Things are Heating Up with May's New Book Releases
- BirdieMama
- Apr 21
- 18 min read
As we start to say goodbye to the frigid chill of winter, and the days start to grow longer and warmer, there's no better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than to stockpile our TBR (To Be Read) lists with some exciting new book releases to refresh our minds. The transition from winter to spring offers a sense of renewal and hope, making it the perfect time to explore brand new narratives. This month, I wanted to change things up a bit and really shine a spotlight on some amazing indie book releases, particularly since April was Indie Author Month. This cause serves to highlight the incredible talent found within the independent publishing community, but also encourage readers to explore works that they might not encounter among traditionally published books. There are irrefutably many gifted authors out there whose stories are waiting to be discovered, and many of them may not yet have reached the wider audience they truly deserve.
By supporting these writers, we contribute to a more level playing field that values creativity and originality. It’s essential to recognize the hard work and dedication that goes into self-publishing and independent publishing, as these authors navigate their own paths to share their voices with the world. I am excited to introduce you to a selection of fun and engaging titles that span various genres, ensuring there’s something for everyone. As we explore these indie gems together, I encourage you to keep an open mind and perhaps step outside your usual reading preferences. You might just find your next favorite book or your newest favorite author. Let’s celebrate the creativity and passion of these writers by supporting their journeys as they continue to craft stories that resonate with readers everywhere. Without further ado, let’s dive into this treasure trove of indie releases, shall we? Also, be sure to check out part 2 so that you don't miss any of these amazing new releases.
-YA Science Fiction-
Coldarius: The Origin of Gallium by D.L. Hannah
Expected Release: May 1, 2025
Description
As the newly appointed confidant to the Princess of Coldarius, Gallium Barrios is chosen to embark on a new journey. But secrets, lies, and betrayal threaten to disrupt his new life. Will he become a predator or the prey?
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Coldarius, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781965798102>.
-Coming-of-Age Fantasy-
Fire and Lightning - Saga of the Jewels: Book One by Thomas Tarasios
Expected Release: May 1, 2025
DESCRIPTION
Star Wars in Steampunk!
A bookish farm boy turned accidental magus.A precocious princess with an electrifying personality.A swaggering sky pirate with an ego even larger than his airship.A wise old healer hiding a dark new secret.A hard-drinking gunslinging lady-engineer.An opiate-addicted elite assassin.
Will they all be able to get along, let alone find the twelve Elemental Jewels to save the world from Emperor Kivvest together?
The Chronicles of Prydain meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Fire and Lightning (Saga of the Jewels Book 1), Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/iESFXrW>.
-Contemporary Mafia Romance-
The Mafia Love Code by Brit Leigh
Expected Release: May 1, 2025
Description
Violetta wanted nothing more than to run from the mafia life. She refused to be a pawn in a man’s game, so she left and went out on her own. In her five years away from the mafia, Violetta has built a decent, quiet life for herself as a nurse. However, a shadow of the man she is promised to marry haunts her dreams as she forces herself to believe he is nothing to her like she is nothing to him. Unbeknownst to Violetta, she isn’t just promised to Nico. Her greedy father also promised her to another powerful don. Both men are eager to make her theirs, but what if she doesn’t want to choose?
Nico is sure of two things in life. One, he will take over as Don for the DeLuca family, and Violetta Calla is going to be his wife. Everything else is logistics to be worked out over time. Nico has a business mind and finds his own way to expand the family’s illegal ventures that might just do some good for the community while also giving Violetta more purpose than just being his wife.
Anthony was raised to be a cold and calculating leader. His father turned him into a sociopath who killed his father just to take his leadership role as Don of the Ronka family. Now that he is in charge, it’s time he makes his move on his intended bride. However, she’s been promised to another. His supposed enemy, Nico. Their families are supposed to hate one another. Anthony doesn’t want to hurt Nico or cause a war, but he does want what he was promised.
