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Reader Question - The book about the female guitar player waiting to audition for a band... - Maryse's Book Blog
Susan needs our book help! And LOL!!! I totally understand where she’s coming from. I’ve read SO many books in my lifetime, that I jumble a few of the storylines together sometimes. She asks: Hi I hope it’s okay to ask questions. I’m looking for a book I read, but of course I cannot remember […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 09-01-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!! Between today and yesterday’s new releases, we’re at exactly 50 BRAND NEW BOOKS to choose from! BLURB JOLTS & STAND-OUTS!! Framed in Death (<— J.D Robb’s latest!!) The Surrender (Arlington Hall Book 2) by Jodi Ellen Malpas (<— the latest by Jodi Ellen Malpas!!), Covet (The Red Series #3) by […]
21 Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 08-29-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
<— SATURDAY SURPRISE!!! THIS ONE (First Lie Wins: Reese’s Book Club Pick (A Novel) IS SUPER-BARGAIN PRICED & the #1 book on ALL of Amazon Kindle today!!! YAY US!!! Cheryl: Listen for the Lie was sooo good – I couldn’t sleep until I’d finished it!! If you enjoyed LFTL have you read First Lie Wins by […]
My Lash Lift Kit Experience: Worth It… But Not for the Faint of Heart. It's a bit tricky, at first... - Maryse's Book Blog
Luxe Cosmetics – Lash Lift Kit – Complete Set for Eyelash Lifting – New Pro Version <— I did something crazy but it worked… ish. I did an at home lash-lift with that viral “Luxe” system (I saw the ad in my reels and I couldn’t help myself), and my eyelashes now look like they […]
Archiving the August 2025 Book Releases - Maryse's Book Blog
AUGUST 2025 Forbidden Kisses: a single dad nanny romance by Layla Hagen | Aug 1, 2025 Possessive Mafia Vows : An Arranged Marriage Dark Mafia Romance (Ruthless Billionaire Mafia Kings) by Vivy Skys | Aug 4, 2025 Cold Truth: A Novel (Cold Justice® – Most Wanted) by Toni Anderson | Aug 5, 2025 A Beginner’s […]
Elizabeth O'Roark - The Favorites Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
<— HOLY MOLY LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE!! My Favorite Lost Cause (The Favorites Book 2). This author is one of our absolute favorites!! YAY US!!! Amy: Favorite author!! She never disappoints About book #1: Climbing Kilimanjaro? No thank you. Climbing it with Miller West? Absolutely f***ing not. A full week without showers, a real […]
15 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 09-01-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY MONDAY, HAPPY LABOR DAY & HAPPY 1st day of September!!! Is it fall yet? It isn’t but it’s gonna be. YAY US!!! <— P.S. DID YOU MISS THIS SURPRISE RELEASE yesterday??? The House Guest: A Contemporary Romance by Penelope Ward IS LIVE!!!!! It sounds right up our alley!! He just inherited billions, and she’s living in […]
Reader Question - The book where the clergyman wrote a book about celibacy, and the church paid a call girl to seduce him... - Maryse's Book Blog
Jenifer needs our book help! And awwww!!! I love this sweet message. Jennifer… you can message me anytime!! I love receiving questions, comments, recommendations, ALL of it. And this goes for all of you out there. Contact me. I LOVE chatting about books!!! She asks: Hello Maryse, I am Jennifer. I have been following your […]
Sunday Surprise!! Penelope Ward's latest book, "The House Guest" IS LIVE!!! - Maryse's Book Blog
The House Guest: A Contemporary Romance by Penelope Ward IS LIVE!!!!! YAY US!!! SHE WAS LIVING IN THE MANSION HE JUST INHERITED… The author says: Just a note that both versions of The House Guest paperback will be live on release day. There will also be hardcovers for each. However, the only version that has […]
Pride and Passion: A LGBTQIA+ Love Collection (1001 Dark Nights) is live & we have excerpts! - Maryse's Book Blog
Pride and Passion: A LGBTQIA+ Love Collection (1001 Dark Nights) IS LIVE & WE HAVE EXCERPTS!! So what’s it about? Celebrate love in all its vibrant forms. Pride and Passion features LGBTQIA+ romances that are as bold as they are tender. From first loves to lifelong commitments, these stories explore the full spectrum of […]
