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    Book Review:: You Make It Feel Like Christmas | Sophie Sullivan

    December 30, 2025

    What do you do when your one-night-stand turns up at your family’s Christmas celebrations at a picturesque Christmas tree farm? Turns out, he’s the proprietor’s brother, so…

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    Book Review:: Christmas People | Iva-Marie Palmer

    December 26, 2025

    Jill Jacobs is a scrooge who hasn’t been back to her hometown for years, avoiding a certain someone she was once hopelessly in love with. Things between…

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    Book Review:: Lovelight Farms | BK Borison

    December 5, 2025

    I think we can all agree that BK Borison is great at what she does: swoony contemporary romances with heart and spice and all the feels. And…

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    Book Review:: Checking It Twice | Kendall Ryan

    November 22, 2025

    Friends, I’ve found you a lovely, swoony, holiday romance that will warm you up better than a cup of hot cocoa. It’s Checking It Twice by Kendall…

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    Book Review:: My Favorite Holidate | Lauren Blakely

    November 9, 2025

    When your guy-for-now blatantly cheats on you at a party, you get your revenge by fake-dating your billionaire boss. Obviously. Except you’ve had a thing for said…

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    Book Review:: Happy Christmas | Kelsey Humphreys

    October 18, 2025

    Okay, wow! Finding a new indie author with serious chops can be difficult, but if Kelsey Humphreys new release of Happy Christmas is any indication, ladies, fellas,…

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    Book Review:: Yours for the Season | Emily Stone

    October 4, 2025

    What do you do when your ex-boyfriend invites you to spend the week of Christmas with his family in Scotland? Turns out he told his family you…

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    The Litertarian Recommends… | Romance Edition

    February 1, 2025

    Valentine’s Day isn’t for everyone, but the feeling a really great love story gives you certainly is! I believe there is a book for every state of…

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    Emergency Contact | Lauren Layne & Anthony LeDonne

    December 13, 2024

    Listen up people, I’ve found some essential holiday romance reading here for you. Emergency Contact is a hilarious holiday rom-com second chance romance with a planes-trains-and-automobiles style…

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    Book Review:: Christmas is All Around | Martha Waters

    December 6, 2024

    One of the common ingredients in a holiday romance is a character who doesn’t like Christmas. Well Charlotte takes that to the extreme. As a young child…

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Emily's bookshelf: read

What the River Knows
The Rule Book
Wild Love
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
The Cheat Sheet
The Rom-Commers
Not in Love
My Not So Perfect Life
First Down
Clean Sweep
Greta & Valdin
The True Love Experiment
Killing Floor
Hate Mail
The Unhoneymooners
This Bird Has Flown
Savor It
Thank You for Listening
This Summer Will Be Different
The Last City


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