Monday, March 9, 2026

Teaser Time: THE LAST HOLDOUT

 


THE LAST HOLDOUT 

Natalie-Nicole Bates


📕eBook: https://books2read.com/TheLastHoldout

📙Paperback: https://a.co/d/enC1Ihj

🎧 Apple audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-last-holdout/id1738457111


Hannah Drury is the last holdout of a pact formed by three friends upon graduation from an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. The friends pledged they would never marry, instead remain independent, self-sufficient women who relied only on themselves and each other.


Now, years later, Hannah is still searching for the missing pieces of her life. She is professionally successful as a true crime writer, but never satisfied with her success and constantly moves on to new projects. Her latest project is a bookshop with a difference in an up and coming small town in England.


When she meets Justin Salazar, she is immediately attracted to him, but believes he is an aimless handyman. Little does she know, he is far, far from just a handyman.


Can Justin open Hannah’s eyes to the possibility of love, commitment, and most of all, trust? Or will the last holdout once again run away?

#ContemporaryRomance 

 

Contemporary Romance: THE LAST HOLDOUT

 


THE LAST HOLDOUT 

Natalie-Nicole Bates


📕eBook: https://books2read.com/TheLastHoldout

📙Paperback: https://a.co/d/enC1Ihj

🎧 Apple audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-last-holdout/id1738457111


Hannah Drury is the last holdout of a pact formed by three friends upon graduation from an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. The friends pledged they would never marry, instead remain independent, self-sufficient women who relied only on themselves and each other.


Now, years later, Hannah is still searching for the missing pieces of her life. She is professionally successful as a true crime writer, but never satisfied with her success and constantly moves on to new projects. Her latest project is a bookshop with a difference in an up and coming small town in England.


When she meets Justin Salazar, she is immediately attracted to him, but believes he is an aimless handyman. Little does she know, he is far, far from just a handyman.


Can Justin open Hannah’s eyes to the possibility of love, commitment, and most of all, trust? Or will the last holdout once again run away?

#ContemporaryRomance 

 

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Historical Fiction: GRAVE IMPORTANCE SERIES

 


GRAVE IMPORTANCE SERIES 

Natalie-Nicole Bates


ADVENTURES IN LIFE AND DEATH

Grave Importance 1


📕eBook: https://books2read.com/Adventures-in-life-and-death

📘 Paperback: https://a.co/d/0i9rRexq


Dr. Linnea Lyons has it all. She is beautiful, intelligent, witty, and charming. All the things a young woman needs to get her way in 1870.


Tasked with procuring a cadaver for her surgical studies, Linnea decides to use her womanly charms to get what she wants. A visit to the morgue when only the Deputy Coroner, Dr. Cyril Rhodes is on duty, she asks him to allow her to watch his embalming process.


Cyril is enthralled with the dark-haired beauty. After all, it is a rarity to meet a female doctor, let alone one studying the art of surgery.


Linnea senses the good doctor is a bit lonely and perhaps an easy mark to get what she wants.


But will her ambition ultimately be her downfall?



DOCTOR MORROW’S VISITOR 

Grave Importance 2

Natalie-Nicole Bates 


📘https://books2read.com/Doctor-Morrows-Visitor


Dr. Benedict Morrow, owner of the famed Morrow Academy of Anatomy and Science is dying. 


Well, maybe he is dying. 


There’s a chance he can right the wrongs in his life and escape death. In his bed, the only person he can communicate with is a woman he first mistakes as his beloved Goddaughter, Linnea. The woman seemingly knows everything about him, and he feels her identity is just out of his reach. 


When all is said and done, does Ben want to live after all? 

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Teaser Time: THE WIDOW

 


THE WIDOW

The Albion: 1892 

Natalie-Nicole Bates


📕 eBook: https://books2read.com/The-Widow-NNBates

📘 Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CX5LXXHJ


Can love come twice to Valerie McKenzie?


Valerie arrives back in her hometown after a seven-year estrangement.

She is now a widow and there to see through her late father’s affairs.

But things are revealed to Valerie about the past that leave her reeling. Including the fact she has been declared dead!

But not all is dire.

Valerie meets and accepts employment with the local druggist, Horatio Cooper Clark.

Horatio is skeptical, but soon realizes that the fiery red-haired Valerie is more than just a widow. She is beautiful, intelligent, and possesses just the right amount of sass.

As Valerie and Horatio grow closer, she begins to imagine a possible future with him, but she is still deeply haunted by her past.

Can Valerie make peace with the events of her past and move on to a beautiful future with Horatio? Or will she turn her back on love and leave town forever?

Historical Romance: THE WIDOW

 


THE WIDOW

The Albion: 1892 

Natalie-Nicole Bates


📕 eBook: https://books2read.com/The-Widow-NNBates

📘 Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CX5LXXHJ


Can love come twice to Valerie McKenzie?


Valerie arrives back in her hometown after a seven-year estrangement.

She is now a widow and there to see through her late father’s affairs.

But things are revealed to Valerie about the past that leave her reeling. Including the fact she has been declared dead!

But not all is dire.

Valerie meets and accepts employment with the local druggist, Horatio Cooper Clark.

Horatio is skeptical, but soon realizes that the fiery red-haired Valerie is more than just a widow. She is beautiful, intelligent, and possesses just the right amount of sass.

As Valerie and Horatio grow closer, she begins to imagine a possible future with him, but she is still deeply haunted by her past.

Can Valerie make peace with the events of her past and move on to a beautiful future with Horatio? Or will she turn her back on love and leave town forever?

Friday, March 6, 2026

Teaser Time: LORNA & CALEB

 


🩷 LORNA & CALEB

      Natalie-Nicole Bates


📕 eBook: https://books2read.com/Lorna-and-Caleb

📘 Paperback: https://a.co/d/frH4XjK

🎧 Apple audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/lorna-caleb/id1741345075


Every wedding Caleb Smith has ever attended has ended with one disaster or another.


Now he’s single, successful, fairly happy with his life, and he no longer attends weddings.


But when the woman he always wanted to marry decides to marry one of his sworn enemies, Caleb has no choice but to attend the wedding to keep from looking hurt or jealous.


What Caleb needs is a quick date.


It’s time to hit the Rightly Swept app to find a one-time date to accompany him to the wedding.


All she needs is to be beautiful, nothing else matters since he plans to never see her again.


Enter Lorna Irwin.


Not only is she beautiful, but she’s smart, sexy, and funny.


Maybe this wedding will break the curse of all the disastrous weddings of his past.


Or maybe not…


Contemporary Romance: LORNA & CALEB

 


🩷 LORNA & CALEB

      Natalie-Nicole Bates


📕 eBook: https://books2read.com/Lorna-and-Caleb

📘 Paperback: https://a.co/d/frH4XjK

🎧 Apple audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/lorna-caleb/id1741345075


Every wedding Caleb Smith has ever attended has ended with one disaster or another.


Now he’s single, successful, fairly happy with his life, and he no longer attends weddings.


But when the woman he always wanted to marry decides to marry one of his sworn enemies, Caleb has no choice but to attend the wedding to keep from looking hurt or jealous.


What Caleb needs is a quick date.


It’s time to hit the Rightly Swept app to find a one-time date to accompany him to the wedding.


All she needs is to be beautiful, nothing else matters since he plans to never see her again.


Enter Lorna Irwin.


Not only is she beautiful, but she’s smart, sexy, and funny.


Maybe this wedding will break the curse of all the disastrous weddings of his past.


Or maybe not…