Waiting On Wednesday (779) Just This Kiss (Men Of Porth Luck #3) by Garrett Leigh

Just This Kiss
(Men Of Porth Luck #3)
by Garrett Leigh

Expected Publication: October 20, 2026

Genre: MM, Romance

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

A single dad. A deaf farmer. A bond they weren’t looking for—and yet…

Oscar is happy alone. He has his son, his boat, and no interest in men. He’d know by now, right?

So why can’t he stop thinking about the man he kissed two summers ago?

Poet is starting over in Porth Luck. He doesn’t need anyone, doesn’t do relationships, and certainly doesn’t have time for the beautiful fisherman who keeps crossing his path.

But Oscar’s voice is the first Poet has heard—and felt—in more than a decade. They fit together like sunshine and sand, like the earth and roots of the oldest trees on his land. And if Poet was raised to believe anything, it’s that sometimes the love that heals you is the love that makes a home.

Their home, if Oscar wants it to be, and all they’ve built survives the wildfire they never saw coming.

This author writes the angstiest angst that has ever angsted. And I mean ANGST. I'm totally here for it, but I have to be in a certain mood to read it (so I don't get depressed after the year I've had!)

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Waiting On Wednesday (778) Eternal Devotion by Nicky James

Eternal Devotion
by Nicky James

Expected Publication: October 15, 2026

Genre: MM, Romance, Paranormal

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

My name is Mordecai Ashenvale, and I am a vampire.
My species exists on the outskirts of society. Segregated by choice. Forgettable by design.
We are myth and legend.
We were never meant to befriend humans, for it is dangerous.
We were never supposed to invite them into our world…
But that all changed one fateful night when power-hungry kin raised an army of human hunters, usurped the throne, and kidnapped the great elder, my uncle.
As his direct descendant, I’m the only one with the power to save him, but it’s the last thing I want to do.
Here is my secret: I despise the curse I carry, and it was he who cursed me. Since I don’t want to rule our people, rescuing him is my only option.
The journey requires integration with humans.
The last thing I expected was to form a bond with one of them.
For my long-dead heart to reawaken.
To find a love so glorious in its simplicity and so crushing in its impermanence.
Ensley Elowen is a blissful reprieve from misery that I don’t deserve.
I can’t be part of his life, but I refuse to curse him with mine.
Besides, I have a mission.
A dangerous mission that he can know nothing about.

I've read and enjoyed this author's previous books, which have all been contemporaries. This is her first foray into paranormal, so I'm here for it. I just hope I like it!!

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Waiting On Wednesday (777) Mountain Man (Wood Hollow Stories #3) by Lane Hayes

Mountain Man
(Wood Hollow Stories #3)
by Lane Hayes

Expected Publication: October 12, 2026

Genre: MM, Romance

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Reg:

I don’t usually hand out tickets, but the new lumberjack isn’t barreling into town on my watch. We take law and order seriously in this area. And yes, okay…I’m a little curious about the mountain man.

Waylon is funny, charming, cool, and confident, and like it or not, I’m attracted to him.

Reality check: I’m also a single dad juggling stressful family issues and a high-profile job. My schedule doesn’t leave much room for extracurricular activities.

Waylon:

I should be irked about getting pulled over. I mean, c’mon. I wasn’t going that fast.

Thing is…I’ll take any excuse that puts me in the police chief’s orbit. Reg is a quintessential silver fox. Seriously. He’s also a good man, a great dad, and a cool human. I like him, and I love Wood Hollow, but at the end of my contract, I’m heading home. My family needs me.

In the meantime, there’s no crime against having some fun. And it’s not as if I’m gonna develop feelings, or—

Too late.

This is a series that I had no intention of reading, but somehow picked up the first book and enjoyed it, so here we are. 3 books deep and another book on the way for Christmas. These are pretty easy reading. Kinda cute and nothing too dramatic. And always an HEA.

Look what I got for my birthday! An actual physical book!! I can't even tell you how long it's been since I bought (much less read) a real live book. It was many, many moons ago. Luckily, my family took the HINT and gifted me this.

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Waiting On Wednesday (776) Built to Last (Common Grounds #3) by Merry Farmer

Built to Last
(Common Grounds #3)
by Merry Farmer

Expected Publication: October 2, 2026

Genre: MM, Romance

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Gilbert:

Kyle Jameson broke my heart eight years ago and never looked back. Now he's flexing his construction muscles right next door to my family's café, and every hammer strike on the other side of that wall feels personal. I've spent eight years building a life and a business that doesn't need him in it. I don't care how good he looks swinging a sledgehammer. And I definitely don't care that some stubborn, hopeful part of me still lights up every time he walks through my door.

I do not care. I'm just very loud about not caring.

Kyle:

I panicked once. I let Gilbert Meyers go because I wasn't ready to be seen, and I've regretted it every day since. Now I'm building a shop next to his café, catching hell from him at every turn, facing him down on the baseball diamond, and losing my mind a little more every time he glares at me like he wants to kill me. Or maybe he wants to kiss me. I came back into his life to finish a project. I didn't expect to find out I still have unfinished business with the one guy I never stopped wanting.

This time, I'm done hiding. The only question is whether Gilbert will let me back in.

This is a series of novellas set around a family owned coffee shop, so no heavy storylines. Just nice, easy reading for days when you need a little pick me up and no drama or angst.

Happy Birthday to my son who just turned 32. Damn, I feel old.

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Waiting On Wednesday (775) Too Close to Home (Whitton & Black Mystery #1) by C.F. White

Too Close to Home
(Whitton & Black Mystery #1)
by C.F. White

Expected Publication: September 25, 2026

Genre: MM, Romance

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Starting over might mean getting too close.

