Fearne Hill’s Salt is book one in her new Island Love series of romances set on the beautiful Île de Ré off the western coast of France. It’s a gorgeous, slow-burn, May/December love story between a young French salt farmer and an Englishman who has come to the island to recuperate after an illness. The…
Briar Prescott takes a short break from her Until series to bring us Just a Taste – a sexy, heartfelt and well-written love story laced with tenderness and plenty of the author’s trademark humour and banter. I’ve seen it described as a ‘wet cat/golden retriever’ romance, and that kind of sums it up perfectly; we’ve…
Narrated by Nick J. Russo Nicky James takes a break from romantic suspense to write a complex and emotional contemporary romance. Promises of Forever is a character driven story about two men who formed an unusual friendship in their youth and are now meeting again thirty years later. Koa Burgard is a traumatized ten-year-old attending…
Up All Night is the first book in Annabeth Albert’s new series featuring first responders, which is set in the small (fictional) Oregon town of Mount Hope. The author is a long-time favourite whose books, even when they’re not stellar, are good, solid reads featuring protagonists who are easy to like and relate to, with…
The Emperor and the Endless Palace is a stunning achievement. If that’s not enough to get you to read this (I warn you – tragic, without a single happily ever after involved) romantic epic, then take this into account: it’s almost certainly going to be on my best of year for 2024. In 4 BCE,…
Steven Salvatore is new-to-me, and I understand that they’ve previously published three successful queer YA novels. The Boyfriend Subscription is their first adult romance, and it’s a queered version of Pretty Woman in which the sex worker (Cole Vivian) is wealthy and the Edward character – in this case, Teddy Hughes – has just lost…
Narrated by Greg Tremblay Houston we have so many problems… Curtis “Launchpad” Larkin’s career as an astronaut has had its share of ups and downs. Alternately lauded as the single-handed savior of NASA and condemned as a reckless, hot-headed bully, Curt has been through the wringer of public opinion and come out on top. When…
The first book in H.L. Day’s new series of paranormal romances, Paranormal Problems: Necromancers, Deader Than Dead is a reworked/extended version of a story that originally appeared in a charity Fated Mates anthology in 2023. (The anthology is no longer available so I imagine the authors involved will eventually be republishing their stories, as well.)…
For this month’s TBR Challenge prompt – “Not in Kansas Anymore” – I decided to get as far away from the world as we know it as I could and picked a science-fiction romance set in deep, deep outer space. Lisa Henry’s Dark Space is book one in a trilogy of the same name and…
Narrated by Will Watt This new recording of Waiting for the Flood is over twice as long as the original mainly due to the addition of a second novella. Taken together the two novellas tell one completely satisfying story. While Waiting for the Flood was originally written to stand alone, Chasing the Light will mean…
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