Welp. Connie’s a girl after my own heart! Her favorites include so many of my VERY favorite authors ever (like Jewel. E. Ann, Tessa Bailey & Aly Martinez!!) and tropes that are my absolute catnip (grumpy, reclusive men), and I can’t wait to turn her list into my own TBR list.
AND!!! A few that are new-to-me that sound SO good (like that rock star one that he doesn’t remember her? EEEEEP!! MINE!!).
I bet you’ll agree. 😊
Connie’s Best Books of 2024 List
From Air by Jewel E. Ann <— GRUMPY FIREFIGHTER AGE-GAP!!
Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jewel E. Ann parachutes into the burning, hazardous heart of love in a sexy yet dramatic romance set in Big Sky country.
When Jamie Andrews moves in with a house full of firefighters, things start heating up fast. Battling the wilderness of rural Montana, these guys are always charging into danger—for a living, for duty, for the rush—and since Jamie is a psychiatric nurse, they fascinate her analytic mind. She can’t help but fixate on Calvin, a grumpy, enigmatic smoke jumper ten years her senior.
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I Thought of You Jewel E. Ann <— SHE’S GOT A BOYFRIEND…
“…When I find her in Austin, working at a quaint general store and living in an RV behind it, those twelve years vanish. She’s exactly how I remember her.
Scottie thinks our reunion is a small-world coincidence, and I’m not ready to tell her the truth. After we rekindle our friendship, she convinces me to work part-time at the store while she pursues her budding relationship with Koen, a welder and the grandson of a customer...”
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Bride by Ali Hazelwood <— THE VAMPIRE BRIDE & ALPHA WEREWOLF!
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.
Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again…
Jessica: Just finished Ali Hazelwood’s “Bride” – loved it.
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Of Heartbreak and Harmony Brit E. Benson <— ROCK STAR DOESN’T REMEMBER HER!
“…he shattered me in the way only a flawless rock god can: irreparably, and with devastating finesse.
Four years later, the last place I expect to be is sitting before him, reading through a contract with a pen poised in my fingertips. A favor for a favor, he says. A US tour and a fake relationship in exchange for the answer to all my problems.
I hate him. I hate that I need him. And what I hate the most? He doesn’t remember me. At all…”
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Alone with You Aly Martinez <— RECLUSIVE HERO!!
“…People called me a recluse, but the only time I didn’t feel like I was suffocating was inside that house. For my daughter, I kept some semblance of normalcy by implementing a rigid routine. Once a week, I forced myself to walk to the diner at the end of the block—a ritual I despised but relied on as my last anchor to the real world.
Until the day a “Closed” sign on the door shattered my fragile existence. Worse, the new owner was the most haunting ghost from my past. It had been years since I’d laid eyes on Gwendolyn Pierce. She hated me—and rightly so...”
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Funny Story Emily Henry <— ROOMMATES & OPPOSITES!
“…proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads —Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan...”
Destiny: I read it so fast ! I loved it so much !!!! I even went to a midnight release party
Alice: I got this one much quicker than I anticipated from the e-book library. I am about 30% in and enjoying it.
Kvk: just finished it and went on an Emily re-read!!
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Fangirl Down Tessa Bailey <— GRUMPY PRO GOLFER!!
“…a determined Wells shows up at her door with a wild proposal: be his new caddy, help him turn his game around, and split the prize money. And considering Josephine’s professional and personal life is in shambles, she could really use the cash…
As they travel together, spending days on the green and nights in neighboring hotel rooms, sparks fly. Before long, they’re inseparable, Wells starts winning again, and Josephine is surprised to find a sweet, thoughtful guy underneath his gruff, growly exterior…“
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