Hard Knocks Artisanal Pop Tarts + A Giveaway

I love finding funny, smart, new-to-me romance writers and Ruby Lang definitely fits the bill. The second book in the Practice Perfect series, Hard Knocks is about a neurologist coping with parental illness and an aging hockey player working though a vocational crisis. It doesn’t appear to matter whether these are read out of order.

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Guest Post by Maria Rose: Midnight Secrets Baked Ziti

My good friend Maria Rose is guest posting today for me. She’s a reviewer for Straight Shootin’ Book Reviews and a truly voracious reader. She has great style and I think you’re going to love this review of Midnight Secrets by Lisa Marie Rice. I’ll pick back up with the recipe for baked ziti after

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Fantasy Girl, 1983 Harlequin Presents #2U5S

Welcome back to the Utterly Unscientific Summer Saturday Series Sex Survey! I gotta be honest, I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to continue this project a few weeks ago. I was trapped in the sexist, racist, slut-shaming, heroine-blaming, alpha-hell of 1970s contemporary category romance and, uh, I’d rather lost my objectivity and

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Blogiversary Week Review: Taken Honey-Pepper Salmon

  Don’t forget to enter the Cooking Up Romance Blogiversary Week Giveaway for a $50 Amazon Giftcard! Pretty much any romance involving a kinky bookseller is always going to get my vote. And if it’s by Charlotte Stein? Double vote! Can we vote twice? Whatever, I just did. Taken, a recent offering by Stein, features

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Truly Honeyed Cauliflower Soup & Sandwiches

A few weeks ago, I read a string of hero-as-chef romances all in a row: The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand, Ruby by Jeffe Kennedy and this one, Truly by Ruthie Knox. I waited to review it until closer to the release date, which is this Tuesday. I’d read one other book by Knox in

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