Red's Romance and Mystery Reviews

    Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for FALLING STARS by Lex Martin! Falling for the guy who broke my heart years ago wasn’t on my to-do list when I snuck into his condo. Maverick Walker was my best friend, my safe place—the boy I trusted with my whole heart—until one reckless kiss in high school ruined everything. Now, he’s an NFL football player, and I’m a struggling small-town hair stylist, newly single and expecting a baby. With my ex gone and someone vandalizing my business, my life feels like it’s crumbling beneath me. When my best friend Paige suggests hiding out in Maverick’s swanky condo to regroup while he’s recovering from an injury in New York, it seems like a lifeline. Except he comes home. Unexpectedly. When I’m half-dressed. Now I’m stuck in his orbit again, unprepared for the way he still makes my heart race. Maverick is charming, ridiculously hot, and as off-limits as ever. But I have bigger problems than his smoldering smile—like figuring out who’s targetin...

  It's release day for Call Me Yours by Elizabeth Bright! Steven McAllister is a villain. Once a villain, always a villain, right? There’s no one I hate more in our small town, and now that my dad is his boss, I can’t avoid him. And maybe…maybe I don’t want to. Because the more I get to know him, I realize there’s more to him than I thought. With each intimate conversation and accidental touch, the sizzling tension between us grows. He makes me laugh. We understand each other in a way no one has before. Then a positive pregnancy test turns my life upside down. The timing couldn’t be worse, but this might be my only chance to be a mom, and I’m taking it. This baby isn’t Steven’s. My problems aren’t his to solve. My messy life isn’t his to clean up. But he didn’t seem to get the memo, because he keeps showing up. If Steven is a villain, why does he keep acting like a hero? Tropes: Small Town Cowboy Hate to Lovers Accidental Pregnancy (but it's not his) "Crawl" (but she ...

  Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for DECEPTION & NEW DIRECTION by Allison Bettes! Some pasts won’t stay buried. Some men refuse to walk away. Ruthie Campbell thought she’d finally outrun her past. Living under a new name, she’s rebuilt a quiet life as a receptionist at a private security firm in Georgia. It’s safe. Simple. Controlled. Until Jack Hutchinson walks through the door. Jack—her best friend’s brother, a broody, battle-scarred Army Ranger—has a talent for seeing through walls. And Ruthie’s are crumbling fast. When a dangerous stalker resurfaces and her old life catches up to her, Jack refuses to let her face it alone. He’s protective. He’s relentless. And he’s falling hard. As their connection deepens and threats close in, Ruthie must decide if she can trust Jack with the truth—and whether love is worth risking everything she’s worked so hard to hide. Pre-Order Link:  https://a.co/d/an6wyRa Allison Bettes Welcome to My World of Romance and Suspense! I weave sto...

That Last Carolina Summer Author:  Karen White Release Date: July 22, 2025 Publisher:  HarperCollins Genre: Women's Fiction/Mystery Add it to Goodreads Beloved bestselling author Karen White returns with a captivating Southern drama about sisterhood, secrets and one woman’s reckoning with the past. As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina, to help Addie care for their ailing mother. As Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts, she is drawn to Celeste, whose granddaughter went missing years ago. Their connection brings comfort to Phoebe, while Celeste’s adult grandson Liam resurrects complicated emotions tied ...

    Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for FORGOTTEN DREAMS by Natasha Madison! Sierra Who do you think you are? I thought I knew until I accidentally discovered my adoring parents' biggest secret on my twenty-fifth birthday. I am adopted. Part of me is missing, and I set out to find it. Trying to figure out the past piece by piece, I bought a little fixer-upper in the small town I was given up in. Old lies will come out. Secrets that everyone is trying to keep buried. Who am I really? Caleb When I needed a clean slate, I moved to Montgavin to start my own construction firm. Slowly, I built my crew after my success with the bakery renovation. When the newcomer in town wants to restore her house to its former glory, I trust no one but myself. Sierra looks lost, slowly putting her life together, with her dedicated room complete with a whiteboard. Something calls to me to protect her and her secrets. Someone wants her out of the town. But now they have to get through me. Buy Link:...