{"id":7615,"date":"2026-10-20T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:30:31","slug":"paranormal-romance-garbage-men-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=7615","title":{"rendered":"Paranormal Romance, Garbage Men, &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1><em>Starling House<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>                <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Starling House\u00a0<\/em>by Alix E. Harrow is $1.99! Pleas still be on sale! Sarah and I mentioned this in Hide Your Wallet. I think I wound up grabbing it in audio, but am notoriously bad at whittling down my audiobook library.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A grim and gothic new tale from New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can\u2019t stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland\u2013and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it\u2019s best to let the uncanny house\u2015and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling\u2015go to rot.<\/p>\n<p>Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she\u2019s never had: a home.<\/p>\n<p>As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>If Opal wants a home, she\u2019ll have to fight for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/search?q=Starling%20House%20Alix%20Harrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Add to Goodreads To-Read List \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"order\">\n<h4>You can find ordering info for this book <a href=\"https:\/\/smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/2026\/10\/paranormal-romance-garbage-men-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h1><em>The Mating Game<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>                <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mating Game\u00a0<\/em>by Lana Ferguson is $1.99! This is a standalone paranormal romance that released last December. Both the hero and heroine are wolf shifters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Two wolf shifters reluctant to love discover there\u2019s no fighting the call of the wild in this steamy romance by\u00a0USA Today\u00a0bestselling author Lana Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>Contractor Tess Covington has spent her entire life as a regular non-shifter human, so after she lands in the Denver ER with flu-like symptoms, it comes as a complete shock to be told that, no, she\u2019s not sick\u2014she\u2019s actually a late-presenting omega wolf shifter. With her family in dire financial straits and a contract for her own television show on the line, she can\u2019t afford not to complete the renovation job she came for. And given that her newly emerged wolf is in danger of going into heat, she\u2019ll just have to do her best to follow the doctor\u2019s advice to keep away from alpha shifters.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha wolf Hunter Barrett has spent most of his adult life living by a routine, and a big part of that involves staying clear of omegas after having one stomp on his heart. So when the tiny contractor shows up at his place smelling like the one thing he\u2019s determined to avoid, he thinks it must be some sort of cosmic joke. But with his lodge on the verge of failing and this sweet-smelling omega his only hope to turn things around\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. he\u2019s left with few other options than to grin and bear it.<\/p>\n<p>Set on avoiding each other as much as possible, they find things unexpectedly starting to heat up between them enough to thaw even the frostiest of hearts. Though even with the pair going head over paws for each other, there\u2019s no changing that their fling has an expiration date. The more time they spend together, the more they realize they\u2019re playing a dangerous game\u2014one where the only thing on the line is their hearts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/search?q=The%20Mating%20Game%20Lana%20Ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Add to Goodreads To-Read List \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"order\">\n<h4>You can find ordering info for this book <a href=\"https:\/\/smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/2026\/10\/paranormal-romance-garbage-men-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h1><em>The One You Can\u2019t Forget<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>                <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>RECOMMENDED<\/em>:\u00a0<em>The One You Can\u2019t Forget\u00a0<\/em>by Roni Loren is $3.99! I <em>love<\/em>\u00a0this series and highly recommend any of the books in it. However, please be warned that it deals with the aftermath of a school shooting.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Most days Rebecca Lindt feels like an imposter\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The world admires her as a survivor. But that impression would crumble if people knew her secret. She didn\u2019t deserve to be the one who got away. But nothing can change the past, so she\u2019s thrown herself into her work. She can\u2019t dwell if she never slows down.<\/p>\n<p>Wes Garrett is trying to get back on his feet after losing his dream restaurant, his money, and half his damn mind in a vicious divorce. But when he intervenes in a mugging and saves Rebecca\u2015the attorney who helped his ex ruin him\u2015his simple life gets complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Their attraction is inconvenient and neither wants more than a fling. But when Rebecca\u2019s secret is put at risk, both discover they could lose everything, including what they never realized they needed: each other<\/p>\n<p>She laughed and kissed him. This morning she\u2019d melted down. But somehow this man had her laughing and turned on only a few hours later. Everything inside her felt buoyed.<\/p>\n<p>She felt\u2026light.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d forgotten what that felt like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/search?q=The%20One%20You%20Can%E2%80%99t%20Forget%20Roni%20Loren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Add to Goodreads To-Read List \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"order\">\n<h4>You can find ordering info for this book <a href=\"https:\/\/smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/2026\/10\/paranormal-romance-garbage-men-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h1><em>Garbage Man<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>                <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Garbage Man\u00a0<\/em>by Max Monroe is 99c at Amazon only! This is book one in the\u00a0<em>Blue Collar Vigilante Vampires\u00a0<\/em>series. I feel like this one is channeling some Sandra Hill kookiness because the hero is a hockey-playing, vigilante vampire garbage man.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He collects trash for a living.<br \/>\nBefore sunrise, he\u2019s collecting\u00a0her.<\/p>\n<p>Rook Slater is big, brutal, and permanently grumpy. By day, he\u2019s a garbage man. By night, he plays hockey and keeps the world at arm\u2019s length.<\/p>\n<p>Until the fated mate bond strikes hard and fast. One look at Kylie Moon\u2014right after his twenty-eighth birthday\u2014and destiny snaps into place.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s\u00a0his.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one problem.<\/p>\n<p>Her blood is rare\u2014coveted\u2014and the monsters in the shadows want to claim her.<br \/>\nEvil. Elite. Powerful. These are the kind of men who stop at nothing to have what they want.<\/p>\n<p>But Rook Slater doesn\u2019t lose what\u2019s his.<br \/>\nAnd he certainly doesn\u2019t bend the knee.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s good at taking out the trash\u2014and these monsters are next.<\/p>\n<p>Once fate locks in, Rook won\u2019t just fight for the woman he loves.<br \/>\nHe\u2019ll kidnap and kill for her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/search?q=Garbage%20Man%20Max%20Monroe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Add to Goodreads To-Read List \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"order\">\n<h4>You can find ordering info for this book <a href=\"https:\/\/smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/2026\/10\/paranormal-romance-garbage-men-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starling House Starling House\u00a0by Alix E. Harrow is $1.99! Pleas still be on sale! Sarah and I mentioned this in Hide Your Wallet. I think I wound up grabbing it in audio, but am notoriously bad at whittling down my audiobook library. A grim and gothic new tale from New York Times bestselling author Alix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}