romance podcast

Bookishhill from Tiktok joins us for a thrilling romance between a comedian and a landlord. No, okay, trust us, it’s incredible. Featuring consensual stalking, sexy stairwell chases, great dirty talk, and lots of bondage, it goes in depth as to why someone might want to be kidnapped, stalked, tied up, and chased up and down the stairs before getting her mind blown by her hunky landlord. There are also whippets and pigeons - interested yet? Hillary gives us a detailed play by play of her favorite scenes and we couldn’t be happier she decided to guest for us.

Mentioned: 

Follow by Tessa Bailey

Heat Stroke by Tessa Bailey

Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey

Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey

The Sweetest Fix by Tessa Bailey

My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey 

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

Lynn Painter is the ultimate fan and author of rom-coms!

Bridget and Lynn fangirled over rom-coms of the past, present, and future. And discussed how Lynn realized when she added the comedy in her romance, that’s when it all clicked.

They talked about what makes the classics great, moving from writing YA to adult romance, the best parts of fictional (and real) relationships, and when the right time is to start sexing it up in a story. And how being seen by your partner can be the best bit! Lynn and Bridget had the best time chatting, and you’re definitely gonna wanna give this one a listen!

Read Mr. Wrong Number here. 

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

We welcome Tanya from babygyalreadit on Tiktok to talk about an author we haven’t read before! Priceless by Miranda Silver is a college BDSM romance with a twist - and it’s SUPER hot. Bridget and Tanya chat about voyeurism, paying for pleasure, humiliation to praise kinks, which parts of the relationship to show, MAD dirty talk, and actually using safe words during sex. The hero does his best to play into the heroine’s kinks (and ours) and honestly RAAG Hags, there are too many to list! Tanya loves her dark romance, so she was a perfect guest for the show. 

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

Amy Daws never expected Blindsided to be the book that blew up! Nevertheless, she has plenty of insight to offer on this episode of Authors at a Glance. We talk Tiktok trends, how to hook people with a video, the “less is more” aspect we’ve grown to love, and how it felt to see her book soar to #1! Amy also gives us a look into her writing process - her first book, how she got into writing about British boys, writing sex scenes, revising while she writes, and self loathing procrastination as motivation. (It’s okay - we’ll love her enough for the both of us.)

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Not the One

A Broken Us

Chasing Hope

Harris Brothers Series

**Trigger warning for discussion of child loss and miscarriage

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

One of our favorite bookstagrammers, Kate LeBeau of romantically_inclined, joins us for our favorite orc author Finely Fenn weaving us a tale of kidnapping, high fantasy, and polyamorous mountain dwellers. Did someone say magical sperm? We did, actually. We’re yelling it from the mountaintops. It heals, it nourishes, it tastes fantastic, and there’s 900 pages to get through! Kate LeBeau offers hilarious insights and anecdotes on one of the spiciest and plot heavy books we’ve reviewed so far on this podcast. And we don’t say that lightly! These orcs have it all and there's plenty to go around. 

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

Bridget and Breana embark on the brand new (and highly anticipated) book by Katee Roberts: Electric Idol, the sequel to Neon Gods. And there’s a lot to talk about. Breana didn’t disappoint - we chat mommy issue boys, fake dating plots, assassins who snuggle, court politics of socialite gods, and enemies to lovers: where it goes right and where it goes wrong. There’s plenty of comparison to Neon Gods, but we give Electric Idol its fair shot and its dues (though Breana is not thrilled about a blond love interest). We also get into the future books, crazy sisters and all. Stick with us for a talk about getting into booktok and how Breana got started there! 

Mentioned: 

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Twist Me by Anna Zaires

Machiavellian by Bella Di Corte 

The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

If you've encountered a commercial on TV or the radio you know the "most romantic day of the year" is coming up on February 14. 

And if you've listened to our podcast you know that we do not agree with that statement.  I mean, we want you take make every single day as romantic as the Valentine's Day commercials depict the holiday. 

But the realistic, wholehearted version of it. So our episode this week is 100% focused on  creating a mutual day of pleasure and love... for men & women. Here's just a few things we touched on:

• "Oh shit! It's Valentine's Day!"
• Who is St. Valentine?
• Valentine's vs. Christmas
• Valentine's vs. Easter
• Beth loves candy
• Loving love
• Creating a new holiday called "Candy Day" (editor's note: I am here for this)
• Over-commercialization of holidays
• Valentine's Day is not all about the female
• Why don't both sides give?
• Mutually beneficial holiday
• Throw away the cliches
• Making cards
• Taboos
• How to make Valentine's Day wor for your relationship
• Ladies can plan V-Day too
• Sexiest things you can cook at home
• Manscaped (Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code COMEWITHUS at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod)
• Aaron was an early manscaper

And so much more. What are your Valentine's plans? Share them with us at comewithusconfessions@gmail.com!

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Are you looking for some guidance or direction on taking your relationship to the next level? From love, sex, intimacy, and self-love, Beth can help!

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WANT A GRADUATE DEGREE IN LOVE?

Are you looking for some guidance or direction on taking your relationship to the next level? From love, sex, intimacy, and self-love, Beth can help!

Be sure to go order your copy of Beth's new book "The 5 Kinds of Intimacy: How to Keep Your Love Alive"!

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It's that time of year Raag Hags when we say goodbye to 2021 and get excited for 2022! We are looking back at all the incredible books we read this year on the podcast and awarding the Best Feels, Overall, Audio, Cover, Smut, and our personal favorites overall! Join us as we cackle away the New Year and reminisce about old favorites. 

To say we were surprised by the two genres that dominated the awards is an understatement. Just goes to show that you should go into reading with an open heart, and check out different sub-genres from time to time. You may be surprised what becomes your new favorite!

Happy 2022 and we are so thankful you are here! For those of you who have been with us since the beginning (especially our OG patrons and champions of the podcast who share our podcast all the time) THANK YOU. You help us grow, you help us pay for our podcast service, and website and transcriptions to make our podcast more accessible for all. 

To everyone who recommended one of these incredible books, thank you! We really look at and think about every single recommendation you give, and we appreciate your time and desire for us to check out your favorite books.

For our new friends and listeners, HELLO AND WELCOME!!! We're so happy you found our podcast and hopefully, you laughed along as we talked romance. We've got a lot more fun escapism coming at ya next year as we review another 40 or more books, and interview TONs of amazing authors!!

Best Audio

• Gladiator by Anna Hackett

Best Cover

• Luca Vitiello by Cora Reilly

Best Feels

• Mated to the Vikens by Grace Goodwin

Best Smut

• The Devil and The Devil's Advocate by Ashley Jade

Best Indie

• Love the Sinner by Avril Ashton

Best Overall

• Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

Bridget's Top 5

1. Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
2. Mated to the Vikens by Grace Goodwin
3. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
4. Corrupt - Devil's Night book 1 by Penelope Douglas
5. The Devil and Devil's Advocate by Ashley Jade

Shani's Top 5

1. Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
2. Mated to the Vikens by Grace Goodwin
3. When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare
4. Love the Sinner by Avril Ashton
5. Gladiator by Anna Hackett

Top 5 Interviews - This was exceptionally hard to pick since we love all our author interviews! 

• Avril Ashton  - So fun! and SOOO NSFW. Go there and learn from the queen about self-confidence and loving your work.
• Anna Hackett  - Great writing advice and career change story! Also, about creating alien worlds and rules.
• Tiffany Roberts - Definitely the sweetest interview we have ever done with the couple behind the Tiffany Roberts books! STAY FOR THE ENDING - AWWWW
• Jean Meltzer - Jean! Bubbly, funny, and talked all about writing with a chronic illness, and loving Christmas as a Jewish person!
• Christine Feehan - One of the OGs of PNR, we were so happy to get her on the podcast. We covered so many topics, from writing, writing while busy and making time, writing characters with found families, and past trauma. Just an excellent episode.

