Category: Sexual Content

Big Sky Christmas by C.J. Carmichael

Posted October 25, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Connection to another series, Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance, Marietta, Marietta Montana, Modern Western Romance, Previously Published, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Tule Publishing / 0 Comments

Since the accident that killed his foster brother Brock Lambert, Jackson Stone has kept his distance from Coffee Creek Ranch—and from the family who might never forgive him. Especially the foster mother, who still blames him for that tragic night.

Jackson blames himself too.

When Brock’s former fiancée, Winnie Hays, returns to town with her young son, the resemblance to Brock is a constant reminder of everything Jackson lost. And everything he never allowed himself to want. Because from the moment Brock brought Winnie home, Jackson has fought a forbidden attraction he had no right to feel.

Winnie needs help settling back into life in Coffee Creek, and Jackson can’t turn her away. As their friendship deepens into something neither expected, loyalty and guilt threaten to tear them apart. Falling for his brother’s widow feels like a betrayal… yet walking away feels worse.

With Christmas approaching and the Lambert family gathered once more, forgiveness may be the only gift that makes room for love.

Titles in the Coffee Creek, Montana series include:  Remember Me Always, Cowboy ~ Her Cowboy Dilemma ~ Promise from a Cowboy ~ Big Sky Christmas ~

This series was previously published in Harlequin American Romance.

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Home on the 5:42 by Judith Harrison

Posted October 15, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

He has a plan to save his town. She has the power to decide if it survives. Falling for each other was not in the funding proposal.

Theo Scavo came home to Brinewick to protect it from becoming the kind of pretty coastal town where locals can no longer afford to stay. As the community development director, he has fought for every piece of the Station Renewal: the freight shed, the platform, the public green, the diner that smells like coffee and griddle onions, and the year-round people who make the town more than a postcard.

Arden Quist, the state transit liaison, oversees the final funding review. She believes public projects survive on clear budgets, durable plans, and hard choices — not sentiment, no matter how charming the town or how persuasive the man arguing across the table.

Theo thinks Arden’s caution could sand the heart out of Brinewick’s future. Arden thinks Theo’s vision could collapse under the weight of its own idealism. They are both smart. They are both stubborn. And every late-night planning session in the Salt Ledger Room makes it harder to remember why wanting each other is a terrible idea.

With the final hearing approaching, the station’s future depends on compromise neither of them wants to make. But love, like infrastructure, only lasts when it is built honestly.

Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include:  Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~

This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.

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Stranded with the Local by Judith Harrison

Posted October 15, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

She planned to leave before anyone could ask her to stay. Then the storm hit.

Mireya Thorne returned to Brinewick for one reason: to settle a family property issue, avoid old gossip, and leave before the town started remembering things out loud. As a crisis communications consultant, she is excellent at managing other people’s disasters. Her own history with Brinewick is a problem she prefers not to brief.

Then a coastal storm slams into town, damages the station, floods the platform, and strands her exactly where she swore she would not linger.

Penn Saco is Brinewick’s emergency management anchor — calm, capable, and far too good at making people feel safe. He remembers Mireya as the girl who ran from town the first chance she got. Now he needs her to help control rumors, organize updates, and keep panic from spreading through Latchkey Lunch & News, which has become an emergency shelter with fries.

Mireya tells herself she is only staying because the town needs her. Penn tells himself he is only looking after her because that is what he does. But one storm, one borrowed cottage, and one bed that squeaks at every breath make denial difficult.

Penn knows how to offer care. Mireya knows how to survive without it. Loving each other means learning the difference between being needed, being wanted, and being brave enough to stay.

Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include:  Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~

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Hot Under the Station Lights by Judith Harrison

Posted October 15, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

Their relationship is supposed to be for the cameras. Too bad the private kisses are the dangerous ones.

Junie Vale knows how to sell a story. As Brinewick’s summer events consultant, she has one shot to prove the station is more than an old building with a leaking roof and a town full of opinions. The state wants public use. The tourists want charm. The locals want to avoid becoming a brochure. Junie needs a face for the campaign.

She gets Oz Pike.

Oz is a marine mechanic, part-time charter captain, and the last man in Brinewick who wants attention. Unfortunately, one candid photo of him helping at the station turns him into the town’s reluctant summer hero. Junie offers a solution: a few public appearances, some harmless fake dating, and enough community buzz to help the Station Renewal.

Oz agrees for the town. Not for the cameras. Definitely not for Junie’s smile.

But fake dating in Brinewick is impossible when the diner regulars can spot real longing from three booths away. Public kisses turn private. Staged chemistry turns inconveniently honest. And the more Junie tries to manage the story, the more Oz makes her want something no spotlight can prove.

She needs visibility. He needs privacy. Falling in love could save the campaign — or cost them both the one thing they never meant to risk.

Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include:  Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~

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Delayed by Desire by Judith Harrison

Posted October 14, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

She wants the truth on record. He wants to save the town’s best story. Neither expected their arguments to get this personal.

