Release: First Moon (Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch - Prequel) by Tess Thompson

First Moon 

by Tess Thompson 

Available now!

https://geni.us/FirstMoon

Read With Kindle Unlimited

Everyone said they were made for each other. Fate finally caught up.

For years, Ivy James's best friend has been telling her the same thing: Jack Wilder is perfect for you. And Madeleine would know—she's the publicist behind half the biggest names in country music, Jack included. Professionally, personally, she swore they were a perfect match. Ivy never quite took it seriously. She and Jack had crossed paths a dozen times—award shows, back hallways, a handshake and a we should work together sometime—but always in passing, always with a plane to catch.

Jack has spent his whole life disciplined, focused, building an empire one sold-out night at a time. But lately he's started to feel how empty the house gets when he's there alone.

Ivy's gotten everything she ever dreamed of. Number one records. Sold-out arenas. More money than she could spend in a lifetime. The only dream left is the one she's afraid she'll never get—a true love like her mama and daddy have, and a house full of kids.

But some part of Ivy must have been listening to Madeleine after all. Because when she and songwriter Hunter Sloan sat down to write a duet, they wrote it with Jack in mind.

And the moment Ivy and Jack are in a recording booth, singing it together for the first time, they both know.

This is my missing piece. Quite possibly, my forever home.

The prequel to Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch—the soulmate love story that starts it all, and leads to a Christmas Eve wedding under the Montana sky. 

A closed-door country music romance. Soulmates, instalove, and a best friend who told them so. 

Preorder: First Moon (Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch Prequel) by Tess Thompson

First Moon 

by Tess Thompson 

Releases on September 8th!

https://geni.us/FirstMoon

Read With Kindle Unlimited

Everyone said they were made for each other. Fate finally caught up.

For years, Ivy James's best friend has been telling her the same thing: Jack Wilder is perfect for you. And Madeleine would know—she's the publicist behind half the biggest names in country music, Jack included. Professionally, personally, she swore they were a perfect match. Ivy never quite took it seriously. She and Jack had crossed paths a dozen times—award shows, back hallways, a handshake and a we should work together sometime—but always in passing, always with a plane to catch.

Jack has spent his whole life disciplined, focused, building an empire one sold-out night at a time. But lately he's started to feel how empty the house gets when he's there alone.

Ivy's gotten everything she ever dreamed of. Number one records. Sold-out arenas. More money than she could spend in a lifetime. The only dream left is the one she's afraid she'll never get—a true love like her mama and daddy have, and a house full of kids.

But some part of Ivy must have been listening to Madeleine after all. Because when she and songwriter Hunter Sloan sat down to write a duet, they wrote it with Jack in mind.

And the moment Ivy and Jack are in a recording booth, singing it together for the first time, they both know.

This is my missing piece. Quite possibly, my forever home.

The prequel to Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch—the soulmate love story that starts it all, and leads to a Christmas Eve wedding under the Montana sky. 

A closed-door country music romance. Soulmates, instalove, and a best friend who told them so. 

Cover Reveal and Preorder: Rebel Moon (Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch #1) by Tess Thompson

Rebel Moon 

by Tess Thompson 

Releases on September 29th!

https://geni.us/RebelMoon

Read With Kindle Unlimited

She made him a star. He'll never forgive her for it.

Knox Hartley cares about one thing: the music. As lead guitarist for Jack Wilder — the best in the business, and everybody knows it — the songs were always supposed to be enough on their own. Then Madeleine Price got hold of them. For ten years she’s been the band’s publicist: brilliant, untouchable, and the reason they’re everywhere — packaging the music, selling it, turning something honest into product with her fingerprints on every platinum record.

To Knox, she took the one thing that was pure and handed it to the machine. He resents all of it. He resents her most of all.
What Knox doesn’t know is what it cost her to become the woman he can’t stand.

Madeleine built herself from nothing — reinvented a poor girl from nowhere into the sharpest publicist in country music, one flawless version of herself at a time, long before she ever met Jack and the band. The polish is armor. The control is survival. And the one thing she can’t afford is for anyone to see the girl underneath — least of all the man who’s spent a decade looking at her like she’s the enemy.

Now they’re both stuck at the most public wedding of the year: a monthlong Christmas celebration at Crescent Moon Ranch, where the bride keeps seating them together and there’s nowhere to hide from the one person who gets under her skin like no one else.

