Blitz: Gabriel and the Special Memorial Day by Sherry Roberts, illustrated by Linda Guerra

Gabriel and the Special Memorial Day

by Sherry Roberts

Children's Book

Date Published: 05-12-2024

Publisher: Solander Press

Are you ready for a heartwarming story? Step into the neighborhood, where Gabriel awaits the start of a special Memorial Day celebration. Despite the pouring rain, he's eager to see what Mr. Wayne has planned. As the rain finally clears, Gabriel sets off with a special gift in tow, ready to show his appreciation for Mr. Wayne's efforts.

What is the surprise Gabriel has in store? Will it be enough to bring a smile to Mr. Wayne's face?

Find out in this touching tale of community and friendship

About the Author

 

 Sherry Roberts is an award-winning children’s book author. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Louisville. She has written multiple award-winning fiction picture books such as ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…A First for Gus, Hello, Can I Bug You?, Gabriel and the Special Memorial Day, What’s Wrong with Barnaby, and The Best Reading Buddy. She also has written two non-fiction award-winning picture books, Sonnet, Sonnet, What’s in Your Bonnet? and A Visit Through the Wetlands. These two were illustrated with her photography. Sherry’s newest picture book, Amica Helps Zoe, was featured in Kirkus e-newsletter June 2025 as Indie Pick and received a Get It: Recommend review.

As a former middle school teacher, Dr. Roberts decided to write her first middle-grade novel (ages 8-13). Her debut novel, The Galaxy According to CeCe, is the first book in a three-book series. It was officially released on February 24, 2024. Book two, The Galaxy According to Cece: The Mysterious Dr. Pruitt, was released August 2024. Book three, The Galaxy According to Cece: The Stars Align, released February 2025.

Sherry’s next venture is a chapter book series (ages 6-8). The first book, Just Call Me Pardner, was released August 1, 2025. The series is about a young boy in the 1930s on a small farm in Northeastern Oklahoma and is inspired by stories of her father’s childhood in the 1930s. Book 2, Just Look at Those Boots, launches in early 2026, with Book 3, Just Don’t Give a Girl a Frog, launching in November 2026.

Dr. Roberts has also written many articles that appear in various academic journals, along with three textbooks. Personal Financial Literacy is in its fourth edition (Pearson). She is an associate professor of Marketing in Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University.

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Release: Harbored by My Mate (Night Grove Falls: Midnight Haven #5) Luna Wilder

Harbored By My Mate 

by Luna Wilder 

Available now!

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She’s his, and he’ll do anything to keep her safe.

Knox
I made it through one deployment before I was injured and discharged.
Now I’m back in Night Grove Falls and trying to figure out what to do with my life.
The Midnight Haven has helped give me purpose, but there’s still something missing.
Or someone.
When Daisy runs into me when I’m out on patrol, I know that I’ve just found my missing piece.
She’s running from the law, so I take her home where I can keep her safe.
I know that I’m harboring a fugitive, but that’s not going to stop me from keeping my mate here with me.
Now that I've found her, nothing is going to take her from me.

Daisy
The charges against me are bogus.
My neighbor, Joe, is a cop and has been obsessed with me for years.
I thought that we were just friends, but when I went over to his house one night for dinner, I stumbled across something startling.
He has photos of me, hundreds, videos too.
It’s then that I realize that he’s not my friend.
He’s a stalker.
I try to create some distance between us, but he’s always there, always watching.
So, I try to file a restraining order, and that’s when things escalate.
Suddenly, I’m wanted for grand larceny, a crime I didn’t commit.
I know that I won’t get a fair trial, not here, so I run.
Straight into Knox.
I expect him to turn me in, but instead, he surprises me.
He says that I’m his.
Now I’m questioning if I’ve traded in one stalker for another, and wondering why I like having all of Knox’s attention when I hated having Joe’s.

 

Release: A Forced Bond (Dark Pack Series #1) by Ann D. Lang

A Forced Bond

Series: Dark Pack Series Book 1

by Ann D. Lang

Release: May 15, 2026

Cover Design: Ann D. Lang

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3OgIQQX

Genre/Tropes:

• Adult Paranormal Romance

• Werewolf Shifter Romance Forced Mate Bond

• Forced Mate Bond

• Fated Mates (revealed at the end)

• Wolf Shifter FMC

• Future Alpha MMC

• Pack Alliance Marriage

• Instant Attraction

• New Adult

Blurb:

Forced together. Fated forever.

