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In Your Dreams
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 1/7/26 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 1/7/26

In Your Dreams

My final trip to Rome, Kentucky, was such a DREAM!…

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Willing Prey
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 11/6/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 11/6/25

Willing Prey

Tropes: A man paying you $30K to run from him in the woods

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It's Different This Time
Romance, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/29/25 Romance, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/29/25

It's Different This Time

If you only read one fall romance this year, let it be this…

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Mate
✮✮✮✮, Romance, Fantasy Repy White 10/15/25 ✮✮✮✮, Romance, Fantasy Repy White 10/15/25

Mate

This book is like a West Coast oyster…

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Last Night Was Fun
✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 10/15/25 ✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 10/15/25

Last Night Was Fun

What a fun concept…

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Wild and Wrangled
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Wild and Wrangled

Tropes: Cowboy, Second Chance, Forced Proximity Romance

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Lost and Lassoed
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Lost and Lassoed

Tropes: Cowboy, Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity Romance

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Swift and Saddled
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Swift and Saddled

Tropes: Cowboy, Golden Retriever (him), Forced Proximity-ish Romance

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The Faking Game
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

The Faking Game

Tropes: Fake Dating, Brother’s BFF, Forced Proximity, “Teach Me”

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My Favorite Lost Cause
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

My Favorite Lost Cause

Tropes: Forbidden Love, Lots of Pining, Slow Burn, Forced Proximity

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My Favorite Bad Decision
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

My Favorite Bad Decision

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Slow Burn, Forced Proximity Romance

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Dipped In Holly
BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Dipped In Holly

Tropes: Fake Relationship, Grumpy Sunshine, Forced Proximity

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Sweet Filthy Boy
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Sweet Filthy Boy

Tropes: Vegas Marriage, Hot French Guy, Forced Proximity

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A Risk Worth Taking
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

A Risk Worth Taking

Tropes: Fake Relationship + Forced Proximity Romance

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My Favorite Holidate
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

My Favorite Holidate

Tropes: Fake Relationship + Forced Proximity Romance

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WOLF.E
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

WOLF.E

Tropes: Morally Grey MMC, Dark Romance, Motorcycle Gang, Bad Boy/Good Girl, Instalove

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The Summer I First Saw You
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

The Summer I First Saw You

Tropes: Age Gap, Forced Proximity(ish), Leading Woman Being So Good-Looking It Actually Makes Life Hard

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The Au Pair Affair
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

The Au Pair Affair

Tropes: Hockey Romance, Grumpy Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Age Gap

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Failure to Match
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Failure to Match

Tropes: Billionaire MMC, “I Don’t Believe in Love” vs. Hopeless Romantic

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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 Romance

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The synopsis that I read and the book I experienced are totally different in my humble opinion! This book is really a slice of life in the 1970s. You’re dropped into a suburb of Rochester, NY, in the winter of 1977, alter
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(4.5/5, memoir) 
This book was hard not to finish in one sitting.

This story starts with the abrupt end of a marriage, and from there, the author unravels her relationship with her husband of 20 years to try to make sense of the dissolutio
⭐️⭐️⭐️(3/5, romance)
Blame the move! Blame the pregnancy hormones! The writing was good, the concept was fun, the characters were lovable, but I just couldn’t get into this one!

Delilah is a weather woman who is trying to be taken more serious
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romantasy/ B.R.A.D.)
Whew! This book was a doozy. If you’re a romantasy reader, this book reminded me more of Blood & Ash than ACOTAR. It’s definitely a B.R.A.D. (meaning pretty steamy), and the plot and unexpected twist
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romance)

I had the best time reading this romance! The writing was excellent, the premise was refreshing, & the leading lady was on the cusp of 40!

Cassia Park has always known the name of her soulmate. Generations of Park women h

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