Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Audio Blitz: Playground Games by Lily Morton

AUDIO BLITZ - PLAYGROUND GAMES by Lily Morton
Narrator: Joel Leslie
Length: 2h 46m
Series: standalone
Genre: contemporary
Tropes: teacher romance, opposites attract, forced proximity
Trigger/Content Warnings: n/a
Designer: Natasha Snow
School trips are hell on the teachers.

Auguste Patterson’s happy place on a winter holiday would involve a seat by a fire, a good book, and alcohol. Which is why he’s horrified when the headmaster at the primary school where he teaches demands he accompany a group of young students to France on a skiing trip. Gus believes snow should always be viewed from inside a warm building and never encountered while flailing on skis.

The holiday’s single perk is also the one reason Gus has for liking sports—the school’s PE teacher, Doug Henshaw. Doug is Gus’s secret crush, and sharing a room at the ski chalet with him almost makes managing forty school children bearable. But Gus doesn’t stand a chance with Doug. A handsome, funny ex-professional football player would never fall for a hopelessly unathletic language teacher. Would he?

Playground Games is a 25K word novella that first appeared in a promotional giveaway. No new content has been added.

Lily lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven’t had a proper conversation with her since she bought her first Kindle.

She loves chocolate and Baileys and the best of all creations – chocolate Baileys! Her lifetime’s ambition is to have a bath in peace without being shouted by one of her family.
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Cover Reveal: Whispers in the Dark by Ashley Elizabeth

Ashley Elizabeth has revealed the cover for Whispers in the Dark!
Releasing May 12, 2026
Whispers.
That's what he offers me when he asks me to marry him,
my heart racing beneath my chest as if it's waited its whole life for this moment.
But I'm not naïve.
I won't let myself get swept away in the fantasy that this is anything more than it seems.
An arrangement to help me inherit what's rightfully mine.
Even if it's all a lie.
And to ensure things don't get messy,
we establish rules.
Rules to remind us both that this is all an illusion.
But when those rules start unraveling and a buried secret becomes impossible to ignore,
will he prove to be my knight in shining armor,
saving me from the monsters that terrorize this world?
Or will he become the villain of my story,
shattering my beating heart?
To everyone in the darkness, he's a dangerous weapon that many fear for all the right reasons.
To me, he's my temporary husband.
A man I've quietly loved my whole life:
Mauro Alarie.
Cover Designer: Y'all That Graphic

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Ashley Elizabeth is an author of steamy contemporary romance. Her books will always tell a love story with just the right amount of spice and, most importantly, end with a happily ever after. When she's not reading a romance novel or overthinking everything, you can find her at Starbucks, keeping them in business, or watching Jurassic Park for the thousandth time with her fur baby, Bailey.
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Release Boost: Crimson Refuge by Sienna Judd


Crimson Refuge by Sienna Judd is now live!
ANTON

I swore I was done with wanting things.
Done with trust. Done with hope. Done with pretending a man like me gets more than survival.
Then Freya Johnson walked into my life—curious, relentless, too young for me, and completely off-limits. I was her mentor. Her safe place.
The one man who knew better than to touch her.
And I didn’t.
Not until she left for the LAPD.
Not until one night blew straight through every line I’d drawn.
I never meant for that night to change anything.
But it changed everything.
The line I drew is now two pink ones, and when she comes back to Echo Valley—taking a quieter desk job while we try to figure out next steps—every boundary I’ve built starts to crack.
Because being her friend, her co-parent, her roommate… none of it touches the truth of what I want when I look at her.
And when she becomes the lead officer on a case no one can quite explain, when something dangerous starts circling closer than she realizes, it isn’t just instinct that locks tight inside my chest.
It’s possession.
It’s fear.
It’s the knowledge that she’s already mine, whether I’ve told her or not.
I should step back.
Wanting her is the fastest way to lose myself again.
But if this threat reaches her first, it won’t just cost me control.
It will cost me the one thing I never planned to risk again.
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Sienna Judd is a small town, contemporary romance author who lives for all the spice. She thinks kitchens are for dancing, is a self-professed hype girl and might be known for talking too loudly.

Like every respectable woman she also loves drinking champagne and eating half of every chocolate in a truffles box.

Her spirit animal is a butterfly.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Release Blitz: Owning Jett by Lucy Lennox

Title: Owning Jett
Series: Made Marian Legacy #3
Author: Lucy Lennox
Genre: Gay Romance
Tropes: Accidental Rent Boy, Secret Relationship
Billionaire, Intrigue, Late Bi-Awakening
Release Date: February 17, 2026
Two weeks. One villa. A dangerous game of seduction and lies.

My job is simple: get close, get the intel, get out.

Then Locke Maris walks into my op.

He’s cold. Controlled. Heir to a billion-dollar shipping fortune. And so aggressively straight he doesn’t even look at me twice…

Until he does.

Locke makes me an offer: play his assistant by day, be his secret lover by night, at a house party where the world’s elite will gather to sip champagne, enjoy the Italian sun… and play a dangerous game called Paxis. 

In this ancient variation of chess, humans are pawns and each coded move could start or stop wars. I should report this to my agency immediately. Walk away clean.

