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The Irresistible One by Marni Mann is now live! Check out my spoiler-free review of the hot and heartfelt new romance book.

Synopsis:

A naughty enemies-to-lovers, single dad, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann …

I’m the irresistible one. The man who always gets what he wants. Too bad the only woman I want is the one I can’t have.

Dating apps can’t touch the dark and uninhibited desires I keep hidden. For the kind of kink I crave, I go to Lush—a playground where fantasies become reality.
That’s where I meet her.
The breathtaking blonde in the crimson dress who steals the air from my lungs, becoming an instant fixation after just one night.
Daring.
Uninhibited.
Captivating.
One taste will never be enough.
And when we meet again, it’s the worst possible scenario …
The sexy bombshell who ruined me for anyone else is now the one person who is completely out of my reach.
Off-limits.
Untouchable.
Forbidden.
The absolute enemy of everything I stand for.
But when scorching chemistry, razor-sharp banter, and an undeniable attraction collide, staying away from her is no longer an option.

What happens when the woman I can’t have becomes the only one I can’t resist?

Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited

https://geni.us/TheIrresistibleOne

Audiobook: https://geni.us/TIOAudio

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton & Desiree Ketchum

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/4qXsv1X

Spoiler-free Review of The Irresistible One by Marni Mann

Check out my spoiler-free review of Crash Into Me by Robinne Lee.  If you're looking for a romance wrapped in Hollywood glamour, desire, secrets, betrayal, and beautifully flawed characters, Crash Into Me delivers.

Buy links: 

Amazon https://a.co/d/08V9ZyhA

B&N https://fave.co/3T4d2kq

Apple https://apple.co/4pzNtDS

Kobo https://fave.co/4frkgpQ

Blurb:

In a keenly observed departure from her blockbuster debut, The Idea of You, Robinne Lee delivers a completely new, fearlessly intimate novel of messy, complicated relationships―one that delves into desire, race, power, and the shifting terrain of identity and selfhood.

What happens when a fantasy from your past collides with your reality?

In a complicated marriage and raising her children in Los Angeles’s toxic playground of privilege and power, Cecilia Chen is struggling to find her real self among the many labels assigned to her: wife, mother, artist, daughter.

Until the moment she crashes–literally–into the Anouk Ferrand. It’s been twenty years since she last encountered the enigmatic model on a photo shoot in Mexico.

And it’s this chance second meeting that will upend Cecilia’s life.

Seeing Anouk again forces Cecilia to revisit their brief time together and question where she truly fits in. Can the renewed intensity of her explosive physical and emotional entanglement with Anouk finally give her an answer?

Heartbreakingly real and emotionally layered, Crash Into Me illuminates the unexpected detours that change our lives forever.

Review of Crash Into Me

COVER REVEAL — The Challenge by Penelope Ward.  Penelope revealed these gorgeous covers today! I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek earlier this week, and honestly, I couldn’t decide which one was my favorite. August 30th release on Kindle Unlimited.  Check out both covers and don’t forget to read the synopsis. I have a feeling this book is going to be another favorite from one of my all-time favorite authors.

Title: The Challenge: A Single Dad Romance

Author: Penelope Ward

Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Single Dad, Second Chance, Forced Proximity,

Friends to Lovers, Small Town, Found Family

Cover Design: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs

Photographer: Robert Dahey Photography

Model: Beau Carrillo

Release Date: August 30, 2026

BLURB

From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE contemporary romance…

Nothing says welcome home like accidentally moving in with your first heartbreak…and his little girl.

Coming back to my small Wyoming hometown was supposed to be temporary. I only planned to stay long enough to help my ailing mother and sort through the mess of my family’s old belongings. 

Instead, I somehow ended up living in Evan Ricci’s house. The single dad now owned a bunch of properties and one of them was the place I’d rented. He’d taken it off the market and moved in before I got there. I just never got the memo. Unfortunately, there was no other place in town available, so Evan let me stay.

Evan—the guy my parents took in years ago after his mother died.
The same Evan who used to dare me into ridiculous challenges that somehow always made me stronger—a game we’d dubbed The Challenge.
The same guy who ultimately rejected me before I left for college after I’d finally garnered the courage to shoot my shot.

Now Evan was a rugged single dad with an eight-year-old daughter, a cocky attitude, and a dangerous ability to make me forget every reason I should still hate him.

Sharing a house with him should’ve been unbearable. Instead, it felt dangerously familiar, nearly making me forget that I had a life and a job to get back to in Chicago. I realized the biggest challenge wasn’t surviving living with Evan Ricci.

It was not falling in love with him all over again.

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255464908-the-challenge

PRE-ORDER LINKS – Special pre-order price of $3.99 (price will go up after release)

Amazon US: https://a.co/d/0fHCrUkV

Amazon UK: https://amzn.eu/d/0ifzve22

Amazon CA: https://a.co/d/0ebTpmgl

Amazon AU: https://amzn.asia/d/0dTpVF1N

Will be FREE to read in Kindle Unlimited

Special Edition Paperback: https://a.co/d/0gyOQgHR

Audio Preorder will go live in mid-August. The current paperback preorder is for the alternate cover only. A model-cover paperback will be live on release day.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:

• SINGLE DAD
• SMALL TOWN
• FRIENDS TO LOVERS
• SECOND CHANCE
• FORCED PROXIMITY
• FOUND FAMILY

AUTHOR BIO

Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance.

She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism. 

With millions of books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over forty books. Her novels have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.

AUTHOR LINKS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/penelopewardauthor 

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PenelopesPeeps 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/PenelopeWardAuthor 

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@penelopewardofficial 

X: https://twitter.com/PenelopeAuthor 

OTHER BOOKS BY PENELOPE WARD

See all books here: http://www.penelopewardauthor.com/books