Release Blast - Sweet Poison by Rachel Van Dyken

 

SWEET POISON

Rachel Van Dyken

Release Date: February 11

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𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦.

𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳.

𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭…

His breath hit my neck, lips brushing skin.

"𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘪𝘵?”

All it took was one phrase—“𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘢 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦?”—and I was already losing.

To the enemy.

To a Tinder date gone violently wrong.

To the Syndicate’s most dangerous heir.

It was supposed to be my last middle finger to the establishment before they sacrificed me on the family altar of arranged marriage. So I took control. I made the rules. I chose the husband.

Louis De Lange.

The twin who should’ve died.

The traitor.

The man who lost my sister—his so-called true love.

 He said he had nothing left. So I made him my weapon.

But the problem with controlling a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

You never see the fangs until they’re already at your throat.

The plan was simple. The timeline set. Sixty days to infiltrate, manipulate, and survive.

But I wasn’t banking on Louis being more than broken—I wasn’t ready for how dangerous he could be when he finally decides he’s done bleeding for everyone else but himself.

I was playing to win.

He was playing to lose.

And we were both about to learn…

The sweeter the poison the more bitter the fight. 

To the end. Love. Hell. Or destruction. Let the games begin.

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Meet Rachel Van Dyken:

Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 books ranging from new adult romance to mafia romance to paranormal & fantasy romance. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs.

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RELEASE BLITZ - People We Avoid by Lani Lynn Vale

 

Title: People We Avoid

Series: Don't Date Him #2

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Tropes: Forced Proximity, Secret Identity

Grumpy/Sunshine

Release Date: February 10, 2026

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All Birdee Calvert wanted was to be normal.

She wanted the parents who didn’t divorce when she was a kid and make her life a living nightmare. She wanted the sisters who actually liked her. She wanted to live in a town where everyone loved her and didn’t have a single bad thing to say about her.

That was not the life Birdee was given.

She had the exact opposite life. The kind of life where she slunk through the grocery store with a hoodie on so no one would recognize her. The kind of life where men like Creed Daugherty didn’t give her a second look.

After years of abuse and heartache, she built walls. Big, huge, thick ones that no one could ever breach. If she didn’t put forth the effort to get to know someone, she couldn’t be hurt.

At least, that was the theory.

She never counted on Creed Daugherty hitting her with his truck. Then, deciding that once he entered her life, he would never leave it.

Though Birdee should’ve known that Creed was too good to be true.

All it takes is one mistake on her part, and Creed freezes her out. Then forces the rest of the town to make it almost impossible for her to live in Sawtooth, Montana, anymore.

Birdee only thought it couldn’t get worse.

But Creed makes sure to show her that it can and will.

The thing about rock bottom?

Once you’re there, you have nothing else to lose.

And Creed Daugherty just made himself enemy number one.

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Lani Lynn Vale's newest series is blowing my expectations out of the water! Her latest release People We Avoid was amazing from start to finish. 

This is Birdee and Creed's story. We met Birdee in book 1 as Mable's crazy step-sister but we really learn about Birdee and who she really is throughout book 2. My perception of Birdee did a complete 180 after reading this book and I think it's amazing what she's gone through. 

Creed is an ex-con who was wrongly incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. His sister, Bernice, fought tooth and nail to get him released but to no avail. Years later he is released and finds himself in Montana as a Game Warden. I love Creed's compassion towards all living things and especially Birdee. 

Poor Birdee has the entire town thinking she's a b**ch and even her "family" seems to have shunned her after getting close in book 1. Now, she's very much on her own with her best friend Shade and her job. I LOVED the uniqueness that Lani Lynn Vale gives to her characters and Birdee is no exception. Birdee has a doctorate in Animal Science and MILKS SNAKES for a living! How freaking cool?!

Birdee and Creed's relationship is very unconventional but I loved it from the word go. I can't recommend this book and this series enough and can't wait to read the next book!

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Lani Lynn Vale is an American author of humorous romantic suspense novels. Born in the Great State of Texas, she has lived the majority of her adult life in East Texas where most of her novels are based. She’s married to her high school sweetheart whom her readers refer to as “LLV’s Bearded Half.” She published her first novel, Boomtown. in the summer of 2013 after the birth of her third child. She’s gone on to publish over 100 novels, with most of them going on to become USA Today Bestsellers.

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COVER REVEAL - Crooked by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward

 

Title: Crooked

Authors: Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward

Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance

Cover Design: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative

Photographer: Michelle Lancaster, @lanefotograf

Model: Andrew Murray

Release Date: March 29, 2026

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A new, sexy standalone novel from New York Times Bestsellers, Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward…

 

The last thing I needed was a live-in bodyguard. And I definitely didn’t want him. Six foot two, with broad shoulders that were impossible to ignore and a talent for getting in my way, Wes Callahan was a walking bad decision.

