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items Books that I read and loved and recommend to you. I created a short summary that is spoiler free for each recommended book.
This is one of the most underhyped and underrated books ever. Book 2, the Night Prince is just as good! Go devour them!
The Wolf King by Lauren Palphreyman, Zara Hampton-Brown, Shane East
This was hot and spicy from the jump and totally different from the others in the series. These are single parents just trying to be understood and seen and heard. They make each other come alive after dark moments in their lives and let me tell you ...
Sawyer (Lucky River Ranch, #3) by Jessica Peterson
📣📣Audiobook Romance Lovers📣📣
Valentine Nook
by Lulu Moore
💘💘💘💘 🌶️.5
This was the cutest romance and it’s available now on Audible!!! 🫶🏻
Holiday needed time away from her acting career in this US. She needs a getaway and ends up rentin...
Grumpy Sunshine Small Town Romance
🐴☀️Cowboy Romance OBSESSED☀️🐴
Cash by Jessica Peterson
🌶️Cash and Mollie🌶️—Those two were made for each other! What a great story of love!
Mollie’s Dad, Garrett, who she regrettably had an estranged relationship with, suddenly passed and he l...
Cash (Lucky River Ranch, #1) by Jessica Peterson
🌹The Duke🌹
By Anna Cowan
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The Duke has a secret with devastating consequences. She (yes!! Female Duke!!!!) thought she could keep it hidden forever and that it had been buried. But the letter with all the details is now in Celine’s hands, the...
The Duke by Anna Cowan
🎁Christmas anytime?! Yes please!!
🎁Merry Me by C.R. Jane
✨Get your hot cocoa and cozy socks ready for this —-
🎄She thought she buried her past...until it shows up in a Santa suit at her sister’s wedding.
Natalie Bennett has a plan: survive her b...
Merry Me by C.R. Jane
👏🏻Round of applause👏🏻 to Brighton Walsh for this steamy & heart warming story! And the duet narration by Connor Crais & Vanessa Edwin were chefs kiss!!
🚒—Xander —He’s the fire captain who has suddenly become a single dad to a 4-yr old g...
The Live-In Temptation by Brighton Walsh
💗Love Deep by Louise Bay
💗This is the 2nd book in the Colorado Club Billioniaires
💗I loved this sweet and steamy romance between Juniper and Fisher. Also, I’m a sucker for British accents and our MMC’s is perfection!!
💗Juniper is a single Mom...
Love Deep by Louise Bay
🐪I’ve always been fascinated by ancient Egypt so I was elated to read this ARC by Marie Benedict.
This book tells the stories that cross two timelines, the first of Lady Evelyn, a woman on a mission in the early 1900s to uncover ancient Egyptian m...
Daughter of Egypt: A Novel
💕Cowboy Casual
I’m in my cowboy romance era yall!!
💗Blaire Monroe is the only woman I’ve ever loved, and the only one I’ve let break my heart.
It’s been ten years since she ran from this town, chasing a life that didn’t include the cowboy next ...
Cowboy Casual (The Calloway Ranch Series Book 1)
Poisoned Ivy
by Ava Rani ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Love love loved this romantic adventure, set in a prestigious New England Ivy League university, where our FMC is leading a double life and it could all come crashing down on her.
📰Malina (FMC) is from an extremel...
Poisoned Ivy (Legacies) by Ava Rani
Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal
By Meghan Quinn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🌶️🌶️
🎄Loved the full cast narration of the audiobook. 🤌🤌🤌The narrators did such a great job!! I’m gonna tell 🎅🏽 that all audiobooks with a full cast should be done this way!
🎄Not ...
Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal - Quinn
🌸🌸You want to FEEL ALL the emotions of a second chance love story? You need Chasing Love in your hands or ears now!!! And guess what?! It’s available today!!🌸🌸
Piper Rayne created this storyline that had me yeeeeeearning and hoping and my heart ...
Chasing Love: The Owens (Plain Daisy Ranch 5)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 🌶️
J Rose has created another traumatic and provocative —in all the best ways —action plot intertwined with a why choose romance with FRACTURED FUTURE!!
Our FMC was human trafficked and had to literally and figuratively fight for her li...
Fractured Future (Anaconda Tales, #1) by J. Rose
Sawyer by Jessica Peterson
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 😈😈
🌸There has never ever been two people who were more perfect for each other than Sawyer and Ava🌸
Thank you to @jessicapauthor and @valentine_pr_ for this advanced listened copy of Sawyer, I really loved it,...
