Tracy's bookshelf: read en-US Wed, 14 May 2025 18:56:03 -0700 60 Tracy's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7]]> 185965151
The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age of friendship with Pierce, Islington, and Hawkes, Emma is confident she will manage whatever comes her way. It is The Season she must help Arabella secure a husband, while navigating the threat of Aunt Eugenia, the unflagging adoration of Charles Goddard, and the amusing unpredictability of St. Crispian’s. But the secrets of her trusted friends are what might very well bring about disaster.

Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.

Readers have compared The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion to Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, L. M. Montgomery, and Jean Webster.]]> 313 Beth Brower 1957492015 Tracy 5 2025 4.77 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7
author: Beth Brower
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.77
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rating: 5
read at: 2025/05/14
date added: 2025/05/14
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5]]> 59041700 “What a lovely bible,� Mrs. Tribly said.
“Isn’t it just?� I replied, hoping she would not ask me to read a favorite verse aloud.
I do not believe the psalmist wrote,
Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.

The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.

Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.]]> 247 Beth Brower 0998063657 Tracy 5 2025 4.77 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
author: Beth Brower
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.77
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2025/05/07
date added: 2025/05/12
shelves: 2025
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4]]> 56553921
The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.

Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.]]> 208 Beth Brower Tracy 5 2025 4.75 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
author: Beth Brower
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.75
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rating: 5
read at: 2025/05/05
date added: 2025/05/12
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6]]> 63027990 There is bedlam, and there is delightful bedlam.
This afternoon touched on the second, much to my pleasure.

The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age of friendship with Pierce, Islington, and Hawkes, Emma is confident she will manage whatever comes her way. It is The Season she must help Arabella secure a husband, while navigating the threat of Aunt Eugenia, the unflagging adoration of Charles Goddard, and the amusing unpredictability of St. Crispian’s. But the secrets of her trusted friends are what might very well bring about disaster.

Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.

Readers have compared The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion to Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, L. M. Montgomery, and Jean Webster.]]> 249 Beth Brower Tracy 5 2025 4.79 2022 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
author: Beth Brower
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.79
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/05/12
date added: 2025/05/12
shelves: 2025
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]]> The Sea of Tranquility 16151178 I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.

Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her—her identity, her spirit, her will to live—pay.

Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. Now all he wants is be left alone and people allow it because when your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space.

Everyone except Nastya, the mysterious new girl at school who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But the more he gets to know her, the more of an enigma she becomes. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to.

The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.]]> 449 Katja Millay Tracy 5 2025 4.26 2012 The Sea of Tranquility
author: Katja Millay
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/26
date added: 2025/05/02
shelves: 2025
review:
This has been a favorite of mine and I’ve read it several times. This time (2020) it did feel a bit over dramatic...
]]> <![CDATA[The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2]]> 48677941
The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.

Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.
]]> 162 Beth Brower Tracy 5 2025 4.59 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2
author: Beth Brower
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.59
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rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/30
date added: 2025/05/02
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3]]> 55138117 "It has been a day ordained by the fates, for how else could one explain the wholly cursed chain of events?" The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London Neighbourhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plan for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian's. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House. Readers have compared The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion to Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, L. M. Montgomery, and Jean Webster.]]> 229 Beth Brower Tracy 5 2025 4.65 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3
author: Beth Brower
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.65
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2025/05/02
date added: 2025/05/02
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1]]> 52085140
The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.

Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.]]> 125 Beth Brower 0998063614 Tracy 5 2025 4.23 2019 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
author: Beth Brower
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/29
date added: 2025/04/29
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Who Will Remember (Sebastian St. Cyr, #20)]]> 216522744 The gruesome murder of a prominent nobleman throws an already unsettled London into chaos in this electrifying new historical mystery by the USA Today bestselling author of What Cannot Be Said.

August 1816. England is in the grip of what will become known as the Year Without a Summer. Facing the twin crises of a harvest-destroying volcanic winter and the economic disruption caused by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the British monarchy finds itself haunted by the looming threat of bloody riots not seen since the earliest days of the French Revolution. Amidst the turmoil, a dead man is found hanging upside down by one leg in an abandoned chapel, his hands tied behind his back. The pose eerily echoes the image depicted on a tarot card known as Le Pendu, the Hanged Man. The victim—Lord Preston Farnsworth, the younger brother of one of the Regent’s boon companions—was a passionate crusader against what he called the forces of darkness, namely criminality, immorality, and sloth. His brutal murder shocks the Palace and panics the already troubled populace.

Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, learns of the murder from a ragged orphan who leads him to the corpse and then disappears. At first, everyone in the dead man’s orbit paints Lord Preston as a selfless saint. But as Sebastian delves deeper into his life, he quickly realizes that the man had accumulated more than his fair share of enemies, including Major Hugh Chandler, a close friend who once saved Sebastian’s life. Sebastian also discovers that the pious Lord Preston may have been much more dangerous than those he sought to redeem.

As dark clouds press down on the city and the rains fall unceasingly, two more victims are found, one strangled and one shot, with ominous tarot cards placed on their bodies. The killer is sending a gruesome message and Sebastian is running out of time to decipher it before more lives are lost and a fraught post-war London explodes.]]> 365 C.S. Harris 0593639219 Tracy 3 2025 4.30 2025 Who Will Remember (Sebastian St. Cyr, #20)
author: C.S. Harris
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/27
date added: 2025/04/27
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]]> Unforgivable 36124438 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781999709167

The Earl of Stanhope—the most notorious philanderer in all of England—has done the unthinkable.  Fallen in love with his own wife...

After a traumatic illness robs her of her looks, Rose Davenport has little expectation of making a good marriage—until her feckless father, Miles, unexpectedly brokers a dazzling match for her with the heir to the Earl of Stanhope. Unfortunately, the marriage doesn’t live up to her hopes. Instead of the kindly bridegroom she’s expecting, Rose gets a sullen young husband who can barely stand to look at her.

Gil Truman is in love with the beautiful Tilly when his father informs him that he must instead marry plain, sickly Rose. Forced to agree to the marriage to recover the family fortune his father lost to Miles Davenport in a game of cards, Gil is bitter and heartbroken. Their wretched wedding trip ends with him abandoning Rose at his remote Northumbrian estate, intending never to return.

After five years of exile, Rose loses patience and travels to London to make a bid at seducing her errant, faithless husband. But their first encounter at a masked ball changes everything. When Rose learns the secret truth of how Gil was blackmailed into their marriage, her appetite for revenge dissolves. It’s too late to turn back, though. Their night of passion has had consequences that force Rose to confront Gil again.

Gil’s discovery that the lovely, masked stranger he fell for is none other than his own wife, leaves him feeling sick and betrayed. As for Rose, she has deep wounds of her own from years of Gil’s neglect. With such unpromising beginnings, can Rose and Gil make any kind of life together? Or are some wrongs too painful to ever be forgiven?

Note: trigger warnings are located on the copyright page since these include a plot spoiler. These may accessed by using the ‘look inside� feature or by downloading a free sample.]]> 300 Joanna Chambers Tracy 5 2025 3.47 2013 Unforgivable
author: Joanna Chambers
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/23
date added: 2025/04/26
shelves: 2025
review:
This is a favorite of mine. It is the perfect quick read for when I need an emotional story. Is it perfect? No. But it hits the right feels even after the 4th time.
]]> <![CDATA[The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzies & McBrides, #1)]]> 5981872
The youngest brother, Ian, known as the Mad Mackenzie, spent most of his young life in an asylum, and everyone agrees he is decidedly odd. He's also hard and handsome and has a penchant for Ming pottery and beautiful women.

Beth Ackerley, widow, has recently come into a fortune. She has decided that she wants no more drama in her life. She was raised in drama—an alcoholic father who drove them into the workhouse, a frail mother she had to nurse until her death, a fussy old lady she became constant companion to. No, she wants to take her money and find peace, to travel, to learn art, to sit back and fondly remember her brief but happy marriage to her late husband.

And then Ian Mackenzie decides he wants her.

The first of a new historical series.]]> 320 Jennifer Ashley 0843960434 Tracy 5 2025 4.03 2009 The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzies & McBrides, #1)
author: Jennifer Ashley
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/21
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: 2025
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]]> Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay 32853261 The romantic, funny and unputdownable new novel from Jill Mansell, No. 1 bestselling author of THE ONE YOU REALLY WANT and YOU AND ME, ALWAYS - 'A glorious, heartwarming romantic read' Woman & Home. Perfect for anyone who loves Jojo Moyes, Marian Keyes and Katie Fforde.

Love is in the air in St Carys, but you'd never know it - the people of this seaside town are very good at keeping secrets...

The man Clemency loves belongs to someone else. She has to hide her true feelings - but when she ropes in an unsuspecting friend to help, wires start to get crossed.

For the first time in Ronan's life his charm has failed him in winning over the woman he wants. Loving her from afar appears to be his only option.

Belle seems to have the perfect boyfriend, but something isn't quite right. And now a long-buried secret is slowly rising to the surface.

The truth has a funny way of revealing itself, and when it does St Carys will be a very different place indeed...]]> 416 Jill Mansell Tracy 5 2025 3.97 2017 Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay
author: Jill Mansell
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2020/07/11
date added: 2025/04/20
shelves: 2025
review:
I just LOVE this authors style! Devoured this book in one day
]]> Just Some Stupid Love Story 195791408 A debut about a rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their breakup

Molly Marks writes Hollywood rom-coms for a living—which is how she knows “romance� is a racket. The one and only time she was naive enough to fall in love was with her high school boyfriend, Seth—who she ghosted on the eve of graduation and hasn’t seen in fifteen years.

Seth Rubinstein believes in love, the grand, fated kind, despite his job as, well…one of Chicago’s most successful divorce attorneys. Over the last decade, he’s sought “the one� in countless bad dates and rushed relationships. He knows his soulmate is out there. But so far, no one can compare to Molly Marks, the first girl who broke his heart.

