Teaser: Nana Claus and the Thank-You Notes by Kelly Reddin, illustrator Aiman Shohail, with an excerpt

Children's Picture Book

Date Published: 07-02-2026

Publisher: Solander Press

Gratitude is important to Nana Claus. Even the smallest act of kindness spreads joy, like sending thank-you notes. Nana Claus helps some special friends learn to write thank-you notes to thank others for what they do for them. Nana and her friends learn about ways to say thank you using short notes.

 

About the Author

Kelly Reddin is an award-winning writer and author of the Celebrating Family Series, which highlights healthy relationships between children and the Nana Claus Series, focusing on kindness and friendship. Her short stories and essays have won numerous awards from writing organizations including the Joplin Writers Guild and the Ozark Writers League.

Kelly is a former elementary, middle grade and college educator. Her work at LEGO Education spanned two decades in a variety of positions from Curriculum Specialist to Global Master Trainer. Kelly loves to travel, meet new people, and learn about the world around her. She is active in her community, serving on several non-profit boards.

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

When these opposites attract... lives will be on the line!

Mark your calendars: The Gift by Romantic Fiction by Maddie Taylor releases June 10th!!

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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.

About Maddie:

A USA Today and #1 international bestselling author, Maddie is a lifelong reader who became a romance junkie as a teen with her first romance novel, The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen Woodiwiss. From then on, she was hooked, and gobbled up everything she could get her hands on, whether contemporary, historical, paranormal or sci-fi. If there was romance to be found between a strong alpha male, and a sassy, adventurous and ofttimes defiant yet loving woman, Maddie was all over it. As an author, she stays true to those themes writing steamy erotic romance, with a side of kink, and adding elements of intrigue, danger and suspense to her plots.

Maddie started writing as a hobby. Her stories stayed private while she raised a family and worked full time as a registered nurse. It wasn't until 2012 that she decided to take the plunge and submit her first book for publication: Captain My Captain. She went on to publish eleven novels the first year.

Find Maddie Online!

https://linktr.ee/maddietaylorauthor

 

Cover Reveal and Preorder: Daring Delaney (Whiskey and Roses #4) by Cassie Colton

Daring Delaney 

by Cassie Colton 

Releases on June 30th!

https://geni.us/DaringDelaney

Read With Kindle Unlimited

Delaney Henderson thought she’d found her dream life in a five-star kitchen until a dangerous affair with her boss exposed a web of lies, betrayal, and embezzlement that could destroy her. With nowhere else to turn, she escapes to Haven Ranch for a fresh start as the ranch cook, hoping her past stays buried.

David “Mac” Walters, a former Marine, built a quiet life on the ranch, grounded in loyalty, honor, and hard-earned peace. The last thing he expects is the fiery, wounded chef who cooks her way into his heart, and straight through his defenses.
When a devastating accident leaves Delaney vulnerable and pregnant, Mac steps in without hesitation, offering her shelter and protection. But as the heat between them ignites into something deeper, doubts creep in. Mac can’t ignore the years between them, and Delaney fears trusting her heart.

Just when she starts to believe in a future, the past returns, threatening her and her child.

Mac will have to prove he’s strong enough to protect her, brave enough to claim her, and fearless enough to fight for the life they both desire.

Cover Reveal and Preorder: Second Edition (The Parent App #5) by Tess Thompson

Second Edition 

by Tess Thompson 

Releases on June 29th!

https://geni.us/SecondEdition

Read With Kindle Unlimited

Delphine Delacroix does not date.
Delphine Delacroix does not chat.
Delphine Delacroix especially has no interest in the quietly sunny bookstore owner everyone thinks is perfect for her.

Six years after losing her husband, Delphine has built a quiet life on control, routine, and careful distance. She runs her gallery by day. She raises her daughter. And in a small studio behind her cottage, she throws pots — slowly, patiently, for no one but herself — because clay is the only thing that's ever let her make something whole out of something broken.

She politely, firmly, and with increasing exasperation, declines every matchmaking attempt the good people of Willet Cove have made on her behalf for the last three years.

Delphine is fine. Delphine is fine.

Then fifteen-year-old Annie makes the bravest choice of her young life: she walks into a grief support group alone. And Delphine — who has spent six years refusing that same room — is undone.

She's not the only one who notices.

Dorian Flynn has always politely suggested that Delphine Delacroix might have opinions of her own about whom she dates. Then he sees a teenage girl sitting by herself in a room meant for grown-ups — and the fiercely guarded woman who comes to pick her up, clay still dried on her wrists — and realizes the entire town may have had a point all along.

Delphine is wary. Dorian is patient. And somehow, between hesitant conversations in quiet bookstore aisles, a watchful shop cat with opinions of his own, and a girl who deserves more than silence, an unlikely found family begins to form.

