Wicked Game, an all-new dark mafia romance from bestselling author Lena Vox is coming March 10th!

HEY THERE SLUGGER ⚾️TEASER REVEAL!⚾️ Hey There Slugger: a single dad, small-town baseball romance (The Boys of Sweetwater Springs Book 2) by USA Today bestselling author Ginger Scott releases on March 19th. We are thrilled this share teaser with you! PRE-ORDER/ ADD IT TO YOUR AMAZON WISHLIST!  What to expect: ⚾️Baseball Romance ️Small Town Single Dad ❤️‍Love After Divorce Nanny 😍Brooding Hero ‍♀️Sassy Heroine BOOK INFORMATION HEY THERE SLUGGER The Boys of Sweetwater Springs #2 Ginger Scott Pub Date: March 19, 2026 Brooks Callahan is a star on the diamond.

WHEN SEASONS CHANGE First Book in the Henley Falls Series It’s cover reveal day for WHEN THE SEASONS CHANGE by @sheabrightonauthor releasing March 31 st! BOOK INFORMATION WHEN SEASONS CHANGE Henley Falls #1 Shea Brighton Pub Date: March 31, 2026 I hung up on a billionaire. Now he’s demanding a room in my Bed & Breakfast. I’ve been called “too much” my entire life—too loud, too intense, too obsessed with my family’s legacy in Henley Falls. Fine. If wanting more makes me too much, I’ll wear it like a badge.

Today on Okie Dreams, we are sharing the cover of The Games We Play by Alyssa Martin! Coming March 26th!! In The Games We Play, practice makes perfect, but falling for your best friend might be the most dangerous game of all.

In RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, CALLIE KINGMAN (Montlake; December 30, 2025), Alli Frank and Asha Youmans are at the height of their genre-bending storytelling powers in this revelatory love letter to Gen X women everywhere. Frank and Youmans share, “Within these pages, we did our best to explore many of the varying loves that exist in most people’s lives: Love of hometown. Familial love. Love of camaraderie and lifelong friendships. Intimate love. And most important, self-love.”

I’m not normally one who loves a book that flashes between past and present, but what Sara Cate did with Promise Me might just convert me. The second book in Cate’s Sinful Manor series follows Declan Barclay and his relationship with Colin Shelby. The relationship starts as friends then becomes so much more over the course of several years. In this regard, I think it was crucial for the author to weave the past into the present because readers need the full picture of who these two were to each other before they can understand who they will become now. This isn't an easy road to love, but it is an emotionally rich and satisfying tale.

𝑯𝒆𝒚 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑺𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓: 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒅, 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍-𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 (𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 2) by USA Today bestselling author Ginger Scott releases on March 19th.  We are thrilled to share these gorgeous covers with you! 

I am thrilled to help reveal the cover for author Jennifer Bernard's next Sea Smoke Island book, Night Light. The book will release on March 3rd and it is available to pre-order on all platforms now.

HEART OF THE KINGPIN How far will he go to protect the woman he's claimed? HEART OF THE KINGPIN by EC Land is now available to preorder at major retailers! The book is part of a multi-author book series called 14 Days of Love & Lust Bikers & Mobsters. You do not have to read the other books in order to enjoy this one, though there are plenty of other great stories and indie authors involved in the series should you want to check it out. You can find out more about the book series at the bottom of this post.

Cupid is a Liar is such a fun and entertaining read. I loved it from the start, and the story kept its promise all the way to the end. It’s fast-paced, with great writing, storytelling, and plenty of in-depth characterization. The author skillfully packed a lot into the book, and all of it makes for a quick, easy, and thoroughly enjoyable one-sitting read.

In We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark, Arvelle is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Thanks to the cruel vampire on her doorstep, she must choose between saving the life of her brother or risking her own life to try and win the gladiator style arena trials she never planned to enter. All so she can kill the emperor and fulfill her forced magical blood vow with the vampire who sought her out. Of course, she has no choice but to enter the trials and kill the emperor yet she knows, even as she does, she may not make it out alive—and neither may the two younger brothers she’s desperately trying to protect.

In Champagne Taste on a Bad Boy Budget, romance author Zuri Day introduces readers to Jamilah Carver, the owner of a troubled chicken restaurant, and Rashad White, a convicted felon out on parole. Both have a lot on their plate but need each other in ways they don’t fully understand at first.

Hello, there! It's December and in an effort to get myself more organized, I sat down and focused on creating my December 2025 Reading Guide. I know the month technically started on Monday, but there are still quite a few books coming out this year, and I want to share some of them with you.

Huntsman is everything I love about reading romance, and it perfectly showcases why I love reading Naima Simone's work. The book is fun, fearless, dark, sexy, and all the things in between. But don't take my word for it. Check it out for yourself and then come back here and read my full review of it.

Today on Okie Dreams, we are excited to reveal the cover for Cecily Anne Winter's upcoming release, The Mer Queen. This adult epic fantasy will release on March 31, 2026 but you can preorder it now.

Check out this podcast interview with Naima Simone from the We Read Smut podcast (Youtube Video) where they discuss Publishing Secrets and Dark Romance. They also touch on Church Girl and Huntsman, my favorite book last year and my favorite book this year (Huntsman releases in Oct 21st!)

BOOK TALK WITH DEANNA LYNN JUNE 8, 2025 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Newest Releases Upcoming Releases Bookish News Latest Recommendations INTRODUCTION Hello, my book-loving friends. Welcome to Book Talk! My name is Deanna Lynn and I'll be your post-host today. As you can see, Okie Dreams has undergone some layout changes in recent weeks. I've started a new posting format, too, and though it takes a lot more time to post content now, I also love it a lot more because it feels like there is more value in reading them.

ARC WEDNESDAY JUNE 4, 2025 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction September Releases October Releases INTRODUCTION Hello, my book-loving friends. Welcome to ARC Wednesday! My name is Deanna Lynn and I'll be your post-host today.  Today on the blog, we are highlighting two of my most recent ARC reads. Pitcher Perfect by Tessa Bailey and Huntsman by Naima Simone. Both books release this fall and both book should definitely be on your reading radar .

FIREBIRD by Juliette Cross has been a much talked about release for the better part of the last two or three months. There has been a hotbed of opinions on it, but to me, as someone who read the book all the way to the end, it has been unfairly characterized. In my review for this book, I've gone a bit in depth with it, because I think it deserves that consideration, so be forewarned that there are some spoilers inside this post. Nothing overtly major, but there are some things I talk about here that I think readers need to be aware of and have more context on.

Today on the site, we welcome M/M romance author DJ Jamison, author of the new book OUTCAST (available now). OUTCAST is Book 1 in the Foster Bro Code series, set in Riverton near the fictional town of Granville, which appears in both the Games We Play and Rules We Break series of books. OUTCAST includes found family, bisexual journey, and bad boys with hearts of gold!

LOVE TO HATE YOU With Love to Hate You, NYT  bestselling author Marina Adair offers readers a delightfully fun romp with a modern twist on You’ve Got Mail Today on Okie Dreams, I am excited to talk about Love to Hate You by Marina Adair. Love to Hate You is an enemy to lovers, forced proximity romance between rivaling bookstore owners.

A MILLION KISSES IN YOUR LIFETIME Monica Murphy has revealed the gorgeous special edition hardback cover for A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime! I am delighted to share the beautiful special edition hardback cover for A Million Kisses In Your Lifetime. If you've been a follower of the site for a while, you may remember I reviewed this book back in March 2022 and it was a five star read for me. I adored it so much, and I love that thevbook is getting a shiny new cover. A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime…