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Wild Side
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Wild Side

Tropes: fake marriage, WWE wrestler, characters named Rhys

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Wild Love
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Wild Love

Tropes: brother’s BFF, billionaire, forced proximity

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Reckless
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25

Reckless

Tropes: friends to lovers, sports, forced proximity

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Powerless
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25

Powerless

Tropes: friends to lovers, sports, forced proximity

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Heartless
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25

Heartless

Tropes: cowboy, grumpy x sunshine, nanny, forced proximity

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Flawless
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

Flawless

Tropes: forced proximity + cowboy romance

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A False Start
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

A False Start

Tropes: cowboy, brother’s BFF, sports romance

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(5/5, romance) There’s yearning, and then there’s YEARNING written by Carley Fortune! The setting is moody, the love is aching, the drama is high, the longing is limitless. This book is so excellent. Romance done really, really
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romance) I picked this book up while in the hospital after having a baby! I didn’t want anything too heavy, nor did I want a 1000 page slow-burn romance, and I wanted to laugh! This fit the bill perfectly, but I do have to give t
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romance) This book was funny and cute and exactly what the doctor ordered! A non-cheesy rom-com packed with lots of feelings set in the book world! We meet Ciara Sheridan when she’s stuck with a serious case of writer’s b
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romantasy) Shield of Sparrows Book #2 (trilogy) WHEW, this book was a whirlwind! Just as many BR&B readers had cautioned, this is a slow burn romantasy, slow burn not in the romantic sense but in the world-building sense. You hav
⭐️⭐️💫(2.5/5, romance) I so badly wanted to love this, but it was just not for me! I can totally do a more heavy and emotional romance (see my review for The Best Worst Thing!). I am fine with a story that’s less of a big romance and more of

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