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June's Recommendations
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Enemies to Lovers Romance
Lainey Addo fought her way out of prison and straight onto the basketball court, chasing a WNBA dream with the Coastal Sirens. But the past doesn’t release its grip so easily, especially when Axel Lee Carson, her ex and the former captain of the Coastal Titans, still haunts every move she makes. Once high school sweethearts, now sworn rivals, their chemistry is volatile, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. Every glance is a challenge. Every game is a reminder of what they lost.
When the powerful Carson family resurfaces with threats that put Lainey’s future and her life at risk, Axel risks everything to protect the one woman he was never able to forget. Old wounds tear open. Buried feelings ignite. And a love they thought was dead begins to burn again. In a world where trust is the ultimate gamble, can they rewrite their story before it destroys them both?
Rosemary Cashman is ready to reclaim her life. After battling cancer and years spent wrapped in her family's care, she's determined to prove she doesn't need anyone—not even the hot, mysterious man she literally runs into on the street. But when he asks her out, she says yes. Because dating a stranger sounds like a pretty good way to start living again.
Aleksei Thompson has one mission: bring down the mafia kingpin responsible for his best friend's death. When intel points to an unassuming accountant named Rosemary as a potential key in the case, Aleksei sets up a chance encounter. His plan? Get close, gather evidence, and disappear.
But things get complicated when Rosemary stumbles onto incriminating invoices at work—proof that puts a target on her back. Now she and Aleksei are on the run, and the lines between truth and lies, strategy and seduction, begin to blur.
As the danger deepens and secrets unravel, Rosemary must decide: should she trust the man who lied to protect her—or walk away to protect herself?
She's been traded twice. She's done expecting to stay.
Quinn Avery Cole joins the Portland Tempest with her walls already up — an ADHD brain the league has never known what to do with, and a lifetime of being let go. Jane Mei-Lin Yang is the team's golden girl: captain, media darling, and quietly exhausted by the performance of it all.
When they're put on the same line, the chemistry on the ice is instant. Everything else is harder. Quinn can't trust anyone to stay. Jane can't risk being truly seen.
He said he wanted to watch me with his wife. I couldn't say yes fast enough. From the moment I first laid eyes on Hunter and Nina I wanted them both but on our first night together, the rules were clear; I could touch him but not her and I respected that...I respected them. They weren't like the other couples I'd been with, no resentment, no boredom, just a husband and wife exploring their fantasies together. They were a breath of fresh air. Now they're inviting me into their bedroom again and they're both giving me permission to touch her... while he watches. I've never been more ready for anything in my life.
A fugitive priestess must ally with the enemy sent to capture her, or see the God of Chaos unleashed on her world.
Aradia Damali, last of a sacred bloodline, has hidden her magic since her mother's murder. When she reveals her power to save someone she loves, she once again becomes the target of a tyrant king. His children, Prince Kaiden and Princess Cahira, are sent to kill her. Instead, they recruit her in their secret rebellion to end their father's reign and seal the weakening Veil between mortals and gods.
Will the flames of unexpected passion between Aradia and Kaiden ignite into a burning inferno strong enough to withstand their war-bound duties, or crumble to ash alongside the rest of the realm?
For twenty-six years, war has ravaged the eastern kingdoms in Antharia. The souls of the dead haven't been returned to the gods, casing devastation to the land and political unrest. And living in the iron city of Tausheus is difficult if you're not among the wealthy elite.
Elora learned a long time ago that life is hard. With her family, she gets by. But she dreams of more. When her brothers are kidnapped and she meets the mysterious Vale she is thrust into the middle of war, political unrest, and a world of elemental magic.
Secrets and fate are interwoven and Elora must decide who and what to trust to save herself, her family, and the people of Antharia.
Ten years ago, Genevieve’s sister vanished without a trace. Now her mother is dead—and Genevieve is hearing a voice in her head.
Returning to her hometown was supposed to give her closure. Instead, it drags her into a hidden world of magic, hunted creatures, and a rebellion she never asked to join. Now Genevieve is caught in a conflict she barely understands, stalked by enemies who seem to know more about her and her family than she does, and has an irritatingly charming fae male watching her every move.
As secrets unravel and betrayal closes in, Genevieve must decide who she can trust since every ally, every enemy, every stranger she meets seems to hold a fragment of the truth.
And piecing it together might destroy everything she thought she knew about herself.
History remembers her as cruel. But history was written by men.
Fastrada always knew her marriage to King Charles was strategic. She was sent to secure power, protect her family, and survive a court built on loyalty, ambition, and blood. What she did not expect was Charles. Charming. Brilliant. Devoted. Kind. A king with blood on his hands and tenderness in his touch.
Against every warning, Fastrada falls for the man she was meant to deceive. But love offers little protection in a kingdom where every alliance has a price, and the crown she once dreamed of wearing begins to feel more like a collar. Caught between her father’s rebellion and her husband’s growing obsession, Fastrada turns to forbidden magic to survive.
A ring worn. A bargain made. A spell meant to keep her safe.
But something ancient is watching from the shadows. And as secrets coil around her fate, Fastrada must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice for power, love, and survival.
Pittsburgh, 1995. Jessica Greer has exactly one enemy worth hating: the theater critic who just stole her column. She never wanted him dead. But when he collapses in the newsroom from a lethal dose of ricin, the timing couldn't look worse. Suddenly she's all over the news. Not as a writer. As the prime suspect.
With every piece of physical evidence pointing straight at her, the FBI begins to circle. Worse, someone is feeding her private life to the press. Within hours, her past trauma and deepest psychological vulnerabilities are splashed across the evening news, turning her into the country's newest sensation: The Mail Murderess.
The harder Jessica fights to expose the real mastermind, the tighter the trap closes. And Jessica’s nightmare is only just beginning.
Because as the media builds its case and the authorities close in, Jessica is left confronting the dark, inexplicable gap in her own mind from the night of the murder. To clear her name, she must untangle a massive conspiracy — while running from a question she is terrified to answer: what if they’re right?
For two years, Mike Behrens kept Aliana on the hook. Collect calls from prison. Promises of a future together. Just enough affection to keep her sending money while he planned his new life with someone else. When Aliana kills herself, Mike thinks that’s the end of it. Until he sees her. Always watching from afar; always just long enough for him to notice. She appears in reflections, vanishes in crowds, and leaves Mike questioning his sanity. As paranoia consumes him and his new life crumbles, Mike will learn that the past has a way of finding you. And some women are more dangerous dead than alive.
When Gareth Kelmendi inherits a small hotel in northern Albania, he believes he has found an escape - distance, silence, a chance to rebuild.
What he inherits is a system.
Hidden within the building's infrastructure is a surveillance network that has recorded guests for years: their intimacy, their violence, their secrets, and the moments they believe no one is watching. The system is precise, methodical, and embedded in the hotel's operations.
Gareth begins by watching out of necessity. Soon, watching becomes routine. Eventually, it becomes the only thing that keeps him functioning.
What begins as voyeurism becomes infrastructure. What appears to be personal deviance proves to be a component of a larger system of discretion and control.
Dr. Mel is a respected trauma therapist with a gift for helping broken women find peace—or so the records say. Angela Collins was one of his most promising patients: isolated, haunted, desperate to survive her past. Under his guidance, she began to heal.
Then she changed.
She found confidence. Community. Power. And when the story opens, Dr. Mel wakes naked and shackled to concrete, facing the consequences of a narrative he carefully curated for years.
As Angela confronts the man who tried to decide her fate, rage becomes ritual, justice becomes communal, and therapy reaches its most brutal conclusion.
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