Sawyer (Lucky River Ranch, #3) by Jessica Peterson
Want to start fantasy? Start here. This is the gateway drug and one of the best starter fantasy series. It has romance, family bonds, fae and creatures, other worlds and realms, and great storytelling.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
🏒Goal Line by Julia Connors is now live in audio!!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 😈😈.5
🍑Duet Narration performed by: @seanmastersaudio and @savannahpeachwood 🤌🤌🤌
🍑Oh I just loved the pining and swooning and yearning that both of the MCs had for each other in thi...
Goal Line (Boston Rebels, #4) by Julia Connors
♥️Wylder Ranch♥️
By Lulu Moore
🎄🎄🎄🎄(4-stars!!)
I was on the hunt for a sweet (with a bit of spice) Christmas story and this one is filled with so many little gifts 🎁
Haven comes to Valentine Nook to introduce Everly, her newborn, to her unbe...
Wylder Ranch: Second Chance, Accidental Pregnancy
Hazelthorn by CG Drews
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🥀This storyline is a cross between gothic fantasy and mystery with a smidge of queer love.
☕️The MMC Evander is basically a captive of Byron Lennox Hall, the owner of this mansion and surrounding gardens. Evander ha...
Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews
This was my first gothic fantasy romance and holy heck!!! This was so good. It was a little intimidating at first with all the glossaries and definitions in the front of the book but I just skipped over all of it and it all came easily while reading....
Anathema (The Eating Woods, #1) by Keri Lake
HEAR ME OUT!!
I just finished this Duology, and it is so good!
Kiss of the Basilisk is like nothing you’ve ever read before. Lindsay Straube aka @oxfordlemon creates such a fresh storyline that will pull on all of your emotional heartstrings. Yea,...
Kiss of the Basilisk (Deluxe Edition)
Audiobook Review
Love Me Stalk Me by Laura Bishop 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌶️🌶️releasing on December 2, 2025!
If you ever had a stalker, this is the type of stalker you want. He’s possessive in a green flag kinda way, he’s concerned for your safety and well being... @carlyrobinsnarrator & @sebastianyork_official — their narration was on point!
Love Me Stalk Me: A Novel by Laura Bishop
The EMOTIONAL DAMAGE and anguish and agony that my heart felt in this book!! Honestly this book should be called Torment and Torture
Between Two Kings by Lindsay Straube @oxfordlemon
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Yes, there’s a lot of spice (See Kiss o...
Between Two Kings (Deluxe Edition)
EXTREMELY UNDERRATED & UNDERHYPED Romantasy series! Go get you some Wolf King and Night Prince in your life so we can be hype girls together!!
Omg this book, this series has ripped my heart out. I don't know what I want to happen in the next book...
The Night Prince: Fantasy Romance (Wolf King 2)
Audiobook Review
Duke by Jessica Petereson
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Man do I love this series and I am so thankful that @jessicapauthor created the Rivers Boys! Thank you Jessica Peterson and @valentine_pr_ for the ALC!
I love how every story in the Lucky R...
Duke
Mistletoe Meet Cute by @bellamatthews.author is now LIVE in audio!
Narrated by: @mallonerin & @connorcrais
Need a holiday novella? A palate cleanser? A naughty and nice short story? This is the one, meet our MCs.
Camden. Single Dad. Professio...
Mistletoe Meet Cute: A Christmas Novella
If you love swoony, romantic, connected and authentic love, this is for you!
In a Heartbeat by @laurapavlovauthor is now live in audio!
Narrated by: @thealexknox and @ms_brentmoor
💗 Small Town
💗Cowboy
💗Friends-to-Enemies-to-Lovers
💗Standalone ...
In A Heartbeat: Small Town Romance
Spoiler free - 4.5 stars
I love how we get to see Saeris evolve into her confident and powerful queen era. She was already a baddie but not she’s a badddddddie. So much of Quicksilver was about Kingfisher and now they are THE ‘bad-ass AND delicious’ ...
Brimstone (Fae & Alchemy, #2) by Callie Hart
Tanner by @samantha.skye.author
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OOOOO romance readers where are you??!
You’re gonna love this one!
We’ve got a billionaire on our hands!!
He wants her land— he’s rich, isn’t told no, and he gets what he wants. That land, is land...
