Welcome to the first episode of our new format where, instead of us talking about the same book, we are going to tell each other about one that we’ve read on our own. Calina introduces this new episode in light of Halloween and goes spooky with Cackle by Rachel Harris and Saylet talks about When We Had Forever by Shaylin Gandhi. Join us as we continue to share our love of books, romance or otherwise; we hope you’ve read along! We are also introducing a new, quick segment at the end where we will each provide a short list of recommended books. Tell us what you think about this new format! ***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

This episode we are joined by special guest J. M. Frey to discuss her very Canadian, super cozy, dragon romance with just a touch of social commentary. We discuss the romance between Colin and Dav that starts with a kitchen fire and ends with upending the societal structures as they know it. What happens when you get everything your heart desires but you don’t recognize it when you do? If you are someone who wishes we could just keep politics out of reading then you’ll want to skip this episode, and frankly the whole podcast!  ***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

Okay, here it is. The review of The Ruinous Love Trilogy that we’ve been waiting to do for our big 200th episode. We followed a tandem timeline of all three books: Butcher & Blackbird, Leather & Lark, and Scythe & Sparrow. This is a dark romantic comedy-trilogy spun with murder, mayhem, and SQUISHINESS galore. Each of the Kane brothers; Rowan, Lachlan, and Fionn fall for their own deadly, chaotic woman; Sloane, Lark, and Rose. Join us for this (longer than usual) episode to discuss the wonderful craziness that are these stories. We hope you all read/listened along, too! ***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 never wanted to be a good girl so much until now. Woo! This week we meet Emerson Grant is a hot, sexy, CEO of the Salacious Player’s Club where all things naughty can happen. And they do. Emerson is on the prowl for his next ‘secretary’ and accidentally meets Charlie in his office. He doesn’t know yet that she’s his son’s ex-girlfriend and is only there to collect her portion of the deposit money he once lent his son to rent an apartment. Emerson is immediately intrigued, and Charlie is, too, after Emerson demands she go on her knees in front of him. Join us for this hot, kinky, lines crossed, and hearts out book. Charlie goes squishy for this hot-dad, and has no apologies for it. ***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

Remington is a Duke and he doesn’t want to get married because he’s seen how awful men can be to women, including his dad, and doesn’t want to be like them. Lady Olivia is having her debut this season. Although she comes from a loving family, she is sheltered and naive when it comes to relationships and love. When the two first meet at a ball, they are met with immediate sparks and unwavering attraction to one another. You all know where this leads but do you know all the action, drama, and sexual tension that happens between these two? Well, read the book and join us as we discuss how Remington and Livvy find each other, fall in love, and overcome different obstacles that almost tear them apart.  ***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

After being the only survivor from an attack on her dark forces squad, Nell is recruited into a special ops team two years later. She has to prove herself again and these men aren’t making it easy. Especially Bones, whom she met on the flight to her secret mission, along with his brother Aaron. If she knew he’d be on her new squad, she never would have slept with him that same night they met. Truth and lies and betrayal emerge as Nell starts to prove she is worth a spot on the team that desperately wants her out. Who knew this new operation goes all the way back to one she soley survived? This book is JUICY. Squishy scenes among action, heat, and angst. If you like a little pain with your love and your sex, read this book and join us. ***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

S. E. is back on the show! We are excited to welcome Sarah back to discuss her book “No Words After I Love You.” This week’s book is a sweet romance and we meet Meg and Charlie, the bestest and oldest of friends who bicker, laugh, and love throughout this story. When they learn they are going to lose Gina, Charlie’s wife to cancer, they are overcome with grief and the weight of losing someone they love most. On her deathbed, Gina makes them each secretly promise that they will take care of each other and love each other after she passes. This story is about two people who are fighting battles of their own darkness and past losses; Charlie discovers Gina’s indiscretion and Meg’s absent mother is also dying, begging for her forgiveness. They both try to heal without spiraling out of control while also denying the love that they truly have for each other. Just like Gina said. ***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

Who wants to go on a game show to find their true love (or at least the person they’re supposed to marry due to tradition)? Captain Ryker Waterborn and Brynleigh do! While Ryker is actually seeking marriage, companionship, and love, Brynleigh is there for revenge against Ryker. Believing that he is the reason her entire family is dead, Brynleigh devotes her time in the dating games to make sure Ryker falls in love and chooses her to marry, so that on the night of their marriage, she’ll kill him. But when she’s confused about the truth, does she dare betray her very powerful Sire’s to destroy Ryker’s command? We don’t know! Seriously, this is a cliffhanger. So, if you like those, listen here. ***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