When Molly’s friends drag her to Florida for their fifteenth high school reunion, it is poetic justice that she’s forced to sit with Seth. Too many martinis and a drunken hookup later, they decide to make a bet: whoever can predict the fate of five couples before the next reunion must declare that the other is right about true love. The catch? The fifth couple is the two of them.

Molly assures Seth they are a tale of timeless heartbreak. Seth promises she’ll end up hopelessly in love with him. She thinks he’s delusional. He has five years to prove her wrong.

Wickedly funny, sexy, and brimming with laughs and heart like the best romantic comedies, Just Some Stupid Love Story is for everyone who believes in soulmates—even if they would never admit it.]]> 336 Katelyn Doyle 1250328098 Tracy 2 2025
This book had my most hated romance trope, miscommunication (times 100) and of course the 4th act breakup.

Plus we are supposed to believe they are in their mid 30s? I cannot relate to being this emotional stunted and juvenile ]]> 3.60 2024 Just Some Stupid Love Story
author: Katelyn Doyle
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/17
date added: 2025/04/17
shelves: 2025
review:
I don’t think I’ve ever hated an fmc as much as Molly.

This book had my most hated romance trope, miscommunication (times 100) and of course the 4th act breakup.

Plus we are supposed to believe they are in their mid 30s? I cannot relate to being this emotional stunted and juvenile
]]> <![CDATA[Sweet Bliss (Harper Landing, #1)]]> 56920580 Welcome to Harper Landing, a small town filled with people who believe in happy endings.

Left raising his newly orphaned nephew after a tragic accident, Aaron Baxter fears he’s not cut out to be a single dad. But to give baby Jack the life he deserves—and to find a peaceful refuge for himself—Aaron moves to the idyllic Pacific Northwest town of Harper Landing.

Julia Harper, descendant of the town’s founder and successful frozen yogurt shop owner, is mostly resigned to her role as the often-overlooked girl next door. But when the town newcomer, Aaron, reaches out for help with Jack, she finds herself yearning to take part in a sweet love story of her own.

To Aaron, the grace Julia extends is a balm for his aching heart and the guilt he feels over his sister’s death. To Julia, Aaron’s adoration is the key to finally realizing her own worth. With a baby in the middle, can these two hurting souls find completeness in each other?]]> 249 Jennifer Bardsley 1542028205 Tracy 3 2025 4.03 2021 Sweet Bliss (Harper Landing, #1)
author: Jennifer Bardsley
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/12
date added: 2025/04/12
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)]]> 213245287 A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.

Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life-or lack thereof—she begins to question if she's as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending... even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.]]> 446 B.K. Borison 0593641205 Tracy 0 to-read 4.18 2025 First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
author: B.K. Borison
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> Blood Moon 214175156 #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a sexy thriller where an unruly detective and an ­­­­ambitious tv show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon—while trying to resist the attraction between them.

Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to himself his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation.

Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, knows what classifies as a great story and when there’s something more to be told. After working on the show for seven years researching, fact checking, and editing dozens of episodes, Collins is convinced that Crissy Mellin’s disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas have only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth leaves New York City for Louisiana to enlist Detective Bowie in helping her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon—in four days� time.

At the risk of their jobs and lives, Bowie and Collins band together to identify and capture a canny perpetrator, while fighting an irresistible spark between them that threatens to upend everything.]]> 448 Sandra Brown 1538742985 Tracy 3 2025 3.87 2025 Blood Moon
author: Sandra Brown
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/09
date added: 2025/04/09
shelves: 2025
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]]> <![CDATA[Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me, #1)]]> 216437557 disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes—all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong�

. . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date—possibly the best in living history—Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be.

Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life—and even a love—worth remembering.]]> 416 Abby Jimenez 0349442827 Tracy 5 2025 4.07 2025 Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me, #1)
author: Abby Jimenez
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2025
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/06
date added: 2025/04/05
shelves: 2025
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]]> Swept Away 215805795 Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary.

What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?

Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend's daughter.

Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark, foggy night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke and Lexi realize all they can see is miles and miles of water.

With just a few provisions on the idle boat, Zeke and Lexi must figure out how to get back home. But aside from their survival, they’re facing another challenge. Because when you’re stuck together for days on end, it gives you a lot of time to get to know someone—and to fall in love with them.]]> 384 Beth O'Leary 0593640144 Tracy 3 2025 3.64 2025 Swept Away
author: Beth O'Leary
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/03
date added: 2025/04/03
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)]]> 207041696
In the aftermath of her journey, her dreams of a simple life have been shattered. Beaten, betrayed, and reeling from the revelation of her true name, she flees Kopa with Reynir Galtung, ruthless leader of the Bloodaxe Crew. But Silla soon discovers Rey has been keeping secrets of his own, and they're forced into hiding together.

Stuck in a shield-home with the murderous man she thought she knew, Silla forms a new plan: master the magic flowing through her veins to save her sister. But before she can do that, Silla must face her most formidable opponent yet--her own inner demons.

Saga Volsik has nothing to lose.

They’ve murdered her family. Stolen her throne. And now they expect her to marry their son. But when she discovers her foster mother has been keeping the biggest secret of all, everything changes.

Saga’s goal: dismantle Queen Signe’s plans piece by piece. The only problem? The handsome Zagadkian dignitary who knows far too many of her secrets.

Meanwhile, dark threads continue to weave themselves through Íseldur as magic long thought dead begins to wake. In this follow-up to The Road of Bones, both women will need to find the strength to step into their destiny and stop chaos from sweeping across the land.

Return to the Kingdom of Íseldur where enemies become lovers and dark secrets hide around each corner. This installment digs deeper into Íseldur’s forbidden magic and the simmering attraction growing between two unlikely couples.]]> 586 Demi Winters 1738996034 Tracy 2 2025 4.36 2024 Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)
author: Demi Winters
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/31
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: 2025
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]]> <![CDATA[The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)]]> 205044632 A woman on the run. A crew of Viking mercenaries. A forbidden romance. And the secret which threatens them all.

Silla Nordvig is running for her life.

The queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous quest: travel the treacherous Road of Bones–a thousand-mile stretch haunted by warbands, creatures of darkness, and a mysterious murderer–and go to Kopa, where a shield-house awaits her.

After barely surviving the first stretch of road, a desperate Silla sneaks into a supply wagon belonging to the notorious Bloodaxe Crew. To make it to Kopa, she must win over Axe Eyes, the brooding leader of the Crew, while avoiding the Wolf, his distractingly handsome right-hand man. But the queen’s ruthless assassin has other plans and hunts Silla obsessively.

Will Silla make it safely to Kopa? Or will she fall prey to the perils of the Road of Bones?

Featuring an immersive world blending fairy tale with Vikings, The Road of Bones leads you on an adrenaline-fueled chase with fun banter and a slow-building enemies to lovers romance. The first book in the Ashen Series, you are one click away from reading it!]]> 500 Demi Winters 173899600X Tracy 3 2025 4.21 2023 The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)
author: Demi Winters
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/31
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> Heard It in a Love Song 56347594 From the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances.

Love doesn’t always wait until you’re ready.

Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past—her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her first—Layla’s newly found independence feels a lot like loneliness.

Then there's Josh, the single dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where Layla teaches music. Recently separated, he's still processing the end of his twenty-year marriage to his high school sweetheart. He chats with Layla every morning at school and finds himself thinking about her more and more.

Equally cautious and confused about dating in a world that favors apps over meeting organically, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple—but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness that’s a love song away?]]> 296 Tracey Garvis Graves 1250235707 Tracy 5 2025 3.72 2021 Heard It in a Love Song
author: Tracey Garvis Graves
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2021/11/29
date added: 2025/03/27
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> The Flatshare 36478784 Tiffy and Leon share a flat
Tiffy and Leon share a bed
Tiffy and Leon have never met�

Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.

But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven’t met yet, they’re about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window…]]> 394 Beth O'Leary 1787474402 Tracy 5 2025 3.97 2019 The Flatshare
author: Beth O'Leary
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/25
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: 2025
review:
Really good! It was a bit dramatic with the ptsd, but still enjoyable
]]> Ready or Not 154462768
Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy and close to her childhood best friend Willa, but far from her midwestern, traditional family who never really understood her. While her job is only dream- adjacent , she’s hoping her passion and hard work will soon help her land a more glamorous role. And sure, her most recent romantic history has consisted of not one but two disappointing men named Derek. At least she always knows what to expect…until she finds herself expecting after an uncharacteristic one-night stand.

The unplanned pregnancy cracks open all the relationships in her life. Eve's loyal friendship with Willa is feeling off , right when she needs her most. And it’s Willa’s steadfast older brother, Shep, who steps up to help. He has always been friendly, but now he’s checking in, ordering her surprise lunches, listening to all her complaints, and is� suddenly kinda hot? Then there’s the baby's father, who is supportive but conflicted. Before long, Eve is rethinking everything she thought she knew about herself and her world.

Over the course of nine months, as Eve struggles to figure out the next right step in her expanding reality, she begins to realize that family and love, in all forms, can sneak up on you when you least expect it.]]> 400 Cara Bastone 0593595718 Tracy 2 2025 3.96 2024 Ready or Not
author: Cara Bastone
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/20
date added: 2025/03/20
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City, #1)]]> 17673307 This is a previously-published edition - ASIN: B00BUWA58E

There are three things you need to know about Janie Morris: 1) She is incapable of engaging in a conversation without volunteering TMTI (Too Much Trivial Information), especially when she is unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her more than Quinn Sullivan, and 3) She doesn't know how to knit.

