Red's Romance Reviews

The Things We Swore We'd Never Do Author:  Jillian Dodd Release Date: October 6, 2026 Publisher:  Bloom Books Genre: Young Adult/Coming of Age/Romance Add it to Goodreads Set against long Texas summers filled with pinky promises and the bittersweet magic of growing up, The Things We Swore We'd Never Do , a new story from Jillian Dodd, is about losing your person and learning how to live a little louder in the silence they leave behind. Growing up one broken rule at a time. It started with a list. The things we swore we'd never do. Kiss boys. Lie to our parents. Wear push-up bras. We were nine years old and certain of everything. McKenna Moore was everything I wasn't—fearless, opinionated, and always one step ahead. I was the quiet one, never needing to be the center of anything. But standing next to her always made me feel braver. We spent summers at the lake, made pinky promises in the dark, and bottled our girlhood like fireflies in a jar. We thought we had forever. B...

Broken Rival Author:  Tessa Bailey Release Date: October 6, 2026 Publisher:  HarperCollins Genre: Fantasy Romance/Science Fiction/Young Adult Add it to Goodreads From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey comes a gripping, heated romance about a girl trapped in a new reality, forced to make a choice between two brothers—one who is the high school golden boy, the other sworn to hunt down her kind—time travelers. This is Tessa Bailey as you’ve never seen her before. Magnolia Brown loves Friday night football games, volunteering and dominating at high school swim meets. Just your average everyday eighteen-year-old. Except for one thing: She’s from fifty years in the future. Magnolia’s parents, two brilliant scientists, are the inventors of time travel, but due to widespread destruction and rampant abuse of the technology from a corrupt few, time travel is outlawed and punishable by death. When Magnolia’s parents are seized and executed for illegally traveling to the ...

Murder on this Ice Series:  Bookmobile Cat Mysteries #14 Author:  Laurie Cass Release Date: October 6, 2026 Publisher:  Crooked Lane Books Genre: Mystery/Cozy Mystery/Fiction Add it to Goodreads Sleuthing is past due in the fourteenth installment of the Bookmobile Cat Mystery series by national bestselling author Laurie Cass. A small-town bookmobile librarian and her rescue cat refuse to go by the book when an elderly patron’s body is found at the bottom of a small lake. It’s winter in northwest lower Michigan, which means librarian Minnie Niswander and her cat, Eddie, are staying cozy in the bookmobile. But not everything is as it should be. When an elderly housebound patron, Gerald Arnold, fails to answer his door, Minnie knows something is wrong. Her fears are confirmed when the police discover Gerald’s body beneath the surface of a small frozen lake. Minnie knows that the kind and cautious Gerald would never have been so careless as to fall through the ice, and she su...

Falling Like Snow Author: Misty Wilson Release Date: October 6, 2026 Genre: Fiction/Romance/Teen Fiction Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Add it to Goodreads! A girl juggles planning her town’s first-ever winter festival and untangling her complicated feelings for both her best friend and the star hockey player in this charming book in the swoony Bramble Falls series that started with the New York Times bestselling Falling Like Leaves. After Bramble Falls’s wildly successful Falling Leaves Festival, Sloane Sullivan is looking forward to some downtime—especially kicking back and marathoning Nora Ephron movies with her best friend, Asher. But they barely make it through Sleepless in Seattle before Sloane’s mom calls an emergency tourism department meeting; it’s all hands on deck—Bramble Falls is having its first ever Falling Snow Festival! Sloane may still be recovering from the last seasonal event, but she’s also excited. After all, Christmas is the best time of year! And she’ll ha...

A Love Like Like Candlelight Series:  Wayward Hollow #3 Author: Hailey Frost Release Date: September 2, 2026 Genre: Fiction/Romance/Paranormal Publisher: Independant Add it to Goodreads! Welcome to Wayward Hollow - Where new beginnings come with an unwanted thrill When my husband doesn’t show up for one of the biggest nights of my career, I make two life-changing decisions:File for divorce. Move to a tiny town called Wayward Hollow for a fresh start. Honestly? Great plan in theory. Less great in practice once my dog digs up human bones in the backyard of my very new, and apparently very haunted house. Now I’m stuck dealing with flickering lights, slamming doors, a town-wide betting pool over the nature of the bones in my backyard, and Erik —the ridiculously handsome sheriff who keeps showing up every time my life spirals into chaos. Erik is juggling a case that’s haunted him for years and complicated feelings about his family. The more time I spend with him, the bigger the feeling ...

    🏈𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 🏈 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐲 (𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟒), the final standalone in the Gridiron Legacy series by Ava Sutton is now LIVE!   Ellis Renwick and I are barely more than acquaintances—connected only by mutual friends and the endorsement deal I signed with her company. Her baby isn’t mine, and minding my own business should be easy. But when the baby’s father walks away, I step up. Raised by a single mom, I know the weight Ellis is about to carry, and there is no way I’m letting her do it alone. But somewhere between midnight cravings, stolen kisses, and tiny heartbeats, the woman behind my endorsement deal becomes my whole world. Now I’m falling hopelessly in love with a future that was never meant to be mine. When her father discovers I’m not the biological dad, he wants to expose the ex publicly, threatening to shatter the quiet haven Ellis and I have built. He wants justice from a ghost. But they've become mine to protect. W...