Not What it Looks Like
Important Dates
Release date: 1.7.27
Cover reveal: September 30
ARC send date: early December
Release date: 1.7.27
Cover reveal: September 30
ARC send date: early December
Blurb:
He’s her rival for a million dollars.
He might steal her heart as well.
Loren Holloway doesn’t have time for romance—not when her family’s vineyard is drowning in debt and a reality TV paycheck is the only thing standing between her and losing everything her grandfather built. She didn’t even apply for Tandem Island; her best friend signed her up. But now that she’s here, stranded on a remote island with eleven strangers and a prize that could save her family’s legacy, she intends to win.
The problem is Theo Hayes.
He’s infuriatingly charming, annoyingly gorgeous, and stole her luggage before she even learned his name. He’s also whip-smart, fluent in more languages than a guy from London should be, and far too good at reading people he’s only just met—including her. Every challenge throws them together as reluctant partners, rivals, and eventually something Loren refuses to name, and every night she finds him a little harder to resist.
But something about Theo doesn’t add up. He flinches at questions about his past. He knows things a normal contestant shouldn’t. And when a storm rips the show apart and forces every camera-ready mask to slip, Loren starts to wonder if the man she’s falling for is anything like the one who stepped off that boat a week ago.
With only one spot in the final challenge and a growing suspicion that Theo is hiding something bigger than stage fright, Loren has to decide how much of her heart she’s willing to risk—on a game she needs to win and a man who might not be who he says he is.
Tropes::
rivals to romance, secret identity, banter for days, adventure, reality TV, slow burn
He’s her rival for a million dollars.
He might steal her heart as well.
Loren Holloway doesn’t have time for romance—not when her family’s vineyard is drowning in debt and a reality TV paycheck is the only thing standing between her and losing everything her grandfather built. She didn’t even apply for Tandem Island; her best friend signed her up. But now that she’s here, stranded on a remote island with eleven strangers and a prize that could save her family’s legacy, she intends to win.
The problem is Theo Hayes.
He’s infuriatingly charming, annoyingly gorgeous, and stole her luggage before she even learned his name. He’s also whip-smart, fluent in more languages than a guy from London should be, and far too good at reading people he’s only just met—including her. Every challenge throws them together as reluctant partners, rivals, and eventually something Loren refuses to name, and every night she finds him a little harder to resist.
But something about Theo doesn’t add up. He flinches at questions about his past. He knows things a normal contestant shouldn’t. And when a storm rips the show apart and forces every camera-ready mask to slip, Loren starts to wonder if the man she’s falling for is anything like the one who stepped off that boat a week ago.
With only one spot in the final challenge and a growing suspicion that Theo is hiding something bigger than stage fright, Loren has to decide how much of her heart she’s willing to risk—on a game she needs to win and a man who might not be who he says he is.
Tropes::
rivals to romance, secret identity, banter for days, adventure, reality TV, slow burn
Nothing to See Here
Important Dates
Release date: 7.30.26
Cover reveal: June 1
ARC send date: 7.6.26
Release date: 7.30.26
Cover reveal: June 1
ARC send date: 7.6.26
Blurb:
He’s the last man she’d ever trust.
He’s also the only one who can help her.
Astrid Storme has spent her career as a royal intelligence operative in Candora trusting her instincts, and they’ve never failed her. Until now.
With a growing anti-royalist movement slipping through the cracks of every investigation, Astrid is one misstep away from losing everything she’s worked for. Desperate to get ahead of a threat no one else seems able to trace, she makes a risky choice: recruit Prince Hendrik Alverra, better known as Hex—the reckless royal with a talent for getting people to talk and a reputation for not taking anything seriously.
Worst of all, Hex loathes Astrid.
Though Hex ignores protocol and breaks every rule she gives him, he somehow still manages to get them closer to answers than Astrid has been in months, leaving her career as a spy on shaky ground. But the deeper they go, the more Astrid begins to see cracks in the persona he presents to the world. Beneath the arrogance and charm is a man who notices too much, hesitates when he shouldn’t, and looks at her like he’s trying to understand her instead of manipulate her.
With powerful enemies closing in and a dangerous invitation pulling them into the heart of the conspiracy, Astrid can’t afford to be wrong—not about the mission, and not about him.
Because if Hex isn’t the man she thought he was, then everything she’s built her investigation on is wrong. And Candora will pay the price.
Tropes:
mystery, enemies to lovers, royal MMC, spy FMC, slow burn
He’s the last man she’d ever trust.
He’s also the only one who can help her.
Astrid Storme has spent her career as a royal intelligence operative in Candora trusting her instincts, and they’ve never failed her. Until now.
With a growing anti-royalist movement slipping through the cracks of every investigation, Astrid is one misstep away from losing everything she’s worked for. Desperate to get ahead of a threat no one else seems able to trace, she makes a risky choice: recruit Prince Hendrik Alverra, better known as Hex—the reckless royal with a talent for getting people to talk and a reputation for not taking anything seriously.
Worst of all, Hex loathes Astrid.
Though Hex ignores protocol and breaks every rule she gives him, he somehow still manages to get them closer to answers than Astrid has been in months, leaving her career as a spy on shaky ground. But the deeper they go, the more Astrid begins to see cracks in the persona he presents to the world. Beneath the arrogance and charm is a man who notices too much, hesitates when he shouldn’t, and looks at her like he’s trying to understand her instead of manipulate her.
With powerful enemies closing in and a dangerous invitation pulling them into the heart of the conspiracy, Astrid can’t afford to be wrong—not about the mission, and not about him.
Because if Hex isn’t the man she thought he was, then everything she’s built her investigation on is wrong. And Candora will pay the price.
Tropes:
mystery, enemies to lovers, royal MMC, spy FMC, slow burn
