August 2026 Reading Challenge Update

August Reading Update:

Today is August 20, 2026.
I have read 40 books toward my goal of 100 for 2026. I’m a little behind in read count,  but 1-Click adding to my “TBR List” is going to get me in trouble. Not that I care.

Currently Reading:

I’ve been reading novel, after novel, after novel…..lol. However, here is what is occupying my spare time this week:

  • Hard Pass (Lone Star Rebels Book 2) by K. Bromberg —
  • Tell Me To Stop: Forced Proximity Fake Relationship Mafia Romance (Tell Me Trilogy, Book 1) by  Charlotte Byrd —
  • Reel by Kennedy Ryan —
  • Death By Breathing by Arianniah Rain —

 

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What to expect: 

🏈 Pro football player

🍻Sassy brewery owner

🚫 Forbidden

👭🏻 Sisters ex (ish)

🚪Open ‘locker room’ door spice

💕 Friends to Lovers

🏘️Small town feels

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“Worse places to have to stay the night. Backup generator if power goes out is the bonus.”

“I have that at my place, too,” she huffs.

“I, uh, yeah, I’m gonna head to bed,” I grumble as I start moving past them, sending Mom a text to make sure she’s good.

“I’m not trying to be a bitch. I just don’t want a fight with Brett,” she says.

I turn around and look at her. “If the man who’s going to be vowing to love you forever gets pissed because you’re not driving on shit roads, he’s an asshole, Riley.”

She shakes her head. “I didn’t tell him I was coming to Skaneateles.”

I hold out my phone. “So, call him and tell him.”

She shakes her head again. “He’s asleep. He has classes tomorrow. A, um, test, and he needs to sleep.”

I cross my arms and look at her, waiting for her to catch on that I’m not buying that shit. She crosses her arms and looks right in my eyes, saying not a fucking thing.

“I should keep my mouth shut and not point out that I see what you’re doing, and it sucks you have to”—I mock gasp—“but oops, I already did.”

“An NFL fuck boy giving me relationship advice?” She holds her hands to her chest and sighs dreamily. “Let me grab my pen.” She reaches into her pocket and pulls out … her middle finger.

The fact my dick jumps at that makes me realize how fucking happy I am that I don’t listen to my dick about chicks.

“You’re infuriatingly adorable, Riley,” I relent. “I just hope he fucking deserves you.” I don’t wait for a response as I turn I tell her, “The rooms next to Lily’s are free. The sheets and linens are clean. Try to control your primal urge to head down the hall to my room. And try to keep me out of your dreams tonight, Brooksie.”

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MAIN EVENT
by A.D. Justice

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The only thing more dangerous than a hidden enemy… is one who steps into the light. She knows the name now.

When the architect of everything finally walked through Andi’s door wearing the face of a solution, Andi smiled and offered coffee.

Now the machine is cornered. Cornered machines don’t retreat. They escalate.”

The rules have changed. Witnesses disappear. People close to them are targeted — not as warnings, but as eliminations. The threat no longer stays hidden. It reaches into the places they once believed were safe. The gym. The house. The refuge Andi built for kids who had nowhere else to go.

She’s been afraid before. She knows how to do afraid.

But the truth buried in Andi’s past will change the fight entirely — because it didn’t start where she thought it did.

Luke Woods has one fight left before the title.

Andi Morgan has one chance to burn the machine down.

Survival isn’t the goal. It’s the bait.
 
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LIVE NOW! Hard Pass by K. Bromberg

Hard Pass by K. Bromberg is now live!

Falling for the one woman who has the power to end my football career was never part of the plan . . .

This was supposed to be Cole Valor’s record-breaking season.

Instead, the star quarterback can’t seem to find his game. Missed throws. Bad reads. And someone is making a fortune betting against him.

When suspicious betting patterns surrounding his performance raise red flags, the NFL assigns its top integrity investigator to determine if its golden boy is the victim . . . or the mastermind.

Dublin Locke has built her career on facts, not feelings. She’s determined to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even if it points back to the man whose kiss she’s never forgotten.

The deeper Dublin digs, the more the evidence points to Cole. Yet he insists on helping her uncover the truth. Is he proving his innocence . . . or trying to throw her off his trail?

Working side by side as the investigation tightens its grip, the line between professional and personal begins to blur—and every stolen kiss pushes them further over a line neither of them can afford to cross.

Because every instinct tells Dublin to keep her distance.
But the more she falls for him, the harder it becomes to know which to believe—the facts . . . or her heart.

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