It’s officially December, so we’re going full-holiday on you all! That special time of year where you spend time with loved ones...or with a family you happen to come across when your carriage breaks down in a snowstorm with Grandma inside! Even if you’re like our hero Adam and not that into Christmas, it’s hard not to find joy from an almost-kiss while hunting down holly for the Christmas Ball. Or better yet - from a bit of action under the stairs while everyone else is occupied with parlor games! Miss Sarah St. John is about to learn that the best-made plans don’t always come to be - sometimes you can try to push away any and all rakes and a snowstorm will just blow a silver-tongued charmer into your home! Elizabeth Hoyt’s Once Upon a Christmas Eve is a festive novella that seems just right for a bit of holiday reading by the fire. **Spoilers all the way!**

Happy Thanksgiving from the US-of-A! Looking back over the last year, we've realized we have so much to be thankful for. In honor of the holiday, we wanted to take a few minutes to share with you why we're especially thankful for romance! Plus, it turns out we're not the only ones who have strong feelings on the subject. So feel free to take a quick break from all the holiday craziness and listen to us and some of our Frolic friends talk about why romance has a special place in our hearts this year.

We’re back aboard the Bridgerton Express, arriving at station stop Benedict! Join us this week for a stunning Cinderella story spun by our favorite fairy godmother, Julia Quinn! We get all the classics - an evil stepmother, a masked ball, and a Mysterious lady who disappears at midnight, and that’s only part one! Two years have gone by when suddenly our hero and heroine are reunited. Yet, it’s not quite the reunion we were expecting... We were once again reduced to sighs of longing and giggles from Bridgerton sibling wit. We’re reading An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn and cannot wait to see how this HEA comes to be!! **Stop! Spoiler time!**

Pennyroyal Green we have missed you! This next installment did not disappoint and for one of our hosts it was even better than the book before! Julie Anne Long delighted us with her witty back and forth dialogue, while also giving us a heroine who is not afraid to make her own decisions. Plus while our hero of a Duke has a dark and dangerous exterior, we learn he’s an absolute softy when it comes to the woman he loves. *sigh* Plus we got beautiful renaissance visuals by way of a famous Titian painting that was seen as scandalous. So let us sidle on over for another Sussex tale! *Spoilers! Do you want to hear our Spoilers!?*

Join us as we speak with Evie Dunmore, whose first novel Bringing Down the Duke came out this past September to great acclaim. Evie walks us through how she became interested in romance and what inspired her to write her first novel. This Oxford-educated woman is a treat, telling us about being a new author and what actually is the difference between a suffragette and a suffragist. We bonded over our collective difficulties reading Jane Austen novels and our love of horseback riding. You’ll really enjoy getting to know her as much as we did, so stop reading and get listening! *mid-level spoilers, we tried to be good* (Also, somehow there is a spoiler for Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. You've been warned!)

Now that it’s pumpkin spice and sweater weather, we have a spooky selection for Halloween! Come with us to Havisham Hall where a ghost is rumored to haunt the surrounding moors! We've got clocks that don't tick, a Mad Marquess, and a ghost of dead mother’s past. Our hero has sworn to never open his heart to love but our heroine is not the title hunter he was expecting. Will Havisham remain the dusty memorial of lost love or will new love also bring new life? We're reading The Viscount and the Vixen by Lorraine Heath! **Spoopy story spoilers!**

TW: Rape (in our opening discussion relating to a previous episode).

We’re very proud to bring you our first interview! We sat down with bestselling author Maya Rodale to talk about her book Dangerous Book for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained. She enlightened us on why Romance is so much more empowering than the patriarchy would want you to believe. This book is filled with interesting facts and statistics, which we talk about, but the interview does not stop there! Maya gave us the lowdown on Romanclandia as a whole, and we are even more in love than before.

This episode we have a couple of firsts! Our first novella! Our first hotel room recording! Join us as we chat about The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan, a novella that, let’s be honest, sets the bar for all novellas. Courtney Milan truly played upon all of our emotions in a short amount of pages. We were brought to our metaphorical knees by a twig! A TWIG! And don’t get us started on hairpins as a currency to build trust. *SWOON!* We’ve got a fantastic heroine on a transformative journey who finds her voice and it’s funny and fierce as hell. Oh, and one of the best marriage proposals (and rejections) ever. **Spoilers. We get into allllll the details!** TW: Rape

You’re all cordially invited to join us at Aubrey Hall in Kent for Lady Bridgerton’s country house party! We’ve got more Whistledown (in prime form as always), more sibling sparring (delightful), and of course, COMPETITIVE LAWN SPORTS! So pick your mallet quickly unless you want to be stuck with pink or purple, and throw the rules into the lake this week! Winner takes your heart ❤️ **Spoilers for the entire plot of this 19-year-old book**

TW: Death of a parent

Warning: This episode contains discussions of consent and sexual assault.

The ladies of Tea & Strumpets have done it, they've jumped on the Bridgerton train! How could they not when it's such a defining series in the genre?! From a prologue that tugs heavily on our heartstrings, to our heroine making seriously questionable choices, there was a lot more going on in this book than was expected. We put on our 2019 lenses and get serious about how this one makes us feel. So All Aboard the