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Good Spirits
✮✮✮✮, Holiday, Romance Repy White 12/4/25 ✮✮✮✮, Holiday, Romance Repy White 12/4/25

Good Spirits

What if the Ghost of Christmas Past was really hot?…

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If It Makes You Happy
Romance, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/15/25 Romance, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/15/25

If It Makes You Happy

There was so much to love about this book…

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All Superheroes Need PR
BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

All Superheroes Need PR

tropes: Grumpy/sunshine, workplace, fake relationship

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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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Story of My Life
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Story of My Life

Tropes: Fake Dating-ish, Small Town, Grumpy Sunshine, Renovation!

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Dirty Rowdy Thing
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Dirty Rowdy Thing

Tropes: Vegas Marriage, Hot Fisherman, Grumpy Sunshine

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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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Reluctantly Yours
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Reluctantly Yours

Tropes: Fake Relationship, Grumpy Sunshine, Billionaire MMC

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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 Summer I Destroyed You
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

The Summer I Destroyed You

Tropes: Grumpy Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Workplace Romance

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Fighting Words
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Fighting Words

Tropes: Grumpy Sunshine + Slow Burn Romance

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Caught Up
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Caught Up

Tropes: Sports + Grumpy Sunshine Romance

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The Worst Guy
BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25 BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25

The Worst Guy

Trope: Enemies to Lovers + Workplace Romance

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

Reckless

Trope: Cowboy, Slow Burn, Secret Baby, Grumpy Sunshine Romance

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

Powerless

Trope: Friends to Lovers + Sports Romance

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

Heartless

Trope: Cowboy, Grumpy/Sunshine, Nanny Romance

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The Nanny
BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25 BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25

The Nanny

Trope: Forced Proximity + Workplace Romance

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Indigo Ridge
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25

Indigo Ridge

Tropes: Cowboy + Slow Burn Romance

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The Intern
BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25 BRAD, ✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25

The Intern

Tropes: Grumpy Sunshine + Workplace Romance

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⭐️⭐️💫(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
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romance)

This romance really took me by surprise! Great banter, deeply emotional, and well written. A romance that feels very real. Not a rom-com, definitely a “rom-dram”.

Our leading woman, Nicole Speyer, has been struggl
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I was just totally gobsmacked by this book! Brilliant, biting, and impossible to look away from. This is not a light and fluffy read! It had me running the full gamut of emotion. Rage & stress were the emotional frontrun
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I just love the way Rebecca Serle tells a story!
This is the story of the decisions we make and how they shape our lives, a story of love and loss and connection, and of mothers and daughters.

Lauren has known her entire li
The results are in for our 2026 Romance Novel March Madness!

At the end of 2025, I polled BR&B readers on their favorite books of the year. I took the top 60 romance responses, sprinkled in some newer releases, and voilà…. those bo
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, mystery)
Mabel lives on a quiet street, and if you asked any of her neighbors, she’s your typical 80-year-old woman. She’s a little crabby, a bit in everyone’s business, and she appreciates a cup of tea. No one would s

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