Welcome back, romance readers!

Let’s talk about one of my favorite indie authors – Jescie Hall. Her ability to write complex stories covering substance abuse and mental illness is unmatched. A Jescie Hall book will rip your heart and put you back together.

If Jescie Hall writes it, I will read it. And now, so will you. 

But before getting started, this is a friendly reminder to be aware of your triggers and to check for any necessary trigger warnings associated with the titles below. 

Meet Jescie Hall

Jesice is a stay-at-home mom who works as a part-time veterinary technician and a late-night indie author. She lives with her family in Wisconsin and has an old pitbull named Beanie. 

Jesice has a passion for creating worlds that revolve around tough topics, pushing boundaries, crafting swoon-worthy men, and diving deep into the forbidden, ensuring to rip out your soul and hold it captive until the last word. She enjoys building up broken characters who fight through their real-life flaws to find their happy endings. 

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The Canary Cowards

Dylan

As a proud physiotherapist fresh out of school, I never imagined falling for a client. Especially not fallen football star, Lake Decker. His over-confident, broody attitude has me biting my tongue and doing whatever it takes to keep this job and support my secrets. Secrets Lake keeps pushing me to unravel.

Lake

I don’t fall for women. Women fall for me. I’m Lake Decker, best running back in the league. Former. After a debilitating injury forced me to step back from my budding career, the last thing I thought I’d be doing is drooling at the feet of my stale-looking therapist. But her saucy attitude, strict professionalism, and the occasional shiner have my curiosities piqued. One thing is certain, we both know how to act tough in the face of adversity, but at our core, we’re nothing but a couple of cowards.

Hawke

Nicole never imagined anyone other than her seemingly perfect boyfriend, Patrick, could grab her attention. That is, until ex-convict Cameron Hawke unexpectedly becomes their roommate, turning her entire, calculated little world upside down.

The tension in the house is thick as Hawke’s lifestyle clashes abruptly with hers. Nicole’s curiosities get the best of her as she attempts to learn the secrets behind Hawke’s mysterious past.

Temptations become overwhelming as lines get crossed, feelings get blurry and the truth to a horrific past is unearthed, changing the lives of the three of them forever.

Kid

Addiction is my weakness.

A cruel temptress that follows me wherever I go.

Slowly dragging me down until I drown.

Until she shows up.

Johanna.

My life preserver in this ocean of drugs and madness.

She’s a total enigma, as chaotic as they come. A vixen who lives her life without limits.

But her demons are greater than mine, and they threaten to drown her right alongside me.

I need her as much as she needs me.

We can either hang on and save each other, or we can both sink into oblivion, letting our pasts, our memories, our addictions be the anchor that weighs us down.

That Sik Luv

Fornication is a sin.

As it reads, we should flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

They teach us that these thoughts, these actions, are immoral. But that dark side that lives inside all of us, the true nature of man, drives us to seek the need that burns within, demanding to be set free. Deep inside of our bones lies that intrinsic need, one desperate to escape. An innate behavior, seemingly out of our control.

One that screams for sins they tell us are condemning.

Aero is the throat from which I scream.

The dark parts of myself I want hidden from this world are all he sees when he gazes at me beneath yet another mask.

He’s the demon drowning me in my own underlying desires.

He may never stop. Not until I succumb to my truths, or die beneath the weight of his unrelenting grasp.

Because according to him, the life I’ve been living is a hell far worse than death.

You’ll love Jescie Hall’s books if you enjoy…

A forbidden enemies-to-lovers slow-bun.

Hawke

Nicole never imagined anyone other than her seemingly perfect boyfriend, Patrick, could grab her attention. That is, until ex-convict Cameron Hawke unexpectedly becomes their roommate, turning her entire, calculated little world upside down.

The tension in the house is thick as Hawke’s lifestyle clashes abruptly with hers. Nicole’s curiosities get the best of her as she attempts to learn the secrets behind Hawke’s mysterious past.

Temptations become overwhelming as lines get crossed, feelings get blurry and the truth to a horrific past is unearthed, changing the lives of the three of them forever.

Get your copy of Hawke from Amazon or check your local library! This book is also available with Kindle Unlimited. 

A stalker who enjoys knives and primal play.

That Sik Luv

Fornication is a sin.

As it reads, we should flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

They teach us that these thoughts, these actions, are immoral. But that dark side that lives inside all of us, the true nature of man, drives us to seek the need that burns within, demanding to be set free. Deep inside of our bones lies that intrinsic need, one desperate to escape. An innate behavior, seemingly out of our control.

