Tag: Forced Proximity
Over the Moon by Laura Pavlov
Laura Pavlov’s Over the Moon delivers everything I crave in a contemporary romance, with just the right touch of sports drama. It’s got meddling family antics, sharp banter, sizzling chemistry, and a love story that builds slowly until it completely sweeps you away. Beckett Monroe should be on top of the world after a career-defining…
Seven Year Itch by Amy Daws
This book is packed with tension, heart, and hilarity. It’s the kind of romance that thrives on opposites clashing, boundaries being pushed, and feelings sneaking in when you least expect them. Amy Daws delivers a story that’s as funny as it is emotionally rich, and it’s carried by characters who are messy, stubborn, and deeply…
Protect by Paisley Hope
When I closed the final page of Protect, my chest felt both raw and full, with longing, with hope, with the ache of second chances earned hard. This isn’t just a reunion romance; it’s a vivid emotional journey that burned through grief and lit a path toward healing. Violette has built her life around two…
Ruled Out by Ruth Stilling
My emotions are raw, and I am unhinged. I can still feel my body recoiling from last night’s sobbing. Ruled Out didn’t just tell a story; it broke me open, scattered the pieces, and somehow stitched them back together. It’s heavy in all the ways that matter, weighted with trauma, redemption, and the kind of…
Weekend Reads Recap
I don’t know about you, but there’s something magical about a weekend that’s just wall-to-wall books. The kind where your coffee gets reheated three times because you’re too deep in the story to care. This weekend’s lineup was a mood: ❤️ The Rule Breaker by Stephanie Alves – Forbidden tension, secret glances, and the kind of…
Home Run by Lulu Moore
“I don’t know it yet, but today is the day I get pregnant.” Author Lulu Moore comes out swinging with this fifth and final book in the New York Lions Series. And boy, does our main guy Tanner Simpson have his hands full with Mille Robinson, the woman he’s been obsessed with since he first…
Caught on Camera by Chelsea Curto
If you love a friends-to-lovers story with fake dating, holiday magic, and swoony NFL energy, Caught on Camera needs to go in your TBR pile now. Bonus? The characters are in their late 30s, and as a 40-year-old reader, I absolutely adored seeing a love story unfold between two people who’ve lived, loved, and figured…
Heartless by Elsie Silver
AKA: the reason I’ll never look at a kitchen table the same way again. Let’s get one thing straight: I did not come here looking to fall in love with a grumpy, emotionally unavailable cowboy with a kid and a guarded heart. But Cade Eaton? That man said “I don’t do feelings,” and I said…
Book Recommendations, the Week of July 21st, 2025
Here are three recommended reads for the week, from authors new to me and maybe, new to you too. One minute I’m living a peaceful life at Silver Saddle Ranch and the next, Jensen, my brother’s best friend, returns to town for the summer with his five-year-old son and moves into my guest rooms. Not…
Cash by Jessica Peterson
Mollie Morgan is a sharp, city-savvy entrepreneur running a luxury boot company in Texas. But her world flips when she learns that her estranged, cowboy father left her his Texas cattle ranch in his will, with conditions. To inherit, she has to live and work on the ranch for one year. Enter Cash Rivers, the…