Category: Standalone

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~

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

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The Tomorrow Tree by Carolyn Brown

Posted October 12, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, NetGalley, No Spice Romance, Small Town Romance, Standalone, Women's Fiction / 0 Comments

After thirteen years away, Tina O’Grady returns to her hometown of Benson, Texas, drawn to the old oak tree in the park. She and her childhood friends, Walker and Gracie, called it the Tomorrow Tree and shared their dreams beneath its branches. But Tina, still reeling from past betrayals, has no plans to stay.

Mae and Cleo aren’t about to let her leave. The elderly ladies who practically raised Tina offer her a room in their boardinghouse—where she discovers Walker and Gracie are also staying. Suddenly, this small town feels more like home than ever. Especially when Tina takes a job at Walker’s feed store, and their friendship rekindles into something deeper than either dared to hope.

Through Mae and Cleo’s fierce maternal love and a second chance with Walker, Tina must confront the wounds that drove her away. Can she finally trust in the family she’s always had—and the love that’s been waiting beneath the Tomorrow Tree?

~Standalone~

This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.

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Talk to Me by Roselin Brown

Posted October 12, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Marriage In Crisis Romance, No Spice Romance, Series, Standalone / 0 Comments

I stayed quiet for years, smiling through my mother-in-law’s cruelty, so he’d never have to choose between us.  He chose anyway.  Just not me.

Lucy

Talk to me, Ryan.  That was all I ever asked for. I never asked him to choose between me and his family.  His mother did that for me — telling him, to his face, that I simply wasn’t capable of giving the Harris family what it needed.

I waited for Ryan to say no. He didn’t.

It was his composure I fell for first — that quiet, unshakable calm. I thought it meant safety. He gave me that same composure instead — reasonable words, a divorce signed without one argument, wrapped in a settlement generous enough to look like love.

I took the papers. I left the marriage. I left the name.  I never imagined the calm I fell for could be the thing that ended us.

Ryan

Marrying Lucy was the first time I ever said no to my mother.  It took losing her to realize I should have said more.

One signature. A settlement generous enough to look like love. I called it protecting her.  I never asked what she wanted — I just decided, alone, the way I’d been taught to.

Composure was never strength. It was just obedience with better manners.

So I stopped obeying. Walked away from everything that name ever meant — for good. Let the real me be seen.  It was the first honest thing I’d ever given anyone.  I don’t know if I get to ask for another chance.  But I’m done asking for it quietly.

Titles in the Begging for a Second Chance series include:  If You Forget Me ~ Talk to Me ~ Stop Taking Me for Granted ~ Stop Treating Me Like a Footnote ~ Stop Showing Me Off Like a Trophy ~

This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.

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The Wife He Thought Would Understand by Romy Venn

Posted October 11, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Marriage In Crisis Romance, Series, Sexual Content, Standalone / 0 Comments

Mara Bennett has spent twelve years being the wife who understands.

She understood the minor leagues. The injuries. The travel. The sponsors. The interviews. The endless last-minute things that somehow needed Grant more urgently than she did.

And Grant loves her for it.  He just got a little too comfortable believing she would always understand.  So when Mara asks for one thing, to show up on time for the arts-foundation gala she’s spent six months building, Grant promises he’ll be there.

Then his team wins.  One postgame obligation becomes another.  Then another.  Cameras are everywhere, his beautiful publicist is beside him, and when someone asks why he isn’t already at his wife’s event, Grant laughs.

“Mara’s good. She always understands.”

Unfortunately for Grant, Mara hears him.  And for the first time in twelve years, she decides she’s done understanding.

Now Grant has to figure out how to save a marriage he genuinely thought was safe, while Mara starts building a life that no longer moves every time his does.  He loves her.  She still loves him.  That doesn’t mean she has to come back.

No cheating. No secret affair. He just managed to screw up the best thing in his life entirely on his own.

Titles in The Husbands Who Lost Them series include:  The Wife He Thought Would Understand ~ The Wife He Kept Waiting ~ The Wife He Didn’t Believe ~ The Wife He Let Take the Fall ~

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

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I Learned About His Vasectomy At Our Fertility Appointment by Kelsie Calloway

Posted October 10, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Marriage In Crisis Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

She spent nearly three years believing her own body was broken. Then a new specialist looked at her husband’s chart and asked how long ago he’d had the vasectomy.

Juliet Rourke built her life around certainty: a career preserving delicate history, a quiet lake house, and a marriage everyone envied. She loved her husband fiercely, which was why she endured every negative pregnancy test, every grueling fertility treatment, and thirty-four months of heartbreak believing she was the one who couldn’t give him a child.

Then came the new fertility appointment. With one question from a doctor reading Beckett’s lab results, six years of her marriage were shattered into a nightmare.  Beckett didn’t deny it. He made the decision alone, got a secret vasectomy, and let her take medication for a problem that didn’t exist.

Juliet packs her bags and walks away.

Now they are separated, and Beckett is desperate. He isn’t asking for forgiveness. He submits to her strict rules, showing up every Thursday at a public library, answering her questions, and earning back every inch of ground he lost.

And against her better judgment, Juliet feels the ice beginning to thaw.  Until an unsent document exposes the true timeline of what happened years ago and the secret he’s still keeping.

Juliet realizes the reasons he lied to her are far more dangerous than she ever imagined.  Now, she has to decide whether the man who betrayed her body can ever be trusted with her heart… and whether the truth will heal them, or finish what he started.

~Standalone~

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If You Forget Me by Roselin Brown

Posted October 10, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Marriage In Crisis Romance, No Spice Romance, Series, Standalone / 0 Comments

This long-awaited wedding was supposed to save our drowning marriage.  Colin shattered it himself, in front of everyone I loved, with no good reason:  He said, “The wedding is off. You know exactly why.”