But a Montana December has a way of wearing down the oldest defenses. Beneath ten years of sharp words and slammed doors, Knox starts to catch glimpses of who Madeleine really is — and a secret she’s guarded since long before the band. She isn’t the woman he decided she was. She never was. And the more he sees, the more he wants the one person he swore he’d never forgive.

Enemies. Opposites. The worst possible person to want.

And the last person either of them planned to fall for.

A closed-door enemies-to-lovers romance. Forced proximity, a heroine with a secret, and ten years of simmering resentment that was never really hate.

 

Teaser: First Moon (Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch Prequel) by Tess Thompson

First Moon by Tess Thompson releases on September 8th!

https://geni.us/FirstMoon

Read With Kindle Unlimited

Everyone said they were made for each other. Fate finally caught up.

For years, Ivy James's best friend has been telling her the same thing: Jack Wilder is perfect for you. And Madeleine would know—she's the publicist behind half the biggest names in country music, Jack included. Professionally, personally, she swore they were a perfect match. Ivy never quite took it seriously. She and Jack had crossed paths a dozen times—award shows, back hallways, a handshake and a we should work together sometime—but always in passing, always with a plane to catch.

Jack has spent his whole life disciplined, focused, building an empire one sold-out night at a time. But lately he's started to feel how empty the house gets when he's there alone.

Ivy's gotten everything she ever dreamed of. Number one records. Sold-out arenas. More money than she could spend in a lifetime. The only dream left is the one she's afraid she'll never get—a true love like her mama and daddy have, and a house full of kids.

But some part of Ivy must have been listening to Madeleine after all. Because when she and songwriter Hunter Sloan sat down to write a duet, they wrote it with Jack in mind.

And the moment Ivy and Jack are in a recording booth, singing it together for the first time, they both know.

This is my missing piece. Quite possibly, my forever home.

The prequel to Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch—the soulmate love story that starts it all, and leads to a Christmas Eve wedding under the Montana sky.

A closed-door country music romance. Soulmates, instalove, and a best friend who told them so.

Cover Reveal and Preorder: First Moon (Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch - Prequel) by Tess Thompson

First Moon 

by Tess Thompson 

Releases on September 8th!

https://geni.us/FirstMoon

Read With Kindle Unlimited

Everyone said they were made for each other. Fate finally caught up.

For years, Ivy James's best friend has been telling her the same thing: Jack Wilder is perfect for you. And Madeleine would know—she's the publicist behind half the biggest names in country music, Jack included. Professionally, personally, she swore they were a perfect match. Ivy never quite took it seriously. She and Jack had crossed paths a dozen times—award shows, back hallways, a handshake and a we should work together sometime—but always in passing, always with a plane to catch.

Jack has spent his whole life disciplined, focused, building an empire one sold-out night at a time. But lately he's started to feel how empty the house gets when he's there alone.

Ivy's gotten everything she ever dreamed of. Number one records. Sold-out arenas. More money than she could spend in a lifetime. The only dream left is the one she's afraid she'll never get—a true love like her mama and daddy have, and a house full of kids.

But some part of Ivy must have been listening to Madeleine after all. Because when she and songwriter Hunter Sloan sat down to write a duet, they wrote it with Jack in mind.

And the moment Ivy and Jack are in a recording booth, singing it together for the first time, they both know.

This is my missing piece. Quite possibly, my forever home.

The prequel to Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch—the soulmate love story that starts it all, and leads to a Christmas Eve wedding under the Montana sky.

A closed-door country music romance. Soulmates, instalove, and a best friend who told them so.

 

Audiobook Release: Silver Sweet (Cobalt Empire #2) by Krista and Becca Ritchie, narrators Alex Kydd, Tim Paige, and Brooke Bloomingdale

Silver Sweet by Krista & Becca Ritchie is now live on audio!

Multicast Narration by: Alex Kydd, Tim Paige & Brooke Bloomingdale 

Phoenix is a hot drummer with a bad attitude. Tom is a punk-rock singer who’s too hard to impress. Two problem children of their bands have one shot at making it big in this M/M Rockstar Romance—if they don’t burn it all down.

Tom Cobalt has been called a lot of things. Arrogant god. Overachiever. Demanding, uncooperative jerk. It comes with the territory of being the fifth-born of a storied family. Not even his own punk-rock band can meet his high standards. So when every member of The Carraways quits on him before finishing an album, he’s left with a bruised ego and a major dilemma.

