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April's Recommendations
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Romance
Fantasy
Thriller
Fake Dating Romance
Jordan “Bougie” Boucher has a reputation – one he didn’t earn. The star NHL defenseman plays the part of a rich young playboy who doesn’t take anything seriously, and he lets everyone believe it—because it’s easier than explaining the truth. Thinking his love life was cursed, he’d almost given up on finding something real. Until Kennedy Kramer stepped onto the team plane. The gleam from her pilot wings caught his eye and lit up something inside he thought he’d never find again—the light at the end of the tunnel. Her.
The only problem? She wants nothing to do with him.
Kennedy Kramer, the Milwaukee Steel Riders’ no-nonsense pilot, has zero patience for the antics of Jordan Boucher. To her, he is exactly what the media says he is—an arrogant, spoiled, entitled rich boy. She’s determined to ignore him until an uncomfortable run-in with a co-worker forces her to agree to fake date him.
What started as a convenient lie quickly spirals, especially when anonymous messages warn them to stay away from each other. But with his dream girl finally within reach, there’s no way Jordan is backing off. Not when she starts chipping away at the cracks in the mask he wears every day—and not when she surprises them both by wanting to know the man hiding underneath it.
But just as the chemistry builds between them…so do the threats.
Serenity Serrano is weighed down by unprocessed childhood trauma, misinterpreting love and safety in all her relationships. When she does take the leap to start therapy, she doesn’t expect her first step toward healing to come in the form of a man she meets in her therapist’s waiting room.
The lingering thoughts of self-doubt urge her to focus on healing instead of risking her heart again. When her buried memories resurface, she must decide if a chance at love is a risk to her healing or the key to it. Grant West is consumed by grief, with his focus spent on working, training, and avoiding his emotions. His therapy sessions are the one constant keeping him grounded with the hope of piecing the family he has left back together.
However, he didn’t anticipate being lured in by the woman with the sad eyes in his therapist’s waiting room. Once a hopeless romantic, he wonders if returning to his roots will finally push him to confront the tragedy he continues to keep buried.
Adriana “Ade” Blankin is doing everything she can to survive her first year in chemical engineering—including keeping a very big secret. Her father, once the beloved men’s hockey coach at her university, was arrested by the FBI and fired in disgrace for his role in a high-profile athletic scandal. Now, Ade is determined to fly under the radar, even if it means hiding who she really is.
But secrets have a price.
Sleepless, anxious, and watching her GPA spiral toward disaster, Ade is desperate for a solution. When she stumbles across a study on the so-called sleep-inducing, anti-anxiety hormones released during sex, she starts to wonder if science might have the answer. If sex can improve her sleep, all she needs is the right guy to make it happen.
Enter Dallas Reynolds: campus playboy, dorm-room legend, and the last person someone like Ade should get involved with. But where others see a player, Ade sees a possible solution.
Their chemistry is undeniable, but nothing in Ade’s life is ever simple. Her secret identity collides with Dallas’s carefully guarded past, revealing shocking truths neither of them saw coming. What began as an experiment soon spirals into something far messier, and far more real.
One night. One city. One interaction that changes everything.
Solène gave up on happy endings. Desiderio is done with safe choices. Neither is looking for love—but when they cross paths on a crowded rooftop in Brooklyn, the pull is instant. Irresistible.
What begins as flirtation ignites into a night of wandering the city, sharing secrets and developing a connection that happens once in a lifetime. But when the sun comes up, the question isn't whether the night was real. It's whether they're brave enough to risk everything for what comes next.
Or at least, that’s what wealthy socialite Beatrice Calloway believed until the annoyingly handsome Soul Reposessor demon, Charysyllon, crashed her twenty-first birthday with a devastating problem: her soul has been promised to Hell and there’s nothing she can do about it. Certain the demon has it backwards, Bea challenges him to a deal. If he allows her to prove the contract is a fraud, she will give the demon a piece of her heart, something the soulless Char desperately wants. Plans change when a murderous biker, who looks strikingly familiar to her father’s killer, ruins her last chance at fixing her reputation. With death and Hell hot on her shiny pink heels, Bea enlists Char’s help in saving her soul. When the two uncover a murder-for-hire plot that threatens Bea’s life and the fate of her company, it’s up to Bea to save her soul and her father’s legacy. That is, if she doesn’t give the rest of her heart to the demon first.