One that screams for sins they tell us are condemning.

Aero is the throat from which I scream.

The dark parts of myself I want hidden from this world are all he sees when he gazes at me beneath yet another mask.

He’s the demon drowning me in my own underlying desires.

He may never stop. Not until I succumb to my truths, or die beneath the weight of his unrelenting grasp.

Because according to him, the life I’ve been living is a hell far worse than death.

Get your copy of That Sik Luv from Amazon or check your local library!This book is also available with Kindle Unlimited. 

A dual POV, forced proximity sports romance.

The Canary Cowards

Dylan

As a proud physiotherapist fresh out of school, I never imagined falling for a client. Especially not fallen football star, Lake Decker. His over-confident, broody attitude has me biting my tongue and doing whatever it takes to keep this job and support my secrets. Secrets Lake keeps pushing me to unravel.

Lake

I don’t fall for women. Women fall for me. I’m Lake Decker, best running back in the league. Former. After a debilitating injury forced me to step back from my budding career, the last thing I thought I’d be doing is drooling at the feet of my stale-looking therapist. But her saucy attitude, strict professionalism, and the occasional shiner have my curiosities piqued. One thing is certain, we both know how to act tough in the face of adversity, but at our core, we’re nothing but a couple of cowards.

Get your copy of The Canary Cowards from Amazon or check your local library! This book is also available with Kindle Unlimited. 

An erotic, angsty age-gap romance.

Kid

Addiction is my weakness.

A cruel temptress that follows me wherever I go.

Slowly dragging me down until I drown.

Until she shows up.

Johanna.

My life preserver in this ocean of drugs and madness.

She’s a total enigma, as chaotic as they come. A vixen who lives her life without limits.

But her demons are greater than mine, and they threaten to drown her right alongside me.

I need her as much as she needs me.

We can either hang on and save each other, or we can both sink into oblivion, letting our pasts, our memories, our addictions be the anchor that weighs us down.

Get your copy of Kid from Amazon or check your local library! This book is also available with Kindle Unlimited. 

What is your favorite Jescie Hall book? Which book will you add to your TBR? Let me know in the comments below!

Add these books to your TBR if you love Jescie Hall!

Carnage by Shantel Tessier

L.O.R.D.S., Book Five

For readers who enjoy

• Alpha Males
• BDSM
• Dual POVs
• Forced Proximity
• Second Chances

A PUPPET

The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world. And in a way, they do. Each has sold their soul to the devil at a young age in exchange for power and wealth. Like anything else, they have different levels of success. The more they’re willing to serve, the more power they have.

Among them are the Spade brothers, who run Carnage. It’s where the Lords who have not held up their oath go to live out the rest of their lives in shackles. Tucked away from the world as if they never existed.

I VOW. YOU VOW. WE VOW.

I once belonged to a Lord—Saint Beckham Carter. Although nothing was holy about him, I still kneeled as if he could grant me eternity in a world where only evil existed.

At the time, I willingly vowed to be his and allowed him to share me with his “brothers.” But things changed. And what I thought couldn’t get any better got exceptionally worse. So I did the only thing I could and ran from him, knowing I could never return.

Now he’s found me and dragged me back to his hell, where he will make me his pet. The world already thinks I’m dead, so no one will miss me. And I’m just another name on a long list of those who will never know freedom.

What he doesn’t know is why I ran from him in the first place. A Lord doesn’t listen to reason, so it’s not like he’d care anyway. Saint was born a Lord, and he will die as one.

If life has taught me anything, it’s that we all pay for our sins. And Saint will never let me forget that my place is at Carnage, serving him on my knees until death is granted.

Get your copy of Carnage from Bookshop or check your local library! This book is also available with Kindle Unlimited.

The Wrong Pucking Guy by C.R. Jane

Pucking Wrong, Book Two

For readers who enjoy

• Friends-to-Lovers
• He Falls First
• Hockey Romance
• Obsessive MMCs
• Second Chances

I came to L.A. for my fresh start…and then my past showed up.

I’m happy. At least that’s what I tell myself. I’m working hard to pursue my dreams. I’m finally out from under the thumb of my adopted parents. I’m happy.

But then a 6’4 tattooed hockey star who thinks he’s god shows up at the restaurant where I’m working…and changes everything.

He tells me I’m the one. That he’s been searching for me for years….That he’s never going to let me go.