Tanner (The Billionaires of Whispers #1) by Samantha Skye
My first Greek Mythology book ever and I LOOOOVED it!
@kateasherauthor has me now all locked into this world and this story was amazing.
There is a badass FMC—Nyssa— who lives in the crosshairs of all the other Gods because, she’s Hades daughter, ...
Crown of Olympus (The Hades Trials Book 1) by Kate Asher
In the gym, on my bike, shedding tears.
It doesn’t need to be Christmas to enjoy this story.
It’s a story and lost and found. Of patience and reflection. Of deep rooted love and living life each day to the fullest. Of Telling those you love, how mu...
Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1) by B.K. Borison
👑🌊Ever Queen🌊👑
4.5 ✨ 2.5 🌶️
As if I needed to scream any louder to get you to read @authorljandrews books, this one was incredible! This is book 2 from the Ever Seas series (Book 1 is Ever King), and it picks right up where the story ends in Bo...
The Ever Queen (The Ever Seas, #2) by L.J. Andrews
When I tell you this is the dark romance that hooked me, I mean it. This story has elements of secret society that includes collegiate hockey players, our FMC -Dahlia- infiltrating said secret society, in order to get to the bottom of a situation her...
Beautiful Venom: Dark Hockey Romance
This is book 2 of the series and it follows Dahlia's (FMC from Book 1) sister, Violet, and her story. It's another dark romance but I love how it chronicles what happen with her. No spoilers. Just know to check the trigger warnings and that if you li...
Sweet Venom: Dark College Hockey Romance
Heartless by Elsie Silver
I loved book 2 of the Chestnut Spring Series!!!! @authorelsiesilver brought it with Flawless, making us fall hard for Rhett Eaton; and then she introduces us to broody, moody, and single dad Cade. Mix in an adorable son, an...
Heartless (Chestnut Springs, #2) by Elsie Silver
I ABSOLUTELY ADORED THIS BOOK!
SUMMER JUST WANTS TO MAKE HER DAD HAPPY, HE HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR HER. SHE WANTs TO PROVE TO HIM THAT SHE HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO WORK AT HIS PR FIRM—FAIR ENOUGH.
AFTER A SERIES OF PR DISASTERS, SHE GETS ASSIGNED TO HIGH P...
Flawless (Chestnut Springs, #1) by Elsie Silver
Kate Golden, take my money.
The way Half City has turned me into a demon huntress in 4 days time is unfathomable. the emotions and grief and warring trauma that I felt for these characters is next level. I won’t give any spoilers or anything more t...
Half City (Harker Academy, #1) by Kate Golden
Unveil by Greer Rivers 3.5 ballet flats!
Classic ballet with a dark twist?! Yes please! I am clearly in my retelling era, because Unveil by Greer Rivers is giving swan lake vibes. The FURYious villain was my fav character! I wanted him to win the wh...
Unveil: A Dark Ballet Retelling (Frayed Satin)
Just go get this and read it!
Daggermouth by hm.wolfe is a freaking gift to readers. When I tell you I wanted to claw my way into this book and help destroy the system, the society, the rules, the leaders, the corruption, the maaaaaasks! And then m...
Daggermouth: A Dark Dystopian Romance by H M Wolfe, Paperback
Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
A Realm of Lies and Power by Larissa Antonioni
Narrated by @tiltiffany Tiffany Vanlandingham
✨This a a True Romantasy✨
“Do your worst”
I love that phrase. In all its meanings and glory. I loved how it was used in this s...
A Realm of Lies and Power: Fantasy Romance
This was a fun, sweet, and spicy workplace romcom!
NGL, when I started listening to this and heard Lor’s voice from the Artefacts of Ouranos series—but with more sass—-I knew I was going to love this book. I do love the voice of @soneela 🫶🏻
In th...
Not Safe for Work by Nisha J. Tuli
I was looking for a new audiobook to kind of throw me for a loop and I found it!
Hooked by Emily McIntire
Narrated by @felicitymunroe and Rupert Hawthorne
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌶️🌶️🌶️
Hooked is the first standalone in the Never After series, which is a col...
Hooked (Never After, #1) by Emily McIntire
Oh Ryder…..we sure do love you and Billie, and the rest of the family at the Lucky River Ranch!
Ryder by @jessicapauthor is the last book in the Lucky River Ranch series, and after reading it, I don’t know which story is my favorite anymore! Saddle ...