But letting someone in means risking the one thing Delphine has fought for six years to protect. And the longer she circles Dorian, the more she begins to suspect that the truth she's been outrunning — about her husband, about herself, about what she's really been afraid of — is finally ready to catch up with her.

She's been wrong about the past.
She might be wrong about love, too.

Dorian is counting on it.

Second Edition is the fifth and final book in the Parent App series — a deeply emotional, slow-burn, behind-closed-doors small-town romance featuring a grumpy single-mom gallery owner and potter, a quiet Navy-veteran sunshine hero with a soft spot for the girl who needs him, found family, a meddling bookstore cat with opinions, meddling teenage matchmakers, and a powerful journey through grief, healing, and the terrifying hope of a second chance at love.

Because in Willet Cove, some love stories aren't written in the first draft.

They're the ones you finally let yourself revise.

 

Teaser: Dagger's Target (Devil's Riot MC - Southeast #9) by E.C. Land

No one fights alone on Dagger's watch...

MC romance fans can preorder Dagger's Target by E.C. Land today!!

https://geni.us/DaggersTarget 

She doesn't want my help, but in this club you don't fight alone...

Dagger

She's gorgeous. Irresistible. Tough as nails. And ten years my junior. I should have stayed away. One night wasn't enough, but a woman this fierce doesn't have room in her life for a man like me. Or so I thought. 

She's got more steel in her spine than half of my brothers. She built her dance studio from the ground up, and guards her business like a queen protecting a kingdom. She even told the guy who wanted to buy her building to go to hell before she slammed the door. 

So why am I surprised to find her at the clubhouse weeks later? She's calm and resolved as she drops the biggest bombshell of my life on us both. But before I can even process what she's saying, she's drawing a line in the sand. She doesn't want money or protection or help. She just thought I should know the truth. 

What she didn't expect was that this club takes care of its own. And I've never been particularly good at following orders. 

And that investor who tried to steal her land? When he starts playing dirty, he doesn't realize he's not just messing with a smart-mouthed small business owner anymore. She thinks she's in this fight alone, but she's about to find out that when you share blood with this club, you get the whole damn patch. 

About E.C. Land

E.C. Land grew up in the country and has it deep in her bones. As she grew up, if she wasn’t out on the ball field or playing in the woods, she had her nose stuck in a book. Now she writes romantic suspense stories, specializing in MC (motorcycle club) romance. She plans to broaden her writing horizons in the near future and move into other forms of romantic suspense. When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with her husband, three kids, and fur babies. 

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Website: https://eclandauthorbooks.com 

Release: Texas Pride (Texas Pride #1) by Kindle Alexander

Texas Pride

Series: Texas Pride #1

by Kindle Alexander

Buy Link:

https://amzn.to/4vCOrSg

Available in KU 

Blurb:

When two-time Academy Award winner Austin Grainger walks away from Hollywood at the height of his fame, the world thinks he’s lost his mind. But after years of flashing cameras and relentless headlines, Austin wants something real. On fifteen hundred quiet Texas acres, he finally finds peace. That is, until the rancher next door makes his presence known.

Kitt Kelly isn’t the typical Texas rancher. Young, sharp, and fiercely devoted to the land his family built, he’s spent most of his life keeping one dangerous secret: he’s gay. In a community where reputation and tradition run deep, coming out would cost him everything.

When the sexiest man alive moves in next door, the spark between them is impossible to ignore. But giving in could expose Kitt’s secret and threaten the legacy he’s sworn to protect.

Now they must decide: play it safe or risk everything for a love neither of them saw coming.

Texas Pride is an award-winning contemporary MM romance about two strong men, small-town secrets, and a love worth fighting for. A standalone novel.

Meet Kindle Alexander:

Best Selling Author Kindle Alexander is an innovative writer who writes romance in the male/male genre. It's always a surprise to see what's coming next!

Usually, I try for funny. Humor is a major part of my life - I love to laugh, and it seems to be the thing I do in most situations - regardless of the situation, but jokes are a tricky deal. I don't want to offend anyone and jokes tend to offend. So instead I'm going to tell you about Kindle.

I tragically lost my sixteen year old daughter to a drunk driver. She had just been home, it was early in the night and I heard the accident happen. I'll never forget that moment. The sirens were immediate and something inside me just knew. I left my house, drove straight to the accident on nothing more than instinct. I got to be there when my little girl died - weirdly, I consider that a true gift from above. She didn't have to be alone.

That time in my life was terrible. It's everything you think it would be times about a billion. I love that kid. I loved being her mother and I loved watching her grow into this incredibly beautiful person, both inside and out. She was such a gift to me. To have it all ripped away so suddenly broke me.

Her name was Kindle. Honest to goodness - it was her name and she died a few weeks before Amazon released their brand new Kindle ereader. She had no idea it was coming out and she would have finally gotten her name on something! Try finding a ruler with the name Kindle on it.. It never happened.

