Contemporary Romance
And The Crowd Went Wild by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Dabney: Susan Elizabeth Phillips published her first Chicago Stars book, It Had to Be You, in 1994. The book, featuring a tall, rugged football coach named Dan and a curvy…
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The Plight Before Christmas
The Plight Before Christmas needs an editor, has leads in their late thirties who behave at least ten years younger, and manufactures so much angst in its final few chapters…
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Hunk for the Holidays
Hunk for the Holidays knows exactly what it is: a light Christmas love story that exists just to entertain. Lane leans into the charm of a slightly ridiculous premise and,…
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Duet
Duet, the first in Julie Kriss’ Road Kings series, has a sweetheart of a smokin’ hot rock star improbably named Denver who spends much of this slight tale trying to…
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Rebel Bride
Hatch Kershaw, NFL hockey star (of the fictional Chicago Rebels) and son of one of the sport’s greats, doesn’t want to be at the wedding of his asshat teammate Dash…
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Love Sick
I met my husband, a surgeon, in the last year of his final residency, and for the next fifteen years watched him train residents of his own. I have never,…
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Scotch on the Rocks
I love this book. It’s sexy, very funny, moving, grounded in its sense of place, and just—well—yummy. It’s easily the best contemporary romance I’ve read this year. Callum Macabe met…
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Left of Forever
Do you feel you’ve missed out in life by not being a marriage counselor? Do you long to spend hours of time in the company of two 30 somethings with…
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Just This Once
This book should have been a novella. The premise is fine for 150 pages: a San Francisco marketing executive, burnt out and in need of a break, books a solo…
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Promise Me Sunshine
I wasn’t in the mood for a grief novel. Lately, real life has been more than generous on that front. A story about a woman paralyzed by the loss of…
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Addicted
Charlotte Stein doesn’t write predictable love stories, and Addicted is no exception. It resists easy classification. The book is erotic and introspective, crude in places but surprisingly gentle, and uninterested…
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You Give Me That Feeling
Readers kept telling me Julie Kriss was worth it. After reading the Riggs Brothers series, I wasn’t convinced. The books were fun, but they skated on charm more than substance….
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