It’s January… and it’s so cold and dark that all I want to do is stay inside and read and drink hot chocolate. Luckily, this month I have new free books and some fun reader events guaranteed to keep you warm and cozy during this wintry days. I hope you enjoy this month’s book fair and hopefully I’ll have some more fun events for next book fair post in a few weeks. Until then, stay cozy and well read!
The Isn’t It Romantic Book Club Group will be live-streaming February 5th at 3 pm EST while we interview former FBI Agent Katherine Schweit and her newest non-fiction book Women Who Talk to the Dead. It’ll be live-streamed on our YouTube channel and we hope you’ll join us there!
On Saturday January 24th, visit the Worth the Wait Seasoned Romance Readers Facebook Group for their annual Snow Day Readers Event. Authors who write seasoned romance (stories where the hero and heroine are 30+ years old) will be giving away books, swag, and gift cards. I hope to see you there!
Her Secret Alien by Susanna Eastman
His people are about to annihilate Earth. He’ll risk everything to protect her…
Moss: My world is dying. Every second counts, and I can’t afford distractions. I came to Earth as a galactic geologist, searching for solutions—ways to harness this planet’s resources before it’s too late. Then there’s her.
Abby. The woman who lives just above me. The woman I shouldn’t notice, shouldn’t want. She’s already lost so much—her family, her trust, the life she thought she’d have. And now, we’re bound by something neither of us understands. A Heart Bond.
But I can’t stay. She can’t leave. Unless we risk everything.
The Shape of Trust by Brinda Berry
A single dad. A secret daughter. One temptation he never planned on.
Webb Walters has rebuilt his life after losing everything—until a five-year-old girl turns his world upside down. She’s fiery, stubborn, and grieving a parent… just like he once was. Suddenly it’s bedtime stories instead of stock portfolios, and failure isn’t an option.
Enter Lily Rose—his daughter’s temporary caregiver, with her quirky style, 80s hair-band playlists, and a dangerous way of making chaos feel manageable.
She’s too sweet. Too young. Too tempting.
And the one risk his carefully guarded heart never saw coming.
The Girl in the Wedding Dress by Sandra Owens
Brody Merrick is only a few days into his retirement from twenty years in Army Intelligence when the man who saved his life in Kandahar calls, asking a favor. Brody’s intention is to spend a month doing absolutely nothing except maybe hooking up as often as possible until he has to report to his new job with a security company.
But best laid plans can change with one phone call. Brody can’t refuse when the man he owes his life to asks him to go to Asheville and protect a woman who is being stalked by a stranger. He’ll go, figure out who her stalker is, and once she’s safe, he’ll get back to his plan. What he doesn’t expect, much less plan for, is Callie Flavin.
Callie Flavin lives a quiet life. She loves her job as a voice-over artist, she loves her cats, and she fiercely guards her privacy. A tragedy in her teen years taught her that a happily ever after is not going to happen for her. She might wish otherwise, but she accepts that.
When a stalker sets his sights on Callie, a friend sends Brody Merrick to protect her. For years, she’s convinced herself that love isn’t for her, but maybe she’s been wrong all this time.
Her stalker has other ideas, though. Callie belongs to him, and he means to have her.
Snow Awkward-ish by J. Haney and S.I Hayes
Author Sterling Olivia is about to find a cure for all of her blocks.
{Contemporary Snowed-in Forced Proximity, with an Awkward Meet Cute}
Roped into a week-long writer’s retreat at Keyhouse, the home of acclaimed Author Stiles Key, Indie Author Sterling Olivia has her reservations, especially when she finds out her best friend and publicist has actually set her up for some strange Locked In crazy.
Unable to leave and with serious imposter syndrome, she’s about to find that all those blocks she’s had in her personal and professional life since the last imposed lockdown are nothing compared to being caught between the sheets with him.
As the snow falls can Sterling separate reality from fantasy even as she is being offered the keys to the kingdom?
The Mission by C.S. Smith
Three men. One betrayal. A brotherhood forged in blood and death.
British Special Air Service Captain Lachlan Mackay’s newest deployment to Afghanistan is just like any other until he meets his beautiful Afghan translator. Nadia Haider reminds him of what he’s missing. Home. A family of his own.
