In this episode, we discuss Issued to the Bride One Marine by Cora Seton.

Two Willows rancher Lena Reed has worked on the family ranch her whole life in spite of her father, the General’s, frequent attempts to dictate how business will be conducted. In order to control and protect Lena and her sisters, the General has been sending cherry-picked servicemen to be their husbands. 

Lena’s would-be suitor Marine Logan Hughes is trying to avoid imprisonment after a botched knight in shining armor moment by marrying Lena, the daughter assigned to him. Fourth in line to get hitched, Lena is unwilling to kowtow to the General’s demands and marry her pre-approved husband. 

Now it’s up to Logan to convince Lena that he’s her man and not her father’s minion.

Content warning: Abusive ex, main character has panic attack,  heroine assaults hero multiple times, mentions of drug trade

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In this episode, we discuss Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean.

After an accident has left her mildly ruined, Lady Felicity Faircloth's prospects of marrying for money and status are devastated. She's so desperate to get back into society’s good graces, she'll make a deal with a charming Devil, who assures her that he can grant her wish.

But, can she trust his motivations? Will he trust that she knows her own mind? And what will happen when Felicity decides she prefers the Devil she knows?

Content warning: Threats of rape, child abuse. 

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In this episode, we discuss Elijah: an Amish Story of Crime and Romance by Sylvia Price.

In Lincoln, Nebraska, Elijah Troyer is a young man on Rumspringa, the Amish rite of passage where young members of the community are given the freedom to choose if they wish to remain in the Amish community or live outside of it. While out on the town, he comes to the aid of Eve Campbell, a young woman in mortal distress. When push comes to shove, he soon realizes that the only thing he can't live without is Eve.

Content warning: Abusive ex-boyfriend, human trafficking

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In this episode, we discuss The Corsair’s Captive by Ruby Dixon.

After being taken from Earth and treated like livestock, Fran finds herself being led around like a pet by an alien. Meanwhile, Kivian was planning to gamble for some fuel crystals, but revised those plans when he saw the pretty human getting her chain yanked. Now he intends to liberate Fran’s captor of everything, woman included. 

Kivian wants Fran to know she will be safe with him, but can she trust him?

Content warning: Human trafficking, slavery.

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In this episode, we discuss Roommaid by Sariah Wilson.

Maddison is cut off from family assistance at age 23, in a lot of debt, and doesn’t have much of a teacher’s salary to live on. Needing a place to live where cockroaches don’t also call it home, she agrees to live rent free in a really nice place in exchange for doing some light housekeeping and pet sitting.

This apartment comes with a wealthy hunk who isn’t looking for romance in a roommate after being stalked by the previous woman he roomed with. It all seems almost too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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In this episode, we discuss Killing Sarai by J.A. Redmerski.

For nine years, Sarai was trained to be arm candy in public and a sex toy in bed. At 23, she meets Victor, who she uses to escape her captivity. Unbeknownst to her, he has his own history of abuse and grooming.

They begin to develop romantic feelings for each other as they navigate the dangerous world of sex trade and hired assassins. 

Content warning: Sex trafficking, sex slavery, sexual assault and rape, child slavery and implications of child rape. 

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In this episode, we discuss One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston.

While trying to distance herself from her mother’s pursuit of her missing uncle, August Landry moves to New York City to pursue higher education and higher rent. While boarding the subway, she meets the leather-jacket-wearing-cool-girl Jane Su, who saves her from coffee-shirt humiliation with a red scarf. August soon realizes there is more to the mysterious Jane than she first suspected, and she is forced to admit she wants to investigate Jane's past in order to save her dream girl.

Content warnings: Homophobia.

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In this episode, we discuss Firelight by Kristen Callihan.

Miranda Ellis is a woman with a powerful secret but no social power. Lord Benjamin Archer is a man with all sorts of power and yet he is doomed to cover himself so he doesn’t shock society.

For this couple, marriage and murder intertwine, but only when they learn to trust and communicate will they see the truth.

Content warning: Threats of rape.

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In this episode, we discuss Beach Read by Emily Henry.

January Andrews inherited a beach house and drama when her father passed away. She moves in to save money and figure out how to write a happily-ever-after while feeling beaten down by her crumbling fairy-tale life. Proving that misery did not like or want company, a loud party next door brought her face-to-face with college crush and now famous literary author Augustus Everett.

In an act of creative desperation and mutual attraction, they agree to each try writing in the other’s style, giving a shine to the shady pages and vice versa. But, creative excavation is dirty work and soon both of them have uncovered more than they bargained for. 

Content warning: Mentions of past child abuse and suicide cults.

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In this episode, we discuss The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan.

Chloe Fong is too busy with making lists about her entrepreneurial ambitions and revenge plots to give the man who almost kissed her any of her time as she checks off her tasks. Jeremy Wentworth is secretly the Duke of Lansing as well as the man who didn’t stick around after their near kiss three years before, but he has now returned with plans for her list-making. She’d like to check him off, but he won’t let her– not without a fight.

Content warning: Mentions of racism. 

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