Through the course of that crippling event I was lucky enough to begin to write with a dear friend in the fan fiction world of Facebook. She got me through those dark days with her unwavering support and friendship. There wasn't a time she wasn't there for me. We've built a world where Kindle lives and stands for peace, love and harmony. It's its own kind of support group. I know without question I wouldn't be here today without her.

Connect with Kindle Alexander:

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Ebook Review: Echo: Run (The Men of Echo Ridge #5) by Delta James

 

Blurb: 

I came back from the dead to stop a traitor…and to face the woman I broke.

Going dark was the only way to save Echo Ridge.

It just cost me the woman I loved.

Two years undercover inside the Committee meant no contact, no messages, no mistakes. I completed the mission. I exposed the breach. I survived.

Sarah Andrews didn’t.

Not really.

When I surface and join Echo Ridge, she’s ice-cold, razor-sharp, and done with me. She thinks I abandoned her when she was wounded and alone. When her brother vanished and everything fell apart.

I’d tell her the truth if I could. But some secrets still get people killed.

Then I discover the impossible, someone has been feeding operational intelligence to the Committee. Echo Base is compromised, and if we alert the wrong person, the traitor disappears…and the team dies.

Sarah is the only one I trust to help me stop it.

Forced to work together, the past collides with the present anger, guilt, and the love we never finished tearing apart. I made the right call once.

This time, I won’t lose her again.

Tropes inside
· Second Chance Romance
· Lovers to Enemies to Lovers
· Forced Proximity
· Military Romantic Suspense
· Dark Romantic Suspense
· Alpha Protector Hero
· Ice Queen Heroine
· Broken Hero
· Emotional Scars
· Betrayal & Redemption
· Secret Mission

Amazon: Echo: Run: A Military Romantic Suspense (Men of Echo Ridge Book 5) - Kindle edition by James, Delta. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Bookbub: Echo: Run: A Military Romantic Suspense (Men of Echo Ridge Book 5) by Delta James - BookBub

Goodreads: Echo: Run (Men of Echo Ridge #5) by Delta James | Goodreads

My Review - 4 1/2 of 5 stars - 

4 1/2 stars for me. I enjoyed this story with the ups and downs with Sarah and Micah. They had such a sweet beginning, work and personally. Both ended up at Echo Ridge after Micah came out of deep cover and Sarah survived a kidnapping, brutality, and then trying to find her brother. The chemistry between them was still there, though they had to open up about their true feelings to move forward. Using their talents, they worked to keep the Committee from finding their location. I would have preferred a little less of the technical jargon as often as it showed up, but overall, this was a good story. I look forward to the next in the series.

I received a copy through BookSirens, and this is my unsolicited review.

Audiobook Release: Just Playing for Keeps (Hockey Ever After #2) by Lauren Blakely, narrators Erin Mallon and Jason Clarke

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the next standalone hockey rom com in her Hockey Ever After series, JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS!

This spicy, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, only one bed in a room, opposites attract hockey rom com is filled with all the steamy tension, yearning, and heat!

JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS is now available in all formats including the special edition hardcover free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Check out the excerpt below, and one-click your copy today!

✦ Amazon ➜ https://blkly.pub/JustPlayingAMZ
✦ Audible ➜ Erin Mallon & Jason Clarke narrate in duet with a full cast!
http://blkly.pub/JPFKAudible

About JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS:

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 the team’s broody, tattooed star Lake Axelrod swooped in on skates to rescue me from public humiliation.

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

This is Lake and Remy's romance. Tropes include: grumpy/sunshine hockey romance, fake dating, workplace romance, best friend's brother, obsessed hero

ONE-CLICK YOUR COPY TODAY!

✦ Amazon ➜ https://blkly.pub/JustPlayingAMZ
✦ Audible ➜ Erin Mallon & Jason Clarke narrate in duet with a full cast!
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READ THE EXCERPT:

Remy

I lift my chin, look in the mirror in the dressing room, and meet his gaze. “Thank you. For coming in here.”

“Only place I want to be.” He lowers his face, gazing at my body as he runs his hands over my bare shoulders and coasts them down my arms, slow and sensual. When he reaches my hands, he slides his fingers through mine. A double clasp, and it feels like a reassuring embrace from behind me. I’m fizzy everywhere, bubbles popping in every cell.

He meets my gaze straight on in the mirror again. “You’d better go put on some lipstick, Remy. I’m going to do everything in my power to absolutely f*&k it up on camera.”

