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Protecting You & Fighting for Us

The Bailey Brothers series, by the prolific self-published author Kingsley, comes highly recommended by some of our readers. Curious what the fuss was about, I decided to give the series…

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Return to Monte Carlo

Cate C. Wells’ latest offering, Return to Monte Carlo, attempts to revisit the sizzling romance novels of the 1980s, but instead, sinks into a morass of missed chances, icky sex…

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After That Night

Looking for a light, fun read? Karin Slaughter’s latest addition to the GBI Special Agent Will Trent and Dr. Sara Linton series is not it. This book, the 11th installment…

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Starling House

Alix Harrow’s latest offering, Starling House, transports readers to the heart of Eden, Kentucky, a town wrestling with the ghosts of its past—racism, environmental decay, and the decline of coal…

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Tom Lake

Set in the crucible of Spring 2020, as the pandemic’s grip tightened, Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake is a marvel. The narrative takes place over a few weeks on a family…

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The Rebel King

The Rebel King is the second in Maxwell’s Deviant Kings series and, like the first, it features a fae king with a penchant for wink-wink kink. Its hero, Tiernan Verran,…

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Not That Duke

Not That Duke begins with this author’s note: There’s no need to have read The Reluctant Countess, but if you have, you’ll notice that Part 1 of Not That Duke takes…

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Fortune Favors the Viscount

Caroline Linden is one of my favorite historical romance novelists. Her Scandalous series is one of my favorites in the genre–Love and Other Scandals is flat out fabulous–and I’ve enjoyed…

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Rebel at Heart

Rebel at Heart is my first Zoe York book–I can see why other AAR reviewers have so enjoyed her work. Very sexy, nicely funny, and with leads you’d like to…

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Good As Gold

In Good As Gold, Sarina Bowen gives us another couple in her True North‘s small town Vermont. Matteo Rossi and Lelia Giltmaker have loved each other since they were teens…

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Forever Your Rogue

In the author’s note of her debut novel, Forever Your Rogue, Erin Langston writes: I had been halfheartedly researching an entirely different plot for Forever Your Rogue when I stumbled…

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Homecoming

Toward the end of Kate Morton’s magnificent new novel, Homecoming, she writes: Reading shapes a person. The landscape of books is more real, in some ways, than the one outside…

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