She was supposed to find her fated mate under the full moon.
Instead, she is ordered to bond with a stranger.

The full moon after Rhia’s twentieth birthday was meant to be the happiest night of her life. Among wolf shifters, it is the first full moon after turning twenty when a wolf might finally recognize the mate chosen by the Moon Goddess.

Rhia has always hoped that mate would be Caleb, the boy she has loved for years.

But when an entire neighboring pack is brutally wiped out, everything changes.

Fearing they could be next, the Red Moon Pack forms a desperate alliance with the powerful Silver Lake Pack. And alliances between alpha families require one thing above all else: a mating bond.

As the only unmated alpha daughter of Red Moon, Rhia’s future is decided for her. Instead of discovering her fated mate under the coming full moon, she is ordered to form a bond with Jalen, the future alpha of Silver Lake.

Leaving her home, her family, and the life she thought she would have.

Jalen never wanted a forced bond any more than Rhia did. But protecting their packs comes before everything. What neither of them expected was the instant pull between them, a connection that feels far too real to be political.

But if the Moon Goddess had a plan for their bond all along, it may be because the Dark Pack is not finished yet—and their own may be the next target.

Buy Links (Kindle Unlimited):

Amazon Universal: https://mybook.to/ForcedBond_ADL 

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Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GHQR5HTG

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GHQR5HTG

Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0GHQR5HTG

Author Bio:

When Ann D. Lang isn’t writing, she can be found with her family and her cats — who treat everyone in the house as their personal servants and are entirely unbothered by deadlines. A lifelong lover of paranormal romance in all its forms, from vampire courts and fae kingdoms to witch covens and wolf pack politics, she has spent years falling in love with other people’s worlds — and one day simply decided to open the doors to a world of her own.

Social Media Links:

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Cover Reveal: The Gift (Empath Investigations #1) by Maddie Taylor

Thrills meet chills when The Gift by Romantic Fiction by Maddie Taylor releases in just a few weeks! Check out the incredible cover now.    Follow Maddie Here For Release Alerts 👇 https://linktr.ee/maddietaylorauthor Promoters & Influencers Sign Up Here 👇 https://forms.gle/r8byhZ9VA9sCLhQJA   A lawman falls for a woman with a rare gift. A killer will stop at nothing to possess it.   Texas Ranger Vince Cooper trusts evidence, instincts, and the badge on his chest. Psychics? Not a chance. But when a brutal murder and a missing teenage girl lead him to Erica Stevens, Vince can't deny that the beautiful, boho artist knows things about the crime scene she shouldn't.   Erica rarely talks about her gift. The visions strike without warning—someone else's fear, memories that don't belong to her, flashes of violence she can't unsee. Helping a skeptical Ranger investigate a murder is the last thing she needs, even if the grounded, old‑school lawman watching her with equal parts suspicion and heat is impossible to ignore.   As they work the case together, preconceived notions give way to undeniable chemistry. Trust builds. Desire sizzles. Coop's protective instincts flare to life. And everything between them changes.   But the investigation points straight to a ruthless Russian crime boss who collects debts in blood. When he learns about Erica's ability, she becomes far more valuable than the money he's hunting.   Now Coop isn't just trying to solve a murder. He's racing to save the woman he loves. Because once the boss decides something belongs to him, he never lets it go.

Free!!! Riptide (Kismet Cove #1) by Susan Hayes, for a limited time

Two Selkie Shifters. One Fated Mate. A Secret That Could Destroy Them All.

Riptide by Susan Hayes is absolutely free!

 

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Read for FREE Now!
 

✔️ Fated Mates

✔️ Why Choose Romance

✔️ Paranormal Shifter Romance

 

A letter from her dead mother sends Jessica Martin across the country to the wilds of the west coast in search of answers. Instead, she finds two gorgeous men who want her in their lives, and in their bed.

