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GIVEAWAY - Workplace Romance Reads that Kiss & Tell

Kaye Kennedy • Jun 16, 2021

WIN 5 BOOKS


The secrecy, the power dynamic, the risks, the taboo of the forbidden...all things we love about workplace romances!   

These five romance reads deliver on love that is found where it shouldn't be, and you can win all five in celebration of the release of my new book, Burning for Trouble, on June 23rd!


*Burning for Trouble is the seventh book in my Burning for the Bravest Series, which features New York City firefighters who love hard and make love harder. While each book in the series features a different couple, the books are intended to be read in order as the previous couples continue to be a part of the series. Get started with Burning for More (Book 1) for free on Kindle Unlimited or get it on Amazon for only 99¢.

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Read on to learn a little more about each of the books in this giveaway.

Burning for Trouble by Kaye Kennedy

If you like alpha males with soft centers who love hard and make love harder, then the Burning for the Bravest Series is for you! Follow 8 firefighters in New York City, as they risk their lives and their hearts, in the name of love. 


How can something that feels so right be so wrong?


Mack

Bryce “Mack” McNamara has been caught in a pity party for one ever since his wife cheated on him, causing their nine year marriage to end in divorce. He wants to move on, but can’t seem to figure out how to. That is, until Victoria Masters waltzes into Ladder 171 as the company’s newest member.

Mack is Tori’s lieutenant so dating her is forbidden, but she manages to breathe life back into him and keeping his distance is proving to be the hardest thing he’s ever done.


Tori

Tori has busted her behind to prove herself as a female firefighter in the FDNY. Earning the respect of the men she works with hasn’t come easily. When her grandmother's Alzheimer’s takes a turn for the worse, Tori transfers firehouses to be closer to the woman who raised her. Unfortunately, that means starting over with a new crew.

Tori loves her career and she won’t let anything stand in her way of moving up the ladder, but when she gets to know her new lieutenant, keeping that resolve proves to be much easier said than done.



Will Mack and Tori risk losing their careers for a shot at love? Or will they figure out a way to have their cake and eat it too?

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By a Thread  by Lucy Score

A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart just beneath her boss’s sexy vests.


Dominic was staring at me like he couldn’t decide whether to chop me into pieces or pull my hair and French kiss me.


Dominic

I got her fired. Okay, so I’d had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job… in my office… after being hired by my mother.


So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine’s offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue.


But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father.


She’s working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn’t feel like sharing with me. And I’m going to fix it all. Don’t accuse me of caring. She’s nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.


Ally

Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.

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The One I Want  by S.L. Scott

This Opposites Attract, Friends to Lovers, Office romance will have you smiling from beginning to the end with a little sniffle in the middle. 


He’s not just my hot as sin new neighbor. He’s my boss.

Don’t even get me started on Andrew Christiansen.

Okay, fine. You twisted my arm.

He’s the full package—tall, dark-haired, and stupidly handsome. He just has one teeny-tiny flaw. He’s a grumpy workaholic.

I see beneath the designer suits and his rolled-up shirtsleeves. He wants to have fun. He’s just forgotten how.

That’s where I come in.

We become fast friends. And by fast, I mean we’re teasing, flirting, and kissing in the span of a few days, and by friends, I mean with benefits. Yes, those kind of benefits.

Soon, blooming feelings threaten to turn this playful relationship from friends-to-lovers into a full-blown office romance. And, if I’m not careful, one, okay—two, secrets that I’ve been keeping from Andrew may turn him from the one I want into the one I can’t have.  

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Southern Hotshot by Jessica Peterson

Southern Hotshot is the next STANDALONE novel in the North Carolina Highlands Series! This is Samuel and Emma's smoking hot enemies-to-lovers story.


Lusting after the woman trying to steal my job is stupid. Sexting with her? That’s a game-changing fumble.


Emma Crawford became enemy number one the second she stepped foot on Blue Mountain Farm. She might think I’m just a dumb jock, but I know she’s a stuck-up wine snob who believes she’d be a better exec than me.


She can take my position over my dead body.


But with her ridiculous curves and fearless smarts, she’s becoming one giant distraction just when I need to prove my worth most.


Lucky for me that I have a secret internet sext partner to blow off steam with. My nightly dirty chats with V scratch all the itches Emma gives me.


Emma and V couldn’t be more different—except it turns out they’re the same person.


Just when I thought this scenario was enough of a disaster, I’m falling for the co-worker I can’t touch and can hardly stand.


Even a hotshot player like me can see this is a game we’re both gonna lose.

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Alaska Spark by LoLo Paige

If you're a fan of my books, you'll love LoLo Paige's Blazing Hearts Wildfire Series. Like me, she's a former firefighter, but she fought wildfires, while I fought structure fires. This friends to lovers workplace romance set in Alaska will satiate your adventurous heart.


Can a chance encounter on a wildfire lead to true love under the midnight sun?


Tara Waters loves being a wildland firefighter and the adrenaline rush of fighting wildfires is her calling. She must be on her game to join an elite hotshot crew in Montana. But when Tara is sent to fight fires in Alaska, her dream falls out of reach.


Sexy Alaskan smokejumper, Ryan O’Connor takes Tara under his wing and counsels her when she fails to save someone on a wildfire. She owes him one, but not her heart just because of his irresistible charm and good looks. Ryan has his own story with plenty of demons in his past. And Tara may be the spark his life needs.


But when a mysterious adversary sabotages Tara on the fire line, she discovers a threat more dangerous than fire—a threat that can destroy everything she’s worked for and second chance for love that could be extinguished before it ignites.

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Contest Rules

*Giveaway ends on June 24, 2021 at 12:00 pm EDT. Winner will be announced on June 24, 2021 and will be notified by e-mail. Winner must respond to that e-mail in order to receive the books. This giveaway is sponsored by Kaye Kennedy and is not affiliated with Amazon or the other authors.

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