With two mafia kings trying to claim her as their queen, can the three of them come together in a unique way that will finally reunite that Italian mafia under one rule? Can they undo the damage the ancestors have caused? Can they establish a new code of love in the underworld that they all call home? Three morally grey souls find themselves at a crossroad to either unite or wage a civil war making them ripe to pick off by their common enemies.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, The Mafia Love Code (The Underworld Love Guide Series Book 1), Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/e5Fnnrn>.
-Horror-
Career Crypt by Tieteanna Steele Roddy
Expected Release: May 1, 2025
Description
Tales of Terror on the Clock!!
What’s scarier than the supernatural? A 9-to-5 that might just kill you.
In this chilling anthology, fourteen employees face horrors far worse than bad bosses and unpaid overtime. Malcolm and Jaxson’s workplace pranks take a nightmarish turn they never saw coming.
Nurse Brenda thrives on cruelty—until something in the hospital corridors decides to teach her a lesson. Out-of-work chef Frederick lands a new gig, but the menu is more sinister than he ever imagined. Truckers Mackson and Tony take a job in a town that only exists every leap year. And when young Seraphina meets her babysitter, she learns that some employees punch in from the other side.
At the heart of it all, a mysterious work center harbors a secret so dark it’s under investigation.
Your career won’t save you from the horrors lurking in Career Crypt—where the real nightmare begins after you clock in.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Career Crypt: A Jobseeker's Nightmare, Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/h5jCzk3>.
-Mythological Adventure-
Long Hill by Nicholas House
Expected Release: May 3, 2025
Description
Carved into the flanks of Kilauea is an enigma not even the gods could fathom.
Striving to uncover their mystery, Dr. Mark Joyce is drawn into an adventure across the Hawaiian islands to uncover the secrets of the Pu'uloa petroglyphs.
Across the ocean, the age old rivalry of elemental gods nears its end, threatening to unleash a world consuming darkness
They must now face their past, who they are and who they must become in order to complete a journey eons in the making.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Long Hill, Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/eG8Inn2>.
-Fantasy Romance-
Of Light and Freedom by Rachel Fallon
Expected Release: May 5, 2025
Description
Step into the light and let the darkness swallow you whole...
Asteria’s life has been sent into chaos. With the truth of who she is revealed, she must reckon with what her future now brings. Unsure if that future should include the man who fate chose for her, but who hadn't chosen her, she soon finds even greater challenges awaiting them. She must quickly learn to control her new powers, but unfortunately, control is the one thing that has always alluded her, and the stakes are now higher than ever.
Calix has waited over four hundred years for his mate, and while he always knew finding her would be far from straightforward, he never expected these circumstances. With one kingdom clamoring for their prophesied queen, and another for their gods' chosen heir, they find themselves stuck between two kingdoms, with the threat of being torn apart just as they’ve found one another.
Everything hangs in the balance as the continent teeters on the line of chaos. With Cyrus’s plans put into action for his foul blood magic, Dusk and Night prepare for war, as rebellion finally begins to stir outside the shadows of Night. As prophecies converge and the seer speaks, the gods’ message comes through loud and clear—and one does not deny the gods.
The balance shifts, chaos thrives, and a war long foretold erupts, ensuring that the world as Asteria knew it, will never be the same…
Of Light and Freedom is the second book in a compelling new adult romantic fantasy series featuring contrasting light and dark love interests and the delicate line of balance and chaos for a magical land. Plus Fae shifters, court intrigue, slavery rebellion, a shadow daddy love interest who can shift into a dragon, and a heroine finding her own power and fighting for what she believes in. Perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas, Jennifer L Armentrout, Clare Sager, Nisha J Tuli, Carissa Broadbent, Chloe C. Peñaranda, and Raven Kennedy!
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Of Light and Freedom (The Star Queen Chronicles ,Book 2) Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/iRY05vW>.
-YA Romance-
It's You Every Time by Charlene Thomas
Expected Release: May 6, 2025
Description
A story about self-discovery, grief, and destiny that begs the question: How do you keep going when your world has stopped spinning?
