Spunky N Sassy: June 2022

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Playing for Keeps

Title: Playing for Keeps

Series: Hot on Ice #2

Author: Aurora Paige

Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance

Release Date: June 30, 2022

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She’s a fierce, award-winning investigative journalist who stops at nothing to uncover the truth.

He’s the alpha and captain of the hottest hockey team in the league who always gets what he wants.

Unfortunately, they’re playing for opposite teams--and only one of them can win.

Katherine Mendoza

I live and breathe investigative journalism and will do whatever it takes to uncover the truth. When I get a lead to the story about the local casino in the area, I can’t pass it over to someone else. This one hits home--and it’s personal. I’m not giving up until I get vengeance for my brother’s death, even if I need to put my desire and feelings aside for one of the casino’s owners, Brandon Owens.

Brandon Owens

When I’m not playing hockey or with women, you can find me at my casino. It’s not all mine yet but will be soon. I own half, but after a friendly wager with my business partner on a poker tournament, the rest is as good as mine assuming I win—I don’t plan on losing. I know what I’m doing, and I always get what I want. Until this pretty young thing comes to the casino. She’s distracting and acts like she doesn’t want me. But soon enough, she’ll be mine as well.

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Aurora Paige is a healthcare professional by day and a FilAm writer of steamy contemporary romance with sassy heroines and sexy heroes at night. Each Aurora Paige story delivers a variety of Curvy Heroines, Multicultural relationships, Alpha Heroes, Steamy Heat, and a Guaranteed Happily Ever After.

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Lady Boss

Title: Lady Boss

Series: Itty-Bitty Delights #7

Author: Alex Grayson

Genre: Small Town Boss/Employee Romance

Release Date: June 30, 2022

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Second to my family, my career comes first. My job is my life, and that’s the way I like it.

But then I took on an intern.

A sexy intern who screws with my carefully structured life.

At every turn, he’s there, making his presence known. Not that he needs to. Since the moment he walked into my office, my thoughts have been consumed by him.

I’m tempted to take him up on his many offers of pleasure, but then I remember I’m twelve years older than him.

Oh, and he was also the boy I used to babysit when I was a teen.

The most I can ever be to him is his lady boss.

Or is it?

Lady Boss is a novella and can be read in 2 or 3 hours.

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Alex Grayson is a USA Today bestselling author of heart pounding, emotionally gripping contemporary romances including the Jaded Series, the Consumed Series, the Hell Night Series, and multiple standalone novels. Her passion for books was reignited by a gift from her sister-in-law. After spending several years as a devoted reader and blogger, Alex decided to write and independently publish her first novel in 2014 (an endeavor that took a little longer than expected). The rest, as they say, is history.

Originally a southern girl, Alex now lives in Ohio with her husband, daughter, three cats and one dog. She loves the color blue, homemade lasagna, casually browsing real estate, and interacting with her readers. Visit her website, www.alexgraysonbooks.com, or find her on social media!

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Hollywood Humbug

Title: Hollywood Humbug

A Christmas Anthology

Genre: Holiday Romance

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Elle Christensen

Release Date: December 6, 2022

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Get ready for sexy snowball fights and enough steam to melt your snowman in this collection of all new holiday stories.

Everyone loves a Heartwarming Christmas Movie…

Snowball fights in the fresh fallen snow, steaming mugs of cocoa, you've seen the movies. Boy meets a girl, they work together on a festival or the tree lighting, sometimes things get a little steamy…and love wins in the end, no matter how impossible it might seem.

But when the president of Heart and Soul Studios calls this particular cast and crew in for one last movie before Christmas, it's humbug all the way.

They’d rather do Scrooge impressions than holiday romances. Despite their grumpy moods and bad attitudes, Christmas magic still happens.

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Star Revelations

Title: Star Revelations
Author: Steven Paul Terry
Genre: Science Fiction
Narrators: Lessa Lamb & Curt Bonnem
Audio Producer: The Audio Flow, LLC
Publication Date: June 30^th,2022
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Get their attention before it’s too late…the Quiet War has begun….

Acclaimed journalist and media celebrity Diana Willis can snag the inside scoop and truth on any story. But when her helicopter mysteriously malfunctions and plummets to the ground, everything changes, sending Diana down a maze of murderous intrigue and confusion. Waking up from a coma eight weeks after the crash, she struggles with the recurring dreams that reveal an extraordinary past life. Now, Diana's hell-bent on uncovering the secrets about those past memories.

Delving into a world of mind control and past lives, the truth is more terrifying than she ever imagined as she travels back in time to face the perpetrators of America's most confidential and sinister projects. Teaming up with an unlikely ally, an elusive interdimensional mentor from her other life, Diana is able to restore her psychic and telepathic powers. Suddenly, they're in more danger than ever before as their enemies seek world domination through mind control and media manipulation.

Can Diana use her powers to expose the truth, learn who she is, and bring a message of faith and freedom from another world, hundreds of Earth years in the future?

"I returned from your future and there is no fear. I am courageous and free..."

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Steven Paul Terry was born in London, England, and educated there and in Australia. As a professional speaker, he spent three decades traveling the globe. He splits his time between Colorado and Mexico and enjoys writing by the ocean, where he also swims and dives.

Visit his website at StevenPaulTerry.com

"The hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." – Joseph Campbell

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Match

Title: Match: An ABCs of Love Novel
Author: Chelle Sloan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Editor: Amy Maranville
Cover Designer: Indie Sage
Publication Date: June 30^th,2022
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In the ABCs of Love, M is for Match...

I need a fake boyfriend. He needs money for his garage. It’s the perfect business arrangement. Or so I thought.

As the CEO of the dating app Left for Love, I'm the best at helping other people find love. Just not myself. I don't need love, not when I have a world to take over.

See, I wasn’t your average girl growing up. Girls I knew used their dolls to play house, while I was using them to form my first board of trustees. In college, my roommates were planning their weddings when I was forming my first company. That company has now made me a billion dollars. Those other girls? They are now using my dating app to find their second husbands.

Life is great; who cares if I’m a little lonely at night? Great, that is, until my biggest competitor decides their newest ad campaign is to smear my app, and me, in the process. How could Left for Love possibly be the best dating app on the market if the founder still hasn’t found her soulmate?

Enter Knox Calhoun. The small-town mechanic with a southern twang that could melt ice in Antarctica is the perfect man for the job. We’re complete opposites. No way the lines could get blurred.

Until he kisses me.

Except relationships aren’t easy—whether they are real or fake. If the truth comes out about us, I could lose everything. And for the first time in my life, I have a lot more than money to lose.

Match is a complete stand-alone in the ABCs of Love series where one author a week will deliver a brand-new story for you to rediscover your ABCs.

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Known for her witty sense of humor, Chelle Sloan is a former sports reporter who recently completed her Master’s in Journalism, and is now putting that to good use — one happily ever after at a time.

An Ohio native, she’s fiercely loyal to Cleveland sports, is the owner of way too many — yet not enough — tumblers and will be a New Kids on the Block fan until the day she dies. She does her best writing at Starbucks, where you can usually find a Pink Drink within reach. Oh, and yes, you probably saw her on TikTok.

As for her own happily every after? Maybe one day...

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Immortal Throne

Title: Immortal Throne
Author: J.C. McKenzie & Harper A. Brooks
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Cover Designer: Infinity Designs
Publication Date: June 30^th, 2022
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Some crowns are worth fighting for…

This one is worth dying for.

When I find out I have less than a year to live, the last thing I want to do is take up some birthright left by my estranged father. Or have anything to do with the jerk who delivered the message.

But it looks like my bucket list will have to wait.

Not only does Hell exist, but I’m half demon and the heir to the Immortal Throne. Ruling the Underworld is key to saving my life, but taking my rightful place means surviving deadly challenges, fighting terrible monsters, resisting devilish competition and making incredible sacrifices.

The demons expect me to fail, but they’re in for a nasty surprise. I won’t just survive, I’ll rule.

Travel to Hell and back in this action-packed and uniquely fiery urban fantasy by bestselling authors J. C. McKenzie and Harper A. Brooks! 1-click today!

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Harper A. Brooks lives in a small town on the New Jersey shore. Even though classic authors have always filled her bookshelves, she finds her writing muse drawn to the dark, magical, and romantic. But when she isn't creating entire worlds with sexy shifters or legendary love stories, you can find her either with a good cup of coffee in hand or at home snuggling with her furry, four-legged son, Sammy.

She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance.

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J. C. McKenzie is a book loving, gumboot-wearing, unapologetic science geek. She predominantly writes urban fantasy and post-apocalyptic dystopian fantasy with strong romantic elements. When she's not spinning tales, she's in the classroom sharing her passion for science and mathematics while secretly warping the young impressionable minds of our future to carry out her evil plans for world domination. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and a feisty dog named Angus who believes rules were made to be broken.

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