Sparks and Surrender: An Enemies-To-Lovers Romance Collection is LIVE & we have excerpts! - Maryse's Book Blog
Sparks and Surrender: An Enemies-To-Lovers Romance Collection (1001 Dark Nights) IS LIVE & we have excerpts!! So what’s it about? When sparks fly, passion ignites. Sparks and Surrender is packed with fiery romances where enemies become lovers. From bitter rivals to the people they least expected, these characters discover that the line between hate and love is […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 08-26-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!!! 36 new releases today + 7 from yesterday means 40 NEW books to choose from. YAY US!! BLURB JOLTS & STAND-OUTS!! Formula Freedom (Race Fever Book 3) by Sawyer Bennett (forbidden love with a racer!!), What the Dead Can Do: A Thriller (psych-thriller!! a plane crash kills her and she […]
7 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 08-25-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY MONDAY EARLY BIRD RELEASES!!! I’m working on this one as we speak, so keep checking back as it will grow. There are already TWO on here that sound AMAZING (a sports romance grumpy sunshine one – that one to the left and an obsessed stalker/marital strife affair one. HOLY. MOLY!!!! And also… Three things: […]
Dark Clouds and Bright Skies: A Grumpy-Sunshine Romance Collection is here and we have excerpts! - Maryse's Book Blog
Dark Clouds and Bright Skies: A Grumpy-Sunshine Romance Collection is LIVE and one of my FAVORITE tropes. I LOVE getting through that crunchy layer. 😉 So what’s it about? Opposites attract in this collection of heartwarming grumpy-sunshine romances. In Dark Clouds and Bright Skies, brooding heroes meet their sunny counterparts, sparks fly, and hearts melt. […]
Close Call (Kate Green Book 3) by Elise Hart Kipness IS LIVE & we’ve got another 5 signed books giveaway!!! - Maryse's Book Blog
Close Call (Kate Green Book 3) by Elise Hart Kipness <— THE LATEST IN THIS MYSTER PSYCH-THRILLER SERIES IS LIVE!! And the author is celebrating by having an amazing giveaway + she’s sponsoring today’s post & newsletter!! So what’s it about? In a hard-hitting thriller from the author of Lights Out and Dangerous Play, […]
Louise Bay - The Mister Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE AT ITS BEST & book #1 is super-bargain priced today!! And… it gave me a blurb jolt BIG TIME!!! Joy: …some of the hottest scenes: …Anything by Louise Bay! read everything she writes. So good! About book #1: My boyfriend is getting married. Okay, technically he’s my ex-boyfriend. Two months ago he […]
Midnight Myths and Magic: A Paranormal Romance Collection is LIVE & we have excerpts! - Maryse's Book Blog
BOOK BUNDLE ALERT! Midnight Myths and Magic: A Paranormal Romance Collection (1001 Dark Nights) is here and we have excerpts!! So what’s it about? Step into a world where myths and magic come alive after dark. Midnight Myths and Magic brings together paranormal creatures, gods, and legends in a thrilling collection of otherworldly romances. From […]
Vows and Veils: A Celebration of Love Collection (1001 Dark Nights) is live & we have excerpts! - Maryse's Book Blog
BOOK BUNDLE ALERT!! Vows and Veils: A Celebration of Love Collection (1001 Dark Nights) is live & we have excerpts! So what’s it about? Step into a world of celebration. In Vows and Veils, love is honored and forever begins. From whirlwind weddings to heartwarming proposals, these stories showcase romance at its most joyous. With […]
16 Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 08-22-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY FRIDAY AND YAYYYY WEEKEND!!!! Another list of amazing book finds for us including a blurb-jolter below (in pink!! Ya can’t miss it). One of our FAVORITE tropes & also another hint? you can tell from that title alone!! YES PLEASE!! <— And then of course, that one to the left that just went live […]
Duty and Desire: A Uniformed Heroes/Bodyguard Collection IS LIVE & we have an excerpt! - Maryse's Book Blog