When Sydney Michaels stops for breakfast in order to put off scholastic ruin a little longer, she never expected to--quite literally--bump into cute-boy stranger, Marcus Burke.
When Marcus invites her to have breakfast with him instead of going to class, she can't ignore the urge to get to know him better--or the fact that this charming new acquaintance seems just as interested in her.
After a magical day together in their hometown of New York City, Sydney is finally willing to believe that maybe--just maybe--after years of loss and heartache, she's finally reached the good part.
But when it comes time to say goodbye, as they linger in a crosswalk, something happens. An accident? Sydney isn't sure--all she knows is that, after screeching tires, blinding headlights, and a moment of searing pain, she opens her eyes and is back in her bed. On September 24-the morning of her big exam--again.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, It's You Every Time, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781546111788>.
-Contemporary Sports Romance-
Finding Charlie by Jess Allen
Expected Release: May 6, 2025
Description
Charlotte Evans has never belonged. Her entire existence has been one wrong turn after another. When faced with a hard look at her future, she decides to change her fate. Desperate to not be the reason her boyfriend doesn't pursue his dreams, she takes off in search of her own.
Ten years later, at the height of his baseball career, Liam “The Rocket” Hayes has it all. Fame, fortune, and he’s finally stopped pining for the lost girlfriend from his youth. But when coincidence leads him straight to her, Liam gets more than he bargained for, including a ten-year-old son.
In a story about first loves and second chances, follow Charlotte and Liam as they find their way back to each other, one pitch at a time.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Finding Charlie, Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/exC8LbQ>.
-Memoir / Food-
Dirty Kitchen by Jill Damatac
Expected Release: May 6, 2025
Description
In the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in America.
Jill Damatac left the United States in 2015 after living there as an undocumented immigrant with her family for twenty-two years. America was the only home she knew, where invisibility had become her identity and where poverty, domestic violence, ill health, and xenophobia were everyday experiences.
First traveling to her native Philippines, Damatac eventually settled in London, England, where she was free to pursue an education at the University of Cambridge, fully investigate her roots, and process what happened to her and her family. After nine years, she was granted British citizenship, and returned to the United States, for the first time without fear of deportation or retribution.
Damatac weaves together forgotten colonial history and long-buried Indigenous tradition, taking us through her time in America, and cooking her way through Filipino recipes in her kitchen as she searches for a sense of self and renewed possibility. With emotional intelligence, clarity, and grace, Dirty Kitchen explores fractured memories to ask questions of identity, colonialism, immigration, and belonging, and to find ways in which the ritual, tradition, and comfort of food can answer them.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Dirty Kitchen, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781668084632>.
-Magical Realism Romance-
The Twelve O'Clock Bookshop by Morgan Fischer
Expected Release: May 6, 2025
Description
Twenty-five year-old Elsie Morley is no stranger to handling problems on her own. So when she makes a heartfelt plea in the silence of her bookstore, she never expects an answer.
She certainly doesn’t expect that answer to be sending her and her longtime rival, Jacob Lee, into a series of romance books, forcing them to work together to figure out how to get home.
Dancing at a ball in Victorian London, riding horses in the Scottish Highlands, even fake dating to get rid of a nagging ex, they’re thrust into these worlds and given the task of finishing the stories.
But already at a turbulent time in her life, she hardly knows what she’s doing in her real life, let alone in a make-believe one.
And now with her place of employment playing matchmaker, Elsie’s forced to confront a lot of things, past and present, and reckon with the fact that she and Jacob will never get along. Right?
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, The Twelve O'Clock Bookshop, Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/fAavsya>.
-Murder Thriller-
Treadmill by Katherine Powell
Expected Release: May 6, 2025
Description
Kennedy Abrams is everything anyone would ever want to be at Clemson University: smart, funny, gorgeous, and friends with everyone. Rebecca Eaves is quieter, less social, and just trying to scrape by with her 16 credit hours and working 38 hours a week at the local grocery store. Together, the two make Drew Parley: a social media influencer using Kennedy as her face and Rebecca as her manager. As far as Drew's followers are concerned, Kennedy Abrams and Rebecca Eaves don't exist.
