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Beautiful Torment
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 11/12/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 11/12/25

Beautiful Torment

Tropes: Mafia & If You Touch Her You Die (literally)

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Bound by the Mafia
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Bound by the Mafia

Tropes: Fake Marriage (ish) + Mafia Romance

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Orlov Bratva
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Orlov Bratva

Tropes: Mafia Romance, Boss/Secretary-ish (for a hot second), Pregnancy

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Virtuous Lies
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

Virtuous Lies

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Mafia Romance

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Savage Hearts
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

Savage Hearts

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Mafia Romance

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Brutal Prince
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/4/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/4/25

Brutal Prince

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Mafia Romance

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Bound by Honor
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/2/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/2/25

Bound by Honor

Tropes: Mafia Romance, Slow Burn, Forced Proximity

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The Sweetest Oblivion
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/1/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/1/25

The Sweetest Oblivion

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Mafia Romance

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⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(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
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(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
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(5/5, fiction)

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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