BOOK BUNDLE ALERT! Duty and Desire: A Uniformed Heroes/Bodyguard Collection is here & I have excerpts! So what’s this book bundle about? Honor, protection, and undeniable chemistry. Duty and Desire brings you heroes in uniform—bodyguards, soldiers, and law enforcers—who will do whatever it takes to protect the ones they love. Filled with action, danger, and […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 08-19-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY NEW RELEASE DAY!!! Between yesterday & today, we have almost 50 NEW BOOKS to choose from!!! BLURB JOLTS & STAND-OUTS!! The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand (short story anthology with some of my fav authors!!), Emma on Fire: A Thriller by James Patterson […]
Reader Question - The NFL fan that goes to a baseball game and suddenly has a crush on the catcher... - Maryse's Book Blog
Brandy needs our book help! Oh boy… the only baseball romance I read from wayyyyy back in the day was The Perfect Game: A Novel (The Game Series Book 1) by J. Sterling and this one ruined so many book-hearts!! LOL!!! There was fury and kindle throwing, and cheating and breakups and makeups and all […]
Claudia Burgoa - Kentbury Tales Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
SMALL TOWN ROMANCE SERIES & SUPER-BARGAIN ON BOOK #4 ALERT and just looking at the covers and titles makes me feel warm and cozy already!!! Though the stories sound… deeper (very down-on-her luck/life and people failing her & starting overs and I love those!!) About book #1: Knightly If practice makes perfect, I should excel […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 08-12-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!!! Between yesterday’s early bird releases list & today’s we have almost 40 NEW BOOKS to choose from. Let alone the Lisa Jewell super-sale on many of the books in her repertoire (I one-clicked a few for myself and highlighted a few of them here.). Maryse: I JUST ONE-CLICKED THIS ONE […]
17 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 08-11-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY MONDAY!! TODAY’S EARLY BIRD NEW RELEASE LIST IS EXTRA SPECIAL because… Three things: 1.) So…. today’s list will be a bit extra since I’m adding new releases from last Friday as well. While I was working on my list, we had a thunderstorm that knocked the electricity out and it took all night before […]
Lauren Landish - Never Say Never Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE SERIES OF OUR FAVORITE TROPES & THE LATEST BOOK (NHL STAR!!) JUST WENT LIVE & it’s in Amazon’s Top 50 already!! P.S. Each one can be read as a standalone. 😊 About book #1 When my brother’s best friend asks me to fake marry him to secure a business deal he desperately needs, […]
Hannah Nicole Maehrer - Assistant and the Villain Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
#1 NY TIMES BEST SELLING HUGELY POPULAR SERIES THAT SOUNDS SO FUN & book #3 just went live!! Carrie: if you haven’t read Assistant to the Villain, I highly recommend it. No spice but some tension. However, a really great funny and smart read. (And I’m a lady who LOVES spice!) About book #1: THE […]
Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 08-08-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY FRIDAY, HAPPY WEEKEND & it’s time for a new list of fabulous Friday Finds!!! P.S. We have a NEW #1 BOOK on all of Amazon Kindle right now!!! 😀 MichelleS: I realize why the blurb might not grab you… because if she put what they went through AFTER the “event”, that would spoil the […]
Reader Question - The mafia romance series where they own a BDSM club with a masqueradey vibe... - Maryse's Book Blog
Nkuli need our book help! Hrmm… this used to be all I read for a period of my romance reading time. But I don’t know of one that was also a mafia series too. She asks: RE: Lost book series/trilogy Hi Maryse I’ve been looking for a book I read years ago. It’s set in […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 08-05-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY & WHAT A RELEASE DAY IT IS!! Our favorite authors + highly anticipated sequels are here! BLURB JOLTS & STAND-OUTS!! A Beginner’s Guide to Forever: A Novel by Kendall Ryan (age gap!! older woman/younger man…), The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen (<—psych-thriller, she’s in a psychiactric ward & I […]
