Bookish: Craving pucks and spice?
Craving pucks and spice?
Check out these hockey romance reads and find what you need.
Q: Who is your favorite “book boyfriend” hockey player?
December Bucket List
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?
Book Review: He Knows When You’re Awake by Alta Hensley
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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Book Review: He Sees You When You’re Sleeping by Alta Hensley
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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Currently Reading a hockey romance by Lauren Blakely
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?
Book Review: Promise Me (Sinful Manor Book 2) by Sara Cate
Promise Me by Sara Cate is a scorchin’ hot MM second chance romance that takes us into the world of two best friends. Over time they explore their friendship become lovers and grapple with what is expected by their family and obligations. In a dual timeline with two POV we embark on a journey that spans years into the lives and friendship of
Colin Shelby and Declan Barclay.
One minute a budding artist and an actor will push the boundaries of their friendship only to have their hearts broken. Assumptions, expectations, and obligations will threaten to keep them apart. Are they strong enough to fight for what they truly desire…each other?
If you need another reason perhaps this passage might convince you to read…
If I was the the moon, he was the tides-in sync beyond reason. Connected in ways neither of us understood. He altered the chemistry of my brain, and no one would ever be as attractive to me after him.
Always honest, always my own, and thankful to Sourcebooks Casablanca for a gifted e-arc.
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Book Review: Call Me Anytime by Max Monroe
Call Me Anytime by Max Monroe
November 25, 2025
✅Protective, grumpy detective
🤣Hilarious banter
🩷Opposites attract
😅Awkward (and hilarious) seduction attempts
Call Me Anytime is a scorchin’ hot romantic suspense with lots of laugh-out-loud comedy.
Hannah May needs to find a good paying job so she can make sure her mother, who has Alzheimer’s, is taken care of in their home from someone she trusts. One little ad in the local newspaper will take Hannah on an epic adventure. From the interview to discovering what “call center” she found her way into…I was in stitches. This book is packed with hilarious banter as an awkward virgin must entertain her callers to keep them on the line long enough to get paid.
Dominic Dunn is a Nashville detective at the scene of a murder and the only lead he has is a cell phone with a frequently dialed number. Doing what he does best he dials the number not realizing that it’s the Ruby hotline and he’s become Hannah’s first client.
Lee Samuels and Summer Morton are perfectly cast as their narration was fantastic. From their tone and pacing I could easily follow who was speaking and the little touches to differentiate whose perspective or secondary characters were speaking made this epic.
It was easy to fall into the city streets of Nashville from the Ruby hotline to the karaoke bars on Broadway. I felt like I was right there with the gang.
If you love the vibe of NCIS, karaoke dive bars, Nashville, and a detective who will need to teach a sex hotline worker how to “dirty talk” so he can try and solve a murder – this book is for you. A scorchin’ hot read with multiple intimacy scenes, some may be “extra spicy” and/or graphic. Some scenes might include a dash of “tie-me-up-tie-me-down” play such as light bondage or sex toys as characters explore their curiosities and desires.
Always honest, always my own, and thankful to Hambright PR for an advance audio copy. Again, listening to this romantic suspense has been an adventure and in a short while available at retailers. Thank you @hambright_pr Max Monroe for the countdown fun.
🎧🎶📞☎️🎧🎶📞☎️🎧🎶📞☎️🎧🎶📞☎️
Q: Do you listen to audiobooks with or without headphones?
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