Narrator Reveal: Fake It 'Til Fall (Faking the Holidays #2) by Claudia Burgoa, narrators Stephanie Nemeth-Parker and Ryan Lee Dunlap

Fake It 'Til Fall

Series: Faking the Holidays Book 2

by Claudia Burgoa

Release Date: September 23rd

Check out these tropes!

🍂 Fake Dating

🍂 Grumpy x Sunshine

🍂 Feuding Families

🍂 Retired Hockey Player

🍂 Enemies to Lovers

🍂 Forced Proximity

🍂 Wedding Chaos

🍂 A rescue dog who is emotionally central and legally questionable

Blurb: 

There are three things nobody tells you about starting over in Boston.

Rent will make you consider marrying for closet space.
Cobblestones are ankle traps with historical significance.
And if you move to a city to prove you're fine, the city will take your paycheck and one glove from every matching pair you own.

I'm handling it. Mostly.

What I am not handling is Forrest Wolfcraft.

My family has been feuding with his since before either of us was born. My brother married one of them, and we've been instructed to behave. And Forrest — retired hockey player, professionally grumpy, conversational range of a locked door — sits in my café four days a week with a rescue dog named Puck and refuses to be as awful as he's supposed to be.

So when a family wedding lands in my lap, and my mother's pride makes it impossible to refuse, and the only way through eight months of questions about my personal life is to show up with someone on my arm?

I ask him.

He says yes.

That's the first problem. The second is that Forrest Wolfcraft is a terrible fake boyfriend, because he keeps outdoing all the things real ones do.

From USA Today Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa comes the second in the Thorn–Wolfcraft feud—where the families are impossible, the weddings are worse, and nobody is fooling anybody.

About the author

Claudia is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author.

She writes alluring, thrilling stories about complicated women and the men who take their breaths away. Her books are the perfect blend of steamy and heartfelt, filled with emotional characters and explosive chemistry. Her writing takes readers to new heights, providing a variety of tears, laughs, and shocking moments that leave fans on the edge of their seats.

She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband, her youngest two children, and three fluffy dogs.

When Claudia is not writing, you can find her reading, knitting, or just hanging out with her family. At nights, she likes to binge watches shows or movies with her equally geeky husband.

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Audiobook Review: Snowed in with My Ex's Brother (Home for the Holidays) by Kelly Myers, narrators Autumn Ivy and Jameson Adams

 

Blurb: 

I never planned on coming home for Christmas.
Not after I left him… and definitely not for his funeral.

But grief pulled me back to town—twinkling lights, carols, and memories I wasn’t ready to face—and straight into a storm I’d spent years trying to outrun.

Because the first person who sees me is Noah Callen.
My ex-fiancé’s older brother.
The man who’s hated me for years.

He still blames me for ruining their family… and I still can’t tell him the truth about why I really left.

He has every reason to want me gone.
And honestly, I planned to leave.

But then a blizzard hits, and suddenly I’m snowed in at the last place I should ever be… with the one man I can’t seem to avoid.

The more time we’re forced to spend together, the harder it gets to ignore the tension simmering between us—the kind neither of us dares to admit.
Not when the past is still raw.
Not when the town is watching.
Not when falling for him would be the most forbidden thing I’ve ever done.

But this Christmas?
Running isn’t an option.
And the only thing more dangerous than staying… is how much I want to.

Snowed In With My Ex’s Brother is a steamy small-town romance filled with forbidden tension, small-town drama, and a heart-mending holiday happily-ever-after.

Amazon: Amazon.com: Snowed In With My Ex’s Brother: A Steamy Small Town Romance (Home for the Holidays) eBook : Myers, Kelly: Kindle Store

Audible: Snowed in with My Ex's Brother Audiobook by Kelly Myers

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Goodreads: Snowed in with My Ex's Brother: A Home for the Holidays Standalone by Kelly Myers | Goodreads

This was a touching, heart-breaking story. I had tears on and off as the story progressed. Cassie had her secrets and reluctantly returned to her hometown. I felt her pain as people reacted to her return and admired her determination to see it through. Noah had his issues, and miscommunication hurt his chance at a happier life. As the heat built between these two, more information came out, pulling in feelings for both. I was touched with the ending and the bonus ending. Made me cry.
The narration by Autumn Ivy and Jameson Adams was very well done. They made the emotions more realistic and helped me enjoy this audiobook. Wonderful job.

