Title: The Marriage ContractSeries: Azure Ridge #2 Author: Selena SandersGenre: Contemporary RomanceTropes: Small Town/Marriage of ConvenienceMisunderstanding/Arranged MarriageRelease Date: April 25, 2025 BLURB Trace MillerI had one ticket out of the suffocating expectations of my powerful Montana ranching family: an escape from the arranged marriage my father had decreed.But my rebellion takes an unexpected turn when my younger brother steps in to take my place at the altar.It's my Continue Reading
Review: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily HenryContemporary RomanceApril 22, 2025 by BerkleyARC Review by Angela Anybody who knows my reading tastes knows I really enjoy anything Emily Henry writes. I will even admit to emailing this publisher about advanced reading copies when I couldn't find the ARC anywhere on the usual sites. So, when it finally hit my Kindle, I was overjoyed and eager to read. Great Big Beautiful Life is a romance sandwiched between the story of a powerful family. Continue Reading
Review: Bold Moves by Emma Barry
Bold Moves by Emma BarryContemporary Romance April 22, 2025, by Montlake Review by Melanie There are second chance romances and then there’s Bold Moves, Emma Barry’s latest book, which takes the second chance romance trope and injects it with so much angst and heartache that at a certain point, I was concerned just how the two MCs would make their way back to each other. But fear not, dear readers, this is after all a romance novel and one of the best parts of our much beloved genre Continue Reading
Retro Review: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky
Review originally posted 5/18/2022 by Kate H. Never Been Kissed by Timothy JanovskyLGBTQIA Contemporary RomanceMay 3, 2022 by Sourcebooks Casablanca Wren Roland is about to graduate college. A passionate film buff, with two great best friends, Wren came out in the year before the book Never Been Kissed begins. His friends seem eager to help him socially, but Wren isn’t sure why his romantic and sexual experiences seem to be on a different timeline than everyone Continue Reading
Review: Passion Project by London Sperry
Passion Project by London SperryContemporary Romance April 8, 2025, by Penguin Books Review by Melanie Let me be very upfront before I get into the real bones of this book that this book may not be for everyone. It is, as some would term it, a Sad Girl Romance ™. (I don’t know who coined that phrase, it certainly wasn’t me). It is also a CAPITAL S Slow Burn romance - there is an open door sex scene but the first kiss doesn’t even occur until 70% in so again, if all that is not your Continue Reading
Release Blitz- The Accidental Marriage by Nadia Lee
Title: The Accidental MarriageA Grumpy Billionaire Romance Author: Nadia Lee Genre: Contemporary RomanceTropes: Fake Marriage/Forced ProximityHe Falls First/He Falls Harder/Runaway Bride Release Date: April 4, 2025 BLURB Having been kidnapped by his mother at age ten and left to die in a fire, billionaire lawyer Ares Huxley trusts no one. But he needs a wife to get a critical promotion at his law firm, and wakes up the morning after a friend’s bachelor party to find that he’s somehow Continue Reading
Release Spotlight- No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel
No Ordinary Love by Myah ArielBlack & African American Romance / Sports Romance/ Contemporary RomanceApril 1, 2025- Berkley About the Book In NO ORDINARY LOVE, popstar Ella Simone has a life that others could only dream of. On paper, she is at the height of her music career and married to the perfect man, a renowned music producer who has helped her garner record hits, awards, and adoring fans. In reality, Ella is undergoing divorce proceedings with the powerful Elliot Majors Continue Reading
Release Boost- His Second Chance Fiancée by Juliette Hyland
Title: His Second Chance FiancéeSeries: Walkins, Wyoming #1Author: Juliette HylandGenre: Contemporary RomanceTropes: Small Town/Reunion/Coming HomeFormer High School Sweethearts/Tech HeroRelease Date: March 17, 2025 BLURBFailure is a bitter pill. When Finn Matus left home a decade ago, he vowed never to taste it again. His new life, and successful tech company, are in San Francisco. He's only in Walkins, Wyoming, to settle his uncle's estate and find the widow who took advantage of the man who Continue Reading
Review: The Love Simulation by Etta Easton
The Love Simulation by Etta EastonContemporary RomanceMarch 4, 2025, by Berkley Review by Melanie One of my favorite tropes in contemporary romance is forced proximity and The Love Simulation employs that trope with such an unique premise that really charmed me. Brianna, the FMC, is a middle school vice-principal. Dedicated to her students and to her job, her main goal is to upgrade the library at her school so that her students have access to more current books. Unfortunately Continue Reading
Review: Rustler Mountain by Maisey Yates
Rustler Mountain by Maisey YatesContemporary RomanceFebruary 25, 2025 by Kensington Review by Angela I feel like contemporary romance hasn't really been my thing lately, but I saw a Threads post for this release, and it mentioned things like "bad boy hero who likes the library" and "good girl librarian" and also hinted at sexy library loving and I realized that maybe I should jump back on the contemporary wagon again with this opposites attract, enemies to lovers, small town romance. Continue Reading