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Broken Souls and Bones
Broken Souls and Bones, the first book in L.J. Andrews’ Stonegate series, promises magic, mystery, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance set in a Viking-inspired fantasy world. Unfortunately, the execution is…
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Hardly a Gentleman
Desperate after her season comes to a spectacularly disastrous end, the Honorable Miss Clara Vetry jumps into a carriage hired to take a housekeeper to Scotland. The laird of Castle…
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Never Love a Lawman
Jo Goodman is reissuing her Reidsville (Colorado) series, starting with Never Love a Lawman. It’s about time. These books have been too hard to find for too long. Goodman’s Westerns…
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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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The Gods Time Forgot
Mythology is a long-time love of mine, especially when it collides with history. Add in a Gilded Age backdrop, and I’m already halfway to devotion. So when I read the…
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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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Count My Lies
Count My Lies is the kind of psychological thriller that reminds you why compulsive books are a gift. There’s nothing quite like tearing through pages, utterly engrossed, as tension builds…
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Broken Country
At first, Broken Country sets the stage for a familiar kind of novel—a love triangle stretched across decades, a quiet life disrupted by the return of an old flame, an…
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Shadow and Tide
Rachel Greenlaw’s Shadow and Tide, the second book in her Compass and Blade trilogy, doesn’t lose its way, but it does drift. It expands the world, raises the stakes, and…
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Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister’s Famous Last Words doesn’t start with a murder, a car chase, or an anonymous text—it starts with a husband who simply isn’t where he’s supposed to be. That’s…
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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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Make Me Beg
The last of the Riggs Brothers books lands as smoothly as Dex Riggs himself—reckless, a little messy, but somehow still on its feet. I’d been curious about Dex—sure that, like…
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