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72: Kate Cole, Her New Book High Voltage, Women in the Trades Romance, and Redefining HEAs (opens the original)
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Romance author Kate Cole joins the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss her unapologetically feminist Women in Trades romance series, which centers women in male-dominated professions and gently challenges stereotypes about tradespeople, gender roles, and sexuality. We talk about Kate’s lyrical, music-infused novel High Voltage—featuring electrician Greta and professor Ellis—as an opposites-attract romance with letter writing, a mid-to-late-30s crossroads, and a focus on intimacy, communica
71: Transactional Dark Romance: Author CJ North and Her New Book What’s Beneath (opens the original)
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Author CJ North returns to Love Letters and Books to discuss What’s Beneath, a post-apocalyptic transactional dark romance set years after a world-ending pandemic. CJ introduces Nyx and her sister Skye, who survive in a remote cabin while managing Skye’s hypothyroidism with scarce, improvised medicine, forcing Nyx into increasingly compromising choices to keep them alive. Inspired by The Walking Dead and a desire to portray chronic illness in a post-medicine world, CJ explores vulnerability, sur
70: Blue Jean Summer with Maggie Gates: Marriage of Convenience, Found Family, and Learning to Receive (opens the original)
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Author Maggie Gates joins Love Letters and Books to discuss Blue Jean Summer, a cowboy marriage-of-convenience romance set on the Wilder Estate in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Hayes Wilder must marry to inherit his grandfather’s land and protect it from his half-brother, so he strikes a deal with childhood friend Katherine, the current Miss Virginia. Follow their journey of falling in love one summer as they navigate grief, abandonment, and the masks they wear to get through the world. Gates
69: Wild With You: Romanticizing Your Life and Starting Over with Your Hopeful Romantic (opens the original)
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Ceilidh returns to Love Letters and Books direct from the Bailey Hannah headquarters to talk about Wild With You by Lynsey Harper. This is a Canadian ranch romance about Josie who wrestles with belonging and choosing a relationship that supports adventure. Lynsey shares a love letter about worthiness, hope, and love in all its forms. Ceilidh and I discuss her recent experience moderating an in-person author event in Alberta—hosted by romance author Lynsey Harper—alongside Canadian authors C.N. R
68: She’s the Stalker Romance Books with Tawnya Torres: Writing Women Who Break the Rules (opens the original)
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Romance author Tawnya Torres returns to the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss all of our favorite books where SHE is the stalker! Tawnya’s book, A Taste of Candy, was my introduction to this sub-genre. Her book flipped the Haunting Adeline-style dynamic, making the woman the stalker. We discuss how FMC stalkers challenge restrictive gender roles and relationship dynamics. I share my “She’s the Stalker” reading list, including Cracked Ice by K.D. Cureton, The Wrong Catch by C.R. Jane, The
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