After losing her boyfriend, apartment, and job in the same day, Janie Morris can't help wondering what new torment fate has in store. To her utter mortification, Quinn Sullivan- aka Sir McHotpants- witnesses it all then keeps turning up like a pair of shoes you lust after but can't afford. The last thing she expects is for Quinn- the focus of her slightly, albeit harmless, stalkerish tendencies- to make her an offer she can't refuse.]]> 403 Penny Reid Tracy 5 2025
I just read a 5th time. I was really curious to see if I would be as in love with this book as I was the first four times. I have not liked at all the last couple of book that Penny has released and I wanted to see what had me so enamored. I still loved it! Here is the thing. This relationship didn't rely on sex and sexual encounters to further the relationship. It had great characters and an interesting plot. Those things have been replaced by salaciousness in her last novels. Sad!]]> 3.94 2013 Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City, #1)
author: Penny Reid
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2020/02/17
date added: 2025/03/20
shelves: 2025
review:
Read 4th time- still love!

I just read a 5th time. I was really curious to see if I would be as in love with this book as I was the first four times. I have not liked at all the last couple of book that Penny has released and I wanted to see what had me so enamored. I still loved it! Here is the thing. This relationship didn't rely on sex and sexual encounters to further the relationship. It had great characters and an interesting plot. Those things have been replaced by salaciousness in her last novels. Sad!
]]> <![CDATA[Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)]]> 20359781
Former beauty queen, Ashley Winston’s preferred coping strategy is escapism. She escaped her Tennessee small town, loathsome father, and six brothers eight years ago. Now she escapes life daily via her Amazon kindle one-click addiction. However, when a family tragedy forces her to return home, Ashley can’t escape the notice of Drew Runous� local Game Warden, reclusive mountain man, bear wrestler, philosopher, and everyone’s favorite guy. Drew’s irksome philosophizing in particular makes Ashley want to run for the skyscrapers, especially since he can’t seem to keep his exasperating opinions� or his soulful poetry, steadfast support, and delightful hands� to himself. Pretty soon the girl who wanted nothing more than the escape of the big city finds she’s lost her heart in small town Tennessee.

This is a full-length novel, can be read as a standalone, and is the fourth book in the 'Knitting in the City' series.]]> 376 Penny Reid 0989281094 Tracy 5 2025
First my apologies to penny reid, you work hard writing these books and I devour them in less than 24 hours then whine for 6 months until the next one comes out! P.S. When does the next one come out?

Reasons why this is a 5+ star book
1. I never once rolled my eyes when a trite overused character thought about his growing "appendage" ( this applies to the dozens of those sentences we read in majority of romance novels....you all know what I'm talking about)
2. Seriously teared up twice! Have had lumps with previous books but not tears.
3. 90% story with great characters, 10% sexy times- never a better ratio!
4. Made me want to go back to the beginning and read all five books again!
5. Just like in Neanderthal, hoping we get a story for everyone in the book - except for Jackson.]]> 4.19 2014 Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)
author: Penny Reid
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/21
date added: 2025/03/19
shelves: 2025
review:
REREAD BEFORE "Truth or Beard". 5+ stars!

First my apologies to penny reid, you work hard writing these books and I devour them in less than 24 hours then whine for 6 months until the next one comes out! P.S. When does the next one come out?

Reasons why this is a 5+ star book
1. I never once rolled my eyes when a trite overused character thought about his growing "appendage" ( this applies to the dozens of those sentences we read in majority of romance novels....you all know what I'm talking about)
2. Seriously teared up twice! Have had lumps with previous books but not tears.
3. 90% story with great characters, 10% sexy times- never a better ratio!
4. Made me want to go back to the beginning and read all five books again!
5. Just like in Neanderthal, hoping we get a story for everyone in the book - except for Jackson.
]]> <![CDATA[Happily Ever Ninja (Knitting in the City, #5)]]> 22848621
But I can tell you that Fiona’s husband—the always irrepressible and often cantankerous Greg Archer—is desperately in love with his wife. He aches for her when they are apart, and is insatiable when they are together. Yet as the years pass, Greg has begun to suspect that Fiona is a ninja. A ninja mom. A ninja wife. A ninja friend. After fourteen years of marriage, Greg is trying not to panic. Because Fiona’s talent for blending in is starting to resemble fading away.

However, when unexpected events mean Fiona must take center stage to keep her family safe, her response stuns everyone—Greg most of all. It seems like Greg’s wish has come true.

Except� not.

When all is said and done, can Greg handle this new version of his wife? Will his irrepressible cantankerousness push her away? Or can the couple find a way forward without either being forced to step back into the shadows?]]> 309 Penny Reid Tracy 5 2025 4.14 2016 Happily Ever Ninja (Knitting in the City, #5)
author: Penny Reid
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/22
date added: 2025/03/18
shelves: 2025
review:
Overall I thought this book was missing some of the magic that was in ninja at first sight. I was disappointed. But I still would rate it a 4.5-5 I've never read a romance between two already married and committed people and it was refreshing. As always I love the wit and humor and seriously "pinky and the brain". 10 stars for that! There were a couple of things I wished were developed a bit more and some things I wished were cut out. Is man child Matt going to be an ongoing character? I feel like he deserves a little dimension.
]]> <![CDATA[Dating-ish (Knitting in the City, #6)]]> 34454739 This is a previously-published edition - ASIN: B06XCJ53V5

Now a USA TODAY BESTSELLER

There are three things you need to know about Marie Harris:
1) She’s fed up with online dating,
2) She’s so fed up, she’s willing to forego the annoyance and consider more creative alternatives, and
3) She knows how to knit.

After the most bizarre and irritating first date in the history of human kind, Marie is looking for an alternative to men. With the help of her friends, she quickly identifies a few possibilities:

Need a cuddle? Use a professional cuddler. Need affirmation? Get yourself a life coach. Need an orgasm? Try orgasm meditation! Why does she need the hassle of a romantic partner when she can meet all her needs with paid services?
But then her irritating date resurfaces. And he’s not at all the person she thought he was. And he suggests a different—and crazier—solution to her dilemma . . .
As everyone knows (or will soon come to realize), traditional relations between humans are a thing of the past. Robots are our future. And if robots are our future, then why do we need other people at all?]]> 356 Penny Reid Tracy 5 2025 4.32 2017 Dating-ish (Knitting in the City, #6)
author: Penny Reid
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/23
date added: 2025/03/18
shelves: 2025
review:
I originally loved it, on the reread though I just felt the novelty of this author is over.
]]> <![CDATA[Love Hacked (Knitting in the City, #3)]]> 20982872 This is a previously-published edition - ASIN: B00IS98B24

There are three things you need to know about Sandra Fielding: 1) She makes all her first dates cry, 2) She hasn't been kissed in over two years, and 3) She knows how to knit.

Sandra has difficulty removing her psychotherapist hat. Of her last 30 dates, 29 have ended the same way: the man sobbing uncontrollably. After one such disaster, Sandra--near desperation and maybe a little tipsy--gives in to a seemingly harmless encounter with her hot waiter, Alex. Argumentative, secretive, and hostile Alex may be the opposite of everything Sandra knows is right for her. But now, the girl who has spent all her life helping others change for the better, must find a way to cope with falling for someone who refuses to change at all.

This is a full-length, 110k word novel and is the third book in the Knitting in the City series. All books in the series can be read as a standalone.]]> 390 Penny Reid Tracy 5 2025 4.18 2014 Love Hacked (Knitting in the City, #3)
author: Penny Reid
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/20
date added: 2025/03/18
shelves: 2025
review:
Reread #3. Re read still LOVE *i know I have found an amazing author when after I'm done I want to go back and read the other books again. Penny Reid is amazing at creating women we can relate to and laugh with. Such unique and interesting people and stories, romances that are intelligent and don't subscribe to the genres clichés. Can't wait for the next one!
]]> Kindred 60931 The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.]]> 288 Octavia E. Butler 0807083690 Tracy 0 to-read 4.30 1979 Kindred
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1979
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Friends Without Benefits (Knitting in the City, #2)]]> 18001399 This is a previously-published edition - ASIN: B00FJJN0WC

Friends Without Benefits can be read as a standalone, is a full length 120k word novel, and is book#2 in the Knitting in the City Series.

There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Finney: 1) She suffers from severe sarcastic syndrome, especially when she's unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her like Nico Manganiello, and 3) She knows how to knit.

Elizabeth Finney is almost always right about everything: the musical merits of boy bands are undervalued by society, “benefits� with human Ken dolls are better without friendship, and the sun has set on her once-in-a-lifetime chance for true love. But when Elizabeth’s plans for benefits without friendship are disarmed by the irritatingly charismatic and chauvinistic Nico Manganiello- her former nemesis- she finds herself struggling to maintain the electric fence around her heart while avoiding electrocution or, worse, falling in love.]]> 424 Penny Reid Tracy 5 2018, 2025 4.00 2013 Friends Without Benefits (Knitting in the City, #2)
author: Penny Reid
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/16
date added: 2025/03/09
shelves: 2018, 2025
review:

]]> Nora Goes Off Script 58988426 Nora's life is about to get a rewrite...

Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne'er-do-well husband Nora's life will never be the same.

The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He'll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. The extra seven grand would give Nora breathing room, but it's the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it's the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart.

Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best kind of love story--the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.]]> 272 Annabel Monaghan 0593420039 Tracy 4 2025 4.02 2022 Nora Goes Off Script
author: Annabel Monaghan
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/07
date added: 2025/03/07
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Perfect Match (Blue Heron, #2)]]> 17738218 What if the perfect match is a perfect surprise? 

Honor Holland has just been unceremoniously rejected by her lifelong crush. And now—a mere three weeks later—Mr. Perfect is engaged to her best friend. But resilient, reliable Honor is going to pick herself up, dust herself off and get back out there� or she would if dating in Manningsport, New York, population 715, wasn't easier said than done. 

Charming, handsome British professor Tom Barlow just wants to do right by his unofficial stepson, Charlie, but his visa is about to expire. Now Tom must either get a green card or leave the States—and leave Charlie behind. 

