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It's a Love Story
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/21/25 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/21/25

It's a Love Story

Now, this is a love story…

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One Golden Summer
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/16/25 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/16/25

One Golden Summer

I had a smile plastered to my face throughout this entire book…

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Problematic Summer Romance
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/5/25 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/5/25

Problematic Summer Romance

I want a lobotomy so I can read this book again for the first time…

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Summer Fridays
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 11/25/24 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 11/25/24

Summer Fridays

This book is a heart-wrenching love story…

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Summer Romance
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24

Summer Romance

I LOVE the way Annabel Monaghan writes…

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This Summer Will Be Different
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24

This Summer Will Be Different

This book is a sexy, tension-filled dream…

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The Rule Book
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24

The Rule Book

Are you looking for a little levity…

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Just for the Summer
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24

Just for the Summer

I thoroughly enjoy an Abby Jimenez love story…

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Same Time Next Summer
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/11/23 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/11/23

Same Time Next Summer

This book feels tailor-made to be enjoyed on a warm summer day…

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Meet Me at the Lake
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/12/23 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/12/23

Meet Me at the Lake

This book is a lovely companion on a hot summer day…

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Happy Place
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/12/23 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/12/23

Happy Place

Emily Henry could write a trigonometry textbook & it would be the best thing I’ve read this year…

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Love and Other Words
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/2/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/2/22

Love and Other Words

This fast, heart-wrenching, sexy romance is five stars in my book…

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Float Plan
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/2/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/2/22

Float Plan

I am smitten with this book…

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It Happened One Summer
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/2/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/2/22

It Happened One Summer

Enjoy this one to yourself on a hot summer evening & thank me later…

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Good Girl Complex
✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Good Girl Complex

I love a guilty pleasure romance…

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Every Summer After
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Every Summer After

This sweet story was the perfect kick-off to summer…

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(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
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5, fiction) 

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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