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Read along with us and see the full list: www.romanceataglance.com/upcoming-books

On Romance at a Glance, we discuss and review all genres of romance novels, as well as get into the nitty-gritty of real-life romance, relationships, and sex... while cracking each other up. Expect some spontaneous singing, funny anecdotes, honest reviews, and naughty language.

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Hello fair friends! As we say goodbye to 2021, we are posting our last review, and with it a giveaway of Lucy Lennox's latest book Hostile Takeover! Head over to our Instagram to win the book and some fun Lucy Lennox swag she sent over! 

Thank you Lucy for sending the book to raffle off to our listeners! 

In our review of A Very Marian Christmas by Lucy Lennox, we chatted about whether you need to read the other Marian books, Lucy's particular blend of comedy, feels, and heat and Bridget caught Shani up on the numbers of our podcast to cheer her up from some end of year blues. 

Check out our interview with Lucy Lennox and May Archer here. 

And our review of Fakers, book 1 of the Licking Thicket here!

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

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Bridget's sister Ann returns as co-host of our show. You may have listened to her and Bridget talk about Tessa Bailey's Heat Stroke - 5 stars! - or Suzanne Brockman's The Unsung Hero - one of our first romance series! -  and she is back to talk about romance and beer! 

We chat through Bridget's wonderful habit of visiting Ann at Revolution Brewing in Chicago while she worked there, and Ann gives us insider information about how the beer industry is portrayed in Liz Crowe's novel What Happens in Denver!

Enjoy the shenanigans!

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

Back at you with another Black Dagger Brotherhood book! You love it, we love it, and we’re never leaving this series alone - and what better way to start our Paranormal season? This time around it’s The King, and we have much to talk about. Politics, agency, so much baby drama, tons of characters, maybe one too many flashbacks, daddies (all kinds), and happily ever afters...or the lack thereof. And, as always, no one gives a damn about the lessers. This is jam packed with lore and plot, our heads are totally reeling, but we made it good for you RAAG Hags, as always. 

Stay tuned for many more manly monsters and spooky sexcapades. 

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

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We had the lovely hosts of Plot Trysts Meg and Laine on our podcast to talk Tessa Dare's book When a Scot Ties a Knot! We were so excited to chat with our new friends about this imaginative and fun story. 

Some of our favorite parts we broke down:

• how hilarious all the letters Maddie wrote were!
• Captain Logan showing up at the manor
• Logan supporting her dreams
• The group of soldiers Logan brings with them and how they fit in with Maddie and the neighborhood
• Maddie's obsession with the lobsters mating 
• And our feelings about the bit of rushed ending with Maddie and Logan

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

The title, cover, and description of this book got us! We were super excited to dip into this book and were so shocked when the second male MC showed up halfway through the book!

This week we get into story structure, why stuffing too many plots in doesn't work, and how we felt hoodwinked by the ending. Plus, some steamy scenes, how to make a great, and sexy entrance, and our feelings on MCs having sexy with someone else on the page. 

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

Check out www.romanceataglance.com

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Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

We tots were hoping this book was going to be dark as fuckkkkk. But surprisingly our boy Pestilence ended up being a shy virgin?! 

We had THOUGHTS!

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What do you make of a book where a character falls in love with her abuser? 

In this episode, Shani and Bridget dive deep into the novel while uncovering this different and rather controversial dark romance genre—bully romance. As the title suggests, B.B. Reid’s book depicts the story of an angsty teenage boy inflicting fear on the main character who found herself falling in love despite the bullying and torture. 

Shani and Bridget talk over some of the themes that call for better treatment, especially in a genre as sensitive as dark romance novels. What are the ups and downs of Fear Me? Where are its hits and misses? What parts are off-putting? Should you read it? 

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In the Stories from the Hearth minisode series - normally exclusive to Patreon - Calum reads a classic story from the public domain; be it fable, fairy-tale, or moral; European, or International. Sometimes they perform them as they were first told, sometimes they rewrite them in their own style, and sometimes they perform bits and pieces from their own body of work. In minisode one, they read The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen; a tale of love and heartbreak, adventure and betrayal, first published in 1838, and as affecting today as it was then.