But fame and the need to keep their true identities secret start to take their toll, and what started as a fun experiment turns into something dangerous--something that both girls are willing to risk their lives and freedom for. After a fateful night hundreds of miles from their home, both girls realize they have a lot more riding on this secret account than they realized...and their account may be the key to exposing the terrible things they've done.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Treadmill, Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/7HnlNtJ>.
-Dark mafia Romance-
Psycho by Chelle Rose
Expected Release: May 6, 2025
Description
Anastasia:
The plan was to collect everything I could on the Bonetti Brothers and take them down. As an Assistant District Attorney, I wanted to keep the community safe from this mafia family. More than that, I was looking for revenge. Little did I know the way the tables would turn. I didn’t see him coming. The man with the nickname that matches him to a ’T’. If he finds out the secret I'm hiding, he'll end me quickly. Massimo Bonetti was my first crush, but now he’s the enemy.
The only thing worse than a random person coming after them is someone they once trusted.
Psycho:
Pretty little lamb you should not have come into the wolf’s den.
She wanted to know more about the Bonetti Brothers. Her wish is my command. The pretty little counselor will learn firsthand that you do not fuck with us.
One, two, Psycho is coming for you. Three, four, your blood will coat my floor. Five, six, you’ll beg to live. Seven, eight, it’s too late. Nine, ten, scream for me again.
Anastasia Crowne, the young ADA, wants to destroy everything we’ve built. She’s an eager little lamb that walked into the wolf’s den. This wolf is hungry. Famished. She’ll be mine to torture for weeks, if not months. When I get bored, it’ll be over for her.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Psycho: A Dark Mafia Romance (Bonetti Brothers Book 4), Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/0IkGL49>.
-Dystopian Romance-
Silver Elite by Dani Francis
Expected Release: May 6, 2025
Description
In the first book of a sizzling dystopian romance series, psychic gifts are a death sentence and there are rules to survival: Trust no one. Lie to everyone. And whatever you do, don’t fall for your greatest enemy.
TRUST NO ONE.
Wren Darlington has spent her whole life in hiding, honing her psychic abilities and aiding the rebel Uprising in small ways. On the Continent, being Modified means certain death—and Wren is one of the most powerful Mods in existence. When one careless mistake places her in the hands of the enemy and she’s forced to join their most elite training program, she’s finally handed the perfect opportunity to strike a devastating blow from inside their ranks.
LIE TO EVERYONE.
But training for Silver Block can be deadly, especially when you’re harboring dangerous secrets and living in close quarters with everyone who wants you dead.
AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T FALL FOR YOUR GREATEST ENEMY.
As the stakes grow ever higher, Wren must prove herself to Silver Block. But that’s easier said than done when your commanding officer is the ruthless and infuriatingly irresistible Cross Redden, who doesn’t miss anything when it comes to her. And as war rages between Mods like her and those who aim to destroy them, Wren must decide just how far she’s willing to go to protect herself . . . and how much of the Continent is worth saving.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Silver Elite, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780593875476>.
-LGBTQ+ Coming-of-Age-
The Rebel's Guide to Pride by Matthew Hubbard
Expected Release: May 6, 2025
Description
When the mayor of a small Alabama town starts targeting Pride events, bad boy Zeke begins hosting a series of “Pride Speakeasies” in this joyful queer coming-of-age!
"A book that demands to be read, shared and celebrated."—PinkNews
There’s nothing Zeke Chapman wants more than to tarnish the perfect reputation his father is so obsessed with. He quit the baseball team, started fighting at school, and nearly flunked junior year. Newly out as gay, Zeke isn’t sure where his queer identity fits in with his bad-boy persona. His father has always told him to stay quiet and not attract attention, but his friends are pushing him to be just as out and proud as they are. Most days, Zeke isn’t sure how to be a “good gay” or what that even means.