When DI Harrison Black transfers from the Met to the small Yorkshire town of Hartswick, he’s chasing distance—from London, guilt, and the grief of losing his husband. He expects a quieter life.

Instead, within hours of his arrival, a seventeen-year-old girl vanishes on a woodland path, plunging Harrison straight into a case with a chilling echo. Thirteen years earlier, another young woman disappeared from the very same place. Robyn Whitton was never found. Her brother Jake never stopped looking for her.

Jake Whitton is everything Harrison should keep at arm’s length. Roofer. Drummer. Ex-con. Local troublemaker with a temper and absolutely no faith in the police. He’s also fiercely loyal, infuriatingly persistent, and determined to involve himself in Harrison’s investigation whether Harrison likes it or not.

Jake knows better than to trust a copper. The police failed Robyn. Then they failed him. And DI Harrison Black, with his quiet authority, wedding ring and grief he wears like armour, should be the last man capable of getting beneath Jake’s skin.

As a present-day disappearance drags Robyn’s cold case back into the light, Harrison and Jake are pulled closer together, blurring the line between professional and personal. Because Harrison isn't only getting dangerously close to a man connected to his investigation.

He might finally be getting close to the truth. And in a town that has kept its secrets for thirteen years, someone will do anything to make sure they stay buried.

New to me author and the first book in a trilogy, so hopefully this book goes well and I can continue reading. I can't tell you how many series I have given up on after reading the first book. If I'm not invested in the story or not interested in the characters, it's bye bye for me. I've got no time to spare for mediocrity! (Not that I haven't read my share of duds, because I have, mostly because I hate to DNF anything if I can help it.)

Also, Happy 29th Birthday to my daughter. Bad Mom moment - for a hot minute I thought she was turning 28. She wasn't pleased with me. Jeez, it's been a rough freaking year and I'm just trying to survive out here!!

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Waiting On Wednesday (774) Axe Backwards (Axford Brothers #3) by May Archer

Axe Backwards
(Axford Brothers #3)
by May Archer

Expected Publication: September 15, 2026

Genre: MM, Romance

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

A fake engagement to the hot sheriff who escorted me to family camp? Weirdly delightful. Failing to tell him that my family is a bunch of professional thieves? Small oversight.

I left the Callahan family business years ago. These days I’m a law-abiding citizen. A photographer who takes nothing but pictures. A man who’s learned not to get greedy for anything… or anyone.

But my family hasn’t gotten that memo, so I expect my week at family camp to be filled with guilt-trippy attempts to lure me back into the fold.

Winsome’s gorgeous sheriff was supposed to be nothing more than a one-night-stand. He doesn’t have a clue why I’m dreading this week, but he takes his protection game seriously. So when he thinks I need a rescue, he steps in and declares himself my fiancé… and I’m too busy swooning to argue.

Now Holden’s planning a camp heist (for fun, obvs!) and charming my family of criminals. Our motto is ‘Callahans don’t get caught’ but nobody warned me about catching feelings.

Unfortunately, secrets don’t stay buried forever. And when someone forces the Callahans toward one last impossible job, protecting the family I love means becoming the man I swore I’d never be again.

But if Holden learns the truth about my past, it’ll be goodbye fake engagement, goodbye sheriff… goodbye heart.

I read a lot of this author's books, and I'm enjoying this series, so this automatically goes on my tbr. Can't wait to read it!
I've been reading a lot more because I'm in a life slump, can't decide what I want to do, so I read and avoid all the things. I'm also still trying to get back to a normal working routine, but it's hard!

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Waiting On Wednesday (773) Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

Kiss Slay Replay
by Rachel Harrison

Published: September 1, 2026

Genre: Horror, Romance

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

It’s the picture-perfect wedding. The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air—and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She’s excited to celebrate her best friends finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted, but this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl, Willa is not.

Or is she? She wakes up and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she’s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death—being an eternal wedding guest.

Something a little different for me this week. I'm pretty sure I saw this as someone else's WoW pick a while back. It's also been popping up on my Goodreads feed, so I added it to my tbr. I hope I like it!

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Waiting On Wednesday (772) Tracking Wolfe (Made Marian Legacy #4) Lucy Lennox

Tracking Wolfe
(Made Marian Legacy #4)
by Lucy Lennox

Expected Publication: September 1, 2026

Genre: MM, Romance

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

I’ve been in love with Trace Bishop half my life…  And I’ve been hiding it just as long.

He’s my father’s best friend.  The man who tracked me down and kept me safe my entire childhood…

The man who looked me in the eyes six years ago and said we were impossible.

So I poured my longing into love songs. Songs no one knows are about Trace.  I shared them with the world under a secret identity and won a Grammy. Just another thing to hide. 

Then one stupid kiss changes everything.

Trace can’t want me back.  It would cost him his friends, his family, and the life he’s built.  And I’m tired of wanting the impossible.   So I run…

Straight into the crosshairs of someone who knows all my secrets and doesn’t care who gets hurt.

Trace does what he always does–he finds me.  But this time, he’s not tracking his best friend’s son. He’s tracking the man whose kiss he can’t forget.  The man he’ll burn his life down to keep. 

Because if Trace and I want a chance at forever, hiding is no longer an option.

This book is totally not my favorite trope. The only reason it is on my tbr is because it is the third generation of this family and I have read every book up until now. I feel bad skipping a book in such a long running storyline. I can at least start it and see if I like it.

On a sad note, my Mother passed away on Sunday. Not what I wanted so soon after my Father's passing, but it is what it is. Never thought this is how it would end for either of them. Mom went quick after she "fell" and broke her hip. Her brain (dementia) just never recovered from the anesthesia from surgery. She was not the same person when she woke up. I highly recommend not placing a loved one in long term care at a nursing home.

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