I received a copy of the audiobook, and this is my unsolicited review.

Paperback Review: October is for Owen (Mountain Men of Mustang Mountain Series) by Kaci Rose

 

Blurb: 

When a rockslide strands them in the mountains, he's her only chance at safety...

Kennedy
It was meant to be a solo trip—a tribute to my grandparents, and a final memory before a new chapter in my life.
Only, I wasn't alone at the lake.
I hadn't planned on meeting a mountain man that made my heart race or the rockslide that left the path back to town unpassable.
If not for him, I don't know what I would have done.
I just know I wasn't supposed to fall for this rough around the edges mountain man in the town I was trying to say goodbye to...

Owen
I wasn't about to embrace being named mountain man of the month, so I took to my favorite secluded lake to hide out for a few days.
Only this time, I'm not alone.
When I meet the curvy girl camping nearby, the last thing I want is solitude.
A rockslide later, I become her survival guide.
It's one thing to navigate fallen rocks and wild trails, but navigating my growing feelings for her?
That’s uncharted territory.

Amazon: October is for Owen - Kindle edition by Rose, Kaci. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

B&N: October is for Owen: Forced Proximity, Mountain Man Romance | Barnes & Noble®

Kobo: October is for Owen eBook by Kaci Rose - EPUB | Rakuten Kobo United States

Google: October is for Owen: Forced Proximity, Mountain Man Romance, Small Town Romance, Protective Hero by Kaci Rose - Books on Google Play

Bookbub: October is for Owen (Mountain Men of Mustang Mountain, #10) by Kaci Rose - BookBub

Goodreads: October is for Owen by Kaci Rose | Goodreads

My Review - 5 of 5 stars - 

This was a fun quick read. I loved Kennedy's romantic notion to visit a family spot in the wilderness. She was brave to camp on her own. The sparks between Owen and Kennedy were instant, and he was so wonderful in taking care of her during the camping and after her injury. I enjoyed his reaction to attending the dance and to Ruby's knowing look. This was my first in this series.

This is my unsolicited review.

Ebook Review: Eternal Obsession (Eternal Desires #2) by Vanessa Fewings

 

Blurb: 

A dark gothic vampire romance filled with obsession, immortal enemies, blood vengeance, and seductive forbidden desire.

Is it justice… or cruelty… to make a son bleed for his father’s sins?

I was born into a life of privilege that masked a darker truth. Jadeon Artimas, heir to a legacy I never chose and a secret I was never meant to uncover. The Stone Masters. Vampire hunters. Killers cloaked in righteousness. And my father… their lord.

I knew nothing until he came for me.

Orpheus.

His name lingers like a curse on immortal lips. Ancient. Ruthless. Beautiful in the way only monsters can be. He didn’t kill me for what was done to him, for the love stolen from his arms. No… he chose something far more exquisite. He remade me. Dragged me into the night and forced eternity into my veins, binding me to a fate soaked in blood and vengeance.

Now I am what I was born to destroy.

For two centuries, we circle one another through the shadows of England, from the velvet decadence of Soho to the ancient stones whispering at Stonehenge. Enemies. Mirrors. Something far more dangerous. Every encounter burns with hatred… and something darker, something dangerously close to desire.

He made me his punishment.
And I became his.

When vengeance becomes devotion, when hatred tastes like longing, who is truly being destroyed?

This is my fall.
This is his reckoning.
This is our eternity.

This is ETERNAL OBSESSION, a dark, intoxicating tale of revenge, obsession, and a love forged in blood and betrayal.

Eternal Obsession is a dark paranormal vampire romance perfect for readers who love dangerous immortals, enemies-to-lovers tension, gothic fantasy, and emotionally charged stories of obsession and revenge in the vein of Interview with the Vampire, A Dowry of Blood, and Empire of the Vampire.

