AUDIO Review: Sweet Venom by Rina Kent

December 10, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

 

SWEET VENOM
Series: Vipers #2
Author: Rina Kent
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: December 2, 2025

From the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a dangerously dark stalker hockey romance.


Can I outrun his merciless obsession?

I accidentally witnessed a brutal murder.
I froze, pretended I saw nothing, hoping I could leave it behind.
But my plan backfired, and my life spiraled downward.
Now, I’m the target of cold-blooded revenge.
Jude Callahan isn’t just a hockey god—he’s a devil no one dares to cross.
My existence disrupts his stardom, prestige, and possible serial killer career choice.
And he’s set out to make me pay for that moment of silence.
No matter how much I run or hide, he finds me, watching from the shadows.
Like a predator.
I thought he’d stop at the stalking.
Or even better, he’d kill me and finally end my misery.
But Jude has other plans.

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Review: Love Me Stalk Me by Laura Bishop

December 9, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

LOVE ME STALK ME
Series: Obsessively Yours #1
Author: Laura Bishop
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 2, 2025

For fans of Lights Out and You comes a dark rom-com debut about a woman who confides her fantasies to an AI boyfriend app—unaware she’s really talking to her hot, tattooed coworker who hacked her phone.

When overworked department store manager Izzy Russo downloads an AI boyfriend app to fill the emotional void left by her inattentive real one, she thinks she’s just venting to a harmless chatbot named “Caleb.” In reality, she’s been pouring her deepest, dirtiest fantasies into the ears of Callahan Knight—her store’s brooding new head of security.

Because Cal? He’s been listening. The moment he saw Izzy, he knew she was his. Did he hack her phone? Absolutely. But who could blame him? A woman like Izzy deserves to be cherished by someone who truly knows her worth—and he’ll do anything to be that man.

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DGRFave & Review: A Secret And A Lie by B.H. Eastwood

December 2, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

A SECRET AND A LIE
Author: B.H. Eastwood
Genre: Dark, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 2, 2025

SHE TELLS SECRETS, HE TELLS LIES

There are plenty of formidable people in Washington, D.C., though possibly none more so than me. I’m not sitting in the White House, nor have an office in the Capitol building. I’m not affiliated with the three branches of the US government whatsoever. But I’m acquainted with the players who are—intimately. I know them better than they know themselves. Same with the hot shots that make up corporate America and the moguls of Silicon Valley.

You see, I’m a keeper of secrets, of sensitive information.
I pocket the whispers in the dark, saving them for a rainy day. It makes me the most powerful woman in town, but it also makes me the most dangerous, the most feared; and therefore, the most hunted.

Unfortunately for the elite ladies and gentlemen of the upper echelon, they seem to have underestimated the bite force of an apex predator who’s been backed into a corner.

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Audio Review: Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas

November 19, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

BONDS OF HERCULES
Series: Villains of Lore #2
Author: Jasmine Mas
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Release Date: October 28, 2025

Available for the first time in audio, the highly anticipated sequel to the viral sensation, Blood of Hercules , this audiobook features multiple narrators! Pre-order Bonds of Hercules today!

I’ve awakened my powers, and things are not well.

When I turned twenty years old, I discovered I had horrifying secret powers, got trapped into marriage with my enemies, accidentally joined a cult, and signed up for a bloodthirsty Gladiator Competition. To make matters worse, my terrifying husbands are trying to seduce me, and my old mentors are acting really strange.

Now, someone is killing Olympians—and it’s not Titans. Things are spiraling out of control.

I’m fighting for my life and drowning in secrets.

It doesn’t help that Titans are mutating and getting stronger. Chthonics are also revolting against Olympians and ghosts from my past are coming back to haunt me.

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Review: A Vow of Shadow and Blood by Charlene Antrobus

November 15, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

A VOW OF SHADOW AND BLOOD
Series: Blood Vows #1
Author: Charlene Antrobus
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Release Date: October 15, 2025

An enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy perfect for fans of Penn Cole, Sable Sorensen, and Rebecca Yarros.

In the Kingdom of Kalyn, humans are good for two things. Hunting and owning.

Adina Barron was bred to serve the ruling-class vampires. Owned from birth by Blackwood House, her only desire has been to keep herself and her sister safe. But Adina harbors a dark secret. She possesses the power to turn her blood into a deadly poison that kills vampires. An ability she swore never to use until she learned that her sister was dying. After discovering that vampire venom can extend life, Adina has spent the last year risking exposure and execution to hunt and kill the creatures she was born to obey.

But desperation leads to foolish mistakes, and when she accidentally reveals her power to a mysterious stranger, she is forced to make a difficult choice.

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Review: West Bound by Maggie Rawdon

November 14, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

WEST BOUND
Series: The Quiet Horsemen #3
Author: Maggie Rawdon
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: October 24, 2025

When I’m stalked and kidnapped from the convent by my father’s enemy, a cowboy hellbent on revenge, everything changes.

I’m torn from my cloistered life of simplicity, thrown into the center of a bitter fight, and held at his mercy in a small cabin in the middle of the Colorado wilderness.
There could be a silver lining though.

The quiet, bespectacled, heavily tattooed horseman has an offer: If I give him what he wants, he’ll grant the only wish I have.
He might even be the one person capable of delivering it.

It’s a dangerous temptation. Just like the way he looks at me.

If I’m honest, the more I learn about the man underneath all the scars, the more I’m questioning everything I thought I believed. Especially when he makes a confession of his own.

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Review: What is Love by Ashley N. Rostek

November 13, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

WHAT IS LOVE
Series: The Bridge Series #1
Author: Ashley N. Rostek
Genre: Dark, Why Choose Romance
Release Date: November 8, 2025

I can’t remember a time my skin was not blemished with black, purple, and blue.

I don’t know what it’s like to breathe without the weight of fear on my chest.

From a young age, I mastered how to lie and how to hide my pain behind a practiced smile. I was never told, but I’ve always known that I need to cover my punishments beneath pretty, pastel clothes and white pearls.

I must always appear perfect. The perfect student. The perfect girlfriend. The perfect daughter.

Some days, I meet those expectations. Some days, they change to something unachievable, and pain and fear become my whole reality.

I wish I could run away, but with my family’s money and connections, I know they would find me.

My past, present, and future have already been decided without my consent and it seems like death would be my only escape.

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Review: The Broken Queen by Ashley Munoz

November 8, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

THE BROKEN QUEEN
Series: Rake Forge Royals #2
Author: Ashley Munoz
Genre: Dark, Mafia Romance
Release Date: November 7, 2025

The final book in the Royals of Rake Forge duet is now here!

She was always ours.

Ours to protect.

Ours to love.

Yet, we were forced to watch as she stepped into another’s arms, completely out of reach.

We didn’t have any regrets in choosing to revive our father’s deadly legacy…we knew what threat faced this family and how much danger Presley was in.

Regardless of what our family thinks, it was worth it.

She was worth it.

We’d still burn down the entire world if it meant Presley was finally free of her burden.
We’d made amends by allowing her to remain free of us in the process.

But when someone is sent to the manor in a body bag, things begin to take a different shape.

The distance between our worlds shrinks, with it comes an opportunity to right our wrongs.

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Review: The Christmas Playbook by S. Massery & S.J. Sylvis

November 7, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

HEART OF THORNS
Series: Shadow Valley U
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Author: S. Massery & S.J. Sylvis
Release Date: November 7, 2025

One cabin. One week. One fake relationship.

Winter break was supposed to be one last trip with my best friends, a little snowboarding, maybe some hot cocoa spiked with something stronger. No drama, no strings.

Then my cabin got double-booked.

Enter Mira Winters—my childhood neighbor and crush. And somehow, the girl managed to get even prettier since the last time I saw her.

She’s got one her family makes mine look like a walk in the park, and she’d rather fake a boyfriend than deal with their constant judgement.

Guess who she asks to step up? Yours truly.

It’s supposed to be for show. Hold her hand. Steal a kiss under the mistletoe. Pretend I’m head over heels for her.
Easy. Right?

Except the more we play this game, the more I want it to be real.

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Review: The Pawn by Natasha Knight

October 31, 2025 by · Leave a Comment

THE PAWN
Series: War of Hearts #2
Genre: Dark Romance
Author: Natasha Knight
Release Date: October 29, 2025

I rule a kingdom built on blood.

Brutality is my legacy.

The moment I saw Allegra Moretti, I knew I had to have her.

The night I planned to make her my wife, my enemies attacked.

They took her from me.

They did not know the monster they unleashed.

I burned the world down to bring her home.

Now, I’ll go to war for her.

I will tear our families apart and I will deliver her enemies to her in pieces.

Allegra is my queen and I will destroy any man who dares hurt her.

AMAZON

I still hate you,” I tell him what I’ve told him before although it’s not true. I know that now. “You can hate me all you want. It won’t make you any less mine.”

The heart pounding conclusion to the War of Hearts is here and WOWZA.… Read more

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