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Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About by Isabelle Popp

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Purchase Rating: 4/5 Spice: 1.5/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance Blurb:  She’s a little edgy. He’s a lot of sunshine. Love’s about to catch them completely off gourd…Textile artist Sadie Fox did not sign up for this. When she agreed to come home to Pea Blossom, Indiana, it was to care for her father’s beloved pumpkin patch. The deal was that—just for the summer—she would grow a ginormous pumpkin, win the Indiana State Fair's pumpkin contest and finally win back her father’s (grudging) respect. Instead, a horde of wild hogs destroyed the. entire. patch. Which is precisely when the annoyingly sexy, sunshiny next-door neighbor shows up. Josh Thatcher is a tech millionaire who traded in the office for growing gourds, including experimental squash hybrids. And for the life of her, Sadie can’t understand what he sees in her sweary, tattooed, prickly self—or why he’s offering to help his biggest competitor. But a storm-fueled kiss proves there’s definitely something gro...

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

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Purchase My rating: 4/5 Stars  🌶: 0/5 Primary Genre: Fantasy Romance Blurb:  Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers' Favorite Fantasy (2022) A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tan...

Romance Rules for Werewolves by Linsey Hall

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  Purchase Charming Cove #3 My Rating: 5/5 Stars Primary Genre: Paranormal romance Blurb:  Autumn is a time of snuggly sweaters, crisp breezes, and…. sexy, broody werewolves?  When I inherit a magical house in the beautiful seaside village of Charming Cove, it’s just what I need to turn my dismal life around. Fresh off a bad breakup and with magic that I’ve ignored for a decade, I’m ready to rekindle my inner witch.  The catch? The house is inhabitable until I renovate it, and the only place to live is with a brooding, rugged boat-builder who  definitely  doesn’t want me in his space. Though there’s no denying the electric spark between us, neither of us is willing to act on it.  To make things more complicated, I have to renovate the house in thirty days or I’ll lose it. But the house hates anyone who enters it and attacks with loose floorboards and horrific odors. I can’t get a single contractor in Charming Cove to help me out.  That leaves on...