When his best friend, Sawyer, begs him to help the QSA plan Pride Day, he obliges—mostly to piss his dad off. But then the mayor announces an ordinance that cancels all LGBTQ+ celebrations. Angered by the injustice—and his father’s support of it—Zeke decides to put his rebellious ways to good use and plans a series of underground “Pride Speakeasies”.
As the speakeasies grow, and the community comes together to declare him “King of Pride”, Zeke finally feels like he’s doing something that matters. But friendship drama, a mysterious cyber-crush, and rising tension with his rival and ex Cohen “Coco” Fisher threaten to undermine his newfound pride. When his final party ends in near-disaster, Zeke must ask himself what he’s really trying to do. After all, there’s a reason that the first pride was a riot.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, A Rebel's Guide to Pride, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780593707210>.
-Small Town / Workplace Romance-
Between Us by Ashtyn Kiana
Expected Release: May 7, 2025
Description
He wasn’t what I was looking for,
but we could be exactly what the other needs.
Adrian Jones
Moving to Amada Beach was meant to be temporary. I’d finish my D.V.M. at one of the best programs in the country, then decide where I wanted to start my career.
What I never saw coming–at the grocery store no less–was the pretty girl with the lightning gray eyes who didn’t even give me a second glance. But when a month passes and there’s no sign of her, my new job at the vet clinic is the last place I expected to see her again.
The more she allows me to see, the more I’m charmed by Blake, and this little town she loves.
Blake Miller
There’s this feeling of being stuck that’s plagued me most of my life, whether it’s due to bullies in school or being unsure of my plans for the future. It’s always been there.
When the best of intentions leads to some questionable choices, the vision for my future slowly starts to come into focus. Maybe there is a career for me at the vet clinic that doesn’t involve medicine after all.
And it’s no coincidence that these changes are happening after meeting Adrian, the carefree, sunshine-personified man who was hired by my father as the new vet assistant.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Between Us, Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/grGiXJ1>.
-LGBTQ+ Sports Romance-
Hits Different by Joel Rustin
Expected Release: May 8, 2025
Description
Parker Di Rossi and Brandon Carter were best friends until the last night of high school, when Brandon made a confession, and Parker broke his heart.
Three years later, Brandon is the now the MVP of the college soccer scene. But after a career-threatening injury lands him in rehab, he’s thrown back into his old friend’s orbit and forced to confront not only Parker, but feelings he thought were buried a long time ago.
Faced with a family scandal and growing media pressure, Brandon's determined not to fall back in love with the one person he can never have. Romance between best friends never works, especially when one of them is straight.
The only problem?
Nobody told Parker.
Parker has one goal: make his family proud by honoring his late father's legacy as a mixed martial artist.
But after getting expelled from college and kicked out of his MMA gym, he's forced to take a job working for his disapproving cousin at Summit, an elite soccer rehabilitation facility, as he desperately tries to get his life back on track.
The one bright side? It gives Parker the chance to finally make things right with Brandon Carter - Parker's former best friend, who he can't stop thinking about.
As Parker determinedly pursues his MMA ambitions, he grows closer to Brandon in ways that he never expected. Now, he has to choose what he wants to fight for more: his father’s legacy, or Brandon’s heart..
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Hits Different, Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/1pFUvYK>.
-Romantic Epic Fantasy-
Threads of the Maiden's Moon by Myla Rose
Expected Release: May 12, 2025
Description
A Hidden Scroll
When the Dark Army shatters Nolei's quiet life as a healer, she is forced to flee with nothing but a cryptic scroll and her grandmother's whispered warnings. Her only hope lies in untangling the many secrets, but every answer she uncovers only leads to more questions.
A Forgotten Past
Two magical powers awaken within her, one steeped in spells and starlight, the other a wild and untamed force of nature. She must learn how to harness them quickly, before The Dark Queen executes her for possessing them at all. But discovering the truth behind her powers means uncovering a heritage she never knew existed. One that will change everything she thought she knew about herself.
