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Romance ME Podcast
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We‘re a pair of long-time friends who love discussing (and laughing about) almost anything. Join us as we deep dive into a new romance book each episode.
Episodes
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The Highlander's Pirate Lass
In this episode, we discuss The Highlander’s Pirate Lass by Heather McCollum. It’s a pirate's life for Eliza. She’s grown up with salty sea air in her hair, an unblemished horizon as a future heading, and hatred in her heart for the scoundrel who murdered her family. Eliza has no plans to ever be…
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The Lady and the Orc
In this episode, we discuss The Lady and the Orc by Finley Fenn. Once upon a time, there was a Lady who was doomed to a loveless, childless, and comfortless marriage. As luck would have it, Lady Jule’s situation gets worse, when her husband Lord Norr abandons her to be captured by orcs. Orc…
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Ask, Tell
In this episode, we discuss Ask, Tell by E.J. Noyes. Amid the oppression of the U.S. government's Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, Army Surgeon Capt. Sabine Fleischer is busy in Afghanistan, patching up injured bodies while keeping her crush on her commanding officer under surgical wrap. Forced to...
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The Break-Up Artist
In this episode, we discuss The Break-Up Artist by Erin Clark and Laura Lovely. Narrated by Regan Linton When life gets her down, Zelda applies her creative writing gifts to the composition of break-up e-mails for others using facts provided to her by the dumper. It's a stress reduction outlet…
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An Easter Demon for Eloise
In this episode, we discuss An Easter Demon for Eloise by Chloe Alice Balkin. Bouquet of basil, yellow carnation, and butterfly weed anyone? Florist Eloise would love to give her demonic captors the arrangement of hatred, disdain, and let me go, but unfortunately she’ll have to settle for…
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Crushing on You
In this episode, we discuss Crushing on You by Jen Trinh. When Anna sits next to Ian on the plane, she immediately decides she wants nothing to do with him, even after learning they are traveling to the same event. But, by the end of the weekend, Anna realizes that there may be more to him than...
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My Phony Valentine
In this episode, we discuss My Phony Valentine by Courtney Walsh. In order to prove to her childhood bully that she isn’t a romantic late bloomer, Poppy claims a random man as her boyfriend without at first realizing that he was so hunky, or such a well-known hockey player. As luck would have it,...
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Neon Gods
In this episode, we discuss Neon Gods by Katee Robert. Persephone is on the run from a forced marriage when she crosses the River Styx and falls into the arms of Hades, King of the Underworld. At first, she’s confused, because Hades isn’t supposed to exist, and yet, here he be… and he be hot....
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Ambrosia
In this episode, we discuss Ambrosia by C.N. Crawford. After almost becoming a ice sculpture, Ava falls through a portal and finds herself in an unfamiliar, hostile world with few allies and fewer options. She wants to reconnect with Torin. She wants to go home. She might not want to face the…
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Homecoming King
In this episode, we discuss Homecoming King by Penny Reid. Pro-football player Rex is always a boyfriend but never a husband, sending many of his exes into the arms of his teammates. Meanwhile, bartender and crafter Abby had a fairytale love story gone bad, convincing her to give up on love. When...
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Frost
In this episode, we discuss Frost by C.N. Crawford. There is rock bottom, and then there is the layer of crap Ava finds herself in the morning after her worst birthday ever. Involuntarily single and not ready to mingle, she finds herself jobless as well. Cue the handsome Seelie King Torin to rush...
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Role Playing
In this episode, we discuss Role Playing by Cathy Yardley. At age 48, Maggie has learned to embrace her inner bog witch, possibly to the point of being detrimental to her mental and emotional well being. Various people in her life are encouraging her to be more social and less of a hermit, but…
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown
In this episode, we discuss Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. After a brush with death, Chloe rearranges her priorities and writes a list that will ensure she’ll be remembered well once she dies. Chloe is now determined to live her life to the fullest, despite living with the chronic pain...