"Darkly gothic, with psychological overtones as masterful as those in The Da Vinci Code, marking the arrival of a unique voice in this mesmerizing genre." Ellen Tanner Marsh, New York Times Bestselling Author

"This is one of the best novels of the undead that I've read in ages ... It's elegantly and impressively written, and the author weaves her compelling tale back and forth between the centuries as effortlessly as a vampire steals a kiss." Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Author of Bloodshift

Amazon: Amazon.com: Eternal Obsession: A Seductive Gothic Vampire Romance (Eternal Desires Book 2) eBook : Fewings, Vanessa: Kindle Store

Bookbub: Eternal Obsession: A Seductive Gothic Vampire Romance (Eternal Desires Book 2) by Vanessa Fewings - BookBub

Goodreads: Eternal Obsession: A Seductive Gothic Vampire Romance by Vanessa Fewings | Goodreads

My Review - 4 1/2 of 5 stars - 

4 1/2 stars. Quite an intense story, full of revenge, romance, friendship, sacrifices, and more. Orpheus was almost too vengeful for me, but he was very crafty, sly, and heartless. Jadeon and Alex should have thought through their actions before leaping. I loved how Jadeon came clean with Ingrid before everything went downhill. The ending was not quite what I suspected, though as the fight continued between Jadeon and Orpheus, I had an inkling. I look forward to the ending to see how all this plays out.

I received a copy through Enticing Journey Book Promotions, and this is my unsolicited review.

Release: Eternal Obsession (Eternal Desires #2) by Vanessa Fewings with my review

Eternal Obsession

Series: Eternal Desires Book 2

by Vanessa Fewings

Release: September 2, 2026

Publisher: Vinci Books

Goodreads: https://t.ly/qk7AC

Bookbub: https://t.ly/x3ccX

Genre/Tropes:

• Dark Paranormal Vampire Romance

• Enemies-to-Lovers

• Gothic Fantasy

• Obsessive Revenge

• Forbidden Romance

Blurb:

A dark gothic vampire romance filled with obsession, immortal enemies, blood vengeance, and 

seductive forbidden desire.

Is it justice… or cruelty… to make a son bleed for his father’s sins?

I was born into a life of privilege that masked a darker truth. Jadeon Artimas, heir to a legacy I never chose and a secret I was never meant to uncover. The Stone Masters. Vampire hunters. Killers cloaked in righteousness. And my father… their lord.

I knew nothing until he came for me.

Orpheus.

His name lingers like a curse on immortal lips. Ancient. Ruthless. Beautiful in the way only monsters can be. He didn’t kill me for what was done to him, for the love stolen from his arms. No… he chose something far more exquisite. He remade me. Dragged me into the night and forced eternity into my veins, binding me to a fate soaked in blood and vengeance.

Now I am what I was born to destroy.

For two centuries, we circle one another through the shadows of England, from the velvet decadence of Soho to the ancient stones whispering at Stonehenge. Enemies. Mirrors. Something far more dangerous. Every encounter burns with hatred… and something darker, something dangerously close to desire.

He made me his punishment.
And I became his.

When vengeance becomes devotion, when hatred tastes like longing, who is truly being destroyed?

This is my fall.
This is his reckoning.
This is our eternity.

This is ETERNAL OBSESSION, a dark, intoxicating tale of revenge, obsession, and a love forged in blood and betrayal.

Eternal Obsession is a dark paranormal vampire romance perfect for readers who love dangerous immortals, enemies-to-lovers tension, gothic fantasy, and emotionally charged stories of obsession and revenge in the vein of Interview with the Vampire, A Dowry of Blood, and Empire of the Vampire.

Buy Links (Kindle Unlimited):

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Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0HCWC6RTL

In the Series (Kindle Unlimited):

Eternal Craving 

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Praise for the Eternal Desires Series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Vampires, Vengeance and Fantastic Storytelling!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fewings’ vampires are not for the Twilight crowd.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A gripping ending that is both shocking and thrilling!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A wonderfully lush retreat into the adult vampire world of VMK Fewings

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This book will send you on a journey that will leave you breathless.

Author Bio:

Vanessa is a British-American, internationally bestselling author of the Enthrall Sessions and the Eternal Desires series, an epic vampire romance. Her novels blend romance, emotion, and intrigue, earning readers around the world and translations into multiple languages.

Known for creating compelling characters and emotionally rich stories, Vanessa has also seen two of her novels optioned for film.

She lives in California with her rescue foxhound, Sherlock.

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My Review - 4 1/2 of 5 stars -  

4 1/2 stars. Quite an intense story, full of revenge, romance, friendship, sacrifices, and more. Orpheus was almost too vengeful for me, but he was very crafty, sly, and heartless. Jadeon and Alex should have thought through their actions before leaping. I loved how Jadeon came clean with Ingrid before everything went downhill. The ending was not quite what I suspected, though as the fight continued between Jadeon and Orpheus, I had an inkling. I look forward to the ending to see how all this plays out.

