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176 - The Truth According to Ember by Danika Nava

Ember is just a typical woman trying to find her own. Join us this week as we fall into this rom-com and meet Ember and Danuwoa (AKA Native Daddy) and their journey to identity, belonging, and self-acceptance. Even though Ember continues to dig herself deeper into a pit of white lies, she cannot deny her feelings for Danuwoa are real, nor can she keep suffering the blackmail, racism, and nepotism happening in the workplace. This is a lovely story about a woman who navigates not just the corporate world but also the conflicts between her cultural identity, personal ambition, and desire for a real love connection with Dan.

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175 - The Watching by J. A. Lopez

This week we took it back to our roots and dived into a paranormal romance novel. Join us as we discuss The Watching, where we meet Kayla, a small town café waitress who is just trying to find her way through life with her tight knit group of friends and her penchant for buying stray cats cat food - oh, and falling for strange, hot dudes. While Kayla is fighting with mixed emotions about two different love interests, her friends become victims of strange animal attacks across town and they know that together, they can get to the source of all the craziness their little town is going through. With the help of their local law enforcement, Kayla and her friends may just be able to make it through this supernatural mess.

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174 - Midsummer by Jena Doyle: Interview with Jena Doyle

Friends! We are excited to introduce you all to author Jena Doyle in this INCREDIBLE interview episode. Join us as we speak with Jena about her amazing retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We really enjoyed this reimagining of this classic story: love, lust, poly relationships, and steamy sex in the woods and more sex all over the place. Come on. Jena shares with us the start of her writing career, her inspiration, and all of her upcoming work that we are super excited about. If you haven’t read Midsummer yet, then you haven’t met Ivy, Lex, Carter, or Miri, and you need to so please check it out.

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173 - There Are No Saints & There is No Devil by Sophie Lark

We know we said we’d only read There Are No Saints, but we just HAD to see how this ended, so... we read the second book as well. In this Sinners Duet series, we meet starving artist Mara, who is struggling to get by in the competitive art scene of San Francisco. She is a victim of childhood abuse and becomes a victim of an attempted murder as an adult. But Mara is a survivor. Things start looking up when she’s noticed by a rich, local, renowned artist, Cole (insert fancy, rich last name and sexy smolder), and her dreams of succeeding as an artist are becoming reality. Cole has issues of his own - past and present - and having Mara in his life has exacerbated the darkness inside of him that makes him lose control. But does he want to protect her, or does he want to destroy her? We hope you have listened to these books and will join us for this sexy, dark romance.

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172 - Ana Maria and The Fox by Liana De la Rosa

This historical romance takes us back to times of war and unrest with the French occupation of Mexico. Here is book one of the Luna Sisters novels where we meet Ana María, the eldest of the Luna sisters, who in all essence, aims to be perfect for her family and her country. Escaping the dangers that await her as the daughter of a prominent family, Ana María is sent in secret to London along with her sisters, Gabriela and Isabel. Trying her best to fit into this strange, new society, Ana María meets Parliament member, Gideon Fox, along the way and cannot help the feelings that begin to brew within, despite being promised to another man back in Mexico. This forbidden love story provides us with romance, longing, sisterly bonding, and important history with amazingly written BIPOC main characters. Join us for Ana María and The Fox.

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171 - Kiss Me Mi Amor by Alana Quintana Albertson

Book two of the Love & Tacos takes us on a love journey with Montez brother number two, Enrique. After the heirs of the Taco King empire have a falling out with their father (check out episode 145!), the brothers are finding positive and progressive ways to grow their business and reconnect with their Mexican roots. Enrique does so by reaching out to one of very few Latina farm owners, Carolina Flores, to learn more about her farm and possibly becoming business partners. Not to mention she is amazingly stunning and he is not so bad himself. But Carolina is busy running her farm and battling her own problems with a sick, old-fashioned father who has strict dating rules when it comes to his 10 daughters. She doesn't have time for, nor does she want anything to do with, a spoiled, rich Montez brother, who doesn’t understand the importance of not only running a farm, but also taking good care of its workers. Carolina soon finds out that maybe Enrique isn’t as bad as she thought and that these feelings she’s never experienced before might be okay to feel, even if her father doesn’t approve of her and Enrique dating. She soon finds herself fighting against her father’s authority and what she truly feels in her heart.

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170 - Althea's Awakening by Maggie Sims: Interview with Maggie Sims

Althea is a business-woman who knows what she wants... even though her time, place, and position in society as a widow may tell her otherwise. Wanting to expand her apothecary business, Althea needs financial backing and knows the easiest way to gain funds is to remarry a wealthy man, but she doesn’t want a husband. She wants an investor. During her hunt for such a person, she meets a bored, rich, handsome earl, Evan, at his ‘party’ that surprisingly opens up her curiosity about other experiences that she’s only imagined behind closed doors. Join us as we discuss another very fun, super-sexy, perfectly written regency with none other than Maggie Sims herself! Yup, friends - we are truly honored to have Maggie join us on the show. If you haven’t read this book yet… seriously, what are you doing? Go read it!

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169 - June First by Jennifer Hartmann

Does this story borderline taboo between a sort-of-adopted-brother and his non-biological-little-sister? You tell us! This forbidden romance introduces the love story between Brant and June. Brant experienced a horrible tragedy when he was just six years old, which resulted in his mom’s best friend and next door neighbor to take him in and raise him alongside his best friend, Theo and his new baby sister, June. Brant internally struggles with his true place in his ‘new’ family but still loves them all the same, especially little June, whom he and Theo both protect and adore entirely. Even though everyone else sees them as siblings, Brant can’t help but feel differently for June and she soon realizes her love for him is different than the love she had for Theo. What is going on, guys?! Join us for a truly interesting conversation - one that's crossed a line we’ve never ventured into before on our show.

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168.1 - Too Safe; Too Fast; Too Far by Abby Millsaps - Pt. 2

Okay, guys. If you listened to last week’s episode, you know that we had the pleasure of interviewing Teralyn Davis, the narrator under her pseudename (ha!) June deBorahae who is the voice of sultry, sexy, sweet, sassy Josephine in the Boys of Lake Chapel series. Because we got SO invested in this series, we decided to throw in a bonus episode to close out our thoughts about the all three books of The Boys of Lake Chapel series. Just… holy sexiness. June is an amazing narrator and we are so happy we got to meet her. So, if you haven’t read these yet - DO IT! And tell us who your favorite man-meat is between Lock, Killian, Kendrick, and Decker… or, why choose at all…?

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168 - Too Safe - Pt.1: Interview with Teralyn Davis/ June deBorahae

Friends! We are excited to have our very first narrator on the show. Join us as we have an amazing conversation with Teralyn Davis/ June deBorahae who leads the FMC voice for Josephine in Too Safe, the first book of the Boys of Lake Chapel series. Teralyn gives us a glimpse into the life of a narrator and if you listened to this book, or any of her other titles, then you know it was damn worth it. While we had an incredible time getting to know Teralyn, we didn’t have enough time to get into the details of the book as we normally do… so make sure to listen next week (yes, instead of the normal two weeks) for our actual review and discussion about ALL three installments of the Boys of Lake Chapel novels.

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