The Magnolia Sisters is a contemporary romance set on a Northern California flower farm. Featuring Pride and Prejudice vibes, a loving send-up and subversion of small-town romances the tropes we love (and sometimes love to hate) in them, and a plus-size heroine, The Magnolia Sisters is the perfect escapist romance! Excerpt Our hero, Luke Martin, has just walked in on our heroine, trying on wedding dresses on “behalf” of Luke’s meddling, matchmaking sister. He didn’t know the Continue Reading
Guest Post: Second Chances Romances by Amanda Weaver
Amanda Weaver's new novel, Love Around the Corner, is out now, Amanda is here to talk about one of my favorite tropes- Second Chance. I think people love reading second chance romances because most of us have someone in our past we still wonder about, some relationship that didn’t end the way we wanted it to. Don’t we all secretly google that one who got away to see how their life has worked out? Gemma, the heroine in Love Around the Corner has definitely googled her ex, although she’d die Continue Reading
Top Ten March 6, 2020
We made it another week y’all! And it’s March. It feels like Spring is going to arrive here in Maryland any day now and I am not sad to say goodbye to winter. Here are just a few of the things that I saw on the interweb that captured my attention. 10. Are you on Instagram? The Ripped Bodice created a filter for what romance trope are you. Check it out. View this post on Instagram Our first two instagram filters are live! What romance trope are you? 💕 Continue Reading
Did Not Finish Friday
I like to do an occasional wrap up of books that I did not finish. I am a fickle mood reader and DNFing a book doesn’t necessarily mean it was a bad book, it typically just means it did not work for me at that moment. Sometimes I like to think I will go back and try it again but that has happened maybe twice in all my years of reading/reviewing. Walk Me Home by Liza Kendall- This was out in January and I tried to read it but I couldn’t get into it. I couldn’t figure out what the story was Continue Reading
Guest Post: The Shatterproof Bond series by Isobel Starling
Isobel Starling stopped by to talk about her series The Shatterproof Bond which has been re-released. Check the bottom of this post to enter for a chance to win a copy of the series. Giveaway provided by the publicist and not operated by SmexyBooks The Shatterproof Bond series is a thriller M/M Romance story set between London, England, Scotland, and Europe. The protagonists are Scotsman Declan Ramsay and Englishman Samuel Aiken. When we first meet Declan he is in a bad Continue Reading
Guest Post: Themes in A Paradox of Fates by Rebecca Hefner
Rebecca's new book, A Paradox of Fates, Sci-Fi Romance, Dystopian Romance is out now. She stopped by to talk about the themes in the book. I always knew I’d write a romance about a theoretical physicist female protagonist one day. Why? Because to me, a self-proclaimed science dork, there’s nothing sexier than science. It can explain in exact terms why certain parts of our bodies flush with desire when being held in the arms of a lover. It also leads to a shared understanding Continue Reading
Excerpt: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing by Charlie Adhara
Charlie's latest novel, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing releases today and Charlie was kind enough to share an excerpt with us! Introduction: Snarky agent Cooper Dayton and his sweet, werewolf partner Oliver Park are back in this fourth book of the Big Bad Wolf series, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. Between hunting for a new house and navigating recent revelations regarding the power dynamics of his relationship, Cooper is almost relieved to be sent on a nice, distracting case. This time the guys are Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses- The Cowboy Edition with books by Carly Bloom and Rebekah Weatherspoon
I don’t read many Cowboy books these days. No real reason, they just kind of fell off my radar. A few weeks back, Forever Romance was doing an Instagram Read-A-Long of Big Bad Cowboy by Carly Bloom. They posted a quote that piqued my interest (that I can’t find now) and I messaged my friend Estelle, publicist extraordinaire at Forever, and said “I’m going to have to read this, aren’t I?” Estelle was kind enough to send me an e-ARC of Big Bad Cowboy. I dove right in. I had already had A Cowboy to Continue Reading
Guest Post: Romantic Comedy author Tawna Fenske shares her five favorite rom-com films
Tawna stopped by to talk about rom-com films. Tawna has a new book out this week called The Two-Date Rule I have a confession. Well, several of them, but most aren’t fit for public blog posts. My confession is that I do not actually enjoy movies. I don’t like television, either. There is one in my home, though I have no idea how to operate it. But once in a while, my film-loving husband will wear me down, and I’ll agree to watch something on a flickering screen. Sometimes, I even Continue Reading
Guest Post: Flutter My Eyelashes! Heroines Can Be Over Thirty by Cathy Maxwell
The heroine in HIS SECRET MISTRESS, the first book in “The Logical Men’s Society’s Guide to Dangerous Women,” is thirty-five. Yes, I did that. Kate is over thirty. And she has . . . sex! And if you are over thirty, I hope you are having plenty of sex, too. In fact, I suspect you probably are having better sex than you did in your twenties. Maybe not as much, but, hopefully, better. We know what to ask for now, right? When I wrote this story, I wasn’t thinking about Continue Reading