The question is…is Ari Lancaster going to break my heart? Or has my Mr. Wrong been the right guy all along….

Get your copy of The Wrong Pucking Guy from Bookshop or check your local library! This book is also available with Kindle Unlimited. 

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

The Ruinous Love Trilogy, Book One

For readers who enjoy

• Forced Proximity
• Friends-to-Lovers
• Grumpy Sunshine
• Serial Killers
• Slow-Burn

Every serial killer needs a friend.

Every game must have a winner.

When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country. But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match?

Get your copy of Butcher & Blackbird from Bookshop or check your local library! This book is also available through the Kindle app. 

Twisted Obsession by S. Massery

Hockey Gods, Book Four

For readers who enjoy

• Dual POVs
• Forced Proximity
• He Falls First
• Hockey Romance
• Second Chances

My name is Melody Cameron…

Or so I’ve been told.

When I wake up in the hospital with no memories, I’m shipped off to Denver to live with a distant cousin who knows nothing about me.

If family can’t help me remember my past, who will?

I don’t expect it to be a gorgeous hockey player ten years younger than me. He knows things about me he has no right to know.

Yet, he still keeps secrets.

He makes me work for every answer while he unlocks my desire-and fear.

Still. I’m blind. Naive.

And when his twisted obsession becomes apparent, it’s too late. For both of us.

Get your copy of Twisted Obsession from Bookshop or check your local library! This book is also available with Kindle Unlimited. 

Sick Boys by Clarissa Wild

Spine Ridge University, Book One

For readers who enjoy

• Bully Romance
• Degradation
• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Reverse Harems
• Secret Societies 

I didn’t believe them when they said they would corrupt me.

I was wrong. So wrong.

The night my sister died, a piece of me died with her, so I made a vow.

I’m going to enroll at Spine Ridge University just like her, find the person responsible … and make them pay.

Until I meet three sick boys of the Skull & Serpent Society: Felix, Dylan, Alistair. Rude, heartless, vicious guys who are obsessed with making me regret I ever stepped foot on campus.

They make me a deal: My body in exchange for a glimpse at their violence.

Refusing them is impossible, denying them is insane.

They’re rough, greedy, and every second with them is filled with depravity.

Their venom is jabbed straight into my heart and I’m sucked into their world.

All for the sake of revenge.

Until it becomes something more.

Something priceless.

Something all four of us would kill for.

Get your copy of Sick Boys from Bookshop or check your local library! This book is also available with Kindle Unlimited.

Once You’re Mine by Morgan Bridges

Possessing Her, Book One

For readers who enjoy

• Age-Gap Romance
• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Possessive MMCs
• Serial Killers
• Stalkers

Murder brought us together. Only death can keep us apart. 

The Calista belongs to me… she just doesn’t know it. The first time we met, I wanted her. The next time, I was obsessed. I watched her. I followed her. It only deepened my need to possess her. Once she’s mine, I’m never letting her go.

The Hayden Bennett is a monster, in and out of the courtroom. Unfortunately, I need his help. What was supposed to be a simple transaction turns into something else. Something intense. He’s always there when I need him, but I don’t know if trusting him is a good idea…

Get your copy of Once You’re Mine from Kindle Unlimited or check your local library! 

Edge of Sin by Lauren Biel

The Sin Duet, Book One

For readers who enjoy

• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Mafia Romance
• Possessive MMCs
• Praise Kinks

Our families are rivals, but that doesn’t mean we have to be enemies.

Enzo

The Vigliones and Silvanis have been at war longer than any of us can remember. It’s a battle we didn’t start but are forced to fight in. But she’s not my enemy.

We’re ruthless, but the Silvanis are cunning. Slick as a fox, Gia Silvani offers herself as collateral—a proposition we can’t resist. We should have, but as the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. I find myself living with her under my roof, being driven mad by temptation, my true nemesis.

The fleeting moment of intimacy we shared when we were young and stupid nags at me. The painful ache settles deep in my bones, making it harder to fight against her alluring pull. Until I no longer have it in me to resist.

After we step over boundaries better left uncrossed, it becomes clear that I can never let her go. Even as our worlds crumble around us, we have to find some way to make it work. There is no other option for me, because she is mine.

What will happen to us when too many mistakes are made and we can no longer call the city our home?

Get your copy of Edge of Sin from the author or check your local library! This book is also available through the Kindle app. 

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Stay spicy, 

AJ 💋