My Review - 5 of 5 stars - 

I enjoyed this story. There were smiles and giggles, some fanning with the steamy scenes, and tears at the end. Lake was so protective of Remy and was willing to do what he could to help her situation, mostly because he liked her secretly. Remy stood tall despite her huge humiliation. I loved her loyalty to family and friends, her great organizational skills, and caring for others. She was so good with Lake's father. Quite a wonderful book.
The narration by Erin Mallon, Jason Clarke (as the main characters), and Savannah Thomas and Ryan West (as secondary characters) was quite entertaining. They all did a great job with the emotions throughout the story and brought everyone to life for me.

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: A Very Grumpy Sheriff (Wolf Valley - Grumps #15) by Shaw Hart

A Very Grumpy Sheriff by Shaw Hart releases on June 26th!

https://geni.us/VeryGrumpySheriff

Available on All Platforms

I’ve loved him my whole life, but he doesn’t know I exist…

Suri
Devon Hayes has been part of my heart for as long as I can remember.
He was older, untouchable, and too focused on protecting the world to notice a curvy wallflower like me.
When he left Colorado to join the Army, I was terrified that I would never see him again.
I couldn’t have that, so I took a chance and did something that I was never brave enough to do when we were in high school together.
I wrote him letters.
Hundreds of them.
Every fear, every dream, every part of my heart poured onto paper.
He never knew it was me, and I never intended to tell him.
Until I get a job offer in Wolf Valley.
I know that I’ll likely never see him again, so in my final letter to Devon, I sign my name.
I figure that will be it and that I’ll have to let go of my crush on him and resign myself to never seeing him again.
Except he follows me here.
Now the man that I’ve always loved is here, and for the first time ever, he’s paying attention to me.

Devon
I joined the Army to serve, to protect, and to make a difference.
It kept me busy for years, and I thought that I had everything I wanted in life.
Until the first letter arrived.
Every month, like clockwork, a new letter would show up, all of them from a woman who refused to give me her name, a woman who seemed to know everything about me, and became everything to me.
Her words kept me alive in the darkest places.
Her kindness saved me when I didn’t want to be saved.
And then she sent me one last note, saying goodbye and finally telling me her name.
Suri Michaels.
She said goodbye in her letter, but I knew that wasn’t the end for us.
It’s the beginning.
I’m out of the military now and ready to settle down.

And I know just who I’m going to do that with.

 

Teaser: Sweet Trouble by Clara Pines and Unscripted Christmas by Tess Thompson (Sugarville Grove Series)

Sweet Trouble by Clara Pines releases on June 16th - https://geni.us/2CDyM

Unscripted Christmas by Tess Thompson June 18th - https://geni.us/UnscriptedChristmas

https://geni.us/SugarvilleGroveSeries

BINGE THE WHOLE SERIES!

SWEET TROUBLE

Can this former bad boy show his high school crush he has what it takes to be her man?

Tripp Lawrence earned his reputation as Sugarville Grove’s biggest heartbreaker. And even if the title doesn’t fit him anymore, it doesn’t matter. He won’t let himself get tied down to a woman now, because the only one who ever really caught his eye got away years ago.

They say opposites attract, and that couldn’t have been truer for Tripp’s teen infatuation with smart, serious Jillian Johnson. But even though his popularity and athletic prowess back then had every other girl in school weak in the knees, Jillian wouldn’t give him the time of day. And when she moved away he pretty much gave up on ever finding the one.

But when Jillian returns to small town Sugarville Grove just in time for the holidays with two adorable little girls in tow, Tripp finds his heart pounding and his palms sweating over his crush all over again.

If only he hadn’t made such a terrible impression on her back in high school…

Can Tripp reform his ways and show Jillian that he’s a new man now?

It might just take a Christmas miracle, the help of the whole crew at the Lawrence family farm, and two very special little girls…

UNSCRIPTED CHRISTMAS

Can a Hollywood star and a small-town speech therapist turn their impossible attraction into forever?

Jason Hayes has spent years chasing success and finally catching it. With a hit television show, a producer credit, and a future locked in Hollywood, he should feel fulfilled. Instead, when filming shuts down for December, he finds himself craving something fame has never given him. So he heads home to Sugarville Grove… and straight back into the orbit of the woman he can't stop thinking about.

Mauve didn't plan to fall for a famous actor, especially not after rebuilding her life post-divorce. Trading New York City for a quiet Vermont town gave her peace, purpose, and a job she loves helping children find their voices. Jason was supposed to be a fun, fleeting holiday spark. Nothing more.

Then came three perfect days in Los Angeles. Now he's back for Christmas and unable to stay away from the woman who's been on his mind ever since.

As snowy nights, cozy traditions, and Sugarville Grove’s tight-knit community pull them closer, Mauve sees past the celebrity to the man beneath—the one who's always dreamed of the family he never had. Jason, meanwhile, begins to wonder if the life he's built means anything without someone to share it with.

They want the same things. They just live in different worlds.

This Christmas, they'll have to decide whether to chase separate dreams on opposite coasts or risk everything for the love they both want.