Reviving his childhood dream comes down to one infuriating choice: pair up with a hard-edged drummer or be dropped by his music label permanently.

Phoenix St. Pierre has enough baggage to ground every plane in New York City. He’s volatile, sleep-deprived, and still carrying the fallout of imploding his own band. He should not be paired with Tom, the stuck-up trust-fund baby who pushes all his buttons—yet the second chance is impossible to walk away from.

Making music means too much to Phoenix and Tom to let this last shot slip through their fingers. But working together feels like a Shakespearean disaster ready to unfold. Especially when off-the-charts chemistry, undeniable attraction, and destructive habits threaten to make or break them.

It’s nothing personal—but they just might be the best and worst thing that ever happened to each other.

Listen today!

Audible: https://bit.ly/4w5CqVb

Amazon: https://bit.ly/4vlEfNw

Kobo: https://bit.ly/4vRsnmc 

Add to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/4wQnyub 

Ebook Review: Dad Bod Cowboy (Saddle Creek Standalones #10) by Kat Baxter

 

Blurb: 

Jess

My life is pretty perfect—on paper. I had a string of platinum albums and number one songs all before I hit my twenty-fourth birthday. I’ve got fame and more money than I’ll ever be able to spend. What they say about fame is true: it's lonely up here at the top. The clichés I sing about are true too: all I want is someone who sees the real me and loves me despite all the drama. Then I meet a guy who seems to step right out of my fantasies—grumpy, husky single-dad cowboy—but he won’t even give me the time of day.

Grady

Nothing in my life has ever gone the way I planned. I unexpectedly became a father at seventeen. Before my daughter turned two her mom walked out on us both. The last thing I need is some glitter-soaked pop princess filming a music video on my land and putting stars in my daughter’s eyes. Everything I do, I do for my kid, but Jess makes me want something for myself. Can I risk another woman breaking our hearts?

Amazon: Dad Bod Cowboy: A Single-dad/Curvy Girl Romance (Saddle Creek TX: The Whitmores) - Kindle edition by Baxter, Kat. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

B&N: Dad Bod Cowboy (Saddle Creek Standalones, #10) | Barnes & Noble®

Kobo: Dad Bod Cowboy eBook by Kat Baxter - EPUB | Rakuten Kobo United States

Google: Dad Bod Cowboy: A Single-dad/Curvy Girl Romance by Kat Baxter - Books on Google Play

Bookbub: Dad Bod Cowboy: A Single-dad/Curvy Girl Romance by Kat Baxter - BookBub

Goodreads: Dad Bod Cowboy by Kat Baxter | Goodreads

My Review - 4 1/2 of 5 stars - 

4 1/2 stars. This was an interesting story. Jess was a superstar but wanted a more relaxed life. When she met Grady, sparks flew instantly. Grady was a wonderful father, a bit distrusting, yet protective of Jess. I loved how the music video filming went, very amusing. There were steamy scenes, smiles, with a few tears. Overall, a wonderful story.

This is my unsolicited review.

Audiobook Preorder: Silver Sweet (Cobalt Empire #2) by Krista and Becca Ritchie, narrators Alex Kydd, Tim Paige, and Brooke Bloomingdale

Silver Sweet by Krista & Becca Ritchie is now available for pre-order on audio!

Narrated by Alex Kydd, Tim Paige & Brooke Bloomingdale

Releasing on August 4, 2026 

Phoenix is a hot drummer with a bad attitude. Tom is a punk-rock singer who’s too hard to impress. Two problem children of their bands have one shot at making it big in this M/M Rockstar Romance—if they don’t burn it all down.

Tom Cobalt has been called a lot of things. Arrogant god. Overachiever. Demanding, uncooperative jerk. It comes with the territory of being the fifth-born of a storied family. Not even his own punk-rock band can meet his high standards. So when every member of The Carraways quits on him before finishing an album, he’s left with a bruised ego and a major dilemma.

Reviving his childhood dream comes down to one infuriating choice: pair up with a hard-edged drummer or be dropped by his music label permanently.

Phoenix St. Pierre has enough baggage to ground every plane in New York City. He’s volatile, sleep-deprived, and still carrying the fallout of imploding his own band. He should not be paired with Tom, the stuck-up trust-fund baby who pushes all his buttons—yet the second chance is impossible to walk away from.

