Fiction

The Love Destroyers (Unlucky in Love #4) by Angela R. Casella

This is a fun and flirty close proximity revenge romcom with a bad boy hero who falls first while he helps her get even.

Emma loses her job as an attorney when her boss/boyfriend dumps her and hooks up with her younger influencer client. She slinks home to stay with her mother as she licks her wounds and prepares to face the disciplinary board. During an event surrounding her brother’s wedding she confides in her hot soon-to-be brother-n-law Seamus, who tells her to get over it all she needs to get even. Seamus has his own troubles and shuns relationships because of his situation, but finds himself drawn to Emma and wanting to help her get her strength back. Together, they hatch a plan to get back at Emma’s boss/boyfriend and save her career. They both know it’s not a good idea to get involved, but their hearts don’t want to listen to their brains.

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February 12, 2025 0

Ridin’ Wild (Wild Stallions MC #1) by Annie Winston

Jenna Hayes has always played it safe—until a chance encounter with Maverick, a ruggedly irresistible biker from the Wild Stallions Motorcycle Club, flips her world upside down. He’s everything she shouldn’t want… but everything she can’t resist. Can a night on the wild side lead to the happily-ever-after Jenna never knew she needed?

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February 12, 2025 0

Sometimes You Fall (Carrington Cove #3) by Harlow James

This is book 3 in the Carrington Cove book series but can be read as a stand-alone. This time it’s Grady’s turn to fall in love. He’s a former MLB pitcher that was injured and had to retire early. He returned to his small hometown and bought an auto repair garage. He should be content, but he’s restless. His friends are settling down and he wants that too. Enter Scottie.

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January 17, 2025 0

Bingsu for Two by Sujin Witherspoon

This is an adorable Young Adult enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance involving high school students River and Sarang. River is lost and doesn’t know why. In one day he dumps his GF, walks out of the SATs, quits his job at the family-owned coffee shop, and takes a job at a rival coffee shop where is new enemy Sarang works. He knows he must do these things but can’t figure out the real reason why.

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January 16, 2025 0

Biology Lessons by Melissa Kantor

Five Reasons to Read Biology Lessons

Unwanted Teen Pregnancy

Strong, Supportive Female Friendships

Reproductive Rights

Body Autonomy

Timely and Realistic

Synopsis:

Biology Lessons is a heartfelt and profound YA contemporary young adult novel about the strength and importance of female friendship in a time when bodily autonomy is outlawed, from acclaimed author Melissa Kantor. It came out on January 14, 2025.

Grace Williams has her future all mapped out. A high school senior in her beloved state of Texas, Grace plans to move to New York after graduation to study at Barnard College, and maybe, someday, win a Nobel Prize in biology. When she’s asked to tutor Jack Nelson, the star baseball player who’s flunking bio, she thinks it’ll be just another activity to list on her college application.

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January 15, 2025 1

The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan

I really enjoyed this quick and easy contemporary read. Annie and Amanda are best friends with big plans to take L.A. by storm and become famous actresses. Their relationship is amazing. They just get each other. Their inside jokes and short cuts are the epitome of friends that have known each other most of their lives. Amanda loves Annie, but Annie is in love with Amanda. Not that she’s been brave enough to tell her, of course. When a tragedy occurs Annie flees town on her own and assumes a new identity as Cass.

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January 12, 2025 0

Royal Heirs Academy by Lindsey Duga

This is a good YA dark academia book that pits four teenagers against each other to become the heir to the King’s throne. Three of them are the royal grandchildren of the King who were sent away & raised by guardians out of the public eye. The fourth is a teenager that won a scholarship to the elite academy they are all sent to that is infamous for breeding the world’s next generation of leaders – and liars.

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January 9, 2025 0

The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf #2) by Richard Swan

Book 2 of the trilogy starts shortly after the Battle of Galen’s Vale. Justice Vonvalt returns to capital city Sova to find seeds of rebellion stirring. Senators openly speak against the Emperor and fanatics preach vengeance in the streets. Vonvalt returned to deal with traitors amongst the Justices, but before he can get a handle on it all, the Emperor’s grandson is kidnapped and Vonvalt is ordered to drop everything to find him. He and his allies Helena, Bressinger, and Sir Radomir, are forced to go to the southern frontier, where they once again run into Claver and his templar knights.

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January 6, 2025 0

Beard in Hiding (Winston Brothers #4.5) by Penny Reid

4.5 stars

I absolutely LOVE the Winston Brothers series, so when I saw this book set in the same world focused on two side characters, I couldn’t wait to read it. This book is about Jason “Repo” Doe, the finance guy for the Iron Wraith motorcycle club that the brother’s abusive father belongs to, and Diane Donner, Jennifer “the banana cake queen’s” mother and owner of the local lodge and bakery. Diane is divorced from her despicable husband and has decided to take back her power. She strolls into the Iron Wraith’s dive bar looking to talk Repo into a one-night stand. Who knew that one night wouldn’t be enough for either of them?

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December 31, 2024 0