August's Featured Authors

Beth Gelman

Meghan Monarch

Jay Leigh Brown

The sassy and sensational Beth Gelman lives in the Greater Detroit Area and loves to pull your heartstrings and get you riled up with her books. She has earned honorable mentions at The Bookfest Awards and Readerviews.com for Always Falling Behind. In addition, Eight Crazy One Night Stands made her an #1 Amazon Best Selling Author. The BookFest 2025 Awards has graciously awarded Beth a first-place award for her work on Never Getting Ahead. Beth brings the steam in her contemporary romances about women who speak up, take what's theirs, and embrace their wild side. Authentic, resilient, loyal, and spiritual, she’s not afraid to learn, fail, speak her mind, or try new things. More importantly, she loves her husband, twins, and all the dogs in the world!

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A romance author writing flutter-worthy love stories in various romance sub-genres. She loves athleisure wear, movie theaters, dancing, obsessing over her favorite fandoms, loud music, and even louder laughter.

Originally from the Blue Water Area, she now resides and writes from her home in Macomb County, where she lives with her dog, Finnick—a super cool standard poodle with a colored mohawk.

When she's not writing, she's reading, working out, relaxing, or going out on solo dates and spending time with her favorite people.

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I was born in Grand Haven, raised in Muskegon, and now I reside in Bitely, a teeny, weeny two four way stop town just north of Michigan’s famous baby food creating town Fremont. I’m an extroverted introvert who spends my summers outside camping and boating, and my winters firmly ensconced on my couch writing. I’ve spent my entire life working in a hospital. We travel a lot, and plan to try living in an RV once my youngest graduates high school. I have 4 kids and 3 dogs. My husband resides in neither of those categories because he’s a darn gem and I’m obsessed with him. We’ve been married for eighteen years, and we’ve just started talking about a twentieth anniversary trip. I’m hoping to go to Europe for the first time, but we shall see. I have a huge family, spread all over the US, and England. I love books. When I was a child, I loved getting grounded to my room. I take a beverage, a jar of peanut butter and a sleeve of saltines in with me, lock the door, and get lost in another world. My mother would get mad about the crumbs, but she never banned me from bringing snacks in my room or sneaking out for another book. LOL

August's Featured Books

Never hitch a ride with a stranger…unless he’s hot.

I’m Abigail Farnsworth-Burton. ADHD’er extraordinaire. Aspiring artist of mediums I’m not practiced in and chef of meals I’ve never eaten. And now, heiress. Basically, it means I now own more assets than I can wrap my head — and my limited organizational capacity — around.

So, of course, my car breaks down 400 miles shy of my new mansion. And, of course, the only guy offering a ride looks intimidating as hell…until he opens his mouth. I didn’t care that he tripped over his words every time he spoke to me. I figured if he were a real killer, he’d be smoother in his script. Bad guys are never this hot…right?

And Elias McGinnis is anything but scripted — unlike the voice in my head that seems intent on my eventual downfall.

My one saving grace is my new friend, Amy The Great. She always knows exactly how to get things done. Too bad she’s a chicken.

But old money attracts new enemies, and focusing on anything is impossible with my sexy live-in mechanic. If I only had a plan – and some actual cash. Oh, and a car.

Always Falling Behind is a fun and steamy rom-com that shows people with neurodivergent brains living their best lives.

Unity

Ten years of penance for a crime I didn’t commit.

I confessed, hoping to spare them from the searing pain of the truth. A secret only I am left to carry.

Now my father wants me to leave the life I’ve built behind and come home. He wants me to run his

brand-new ER. The same ER Carter works in.

Going home will destroy me. I barely made it out the first time I left. But this decision isn’t just about

me. There are others to consider.

My punishment is just beginning.

Carter

Unity’s always lived in my periphery, like a shadow, but after ten years she’s back.

And she didn’t come alone.

She was my forever until she destroyed both of our families and broke my heart. I can’t stop her from

coming home. I can’t control how she charms the entire town into dismissing the monster that lives

under her sun-kissed skin. But I won’t forget. And neither will our ghosts.

Unity Bliss destroyed my life.

I’ll be damned if I’ll let her ruin me a second time. This time when she leaves, I’ll make sure she can

never come back. Her punishment has just begun.

Heroes aren't always found in comics. Sometimes they're disguised as your best friend.

After twelve years of silence, Tatum’s dad reappearing in her life has been nothing short of a nightmare. With anxiety and panic attacks that have come along with him, on top of adjusting to college, she's really looking forward to having her best friend back on this side of the world again.

When Jay returns, with glowing eyes, bigger muscles, and faster reflexes after his time abroad, he seems different. And Tatum finds herself feeling strangely attracted to him.

As more changes occur, and her life is plunged into darkness, it's revealed that heroes and villains are closer to her than she realizes.

All Tatum wants is for her life to go back to normal. But Jay is obviously keeping secrets, and she has some of her own to try and hide. Now she’s stuck deciding if the truth is worth the heartache or if some things are better left unknown.
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Saving Tatum is the first book in the Heroes of Red Series. With superpowers, a friends-to-lovers romance, and a captivating take on good versus evil, this New Adult Superhero Romance is perfect for fans of Marvel and DC who have always wondered what it’d be like to date a hero in the modern world.

Content/trigger warnings, as well as romance ratings, can be found on my website.