Dec 2, 2025 | 2025, Blog, December 2025, Lauren Blakely
Merry Little Kissmas by Lauren Blakely is a spicy holiday romance with a little something extra. Inside you’ll find…
🎄Single Dad Hockey Player MMC
🎁Matchmaker FMC
✨He Falls First
🎄Fake Dating
🎁Grinch x Elf
✨Close Proximity
🎄Brother’s Best Friend
A small town romance to get you in the holiday mood.
Isla Marlowe is a matchmaker tangled up in a holiday mishap when she discovers that her client is her brothers best friend.
When a plan to find him a match turns into a fake dating holiday adventure it’s only a matter of time before they can’t resist whatever it is that’s building up between them.
Will Rowan be able to resist the one craving he shouldn’t have?
It’s time for a holiday intervention that includes plenty of holiday shenanigans.
If you are an audiobook enthusiast this has a full cast that looks to be a fun and festive option. I have not listened to it yet…have you?
This spicy romance has exploration that is more explicit between characters that may include dirty talk, detailed intimate moments, or suggested desire of what they would like to do with their partner. This moment might also be expressed before, during, or after intimacy, spicy e-mails, letters, or texting. Readers can expect multiple detailed scenes or moments that leave no doubt there is a medium level of heat.
romance has Always honest, always my own, and thankful to Lauren Blakely for an advance reader copy.
Q: What is your favorite holiday treat or drink?
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Dec 2, 2025 | 2025, Blog, December 2025
Craving pucks and spice?
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Q: Who is your favorite “book boyfriend” hockey player?
Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, Blog, Bookish, December 2025
A December Bucket List with plenty of things to keep busy.
❄️ Enjoy the outdoors
❄️ Burn seasonal candles
❄️ Wrap Gifts
❄️ Journal
❄️ Organize 2026 Planner
❄️ See the winter lights show
❄️ Self Care
❄️ Ice Skate
❄️ Plan an adventure
❄️ For every e-arc I read…read one from my shelf
❄️ Watch holiday movies
❄️ Enjoy a peppermint holiday drink
❄️ Mail holiday cards
❄️ Read outside
❄️ Decorate House
❄️ Bake
❄️ Make a December Playlist
❄️ Support local shops
Q: What’s on your list for this month?
Nov 30, 2025 | 2025, Alta Hensley, Blog, November 2025
He Knows When You’re Awake @altahensley
❄️Billionaire Romance
♥️Stalker romance
❄️Christmas romance
♥️Morally grey MMC
❄️Forced proximity
♥️Opposites attract
❄️Kink friendly
For Trigger Warnings please slide for more details if you need or wish to know.
A Billionaire stalker offers a jewelry designer everything she desires but only if she agrees to one thing…work for him. Will she agree to his rules, demands, and terms?
A dark, gritty, captivating read with secrets, power and control issues, kink, and more.
Who will give up control?
Who will surrender?
A plot arc that keeps us reading into the darkness as Cole Asher and Sloane Whitmore begin a clever cat and mouse game that jeopardizes everyone who gets swept into the madness.
Always honest, always my own, and thankful to @avonbooks for an advance reader copy.
🎀Q: Are you ready to deck the halls with tinsel and discover a world that will add plenty of spice to your holiday reading?
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Nov 30, 2025 | 2025, Alta Hensley, Blog, November 2025
He Sees You When You’re Sleeping by Alta Hensley is a dark holiday romance with:
🎄Cinnamon Roll Stalker
🎄Firefighter MMC
🎄Influencer FMC
🎄Voyeurism
🎄Cam girl FMC
For Trigger Warnings please scroll down for more details if you need or wish to know.
Chloe is nice by day and naughty by night. However, very few are aware of her secrets. When someone threatens to expose her what will happen?
Jack is a firefighter who has become tangled in a web of secrets and deception. No matter what he does he can’t resist the dark temptations and walk away. Will he finally break free and confess the truth or is he in so deep that the only option is to face the consequences?
Desire so overwhelming to resist only causes more pain.
Control slowly slipping as a confession is sure to happen.
Time is running out to make necessary choices.
Who will uncover the truth?
Who will lose the one thing that matters most?
This is an inferno hot read with graphic and detailed scenes that include any or all of the following: Erotica, BDSM, more than one partner in an intimate scene, or something mentioned in the authors Trigger Content Warning. These books are intended for 18+ and content may be considered taboo for some readers. Along with plenty of spice and kink there is tinsel, snow, and more for those who seek a story with BDSM elements and more.
Always honest, always my own, and thankful to Avon Publishing for an advance reader copy.
Q: Have you read this or any other dark holiday romance?
PSA: Don’t forget to replace your batteries in all of the smoke detectors this holiday season.
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Nov 29, 2025 | 2025, Blog, November 2025
The Flirting game by Lauren Blakely is a neighbors to lovers, hockey romance, workplace romance, revenge fake dating, romantic comedy.
Revenge was the plan. Falling for the hockey star next door wasn’t.
This is Ford and Skylar’s romance!
Q: What are you currently reading?
