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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.

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

THE EX HEX BY ERIN STERLING

9/28/2021

Erin Sterling has cast a spell on me because I couldn’t stop reading this one! Filled with magic and romance this is going to be THE book to read in the lead up to Halloween! I loved it so much.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: September 28, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy. Witches. Magic.
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 318 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Publisher.

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong.

Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two.

That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. With one calamity

WHEN SPARKS FLY BY HELENA HUNTING

9/20/2021

I love the best friends to lover’s trope because I get to see how the dynamics change from friend to lover. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. In this case, it worked but it lacked the chemistry I was hoping for.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: September 21, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 320 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher.

Charming, hilarious, and emotional...When Sparks Fly is Helena Hunting at her very best!

Avery Spark is living her best life. Between her friends, her sisters, and Spark House, the event hotel her family owns, she doesn’t have much time for anything else, especially relationships. She’d rather hang out with her best friend and roommate, Declan McCormick, than deal with the dating scene. But everything changes when she is in a car accident and needs someone to care for her as she heals.

Declan avoids relationships, giving him a playboy reputation that he lives up to when he puts a one-night stand ahead of a promise he made to Avery. While he may not have been the one driving the car, he feels responsible for Avery’s injuries and is determined to make it up to her by stepping into the role of caretaker.

A LOT LIKE ADIOS BY ALEXIS DARIA

9/14/2021

A Lot Like Adios is the perfect companion to You Had Me at Hola. It was so much fun to go back to the city with these hilarious characters and their charming romances.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: September 14, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: Can Stand Alone.
Pages: 416 pages
Format: eBook Source: Publisher.

The national bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola returns with a seductive second-chance romance about a commitment-phobic Latina and her childhood best friend who has finally returned home.

Hi Mich. It’s Gabe.

After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She’s perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago.

It’s been a long time.

Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents’

WE'RE MADE OF MOMENTS BY MOLLY MCLAIN

8/1/2021

We’re Made of Moments is one of those books that moves you. Single parent romances always tend to do this to me, but then when you add second chances with it the story becomes even more touching.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: April 9, 2021
Genre: Small Town. Second Chance Romance.
Series: Cole Creek series #1 (can stand alone).
Pages: 404 pages
Format: eBook Source: Purchased

We were made of moments.

A handful of nights.
Two weeks of passion.
Four years of denial.

-Jesse-
She was never mine to keep, still I took every second that girl was willing to give me.
I always knew she’d go back to him.
But I never expected she’d take a piece of me with her.

-Hayden-
He changed my life forever, and it happened long before our two weeks together.
I didn’t mean to fall for him.
But how could I not when he gave me the most precious gift of all?

BENEATH THE STARS BY EMILY MCINTIRE

5/29/2021

Emily McIntire is a new to me author and I’m glad I started reading her. Beneath the Stars is the epitome of a southern romance and I loved the characters twang and the authenticity in regard to the true south!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Genre: Second Chance | Small Town | Southern Romance
Series: Sugarlake series#1 (can standalone)
Pages: 406 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

Alina
I was eleven when I met Chase Adams. I loved him before I knew what lovin' was.
I pulled, he pushed.
I gave, he took.
I loved... I lost.
Now he's back. All grown up and sexy as sin.
But things changed while he was gone. So, he can show those dimples and flex those muscles all he wants. It won't change a thing.
Chase Adams is nothin' but a lost memory. I'll do everything I can to keep him that way.

Chase
Growing up, there were only two women I ever loved.

TEQUILA ROSE BY WILLOW WINTERS

5/16/2021

I really wanted to love Tequila Rose, but it fell really flat for me. The book is too rushed for such an angsty plot.

Rating: ★★
Release Date: February 23, 2021
Genre: Second Chance | One Night Stand
Series: Tequila Rose #1 (Ends in Cliffhanger)
Pages: 242 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Purchased.

He tasted like tequila and the fake name I gave him was Rose.

Four years ago, I decided to get over one man, by getting under another. A single night and nothing more.

I found my handsome stranger with a shot glass and charming but devilish smile at the end of the bar. The desire that hit his eyes the second they landed on me ignited a spark inside me, instant and hot. He was perfect and everything I didn’t know I needed. That one night may have ended, but I left with much more than a memory.

Four years later, and with a three-year-old in tow, the man I still dream about is staring at me from across the street in the town I grew up in. I don’t miss the flash of recognition, or the heat in his gaze.

The chemistry is still there, even after all these years.

CLUTCH PLAYER BY NIKKI ASH

5/7/2021

I absolutely loved EVERYTHING about this book. It’s an easy read without ANY unnecessary drama, and it grabs a hold of the heart right from the start. I highly recommend it.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: May 17, 2020
Genre: Second Chance Romance
Series: A Hero Club Novel #2 (complete standalone)
Pages: 323 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

Harper
I fell in love when I was sixteen. Landon was my entire world and I thought he would be my forever. But I was young and dumb, and with one error in judgement, I destroyed any chance of a future we could’ve had together, along with our hearts.

Twelve years later and I’m going through the motions of life, but not actually living. Which is why I let my friends, Bridget and Simon, set me up on a blind date. Turns out, it’s not so blind after all. Because the man sitting in front of me is the same man who’s held onto my heart all these years.

Landon
They call me a Clutch Player because I’m good under pressure and quick on my feet. I was also quick to fall in love. The first time it was with baseball, the second was with Harper. And for a short time I had them both.

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