Rory Frazier's birthright is to lead a secret colony of mythical shifters known as selkies, but only if he and his blood brother, Evan Sinclair, can find their mate.

Fate brought them together, but uncovering the colony's dark past might just tear them apart. 

Cover Reveal and Preorder: Owen (The Wolfe Mountain Men #1) by Cassie Colton

Owen 

by Cassie Colton 

Releases on June 9th!

https://geni.us/Owen

Read With Kindle Unlimited

After ten years of silence, Owen Wolfe returns to Wolfe Mountain to lay his father to rest and face the five brothers he left behind after a bitter family rift. The plan is simple—settle the estate and walk away again.

But Jeremiah Wolfe had other ideas.

At the reading of the will, the brothers learn their father left the rundown Wolfe Mountain resort, along with its abandoned cabins, failing ski lodge, and the legendary wolf-shaped peak, to all his sons… including one they’ve never met. There’s only one condition: every brother must remain on the mountain for one full year or lose everything. The mountain will go to Leslie Wilkins, Owen’s former fiancée.

If they stay, a five-million-dollar purchase offer is waiting at the end of that year.

As suspicion grows and secrets begin to surface, the Wolfe brothers must put aside a decade of anger to uncover the truth about their father’s death… and decide whether Wolfe Mountain is worth saving.

But for Owen, the greatest battle isn’t on the mountain. It’s proving to Leslie that the man who once walked away is not the same man who returned.

Because losing his family again isn’t an option.

 

Cover Reveal and Preorder: Striker (Phantom Ops #2) by Samantha Wilde

Striker 

by Samantha Wilde 

Releases on June 11th!

https://geni.us/StrikerSW

Available on All Platforms

Striker is the second book in the heart-stopping Phantom Ops series by bestselling author Samantha Wilde. A tempting read stocked with heat, danger, and heroes that fall fast and hard for the women they love.

He’s the alpha with stealth precision. He never misses the shot.

One job unravels him . . . she unravels him.

Striker expected to find their target. Instead he found tawny eyes and long blond hair wrapped in abuse and neglect.

He has one shot to get her out alive—and he can’t miss.

One mission
One woman.

All in.

 

Excerpt Reveal: Just Playing for Keeps (Hockey Ever After #2) by Lauren Blakely

When she’s fake dating the hockey star, but he was never faking it…

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the next standalone hockey rom com in her brand new Hockey Ever After series, JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS! This spicy, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, only one bed in a room, opposites attract hockey romance releases June 3rd in all formats, and will be free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Check out the excerpt below, and one-click your copy today!

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Read the Excerpt: 

“I don’t want to be your plus-one, sweetheart. I want your ex, and everyone else, to think I’m your real date.”

She’s quiet for a long beat. Eyes flickering. Brow furrowing. “You do?”

That might sound f*&k-all pushy, so I amend it. “Fake date.”

She tilts her head, a small, curious smile forming. “You’re saying you want to fake date me for all the wedding events?”

This makes perfect sense to me. A plus-one can be anyone—a friend, a rando, some guy who lives across the country and happens to be in town. But a date? That signals something important.

“What I’m saying is a plus-one is a cop-out. But being your new guy? That says your ex is a dumbass for losing you, and you’re moving the hell on like the f*&king goddess you are.”

Maybe I’ve said too much with goddess, but the way her smile spreads is divine. 

“Looks like you just got yourself a fake date then, mister.”

I inch closer, tuck my thumb under her chin, like I did the night I walked her to her door. Her breath catches. I slide my thumb gently along her jaw. “See you soon.”

About JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS (Coming 6/3/2026):

Ever hear the story about the dating coach who got dumped on the hockey arena’s jumbotron?

Everyone did. But I lived it. Including the moment when Lake Axelrod, the team’s broody, tattooed right winger, swooped in on skates to rescue me from public humiliation.

Even more surprising? When the famously grumpy (and ridiculously sexy) hockey star insists on being my fake boyfriend for my sister’s high-profile wedding.

It’s the perfect plan. His family stops pressuring him to settle down, and I’ll get the ultimate revenge, since my ex is the best man. Bonus – I might even salvage my professional reputation.

We need rules though.