Nora

I used to believe love could conquer all. Maybe it can—but it takes two people actually trying.  When Colin had nothing, he swore he’d give me the world. Now that he has everything, all he’s ever given me is an unlimited credit card.

I shrank myself smaller and smaller, told myself it was just the price of loving a man who was scared of losing everything he’d built—including me.  Then, again and again, he crushed every effort I made and every hope I held onto—absent, dismissive, suspicious of nothing—until he delivered the final blow.

I didn’t cry. I didn’t beg. I just left—and some things don’t stay buried. Colin isn’t the only one with a secret that’s about to change everything.

Colin

I thought loving her meant giving her a life she’d never have to worry about—a mansion, a fortune, a name that opened every door. I thought money could stand in for the things I never had time to give her.

I was wrong. Completely, unforgivably wrong.  But I can’t survive losing her.

If it takes tearing myself apart and building something better from the pieces, I’ll do it. I will do it. Whatever it costs me, I’m going to become the man who actually deserves her again.

Titles in the Begging for a Second Chance series include:  If You Forget Me ~ Talk to Me ~ Stop Taking Me for Granted ~ Stop Treating Me Like a Footnote ~ Stop Showing Me Off Like a Trophy ~

This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.

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Greek’s Cinderella Contract by Abby Green

Posted October 1, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, Sexual Content, Standalone / 0 Comments

Signed, sealed… the Greek’s!

Axel Drakos is down one convenient fiancée. But projecting stability is essential to securing his next business deal. He needs a woman on his arm—fast! Someone who can make the press believe in a billion-dollar whirlwind romance. Someone like Hope Smith, the sunny stewardess aboard his private jet…

Hope is stunned when Axel asks her to participate in a relationship ruse. He’s richer than Croesus, and she’s nobody’s first choice. Once he puts their agreement in writing, there’s no doubting her temporary place in Drakos’s extraordinary world.

Does their unmatched desire prove Hope belongs there always?

~Standalone~

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

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The Maplewood Inn by Kimberly Van Meter

Posted September 4, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, No Spice Romance, Small Town Romance, Standalone, Women's Romance Fiction / 0 Comments

Three estranged sisters. One crumbling Vermont inn. One last chance to become a family again.

When their grandmother dies, the Harper sisters are drawn back to the picturesque small town of Maplewood Hollow—the place they once called home and the place they’ve spent years trying to forget.

Waiting for them is an unexpected inheritance: the beloved Maplewood Inn.

There’s just one catch.

To claim it, Margot, Nina, and Sadie must live together under its roof for three months. If they can’t make it work, they lose the inn—and the last piece of their family history—forever.

For practical, career-driven Margot, the inn is nothing but another responsibility. For selfless Nina, who’s spent years putting everyone else first, returning home stirs dreams she buried long ago. And for free-spirited Sadie, whose answer to every problem is to keep moving, staying in one place may be the hardest challenge she’s ever faced.

Then they uncover a long-forgotten letter hidden among their grandmother’s belongings—a secret that finally explains the heartbreaking rift between the women who came before them.

As old heartbreaks reopen and buried truths come to light, the sisters must decide whether to hold on to the anger that drove them apart… or risk everything to rebuild the family they thought was lost.

Because sometimes going home is the bravest thing you can do.

~Standalone~

This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.

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Broken Greek Vows by Lela May Wight

Posted September 2, 2026 by Marsha in Author ARC, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, Sexual Content, Standalone / 0 Comments

Reclaimed:  His runaway wife!

Poppy Ariti knew there was no world in which Greek shipping giant Konstantinos would give her a divorce. So she fled—their convenient marriage, the tragedy that shattered them, and his suspected betrayal of their wedding vows…

Finally, Konstantinos has found his missing bride. And now that he knows why she disappeared, his fury deepens. Her disappearance didn’t just cause a public scandal; it unleashed his own private torment. Because there’s always been one inconvenient truth to their on-paper union…he’s only ever felt this inexplicable, insatiable need for Poppy!

~Standalone~

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

Trigger Warning: stillborn death of a baby

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A Nantucket Fling by Kathryn Freeman

Posted July 16, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, NetGalley, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

Olivia is a fiercely independent woman climbing the ladder of corporate finance. But when her family demands she take time off to go to her niece’s bachelorette and wedding in Nantucket, she reluctantly agrees.

On the island, she catches the eye of Connor: a handsome, cocky, playboy type—also ten years her junior. Olivia’s sisters egg her on, encouraging a summer fling, but she’s more interested in catching up on her finance reading. Except…he’s funny and sexy, and doing her ego a world of good.

Connor might come across as a playboy because he was one, eight years ago. That all stopped when he became a dad and found himself raising his daughter single-handedly. But this summer, she’s with her grandparents for a month while he’s in Nantucket, working in a restaurant with the hopes of opening his own one day. His time on the island also provides a rare opportunity: to forget the struggles of being a single dad and become the carefree guy he used to be, who very much enjoyed flirting with the opposite sex. Especially when they’re cool, classy, probably older than him, and most definitely out of his league.

As their attraction steadily grows, Connor gets Olivia to relax her tightly held control and indulge in the fling she won’t admit she needs. But too soon, the holiday is over, and they’re back home, living two very different lives. When Connor’s presented with an opportunity to see Olivia again, he leaps at it, but this time it’s different. He’s no longer a charming young playboy but a struggling single dad. A relationship, a family, is not what Olivia wants.

And yet, neither can ignore the intense chemistry that didn’t go away after the summer. Are they just a Nantucket fling… or something much more?

~Standalone Title~

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