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Honey Bee Mine is a delight! I like stories with nature themes and this one has bees! There’s a beekeeper in a small town and a reformed bad boy returning with his son. It’s got so much heart and I loved it! Penny loves her bees but she has a problem. She owes the bank…
Dabney: Susan Elizabeth Phillips published her first Chicago Stars book, It Had to Be You, in 1994. The book, featuring a tall, rugged football coach named Dan and a curvy bombshell named Phoebe is often called the first sports romance (I don’t know about that but that’s what they say.) And The Crowd Went Wild…
Have you ever wondered what the Big Bang Theory would have been like if Penny had been a smart engineer who chose Sheldon over Leonard? Next Level Love is a frothy, light-hearted contemporary romance that answers that question. Online, their names are @pancakesareelite and @theanswerisno. While Pancakes has introduced herself as Lily and offered to…
This is my first book by contemporary romance author Sara Ney and won’t be my last (I’ve already put in a pre-order for the next in this series). Falling for the Fake Lumberjack is the entry novel into her new series Axes and Endzones with a strong very likable heroine giving the reader a fun…
In The Rogue’s Treasure Hunt (formerly titled Season for Desire) the final book in her Holiday Pleasures series, Theresa Romain has skilfully melded together a tender and insightful romance and an intriguing mystery which takes her hero and heroine on a journey across a England at Christmastide – and on a journey of personal discovery….
Garrett Leigh’s Kiss Me Again is a beautiful, angsty, slow-burn romance between two men – broken in different ways – whose love story is one of learning and acceptance and gradual healing, showing clearly that while love can’t fix everything, it can provide understanding and visibility and a safe space where two people who are…
Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore is one of my favorite reads of the last few years. It is the third of three books by McConaghy; Once There Were Wolves is the second. All three books are shaped by climate change. In an interview, McConaghy said: Each of my novels takes a look at the wildness…
Our Ex’s Wedding is a delight. It’s queer and contains a most gorgeous representation of the Armenian-American diaspora in California. Author Taleen Voskuni obviously knows this culture well, and she’s created a charming and vivid multicultural community setting for a gentle slow-burn romance. Ani Avakian is a wedding planner and she has just received the…
I’m always excited to pick up another book in Toni Anderson’s excellent Cold Justice: Most Wanted series of high-stakes, action-packed romantic suspense novels, and am continually impressed with the way the author is keeping the series momentum going without things starting to feel stale – the plots are clever and intricate, the characters are well-crafted…
A Marquess to Remember is a tightly written category romance with likeable characters and a satisfying HEA, but while I mostly enjoyed it, I have a big caveat because the book contains an amnesia plot, which is something I dislike. Florence wakes up in a strange bed in a strange house, and she doesn’t know…
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