Shhh We're Reading Dirty Books

Guys, we are down to our four books after battling it out in our last episode with 8 of our favorite dirty books. Join us here and on YouTube, if you want to see our smiling faces, as we enter the ring for round three of this dirty books face-off. Plus we have a very special guest to help us make this final decision! We hope you have been following along and making your votes. Which two books will make it to the final Head Two Head round next week? ***We would love and appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate & review! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB & IG as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

We are down to our explicit 8 for round two of our face-off. It was tough getting through our lists of 16 and facing off against all these amazing titles but we must move forward. Join us as we continue to battle until there is only one. In the episode, we narrow it down to four! Yikes! Check out our video of this face-off on our YouTube Channel: Shhh We’re Reading Dirty Books. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate & review! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB & IG as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

We are excited to announce our first ever Dirty Books Face-Off! For the month of March we will be running a bracket-style tournament and pitting our 16 favorite books from the past 7 years against each other. Only one can emerge victorious! Join us weekly as Calina's 8 favorite books take on Saylet's 8 favorites. These episodes will also be posted on YouTube! ***We would love and appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate & review! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB & IG as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

We’ve read fake-dating stories before but this one is between two best friends. Here we meet Laniah, a small-business owner who craves privacy and being homebound, and her BFF, Isaac, who is a sensational influencer and artist, living his best life in the limelight. When Laniah’s small-business, co-owned with her mother, begins to struggle and is close to shutting down, Isaac springs an idea that he knows would guarantee a turn-around for her business - telling the internet that they are dating. Though Laniah is worried that this would wreck their life-long friendship, she rolls with it. And even though they both start falling for each other (in a non-bff way), Laniah has a tough time accepting how she feels and is worried that her health and their relationship will be ruined if they both accept that they are in love with each other. Join us to see where they end up - or read this book with us! ***We would love and appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate & review! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB &

Sydney is going back home to Rose Bend - pregnant and divorced - hoping to settle back into her roots and find stability in a life she once knew in this small town. Although her relationship with her parents are rocky, after the death of sister many years ago, Sydney wants to raise her baby in a familiar, warm place. But even her ex-husband doesn’t make her move easy by threatening to take their baby away by suing for full-custody. But Sydney asks for help from an old friend, Coltrane, who is a lawyer and Mayor of Rose Bend, and is more than willing to help Sydney navigate this impending suit. Even though there’s an immediate attraction and intense feelings grow between these two, Cole is haunted with his own past and struggles with falling for Sydney while still in love with his wife, who died during childbirth with their unborn son. Join us as we discuss this contemporary love story about two people finding new beginnings while healing from their pasts. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could subscr

Friends! MMF ftw. Holy moly - before you listen to this episode, please read/listen to this book first - it was so good. This is our first MMF and different from other why-choose stories we’ve reviewed because there is hot-ass MM action! Here we meet Nathan, who’s on his way to be with his family for the holidays until the snowy mountains of California makes him crash his car. But no need to worry - he is rescued by a logger-couple, who not only rescues and cares for him, but they also can’t help but to be interested in him in other ways. Married couple Morgan and Fox have loved each other for over twenty years and are looking for a third person to join their relationship. While Nathan shows interest as well, he battles a little internally about who he really is when it comes to falling for a married logger-woman and, also, falling for her lumberjack husband. Seriously, join us for this juicy one. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDir

Oh how we love the fake dating trope and this one did not disappoint. Paisley’s family sucks. She’s not only been invited to her little sister’s wedding but she’s also the maid of honor. The catch: little sister is marrying Paisely’s ex. During the bachelorette party, dazzled with light-up penis party favors, she runs into an old college frenemy, whom she once shared a steamy, hot kiss with, Klein. Aspiring writer Klein is smart and funny, and has never gotten over Paisley. So when their paths cross again and they each find themselves in need of each other, they agree to fake date each other on the terms that Paisley helps Klein market his debut novel and Klein plays loving boyfriend at her sister and ex-boyfriend’s island wedding. Join us in this fun story of two people who were serendipitously pulled together and though they are live-streaming this fake love story, one can’t help but wonder if their relationship is really fake at all. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate &

Happy holidays, friends! Join us this season - on Christmas Day - as we each take a turn reviewing our own holiday romance story. We hope you read along for some fun, sexy, loving Christmas love stories. In Mistletoe Memories, we meet bakers Gretchen and Levi who, two years after breaking off their engagement, come together to defeat a local rival baker in a holiday baking competition. Then, come along to meet Lucy and Eric in two meet-cutes, and their excitable, sexy, wacky journey home to be with family for the holidays. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

The Worst Duke in London is named Gage Croft and he is the Duke of Vale. He is tall, red-hair, Scottish, and deep in debt since the death of his older brother and father before him. Lady Evangeline Raine likes animals more than people and prefers to take over her own dowry than to be married off to a man who only desires her wealth. And poor Viola, her little sister can only date when Evvie starts dating and finds it completely unfair as she can tell that her sister is well on her to become a spinster. That is until Vale is offered an opportunity that can wipe away his large debt and bring wealth back into his home. All he has to do is pretend to be interested in Evvie and distract her London so that Huntington can make a salacious move on Viola - she is rich, too, after all. We love when authors retell famous works and Amalie did not disappoint! ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website

Come on friends just look at the damn cover! We are super happy to report that book three, The Chosen, of the Black Arrowhead series by Dannika Dark did not disappoint. Much like the first two books, we meet a lovely new cast of people, as well as our first two couples. Tak is looking for people to join his pack so Hope sends out a message to those who may be looking to join one. Along comes Robyn, who is technically not a shifter, but has very good reasons as to why she wants to join Tak’s pack. During her journey to the invite, she meets Montana and his shirt, steals his fries, and sleeps in tents. Join us as we discuss this amazing love story between two people who are escaping their past and trying to find a forever home with each other and their new found-family.. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

Ember is just a typical woman trying to find her own. Join us this week as we fall into this rom-com and meet Ember and Danuwoa (AKA Native Daddy) and their journey to identity, belonging, and self-acceptance. Even though Ember continues to dig herself deeper into a pit of white lies, she cannot deny her feelings for Danuwoa are real, nor can she keep suffering the blackmail, racism, and nepotism happening in the workplace. This is a lovely story about a woman who navigates not just the corporate world but also the conflicts between her cultural identity, personal ambition, and desire for a real love connection with Dan. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

This week we took it back to our roots and dived into a paranormal romance novel. Join us as we discuss The Watching, where we meet Kayla, a small town café waitress who is just trying to find her way through life with her tight knit group of friends and her penchant for buying stray cats cat food - oh, and falling for strange, hot dudes. While Kayla is fighting with mixed emotions about two different love interests, her friends become victims of strange animal attacks across town and they know that together, they can get to the source of all the craziness their little town is going through. With the help of their local law enforcement, Kayla and her friends may just be able to make it through this supernatural mess. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

Friends! We are excited to introduce you all to author Jena Doyle in this INCREDIBLE interview episode. Join us as we speak with Jena about her amazing retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We really enjoyed this reimagining of this classic story: love, lust, poly relationships, and steamy sex in the woods and more sex all over the place. Come on. Jena shares with us the start of her writing career, her inspiration, and all of her upcoming work that we are super excited about. If you haven’t read Midsummer yet, then you haven’t met Ivy, Lex, Carter, or Miri, and you need to so please check it out. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

We know we said we’d only read There Are No Saints, but we just HAD to see how this ended, so... we read the second book as well. In this Sinners Duet series, we meet starving artist Mara, who is struggling to get by in the competitive art scene of San Francisco. She is a victim of childhood abuse and becomes a victim of an attempted murder as an adult. But Mara is a survivor. Things start looking up when she’s noticed by a rich, local, renowned artist, Cole (insert fancy, rich last name and sexy smolder), and her dreams of succeeding as an artist are becoming reality. Cole has issues of his own - past and present - and having Mara in his life has exacerbated the darkness inside of him that makes him lose control. But does he want to protect her, or does he want to destroy her? We hope you have listened to these books and will join us for this sexy, dark romance. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well