Adelina Helsing was raised to believe monsters are meant to be hunted. As a member of the Nightbounds, an ancient order sworn to protect humanity from vampires, she has built her identity on discipline, loyalty, and emotional restraint. But Adelina is living a lie she does not remember choosing.
On New Year’s Eve, 1999, the fragile order of her world collapses when her older brother Nicolas, a legendary hunter, is brutally murdered, signaling the unraveling of centuries-old treaties and the quiet beginning of war. In the aftermath, Adelina seeks vengeance.
This puts her in the path of Balian Dracul, a powerful and deeply feared vampire who has haunted the edges of her life for reasons she cannot understand. Their connection feels older than memory. And far more dangerous.
Echo doesn't remember much of her past, but she has embraced her new life with Mama Gamma, the woman who took her in, and little Sy, the other young orphan whose secret they are all guarding. It is a death sentence to bear the mark of the curse, and Sy’s features do nothing to hide it.
Surviving in The Hollow is becoming harder each day, but Echo has a plan. There's one market day every few weeks when the city gates open. She has nothing to sell but she can steal enough to buy her small family a crossing to the Continent.
When market day comes, it coincides with a funeral. Another orphan girl from Pleiades, the academy of the seven orders, is dead.
Echo thinks the funeral proceedings are the distraction her plan needs, except that everything goes wrong. Very horribly wrong.
She ends up in the last place someone like her should be in. The academy where her kind have been dying one by one, and she believes she knows who is doing it. The Doubler, the next Kardinal. The vicious boy who already wears the mark of the Imperial Vylone. She doesn't know why he is killing the girls, but she is certain that she is next. Except she is not going to let it happen. She will get him before he has the chance to kill her
He’s the bodyguard her fiancé hired. She’s the vigilante he swore to take down. In the early Joseon dynasty, noblewoman Lee Chin Sun excels at wearing masks. Not only is she an outlaw fighting for justice, but she’s also secretly a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox shapeshifter with a kiss that can kill. But masks are hard to maintain, especially after her fiancé hires a bodyguard to hunt down her alter ego. And when a violent confrontation ends with her guard unknowingly swallowing the source of her magic, she fears a kiss is the only way to get it back. Park Hyun Soo has hit rock bottom. Wrongfully discharged from the king’s service and disinherited, he’s on a mission to restore his reputation by killing the infamous vigilante threatening his friend’s fiancée. Except Lady Lee is far from helpless, and the vigilante has him questioning if he’s fighting on the wrong side. As Chin Sun does her best to retrieve her magic and Hyun Soo’s walls begin to cave to the fascinating beauty, a greater enemy stalks them from the shadows. Chin Sun’s magic could be devastating in the wrong hands, and if they don’t find a way to work together, a stolen kiss will be the least of their worries.
Alexis never imagined nursery rhymes could be deadly—until the day her mother was murdered. The killer leaves chilling verses at every crime scene, each one more chilling than the last.
Desperate for answers, she delves into her mother’s past, uncovering dark secrets that tie their family to the killer’s twisted obsession. With each rhyme bringing him closer, Alexis must decipher the clues before she becomes the final stanza in his deadly poem.
The killer is telling a story. And Alexis is about to discover she’s been a part of it all along.
Desperate for a fresh start after her husband’s death, Marche Baker moves into the vacant house on Victor Street. The neighbors seem nice enough, and the house itself shows promise of becoming a decent home for Marche and her young daughter, Stella. But something isn’t right. Stella insists there’s a lady cloaked in black haunting her dreams, meanwhile gruesome hallucinations plague Marche whether she’s asleep or awake. Then she makes an unsettling discovery—the previous women who’ve lived at 919 Victor Street have a bloody history of dying prematurely. And history seems keen on repeating itself.
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