Stories from the Hearth minisodes are exclusive to Patreon, where the reading of a new bonus story will be released monthly. To gain access to every minisode, as well as a slew of other exciting perks, consider supporting the podcast by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/storiesfromthehearthpodcast

Keep up to date, by following and subscribing to Stories from the Hearth wherever you listen to podcasts, and as always, please do download, like and share this episode. Every wee thing you do helps immensely. 

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What an honor it was to talk to Beverly Jenkins about her love of books, career, and sex in books (and real-life!)

Beverly talked about how her love of reading stemmed from her mom and how proud her mom was when she started writing and publishing romance. 

We dipped into how she writes her characters (more getting out of their way since they know the story), what a relationship with an editor should be, what character she connects to the most, and more. 

Plus she gives some wonderful relationship advice for keeping her long-term marriage going.   

Full transcript on the website here. 

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The first annual RAAG Awards, where we tell you the best books of 2020 on the podcast! **We recorded this LIVE on Instagram! Enjoy some authors popping in during the episode and us live responding to comments from IG.

Our winners!

• Best Cover |  Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson
• Best Audiobook | Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole (Narrated by Robert Petkoff)
• Best Feels | The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• Best Smut | The Hunter by L.J. Shen
• Best Novella | Ribbons and Os by R.E. Hargrave
• Best Overall | Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

Shani's Top 5 of the Rest

• The Beast by Katee Robert
• Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
• Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
• Cherish Hard by Nalini Singh
• Lover Awakened by J.R. Warc

Bridget's Top 5 of the rest

• Heat Stroke by Tessa Bailey
• Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken
• Pink Slip by Katrina Jackson
• Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
• Lover Mine by J.R. Ward

We wanna say Happy 2021 and we are so thankful you are here! For those of you who have been with us since the beginning (especially our OG patrons and champions of the podcast who share our podcast all the time) THANK YOU. You help us grow, you help us pay for our podcast service, and website and transcriptions to make our podcast more accessible for all. 

For our new friends and listeners, HELLO AND WELCOME!!! We're so happy you found our podcast and hopefully, you laughed along as we talked romance. We've got a lot more fun escapism coming at ya next year as we review another 40 or more books, and interview TONs of amazing authors!!

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Why choose Beast and Gaeton when you can have them both! 

HOLY SHIZZZ  - as always, Katee Robert is delivering delicious books. We were turned onto her by some great reviews of her books on Insta, then Bridget went and read her Taboo series and we knew that we had to get her into this steamy season!!! 

If you didn't catch  our conversation with Katee - make sure you give it a listen here. 

This book is part of the Wicked Villains series where Disney villains like Hook, Ursula, Gaston, getting their own kinky HEAs. In this story, Isabelle goes to retrieve her two former lovers Beast and Gaeton to protect her family's territory after her father the King dies. She'll do anything, literally anything, to bring them back. So they enter into a sex pact, demanding she finally choose one of them once and for all. Until Beast decides he wants to keep them both. 

This book is erotic AF, full of kinky and BDSM.  We talk about this in our review, but it isn't really meant to be a standalone, so we recommend starting the series at the beginning with Desperate Measures (Jafar and Jasmine!)

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A queen of smut is in the house today! We're so excited to have Katee Robert on. She's quickly becoming one of Bridget's favorite romance authors and her books are beyond steamy!

We had a wonderful time getting to know Katee, talking about how she's able to write such a huge volume of words per month, ways she keeps organized, her Patreon community, going from traditional publishing to self-publishing, her gorgeous covers for Wicked Villians and more! 

And of COURSE how she writes such HEAT and heart. 

ALSO - that we all wish that the Beast stayed the Beast and didn't become human!

Buy her books!

• Gifting Her to His Best Friend - Taboo novella
• Your Dad will Do - Taboo Novella
• Wicked Villains
  • Desperate Measures
  • The Beast
  • Whole set

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