Nola Charette returned to Brinewick to record the town’s history before the state decides the old station isn’t worth saving. As a podcast producer with a sharp eye for buried truths, she knows the official version of Brinewick’s past leaves out the people who actually kept the trains running—including her own grandfather.

Silas Rook has one job: build a clean, convincing heritage case that will help protect the station. As a preservation attorney from one of Brinewick’s most respectable families, he knows exactly how fragile public funding can be. He doesn’t need Nola digging through ledgers, challenging old plaques, and turning the town’s favorite legend into a full-scale emotional excavation.

Unfortunately, Nola is brilliant, relentless, and impossible to ignore. Silas is controlled, infuriating, and far more decent than she wants him to be.

Trapped together in dusty records rooms, diner interviews, and public listening sessions, Nola and Silas discover that history is not the only thing getting harder to contain. But when the truth threatens his family’s reputation and her family’s erasure, desire is not enough. One of them has to risk the story they have been protecting.

Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include:  Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~

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Last Train to You by Judith Harrison

Posted October 13, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

She stayed. He left. Now the town they both love needs them to save the place where goodbye ruined everything.

Mara Dacey knows every inch of Brinewick Station: the fogged windows, the unreliable announcement board, the commuter coffee, and the diner booth where she learned Cal Vardis was leaving town without her. Thirteen years later, she is the woman everyone counts on to keep the station running—which means she has no time for old heartbreak, especially when the state threatens to cut service and put Brinewick’s future at risk.

Then Cal steps off the train.

Now a coastal structural engineer, Cal has been hired to assess whether the station and its old freight shed can be saved. He came back to do a job, tell the truth, and leave before the town remembers too much. But Brinewick remembers everything. So does Mara.

Forced into late-night inspections, tense committee meetings, and too many emotionally dangerous breakfasts at Latchkey Lunch & News, Mara and Cal discover the years apart didn’t kill the spark between them. It only taught them how much damage silence can do.

To save the station, Cal has to stop hiding behind professional distance. To trust him again, Mara has to believe that needing someone does not mean being left behind.

Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include:  Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~

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A Betrayal that Binds by Tara Pammi

Posted October 13, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, NetGalley, Sexual Content, Standalone / 0 Comments

Stone-cold betrayal…  to red-hot reunion!

Ruthless CEO Constantine Xenakis has never forgiven his first love’s bitter betrayal. A decade later, Aliyah Andros is back—more beautiful than ever, and desperate.

Constantine will help her, on one vengeful condition: Aliyah must finally become his wife…for good.

Shattered once by Constantine’s unrelenting ambition, Aliyah will agree on her terms only: If they are to be married, she wants a baby!

Caught in a scorching web of retribution, their fiery connection roars back to life—and this time, even the icy memory of old wounds can’t tame the flames…

~Standalone~

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Her Undercover Protector by Kayla Perrin

Posted October 13, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Romantic Suspense, NetGalley, Series, Sexual Content / 0 Comments

It’s his most difficult mission…

Bodyguard Griffin Woodward’s latest assignment, posing as newly appointed CEO Dahlia Mondale’s assistant, is far from simple.

Not only is Dahlia’s company under public scrutiny, but the heiress believes her father has been murdered.

When Dahlia’s life is threatened, Griffin springs into action, protecting her at any cost.

There are past traumas Dahlia can’t escape, but the former Navy SEAL is determined to keep the woman he is falling in love with safe…and to bring a criminal to justice.

Titles in the Steel Protection Services series include: Her Undercover Protector ~ Her Bodyguard ~

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Vengeance to Baby Vows by Maya Blake

Posted October 12, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, NetGalley, Series/Duet, Sexual Content / 0 Comments

One night of passion… Nine months of revenge!

Ashon:  Acquiring my grandfather’s land to expand my studio empire demands that I settle down. I require a temporary wife, and it has to be Cilla.

Though my rage still burns from the night she deceived me, so does my need to have her again…

Cilla:  That night I was seeking proof that my family owns the land. I lied about my identity, but not our explosive connection.

Now Ashon commands our fake engagement. Except when he discovers my baby secret, he’ll force me down the aisle, leaving a trail of flames behind us…

Titles in the Billionaires in the Spotlight duo/series include:  Vengeance to Baby Vows ~ My After-Hours Secret ~

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Custody in the Crosshairs by Barb Han

Posted October 11, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Intrigue, Modern Western Romance, NetGalley, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Suspense / 0 Comments

To protect an innocent child, danger will follow them at every turn.

Child Protective Services agent Carys Aldric is caught between doing what’s right and following protocol.

Especially when it comes to rancher Blaize Wilde, the potential father of an orphaned baby, and hopefully the kind of man worth breaking the rules for.

But unraveling the web of deception around Blaize’s connection to the baby puts them in the line of fire as they dodge bullets and search for safety.

Danger closes in from a past that refuses to stay buried—and a mysterious mother who may have secrets of her own.

Titles in the Wilde Country series include:  Custody in the Crosshairs ~ Betrayal at Close Range ~ Ambush at Close Range ~

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