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MORE THAN THIS BY JAY MCLEAN

11/25/2021

More Than This is an incredibly tender and emotional read. Experiencing love at a young adult never feels realistic in romance novels but in this one it does.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Genre: New Adult Romance. Emotional.
Series: More Than series #1
Pages: 287 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Purchased.

When Mikayla imagined her prom night, she envisioned a fairy-tale evening full of romance. So when betrayal and tragedy come in quick succession, Mikayla is completely destroyed. Suddenly, everything she loved and everyone she relied on are tragically, irrevocably gone.

Jake, a handsome boy she just met, happens to witness her loss. With no one to turn to, Mikayla is forced to depend on this near stranger and his family, and he in turn is determined to take care of her. But Mikayla—thrust into adulthood with no one to guide her—is desperate to contain her grief and hide what she considers to be her weakness. Mikayla and Jake both want more, but despite their growing closeness and intense chemistry, she tries to keep her distance and protect her heart. As he does everything in his power to win her trust, Mikayla must choose between remaining alone and safe or letting love in.

HOPELESS BY COLLEEN HOOVER

11/24/2021

Who is the one author every person should read in their lifetime? Colleen Hoover. Her books, like this one, are exquisitely breathtaking, realistic, stunning, and all other adjectives associated with the word beautiful.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Genre: Young Adult Romance. Emotional.
Series: Hopeless #1
Pages: 418 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…

That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past she wishes could just stay buried.

Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.

THE BROMANCE BOOK CLUB BY LYSSA KAY ADAMS

11/21/2021

The Bromance Book Club is both funny and emotional! Touted as a romantic comedy I wasn’t expecting the heaviness this novel dealt with, but I still ended up liking it!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Genre: Second Chance Romantic Comedy.
Series: Bromance Book Club #1
Pages: 350 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

The first rule of book club: You don't talk about book club.

Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him.

Welcome to the Bromance Book Club.
Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife.

THE FISHERMAN DUET BY JEWELL E. ANN

11/10/2021

May I introduce to you one of the best books I’ve read in 2021? Because this one right here is it. You need this book if you love age gap, forbidden romances!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: September 30, 2021
Genre: Age Gap. Forbidden Romance.
Series: Fisherman duet #1
Pages: 326 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Jewel E. Ann returns with an addictive new adult romance about a young woman who discovers years of Sunday sermons didn’t prepare her for the many lessons of the crude and sexy man who is now her boss.

It's official.

I'm eighteen and a young woman with endless possibilities on my way to reunite with my mom in Colorado after five years apart—she had a little weed incident in Nebraska.

At the airport, she springs the news on me ... she's leaving for a month of job training. And me? I'm left on my own in the basement she's renting from the fisherman, aka her landlord who lives upstairs.

ALL THE UGLY AND WONDERFUL THINGS BY BRYN GREENWOOD

11/5/2021

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things is an unexpected, controversial, and overwhelmingly beautiful novel of a love that runs so deep it’s hard for others to understand.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Genre: Literary Fiction. Taboo/Age Gap Romance.
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 421 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.

As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps

ALL OF ME DUET BY SIOBHAN DAVIS

11/2/2021

Say I’m the One is an intense and emotional rollercoaster of a romance. Once you start you can’t stop! And once it ends, you’ll be immediately picking up the next one. Don’t say I didn’t warn you 😉.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: April 30, 2021
Genre: Love Triangle Romance. New Adult.
Series: All of Me Duet #1
Pages: 560 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

From the USA Today bestselling author of Inseparable and When Forever Changes comes another emotional, angsty, new adult romance that will rip your heart apart before mending it again.

#42 IN THE ENTIRE STORE
#1 Multicultural romance bestseller

I’m head over heels in love with my best friend. Although, I can’t pinpoint exactly when Reeve Lancaster became my entire world. Was it when we were little kids, practically brought up together, after Reeve’s mom died during childbirth and his dad subsequently fell apart? Or when I doodled his name in my school journal at age ten? Maybe it was when we became boyfriend and girlfriend at fourteen or when we shed our virginity at sixteen, pledging our forever?

I was there as his star ascended—like I’d always known it would—and there wasn’t a prouder person on the planet. As the only child

ROOMMATE BY SARINA BOWEN

10/28/2021

Sarina Bowen knows how to write swoony MM romances, so it comes to me as no surprise that this is another winner. If you enjoy the genre, grab this one!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: January 12, 2021
Genre: Standalone MM Romance
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 304 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Wanted: One roommate to share a 3-bedroom house, split the rent, and ideally not be the guy I can’t stop thinking about.

I’m a man with too many secrets, so the last thing I need is a new roommate with a sexy smile and blue eyes that see right through me. Eight years ago, Roderick left town after high school. We’re not friends. I owe him nothing. But back then, I let one of my secrets slip, and he’s the only one who noticed.

Part of me knows I should run far, far away. But the other part wants him to come upstairs and spend the night. But if I let him in, I could lose everything.

Seeking: a room to rent in town. I’m tidy, have no pets, and I will feed you homemade bread.

I should probably add: Gay AF, and has no filter. It’s no wonder my new landlord is so wary of me.

WILD NORTH BY JB SALSBURY

10/23/2021

If you love a romance with a tortured hero then you need Wild North in your life. This is an undeniably good read with characters I fell in love with instantly.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 18, 2021
Genre: Contemporary Romance.
Series: North Brothers series #1
Pages: 253 pages
Format: Kindle. Source: Purchased

To me, he was Grizzly.
To the world, I would learn, he’s someone else completely.

I should have died on that mountain.
But he rescued me.

More animal than man, he’s cold, distant, and fiercely territorial. He seems to hate me for simply breathing, and yet, he brought me back to life.

After my return to the city, I can’t stop thinking about him. His rough hands, intense glare, and the way he cared for me as if I meant something to him.

He tells me he’s dangerous. That I’m not safe around him. I would eventually understand why he warned me away. But by then it’s too late. My heart is his.

DIAL A FOR AUNTIES BY JESSE Q. SUTANTO

10/20/2021

Who knew that murder and mayhem could be so funny? Jesse Q. Sutanto kills it with this hilarious and whip smart read! I devoured it in one sitting.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: April 27, 2021
Genre: Romcom / Murder Mystery
Series: Aunties series #1
Pages: 319 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family?

You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!

When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business—"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's

RESCUING HARMONY RANCH BY JENNIE MARTS

10/7/2021

Rescuing Harmony Ranch is a sweet, small town, second chance romance! If you are a Hallmark movie fan like I am then this is a book you don’t want to miss!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: February 23, 2021
Genre: Second Chance. WholesomeRomance.
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 227 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

A bearded blacksmith
and a marketing exec
join forces…and sparks fly.

When Jocelyn’s grandmother calls her asking for help, she drops everything and heads back home to Harmony Creek, Colorado. Her grandmother runs a living history museum: a ranch and homestead where volunteers wear clothing from the early 1900s and demonstrate how things were done in the old West, from making soap to shearing sheep. The place is in financial trouble, and it needs the revenue from the annual festival to survive.

There’s just one thing that makes this a little awkward: Mack, who’s divorced, and who’s now the caretaker and blacksmith at the homestead. Jocelyn and Mack have their own shared history, which includes both stolen kisses and teenage rivalry.

Even as the past and present collide, they have to save Harmony Ranch. Matchmaking grannies, a meddling mutt, and a flood of fun

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