This historical romance takes us back to times of war and unrest with the French occupation of Mexico. Here is book one of the Luna Sisters novels where we meet Ana María, the eldest of the Luna sisters, who in all essence, aims to be perfect for her family and her country. Escaping the dangers that await her as the daughter of a prominent family, Ana María is sent in secret to London along with her sisters, Gabriela and Isabel. Trying her best to fit into this strange, new society, Ana María meets Parliament member, Gideon Fox, along the way and cannot help the feelings that begin to brew within, despite being promised to another man back in Mexico. This forbidden love story provides us with romance, longing, sisterly bonding, and important history with amazingly written BIPOC main characters. Join us for Ana María and The Fox. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks

Book two of the Love & Tacos takes us on a love journey with Montez brother number two, Enrique. After the heirs of the Taco King empire have a falling out with their father (check out episode 145!), the brothers are finding positive and progressive ways to grow their business and reconnect with their Mexican roots. Enrique does so by reaching out to one of very few Latina farm owners, Carolina Flores, to learn more about her farm and possibly becoming business partners. Not to mention she is amazingly stunning and he is not so bad himself. But Carolina is busy running her farm and battling her own problems with a sick, old-fashioned father who has strict dating rules when it comes to his 10 daughters. She doesn't have time for, nor does she want anything to do with, a spoiled, rich Montez brother, who doesn’t understand the importance of not only running a farm, but also taking good care of its workers. Carolina soon finds out that maybe Enrique isn’t as bad as she thought and that these feelings she’s n

Althea is a business-woman who knows what she wants... even though her time, place, and position in society as a widow may tell her otherwise. Wanting to expand her apothecary business, Althea needs financial backing and knows the easiest way to gain funds is to remarry a wealthy man, but she doesn’t want a husband. She wants an investor. During her hunt for such a person, she meets a bored, rich, handsome earl, Evan, at his ‘party’ that surprisingly opens up her curiosity about other experiences that she’s only imagined behind closed doors. Join us as we discuss another very fun, super-sexy, perfectly written regency with none other than Maggie Sims herself! Yup, friends - we are truly honored to have Maggie join us on the show. If you haven’t read this book yet… seriously, what are you doing? Go read it! ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joi

Does this story borderline taboo between a sort-of-adopted-brother and his non-biological-little-sister? You tell us! This forbidden romance introduces the love story between Brant and June. Brant experienced a horrible tragedy when he was just six years old, which resulted in his mom’s best friend and next door neighbor to take him in and raise him alongside his best friend, Theo and his new baby sister, June. Brant internally struggles with his true place in his ‘new’ family but still loves them all the same, especially little June, whom he and Theo both protect and adore entirely. Even though everyone else sees them as siblings, Brant can’t help but feel differently for June and she soon realizes her love for him is different than the love she had for Theo. What is going on, guys?! Join us for a truly interesting conversation - one that's crossed a line we’ve never ventured into before on our show. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @Shh

Okay, guys. If you listened to last week’s episode, you know that we had the pleasure of interviewing Teralyn Davis, the narrator under her pseudename (ha!) June deBorahae who is the voice of sultry, sexy, sweet, sassy Josephine in the Boys of Lake Chapel series. Because we got SO invested in this series, we decided to throw in a bonus episode to close out our thoughts about the all three books of The Boys of Lake Chapel series. Just… holy sexiness. June is an amazing narrator and we are so happy we got to meet her. So, if you haven’t read these yet - DO IT! And tell us who your favorite man-meat is between Lock, Killian, Kendrick, and Decker… or, why choose at all…? ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

Friends! We are excited to have our very first narrator on the show. Join us as we have an amazing conversation with Teralyn Davis/ June deBorahae who leads the FMC voice for Josephine in Too Safe, the first book of the Boys of Lake Chapel series. Teralyn gives us a glimpse into the life of a narrator and if you listened to this book, or any of her other titles, then you know it was damn worth it. While we had an incredible time getting to know Teralyn, we didn’t have enough time to get into the details of the book as we normally do… so make sure to listen next week (yes, instead of the normal two weeks) for our actual review and discussion about ALL three installments of the Boys of Lake Chapel novels. ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend