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"Hold Me Instead" by Andrea D'Alessio (Elmwood Falls Novel: Book 1)
Charlie Harris knows she’s more than her vaginismus. That doesn’t erase the fact that she’s technically a 32-year-old virgin who can’t use a tampon—and not for lack of trying. If anxiety and humiliation keep her from telling her best friend, how can she explain it to a partner? Romance seems inconceivable, so she devotes herself to judgment-free animals and her career as a veterinarian, preparing to take over her mentor’s Elmwood Falls practice once he retires.
Zachary Lee moved away from Elmwood Falls for love, but it left him divorced, unemployed, and estranged from his father. When his dad has a heart attack and faces a long recovery, Zachary returns home and steps in as the temporary veterinarian for his dad’s animal hospital. He’s ready to prove he’s needed. Wanted. Somewhere. Except he’s not the one in charge—that would be Charlie, the complicated fixture from his past.
It’s been years since they worked together as vet students, but that doesn’t stop Charlie’s old crush on Zachary from resurfacing. Nor does it stop Zachary from being charmed by Charlie and her pet-festive scrubs. As they pour their hearts into the hospital, their dormant friendship returns, igniting a passion that surprises them both. When the practice is at risk of slipping away, they must weather their feelings and find a way to save it—together—even if it means never getting to hold one another again.
"Fangs Divide Us" by Katherine Crowe (Season of Souls: Book 1)
Hidden fangs. Not so hidden hearts.
Millicent Layne has been hiding in plain sight, a delicate existence that her fangs threaten to expose whenever her emotions spike. When a last-ditch effort to stall her arranged marriage goes awry causing her brother Andrei to go missing, she needs Ellis Dacre’s help to find him. Nothing more. But as the autumn days roll on, every cozy inn and toasty tavern chips away at Millie’s secret and the walls she built around her heart.
Ellis Dacre is a carpenter with calloused hands, a gentle soul, and dreams bigger than the small town of Balcott. His sights are set on the capital guild—until Millicent Layne enters his life and his best friend Carolyn vanishes. In a desperate search between falling leaves and starry nights at sea, Millie and Ellis uncover a connection between them that stretches beyond this life.
And a conspiracy poised to eradicate Millie’s people forever.
Fangs Divide Us is the debut entry of the fated mates romantasy quartet, Season of Souls. Each interwoven, yet standalone story follows two souls in a different season, and the problems and passions that bring them together in a lush, post-medieval fantasy world. Forbidden love, enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and more abound in this heartwarming and thrilling series.
Read with comfort: There’s a happily-ever-after guarantee.
"Enemies Don't" by Leah Dobrinska (Fall In Love Series: Book 2 standalone)
This series follows three sisters as they find love after moving across the country to the small town of Cashmere Cove, Wisconsin.
Lost and guarded after getting out of a toxic relationship, Noli Kasper follows her older sisters to idyllic Cashmere Cove to get her life back on track. But when she’s pulled over on the way into town by a police officer who turns out to be her insufferable new boss, her dreams of an uncomplicated fresh start feel dead on arrival.
Collin Rattler has spent his whole life trying to live up to his cop dad’s expectations and reputation. Now, Collin has his sights set on earning the title of county sheriff—something even his father never accomplished. When early polls show Collin’s playboy habits are hurting his chances, his team makes a suggestion: settle down with a nice, respectable woman for the year leading up to the election to prove he can commit. The problem? Collin doesn’t do relationships.
Yet when he lets slip his team’s preposterous plan to Noli, a woman he finds as self-righteous and enigmatic as she is beautiful, he’s not sure what’s more shocking—that she offers to help him or that he finds himself falling for her in the process.
Noli has her own reasons for saying yes to Collin’s fake-dating proposal. And when her past won’t leave her alone, she finds herself relying on Collin, a man she thought she despised, to see her through. But it’s all just a temporary, mutually beneficial arrangement, right?
Because enemies don’t fall in love…do they?
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