Preorder: Shielded by My Mate (Night Grove Falls: Midnight Haven #9) by Luna Wilder

Shielded By My Mate 

by Luna Wilder 

Releases on September 18th!

https://geni.us/ShieldedByMyMate

Available On All Platforms

He’ll shield her from any danger.

Ansel
Now that my brother has found his fated mate, it’s lit a fire under me to find my own.
I’m about to head out to do just that, when I hear gunshots in my backyard.
When I go out to investigate, I see her.
My curvy little mate.
She’s pinned down behind some trees, and I growl as I charge into the fight to save her.
I shield her with my big body, an action that earns me a bullet wound to my shoulder, but I’m able to scare off the men and rescue my mate.
Now I have my mate with me, but we have a bigger problem.
How am I going to keep her safe when I’m injured myself?

Mira
When I wake up in the back of a moving truck, I know that I’m in trouble.
I’m able to get free, and I run, but I don’t make it far before they find me.
That’s when a strange man shows up.
He saves my life, taking a bullet for me in the process.
I know that I owe him everything.
He says he only wants one thing from me.
My heart.
And the terrifying part?

I think it already belongs to him.

 

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. 

Preorder: Fighting for Family (Serenity Securities, Team Hawk #6) (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Cassie Colton

Fighting For Family 

by Cassie Colton 

Releases on September 8th!

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Read With Kindle Unlimited

Derrick “Leo” Armstrong built Serenity Securities as a refuge—an unbreakable brotherhood forged from the military and second chances. On Serenity Mountain, he finally found the life he’d always dreamed of: a home, a purpose, and Catherine, the woman he’d loved for a lifetime. With three children and another on the way, Leo believed his world was complete.

Then one mission shattered everything.

Left reeling by the devastating news of her husband’s death, Catherine must navigate grief while protecting the family Leo adored. As the men of Serenity Securities rally to bring their fallen brother home, the mountain community surrounds Catherine with the same fierce loyalty Leo once gave them. But when a final letter from Leo forces her to face an impossible truth, Catherine makes the heartbreaking choice to call off the search. Her children need closure. Life must move forward.

Leo’s team refuses to accept it.

Driven by loyalty, love, and the lessons Leo carved into their souls, the men of Serenity Securities push deeper into danger, determined to uncover the truth about their mission and bring their brother home. Their greatest mission isn’t one they were trained for. 

It’s one they learned from Leo himself: Family is worth fighting for. 

Release Boost: Cowboy's Christmas Baker (Trinity Falls Sweet Romance - Village Christmas #1) by Clara Pines

Cowboy's Christmas Baker 

by Clara Pines 

Available now!

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Can everyone’s favorite baker win over the grumpiest cowboy in town?

It's bad enough that the man Mallory Fisher crushed on for years is marrying another woman, but now she also has to bake their wedding cake. Even so, she’s not going to let that ruin her Christmas.

The irrepressible small-town baker has decided she just needs forget all about love this Christmas. And to do that, she’s going to focus on coming up with a signature holiday treat that will finally put her beloved bakery on the map.

The daily support and encouragement she receives from the kind widower she met in her online support group is a recipe for success. Only she doesn’t count on him moving to Trinity Falls for his own fresh start. And she definitely doesn’t count on the things he makes her feel when they actually meet in person.

It turns out that Harrison Law is nothing like Mal expected.

Instead of the kindly older man she’s been picturing, Harrison is the perfect picture of tall, dark, and handsome. He’s also a single dad, with a grumpy streak she never noticed during their online chats. But Mal can’t help feeling drawn to the growly cowboy, and to his quiet eight-year-old daughter, Katie, who lights up whenever Mal talks about baking.

The three quickly begin spending time together. And everyone in Trinity Falls assumes they’re an item. But things aren’t always what they seem. And Harrison and Katie have been through so much that Mal isn’t sure her love is enough to bring them back into the light.

Can these three lonely souls really make their own happily-ever-after in time for Christmas? Or will it take a village to bring them together?

Trinity Falls Sweet Romance is all about finding family – one clean & wholesome romance at a time. The Trinity Falls Sweet Romance: Village Christmas inspirational series celebrates the people who live and work in a small Pennsylvania town at Christmastime, and find love and meaning in the season. If you love no spice books with cowboys, single dads, found family, caring community, and slow burn romance that makes you smile and sigh, this is the series for you!

 

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!

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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.