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Work Me Up
Imagine four men, each hotter than barbecue in August, who all find love in a gritty Michigan small town—welcome to Julie Kriss’s Riggs Brothers series. I’m reading them all. I…
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Take Me Down
I enjoyed the first Riggs Brothers book, Drive Me Wild. This one? Not so much. Jace—25, tall, muscled, and allegedly deep—just finished a 20-month sentence for grand theft auto. (The…
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Drive Me Wild
Westlake, Michigan is the kind of town where, in ways mostly bad, everyone knows your name and they never forget your sins. It’s a place young people leave as soon…
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Never Gamble Your Heart
I enjoyed the first book in this series, Never Blow a Kiss. It was wallpapery, sure, but very entertaining, with leads who sizzled and dialogue that made me laugh. This…
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Lady Anne’s Lover
This is–in some ways–an odd book. The mood is light and humorous and yet the hero struggles with alcoholism, the heroine is on the run from her father who has…
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Kill For Me Kill For You
Steve Cavanagh’s Kill For Me, Kill For You takes its cues from Strangers on a Train, whose premise has inspired works from the gripping (Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa…
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His Enemy’s Daughter
Terri Brisbin’s His Enemy’s Daughter is the third book in her Knights of Brittany trilogy, but it reads just fine on its own. Set in the time of William the…
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Beautiful Ugly
I am so over the big twist. You know what I’m talking about, right? They’re as common in thrillers today as six packs are in contemporary romance. These end of…
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A Sea of Unspoken Things
After 20 years away, James Golden returns to Hawthorne, a remote town nestled within Six Rivers National Forest, to settle the affairs of her twin brother, Johnny. His death has…
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It Takes a Thief
I have a soft spot for Anne Stuart’s books. When she’s at her best, her romances are a masterclass in dark, gripping romance, her heroes are morally iffy and complex…
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Elsewhere
In 2022, I was, in the best way, destroyed by Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. I thought it was my first experience with her fiction—until I came across…
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How To End a Love Story
How to End a Love Story is billed a romance shaped by grief and healing. It delivers a shallow, joyless hash instead. I’ve read it–you probably shouldn’t. This is a…
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