Dev Deshpande makes happy-ever-afters happen. As a producer on the top reality dating show, his specialty is crafting a story of true love, even when his own love life crashes and burns. But this season's bachelor, tech genius Charlie Winshaw, is a disaster. Stiff, awkward, picky, and anxious, he's as far from prince charming material … Continue reading I’m Reading: The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
I’m Reading: Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Ari Abram's dream is to be a meteorologist, and counts herself lucky to work with her childhood hero, the ever calm and cheerful Torrance Hale at KSEA 6 in Seattle. But instead of the close relationship with her mentor she'd craved, she spends most of her time trying to defuse shouting matches and petty fights … Continue reading I’m Reading: Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
I’m Reading: Gravity and Lies by C.G. Volars
I'm breaking my contemporary romance reading streak for a very good reason. Gravity and Lies, the first book in the Static Over Space series by C. G. Volars, is worth jumping genres. It's quirky, queer sci-fi adventure with a tough, trash-talking, bisexual Latino MC and a big cast of lovable and hateable aliens. Izo Lopez … Continue reading I’m Reading: Gravity and Lies by C.G. Volars
I’m Reading: Crunching Her Numbers by Mia Sivan
Sivan brings the diverse city of Tel Aviv to life as a backdrop to this steamy romance about financial trading scandals, steamy romance, intrigue, and the global immigrant experience. With well-researched and realistic BDSM and polyamory rep, this story brings the heat in a big way.
I’m Reading: Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens
Laura is a hopeless romantic and professional meet-cute reporter. Her own parents' story of being brought together by a broken antique coin across the sea has set high standards for her love life, and she's not about to settle for less than epic romance. As she travels to the island of Jersey to trace her … Continue reading I’m Reading: Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens
Of MICE and Murder
MICE describes the four primary motives for someone deciding to engage in espionage: Money, Ideology, Coercion, and Ego. These are still the central focus of security clearance investigations in the U.S. They also happen to be, on a higher level, the same primary motives for someone to decide to engage in murder.
I’m Reading: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan's life is a complete mess. Her newly ex husband fired the nanny without telling her, she's behind on the bills, the book she desperately needs to finish to cover the mortgage is past due (and barely started), and her kid chose this morning to cut her own hair before school, then insists on … Continue reading I’m Reading: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
I’m Reading: Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill web designer who wants to experience life away from the hovering and smothering care of her family. So she gets an apartment and makes a list: Do something bad, ride a motorcycle, go camping, enjoy a drunken night out, have meaningless but enjoyable sex, and travel the world with … Continue reading I’m Reading: Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert
I’m Reading: Highland Games by Evie Alexander
Zoe uproots everything when her great-uncle leaves her a run-down cabin in the Scottish Highlands. The cabin is the scene of her happiest childhood memories, and she hopes it will be where she finds herself and her future away from the pressures of London life. But her rosy memories of a rustic summer are no … Continue reading I’m Reading: Highland Games by Evie Alexander
I’m Reading: So Not My Thing by Melanie Jacobson
Elle Jones has learned the hard way that the Internet is forever. After a humiliating teenage rejection by her pop star crush went viral, it threatened to follow her forever. But she regrouped and rebuilt. She's now on track to a wildly successful career in New Orleans real estate...until the man who wrecked her life … Continue reading I’m Reading: So Not My Thing by Melanie Jacobson