Intro
Welcome to Harlow's Hot Releases! This is a weekly blog where we dive into indie books releasing that week! This blog covers books releasing from October 12th to October 18th of 2026. This is the inaugural blog of this series so if there's anything you think could be tweaked, feel free to share!
This Week's Releases
Release #1 out on 10/16
Title: Dirty Zone (Book 5 in the Enforcers MM Hockey Series)
Author: Heather Leighson
Genre: MM hockey romance
Where to buy: link
Blurb:
Doing what’s right matters, but he’s here, close enough to touch.
Skylar
I did what I had to, for both our sakes. Sometimes love means letting go. And since he’s living his dream and playing in the NHL, I’ve never doubted my decision.
But he’s furious, standing in front of me and figuring out my secret.
Only a fool turns away a second chance at true love.
I’m a fool.
Yet, I can’t resist him.
Maverick
I don’t know if I should kiss him or demand answers. He ghosted me, leaving only questions about our relationship and what was real.
We were starry-eyed kids, but I was totally in love with him.
Still in love with him.
My deceit tore us apart, but fate’s giving me another shot.
But I didn’t count on fighting my Skylar, my angel.
Release #2 out on 10/13
Title: Anchor Point (Book 2 in the Harbour of Hope series)
Author: Hannah Cowan
Genres: romance, omegaverse, why choose
Where to buy: link
Blurb:
I’ve spent years proving to myself that I don’t need a pack. I just didn’t expect getting pregnant on my own to bring one straight to my door. As an omega, I was raised to believe that finding a pack was the beginning of every happily ever after. I tried that once, and all it taught me was that losing yourself for the sake of being loved isn’t much of a fairytale.
So I built a life that belongs entirely to me instead. A career I love, a clinic dedicated to helping omegas who need it most, and absolutely no plans to hand any part of myself over to an alpha again. There’s only one thing missing.
A baby.
The Everwell Clinic offers me exactly what I one carefully selected alpha, one heat, and no expectations afterward. Until Callum turns out to be far more than just the alpha I chose. And somehow, he isn’t the only one.
Callum, Elias, and Rasmus have found their way into very different corners of my life, and when instincts finally snap into place, I’m left with the one thing I stopped believing I’d ever have.
A pack of three scent-matched alphas who don’t just want to bond me. They want to court me and make room in their lives for a baby that won’t belong to all of them by blood.
I wanted to become a mother. I just never expected to find a family along the way.
Release #3 out 10/13
Title: Flicker My Flame (part of the Too Hot to Handle series with multiple indie authors)
Author: Bindi Kennedy
Genres: romance, first responder
Where to buy: link
Blurb:
In Tomothy Burke’s mind, people think of firefighters as strong, confident, bold, and brave. They do not think of him—a man trapped behind a desk and afraid of the shadow his large frame casts. Tom’s dissatisfied with the present. Wary of the future. Haunted by his past—including a fastidious red head who used to live next door, but mysteriously vanished one night from their small Aussie town.
Zac Hutton has a thing for bow ties, flirty banter, and giant men. He’s has been living a nomadic existence for a decade, but when fate calls him home, he answers, bringing with him laughter, sunshine and an eternal spark a certain grumpy fireman feared he’d never experience again.
Will Tomothy open himself up to happiness?
Will Zach stay long enough to find out?
Release #4 out 10/13
Title: Wombats and Wildfires (part of the Too Hot to Handle series with multiple indie authors)
Author: Vicki Hilton
Genres: romance, first responder
Where to buy: link
Blurb:
It’s usually bad form to profit from someone else’s misfortune, unless your victim is a six-foot-something, smoking-hot fireman with a sopping-wet T-shirt. In those circumstances, all bets are off.
Sunshiny Melody is one more rejection away from giving up on her photography dreams. All she needs is a paying job. Instead, she gets a wombat sanctuary to run. Blue Gum Valley couldn’t be further from the bright lights of Melbourne, but with her career on “do not resuscitate”, she has little choice but to put her dreams on hold.
Grumpy firefighter Ethan Barnes doesn’t have time for romance. The last time he tried, heartbreak put him firmly off dating. Then a desperate woman contacts the station needing her dog rescued. Of course, Ethan steps up. What he isn’t expecting? His emergency caller to be so beautiful… or so damn infuriating.
Ethan thinks he’ll never see her again, but when Melody posts a picture of him in the river, it sparks a thirst-trap storm neither of them saw coming.
Release #5 out 10/13
Title: The Second Spark (part of the Too Hot to Handle series with multiple indie authors)
Author: Katie Montinaro
Genres: romance, first responder
Where to buy: link
Blurb:
When Keely Baxter finds herself at the centre of an international scandal, she has no choice but to flee to the cosy childhood hometown she’s spent years trying to outrun. But hiding is difficult when she suddenly finds herself under the blazing gaze of the only man she’s ever loved - her brother’s best friend.
Tyler Whitmore’s life revolves around helping raise his niece, routine and simplicity. As a firefighter, he can handle emergencies, but he can’t handle Keely Baxter moving back across the street. For years, Tyler has tried to forget their secret dalliance…and failed.
With old feelings reigniting and the whole world watching, they must navigate the scandal that has followed her home while fighting their attraction to each other. Keely can’t risk another very public fall from grace. And Tyler has no intention of watching her walk away again.
After everything they’ve been through, can they trust that the timing might finally be right?
Release #6 out 10/13
Title: Flirting With Fire (part of the Too Hot to Handle series with multiple indie authors)
Author: Brooklyn Dean
Genres: romance, first responder
Where to buy: link
Blurb:
Things are getting HOT 'round here.
Gone are the elf ears, festive hats, and the security of a job Bonnie Snow was destined to do. This former Santa Coach and Texan expat has moved to Australia and is making life-changing adjustments in more ways than one.
Unbeknown to her, Henry 'Cavill' Cooper (ex-firefighter calendar model and her ex-holiday fling) is in Blue Gum Valley, too, and literally building a new life from the studs up. When rekindling their old flame leads to a disaster - including a blow-up chair, accidental public exposure, and a major housefire - Bonnie is left with no option but to move in with him.
They're flirting with fire, attempting to survive a platonic housemate situation - when the ‘house’ is nothing but splinters and a broken hot tub. Will Bonnie and Cav manage to rebuild their new lives, identities, and a home – together? Or will it all go up in smoke?
Release #7 out 10/13
Title: Almost Enough (book 2 in the Lily Ridge series)
Author: Alexandra Ayres
Genres: romance, comtemporary
Where to buy: link
Blurb:
Beau
I've spent years making myself easy to overlook. Work at the shop, go home, keep my head down.
Then my best friend's wedding sends me cross-country with the maid of honor—one truck, one cottage, and nonstop chatter I can't tune out.
Whitley Collins talks to strangers like old friends and asks the questions I've spent years avoiding. I tell myself I just have to get her there on time.
I don't just get her there. I fall for her.
But letting her in means she'll find out why I never left Lily Ridge, and I know what happens once people find out.
They leave.
Whitley
I've been told I'm too loud and chatty my entire life.
So when I'm stuck on a road trip with Beau Sinclair, a man who communicates mostly in grunts and disapproving eyebrow movements, I figure he'll beg me to take a vow of silence.
Instead, he listens. All the way through my excellent game of naming every cow we pass.
We make it to the wedding. We dance. I even get the broody guy to smile like he means it.
Then he's gone. No explanation.
And I'm left wondering… Was I too much after all?
