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tmkutawrites · 6 months

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A COMMON BOND by T. M. KUTA

Construction Project Manager Carneline has a lot of her plate at the family business. The last thing she needs is romance. But Josie, the skilled superintendent, is complicating things one iced coffee at a time.

✅️ Contemporary Lesbian Romance (Author Debut!) ✅️ Small Town Romance (in the queerest small town ever) ✅️ Salvadoran MC/POV character ✅️ Butch/Femme ✅️ Colleagues To Lovers ✅️ One Night Stand ✅️ Cringe-y Yet Loveable Sidekick ✅️ 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/🍋🍋🍋🍋 (spicy!)

Well y'all after many fits and starts and life chaos later, my debut lesbian romance novella A COMMON BOND is finally here! We battled 3 family deaths, covered two separate maternity leaves at work, and rewrote this puppy twice, but it is HERE!

A Common Bond is my love letter to my day job in historic reconstruction and all of it's quirks, cliques, and capricious capers. Also... y'know, being a giant raging queer in construction. ;) It is an honor to publish a Clover Hill Romance book, and I hope you fall in love with Josie, Carneline, and Clover Hill the way I did while writing them!

Edit 10/30: Read the entire first chapter for free HERE!

PRE-ORDER NOW!

Dropping November 7, 2023!

Note: While A Common Bond is Book 13 in the Clover Hill Romance, all of the novellas stand alone. They share the same setting, a.k.a Clover Hill - Population: Queer, but are otherwise able to be read alone! If you like my novella, please consider buying one (or all) of the other 12 :)

#clover hill romance #lesbian romance #debut author #debut romance author #romance author #butch lesbian #contemporary romance #small town romance

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city-cost · 10 months

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Morning in the Hazu district of Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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lexxwithbooks · 5 months

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📖: 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 (𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑛𝑢𝑡 𝑆𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 #1) 🐂🫀

✍🏽: 𝐄𝐥𝐬𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫

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blam-marie · 1 year

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One Selkie. Two strangers. Three murders.

The small town of St. Adalbert Sur Mer is hiding a dark secret.

Three times during the summer, the lifeless body of a Selkie was dumped into the river. Naked, and with a missing pelt.

Louison is sent by her clan to investigate these murders and catch the killer, but her mission derails when she meets two charming strangers whom everyone in town seems to be falling in love with - including herself. Torn between her rising attraction towards Gabrielle and Adrien and keeping the secret of her origins, Louison must dodge tourists, deadly poachers and wildlife protection agents in a wild quest to find her sibling’s murderer - before he kills again.

Skin Deep is a queer polyamorous story where everyone is hiding something and nothing is as simple as it seems.

Now available for pre-orders in both ENGLISH and FRENCH

#book promo #polyamoury romance #book romance #fantasy novel #blaze #selkie romance #romantic suspense #romance novels #writing is hard #my books #selkie romance novel #book rec #small town romance #murder mystery #shifter romance #queer romance #bisexual romance

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jessread-s · 5 months

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Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

✩🧢☀️Review:

The third book in the Chestnut Springs series nearly checked every box for me!

“Powerless” follows Sloane Winthrop, a prima ballerina whose life comes crashing down on her wedding day. Luckily, Jasper Gervais, her childhood best friend and star hockey player is there to swoop in and save her just as she has done for him. The two go on an impromptu road-trip to escape everything, but the more time they spend alone together, the more they begin to view each other as more than friends.

This book has a completely different feel to it than the other books in the series and I really enjoyed it! The tension and pining that built up throughout the duration of the novel were wonderfully drawn out. The “will they or won’t they” movements further sucked me into the story as I eagerly awaited Sloane and Jasper to cross the line between friend and lover.

When their romantic relationship began to finally take off, I felt as though the steamy moments were too numerous. As a reader, I wanted more regarding their actual friendship. There was a period when they weren’t a constant in each other’s lives and I was more so interested in them reacquainting themselves with each other emotionally before exploring each other physically.

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saegelics · 8 months

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i want a quiet, delicate life in a small town where you can experience all four seasons beautifully. I want to be famous with all of the glitz and glamour and people falling at my feet just because I blinked. it makes me sick to know I can’t have both, at least at the same time.

