Not Guilty of Books

  HAMMERED AND NAILED by Riley Long Release Date: October 20, 2025 Review Two best friends, three weeks fixing up a cabin, and a chance at discovering they could be in love with each other. There’s nothing like some time away in the country with only one bed, skinny dipping, and no power to open the possibilities of exploration. Emery and Mason are two likeable guys with jobs they love and a friendship they can count on. So their tentative mutual attraction isn’t a complete surprise.  The whole thing is just a warm, loving story of exploration and acceptance. Add to your TBR List GOODREADS LINK Synopsis Best friends don't kiss each other. Especially when you're both straight. I'm the cautious one--the guy who avoids romantic disasters by avoiding romance altogether. Mason's the opposite: impulsive, flirty, and perpetually in someone's bed. But it's always been women. For both of us. That is, until one impulsive kiss in the middle of the cabin renovations turns m...

  SCOOP ME UP Love in Maplewood - Book Seven by Riley Long Release Date: June 27, 2025 Review This is a wonderful, romantic, and sweet small-town romance. Just two guys finding their happiness and following their dreams, even if they aren’t fiscally responsible ones. For Gabe, that’s following his daughter and ex-wife to Maplewood where he’ll get to be apart of his little girl's life. What he doesn’t expect is to fall in love with the town and Sam. Sam has always had the dream of opening his own Ice Cream Shop.  And that dream is in his sights.  He’s not sure if the dream distraction called Gabe will help or hinder, but it turns out they make the most delicious pairing. They were a heartwarming pair. Caring and supportive, and embracing the locals and their nosiness with the best of them. Add to your TBR List GOODREADS LINK Synopsis Falling for a straight guy is putting extra nuts in the rocky road to my life goals... I have two dreams: opening my own ice cream shop and f...

  Release & Instagram Tour & Giveaway: Kicking it with My Best Friend By Riley Long Out and Kickin', Book 3 A childhood pact changed everything. I loved my life. Sleeping around. No commitments. But my mother kept prying into my love life, wanting to see me happily settled down. The remedy seemed to magically reveal itself when I stumbled onto Travis, my childhood best friend, on a dating app. When we were in elementary school, we promised to marry each other if we were still single at thirty. Reconnecting, I proposed we give the pact a real shot. To my surprise, Travis agrees. Somewhere in the midst of planning our wedding, the unthinkable happens. Our feelings for each other become… real. As the day of our fake marriage grows near, how do I tell Travis I want the real thing and for him to be mine forever? Universal Link Add to Goodreads Excerpt: I crawled into bed and stared mindlessly at my phone. Instead of turning to social media, I turned to Fyre, a d...

  KICKING IT WITH MY BEST FRIEND Out and Kickin’ - Book Three by Riley Long Release Date: October 6, 2023 Review This is a cute story between two best friends who haven’t seen each other in quite a while, but nearing 30 and tired of people wondering when they will settle down. Turning to a dating app they end up swiping right on each other. With it comes the reminder of a pact they made many moons ago. It’s a fun and playful story as they start to enact their pact and get to know each other again.  It’s a kind of instalove, low angst story. Parker is a bit impetuous in an endearing way and he and Travis are lovely. Add to your TBR List GOODREADS LINK Synopsis A childhood pact changed everything. I loved my life. Sleeping around. No commitments. But my mother kept prying into my love life, wanting to see me happily settled down. The remedy seemed to magically reveal itself when I stumbled onto Travis, my childhood best friend, on a dating app. When we were in elementary school,...

  Release & Instagram Tour & Giveaway: Kicking it in Vegas By Riley Long Out and Kickin', Book 2 I woke up in Vegas with a hangover and a ring on my finger. At my last recollection, the bachelor party was off to a great start. During dinner I met sexy celebrity Chef Oliver who was far more intriguing than his surly public persona let on. Afterwards, my buddies and I set out to bar-hop at some of Sin City’s biggest hot spots. To my surprise, I ran into Oliver again as he was unwinding by tossing back drinks at a bar. What followed was a hot night of dancing and drinking… and a very confusing morning. Not only did we spend the night together, we got married. Oliver is quick to suggest divorce, but I’m not ready to give up so easily. We may be opposites in every way imaginable, but there’s a chemistry between us I can’t deny or ignore. Can I convince Oliver to give our unlikely romance a chance? Or will what happened in Vegas end in Vegas? Universal Link Add to Good...

  KICKING IT IN VEGAS Out and Kickin’ - Book Two by Riley Long Release Date: August 7, 2023 Review One celebrity chef (and re-formed hot head) and one easygoing romantic who woke up married.  This is a lighthearted fun story with two guys who seem like an unlikely pairing. It’s low-angst and easy to read. It moves well and manages to cover more than just a couple of days even though it’s on the shorter side of a novel, which I appreciated, I like feeling like I got to see a bit of their life rather than just a snapshot of time. It also had a very cute epilogue. Add to your TBR List GOODREADS LINK Synopsis I woke up in Vegas with a hangover and a ring on my finger. At my last recollection, the bachelor party was off to a great start. During dinner I met sexy celebrity Chef Oliver who was far more intriguing than his surly public persona let on. Afterwards, my buddies and I set out to bar-hop at some of Sin City’s biggest hot spots. To my surprise, I ran into Oliver again as he ...