In a moment of impulsiveness, Honor agrees to help Tom with a marriage of convenience—and make her ex jealous in the process. But juggling a fiancé, hiding out from her former best friend and managing her job at the family vineyard isn't easy. And as sparks start to fly between Honor and Tom, they might discover that their pretend relationship is far too perfect to be anything but true love�.]]> 441 Kristan Higgins 0373778198 Tracy 5 2025 3.95 2013 The Perfect Match (Blue Heron, #2)
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/06
date added: 2025/03/07
shelves: 2025
review:
Re read- perfect amount of angst, nice and simple story
]]> The Best Man (Blue Heron, #1) 15803757 Sometimes The Best Man Is The One You Least Expect...

Faith Holland left her hometown after being jilted at the altar. Now a little older and wiser, she’s ready to return to the Blue Heron Winery, her family’s vineyard, to confront the ghosts of her past, and maybe enjoy a glass of red. After all, there’s some great scenery there....

Like Levi Cooper, the local police chief - and best friend of her former fiancé. There’s a lot about Levi that Faith never noticed, and it’s not just those deep green eyes. The only catch is she’s having a hard time forgetting that he helped ruin her wedding all those years ago. If she can find a minute amidst all her family drama to stop and smell the rosé, she just might find a reason to stay at Blue Heron, and finish that walk down the aisle.]]> 426 Kristan Higgins 0373777922 Tracy 5 2025
Great stories. Real, no ridiculous drama, just great romance]]> 3.90 2013 The Best Man (Blue Heron, #1)
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/05
date added: 2025/03/05
shelves: 2025
review:
Re read

Great stories. Real, no ridiculous drama, just great romance
]]> Out of the Clear Blue Sky 58988411
Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another woman just as her son leaves, her world comes crashing down. Besides the fact that this announcement is a complete surprise (to say the least), what shocks Lillie most is that she isn't...heartbroken. She's furious.

Lillie has loved her life on Cape Cod, but as a mother, wife and nurse-midwife, she's used to caring for other people...not taking care of herself. Now, alone for the first time in her life, she finds herself going a little rogue. Is it over the top to crash her ex-husband's wedding, dressed like the angel of death? Sure! Should she release a skunk into his perfect new home? Probably not! But it beats staying home and moping.

She finds an unexpected ally in her glamorous sister, with whom she's had a tense relationship all these years. And an unexpected babysitter in of all people Ben Hallowell, the driver in a car accident that nearly killed Lillie 20 years ago. And then there's Ophelia, her ex-husband's oddly lost niece, who could really use a friend.

It's the end of Lillie's life as she knew it. But sometimes the perfect next chapter surprises you...out of the clear blue sky.]]> 496 Kristan Higgins 0593335333 Tracy 3 2025
Finally finished- the first 30% was rough and then it got better]]> 4.11 2022 Out of the Clear Blue Sky
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/03
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: 2025
review:


Finally finished- the first 30% was rough and then it got better
]]> An Almost Perfect Summer 208011505 Nick is the most intriguing man Nella has met in a while. He's a 9 in the looks department (no one gets a 10), he makes her laugh, and he keeps her company when she ends up in A&E. But they live hundreds of miles apart.

Then Nella loses her job. There's a perfect role on offer at a Cotswolds holiday retreat. The catch is that her boss would be Nick. And that makes Nick the one man she can't risk falling in love with.

While Nella struggles with her feelings, a Hollywood star has found a haven at the retreat. Lizzie's sworn off people - especially men - until her friendly new neighbours entice her out of her shell. Maybe she needs a flirtation - with gorgeous Nick, perhaps? Not with taciturn local Matthew, though, who definitely isn't a member of her fan club. Then an astonishing secret revealed changes everything . . .

The scene is set for a fabulous new novel full of friendship, warmth and romance.]]> 410 Jill Mansell 103541001X Tracy 4 2025 4.24 2025 An Almost Perfect Summer
author: Jill Mansell
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/02
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> Confess 22609310
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it?]]> 306 Colleen Hoover 1476791457 Tracy 4 2017 4.14 2015 Confess
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2017/07/01
date added: 2025/03/01
shelves: 2017
review:
I love Colleen Hoover and I liked this book. There were no big surprises for me and it wasn't my favorite. But I still enjoyed it and could reread it down the road 4.5 stars
]]> The Wedding of the Year 123194873
It's set to be the perfect wedding - till the chauffeur is asked to keep driving the bride round the church. This wedding is not going as planned.

Lottie is a guest at the wedding when she sees Max for the first time in fifteen years. No kiss since has matched their last kiss together. They were on the brink of a beautiful love story. Then something shocking happened that tore them apart. Now here he is, handsome as ever, teasing Lottie in the old way - and that tingling electric attraction is back. But Max is out of bounds.

Ruby has been the perfect vicar's wife. But when she finds out the truth about her husband Peter, outrage and disbelief drive her to act impulsively, without a thought for the consequences. And nothing will ever be the same again.

There will be a wedding of the year - but maybe not yet. When love is in the air, anything can happen . . .]]> 384 Jill Mansell Tracy 4 2025 3.94 2024 The Wedding of the Year
author: Jill Mansell
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/01
date added: 2025/03/01
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy, #6)]]> 39909230
An escaped spider, the unexpected arrival of an Imperial Russian Prince, the senseless assassination of a powerful figure, a shocking attack on the supposedly invincible Warden of Texas, Catalina’s boss... And it’s only Monday.

Within hours, the fate of Houston—not to mention the House of Baylor—now rests on Catalina, who will have to harness her powers as never before. But even with her fellow Prime and fiancé Alessandro Sagredo by her side, she may not be able to expose who’s responsible before all hell really breaks loose.]]> 380 Ilona Andrews 0062878409 Tracy 4 2025 4.43 2022 Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy, #6)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/28
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Sapphire Flames (Hidden Legacy, #4)]]> 41088576
But behind the scenes powerful forces are at work, and one of them is Alessandro Sagredo, the Italian Prime who was once Catalina’s teenage crush. Dangerous and unpredictable, Alessandro’s true motives are unclear, but he’s drawn to Catalina like a moth to a flame.

To help her friend, Catalina must test the limits of her extraordinary powers, but doing so may cost her both her House–and her heart.]]> 359 Ilona Andrews 0062878336 Tracy 5 2025 4.23 2019 Sapphire Flames (Hidden Legacy, #4)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/23
date added: 2025/02/27
shelves: 2025
review:
How long am I going to have to wait for the next one
]]> Chill Factor 268275 Librarian’s note: This is a previously-published edition of
paperback ISBN: 9780743466776.

Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town—the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there’s always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace.

It is to this backdrop that Lilly Martin returns to close the sale of her mountain cabin, marking the end of her turbulent eight-year marriage to Dutch Burton, Cleary’s chief of police. Dutch’s reluctance to let her go isn’t Lilly’s only obstacle. As she’s trying to outrun a snowstorm, her car skids on the icy road and strikes a man who emerges from the woods on foot. She recognizes the injured man as Ben Tierney, whom she’d met the previous summer. They’re forced to wait out the storm in the cabin, but as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly begins to wonder if the greatest danger to her safety isn’t the blizzard outside, but the mysterious man right beside her.

Is Ben Tierney the feared abductor? Or is he who he claims to be...her rescuer from harm and from the tragedy that haunts her?]]> 534 Sandra Brown Tracy 5 2025 3.98 2005 Chill Factor
author: Sandra Brown
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/27
date added: 2025/02/27
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)]]> 49053880
The nightmare that Alessandro has fought since childhood has come roaring back to life, but now Catalina is under threat. Not even his lifelong quest for revenge will stop him from keeping her safe, even if every battle could be his last. Because Catalina won't rest until she stops the use of the illicit, power-granting serum that's tearing their world apart. ]]> 392 Ilona Andrews 0062878360 Tracy 4 2025 4.37 2020 Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/25
date added: 2025/02/25
shelves: 2025
review:
This one was hard to get into. Had to put it down and read another book before finishing it
]]> <![CDATA[Kingdom of Fallen Ash (The Order #1)]]> 202644768
In the dystopian realm of "The Order" society is eternally divided between the privileged Untouchables and the struggling Unfortunates. The Untouchables, draped in opulence and power, govern the city with an iron fist, casting long shadows over the impoverished Unfortunates who toil beneath in the murky depths of the working class.

As the ruling elite revel in excess and luxury, the Unfortunates navigate a world stacked against them, grappling with meager resources and restricted opportunities. The social chasm widens daily as the Untouchables tighten their grip on wealth and influence, leaving the Unfortunates to navigate the shadows cast upon their lives. "The Order" follows the intertwining fates of two sworn enemies—one an ambitious Untouchable seeking to challenge the system from within, struggling to cope as the lies of her society unfold in front of her, the other an Unfortunate yearning for a chance to seek vengeance on any and every Untouchable in his path. Their stories unfold against a backdrop of intrigue, rebellion, and the unyielding determination to break free from the oppressive shackles of a society defined by its merciless class divisions.

The question is, can free will exist in a society this divided?]]> 503 Katerina St. Clair Tracy 0 to-read 4.12 2024 Kingdom of Fallen Ash (The Order #1)
author: Katerina St. Clair
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/23
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Diamond Fire (Hidden Legacy, #3.5)]]> 39320167
Catalina Baylor is looking forward to wearing her maid of honor dress and watching her older sister walk down the aisle.  Then the wedding planner gets escorted off the premises, the bride’s priceless tiara disappears, and Rogan's extensive family overruns his mother’s home.  Someone is cheating, someone is lying, and someone is plotting murder.