 

But when you’re the daughter of a notorious mob boss, apparently your opinions stop mattering the moment your father ignites another war. I’d spent my entire life trying to escape that crooked world—new name, new city, newfound freedom. At least until I was suddenly shacked up with my new bodyguard. 

 

Wes knew exactly how to push my buttons. He was also infuriatingly protective. And smart. And funny. And thoughtful when he thought I wasn’t paying attention.  Little by little, the walls I’d built started to crack, and falling for the bodyguard became the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done. Because if my father found out, Wes wouldn’t just lose his job. He’d lose his life. 

 

Getting involved with him was reckless, yet I couldn’t find a way to stop it, no matter how hard I tried.  But while I was busy losing my heart, the man who took it was hiding a secret. 

And it turned out, the most dangerous man in my life wasn’t my father after all—it was the one who threatened to break my heart.

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VI KEELAND

Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles are currently translated in twenty-seven languages and have appeared on bestseller lists in the US, Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria and Hungary. Three of her short stories have been turned into films by Passionflix, and two of her books are currently optioned for movies. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.

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Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance.

She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism.

With millions of books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over thirty novels. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.

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New Release: Burning Enemies by Mina Elwood

BURNING ENEMIES

Mina Elwood

Release Date: February 3 

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Blurb:

Jack

Control. I strive for it. In school, on the soccer field, and definitely with my unwanted crush. When things heat up between my team and the football players, it takes all I’ve got to stay out of it. Then Cal steps in, and my control snaps.

I’m drawn to him, but we ignite at every turn. And the more I push him away, the more he leaves me burning.

 

Cal

I’m already shaken, stretched thin. My parents’ divorce, violence at school, football, a girlfriend who’s no angel. And now Jack? He sees through my smile, sees the cracks in my armor. He keeps pushing until even the smallest spark sets us off. When the fires ebb, loathing becomes a building fascination I can’t explain.

I don’t want to hate him, but I’m not sure we can be anything other than enemies.

 

Burning Enemies, Book Two in the Burning Torments series, is a brooding and seductive return to the small town of Hickory Bend. When two jocks find out just how thin the line is between love and hate, which side will they choose to be on?

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Jack, a dedicated soccer player, and Cal, a tough yet guarded football player. Both men carry heavy baggage from their pasts, but Cal’s is especially dark—an abusive ex who refuses to let him go, no matter the cost. Jack, on the other hand, comes from a home life that barely exists at all, leaving him to navigate love and stability on his own.

For the longest time, they danced carefully around their feelings, skirting the truth, pretending the pull between them wasn’t real. But once their mutual attraction finally surfaced, it hit hard and fast. I couldn’t get enough of these guys, an amazing story..

New Release: PLAYING FOR THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER by Kimberly Knight & Rachel Lyn Adams

 

         PLAYING FOR THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER 

Kimberly Knight & & Rachel Lyn Adams

Release Date: February 2 

Meet Kimberly Knight:

Kimberly Knight is a USA Today Bestselling author who lives in the Central Valley of California with her loving husband, who is a great research assistant, and young daughter who keeps her on her toes.

Meet Rachel Lyn Adams:

Rachel Lyn Adams is a USA Today Bestselling author who was born in Southern California and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, five children, and a crazy number of fur babies. In 2017, she took a chance and published her very first book. Little did she know just how much that decision would change her life.

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Blurb:

The president’s daughter shouldn’t be sharing a bed with two men. 

She definitely shouldn’t still be thinking about them after one night together.

Faye Donnelley lives with every move photographed or judged. She can handle gossip blogs and political narratives, but what she really wants is something that isn’t for public consumption. One Fourth of July with two college baseball players finally gives her a night that isn’t for cameras or anyone outside that room.

Dylan Statler and Jase Matthewson are best friends, stepbrothers, and college teammates with dreams of making it to the big leagues. Hooking up with the president’s daughter was supposed to be a one-time thing. Except they can’t stop checking Faye’s socials or replaying how it felt with her pressed between them, their hands and mouths all over her.

After Dylan and Jase are drafted by different teams hundreds of miles apart, their private group text with Faye turns into stolen weekends, hotel rooms, and late-night video calls they can’t resist. It starts to feel like they aren’t just playing for their careers, but for the president’s daughter, and for something between the guys they can’t ignore. 

If their relationship gets exposed, Faye could become a political talking point while sports media outlets dissect Dylan and Jase’s personal lives instead of their stats. That fallout would be bad enough, but when a terrifying moment shakes their world, it forces them to decide if they’re willing to risk it all or walk away from a relationship that only works when all three are together.

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✔ Found family vibes


✔ Strong emotional connection


✔ Steamy but sweet



This story completely surprised me. What begins as one night turns into a beautifully developing relationship filled with trust, connection, and love. I adored how the bond grew not just between Faye and the men, but also between Jase and Dylan themselves. Their dynamic was the heart of the story and made this book impossible to put dow

This book delivered on all of it. The relationship between Faye, Jase, and Dylan felt natural, passionate, and emotionally fulfilling.