Hello, friends! Can I tell you I didn’t ever realize until I was poutting this list together that I COMPLETLY forgot to do my list for July 😭! I feel like a complete idiot.

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Blackmail by Amelia Wilde 

Anticipated Publication Date: August 2nd, 2022

Bristol Anderson will do anything to protect her younger siblings. Even if it means embezzling from the company where she’s a temp. No one will find out. And the wealthy owner of the venture capitalist firm will never notice.

Except Will LeBlanc doesn’t miss a thing.

He could call the police, but he has more interesting plans for her. In the copy room. On the conference table. Under his desk.

The coldhearted capitalist will make her pay back every last cent.

Husband Material by Alexis Hall 

Anticipated Publication Date: August 2nd, 2022

Wanted:

One (very real) husband

Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best

In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends…and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc’s feeling the social pressure to propose. But it’ll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a bowl full of special curry to get these two from I don’t know what I’m doing to I do.

Good thing Oliver is such perfect HUSBAND MATERIAL.

This Summer 2022, you’re invited to the event(s) of the season.

Force of Nature by Skye Warren & Amelia Wilde

Anticipated Publication Date: August 9th, 2022

Carter Morelli survived a dark childhood and dangerous missions. But when he emergency lands a small aircraft on the ocean, he faces something worse: having someone depend on him. He has to keep innocent June Porter safe on the deserted island.

Except they aren’t alone here…

A man hides among the broad leaves. He’s almost feral.

There are secrets in his cabin. Desire, too.

Carter doesn’t want to care about beautiful June. He doesn’t want to care about the mysterious and sensual man who’s almost part of the wilderness.

Scorching chemistry draws all three of them deeper.

They already survived the plane crash, but will they survive the fall?

Welcome to the Midnight Dynasty world… The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors.

WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. Enter at your own risk…

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin 

Anticipated Publication Date: August 9th, 2022

Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers―a stranger who now lives in her apartment and forces her out in the cold. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it’s missing, and in its place is a bloodstained knife. That’s when she sees that her hands are covered in black pen, scribbled messages like graffiti on her skin: STAY AWAKE.

Two years ago, Liv was living with her best friend, dating a new man, and thriving as a successful writer for a trendy magazine. Now, she’s lost and disoriented in a New York City that looks nothing like what she remembers. Catching a glimpse of the local news, she’s horrified to see reports of a crime scene where the victim’s blood has been used to scrawl a message across a window, the same message that’s inked on her hands. What did she do last night? And why does she remember nothing from the past two years? Liv finds herself on the run for a crime she doesn’t remember committing as she tries to piece together the fragments of her life. But there’s someone who does know exactly what she did, and they’ll do anything to make her forget―permanently.

In the vein of SJ Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep and Christopher Nolan’s cult classic Memento, Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that plays with memory and murder.

The Consigliere by Serena Akeroyd 

Anticipated Publication Date: August 18th, 2022

I inherited Las Vegas.

It’s mine even if I never wanted it.

I may be the Don of the Camorra but every leader needs a Consigliere, and the only one I want belongs to the New York Sicilian Mafia.

Aurora Valentini hasn’t spoken to me in a decade and I’m tired of waiting.

It’s time to claim what’s mine.

Whether she’s ready or not.

Two for the Show by Skye Warren 

Anticipated Publication Date: August 22nd, 2022

Pregnant. Alone. And heartbroken. The only thing Eva Morelli knows for sure is that she wants this baby. She learned how to depend only on herself a long time ago.

The father, however? He made his position on marriage and children very clear.

Finn Hughes has fought his fate for years, but it’s finally catching up to him. Duty took away his choices. How can he hope for forever? He already knows how this ends.

There’s only one thing worse than having a family.

Losing them.

Welcome to the Midnight Dynasty… The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors.

WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. Enter at your own risk…

Second Chance Rival by M. Robinson

Anticipated Publication Date: August 23rd, 2022

From Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author M. Robinson comes an enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, second chance standalone romance.

Marrying my enemy wasn’t nearly as fun as taking her virginity…

But I guess that’s why I’m the guy everyone loves to hate and she’s the town sweetheart. If they only knew the things she begged me to do when her father wasn’t watching.

Before they sent me away.

Before I broke her heart.

Before she hated me.

Now I’m back to claim what’s mine.

This town.

The company.

And her.

She didn’t have to love me… Hell, she didn’t even have to like me.

She just had to marry me.

She might never love or honor me.

But I intend to make sure she obeys.

The Oracle by Serena Akeroyd 

Anticipated Publication Date: August 25th, 2022

I friendzoned Hunter Lachlan because I thought he could never give me what I needed.

After a decade of pushing him away, I don’t recognize Las Vegas’s new Don.

Maybe my childhood best friend knew me better than I ever realized…

And maybe, just maybe, he’s the one man for whom I’ll kneel.

Never Look Back by A.L. Jackson

Anticipated Publication Date: August 29th, 2022

Logan Lawson left it all behind in L.A. The ghosts. The scars. Also, the love of his life. When she shows in his small-town, can he move beyond his ghosts and claim what should have always been his in this second-chance romance?

The Do-Over by T.L. Swan 

Anticipated Publication Date: August 30th, 2022

In this sexy installment of the Miles High Club series from bestselling author T L Swan, a billionaire playboy goes incognito on a backpacking trip in Europe. But how long can he hide from love?

Wealthy, powerful, and able to get any woman I want.

So why do I feel so empty inside?

In search of a deeper me, I take a sabbatical from my privileged life. One year of backpacking around Europe: a new identity, no contacts, and no money. Not a bad plan, I think.

Until I get there.

A crowded hostel room, body odor, and beer bongs—there are no words for the fresh hell I’ve landed in.

But amid the chaos, I meet my new roommate, Hayden Whitmore. She sleeps in the bed opposite me, and I openly admit to staring at her more than I sleep. Beautiful, innocent, and smart. Not my usual type but perhaps the perfect woman.

There’s just one small problem with the divine Miss Hayden. She’s totally unaffected by my charm. Nothing is working, and now, I’ve been friend zoned.

What?

But the good thing about me is that I’m an incredible problem solver, and I’ve come up with a diabolical plan. I’m going to slide right in under her friend zone. Be the best damn friend she ever had, hold her hand, make her laugh, and spoon with her in bed.

But now there’s another problem.

Hayden is the one who is sliding under my skin, and maybe friendship isn’t enough.

What are you looking forward to?