Trapped with the Maverick Millionaire by Joss Wood: In this first story in the ‘From Mavericks to Married’ series, Mac and Rory have a history, but not one of being lovers. Instead, Mac used to date Rory’s sister and on the night he famously dumped her via an ‘oops, did the […]
Turning Up The Heat is the latest Harlequin blaze novel by author Tanya Michaels. It features a few classic scenarios on the road to a happy ending – a friends to lovers romance and a fake relationship being the key drivers of the plot. Phoebe is a pastry chef who […]
The Player and the Pixie by Penny Reid and L.H.Cosway is the the second book in the Rugby series, a collaborative effort by Penny Reid and L.H.Cosway. It’s a rugby themed romantic comedy series, and each book can be read as a standalone. The heroine of this book, Lucy, […]
Trope it Up: Single Parent Romances If you love reading romance novels as much as we do here at HJ, you definitely have a trope or two that you love to read about. Today we are Troping up on Single Parent Romances I recently had a conversation with a friend about her […]
Happily Ever Ninja is the fifth story in Penny Reid’s Knitting in the City series. If you haven’t read any of the stories before, they are a standalone series of romantic comedies (some lighter in tone, some more serious, but all with the quirky characters that define stories […]
Viscountess of Vice by Jenny Holiday: This is the third story in Jenny Holiday’s captivating Regency Reformer’s series (though chronologically it happens first, and all three of the stories can be read as standalones), and tells the tale of Catharine and James. Catharine is a widow, her husband having […]
Game of Love by Ara Grigorian: Tennis is a sport that runs all year, unlike a lot of other professional sports out there that are specific to seasons (baseball in summer, hockey in winter for example). It’s played all over the world and on different surfaces (hard court, grass, […]
Listen to the Moon by Rose Lerner: This is the third novel in the Lively St. Lemeston series and the first I’ve read (so I can tell you right off the bat that I’ve definitely added books one and two to my ever expanding to-be-read pile.) In a sea of dukes, […]
The Fifteenth Minute by Sarina Bowen is part of the Ivy Years series (though easily read as a standalone) and features the romance between Lianne (a famous Hollywood star who just wants to be considered as another college student) and Daniel ‘DJ’, a student who spins tunes for the local […]
I Do by A.J. Pine: This third story in the If Only series is a wonderful conclusion to the romances begun in the first two books (which are standalones and had happy and satisfying endings on their own). If you haven’t read those two prior to this one, there is still […]