14 August, 2026: Passion, Romance, Suspense, & More

PASSION, ROMANCE, SUSPENSE, & MORE

14 August, 2026

 

NEON GODS by Katee Robert is on sale for $1.99 right now! This is a scorching hot retelling of of the Hades and Persephone myth and is the first book in the author’s well-beloved Dark Olympus series.

He was supposed to be a myth. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell…he was, quite simply, mine.

Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade.

With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth…a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed.

Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her—for a price. Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he’ll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close…

ACE & EMBER by Kate Crew is $1.99 right now! This is the second book in the author’s spicy and popular The Maverick’s series. It is a forbidden love, brother’s best friend, enemies to lovers romance with morally grey hero and a smart-mouthed heroine.

A forbidden desire. A game of cat and mouse. A love that could ruin everything. 

Evie Emberson is trouble. Smart-mouthed, fearless, and relentless—especially when she’s looking for answers. She’s a hacker with a past that just won’t stay buried, so laying low isn’t exactly her strong suit. Especially when he’s around.

Aiden “Ace” Hayes is her brother’s best friend—brooding, loyal, and a walking contradiction. He spends half his time at the motorcycle garage and half deep in Valeport’s underground, and he lives by a code. Rule number one? Don’t touch Evie.

But she’s not a kid anymore. She’s fire and chaos and everything he shouldn’t want. He knows getting involved would blow up the only family he’s ever had—but walking away is getting harder every damn day.

What starts as snark and stolen glances spirals into something darker, hotter, and way past the point of no return. And the more they try to hide it, the more it threatens to consume them.

Now, with enemies circling and Evie’s secrets putting a target on her back, Aiden will do whatever it takes to protect her—even if it means betraying the brother who made him family.

Loyalties will be tested. Rules will be broken.

And hearts? They’re about to burn.

WED HIM BEFORE YOU BED HIM by Sabrina Jeffries is only $1.99! Once described as the “grand mistress of storytelling” by the Romantic Times, Sabrina Jeffries is a well-known name within the historical romance genre. ‘Wed Him Before You Bed Him’ is the sixth and final book in the author’s The School for Heiresses Regency romance series. 

At eighteen, Charlotte Page made a life-altering mistake. She wronged a man in an impulsive act that she came to deeply regret, though it led to her present life as Mrs. Charlotte Harris, owner of Mrs. Harris’s School for Young Ladies. Unbeknownst to her, that man is now her anonymous benefactor, the mysterious “Cousin Michael.” His masquerade began as preparation for a devastating revenge, but soon became a labor of love.

Now Charlotte desperately needs his help. Can he save her from disaster without revealing the ugly secret behind his charade? Or will the mistakes of both their pasts tear them apart forever?

 

POTENT PLEASURES by Eloisa James is $1.99 right now! Potent Pleasures is a Regency romance that tells the tale of a young woman getting her first taste of the forbidden, which unwittingly leads to a comedy of errors. This was author Eloisa James’s debut book and it is also the first book in the author’s The Pleasures trilogy.

Nothing is more seductive than temptation.

Reckless desire sends Charlotte Daicheston into the garden with a dashing masked stranger. He’s powerful, unforgettable, a devastatingly handsome footman who lures her—not against her will—into a grand indiscretion at a masquerade ball.

Then he vanishes.

Several years later, after Charlotte has made her dazzling debut in London society, they meet again. But the rogue is no footman. He’s rich, titled, and doesn’t remember Charlotte. Worse, he’s the subject of some scandalous gossip: rumor has it, the earl’s virility is in question. Charlotte, who knows all too intimately the power of his passion, is stunned by the gossip that has set society ablaze.

At last, there can be a storybook ending . . . unless, of course, Charlotte’s one mad indiscretion had not been with him at all.

THE RANCHER’S SEDUCTION by Catherine Mann is on sale for $1.99 right now! This is the sixth book in the author’s popular Alaskan Oil Barons series with Harlequin Desire and can be read and enjoyed as a standalone Christmas read.

Rancher Marshall Steele’s emotions are on lockdown—until he meets his beautiful new housekeeper. A desire this strong won’t lead to anything but trouble. And yet Marshall can’t stop wanting Tally Benson—her beauty, her kindness. As the holidays heat up, he vows to have her and then let her go. But will their passion survive the secrets she’s been keeping?

 

 

DEAD GIVEAWAY by Brenda Novak is on sale right now for $1.99! This is the second book in author Brenda Novak’s The Stillwater trilogy, a compelling mystery & suspense series published by MIRA in 2016.

A police detective comes home to Mississippi to make a new start—but soon finds herself pulled into an old mystery . . .

Every town has its secrets—and Stillwater, Mississippi, has more than most. Starting with the disappearance of the Reverend Lee Barker nineteen years ago. The locals are convinced he was murdered by his stepson, Clay Montgomery. But only Clay—and his mother and sisters—can say for sure. They were the only ones there that fateful night, the only ones who know what really happened. And they’re not talking.

Allie McCormick is a cold-case detective from Chicago. After a particularly difficult divorce, she’s returned to Stillwater with her six-year-old daughter to find the peace she once knew in her hometown, and to work for the local police force while she’s starting over. But when Clay’s powerful enemies join forces to put him behind bars, Allie feels duty bound to uncover the truth. Her instincts tell her he didn’t murder the Reverend Lee Barker.

Clay may be a dark and brooding man, but he was just sixteen at the time. And he’s not a cold-blooded killer. At least, that’s what Allie believes—until she learns that behind the preacher’s pious demeanor lurked the heart of a monster. Then she has to ask herself whether justice has already been done . . .

 

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