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SBTB 2026 Summer Romance Bingo

Grab your TBRs and get ready for Summer Solstice on June 21!

Links: Adaptations, Farrah Rochon, & More

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Welcome back, everyone! Guess what? I’m tired. Can you believe that? I also say this as I look enviously at the very cozy cat curled up in the window of my office. Just snoozing away. You can hear some soft little nose whistles. She’s oblivious to the world as I tippy type away in an effort to make a paycheck to afford her treats. Is my jealousy coming through? It’s also funny because our two … Continue reading Links: Adaptations, Farrah Rochon, & More

Help A Bitch Out

HaBO: Trapped in a Wine Cellar, Forced to Marry

This HaBO is from Cynthia, who is looking for this historical romance: I’m looking for a book I read as a teenager. Traditional Regency romance read around 2008–2011, but likely older. Heroine attends a party/house party and gets trapped overnight in a wine cellar with the hero (who has a long possibly European name). During the night, a murder occurs. Because they were trapped together overnight, they’re forced to marry. Heroine had been engaged or … Continue reading HaBO: Trapped in a Wine Cellar, Forced to Marry

Books On Sale

Fantasy, Contemporary Romance, & More

Books on Sale: The Mistress Experience by Scarlett Peckham & More

The Mistress Experience by Scarlett Peckham is $2.99! This is book three in the Society of Sirens series and we featured this on Cover Awe. Not sure if Peckham plans on writing more historicals. Her current releases have been contemporaries under the pen name Katelyn Doyle.

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Book Review

Just for the Season by Rachel Griffiths

Just for the Season

The blurb promised me a Regency Bachelorette (like the TV show). What I found was a bit different, but nonetheless a great time. It has been decreed by the powers that be (yes, I’m being vague on purpose) that Charlotte should marry by the end of the summer. She has her own reasons for marrying and can’t see her way out of this ‘decree’ anyway, so her gran invites a series of eligible suitors to … Continue reading Just for the Season by Rachel Griffiths

Get Rec’d with Amanda – Volume 118

Welcome back! We have a very rare, all fiction edition of Get Rec’d. I feel like that rarely happens. However, it is very sci-fi and fantasy heavy. Are there any great recommendations you’d like to pass along? Leave them in the comments!

Sunday Sale Digest!

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This piece of literary mayhem is exclusive to Smart Bitches After Dark, but fret not. If you’d like to join, we’d love to have you! Have a look at our membership options, and come join the fun! If you want to have a little extra fun, be a little more yourself, and be part of keeping the site open for everyone in the future, we can’t wait to see you in our new subscription-based section … Continue reading Sunday Sale Digest!

Kickass Women in History: Jacquotte Delahaye and Anne Dieu-le-Veut

This month I give you a buccaneer who probably didn’t really exist and one who probably did. Both of them have come down through history as legendary figures though there’s little actual physical evidence of their lives. Still, never let it be said that I passed up the chance to share a good legend, especially if there’s a chance that at least part of it may be true. A word about words: ‘pirate’ is a … Continue reading Kickass Women in History: Jacquotte Delahaye and Anne Dieu-le-Veut

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