Dear Reader,
We’re bursting with excitement this month! Not only are we revealing the blurb for Built for Love—book two in the Scottish Single Dads series—but there’s also a Black Friday eBook Sale happening right now which we are delighted to be a part of.
Plus, Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) for Built for Love will be available soon—meaning you could read it before anyone else (and for free!). More on that below.
Built for Love—First Look! 👀
Mark your calendars: Struan and Ainsley’s story arrives on January 15, 2026. 📅
This reverse grumpy x sunshine romance is packed with so much swoony goodness:
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Blue-collar MMC
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Cute kid chaos
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Close proximity
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Boss x employee
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A spicy haircut scene
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Small-town shenanigans
See if you can spot a few more tropes in the blurb:
A fresh start. That’s what I’m calling this. New town, new house, new hair salon. New life where nobody knows that my ex—the father of my four-year-old daughter—slept with my best friend.
The one complication? Struan Walker. The gorgeous, charming, annoyingly good-with-his-hands builder fixing up my salon. And, as fate would have it, my new next-door neighbour.
Sexy man bun, cheeky grin, broad shoulders built for lifting…
What? No, of course I haven’t imagined him lifting me.
Anyway, the man is helpful too, irritatingly so. Fixes things without being asked. Catches me when I fall off chairs. Soothes my daughter’s meltdowns in thirty seconds flat.
Plus he’s funny. And a devoted single father. And very, very flirty.
And that’s the problem. The absolutely colossal, oh-dear-God problem. Because men like Struan? They’re used to women falling for them. And judging by the looks he gets around town, plenty already have.
As for me, I learnt the hard way what trusting the wrong man can do, and I will not make the same mistake again. I refuse to let Struan slip past the walls I’ve put up around myself.
But the more time I spend with him, the harder it is to pretend I’m not tempted to risk everything I came here to rebuild…
Black Friday Deals 🎉
Romance Book Lovers is running a huge Black Friday event. For four days only over 900 romance eBooks—including our latest release, Captain of My Heart—are available for just $0.99.
Whether you’re craving small town romance, steamy contemporary love stories, sweeping fantasy romance, or something completely different, you’ll find plenty to fill your eReader.
Quick note: Captain of My Heart is also reduced to £0.99 in the UK. Many, but not all, of the other books will also be reduced in the UK. Captain of My Heart remains full price outside of the US and UK—a quirk of Amazon’s platform makes it harder for us to run temporary price promotions in other territories.
Advance Reader Copies for Built for Love 📚
We’re opening up a few new spots on our ARC team, and we’d love for some of our newsletter readers to join us.
If you’re new to ARCs: an Advance Reader Copy is a free early version of the book, sent out before release day so our most engaged readers can help us champion the launch.
Being part of our ARC team simply means supporting Built for Love in whatever way feels right for you. That might be:
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Leaving an honest review on Amazon and/or Goodreads on or shortly after release day
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Posting about the book on social media
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Sharing it in your favourite reader groups
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Or simply spreading the word to fellow romance lovers
There’s no single “right” way to help—every little bit makes a huge difference for indie authors like us.
We plan to send out ARCs of Built for Love shortly before Christmas, around three weeks before release on January 15.
If you’d like to read Struan and Ainsley’s story before anyone else and help support the launch, just reply to this email so we can add you to the team.
Scotland in the News
A video of Scottish schoolboys singing Wham’s “Last Christmas” into a Ring doorbell has gone viral.
Scottish castle “frozen in time” is selling for £750,000.
Callander, a charming town that helped inspire Bannock, has been voted the happiest place to live in Scotland in a recent poll.
xx,
Amy and Gavin
(the wife-and-husband team writing as Amy McGavin)