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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

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

IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER BY TESSA BAILEY

9/10/2021

It Happened One Summer is the perfect beach read and exactly what I was looking for in terms of a lighter, funnier romance. I’m so excited to see what happens with Piper’s sister in the next book!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 13, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: It Happened One Summer series #1 (stand alone)
Pages: 419 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington.

Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her

WELCOME BACK TO RAMBLING TEXAS BY JUNE FAVER

8/16/2021

Welcome Back to Rambling Texas is a sweet, small town romance. If you enjoy the Blessings, Georgia series by Sharon Sala then I think you’d enjoy this one!

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Small Town Romance
Series: A Visit to Rambling Texas #1
Pages: 281 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

For fans of Carolyn Brown, Sherryl Woods, and Sharon Sala, comes a heartfelt, Southern second chance story for a single mom and her rambunctious young daughter.

Reggie Lee Stafford is a hometown girl living in Rambling, the town in Texas Hill Country where she grew up. As a single mom, her world revolves around her young daughter and her great job writing for the local newspaper. But her peaceful life is turned upside down when Frank Bell—the bane of Reggie's teenage existence—returns to town to claim his inheritance.

Now, Frank is the owner of the local paper where Reggie works. Reggie can't imagine going to work every day and seeing her old

FIRST AND TENSION BY TARA SIVEC

8/9/2021

Tara Sivec always writes the best characters! I want to befriend them all and live on Summersweet Island with them! That being said, this is a pleasurable read and I recommend it!

Rating: ★★★★ (3.5 stars)
Release Date: June 10, 2021
Genre: Sports Romantic Comedy
Series: Summersweet Island series #4
Pages: 387 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

It all started with a dare.

Emily Flanagan has been living her dreams the last four years as a professional cheerleader for the Los Angeles Vipers, thousands of miles away from her tiny hometown of Summersweet Island, Virginia. She’s got the world at the tips of her pom-poms... until she tells her boss to shove those pom-poms where the sun doesn’t shine.

After spending her last night in California with her biggest crush, Emily flies back home to Summersweet, resigned to her boring fate of running her parents’ business, never to be heard from again. Besides, there’s no use crying over a man who lives on the other side of the country, who she’ll never see again.

“Secret love affair for the new quarterback of the Virginia Beach Sharks, or a shocking tale of infidelity, leading all the way back to a birthday party Quinn Bagley threw at his previous home in Calabasas five months ago? New photos of the mystery redhead

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?

SPRING AT SADDLE RUN BY DELORES FOSSEN

7/15/2021

Delores Fossen has written a unique and irresistible cowboy romance with Spring at Saddle Run! I love how the story not only has a slow burning romance but a bit of a mystery too!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 25, 2021
Genre: Small Town. Cowboy/Rancher Romance
Series: Last Ride Texas #1
Pages: 316 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

The truth about a small-town scandal unleashes one wildly unexpected romance.

Millie Parkman Dayton is still healing from the fatal car accident that claimed her husband and turned her into the focus of local gossip. But when she’s thrown together with the sexy rancher who shares in her tragic past, new rumors begin to fly in Last Ride, Texas.

Single dad Joe McCann is focused on running his ranch and raising his daughter. He has no desire to help Millie unearth his late wife’s past, especially if it means revealing painful secrets. Until his daughter teams up with Millie and the widower cowboy finds himself agreeing to help them with their project—and opening the door to a deep attraction he thought he’d never find again.

WHEN WE MET BY SHEY STAHL

6/19/2021

While this book was problematic for me in a lot of ways, I did end up enjoying it (mainly because of the kids). I think the main characters were extremely immature and lackluster, but I laughed a lot, so I had to give it three stars.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: April 9, 2021
Genre: Small Town Romance. Romantic Comedy.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 347 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

When Kacy Conner crashes her car into the side of my repair shop, I should have ignored it.

Given the damage to the building and her car, I couldn’t. But I didn’t have to offer her a place to stay. None of it had to do with her being stranded in our small town or those beautiful blue eyes. And it certainly did not have to do with her contagious laughter or that she’s crazy sexy and feisty.

I’m lying.

It has everything to do with her.

Now I have to think of a reason to make her stay past the two weeks it takes to fix her car.

And I’m enlisting the help of my two adorable daughters. I know,

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.

SOMEBODY TO LOVE BY SHARON SALA

5/20/2021

Sharon Sala writes the most incredibly UPLIFTING romances! This book was exactly what I needed, and I fell in love with the story just as fast as these characters fell in love with each other.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: February 23, 2021
Genre: Second Chance Romance
Series: Blessings, Georgia #11 (can standalone)
Pages: 303 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Welcome to Blessings, Georgia! Whether you've lived here your whole life, you're returning after years of being away, or you're new in town, you're sure to find the love in a small town happy ending you're looking for.

Fifteen years ago, a family member stole the money Hunt Knox had saved for college, while three of his siblings and his father hid the truth and told him to get over it. Betrayed by their lies and thievery, Hunt joined the army and wound up flying Apache helicopters in Iraq. Now, he's a chopper pilot for an oil company in Houston, Texas, his father has been dead for six years, and he's finally returning home to Blessings at his mother's dying request.

Ava Ridley, the little girl Hunt's mother used to babysit, has grown up and is a nurse at his mother's bedside when he arrives. Ava is overjoyed to see him. She had a huge crush on him when she was

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