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When her internship turns out to be a scam, a desperate American in Greece agrees to fake date an equally desperate bad boy prince who she can’t stand in this glittering, enemies-to-lovers rom com by a debut author, perfect for fans of Meghan Quinn.

Scammed out of her dream internship. Nearly run over by a royal entourage. Things can’t get much worse for Grace Curtis, who just wanted to enjoy her summer abroad. . .

Grace’s idea of paradise? The clear blue skies and glittering seas of Greece. Or so she thought. When her perfect summer becomes a perfect nightmare, Grace is desperate to stay. She came to Greece to honor her mom’s last wish, and she needs to see it through.

Prince Dimitri has finally pushed his royal title to the limit. Stuck in a whirlpool of bad press following the death of his older brother, he’s about to lose any chance at calling himself King unless he gets married. But the broody bad boy locked his heart away long ago, with no plans of sharing the key.

That is, until he nearly runs Grace over during a daring escape from the paparazzi, blasting them onto the front page of tabloids everywhere. Thrown into a whirlwind fake engagement, the two must appear head-over-heels for the cameras, or risk losing everything they think they want.

But when a moment of connection around love and loss leads to confusion behind the scenes, suddenly their futures aren’t so clear. As real feelings blossom beneath the act, they must decide, when the camera flashes fade, are they really still pretending?

Release date: November 10 2026

Saymore Barauta is a Black author seeking new readers. I wanted to share her book here. Her FMC is Black. Please give her a chance

Blurb:

In the glittering yet shadowed streets of Johannesburg, Nyssa, a university student and daughter of the Yoruba storm goddess Oya, conceals her volatile divine powers while grappling with profound grief and isolation. When the ancient and formidable vampire Primus known as the Shadow Aureus and Firstborn of Night, feeds on her in a chance encounter, he discovers he cannot erase her memories. Their connection ignites an irresistible, magnetic bond that awakens something primal in them both, challenging Nyssa’s fragile control and Primus’s millennia of a dark existence. As Nyssa and Primus navigate their deepening relationship amid intense physical and emotional attraction, they must contend with vampire politics, rival clans led by the calculating Prince Reimundt, and the dangers posed by Nyssa’s exposed heritage. Primus’s elite clan, including his loyal progeny and allies, becomes entangled in the conflict, while Nyssa struggles to reconcile her humanity, divine legacy, and the consuming passion that binds her to a creature of eternal night. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Sandton, Athol Square, and beyond, Beneath the Crimson Veil is a tale of fated mates, hidden power, finding a place to belong and the perilous dance between storm and shadow. Love, loyalty, and supernatural intrigue collide as Nyssa and Primus fight to claim their future on their own terms, even as ancient laws and ambitious rivals threaten to tear them apart.

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Blurb

Aria Price arrived at Horizon Point University determined to start over, committed to her future music career. But once Chase Knight reappears, the past she assumed was left behind comes rushing back. As middle school classmates with secret crushes they never confessed, their connection was left unresolved—and unfinished.Now carrying dreams of their own, Aria and Chase are forced to confront buried feelings and missed chances along with a question yet to be answered: what if the timing had been right? Can they pursue their dreams and still find time for love?

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When data-obsessed Renike Bello agrees to a harmless tutoring arrangement with Rotimi ‘RJ’ Jacobs, the annoyingly attractive baseball player, campus heartthrob, and her biggest rival for the top spot in class, she expects nothing more than a boost in her Analytics course. She doesn’t expect stolen glances, soft confessions, or a connection that rewrites every rule she’s built her life around.
But love is the one variable Renike can’t control. And when a cruel misunderstanding shatters their fragile new bond, she’s forced to confront the truth she’s spent years burying: that sometimes the most terrifying risks are the ones that change you.
Now RJ is spiralling, Renike is panicking, and the exam of their lives is the least complicated thing between them. As family expectations, old wounds, and fear of failure collide, she must decide: does she want a tidy life with predictable outcomes, or the messy, breathtaking chaos that only love with RJ can bring?
A heart-wrecking, deeply romantic story that blends wit, desire, romance and hope in a heady, well-paced and unforgettable read.

The Way We Used To Be: a childhood friends to lovers romance
By Amarie Wheeler

Blurb:

After walking away from her soul-sucking corporate job, Amara Singleton is finally chasing the dream she’s held since childhood—opening a boutique dedicated to her own plus-size clothing designs.
There’s just one problem.
The only storefront she can afford is falling apart and is in desperate need of renovations.
When she unfortunately runs into Theo Sinclair, her childhood best friend—and first love—who disappeared from her life without a trace eight years ago, he makes her an offer she can’t afford to refuse. He’ll renovate the boutique for free… if she gives their friendship another chance.
Working side by side forces them back into the easy rhythm they once shared, and the more time Amara spends with Theo, the harder it becomes to ignore the feelings she never truly left behind.
She finds out Theo’s been carrying a life-altering secret for eight years—one that could destroy the fragile second chance they’re building. Now Amara must decide if some wounds are too deep to heal…or if love is worth the risk of breaking her heart all over again.

Sweet Deception by E.S. Jean

Calculated. Guarded. Ruthless.
Nathan Edge built his life on strategy and the billion-dollar record empire he runs thrives on it. With his inheritance hanging on one impossible condition in his late father’s will, the last thing the billionaire CEO needs is emotional complications.
But Elise Alexandre—his stunning, sweet assistant and the woman he must convince to marry him—is quickly becoming the one variable he can’t control…especially when winning her heart means deceiving it first.

Driven. Resilient. Unaware.
Elise Alexandre has worked too hard to rebuild her life to fall for the wrong man again.
A choreographer with dreams bigger than the office she works in, she refuses to be distracted—especially not by her dangerously charismatic boss.
Nathan is polished. Powerful. Impossible to ignore.
And when he starts looking at her like she’s more than just his assistant, Elise begins to believe in something she swore she’d never risk again.
But the deeper she falls, the more devastating the truth will be.
Because loving Nathan Edge was never the mistake.
Trusting him was.