But I can’t walk away.

Because in the privacy of his suite, the moves Locke makes are just as dangerous, the words he murmurs in my ear as devastating, and the growing devotion I feel as destructive as any global war.

At the end of this, I’ll have to disappear like I always do.

I don’t get to want things that could ruin my cover—or my career.

But Locke Maris is ruthless about protecting what’s his, and as far as he’s concerned he owns me.

When everything falls apart, I’ll find out exactly how far he’ll go to keep me.
OMG! I love the Marians. Lucy has a way to bring all of her characters to life, but the Marians are always on the next level. And this next generation of characters is on par with the first generation. And Aunt Tilly! If you know, you know. This one though was wow. The emotions and the storyline, everything converged together to make one of the best books I've read from Lucy Lennox. You wanted to hold Jett in your arms and never let him go, and then Locke was everything he needed, but more than that, there was the intrigue and everything surrounding them. The push and pull and back and forth. You need this one. 5 stars!
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Lucy Lennox is a USA Today bestselling author and winner of the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award.

After enjoying creative writing as a child, Lucy didn’t write her first novel until she was over 40 years old. Her debut novel, Borrowing Blue, was published in the autumn of 2016. Lucy has an English Literature degree from Vanderbilt University, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the years and years of staying up all night reading tantalizing novels on her own. She has three children, plays tennis, and hates folding laundry. While her husband is no shmoopy romance hero, he is very good at math, cooks a mean lasagne, has gorgeous eyes, looks hot in his business clothes, and makes her laugh every single day. She writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!

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Monday, February 16, 2026

Cover Reveal: Sleep Sweet by Erica Easton


Erica Easton has revealed the cover for Sleep Sweet!
Releasing March 31, 2026
Elle
As a first-generation college student, I swore off conventionally hot men and stayed focused on my education. That is, until …
His ocean eyes crash into mine—right after he literally crashed into me.
That’s how Jesse and I meet—on the same day he signs his agreement to join the Navy after graduation.
And then we spend the next two years building our relationship.
Until he has to leave for boot camp, and my mantra becomes:
Keep me calm, keep him safe, keep us together.
But it’s futile … because it’s all ruined in an instant.
Our future.
Our plans.
Our love.
Our trust.
It’s funny how two minutes can unravel two years. Two minutes was all he ever needed anyway.

Austin
Somehow, my dream girl has fallen out of my dreams and landed in my life for the second time.
Half of our story was written by the coincidence that had brought Jesse into my division when he reported for boot camp. His bad decisions and my memory of her forged the other half.
Two years have passed, but I’ve never forgotten her face.
Her striking brown eyes.
Those full, glazed lips.
The innocence.
I begged my memory to erase her.
I didn’t have time for many things because the Navy came first. Always.
But somehow, the tides have drifted Elle back into the safety of my harbor.
Nothing will stop me from making her mine.
And proving to her that I am worthy of being hers.
Before she finds out the truth.
Cover Designer: Andy Payne

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Erica Easton writes steamy romances featuring morally gray heroes and tempting twists. She is the proud wife of a United States Navy veteran, which allows her to bring an authentic perspective to her military storylines. When she isn’t reading or writing, she spends her time making memories with her friends and family and dreaming up her next love story.

She has degrees in psychology and health science, two fields that fuel her love of writing about emotions, desires, and the fictional human experience.
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Release Boost: Revenge Fantasy by Megyn Ward

REVENGE FANTASY by Megyn Ward is now live!
What do you do when you find out that your straight-laced, investment banker fiancé is sleeping with your wild-child best friend--who just happens to be your cousin and your maid-of-honor--three days before your wedding?

You leave him at the altar after reading their dirty text messages out loud to two hundred of your closest friends and family and then you go on your two-week honeymoon to a tropical, all-inclusive resort... but you don't go alone.

Nope--you take your back-stabbing bestie's walking red flag of an on-again-off-again situationship with you.

Tattooed and gorgeous, Dean Mercer is everything I despise in a man--cocky and condescending. Arrogant and abrasive. The almost kiss we shared two years ago?

Completely irrelevant.

Inviting him along was the cherry on top of my revenge fantasy sundae--but I didn't want to actually spend time with him.

You go your way, I'll go mine.

That was the plan.

I had every intention of spending my two-week, self-imposed exile drowning myself in umbrella drinks while working on my tan--alone. But Mr. Red Flag had an even better idea--

You really want to make 'em pay, princess?

Making our fake relationship Instagram official was never the plan... but then again, neither was seeing him naked. Falling for Dean Mercer might be the dumbest thing I've ever done--or it just might be the sweetest kind of revenge.
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USA Today best-selling author Megyn Ward lives on coffee, chocolate and more than the occasional glass of red wine. When she's not spending time with the hot, dirty-talking heroes and the strong, capable women who love them who live in her head, she's busy chasing chickens, hanging laundry and burning dinner. Either way, she is almost always in the company of her nine dogs, her truest and most faithful companions, and her almost as faithful husband, Joe.

Megyn is also the author of the award-winning Sabrina Vaughn thriller series and the Georgia Fell romantic suspense series, written under the name Maegan Beaumont.
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