**THE BOOK FOR EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW**
**THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE: BOOKS OF 2025**

THEY'RE THE BEST OF FRIENDS. OR SO THEY SAY...
⭐ 'Brilliant: so funny, so sad, so scary' Jacqueline Wilson⭐
⭐ 'It will resonate for all women, and it's so much fun' Marian Keyes ⭐
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⭐ 'Compelling, thought-provoking, unputdownable' Sarah Turner ⭐
⭐'Funny and clever' Fearne Cotton⭐
⭐ 'Universally empowering' Kate Sawyer⭐

Is being a mother the most defining role a woman can have?

Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions, and motherhood is at the forefront of their minds. But when Charlotte organises a baby shower for Nicki on a swelteringly hot summer's day, it changes their friendship group forever.

In the aftermath, each woman has a different view on what happened that day - but the truth will shock everyone. Even you.

Razor-sharp, funny, truthful and utterly gripping, So Thrilled For You is a novel for women and about women. It will start conversations and change expectations.

BIG LITTLE LIES meets EXPECTATION in the incredible new novel from Holly Bourne - it's the book you'll want to read three times, then give to every woman in your life.

'One to gift to all your friends' ELLE

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Edgy. Dangerous. Addictive. From the author of the Silver Pines series comes a binge-worthy dark motorcycle romance, perfect for fans of Rina Kent and Navessa Allen.

Layla Monroe's life in Harmony, Georgia was a smokescreen, a picture-perfect illusion that concealed her desire for chaos. That is, until her parents were killed in suspicious circumstances and the world as she knew it was destroyed.

So when Sean "Ax" Hunter, the enigmatic sergeant at arms of the Hounds of Hell motorcycle club, offers her a chance to discover what really happened to her family, Layla grabs it with both hands. After all, she has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Drawn to Sean's dangerous allure, Layla soon discovers a passion she can't fight, no matter how hard she tries. With Sean, it's ride or die. But is Layla ready to jump into the flames and risk everything for a chance at true freedom?

Tropes:
#ForcedProximity
#WorkplaceRomance
#ManObsessed
#TouchHerandDie
#GuaranteedHappyEnding
#FoundFamily
#DarkRomance
#MotorycleRomance

Readers can’t get enough of the Soldiers of Bedlam series:

‘Wolf.e is one of the best books I have ever read!' 5* Reader Review
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‘Perfect’ 5* Reader Review
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‘I devoured this is one sitting’ 5* Reader Review
‘Another masterpiece from Paisley Hope’ 5* Reader Review

Edgy. Dangerous. Addictive. From the author of the Silver Pines series comes a binge-worthy dark motorcycle romance, perfect for fans of Rina Kent and Ana Huang,

Ride faster than your angel can fly.

Gabriel Wolfe, the fallen dark angel and president of the Hounds of Hell motorcycle club, has lived a life shrouded in darkness. Haunted by a traumatic past, chaos is the only way he makes sense of the world.

He craves it to feel stable. Whole.

But everything changes when he meets Brinley Rose Beaumont. With her raven hair and molten eyes, she ignites a fire within him that he never knew existed. Wolfe's meticulously controlled world soon begins to unravel, and he finds himself drawn to Brinley with an intensity that borders on obsession.

Now, Brinley is all he sees. And Wolfe will stop at nothing to make her his.

Tropes:

- Motorcycle Romance
- Forced Proximity
- Touch her and die
- Morally Grey MMC
- Good girl x bad boy
- NOT a slow burn

Readers can’t get enough of Wolf.e:

‘Wolf.e is one of the best books I have ever read!' 5* Reader Review
‘I could not read this book fast enough’ 5* Reader Review
‘Perfect’ 5* Reader Review
‘Ten stars!!’ 5* Reader Review
‘Read within a day and couldn’t put it down’ 5* Reader Review
‘I devoured this is one sitting’ 5* Reader Review
‘Another masterpiece from Paisley Hope’ 5* Reader Review