US Navy SEAL Lieutenant Nathan Long and his team are riding high on their successes. Not a single man lost this deployment, and he intends to keep it that way. He enjoys flirting with the Brits’ attractive translator just to get a rise out of his new SAS buddy Lachlan Mackay.
Corporal Ryder Montague abandoned his aristocratic life to prove himself in the elite SAS. His job is to escort Nadia as she interacts with the female Afghan villagers. Nadia’s beauty masks a secret Ryder glimpses but can’t define. Or maybe that’s his jaded, broken heart misleading him.
When Nadia tells Lachlan she has information on the whereabouts of Western hostages kidnapped by the Taliban, Lachlan and Nathan convince their commanding officers to green light a joint rescue mission. Determined to save innocents from the evil clutches of terrorists, all three men place their trust in one woman. Will it make them heroes? Or be their undoing.
This novella is a background origin story that introduces the first three heroes of my former military romantic suspense series, Dìleas Security Agency.
Dangerous Seal by Paige Tyler
Her plans didn’t include a Navy SEAL.
Au pair Talia Holland couldn’t deny that the handsome Navy SEAL who saved her employer’s family a few months ago is tempting enough to break all her dating rules, but what could a mousy nanny have in common with a sexy man whose job is as dangerous as a Tom Cruise movie? Besides, she’d grown up with a father who was always away because of his job.
Talia did not want to live that kind of life ever again. But when another au pair goes missing and Talia narrowly escapes an attack, she doesn’t know who else to call for help but the one guy who lives, eats, and breathes danger. Getting close to a SEAL might keep her safe, but how will she protect her heart if she falls for a man who spends more time on foreign soil than in her arms?
But best laid plans…
Petty Officer Lennox Thompson had been hoping for a phone call from the beautiful dark-haired au pair, but not a call from the police station that she’d been attacked.
Unwilling to let Talia go home alone, Lennox offers his guest bedroom for the night. However, once he hears the details, he realizes she’s involved in something more suited to a SEAL Team 5 mission than adventures in babysitting.
Someone is willing to kill to get what they want, and Talia and her young charge are in the crosshairs. It will take help from his Teammates to avoid an international incident, but when Talia and little Maria are kidnapped, Lennox will take on navy protocol, smug CIA, and deadly terrorists to save the little girl who makes him laugh and the woman who makes his heart pound.
A Shot Worth Taking by Tracy Brody
FBI Linguist Angela Hoffman is no stranger to high-stakes missions, but her current one raises a new threat. Sent undercover to track a dangerous terrorist, Angela’s past collides with the present when her mission converges with Sergeant First Class Tony Vincenti and his elite Bad Karma Special Ops team. Scarred by past betrayals, along with threats from her past, have made Angela swear off serious relationships. She and Tony posed as lovers in the past. Now, she is forced to confront her lingering attraction to the soldier she can’t allow herself to want.
On Tony’s prior undercover op with Angela, their lives depended on selling themselves as lovers. It also meant sticking to their roles. Now, as they race against time to prevent a terror attack, Tony has more on the line than the mission. He’s determined to prove to Angela that her past won’t stand in the way of their future together.
But when Angela becomes the target of a lethal threat, trust becomes a matter of life and death. As danger close in, Angela must reveal her secrets—and her heart—to Tony, or risk losing everything. Can Tony protect the woman he loves and convince her they’re worth the ultimate gamble?
Heat level: Steamy. Contains sexual content/on the page. Not overly explicit.
Profanity: Moderate (These are military characters)
Contains hunky heroes, a strong female heroine, and a military working dog.
MisGiving Hearts by J. Haney and S.I. Hayes
When Charity Daniels was seventeen she fell in love with Literature, and a man who taught it. Their forbidden love was held back until graduation, until legally she could be his.
Flash forward three years, Charity is studying at Yale and still in love with her Princeton Man.
Quinn (Q) Everett is on scholarship at Yale, and finds himself inexplicably in Charity’s path. He tries to stay away, but his mouthy best friend thinks he knows better. Suddenly it’s lunches and crashing private plans for the duo just to see her.
But their flirtations do not go unseen, and Logan’s love turns and goes from jealousy to murderous intent.
Can these unproven lovers stay the course and avoid the devious plot of a scorn man or will everything crash and burn?
Trigger warning: Violence
*Strong Sexual Situations
