Release Blitz & Review: Rye

Title: Rye (Nashville Nights, #2)

Author: Heidi McLaughlin

Genre: Rocker Romance

Release Date: December 2, 2025

Buy here: https://geni.us/nashnights2

Book Blurb:

She's sworn off musicians. He's a rock star trying to go country. What could go wrong?

Darian Mercer’s rock career crashed and burned with his band Reverend Sister. Now he’s hiding out in Nashville, playing dive bars and trying to forget everything that went wrong. The last place he expects to find his next song is at The Songbird, where venue owner Rye Hayes has spent three years keeping other people’s dreams alive while burying her own.

Rye doesn’t perform anymore. She books acts, pours drinks, and raises her ten-year-old daughter. When Darian takes her unfinished melody and turns it into something she couldn’t write herself, she’s pissed. She’s also intrigued.

Their collaboration starts as one song, one session. But music has a way of breaking down walls neither of them meant to build. When Darian’s past catches up and the industry comes knocking, they’ll have to decide what matters more: playing it safe or taking the risk that could destroy them both.

Some songs are worth the fight. Some aren’t.

This is book 2 of the series and follows the brother of Zara from book 1. Darian moves to Nashville for a new start and to be closer to his sister. He is a little lost like a ship in a storm at this point. Not sure what he wants to do. He happens upon the street music scene in Nashville. Those artists hoping to be noticed but playing for the love of music. 

Rye owns a bar that hosts these wanna be musicians as a way to get their music heard. Although there is instant attraction between Darian and Rye, we spend a LOT of the book in angst and back and forth between the two. I put this one down a few times before I finished it. 

I love a good single parent trope, but even little Lily did not capture my attention much in this one. The last quarter of the book picked up the pace and was a bit more interesting. Rye was the star character for me. I enjoyed watching her come back to herself again. I did love the 1st book in this series. I am hoping this is a one off by this author.

Looking forward to reading more about the Nashville music scene. 

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

About the Author

Heidi McLaughlin is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of The Beaumont Series, The Boys of Summer, and The Archers.


Originally, from the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in picturesque Vermont, with her husband, two daughters, and their three dogs.


In 2012, Heidi turned her passion for reading into a full-fledged literary career, writing over twenty novels, including the acclaimed Forever My Girl.


Heidi's first novel, Forever My Girl, has been adapted into a motion picture with LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions, starring Alex Roe and Jessica Rothe, and opened in theaters on January 19, 2018, and is now available on DVD & Digital.


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Release Blitz: Fallen Gods

 

FALLEN GODS

Rachel Van Dyken

Release Date: December 2

They said the Gods were myth. That the Giants were only stories told around dying fires. They lied.

The Gods aren’t dead—they’re only sleeping, locked in mortal bodies, scattered across the world, waiting for the right spark to wake them. And my father is the most ruthless of them all.

He raised me to obey. To bleed. To be his blade when the time came. Now he’s sending me to Endir University, a place filled with ancient bloodlines and deadly secrets, to steal back Mjolnir, the hammer of legend. If I fail, everyone I love dies.

But Aric Erikson wasn’t part of the plan. He’s the enemy’s heir. Distant. Dangerous. And…the one person I can’t afford to fall for. He’s closed himself off completely behind a wall of ice, but the more I’m ordered to unravel him, the harder it becomes to remember where the lies end and I begin.

There's only a mission I never chose—and a man I was never meant to love—standing between me and a war that will decide the fate of the world.

But if I’m the spark, maybe he’s the fuse. And the Gods? They’re about to wake up angry.

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Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 books ranging from new adult romance to mafia romance to paranormal & fantasy romance. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs.



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