To make this wedding happen, Catalina will have to do the thing she fears use her magic.  But she’s a Baylor and there’s nothing she wouldn't do for her sister's happiness.  Nevada will have her fairy tale wedding, even if Catalina has to tear the mansion apart brick by brick to get it done.]]> 160 Ilona Andrews Tracy 4 2025 4.14 2018 Diamond Fire (Hidden Legacy, #3.5)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/21
date added: 2025/02/21
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> Wildfire (Hidden Legacy, #3) 27422533
Rogan faces his own challenges, too, as Nevada’s magical rank has made her a desirable match for other Primes. Controlling his immense powers is child’s play next to controlling his conflicting emotions. And now he and Nevada are confronted by a new threat within her own family. Can they face this together? Or is their world about to go up in smoke?]]> 391 Ilona Andrews 0062289276 Tracy 5 2025 Love this series. 4.44 2017 Wildfire (Hidden Legacy, #3)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/20
date added: 2025/02/21
shelves: 2025
review:
Love this series.
]]> White Hot (Hidden Legacy, #2) 22303684
Rogan is a billionaire Prime—the highest rank of magic user—and as unreadable as ever, despite Nevada's "talent." But there's no hiding the sparks between them. Now that the stakes are even higher, both professionally and personally, and their foes are unimaginably powerful, Rogan and Nevada will find that nothing burns like ice . . .]]> 389 Ilona Andrews 006228925X Tracy 5 2025 4.40 2017 White Hot (Hidden Legacy, #2)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/19
date added: 2025/02/21
shelves: 2025
review:
Liked this one better than the first
]]> <![CDATA[Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, #1)]]> 20705702
Then she's kidnapped by Connor "Mad" Rogan—a darkly tempting billionaire with equally devastating powers. Torn between wanting to run or surrender to their overwhelming attraction, Nevada must join forces with Rogan to stay alive.

Rogan's after the same target, so he needs Nevada. But she's getting under his skin, making him care about someone other than himself for a change. And, as Rogan has learned, love can be as perilous as death, especially in the magic world.]]> 382 Ilona Andrews 0062289241 Tracy 5 2025 REREAD 4.27 2014 Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, #1)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/17
date added: 2025/02/21
shelves: 2025
review:
REREAD
]]> Cry No More 187500 384 Linda Howard 0749934581 Tracy 5 2025

Reread #3 still so good!]]> 4.12 2003 Cry No More
author: Linda Howard
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/15
date added: 2025/02/15
shelves: 2025
review:
after a string of stupid cliched romance novels, this book was just what I needed! Now I have found a new author and will have a good amount of books from her library to read.


Reread #3 still so good!
]]> We All Live Here 213243915 The #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose books so many love, brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is... complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach about love, and what it actually means to be family.]]> 450 Jojo Moyes 1984879324 Tracy 3 2025 Good but not great 3.86 2025 We All Live Here
author: Jojo Moyes
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/14
date added: 2025/02/14
shelves: 2025
review:
Good but not great
]]> <![CDATA[King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, #1)]]> 202039
Suddenly two innocents are thrust into the midst of the conflict. Alain, a young man granted a vision by the Lady of Battles, and Liath, a young woman with the power to change the course of history. Both must discover the truth about themselves before they can accept their fates. For in a war where sorcery, not swords, may determine the final outcome, the price of failure may be more than their own lives.]]> 636 Kate Elliott 0886777712 Tracy 0 to-read 3.80 1997 King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, #1)
author: Kate Elliott
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/13
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)]]> 13928
But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift—by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever.

When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...]]> 554 Juliet Marillier Tracy 0 to-read 4.27 1999 Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
author: Juliet Marillier
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/12
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]]> Where the Dark Stands Still 61287784
Whisked away to his crumbling manor, Liska soon discovers the sinister roots of their bargain. And if she wants to survive the year and return home, she must unravel her host’s spool of secrets and face the ghosts of his past.

Those who enter the wood do not always return…]]> 336 A.B. Poranek Tracy 0 to-read 4.05 2024 Where the Dark Stands Still
author: A.B. Poranek
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/12
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]]> An Academy for Liars 203956639 A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.

Lennon Carter’s life is falling apart.

Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her to take the entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah. Lennon has been chosen because—like everyone else at the school—she has the innate gift of persuasion, the ability to wield her will like a weapon, using it to control others and, in rare cases, matter itself.

After passing the test, Lennon begins to learn how to master her devastating and unsettling power. But despite persuasion’s heavy toll on her body and mind, she is wholly captivated by her studies, by Drayton’s lush, moss-draped campus, and by her brilliant classmates. But even more captivating is her charismatic adviser, Dante, who both intimidates and enthralls her.

As Lennon continues in her studies her control grows, and she starts to uncover more about the secret world she has entered into, including the disquieting history of Drayton College, and the way her mentor’s tragic and violent past intertwines with it. She is increasingly disturbed by what she learns. For it seems that the ultimate test is to embrace absolute power without succumbing to corruption . . . and it's a test she's terrified she is going to fail.]]> 464 Alexis Henderson 0593638301 Tracy 0 to-read 3.44 2024 An Academy for Liars
author: Alexis Henderson
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/12
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]]> The Beautiful Ones 55311334 From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic.

They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis—neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse—and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip.

When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him.

But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina—and himself—that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.]]> 299 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 125078557X Tracy 0 to-read 3.84 2017 The Beautiful Ones
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)]]> 25446343 Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old.

She believed she knew every horror and was beyond surprise.

She was wrong.

In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep.

Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice—save the woman he loves, or everyone else?—while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the Muse of Nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of.

As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: Must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead?

Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this astonishing and heart-stopping sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer.]]> 514 Laini Taylor 0316341711 Tracy 0 to-read 4.41 2018 Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)
author: Laini Taylor
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/12
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]]> <![CDATA[Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)]]> 28449207 The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around�and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever.

What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?

The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?

Welcome to Weep.]]> 532 Laini Taylor 0316341681 Tracy 0 to-read 4.27 2017 Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
author: Laini Taylor
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/12
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)]]> 36679274
Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but Kel knows that his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible.

Lin Caster is one of the Ashkar, a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. By law, they must live behind walls within the city, but Lin, a physician, ventures out to tend to the sick and dying of Castellane. Despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge.

After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the criminal ruler of Castellane’s underworld. He offers them each what they want most; but as they descend into his world of intrigue and shadow, they discover a conspiracy of corruption that reaches from the darkest gutters of Castellane to the highest tower of its palaces.

As long-kept secrets begin to unravel, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? Can forbidden love bring down a kingdom? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war—and the world into chaos?]]> 624 Cassandra Clare 0525619992 Tracy 0 to-read 3.79 2023 Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/12
shelves: to-read
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]]> Mean Streak 20454672 From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, "Does the end justify the means?" and turns it on its head.

Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her.

While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark that he won't even tell her his name. She's determined to escape him, and willing to take any risks necessary to survive.

Unexpectedly, however, the two have a dangerous encounter with people who adhere to a code of justice all their own. At the center of the dispute is a desperate young woman whom Emory can't turn her back on, even if it means breaking the law. Wrong becomes right at the hands of the man who strikes fear, but also sparks passion.

As her husband's deception is revealed, and the FBI closes in on her captor, Emory begins to wonder if the man with no name is, in fact, her rescuer from those who wish her dead - and from heartbreak.

Combining the nail-biting suspense and potent storytelling that has made Sandra Brown one of the world's best loved authors, MEAN STREAK is a wildly compelling novel about love, deceit, and the choices we must make in order to survive.]]> 409 Sandra Brown 1455581127 Tracy 5 2025
My first Sandra brown- really enjoyed it. 4.5 stars]]> 4.06 2014 Mean Streak
author: Sandra Brown
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/12
date added: 2025/02/12
shelves: 2025
review:
Reread- I really do like this author

My first Sandra brown- really enjoyed it. 4.5 stars
]]> Just One of the Guys 2884065
While doing a story on local heroes, she meets a hunky doctor and things start to look up. Now there's only one problem: Trevor Meade, her first love and the one man she's never quite gotten over--although he seems to have gotten over her just fine.

Yet the more time she spends with Dr. Perfect, the better Trevor looks. But even with the in-your-face competition, the irresistible Trevor just can't seem to see Chastity as anything more than just one of the guys....]]> 384 Kristan Higgins 0373772998 Tracy 4 2025 3.90 2008 Just One of the Guys
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/10
date added: 2025/02/10
shelves: 2025
review:
3.5 stars, not sure I liked how it all worked out.
]]> Evvie Drake Starts Over 40514431
Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the “yips�: he can’t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future.

When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken—and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pasts—the friendships they’ve damaged, the secrets they’ve kept—but in life, as in baseball, there’s always a chance—up until the last out.]]> 289 Linda Holmes 0525619240 Tracy 4 2025 Solid book but overpriced. 3.80 2019 Evvie Drake Starts Over
author: Linda Holmes
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/09
date added: 2025/02/09
shelves: 2025
review:
Solid book but overpriced.
]]> One Day in December 38255337 Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic... and then her bus drives away.

Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.

What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525574682.]]> 393 Josie Silver Tracy 4 2025 3.80 2018 One Day in December
author: Josie Silver
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/08
date added: 2025/02/08
shelves: 2025
review:
Not bad, but there was just something that bothered me, can’t quite put my finger on it.
]]> All the Missing Pieces 216284514 *This limited deluxe edition comes with gorgeous stained edges and spot gloss*

Sometimes the last thing you expect is exactly what you need, the final missing piece. And sometimes it comes in the form of a towering, broody sheriff, determined to get in your way at every step.

Ridley Sawyer knows what it’s like to miss someone, to feel like a piece of her vanished—because it happened to her the night her twin sister disappeared.

Now, Ridley channels that loss into hope, traveling the country covering cold cases for her true crime podcast. She might not have found justice for her sister but that doesn’t stop her from finding it for others.

Until Sheriff Colter Brooks gets in her way.

Colt knows what it’s like to have reporters descend on his town in the wake of a tragedy, and he’s not about to let a fiery podcaster stir up trouble. It doesn’t matter that her haunting blue eyes tell him there’s more to Ridley’s story or that he can’t stop imagining what it would be like to touch her.

But when Ridley’s cold case turns hot and she’s thrust into the crosshairs, Colt has no choice but to step in. Suddenly, Ridley’s living at his house, drinking his whiskey, and stealing his dog’s affections. But she’s also proving that she’s so much more than his first impression.

And as they get closer to the truth, the game they’ve been playing might just turn deadly…]]> 384 Catherine Cowles 1464224293 Tracy 3 2025 4.16 2025 All the Missing Pieces
author: Catherine Cowles
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/07
date added: 2025/02/07
shelves: 2025
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]]> In a Holidaze 50892287 Alternate cover edition can be found here

One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners..