Making music means too much to Phoenix and Tom to let this last shot slip through their fingers. But working together feels like a Shakespearean disaster ready to unfold. Especially when off-the-charts chemistry, undeniable attraction, and destructive habits threaten to make or break them.

It’s nothing personal—but they just might be the best and worst thing that ever happened to each other.

Pre-order today!

Audible: https://bit.ly/4w5CqVb

Amazon: https://bit.ly/4vlEfNw

Kobo: https://bit.ly/4vRsnmc 

Add to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/4wQnyub 

Release: Never After Us (Heartbreak Mixtapes #4) by Claudia Burgoa

Never After Us

Series: Heartbreak Mixtapes

by Claudia Burgoa

Multi cast audiobook: @mallonerin, @therealaustinstone, @msgracegrant, @aaronshedlock

Releasing June 10th

https://www.amazon.com/Never-After-Us-Neighbor-Heartbreak-ebook/dp/B0GHR8VYFS/

https://www.audible.com/pd/Never-After-Us-Audiobook/B0H34YK9VD

Tropes: 

🔥Rockstar romance

🔥Grumpy x Sunshine

🔥Single parent

🔥He falls first

🔥Forced proximity

🔥Slow Burn

🔥Celebrity romance

🔥Love after loss

Model cover Designed by: @byhangle

Photographer: @wanderbookclub

Object cover @pretty_little_design_co

Blurb:  

I came to Seattle to settle my late aunt’s estate.

Not to uncover a family secret that rewrites my entire life.

Definitely not to fall for the grumpy neighbor across the hall.

Alec Horvath is broody, intense, and completely incapable of minding his own business. 

He acts like my daughter, and I are temporary inconveniences in his carefully controlled life.

Unfortunately for him, my daughter, Mila, decides he belongs to us almost immediately.

The problem?

I’m still grieving.

Still untangling decades of lies buried inside my family.

Still trying to understand why the woman I thought was my aunt was actually my mother.

Falling in love was never part of the plan. And maybe the scariest part is this:

I’m starting to want forever with him too.

But love requires trust.

And trust feels impossible when your entire life has been built around people leaving.

Alec keeps promising he’ll stay.

But can my heart believe that’s possible?

From USA Today bestselling author Claudia Burgoa comes a thrilling romance about family, legacy, and what it takes to start over.  

Never After Us features:

🎸 Grumpy neighbor hero

🎸 Single mom heroine

🎸 Slow burn romance

🎸 Found family

🎸 Protective hero energy

🎸 Emotional family secrets

🎸 Healing after grief

🎸 Letters from the past

🎸 Garden proposal HEA

 

Books I Plan on Reading May 31-June 6 and results (a day late)

 Hello to all,

A rough week threw me off. Sorry for the delay of this post. I did not quite make it through all my planned reading, but overall, I did not do so bad. I hope everyone took the time to lose themselves in a book. It is definitely one of the ways I relax.

I did not finish the audiobook Promise nor did I get around to the ebook Crow (I am looking forward to this one). Last week's results: 

Ebooks:

A Bride for Griffin by Jacqui Nelson - 5 stars

Running Scare by D.M. Earl - 5 stars

Fallen Dove by Winter Travers - 5 stars

Winning Goal by Laura Marquez Diamond - 4 stars

Audiobooks:

Just Playing for Keeps by Lauren Blakely - 5 stars

Planned for May 31 to June 6 (plan to finish Promise audiobook):

Ebooks:

Audiobooks:

Well, that's it for this week. Enjoy your June, get some sun, and enjoy a book or two. I will be on time next weekend.

À bientôt, 

Trope Reveal: Never After Us (Heartbreak Mixtapes #4) by Claudia Burgoa

From USA Today bestselling author Claudia Burgoa comes a thrilling romance about family, legacy, and what it takes to start over.  

Never After Us features:

🎸 Grumpy neighbor hero

🎸 Single mom heroine

🎸 Slow burn romance

🎸 Found family

🎸 Protective hero energy

🎸 Emotional family secrets

🎸 Healing after grief

🎸 Letters from the past

🎸 Garden proposal HEA

Model cover

Designed by: @byhangle

Photographer:

@wanderbookclub

Object cover

@pretty_little_design_co

Releasing June 10th

Tropes: 

🔥Rockstar romance

🔥Grumpy x Sunshine

🔥Single parent

🔥He falls first

🔥Forced proximity

🔥Slow Burn

🔥Celebrity romance

🔥Love after loss

Blurb:  

I came to Seattle to settle my late aunt’s estate.

Not to uncover a family secret that rewrites my entire life.

Definitely not to fall for the grumpy neighbor across the hall.

Alec Horvath is broody, intense, and completely incapable of minding his own business. 

He acts like my daughter, and I are temporary inconveniences in his carefully controlled life.

Unfortunately for him, my daughter, Mila, decides he belongs to us almost immediately.

The problem?

I’m still grieving.

Still untangling decades of lies buried inside my family.

Still trying to understand why the woman I thought was my aunt was actually my mother.

Falling in love was never part of the plan. And maybe the scariest part is this:

I’m starting to want forever with him too.

But love requires trust.

And trust feels impossible when your entire life has been built around people leaving.

Alec keeps promising he’ll stay.

But can my heart believe that’s possible?

 

Release Boost: Every Shattered Note (Heartbreak Mixtapes #3) by Claudia Burgoa

Every Shattered Note 

by Claudia Burgoa 

Available now!

https://geni.us/ShatteredNote

Read With Kindle Unlimited

From USA Today bestselling author Claudia Burgoa comes a slow-burn, mistaken-identity romance about hidden fame, second chances at life, and the woman who accidentally falls for a rockstar in disguise.

I plan other people’s love stories for a living. Perfect nights. Perfect moments. Perfect control.

So when my guitarist cancels an hour before a high-profile event, I do what any professional would do—panic quietly and pray for a miracle.

Then he walks in.

Late. Soaked from the rain. Incredibly handsome. Unapologetically charming.

A man I absolutely shouldn’t notice.

He plays music like the storm outside taught him how to feel.

He saves the night. And without meaning to, he starts unraveling mine.

I don’t know that he’s a world-famous musician in hiding.

I only know that when he looks at me, the world stops spinning.

I build love stories for other people. It’s chaotic, but it’s always strategic, straight-forward.

But this time, the one falling—hard, fast, and completely unplanned—is me.

There’s no seating chart that can contain, or explain, the storm that is Dexter Vaughn. But maybe his humor, guitars, and big heart is exactly what I need to build my own breathtaking love story.

 

Ebook Review: Every Shattered Note (Heartbreak Mixtapes #3) by Claudia Burgoa

 

Blurb: 

From USA Today bestselling author Claudia Burgoa comes a slow-burn, mistaken-identity romance about hidden fame, second chances at life, and the woman who accidentally falls for a rockstar in disguise.

I plan other people’s love stories for a living. Perfect nights. Perfect moments. Perfect control.

So when my guitarist cancels an hour before a high-profile event, I do what any professional would do—panic quietly and pray for a miracle.

Then he walks in.

Late. Soaked from the rain. Incredibly handsome. Unapologetically charming.

A man I absolutely shouldn’t notice.

He plays music like the storm outside taught him how to feel.

He saves the night. And without meaning to, he starts unraveling mine.

I don’t know that he’s a world-famous musician in hiding.

I only know that when he looks at me, the world stops spinning.

I build love stories for other people. It’s chaotic, but it’s always strategic, straight-forward.

But this time, the one falling—hard, fast, and completely unplanned—is me.

There’s no seating chart that can contain, or explain, the storm that is Dexter Vaughn. But maybe his humor, guitars, and big heart are exactly what I need to build my own breathtaking love story.

Amazon: Every Shattered Note: A Mistaken Identity Rockstar Romance (Heartbreak Mixtapes) - Kindle edition by Burgoa, Claudia. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Bookbub: Every Shattered Note: A Mistaken Identity Rockstar Romance (Heartbreak Mixtapes) by Claudia Burgoa - BookBub

Goodreads: Every Shattered Note (Heartbreak Mixtapes #3) by Claudia Y. Burgoa | Goodreads

My Review - 5 of 5 stars - 

This story kept me reading. It pulled at my heartstrings because of both Alyssa and Dexter's past and current circumstances. I loved how Alyssa worked hard on keeping her dream going but also how she trusted and stood by Dexter when the going got rough. Dexter was determined to get to know Alyssa and was mostly patient. He spoiled her in several ways but did not make her feel less than. The support both received from friends brought more entertainment to the story. Well worth reading. Looking forward to the next in the series.

I received an ARC, and this is my unsolicited review.