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Depraved
In this episode, we discuss Depraved by A.J. Merlin. Having lived through a formative, terrifying experience when she was young, Sloane works and lives at a camp nestled into a residential area. Virgil is a serial killer just trying to get away from it all and take a little mini-vacay. Sloane…
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A Night to Surrender
In this episode, we discuss A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare. Susanna’s idyllic seaside home is under invasion of a most brutish sort. These bombers of sheep, these red fever spreading cads, these teashop renaming bulls led by none other than the chief bull Bramwell, the recently elevated Earl…
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Never Seduce a Scot
In this episode, we discuss Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks Evelyn and Graeme are forced into an arranged marriage devised by their king to bring an end to the long-standing feud between their families. Both families think this is the worst thing that could ever happen, especially to poor…
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Enemy Lines
In this episode, we discuss Enemy Lines by Alex Lidell. Kyan is determined to rescue everyone he can to make up for the one person he didn’t save. This includes his doctor Ivy, who moved to Denton Valley to escape the danger threatening her life. For mutual benefit, they make an arrangement: He...
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Beard In Mind
In this episode, we discuss Beard in Mind by Penny Reid. Beau has a vision of his future, and that vision does not include Shelly, the infuriating, rude mechanic his brothers hired to ensure their family business doesn’t turn into a parking lot. As he grapples with the complexity of Shelly’s...
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Bound to the Battle God
In this episode, we discuss Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon. When Faith goes to check on a sound in an empty apartment, she inadvertently finds herself a plaything of the gods as she is sent to another world where she is now the low woman on the totem pole. All she wants to do is go home,...
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Ocean’s Echo
In this episode, we discuss Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell. Dumpster-fire walking, Tennal is self-medicating and self-indulging in an effort to cope with the enhanced mental capabilities of his “reader” brain. He’s living the charmed life of a socioeconomically advantaged civilian as if there…
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Happy Place
In this episode, we discuss Happy Place by Emily Henry. Although Harriet and Wyn know they have been broken up for five months, no one else does. When they are summoned to Maine for their annual Summer meetup with their besties, they don’t want to let said besties know that there is trouble in...
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By the Book
In this episode, we discuss By the Book by Jasmine Guillory. Isabelle works in publishing, helping to encourage authors to bring their stories to life. While she enjoys her work, she is feeling underappreciated by her boss. She wishes she could grow her career and she doesn’t really want to be a...
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Husband Material
In this episode, we discuss Husband Material by Alexis Hall. Four weddings, one funeral, but no Andi Macdowell in this romantic comedy. Instead, we are reacquainted with Luc and Oliver! They fell in love with each other in Boyfriend Material and now, two years later, they are still in love,...
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The Duchess and the Cowboy
In this episode, we discuss The Duchess and the Cowboy by Debra Erfert. Lady Jane has everything: a nice estate, pretty dresses, dutiful staff, and a husband she gets along with. But one day, her brother-in-law stages a duel with her husband, robbing her of her safe lifestyle. Jane decides to...
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Seven Years
In this episode, we discuss Seven Years by Dannika Dark. Seven years after disappearing, Austin Cole returns along with his grumpiness and sexiness. Lexi Knight is trying to not appreciate either as she attempts to learn why he left after Wes, his best friend and her brother, died under…
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Shame On You
In this episode, we discuss Shame On You by Tara Sivec. Army veteran Kennedy is struggling with her new normal: civilian life, single parenthood, and new business ownership. In the course of her duties as a bounty hunter, she joins forces with Griffin, a former friend who kept her husband's...
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Slave to Sensation
In this episode, we discuss Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh. Sascha is a Psy who is experiencing a problematic flare up of emotion, which could get her sent to ‘rehabilitation’ to have her feelings/personality removed. To avoid this fate, she suppresses her emotions to pass as a normal Psy –...
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Transcendence
In this episode, we discuss Transcendence by Shay Savage. Ehd is a man with a cave but no tribe. As a result, he struggles to find a purpose for his life after the end of another long, lonely winter. Enter his purpose: Elizabeth, a mysterious woman from the future. Together, they must face the...
