Red's Romance Reviews

Fall at Once Series:  Cozy Creek Collection Series #3 # Author:  Nora Everly Publisher:  HarperCollins-Avon Release Date: October 28, 2025 Genre: Romance/Contemporary   Add it to Goodreads The swoony single-dad firefighter needs my help, but he might be too hot for me to handle. I'm in Cozy Creek for two To get over my breakup and help my grandmother run her bakery while she recovers from a sprained ankle. I am absolutely not here to fall in love. But my grandma's smoking hot firefighter neighbor keeps rescuing me—from the side of the road, from a tree (don't ask), and then finally from my ex with a steamy kiss in a bar. So when he needs my help, how can I say no? As a party planner, I'm the perfect person to step in and work with him on preparations for Cozy Creek Fire Brigade's Fall Fundraiser. Sparks fly as we spend more time together, but we've both been burned by love before. I do my best to beat the heat, but then he kissed me for real, and (f)all at once,...

Witch and Tell Author:  Angela M. Sanders Series:  Witch Way Librarian Mysteries #7 Release Date: October 28, 2025 Publisher:  Kensington Books Genre: Mystery/Fiction/Cozy Mystery Add it to Goodreads Small-town Wilfred, Oregon, is poised to step into the limelight, and the citizens behind the renovation of the old movie palace—into a brew pub—certainly want that to continue. Until librarian and apprentice witch Josie Way discovers a dead body . . . Local librarian Josie Way’s life is in shambles. Her magical abilities are on the fritz, and her relationship with sexy sheriff Sam has cooled way off since she told him she’s a witch. On top of that, Josie senses a bad energy she can’t explain, which seems to be interrupting her connection with the spellbound library books, usually her sure-fire way to get to the bottom of any mystery. When she wakes to a fierce pounding in the library’s atrium, she hurries there—only to find a corpse. But after she goes for the phone to call ...

Just Over the Mountain Series:  Grace Valley Trilogy #2 Author:  Robyn Carr Release Date:  October 28, 2025 Publisher:  HarperCollins Genre: Contemporary Romance/Mystery/Women's Fiction Add it to Goodreads Welcome back to Grace Valley, California, where the best things in life never change… Here in this peaceful community, folks look out for one another like family, though sometimes a little too well. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secret—but Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep one heck of a humdinger.… Though visits from her secret lover, undercover DEA agent Jim Post, are as clandestine as they are passionate, somehow it fits with her demanding schedule as the town's doctor—a calling that requires an innate ability to exist on caffeine, sticky buns and nerves of steel. But how can a secret lover compete with a flesh-and-blood heartthrob from her past? June's old flame has just returned to town after twenty years—and he's divorced. June is seriously rattl...

Some Kind of Famous Author:  Ava Wilder Release Date:  October 28, 2025 Publisher:  Penguin-Random House-Dell Genre: Romance/Fiction Add it to Goodreads In this steamy and emotional small-town romance, a disgraced ex-musician and a local handyman try to resist their growing attraction for each other—until a house renovation forces them together—from the author of How to Fake It in Hollywood and Will They or Won’t They It’s been a decade since Merritt Valentine’s height as a celebrated singer-songwriter . . . and her subsequent career-ending mental breakdown. In the following years, she’s abandoned the glitz of Los Angeles to move in with her sister, Olivia, in the sleepy Colorado ski town of Crested Peak, hoping to heal her lingering emotional wounds somewhere out of the spotlight. Life in Crested Peak would be uncomplicated if not for Merritt’s inconvenient crush on the local contractor and handyman, Nikolaos Petrakis. Niko is disarmingly handsome and too kind-hearted t...

Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for REBEL BRIDE by Kate Meader!  She’s just jilted my teammate at the altar and I’m the one who helped her escape. We never hit it off, but I’ll still keep her safe … and pray she never learns how I really feel about her. Summer I can’t marry him. I have no good reason to jilt my hockey player fiancé, except that the closer we get to the big day, the more I feel myself shrinking to a hollow shell. Two minutes after I slip into the church bathroom to calm my pre-wedding jitters, I jump out the window to make my escape … … and land on Hatch Kershaw, my fiancé’s teammate on the Chicago Rebels. This guy has always hated me for reasons I can’t fathom. Half the time he looks right through me, like I’m no better than the ice shavings on his skate blade. The other half? That brooding green gaze strips me bare and sees right into my soul. Neither option is good for me, so I really shouldn’t want his help … should I? Hatch The bride hit me like a ton of bri...