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.

But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy.

The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop—and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.

Jam-packed with yuletide cheer, an unforgettable cast of characters, and Christina Lauren’s trademark hijinks, this swoon-worthy romantic read will make you believe in the power of wishes and the magic of the holidays.
]]> 307 Christina Lauren 198212394X Tracy 4 2025 3.65 2020 In a Holidaze
author: Christina Lauren
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/05
date added: 2025/02/05
shelves: 2025
review:
Interesting... entertaining and kind of weird?!?
]]> Roomies 34466910 From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s romantic novel.

Marriages of convenience are so...inconvenient.

For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. Lacking the nerve to actually talk to the gorgeous stranger, fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions.

Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway—until his reason for disappearing earlier becomes clear: he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago.

Seeing that her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, a wild idea takes hold of her. Impulsively, she marries the Irishman, her infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves and Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway—in the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting—will Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?]]> 368 Christina Lauren 1501165836 Tracy 5 2025 3.73 2017 Roomies
author: Christina Lauren
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/03
date added: 2025/02/03
shelves: 2025
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]]> The Fall Risk 223199392 Two good neighbors make the best of a bad Valentine’s Day in a funny and improbably romantic short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer.

It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, and Charlotte and Seth are not looking for romance. Armed with emotional-support bear spray, Charlotte is in self-imposed isolation and on guard from men. Having a stalker can do that to a person’s nerves. Just across the hall and giving off woodsy vibes is Seth, a recently divorced arborist. As in today recently. Heights, he’s fine with. Trust? Not so much. But when disaster traps them one flight up and no way down, an outrageously precarious predicament forces a tree-loving guy and a rattled girl next door to embrace their captivity. Soon their defenses are breaking away. Considering how close they both are to the edge, Charlotte and Seth could be in danger of falling—in love.]]> 82 Abby Jimenez 1662529082 Tracy 3 2025 4.11 2025 The Fall Risk
author: Abby Jimenez
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/02
date added: 2025/02/02
shelves: 2025
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]]> <![CDATA[Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)]]> 217536270
In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn't much a girl wouldn't do for a glass of water.

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember.

But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.

When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares... but it turns out they're real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.

The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist's magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her.

Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he's the only way Saeris is going to make it home.]]> 624 Callie Hart 1538774194 Tracy 4 2025 4.28 2024 Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)
author: Callie Hart
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/02
date added: 2025/02/02
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating]]> 40189670

Just friends. Just friends. JUST FRIENDS. If they repeat it enough, maybe it’ll be true . . .


Hazel knows she’s a lot to take � and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and taste for the absurd don’t send them running, her lack of filter and tendency to say exactly the wrong thing will. Their loss. Not everyone can handle a Hazel.


Josh has known Hazel since college. From the first night they met � when she gracelessly threw up on his shoes � to when she sent him an unintelligible email while in a post-surgical haze, Josh has always thought of Hazel more as a spectacle than a peer. But now, ten years later, after a cheating girlfriend has turned his life upside down, going out with Hazel is a breath of fresh air.


Not that Josh and Hazel date. At least, not each other. Because setting each other up on progressively terrible double blind dates means there’s nothing between them . . . right?

]]> 309 Christina Lauren 1501165852 Tracy 5 2025 3.91 2018 Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
author: Christina Lauren
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/29
date added: 2025/02/02
shelves: 2025
review:
LOVED! this book had everything I love, 1. an amazing quirky heroine who could be my friend 2. a respectful hero who is not a slime ball disguised as a "fantasy" 3. 90% story 10% steam
]]> The Paradise Problem 199797582
Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.

Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents � his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.

But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.]]> 352 Christina Lauren 1668017725 Tracy 4 2025 4.06 2024 The Paradise Problem
author: Christina Lauren
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/02/02
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> Look on the Bright Side 198637892 From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life’s detours.

Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents�, pop out a couple of kids and build a rewarding career as an oncologist.

Things aren’t going so well.

For one, the guy didn’t work out. Theoretically, she’d love to find someone else, but it hasn’t happened. Two, she’s just been transferred out of oncology for being too emotional. (Is it her fault she’s a weeper?) Three, her parents just split up.

Deviating from the plan was…well, not in the plan. A potential solution comes from the foul-tempered and renowned surgeon Lorenzo Santini (aka Dr. Satan). He needs a date this summer for his sister’s wedding. His ancient Noni wants to see him settled. In exchange, he could make a few introductions and maybe get Lark back into the field of her choice.

As a sucker for old people and fake relationships, Lark agrees. Teeny problem—she instantly falls for his big, warm family. Especially his estranged brother.

Meanwhile, Lark’s mom has moved in with Lark’s flamboyant landlady, Joy, and an unlikely friendship blossoms. The three women have a long summer and a big beautiful house on the ocean to figure out what’s next…and quite possibly learn that the best things in life aren’t planned at all.]]> 432 Kristan Higgins 0593547659 Tracy 5 2025 4.10 2024 Look on the Bright Side
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/26
shelves: 2025
review:
My favorite read of 2024 so far.
]]> My One and Only 9277340 Just when she thought she had life and love all figured out...

Divorce attorney Harper James can't catch a break. Bad enough that she runs into her ex-hubby, Nick, at her sister's destination wedding, but now, by a cruel twist of fate, she's being forced to make a cross-country road trip with him. And her almost-fiancé back at home is not likely to be sympathetic.

Harper can't help that Nick has come blazing back into her life in all of his frustratingly appealing, gorgeous architect glory. But in Nick's eyes, Harper's always been the one. If they can only get it right this time, forever might be waiting—just around the bend.]]> 382 Kristan Higgins 0373775571 Tracy 4 2025 3.94 2011 My One and Only
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/25
date added: 2025/01/25
shelves: 2025
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]]> All I Ever Wanted 8689732 One Happily-Ever-After Rocking Chair...

and no sign of any forthcoming babies to rock in ol' Georgebury, Vermont. For Callie Grey, turning thirty means coming to grips with the fact that her boss (and five-week fling) is way overdue in his marriage proposal. And way off track because Mark has suddenly announced his engagement to the company's new Miss Perfect. If that isn't bad enough, her mom decides to throw her a three-oh birthday bash in the family funeral home.

Bad goes to worse when she stirs up a crazy relationship with the town's not so warm and fuzzy veterinarian, Ian McFarland, in order to flag Mark's attention. So Ian is more comfortable with animals.... So he's formal, orderly and just a bit tense. The ever-friendly, fun-loving and spontaneous Callie decides it's time for Ian to get a personality makeover. But dang, if he doesn't shock the heck out of her, she might actually fall for Vermont's unlikeliest eligible bachelor....]]> 318 Kristan Higgins 1426864086 Tracy 4 2025 3.97 2010 All I Ever Wanted
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/23
date added: 2025/01/23
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> Fools Rush in 581999 Millie Barnes is this close to finally achieving her perfect life... Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape Cod? Check. Cute cottage of her very own? Check. Adorable puppy suitable for walks past attractive locals? Check! All she needs is for golden boy and former crush Joe Carpenter to notice her, and Millie will be set. But perfection isn't as easy as it looks—especially when Sam Nickerson, a local policeman, is so distracting. Sure, he needs a friend after being dumped by Millie's fortune-hunting sister, but does she really need to enjoy his company that much? He is definitely not part of her master plan. But maybe it's time for Millie to start a new list...]]> 384 Kristan Higgins 0373771096 Tracy 4 2025 3.77 2006 Fools Rush in
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/22
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: 2025
review:
I liked it better the second time.
]]> Too Good to Be True 5024334
Whoa. No. Callahan O'Shea is not her perfect man! Not with his unsavory past. So why does Mr. Wrong feel so...right?]]> 384 Kristan Higgins 0373773552 Tracy 4 2025 3.88 2009 Too Good to Be True
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/21
date added: 2025/01/21
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> Until There Was You 11164514
When Posey was sixteen, the bad boy of Bellsford, New Hampshire, broke her heart. But now he's back, sending Posey's traitorous schoolgirl heart into overdrive once again. She should be giving him a wide berth, but it seems fate has other ideas ...]]> 416 Kristan Higgins 037377611X Tracy 4 2025 3.98 2011 Until There Was You
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/20
date added: 2025/01/20
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> Running Barefoot 19054212 443 Amy Harmon Tracy 5 2025 4.20 2012 Running Barefoot
author: Amy Harmon
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/19
date added: 2025/01/19
shelves: 2025
review:
REREAD I didn't like it as much as making faces, but Amy Harmon is a fantastic writer! I have to give five stars for such a great story and characters!
]]> From Lukov with Love 37683751
After seventeen years—and countless broken bones and broken promises—she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close.

But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she’s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to reconsider everything.

Including Ivan Lukov.]]> 493 Mariana Zapata Tracy 5 2025 4.19 2018 From Lukov with Love
author: Mariana Zapata
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/17
date added: 2025/01/17
shelves: 2025
review:
Loved! Perfect timing for the olympics. Although Jasmine got on my nerves a bit- don’t think I really liked her personality. I’m definitely going to have to reread this
]]> The Women 127305853
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.

But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.

The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm's way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.]]> 471 Kristin Hannah 1250178630 Tracy 3 2025 4.58 2024 The Women
author: Kristin Hannah
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.58
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/16
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: 2025
review:
I enjoyed the book but it felt a little bit like “trauma porn� I know the point was to showcase all the atrocities of the Vietnam war but all happening to the FMC? Didn’t work for me exactly
]]> The Summer Pact 195888459 In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade later and embark upon a life-changing adventure together—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Meant to Be.

Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds: Lainey, a California party girl with a flair for drama; Tyson, a brilliant scholar and law school hopeful from D.C.; Summer, a recruited athlete and perfectionist from the Midwest; and Hannah, a mild-mannered southerner who is content to quietly round out the circle of big personalities. Soon after moving into their shared dorm, they strike up a conversation in a study lounge, and the seeds of friendship are planted.