Guys. This is when we call a friends-off episode. One of us loves this book, the other hates it. Can you guess which one of us was like, “Hell yeah! Drama, angst, hot lonely-dad, birthday cake, and gut clenching suspense!” And who said, “What the fuck is this book?” Well, join us to find out as we dive into the lives of Verity, a renowned author who has become vegetated due to an accident but needs to finish her last novel; Lowen, an unknown author who was hired to finish Verity’s novel but uncovers some pretty messed up shit reading through her manuscripts, who also starts to fall for the hot-dad; and Jeremy, Verity’s husband and hot-dad who hires Lowen after reading her work, takes care of his unresponsive wife and only child left of their marriage, who can’t help but to fall for Lowen back, under the same roof he takes care of his family in. ***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

Cora and her sisters are American heiresses to a generous dowry that they can’t quite acquire until they’ve each met one specific requirement: marry a suitable husband. But since their legitimacy is questioned among New Yorkers and accents are more fun, Cora decides she and her sisters will go across the pond to search for their matches - but only long enough to obtain their dowries, of course. When Cora meets the money-stricken Earl of Devonworth - Leo - a devious plan ensues. They will fake marry for a few years, perhaps have some heirs, and then get divorced and go their separate ways after Cora has shared part of her dowry. They won’t fall in love. Because, they never do… right. What kind of books do you think we read here? Join us for another steamy historical romance. ***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

Going to the devil himself for forgiveness - what a delightful, delectable idea. Only Charlotte has no sins to forgive and it’s driving Lucifer fucking mad. Charlotte is trying to escape the horrors of her past of an overtly religious, abusive father and the scars that he and his people have given her in God’s name. Thinking that no one will follow her because she now works for the devil, she takes a job at his firm. Lucifer has his new intrigue, Charlotte, on top of trying to keep his brothers and sister, the seven deadly sins, who essentially run NYC, in check. Both Charlotte and Lucifer cannot deny the lust they feel for each other and much more so after a fake-fiancé situation arises in a publicity move suggested by Charlotte herself. Only she didn’t know she’d be the fiancé… HOLY SHIT listen to this book. You’re welcome for Ethan Reid. Join us and our special guest, Kait Ballenger herself, for a fun conversation about Lucy and his band of misfit siblings, his resistance to fall in love with Charlotte, and his toy room of fun. ***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

Renowned writer Dot Voline, aka Lady Death, isn’t dead - yet. But journalist Nadine jumped the gun by publishing a plagiarized obit stating so and all hell broke loose. Rival journalist, and old classmate Wes, is also following this story and more so since Dot isn’t actually dead. As competitors then and now, Nadine and Wes are only allowed to spend a very limited time with Dot, who has become invested in their real-life-enemies-to-lovers situation. After finding pretty much nothing out during their limited time before Dot actually dies, the pair stay in Lady Death’s estate for 3 weeks to uncover clues regarding her life, her stories, and a political scandal that is dying to come to light. Join us as we venture through this old lady’s wacky house with two people who are obviously going to put their differences aside, solve the mystery of Dot’s story, and fall in love. ***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

Sydney needs a break. Sure she killed off the main character and super beloved hero in her bestselling romance series but who would have thought that it would cause uproar and complete chaos amongst her fans? Just the die-hard ones who were in love with Vance… and now she’s getting harassed and death-threats. What does she do to escape the madness and to find some peace and quiet to write her final book of this series? Wisdom, WY, of course. And who does she meet that completely knocks her ex off the bookshelf? Ranger, super smart, very sexy, and adorably awkward landlord of the place she rents for two months. Yes, yes sexual attraction, protection from stalker and paparazzi, but importantly fun fuck facts! Please read this if you haven’t already - and the others that precede this one. Ranger is the best! ***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

No kink shaming here. It doesn’t matter what you do for a living, sometimes you need to get your socks rocked by something out of the norm. In this week’s book, we meet ER nurse Aly and her social media crush/stalker/cat-daddy/ex’s bff/circle yes or no boyfriend, Josh. After long, hard, horrendous days at work, Aly is always tired and nothing makes her feel better than to watch her favorite videos starring a super hot, masked man who she fantasizes about breaking into her home, being completely dominated and having her sexual fantasies come to life - safely, of course. And guess who gets her wish? Join us for some holy hotness, friends. ***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

This week we are, again, joined by the amazing and talented, Jena Doyle - author of the Midsummer series and we are excited to be discussing the last three of this series, wrapping it all up. There are so many things to say about Samhain, Solstice, and Beltane but not enough time in a podcast episode so we hope you all read along. Here we’ll discuss the lives, love, adventures, and trials of Lex, Ivy, Carter, and Miri, as well as the very steamy, squishy sex between them all. What happened to these four in that forest in Kilwaughter years ago didn’t stay there but followed them until the end. ***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

Aaaaand we have done it. How did we actually get here?! We’ll tell you how - with the help of our new friend Cecilia Rene and the amazing conversation we had about our two final books: Wolf Gone Wild by Juliette Cross and Althea’s Awakening by Maggie Sims. It was hard but we got deep into each book and even into our own feelings and made a final decision. Congratulations to…  ***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

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 & IG as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend