years ago may not have been the beginning of their story at all.

When he finally gets Shadow back, Crow discovers the woman he spent years refusing to want is nothing like the fragile girl he convinced himself she was. She’s fire wrapped in darkness, carrying power she’s only beginning to understand, and she’s done allowing the man she loves to pretend she’s invisible.

Crow has spent twenty years controlling every emotion, every impulse, and every dark part of himself.

Shadow destroys that control.

Now wanting her isn’t enough. He needs her with an obsession that should terrify them both, because she’s become his weakness, his addiction, and his reckoning.

His goddamn Shadow.

And after almost losing her once, Crow will burn the world down before he lets anyone take her from him again.

Crow’s Shadow is a dark, addictive paranormal MC romance set in Grimstone, Oregon, where witches keep secrets, the dead don’t always stay silent, and the Grave Prowlers don’t fear death—they bury it.

The Grave Prowlers MC is a series of obsessive anti-heroes, unforgettable heroines, deadly secrets, found family, dark magic, and love fierce enough to survive even the darkest grave.

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Crow’s Shadow was the first book I’ve read by Kathleen Kelly. 

It is a motorcycle club closed door romance with paranormal thrown in as well. 

This book is definitely an interesting take on your typical paranormal romance and it absolutely kept me intrigued. It was a bit dark in some spots (which isn’t really my cup of tea) but I still found myself enjoying it. 

The reason why I didn’t really enjoy it enough for four stars was because the text tended to be a bit repetitive. Same phrases were used and I’m sure that’s to do with Crow’s character. The dark, broody MC member. 

The characters were written well but I found the plot to be a bit jumpy and not with smooth development. I did love Shadow’s character and how she kept to herself but was extra observant. She’s cunning, smart and feisty. I also loved that she had a place in the club other than being one of the patched member’s property. 

Overall, the book is intriguing and unique. Definitely something I haven’t read anything like before. The next book in the series already has piqued my interest and I look forward to Ember’s story.

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Kathleen Kelly, a USA Today Best-Selling Author and an International Best-Selling Author, is known for her fast-paced, spicy romance novels. Kathleen writes MC, Paranormal, Sports, and Band of Brothers Romance.

When she’s not writing, she’s collecting handbags (they always fit!) and planning her next international trip.

Kathleen can be spotted in local cafes, blending in with the regulars while plotting her next tale of passion and intrigue. She finds inspiration in the quirky characters around her, both real and fictional.

Living in Toowoomba, Queensland, with her childhood sweetheart, SL, rescue sweetheart Freya, and Eir, the soon-to-be gigantic Maine Coon who thinks she’s the main character, Kathleen values kindness, loyalty, and good stories.

If you have any questions about her novels or would like to ask Kathleen a question, she can be contacted via e-mail: HERE, or she can be found on Facebook. Kathleen welcomes messages from readers who share her love for stories that leave hearts racing and cheeks blushing.

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Release Blast for CLAIMED BY RUIN by Sara McClaflin

 

CLAIMED BY RUIN

Sara McClaflin

Release Date: September 17

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As a medical examiner in New Orleans, I know death. I know how it looks, how it smells, how it lingers.

This isn’t it.

Bodies that should be fresh are weeks gone. Others refuse to rot at all. The same impossible pattern ties them together, and everyone is too quick to blame the local cult.

They’re wrong.

Then Caelum Brandt appears—where he shouldn’t be, answering questions no one else can, moving through the city cloaked in darkness and danger.

Like he is invincible.

The moment he touches me, something burns into my skin—a mark I can’t explain and can’t hide.

He sees it. Smiles like it means everything.

He calls himself the Horseman of Conquest.

And whatever is coming next… has already chosen me.

CLAIMED BY RUIN is an enemies to lovers, possessive anti-hero, murder mystery, fated mates romantasy set in the same universe as The Devil’s Bargain series, perfect for fans of dangerous heroes, supernatural romance, and high stakes, tension filled relationships.

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This was the first book I’ve read by Sara McClaflin and it most certainly won’t be the last! 

Claimed by Ruin had me fascinated from the first chapter. This was the first romance that has involved the four horsemen and I am so hooked! I loved reading this!

The history of the characters and how feisty Cassidy is was incredible! Caelum comes so far throughout this story. He basically has no understanding of human emotions are living in Hell his entire life and it makes for some funny interactions with Cassidy. I loved Cassidy’s sarcastic nature and especially her interactions with her family! I was laughing so much! 

I can’t wait to read the next book in this series!

Meet Sara McClaflin:

Sara McClaflin writes romance about imperfect people finding love anyway. Drawn to messy emotions and complicated characters, she creates stories where vulnerability isn’t weakness and healing is never simple.

Her books explore the beauty in broken edges, the tension between fear and desire, and the kind of connection they can’t ignore. No matter how flawed her characters are, they always find their happily ever after.

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