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starryvomit · 15 days

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grindhousebarbie4mj · 5 months

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took these over the weekend

#late night #night #darkcore #dark aesthetic #small town aesthetic #small town shit #small town romance #small town america

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ofduskanddreams · 1 year

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So I’m just curious here, but would anyone out there be interested in a Modern AU series featuring Cowboy Cassian, Veterinarian Lucien, Entrepreneur Rhys, CEO Azriel, and Politician Eris?*

(… definitely not asking because I already started drafting or because this could easily turn out to be 4 novel-length fics)

*purely hypothetical of course

#series #includes #four #fics #nessian #feysand #elucien #and #either #azris #or #gwynriel #acotar #acotar fanfic #small town romance #starlight creek

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fated-mates · 4 months

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It's the most wonderful time of the year, but it can be made even better with the right book.

#holiday romance #spicy books #christmas books #christmas romance #christmas novella #small town romance #Youtube

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booktineus · 1 year

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Another journal spread dump from my 2022 book journal (which I’m still trying to finish 😅😅)

#book journal #books #reader #reading journal #book review #p.s. you can find Timelapse’s of these pages on my Instagram and TikTok #Rebecca Yarros #Emily Henry #Devney Perry #romance books #indie books #small town romance #books that leave you sobbing

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lgbtqreads · 5 months

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New Release Spotlight: Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander

If you’re looking for a delightful new holiday read, may I recommend (heh, yes, of course I can, this is my website) Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander (Emily Bestler Books/Atria)? While second chance romance may be a well worn trope, second chance with your (ostensibly straight, male) high school sweetheart from before you transitioned and whom you haven’t seen since was…

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#Atria Books #Contemporary M/M Romance #featured #Florida #Holiday Romance #m/m Romance #Rom Com #Second chance romance #Second Chances in New Port Stephen #Simon & Schuster #Small Town Romance #TJ Alexander #Trans Romance

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lexxwithbooks · 1 year

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📖: 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 📚👣🦈

✍🏽: 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲

Get the book! 🌟

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feli-artblog · 3 months

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#love potion #trope #romance tropes #book tropes #dead dove do not eat #small town #small town romance #roommates #and they were roommates #romance #bookblr #fanfic #fan fiction #romance book #couple #pairing

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su4vz · 5 months

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The way both the mothers addressed them using their full names lmao

They’re just so adorable 🧸

#love redesigned #loveredesigned #books #Julian Lopez #Dahila Muñoz #small town romance #rivals #billionaire #booklr #books & libraries

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jessread-s · 4 months

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*Thank you to the author for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review*

✩ 🏒⛸️Review:

Diviak’s sports romance balances deep, emotional topics with heart fluttering moments.

“The Signature Move” follows Logan Beckett and Averie “Ava” Laurier, two athletes who are forced to share a rink. Both are determined to ignore each other, but Waybrook isn’t a big enough town to stop their paths from colliding. When the captain of the Waybrook Winter Wolves hockey team and the world champion skater clash, it’s only a matter of time before anger harbored over divvied rink time melts into passion.

This book has everything I love in a romance: dual pov, rivals to lovers, small town, and slow romantic development. When I say this is a slow burn, it is a slowwww burn. The beginning took a little bit to pick up, but once Logan and Ava finally gave in to their attraction, I could not get enough of their dynamic as a couple. They are characterized so differently with Ava being the sweetest, sunshine girl and Logan being more guarded and stoic. Their opposite personalities compliment each other and make their rivals-to-lovers romance more satisfying.

I really appreciated the emphasis on found family in this book. Both characters experience abuse at the hand of a parent that causes anxiety and in Ava’s case, an eating disorder. Throughout the novel, Logan and Ava build a family of their own with each other and the friends/coaches/teammates they forge meaningful connections with in their close knit town. One qualm I had with this book is that not all the side characters are fleshed out—therefore I wasn’t as invested in them and their own plot lines—but I did like the roles they played in Logan and Ava’s story.

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#the signature move #logan beckett #ava laurier #contemporary romance #sports romance #hockey romance #forced proximity #dual pov #new adult romance #rivals to lovers #small town romance #book review #booklr #book blog #book blogger #romance books #romance novels #indie author

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