Reader Question - The book about the the librarian and the biker & she was no shrinking violet either... - Maryse's Book Blog
Caitlin is looking for this one and her description is short and sweet. See that title? That’s pretty much it! LOL!! She asks: I can’t remember the name of the romance between the librarian and the biker. I don’t think she was some shrinking violet virgin either. Any ideas? Have a guess? ➔➔➔ Browse more […]
Reader Question - The book where she works at a nightclub to get herself through school and meets the bouncer named Mateo... - Maryse's Book Blog
Tara needs our book help, and I think we’ve already guessed this one in the past for her, but she lost it again. So I’m posting her question now, AND I’m going to backtrack & search for the original post while I’m at it. So she asks: Help Me Find This Book – Again 😒😑 […]
Reader Question - The dark read where she was sold into trafficking & ends up falling for her captor... - Maryse's Book Blog
Jessica (in our Facebook crew) needs our book help! Oooooooh I think I already know which one she’s looking for and it ROCKED OUR VERY DARK BOOK WORLDS right around that exact time!!! There was a time when I read a BUNCH in this trope ’cause I was shocked and appalled and absolutely couldn’t put […]
5 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 08-04-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY MONDAY EARLY BIRD RELEASES!! Not the biggest list ever (😂) but 5 books that sound right up our alley is good enough for me! Three things: 1.) I’m so in love with all of the beautiful “fruit water” or”jelly nails” looks that I’m seeing all over. I guess that’s the trend of the […]
Archiving the July 2025 Book Releases - Maryse's Book Blog
JULY 2025 The Curse that Binds (Bewitched Book 3) by Laura Thalassa – July 1 2025 Kane: A Small Town, Friends to Lovers, Hidden Identity, Military Protector Romance (Ghost Ops Book 4) by Lynn Raye Harris – July 1 2025 Overruled by Lana Ferguson – July 1 2025 Keeping Laryn (Rescue Angels Book 1) by […]
Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 07-31-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
<— HOLY MOLY LOOK WHAT’S LIVE!!! HAPPY AUGUST!! IT’S MY BIRTHDAY MONTH! Hopefully it’s my best month ever with good news and great luck and all of my wishes come true. LOL!! And hopefully it’s a month full of exciting blurb jolts and even better books! *fingers crossed* The author says: Things to know: This […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 07-29-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!! It’s an amazing list if I do say so myself! BLURB JOLTS & STAND-OUTS!! Over the Moon: A Small Town, Hockey Romance (Rosewood River Series Book 3) by Laura Pavlov (hockey star romance!!), Write Me For You by Tillie Cole (Tillie Cole’s latest romance tearjerker!!), Biggest Player (Not Yours) by Sara […]
Reader Question - The book where she's always been in love with him & attends his wedding to someone else... - Maryse's Book Blog
Aaliyah needs our book help! Ooooooh guys unrequited love!! And a possible love triangle. And I DO know the book called “Jilted” (by one of my fav authors, Vi Keeland) but this description below doesn’t sound like that one at all. She asks: Hi, so there was a book I read online, maybe around a […]
I Love You Forever - This Love Story Was Almost Too Painful to Watch — So I Had to Read the Book Behind It... - Maryse's Book Blog
I was alone for a whole day yesterday and decided I’d spend an “unwind/do nothing physically or mentally strenuous day“, watching all the movies I knew my husband wouldn’t want to watch. 😂 So… I indulged BIG TIME! I watched 4 horror/thrillers (The Wailing (meh…), Anabelle – the first one and it was a rewatch […]
It Starts With This List! My CoHo Collection: Everything I’ve Written About Colleen Hoover - Maryse's Book Blog
One of my all-time favorite authors and I’ve been reading her since the beginning.I’ve been reading, I’ve been writing about her and her books for years, (whether it was reviews, interviews, fun tidbits, feature spots, that time we trended… and everything in-between) so you know me… I figured I’d compile it all into a nice, […]