As their college years fly by, their bond intensifies and the four become inseparable. But as graduation nears, their lives are forever changed after a desperate act leads to tragic consequences. Stunned and heartbroken, a pact is made to be there for each other in their time of need, no matter how separated they are by circumstances or distance.

Ten years later, Hannah is anticipating what should be one of the happiest moments of her life when everything is suddenly turned upside down. Calling on her closest friends, it soon becomes clear that they are facing their own crossroads. True to their promise, they agree to take a time out from lives headed in wrong directions and embark on a journey of self-discovery, forgiveness, and acceptance.

In this tender portrayal of grief, love, and hope, Emily Giffin asks: When things fall apart, who will be at our sides to help pick up the pieces?]]> 352 Emily Giffin 0593600290 Tracy 1 2025 3.27 2024 The Summer Pact
author: Emily Giffin
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2024
rating: 1
read at: 2025/01/05
date added: 2025/01/15
shelves: 2025
review:
I wish I could give this book negative stars
]]> Masquerade 18515910
It's hard for a woman to keep up the masquerade when her boss is as handsome as Slade Jacobson and the job takes her to Hawaii with him. In between handling his whirlwind four-year-old daughter and dealing with a whole cast of Hollywood personalities, Clarissa has to keep a tight hold on her heart.]]> 245 Janette Rallison Tracy 3 2025 Not very deep 3.72 2012 Masquerade
author: Janette Rallison
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/14
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2025
review:
Not very deep
]]> <![CDATA[The Muse of Maiden Lane (Belles of London, #4)]]> 208894878
Stella Hobhouse is a brilliant rider, stalwart friend, skilled sketch artist—and completely overlooked. Her outmodish gray hair makes her invisible to London society. Combined with her brother’s pious restrictions and her dwindling inheritance, Stella is on the verge of a lifetime marooned in Derbyshire as a spinster. Unless she does something drastic…like posing for a daring new style of portrait by the only man who’s ever really seen her.

Aspiring painter Edward “Teddy� Hayes knows true beauty when he sees it. He would never ask Stella to risk her reputation as an artist’s model but in the five years since a virulent bout of scarlet fever left him partially paralyzed, Teddy has learned to heed good fortune when he finds it. He’ll do anything to persuade his muse to pose for him, even if he must offer her a marriage of convenience.

After all, though Teddy has yearned to trace Stella’s luminous beauty on canvas since their chance meeting, her heart is what he truly aches to capture�.]]> 356 Mimi Matthews 0593639278 Tracy 4 2025 3.97 2024 The Muse of Maiden Lane (Belles of London, #4)
author: Mimi Matthews
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/12
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> The Last Letter 40045986
Beckett,

If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.

I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride.

My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone. She’s too independent and won’t accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It’s too much for anyone to endure. It’s not fair.

And here’s the kicker: there’s something else you don’t know that’s tearing her family apart. She’s going to need help.

So if I’m gone, that means I can’t be there for Ella. I can’t help them through this. But you can. So I’m begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family.

Please don’t make her go through it alone.

Ryan]]> 426 Rebecca Yarros 1640635335 Tracy 0 2025 4.43 2019 The Last Letter
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/08
date added: 2025/01/09
shelves: 2025
review:
I don’t mind a sad book but this was just stupid trauma porn, and the FMC was so immature and stupid just for the sake of a third act break up. Did not enjoy
]]> The Art of Starting Over 217229965 In this journey from first love to second chances, New York Times bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin brings a single mom and a widower back home to renew the spark that will light their way forward.

Devorah Campbell’s life falls apart under the pressure of one truth: her husband is having an affair with her best friend. So Devorah packs up her daughter and their shared heartbreak for small-town Oyster Bay, where she grew up. Her relationship with her father is still on the rocks, but Devorah has her brother there—and, unexpectedly, her brother’s best friend.

Hayden McKenna lost his wife a year ago and has struggled with single fatherhood ever since. Moving back home with his son is a last but best resort, a chance to start fresh, surrounded by family and old friends. But when Hayden runs into Devorah, his childhood crush, sparks fly as bright as ever. If only he could make her see them too�

Amid a swirl of hurt and healing, Devorah and Hayden grow closer, rekindling what they had all those years ago to discover that, sometimes, a new start means going back to the beginning.]]> 285 Heidi McLaughlin 1662521456 Tracy 3 2025 4.01 2025 The Art of Starting Over
author: Heidi McLaughlin
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/06
date added: 2025/01/06
shelves: 2025
review:

]]> Play Along (Windy City, #4) 199285128 Kennedy

I’m the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors, and after years of putting up with a sexist lead doctor, I’m desperate to land my dream job with a new team next year. All I have to do is maintain my professional reputation for my final season in Chicago.

But a Las Vegas run-in with the team’s shortstop threatens it all, leaving me with a fuzzy memory and a ring on my left hand.

Now, not only am I legally bound to the most persistent man I’ve ever met, but thanks to Isaiah’s scheme to save my job, I have to pretend the whole thing was a planned elopement and not a drunken mistake.

Isaiah Rhodes is reckless, impulsive, and frustratingly charming. He’s also my brand-new husband.

They got the saying wrong. What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas� sometimes it follows you right back home.


Isaiah

As the shortstop for Chicago’s professional baseball team, I’ve had my fair share of fun. But that all ended the day Kennedy Kay became a single woman.

I’ve crushed on the team’s athletic trainer for years. I’ve flirted to no avail, so imagine my surprise when I woke up in Sin City with a ring on my finger and my favorite redhead in my bed.

We agree to stay married for one baseball season, just long enough to keep her job safe, but in my mind, I’m using our time together to prove to her I’m husband material.

Kennedy might be reluctant to join in on our game, but it’s one I refuse to lose.

So come on, wife� play along.]]> 384 Liz Tomforde Tracy 0 2025 Cringe dnf 60% 4.44 2024 Play Along (Windy City, #4)
author: Liz Tomforde
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/04
date added: 2025/01/03
shelves: 2025
review:
Cringe dnf 60%
]]> Wild Eyes (Rose Hill, #2) 209568782
As a chart-topping country singer with a recent streak of bad press it’s hard to find any peace. But I find it in Rose Hill. With a little boy and a little girl who steal my heart just as thoroughly as their dad.

Weston Belmont.

The man is a shameless flirt. He oozes confidence and masculinity in a way that’s downright distracting. And in bed? He’s addictive.

Everything with him is wild and impulsive and I’m desperate to regain some control.

But no one has supported me like West does. And no one has ever made me feel as loved as he does either.

So, while my brain says settling down with a small-town horse trainer is impossible� my heart says I’m right where I belong.

Still, my life as a celebrity haunts me. It has the power to pull us apart.

I can see in his eyes that wants me to stay. And I want that too.

But I know better than anyone that we don’t always get what we want.]]> 464 Elsie Silver 1464220824 Tracy 0 to-read 4.24 2024 Wild Eyes (Rose Hill, #2)
author: Elsie Silver
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/31
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[His Greatest Treasure (Greatest Love, #4)]]> 217473625 NOW AN AMAZON TOP 50 BESTSELLER.

Oliver Bateman is a jerk.

It’s been a decade since I’ve seen him last, and while time has been generous with his outrageously good looks, it wasn’t kind to his attitude. He was born grumpy, so I don’t know why I expected our first meeting as adults to go any differently than our final goodbye as teenagers.

The only thing worse than him not recognizing me is being stuck as his neighbour for the foreseeable future. We don’t get along in the slightest, and even my daughter’s infatuation with him can’t keep my temper from flaring when he purposefully pushes all my buttons just to get a rise out of me.

Yet even as I remind myself of that, it’s obvious that I haven’t had anyone bring this type of reaction out of me in years. It feels almost as good as the first brush of his hands on my skin and breath on my lips. He brings me out of my shell and reminds me that Mom doesn’t have to be my only label.

It’s difficult to create a new life for yourself when you have ties to one that you can’t shake free of. But when Oliver sets his mind to something, there’s no way of stopping him from accomplishing it. And when he decides he wants me and my daughter, I let him take his best shot.

Turns out he only needed one. And now, I want him right back.]]> 348 Hannah Cowan Tracy 0 to-read 4.01 His Greatest Treasure (Greatest Love, #4)
author: Hannah Cowan
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.01
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/12/31
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Tracy 5 2024 4.48 2006 Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: 2024
review:

]]> Thank You for Listening 59926642
On her return home, Sewanee discovers one of the world’s most beloved romance novelists wanted her to perform her last book—with Brock McNight, the industry’s hottest, most secretive voice. Sewanee doesn’t buy what romance novels are selling—not after her own dreams were tragically cut short—and she stopped narrating them years ago. But her admiration of the late author, and the opportunity to get her grandmother more help, makes her decision for her.

As Sewanee begins work on the book, resurrecting her old romance pseudonym, she and Brock forge a real connection, hidden behind the comfort of anonymity. Soon, she is dreaming again, but secrets are revealed, and the realities of life come crashing down around her once more.

If she can learn to risk everything for desires she has long buried, she will discover a world of intimacy and acceptance she never believed would be hers.

From the author of My Oxford Year, Julia Whelan’s uplifting novel tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narrator—who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident—and her journey of self-discovery, love, and acceptance when she agrees to narrate one last romance novel.]]> 423 Julia Whelan Tracy 4 2024 4.04 2022 Thank You for Listening
author: Julia Whelan
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: 2024
review:

]]> Wait for It 33288638
Diana Casillas can admit it: she doesn't know what the hell she's doing half the time. How she's made it through the last two years of her life without killing anyone is nothing short of a miracle. Being a grown-up wasn’t supposed to be so hard.

With a new house, two little boys she inherited the most painful possible way, a giant dog, a job she usually loves, more than enough family, and friends, she has almost everything she could ever ask for.