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Spellbound
In this episode, we discuss Spellbound by Allie Therin. In 1925 New York, booze and non-heterosexuality were illegal. A magical disaster is threatening the city, and New York’s mightiest heroes are attempting to prevent the atrocity. Two of these champions are Arthur Kenzie, a wealthy veteran of...
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The American Roommate Experiment
In this episode, we discuss The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas. New romance writer Rosie moves into her bestie’s empty apartment to avoid being crushed to death by the bathroom ceiling in her own apartment. Bestie is on her honeymoon, so Rosie can’t ask her for permission, but…
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Book Lovers
In this episode, we discuss Book Lovers by Emily Henry. Nora Stephens is not a small town girl. Nora Stephens is the city girl who gets dumped by boyfriends for the small town girl. As a last hoorah before her sister gives birth, Nora and her sister Libby go to Sunshine Falls, NC, so they can…
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Bows and Eros
In this episode, we discuss Bows and Eros by Ava Devlin. In a quiet, snow covered town, grade school teacher Noor expects to deal with the chaos of Family Fun Day, not ancient Greek gods running amuck. Amidst the mayhem, she pairs up with Ethan, the single father of a former student, both to find...
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Forbidden
In this episode, we discuss Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. Eddy is traveling to California with dreams of owning her own restaurant. On the way, she trusts the wrong person and is abandoned to die in the Nevada desert. Luckily, Eddy is rescued by Rhine, a local business owner who happens to be in...
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A Ticking Time Boss
In this episode, we discuss A Ticking Time Boss by Olivia Hayle. Perhaps you’ve heard this before: a journalist and a billionaire walk into a bar and become texting buddies. The journalist, Audrey Ford, is having a panic attack because blind dates are stressful, and the billionaire, Carter...
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There’s Something About Merry
In this episode, we discuss There’s Something about Merry by Codi Hall. When her life implodes after yet another terrible ex, Merry Winters moves back home to Mistletoe, Idaho to be where she feels rooted. Single dad Clark Griffin is now working on the Christmas Tree farm owned by Merry’s…
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The Lucky Heart
In this episode, we discuss The Lucky Heart by Devney Perry. Felicity returns home after a long absence to reconnect with her family. To make her home in Prescott once again, she must confront the person she used to be and prove to those who knew her, and to herself, that she isn’t that girl...
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AITA? A Modern Fairytale
In this episode, we discuss Am I the Asshole? by Cassie Alexander. While blackout drunk at a party, Becky’s fiancé Logan gets her to agree to summon a demon for a threesome. The demon they summon is Quenalith, who is more than Logan bargained for. But, before he can dispel the summoning magic,...
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Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend
In this episode, we discuss Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend by Penny Reid. For the last six years, Winnifred and Byron have maintained distance while orbiting in the same social group. When a mutual friend backs out of a plan to boost Winnie’s online following, Byron offers to be the best...
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Easy Magic
In this episode, we discuss Easy Magic by Kristen Proby. After her grandmother dies, Mallory decides to eschew her psychic gifts in favor of a ‘normal’ life with as little connection to the dearly departed as possible. However, one fateful night, her shop in the French Quarter gets waterlogged,...
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Bonus - The Extremely Late Camp NaNo Conclusion
Welcome to another special bonus episode about NaNo (aka National Novel Writing Month)! This is our very, very late follow-up for our previous Camp NaNo episode. In case you don’t know, Camp NaNo is a modified challenge that takes place in both April and July, where you get more flexibility with...
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Issued to the Bride One Marine
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...
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Wicked and the Wallflower
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...
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Elijah: an Amish Story of Crime and Romance
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…
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The Corsair’s Captive
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…
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Roommaid
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...
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Killing Sarai
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...
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One Last Stop
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...
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Firelight
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,...
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Beach Read
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...
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The Duke Who Didn’t
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...
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We‘re a pair of long-time friends who love discussing (and laughing about) almost anything. Join us as we deep dive into a new romance book each episode.
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