HOT I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Out My Faith in Beyoncé is a collection of essays written by Michael Arceneaux. Although Arceneaux is a seasoned writer, this is his first published book and it is filled with life experiences related to family, race, sexuality, religion, politics, culture, LGBTQ community...and yes, even. From childhood to adulthood, it's there. Honest, funny, sensitive, heartbreaking, perspective-altering, and unapologe

MILD Marcus, Duke of Autenberry, is running away to his estate in the highlands of Scotland when he comes across a wife auction in a village market square. Alyse Bell has fulfilled the seven-year contract for a 'white wedding' and now is ready to move on, providing her best friend buys her and takes her to London. When he doesn't show up, Alyse is left to the dubious mercy of the crowd—until Marcus buys her out of pity. Apparently, this was a real thing in the days when divor

HOT Jeffries crafts a sweetly passionate “second chance at love” romance that truly satisfies fans of this classic plotline. The lively pace and engaging characters keep readers captivated until the very end. Short, but vintage Jeffries. Before she was Lady Anne, Anne dreamed of marrying Hartley Corry. But her father forbade her marriage and she watched Hartley leave for India without her. Now, he’s returned and when Captain Lord Hartley sees his former love at his brother’s

SCORCHING Another Wilde meets his match in the third Wilde’s of Ludlow Castle. As always James delights readers with an emotional, witty, sensual love story with an appealing hero and a heroine who comes into her own. With such relatable characters, smart storytelling and verbal sparring; not to mention fabulous descriptions of the era, readers will be enchanted and emotionally invested in the love story. Then there’s the added attraction of James’s exploration of relevant th

SCORCHING There’s enough treachery, intrigue, passion and adventure in this spy vs. spy romance to keep readers going through the slow start of this third in the Survivor series. Galen’s unique mixture of poignancy and passion, unexpected plot twists and likeable characters (even hedgehogs) are just what her fans ordered and why she is a star of the genre. Rafe Beaumont is handsome, charming and a spy. He survives the war by seducing military secrets from women involved with

MILD Diving into these pages brought me back to books such as Ella Enchanted, which captured both something child-like while still being rooted in adulthood. If you’re looking to fall into a whirlwind fairytale romance and not look back, this is the book for you! In alternating perspective chapters readers get to enter the mind of the snobby, yet suddenly broke, Duke Ashford, and eclectic, suddenly rich Jemma Pears. Their mutual lawyer discovers one of his richest clients is

MILD Three generations of women spend a summer together and must learn to function again as a family. But as this story shows, "You never really knew what was going on in someone else's life." How to Keep a Secret is my favorite book about family, particularly sisters, to date. Excellent women's fiction with a second-chance romance entwined! It's about so much more than family dynamics though. It deals with marriage, parenting, infertility, grief, secrets, forgiveness, starti

SCORCHING Three generations of women spend a summer together and must learn to function again as a family. But as this story shows, "You never really knew what was going on in someone else's life." How to Keep a Secret is my favorite book about family, particularly sisters, to date. Excellent women's fiction with a second-chance romance entwined! It's about so much more than family dynamics though. It deals with marriage, parenting, infertility, grief, secrets, forgiveness, s

SCORCHING OMG...this was so good! So, so good!! The Chateau is the ninth installment in Tiffany Reisz’s deliciously complex BDSM/erotica series Original Sinners It is a prequel of sorts that centers on fan-favorite: Kingsley at the young age of 24 years old when he is given a particular assignment by the military intelligence agency he works for. This erotic thriller offers twists, surprising revelations, agonizing choices, exhalations of painful satisfaction, breathtaking pe

MILD Auschwitz Lullaby is an historical novel that contains glimmers of romance. While I was hoping that the romance would be played up a bit more, the book held my attention for its sense of wonder, rather than the romance. This book features an idealistic marriage between an Aryan-German woman and a Gypsy man during the Holocaust. The woman chooses to sacrifice her easy life and asks to be taken with her husband and children to what turns out to be Auschwitz. In the camp sh

MILD “Our marriage has never been perfect. No marriage is perfect. There were times when she gave up on us. There were even more times when I gave up on us. The secret to our longevity is that we never gave up at the same time.” -- Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects All Your Perfects is a beautiful and heartfelt adult romance with elements of women's fiction threaded throughout. It

HOT This book is number two in the Sea Shenanigans series, but reads well as a stand alone book. Ms. Pearielterman has once again written a laugh out loud book. Ariel is a 200 year old mermaid, who is bored. She if being honest is jealous of her sister who has found true love. Ariel wants adventure, and love. The Krakens are going to attack their island for some unknown reason, so Ariel volunteers to locate a sea animal whisperer. The rest is history! This is Ariel (no NOT

HOT The Kiss Quotient focuses on an intelligent, data-driven woman who feels the need to work on improving her social interactions. In her attempt to work towards this goal, she decides to focus on being more comfortable with intimacy. This fun and sexy plot has our heroine hiring a male escort to work through her very detailed lesson plan. This book is sweet, humorous, smile-inducing, and it incorporates a beautiful cultural element which was my favorite part. Additionally,

SCORCHING Felicity Faircloth is on the outside, spurned by her former friends and 'ruined' in the eyes of the Ton. She's the perfect weapon for Devil, one of the Bareknuckle Bastards, to use against his brother, the Duke of Marwick. But Felicity turns out to be more than Devil expects. I love Sarah MacLean’s work but I had some trouble with the beginning of this book. Felicity was not a typical daughter of a Marquess, running around Covent Garden unaccompanied and picking loc

SCORCHING Aidan O’Malley walked away from his fiancée, Lexi, and their best friend, Lucas, after a night of passion left him shaken to his core. Years later, Aidan returns home from Iraq haunted by all he has lost. The enemy broke his body, destroying his dreams of a career in music. Worse still, he lost Lexi and Lucas. That damage he’d done all by himself. While he can’t restore what combat took from him, he’s determined to reclaim the two loves of his life. Lucas Cameron is