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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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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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