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The HEA Book Club: Reading Romance with Friends

The HEA Book Club: Reading Romance with Friends

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 Join indie romance author Summer O’Toole and Best Friend Kelsey as they chat, laugh, and swoon over fictional men with often questionable morals.Copyright g Art
Episodes
  • 199: Forty Shades of Green - "The Ground She Walks Upon" by Meagan McKinney

    199: Forty Shades of Green - "The Ground She Walks Upon" by Meagan McKinney
    Feb 7 2026
    And now we arrive in Ireland. Finally. To discuss THE GROUND SHE WALKS UPON by MEAGAN MCKINNEY (1994).Ravenna is a social outcast who is also magically bound via geish to the Lord of her home, County Lir. Either Niall, at 20 years her senior, woos her, a lowly peasant, or his family looses the land they occupy in Ireland. What is the point of magic if it is just friendship or whatever? Does good romance determine a good romance, or is it all the other stuff? Is there ever such a thing as a good aristocrat?Trigger warnings: We talk about death and political violence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Whoa!nus 2025 Year In Review

    Whoa!nus 2025 Year In Review
    Jan 1 2026
    What was 2025, really? What did we say we were going to do—and did we do it?
    In this Year-in-Review episode, we take stock of the year with clear eyes. We revisit the wins, the misses, and the pacing problems from our shelf this year—from Ali Hazelwood’s Deep End to the dark-romance chaos of Nocticadia. We did a shadow-daddy bracket (a rigorous, peer-reviewed process; dissenting opinions noted for the record) that functioned as a useful tool for Isabeau, and found time to accidentally fall head first into the zeitgeist.
    Who earned the hardest Whoa!? Who took home the most definitive No? And which couples earned space on our mental shelves forever?We close by looking ahead to 2026: what we’re pursuing, what we’re done negotiating, and what we’re leaving behind—because not every arc deserves a redemption. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 198: The Reason for the Peenin' - The Earl's Christmas Pearl by Megan Frampton

    198: The Reason for the Peenin' - The Earl's Christmas Pearl by Megan Frampton
    Dec 14 2025
    Man the canons, yr Colonels in the War on Christmas are attacking THE EARL'S CHRISTMAS PEARL by MEGAN FRAMPTON.The titular Earl meets the titular Pearl after her family abandons her in London over Christmas a la (kind of, vaguely) Kevin McAllister. He uses his skills as a Welshman to care for the young miss, even though his ankle like, really hurts and he doesn't even LIKE Christmas that much. Along the way, he doesn't just fall in love with the holiday...Are wealthy twenty somethings in historical romance essentially just teens? What story elements are crucial to a Christmas tale? Are purple prose penises better than just "Penis"?Tune in - we're stokin' fires AND frying' eggs this Yule.______additional sounds in this eppy:sleigh bells_.wav by Stagno sexy funk + strings & piano by kbrecordzz
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    34 mins
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