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Book Two of the Harbor of Secrets has opened its doors. Agatha Brannock keeps everyone's secrets but her own — until the law moves in under her roof and the man in Room Five is the one who walked away from her years ago.
A second-chance story with the enemy at the breakfast table. Available now on Amazon.
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If you spend any time in romance comment sections, you've seen this complaint, usually in capital letters. It turns up on BookTok, in Goodreads reviews, and in every romance subreddit thread about tr…
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There's a review I see under almost every historical romance with a bad marriage in it. It goes something like this: *Why doesn't she just leave?*
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Lisa Kleypas has a new book out on October 20, and I have been refreshing the pre-order page like it owes me money.
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I found out the way most of us did, which is that four people sent me the same link within an hour.
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The question showing up in Romancelandia right now is blunt and specific: *Is this hero morally gray, or is he just toxic?*
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There's a thread that keeps surfacing on BookTok this fall, usually late at night, usually in comments and not in the videos themselves. Somebody mentions a book they read in 2001, or 1998, or that t…
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When fall TBR season opens — and it opens in late August, earlier than most readers realize — the first decision is the one most people skip entirely.
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If you've read the last year of gothic romance discourse, you know what moors gothic is. Windswept estates. Heather and fog. A hero with a past that the landscape seems to embody. A heroine who arriv…
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Emerald Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* adaptation — released earlier this year, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, earning $242 million at the box office — sent a particular kind of reader back…
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"Atmospheric" is one of those compliments romance readers reach for when they want to say something is working without being able to fully explain why. The review says "so atmospheric" and the person…
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There's a reader complaint circulating this week that I want to address directly, because it names something real.
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Something has been happening in romance reader spaces lately that I've been watching with a specific kind of interest.
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Something is happening on BookTok right now, and if you've spent any time in romance corners of the internet this month, you've probably caught the edge of it.
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There's a phrase I've been watching show up in reader posts and recommendation threads all year, dropped casually, as if everyone already knows what it means: romantasy fatigue.
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Not the category itself. I have no objection to books you can read outside in warm weather. I mean the implication that a beach read should be easy, uncomplicated, light. As if the beach is a stress-…
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Watch any thread asking for "morally gray hero recs" and the same thing happens within twenty comments: two different readers defending the exact same book, one calling the hero deliciously dangerous…
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A few years ago, "book boyfriend" was the kind of thing you said with a small laugh attached, half a joke, half an apology. You'd admit it to your reading group and somebody would tease you, gently,…
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There's a specific thing readers have been saying this year, across BookTok and Facebook groups and Reddit and comment sections everywhere, and it goes roughly like this: "I need a book that makes me…
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If you have walked into a bookstore in the last two years, you have seen it. A whole table, sometimes a whole wall, of fantasy romance. Dragons and courts and morally questionable fae princes, with c…
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Something interesting is happening in romance right now, and for once it isn't a new release or a viral cover. It's a conversation — a loud, searching, occasionally furious conversation about dark …
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A first look at Book Three — Maren at the press before dawn, Cade in the shipyard, and a forged seal small enough to need a glass to see. Out December 1.
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A first look at Book Two — Agatha and Gideon, a boarding house full of secrets, and a harbor at dusk that knows exactly what they're trying to hide.
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It's real, it's live, and you can read it tonight. The debut Harbor of Secrets novel — Eliza Mercer, Captain Rowan Vale, and a paper trail worth killing for — has officially set sail.
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Fog, lantern light, and a ledger that can ruin a life. A few words on why I keep coming back to the harbor — and the kind of love story that only survives a signature.
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