Ryder (Lucky River Ranch #5) by Jessica Peterson
Hockey boy
Okay, I literally smiled and giggled like a little girl listening to this book! It was so freaking good! It’s the first in the Boston Bolts series so you can start it now and follow the series as they are released.
This is a second chanc...
Hockey Boy (Boston Bolts Hockey, #1) - Goodreads
My new favorite baddie FMC is…Verena of the Fallen.
Listen, I won’t give details about the book, I’ll give the emotions I felt. Go in blind but just mentally prepare your heart.
You know when you’re getting into a story and you can feel the buildu...
The Venom in her Veins by J.E. Caroline, Hardcover - Barnes & Noble
I would like to keep you as blind as possible too, while still giving this a 4-star review!
In this story, our FMC Elorie, who lives on this prison island, taps into this unknown magic and resurrects a prisoner, MMC Wilder—-who happens to be a VIF (...
The Hanging Heart (Realm of Beating Hearts 1)
If you read Shield of Sparrows, hold onto your horses for book 2 of this series. Wow. Just go get it and get lost in this amazing story of love, betrayal, secrets, identity, family, and monsters!!
Rites of the Starling (Shield of Sparrows, #2) by Devney Perry
If you like sagas of a sisters vengeance, coupled with deadly trials, and mysterious magic, topped off with an enemy king who may not be who he’s been portrayed to be….youre gonna love this one.
This reminded me of Trials of the Sun Queen mashed up...
Of Fates & Ruin (Kingdom of Shattered Vows #1) - Goodreads
Daughter of the Night
First, round of applause to Gemma vale. She created this beautifully detailed story of a girl who is has just been dealt a really shitty hand in life in the Hollows, she has so much weight on her shoulders, and her destiny has ...
Gemma Vale | Dark Gothic Fantasy Author | Daughter of the Night
Laura Pavlov is a romance queen!
Small town, childhood best friends, secret relationship, friends with benefits, family support, and the pining and yearning that’s to die for!
I loved the story of Gracie and Cutler! He’s such a ham, or should I s...
My Forever Girl
This audiobook was adorable and I was rooting for our MMCs Remy—romance planner and marketing rep—and Lake —best friends brother and grumpy hockey player.
If you ever get dumped on the Jumbotron at a hockey game, the whole world would be rooting fo...
Just Playing for Keeps (Hockey Ever After 2)
Forged in the Fire by AL Jackson is the first book in the Crimson Crows series and it was hooooooot!
If you watched Sons of Anarchy or any of its spinoffs, then you definitely need to get your hands on this one.
It’s a dark romance with an MC full ...
Forged in the Fire by A.L. Jackson
Looooooooooved!!!! For anyone who wanted to, or did, throw Metal slinger at the end of the book, I think you’ll have all your questions answered at the end of Light Wielder.
We pick up years later, where Jovie and Acker had moved on with their lives...
Light Wielder: Fire & Metal - Book Two
High stake, fast paced, urban literature that was filled with action, lust, twists and turns.
You like your MMCs with a ton of red flag energy, that you somehow want to win? You like your FMCs to be bold and fierce, independent and badass, but true...
Cuffed by a Certified Maniac (Maniac Series 1)
I needed a sweet romance read in my life and this one did the trick! ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️
Troublemakere by Piper Rayne is the 4th book in the Dugout Series, but the first one that I’ve read (I love it when a series is also standalone friendly!)—and I’ll be bac...
The Troublemaker (The Dugout #4) Ebook - Piper Rayne
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this amazing cherry on top romance read and the final and 4th book of the Blossom Peak Series—a peak romance series if I must say so myself
This is the story I’ve been waiting for, the first three books give little hints to it, and I co...
It's About Time: Enemies to Lovers Romance
This dystopian, enemies to lovers, feminine rage, women’s awakening, lies and betrayal and deceit, family trauma and drama, post apocalyptic book is amazing! I love everything Nisha writes, and she did not disappoint with this one. 100% recommend!
Storm Breaker #1 - Nisha J. Tuli
Tethered Love 💗💗💗💗by Ann Einerson | Romance
Usually I’m not a surprise pregnancy gal, but this one was sweet and won me over!
I loved how our two MCs despised each other and the banter was bantering!! And all it took was one night of partying at...
Tethered Love | Ann Einerson | Pre Order | Releases July 17, 2026
One sitting. I listened to this in one sitting!!!!