A Destiny She Never Asked For
In her search for answers, she finds Leo-a deadly assassin whose dark allure is impossible to ignore. His devotion to Nolei is fierce and unwavering, but the closer they grow, the more dangerous their connection becomes. Is the pull she feels toward him an unexpected blessing or a potential weakness that could unravel everything?
Together, with an unlikely band of allies, Nolei must navigate a world of forbidden magic and whispered prophecies, guided by the ethereal pull of the moon and the divine threads of fate. But the darkness of betrayal looms ever closer, threatening to destroy all she has worked to create.
Every past has its secrets, and every choice has a cost.
Filled with enchanting magic, botanical intrigue, and a soul-bound romance, Threads of the Maiden's Moon is perfect for readers who crave high-stakes destiny, female-led adventure, and an intoxicating love story.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Threads of the Maiden's Moon, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9798992551600>.
-Romantic Fantasy / Fairytale-
The Forgotten Life of Ella Moon by Melissa Naatz
Expected Release: May 13, 2025
Description
No one in the small village of Riverton knows who the girl found asleep by the river is or where she came from. Including the girl. A year later, the girl, now named Ella, has slipped into her ill-fitting life as best she can. She has made friends, found work, and almost fallen in love. Her new life would be perfect if she didn't miss her forgotten one. That longing is only complicated when the very handsome Thane Tenebris shows up in Riverton, searching for what he lost.
At first, Ella believes her feelings for Thane are because of their mutual need to find what they've lost. But the more time she spends with him, the more she's drawn to him and the darkness that surrounds him. Ella can't help but wonder if he is from her past. And after a reckless night with Thane reveals the truth of who she really is, Ella realizes her forgotten life may not be worth remembering.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, The Forgotten Life of Ella moon, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9798990121461>.
-Dark Romantic Epic Fantasy-
Dragon Gods by Kiersten Michele
Expected Release: May 13, 2025
Description
The city of Suvi was built on the bones of dragons. The Dragonborn, who once worshiped them as gods, now suffer while the king's people flourish, content in their power as the dragon killers even as they hide from the magic beyond the city walls.
Born in the slums, Sofia joined the resistance with a sole focus: find the lost dragons and eliminate the chief commander and kingdom that stole everything from her.
As a Dereyan soldier, Fox has never questioned his place in the kingdom. Every resistance fighter he kills brings him one step closer to avenging his brother's death.
When their fates collide, they find themselves lost in the wilds where dark faeries hunt in the shadows and magic thrives. In a world where vengeance is the only currency, Sofia and Fox must decide if giving up on their hate is worth the price. And as they grapple with their own fates, darker things are brewing on the horizon.
Dead gods don't stay buried.
Dragon Gods is an enthralling slow burn enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy for fans of Spark of the Everflame and A Broken Blade. This book is for readers who love a true enemies to lovers stories with broken but determined heroes, sizzling romantic tension that burns bright but slowly, and stakes as high as the gods.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Dragon Gods, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9798990834842>.
-Dark College sports Romance-
Scrimmage by K. Moret
Expected Release: May 13, 2025
Description
I want her to beg me to stop, but I know she won't.
Ashland, a junior in college, is determined to embrace every experience life can bring her, except for romance. With graduation looming and a letter she can’t seem to open, the past resurfaces, beginning to haunt her. Until she finds a distraction in the shape of a tall, moody football player.
When she crosses paths with the golden boy of Cassium University, she finds herself at war. His perfect smile, self-sure personality, and unbridled judgment are like nails on a chalkboard. As their paths intertwine, Ashland grapples with an attraction that feels dangerous. With each encounter, the line between distraction and desire blurs, and the reality of her past begins to catch up to her.
Ashland is faced with a choice: continue running from her past or accept the uncertainty of the future.
NOTE: Scrimmage is a dark college romance with themes not suitable to those under 18. Please check CWs.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Scrimmage (Sticks & Stones Book 1), Amazon website, Accessed 20 April 2025, <https://a.co/d/f1GR5Sh>.
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