Except for a boyfriend.

Or a husband.

But who needs either one of those?]]> 418 Mariana Zapata Tracy 5 2024 4.29 2016 Wait for It
author: Mariana Zapata
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/27
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: 2024
review:

]]> The Wall of Winnipeg and Me 29367958
But when Aiden Graves shows up at her door wanting her to come back, she's beyond shocked.

For two years, the man known as The Wall of Winnipeg couldn't find it in him to tell her good morning or congratulate her on her birthday. Now? He's asking for the unthinkable.

What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants?]]> 475 Mariana Zapata Tracy 5 2024
LOVED AGAIN!!
Loved loved loved it. MZ is one of my all time favorite authors and she delivered again. You know it's great when after reading you want to go back and re-read all her other books! Her books have this slow burn that build to a love that is believable and real. The characters make you want to invest your time and root for them. This is a romance book, not the other crap that is out there that tries to out porn each other. 5+ stars]]> 4.18 2016 The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
author: Mariana Zapata
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/24
date added: 2024/12/24
shelves: 2024
review:
REREAD

LOVED AGAIN!!
Loved loved loved it. MZ is one of my all time favorite authors and she delivered again. You know it's great when after reading you want to go back and re-read all her other books! Her books have this slow burn that build to a love that is believable and real. The characters make you want to invest your time and root for them. This is a romance book, not the other crap that is out there that tries to out porn each other. 5+ stars
]]> <![CDATA[Catch of the Day (Gideon's Cove, #1)]]> 950018 384 Kristan Higgins 0373772246 Tracy 5 2024 3.89 2012 Catch of the Day (Gideon's Cove, #1)
author: Kristan Higgins
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/20
date added: 2024/12/20
shelves: 2024
review:
REREAD. This is the first book I've increased my rating. I just didn't appreciate this book 2 years ago, now after reading loads of porno-esque drivel, This book was awesome
]]> All Rhodes Lead Here 57605091 572 Mariana Zapata Tracy 5 2024 4.24 2021 All Rhodes Lead Here
author: Mariana Zapata
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/20
date added: 2024/12/20
shelves: 2024
review:
This is much better than the recent. It was a bit overdramatic but I would put it in top 5.
]]> Book Lovers 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens� life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters� trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 Tracy 5 2024 4.09 2022 Book Lovers
author: Emily Henry
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/17
date added: 2024/12/17
shelves: 2024
review:
This book was perfect- the exact kind of story I love.
]]> The Love of My Afterlife 199928276 A recently deceased woman meets “the one� in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on Earth before ten days are up�.

If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, she’s also now standing in her "sparkle and shine" nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her.

As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is, until someone comes running through a door yelling something about a huge mistake and sends the dreamy stranger back down to Earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife.

When Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to Earth and reconnect with the mysterious man, she jumps at the opportunity to find her possible soulmate and a fresh start. But to find him in a city of millions, Delphie is going to have to listen to her heart, learn to ask for help, and perhaps even see the magic in the life she’s leaving behind. . . .]]> 369 Kirsty Greenwood 0593816137 Tracy 4 2024 Cute 4.04 2024 The Love of My Afterlife
author: Kirsty Greenwood
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/15
date added: 2024/12/15
shelves: 2024
review:
Cute
]]> When Gracie Met the Grump 62603994
For most people, finding a half-naked superbeing in their yard might be a dream come true.

Unfortunately for Gracie Castro, it’s the exact opposite.

Especially when he’s grouchy, rude, and shows no signs of leaving anytime soon.

But when a hero of mankind needs you, you do what you have to.

Even if it compromises everything you know.

And totally changes your life.]]> 570 Mariana Zapata 1953262023 Tracy 5 2024 3.95 2022 When Gracie Met the Grump
author: Mariana Zapata
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/10
date added: 2024/12/15
shelves: 2024
review:
It was a little long, and kind of the same story told again, but I love it! 4.5
]]> Running Wild (Wild, #3) 56146978
The trouble is, she can’t seem to find anyone who appeals to her even a fraction as much as that burly bush pilot did. Competitive musher Tyler Brady certainly doesn’t, especially not after the heated altercation with the handsome but arrogant, spiteful man.

Or so she thinks.

While volunteering at the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Marie discovers that first impressions may have been false, and her attraction to Tyler is very real. But his heart belongs to someone else, leaving him with nothing to offer but friendship. Marie’s been down this road before and knows how that ends. Yet, no matter how hard she works to keep from falling for Tyler, it seems she’s doomed to follow her own trail once again.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Simple Wild comes the story of a woman at a crossroads in her life, struggling between the safe route and the one that will only lead to more heartbreak.]]> 370 K.A. Tucker 1990105203 Tracy 5 2024 4.15 2022 Running Wild (Wild, #3)
author: K.A. Tucker
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/06
date added: 2024/12/06
shelves: 2024
review:
Love this series, my only complaint- would have liked more of an epilogue.
]]> Forever Wild (Wild, #2.5) 53887270 From the international bestselling author of The Simple Wild comes Forever Wild, a novella that continues the story of Calla’s journey to the Alaskan wild and a life she never imagined for herself.

The holiday season is upon Calla and Jonah, and with the mistletoe and gingerbread comes plenty of family drama. Jonah is bracing himself for two weeks with a stepfather he loathes, and while Calla is looking forward to her mother and Simon’s arrival, she dreads the continued pressure to set a date for their wedding…in Toronto.

Add in one bullheaded neighbor’s unintentional meddling and another cantankerous neighbor’s own family strife, and Christmas in Trapper’s Crossing will be anything but simple.]]> 158 K.A. Tucker 1777202744 Tracy 4 2024 4.20 2020 Forever Wild (Wild, #2.5)
author: K.A. Tucker
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/05
date added: 2024/12/06
shelves: 2024
review:

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Calla Fletcher returns to Toronto a different person, struggling to find direction and still very much in love with the rugged bush pilot she left behind. When Jonah arrives on her doorstep with a proposition she can’t dismiss, she takes the leap and rushes back to Alaska to begin their exciting future together.

But Calla soon learns that even the best intentions can lead to broken promises, and that compromise comes with a hefty price—a log cabin in interior rural Alaska that feels as isolating as the western tundra.

With Jonah gone more than he’s home, one neighbor who insists on transforming her into a true Alaskan, and another who seems more likely to shoot her than come to her aid, Calla grapples with forging her own path. In a world with roaming wildlife that has her constantly watching over her shoulder and harsh conditions that stretch far beyond the cold, dark, winter months, just stepping outside her front door can be daunting.

This is not the future Calla had in mind, leaving her to fear that perhaps she is doomed to follow in her mother’s fleeing footsteps after all.]]> 472 K.A. Tucker Tracy 5 2024 4.12 2020 Wild at Heart (Wild, #2)
author: K.A. Tucker
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/05
date added: 2024/12/05
shelves: 2024
review:
I stayed up until 3 am reading this book. Another solid story, sweet romantic, and real without drama!
]]> The Simple Wild (Wild, #1) 36373564 City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A. Tucker.

Calla Fletcher was two when her mother took her and fled the Alaskan wild, unable to handle the isolation of the extreme, rural lifestyle, leaving behind Calla’s father, Wren Fletcher, in the process. Calla never looked back, and at twenty-six, a busy life in Toronto is all she knows. But when her father reaches out to inform her that his days are numbered, Calla knows that it’s time to make the long trip back to the remote frontier town where she was born.

She braves the roaming wildlife, the odd daylight hours, the exorbitant prices, and even the occasional—dear God—outhouse, all for the chance to connect with her father: a man who, despite his many faults, she can’t help but care for. While she struggles to adjust to this new subarctic environment, Jonah—the quiet, brooding, and proud Alaskan pilot who keeps her father’s charter plane company operational—can’t imagine calling anywhere else home. And he’s clearly waiting with one hand on the throttle to fly this city girl back to where she belongs, convinced that she’s too pampered to handle the wild.

Jonah is probably right, but Calla is determined to prove him wrong. As time passes, she unexpectedly finds herself forming a bond with the burly pilot. As his undercurrent of disapproval dwindles, it’s replaced by friendship—or perhaps something deeper? But Calla is not in Alaska to stay and Jonah will never leave. It would be foolish of her to kindle a romance, to take the same path her parents tried—and failed at—years ago.

It’s a simple truth that turns out to be not so simple after all.]]> 390 K.A. Tucker 1501133438 Tracy 5 2024 4.27 2018 The Simple Wild (Wild, #1)
author: K.A. Tucker
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/03
date added: 2024/12/03
shelves: 2024
review:
This was surprisingly good! I’m glad I tried this author again.
]]> Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin 26148083 328 Mariana Zapata Tracy 5 2024 3.87 2015 Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin
author: Mariana Zapata
name: Tracy
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/01
date added: 2024/12/01
shelves: 2024
review:
Re-read #3 previous 3/12/16 comfort reading my favs
]]> Summer Romance 198563734
There aren’t enough labeled glass containers to contain the mess that is Ali Morris’s life. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. She’s a professional organizer whose pantry is a disgrace.

No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware—overalls count, right?—she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her in the same way he claimed his favorite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right—like he likes what he sees. The last thing Ali needs is to make her life messier, but there’s no harm in a little Summer Romance. Is there?]]> 321 Annabel Monaghan 0593714083 Tracy 4 2024 4.01 2024 Summer Romance
author: Annabel Monaghan
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/30
date added: 2024/12/01
shelves: 2024
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)]]> 57577284
The New York Times bestselling author of Life's Too Short delivers a refreshingly modern fairy tale perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Emily Henry.

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. And yet their chemistry is undeniable.

While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere� ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.

Bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, and yet she can’t just give up the joy she’s found with him either. With so many differences between them, how can Alexis possibly choose between her world and his?]]> Abby Jimenez 1549135120 Tracy 5 2024 4.41 2022 Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
author: Abby Jimenez
name: Tracy
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/26
date added: 2024/12/01
shelves: 2024
review:

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