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Reader Question – The book where she’s in love & engaged but her father set up an arranged mafia marriage…

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Pat from our Facebook crew is looking for this one! It’s short & sweet but hopefully somebody knows it. 🙂 I feel like I’ve read this one. Or… the trope is similar to a few blurbs I’ve read, and now I can’t pinpoint which one.

She asks:

Looking for a book about girl who gets engaged to her sweetheart and goes home where her father has arranged a marriage with a mafia boss to pay his gambling debt

Have a guess?

➔➔➔  Browse more reader questions (solved & unsolved) here. 😀 Maybe you’ll find a solved one to read or have a guess for us for one that’s still unsolved. read more

Lucy Score – Story Lake Series Reading Order

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NEW SERIES BY HITMAKER, LUCY SCORE, and both books have rocketed up Amazon’s charts to #1!

The author said:

Thank you all so much for the love you’ve shown Mistakes Were Made and for helping it land on the USA Today, New York Times, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and Indie Bestsellers lists! I’m endlessly grateful—thank you from the bottom of my heart 😘

About book #1:

A Gilmore Girls meets Schitt’s Creek redemption romcom.

Hazel Hart was a successful romance novelist until a breakup drives her straight into writer’s block. Having failed (and failed some more) to deliver her new manuscript, she’s hiding from the world behind a wall of old takeout containers until her publisher lays down the law. If she misses her next deadline it’s The End. read more

Margie’s Mini Book Review – When Perfect Falls Apart by Josey Mood

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When Perfect Falls Apart: The Bexley Hills Series (A Contemporary Women Fiction on Marriage, Manipulation, and Moving On) <— Another fun Margie book find (I have quite a few of them to post over the next few days/weeks – YAY US!!!) and I’m kicking off the latest batch of “betrayal & redemption” finds with this one!

She says:

More betrayal and cheating:

When Perfect Falls Apart: The Bexley Hills Series (A Contemporary Women Fiction on Marriage, Manipulation, and Moving On) by Josey Mood. read more

Latest Romance Book Releases – 03-24-2026

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HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!!! IT’S TIME FOR OUR LATEST & GREATEST list of new book releases in all of our favorite tropes and loaded in blurb jolts!

BLURB JOLTS & STAND OUTS: The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez (she had no idea that she’d met the perfect man…), The Unpolished Life of Eleanor Whitfield by Rachel Hanna (she inherits a honky tonk bar!!), The Killer in the House by Reding, Lauren (domestic thriller!! She becomes their new housekeeper) Paper Hearts (Off the Books Book 2) by Kay Cove (pop star hires an escort), My Kind of Guy (Hockey Guys: a series of MM stand-alone novels Book 4) by Sarina Bowen (Sarina Bowen’s latest M/M hockey romance!!), Honeysuckle: A Novel by Bar Fridman-Tell (OMG total blurb jolt!!) read more

Artem Gonchakov’s Unrefined: Find Your Purpose is live & we have an excerpt & fun facts!

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Unrefined: Find Your Purpose <— THIS ONE SOUNDS RIGHT UP MY MOTIVATIONAL ALLEY, MY BOOK FRIENDS!!! And I’m thrilled the author is today’s newsletter sponsor!!

“I spent eleven years chasing a promotion. When I got it, I woke up the next day and felt nothing.”

Artem Gonchakov spent years doing everything right — university, immigration, Wall Street career, starting a company, becoming a CEO. On paper it looked like the American Dream. On the inside, every milestone felt like checking someone else’s box. read more

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