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  • Romantic Tension and Humor in The Bodyguard Affair
    Romance

    Romantic Tension and Humor in The Bodyguard Affair

    The Bodyguard Affair by Amy Lea (Dec 2, 2025) Thank you, @berkleyromance and @prhaudio for the #gifted copies! #berkleyromance #berkley #prhaudioinfluencer Noah Crosby just got an appointment as the Canadian Prime Minister’s Chief Protection Officer but the main reason for his return to his hometown after years away is to care for his mother after…

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  • A Quirky Murder and Romance in the Hands of Jenny Moke: A Review
    Romance

    A Quirky Murder and Romance in the Hands of Jenny Moke: A Review

    Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies by Jenny Elder Moke (Jan 20, 2025) Thank you, @macmillan.audio for the #gifted advanced listening copy! #macaudio2025 Publishing exec Juliette Winters doesn’t have time for love or friendships. She’s too busy trying to keep the publishing company afloat and if she can finally get her hands on the…

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  • Grief, Ghosts, and Love in ‘Seeing Other People’
    Romance

    Grief, Ghosts, and Love in ‘Seeing Other People’

    Seeing Other People by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka (Dec 9, 2025) Thank you, @berkleyromance and @prhaudio for the #gifted copies! #berkleyromance #berkley #prhaudioinfluencer  If you love tender-hearted romances, you need to grab this one! Zach and Morgan went on one date. ONE DATE. Which is why she finds it particularly infuriating that, upon his…

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  • Why I Couldn’t Put Down Iman Hariri-Kia’s Female Fantasy
    Fantasy, Romance

    Why I Couldn’t Put Down Iman Hariri-Kia’s Female Fantasy

    Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia (Oct 14, 2025) This is one of those books that hooked me at the cover and then the description made me want to read it immediately. I grabbed the print and audio copies on Hoopla! This is very much two books in one: Joonie, a romance lover goes on a…

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  • Heart the Lover Review: A Journey Through Academia and Emotions
    Fiction

    Heart the Lover Review: A Journey Through Academia and Emotions

    Heart the Lover by Lily King (Sept 30, 2025) I was inspired by a number of reviews of this one to grab it, first among them @books_with_bex because if she rates a book 5 stars, I stand up (ok, sit up) and pay attention. Twenty years ago, in her senior year, Jordan meets intensely academic…

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  • Fun Holiday Read: Romance, Bookstores, and Second Chances
    Romance, Spicy

    Fun Holiday Read: Romance, Bookstores, and Second Chances

    Booked for the Holidays by Erin Hawkins (Oct 24, 2025) I inhaled the first book in this connected stand-alone series and love it when the second book retraces some of the events from the first book but from a new POV. Juniper has finally achieved her goal of opening a romance-only bookstore in her small…

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