Recs if you like Mafia Virgin (The Kings of Italy #5)...

whether for their partners pleasure or because they like the way it looks, have a metal detector handy.

no magnets allowed

82 (and counting!) Fated Mates recs that you can get DRM-Free from Bookshop.org. This means you actually own the book forever and you can read it on any device. Huzzah!

Every New Years Eve we tackle some of the more headphones-in stuff in the romance pool. Two years ago, that stuff was breeding kink. Mila Finelli AKA Joanna Shupe joined us to recommend some books.

In the episode, we start out giggling and then get serious as we try to get to the bottom of this very specific thing that seems to have had a recent resurgence in romance. We do patriarchy, body autonomy and heteronormativity, then get into the provenance of this particular romance trope.

MMCs with blinged out happy bits