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The Good Girl Effect by @saracatebooks was salacious and I drank it up!
These are the tropes…..
👩❤️👨Single Dad x Nanny
🚪 Forced Proximity
🪢 Rope Bondage
💋 S3x Club
🥈 Second Gen...
The Good Girl Effect (Salacious Legacy, #1) by Sara Cate
Yall….hold on to your britches cause this one is next level!!
I didn’t think Jessica Peterson could make me love a cowboy more than the lucky River ranch boys, but my goodness….COLT is my new fav! And this story and audiobook was freaking spectacular...
Colt (Double U Ranch Book 1) eBook
I love it when a book just does it for me.
Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune did it for me.
I was so invested and even just in a trance with this story and these characters. The way the author sets up the story bouncing from childhood memories ...
Our Perfect Storm: Fortune, Carley: 9780593953242
let me tell yall. This is one of those stories where you NEED to see the FMC get a win, and man this book literally tries her from start to finish. She has been through the ringers of life, in literally every aspect possible, and she keeps taking hit...
Kissed by the Gods (The Eternal Wars, #1) by Caty Rogan
🥃BOURBON BET🥃 by @dkmarieauthor
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I loved that this story, beautifully crafted by DK Marie had a little bit of everything.
We had a little bit of lust and love. We have past traumas of betrayal that caused rifts of mistrust. We have a set ...
The Bourbon Bet: A Steamy Billionaire Romance
Whhhheeeeeew! WOW—where do I begin?!
The Daddy’s Girl by Sara Cate 💋💋💋💋🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Salacious Legacy Series is actually the perfect name for this series because it is so hot and steamy 🥵🔥
When we say forbidden love in a spicy romance, I mean...
The Daddy's Girl (Salacious Legacy, #3) by Sara Cate
Romcom Queen Meghan Quinn delivered all the goodness with Just For the Cameras 💞
Literally romance gold, and I giggled the whole freakin time!
Honestly, the group of guys in this book, and their damn group chat was the cherry on top too. So good, ...
Just for the Cameras (Bay Area Players, #1)
This was such a great fall romance!!!
Falling For Mr. October by @angelacasellaauthor
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If you’re looking for a fall kickoff romance that has all the small town, lovey dovey, tropetastic vibes, this is your book!
The Nonnas in the retireme...
Falling for Mr. October by Angela Casella (Pre-Order ...
You guys! This was excellent!
The Fae Captain’s Thief by @ellethrasherauthor was exciting what my reading palette needed.
I love everything from the Norwegian setting, to the elemental magic system, to the monsters and myths, to the MCS, the evolu...
The Fae Captain's Thief
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Let’s just keep it a buck, LJ Andrews- Dark Fantasy Romance Author always comes through. If she writes it, I read it, and I’m always enamored with her stories.
Stolen Crown is the latest story of the Ever Seas series, and if you need a ...
The Stolen Crown by LJ Andrews
Sooooo usually when I read a novella, it’s just a cute little palette cleanser in between all the major plot points of a series. Usually I don’t learn anything new, it’s just to keep me engaged. But Threahing Day! I feel like you can’t skip this! It’...
Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection)
It took me a week to process this book. Soooooo.I still don’t have the words. It’s been a week. And I just can’t.
LJ Claren respectfully, what have you done to me?! But also, thank you. This is the epitome of a devastating love story and we love to ...
The Incendiary (The Selvaren, #2) by L.J. Claren
You have to read OR listen to this one!
Just when you thought Meghan Quinn had reached the top of romcom stories, she moves the standard, again! PURE GOLD!!!
If haven’t listened to Just For The Cameras yet, do it! If you have, please dear Romcom Lo...
Just for the Plot (Bay Area Players, #2) by Meghan Quinn
DARK romantasy. I mean DAAAAARK — but with a little light guiding the way.
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The Court of Ravens duo by Liv Zander was maybe the best duo I’ve ever read.
The pasts of every person, raven, place, and anything else in this duo, all intertwined...
Court of Ravens Series by Liv Zander
🍃The Hands That Treat by Kristen H Casey is a paranormal romance with a murder mystery set in moody New Orleans with mystical vibes crossed with a gothic Cajun flair. 🍃
Looking for a mature FMC? Look no further! Ophelia grew up watching her grand...
The Hands That Treat | Kristen H. Casey | 9798995177609