1. To pull this off, everyone from his teammates to my boss has to believe we’re a real couple.

2. That means swoony touches and knee-weakening kisses are required.

3. When it ends, we walk away.

But the intensity in Lake’s eyes after every post-game kiss makes me wonder if he’s pretending. With each whispered secret, the line between fake and real bends. Until it shatters one night in a hotel room.

Soon, he isn’t just playing the protective boyfriend—he’s the only one who truly sees me.

If I’m not careful, I’m going to break the most important rule of all: don’t fall for your fake date.

ABOUT LAUREN BLAKELY:

A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s sexy, feel-good and witty. Her books have been featured in US Weekly and People. Lauren likes dogs, cake and show tunes and she is the vegetarian at your dinner party. 

Connect w/ Lauren:

Website: laurenblakely.com 

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Teaser: One in a Billion (Accidentally Yours #1) by Jennifer Bernard

One In A Billion 

by Jennifer Bernard 

Releases on June 2nd!

https://geni.us/OneInABillion

Available on All Platforms

First in a new series where meet-cutes go wrong… or exactly right.

Pilot Rory Baker was born to fly. Schlepping around Lincoln Kerr, a billionaire with an ego as big as his bank balance? Not so much. Especially when Lincoln suddenly demands they fly to Hawaii despite severe weather warnings. Rory’s perfect flying record is about to crash and burn—literally. It’s a miracle he survives. Even more miraculous that rescuers find him in the middle of a Hawaiian jungle, and one of them is the hottest woman he’s ever seen…who also happens to swing a machete like a champ. Rory makes a snap decision: pretend to be his boss until he knows who he can trust.

Mathilda Wheeler is living on borrowed time. An agreement with her parents has allowed her to live the carefree life of a grad student for nearly a decade, but she’s been avoiding a major decision—one that’s about to track her down all the way from England to a hidden research camp in a lush Hawaiian valley. Why now, when she’s finally found a man she could love? And why him, billionaire Lincoln Kerr, the very type she’s been avoiding? Though…Mathilda has to admit, he’s unlike any rich guy she’s ever met. For instance, even some of her fellow scientists seem to know more about Lincoln’s personal and professional life than the man himself.

Hidden identities, ancient bequests, intimate nights, a jackass billionaire…and speaking of, what was Lincoln Kerr’s super-secret trip to Hawaii all about, anyway? Rory and Mathilda have no idea. But judging by the sudden appearance of murder drones and masked commandos, clearly there’s more to this story than an accidental one-in-a-billion meet-cute.

 

Teaser: A Very Grumpy Veterinarian (Wolf Valley: Grumps #14) by Shaw Hart

A Very Grumpy Veterinarian 

by Shaw Hart 

Releases on May 29th!

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I think I’m finally ready to fall in love… I just didn’t expect it to be with my grumpy boss.

Pearl
I’ve worked at Wolf Valley Veterinary Clinic for years.
I love my job, I love the animals, and I loved working with Dr. Harris before he retired.
Then his replacement gets here, and I realize that there might be something else I love about my job.
Him.
Dr. Wells Bennett.
He’s quiet, brooding, annoyingly handsome, and the kind of man who looks at you once and sees too much.
He showed up a few months ago to help out his mentor, but then he stayed.
Took over the clinic.
Took over my routine.
Took over my peace of mind.
Now I’m dealing with a boss who barely talks, glowers at anyone who smiles with me, and finds excuses to stay late when I’m the only other one here.
I should be focusing on my work, but all I can think about is what it would feel like if my grumpy vet finally made a move.

Wells
I came to Wolf Valley to help my mentor through his last months at the clinic.
I thought it would be temporary.
Then I met Pearl.
She’s sunshine and fire all wrapped into one gorgeous, curvy woman who cares more about animals than most people care about each other.
The first day I saw her hold a trembling puppy to her chest and whisper softly to comfort him, I was done for.
Completely gone.
So, when my mentor retired, I didn’t hesitate.
I stayed.
But things are complicated.
Pearl works for me, and I’m terrified of risking the one bright thing I have here.
Only now, every day she’s near me is torture.
Every smile she gives someone else is a punch to the gut.
And every time she brushes past me in the hallway, I have to remind myself she’s not mine.
Not yet.