Fake Fated Mates

Jess and Trisha talk a LOT about adaptations - including their dream adaptations - and a little bit about other news and updates in romanceland.

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News:

Hooray for Book Club in 2026! Read Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa with us - send us your thoughts before we record on March 25 (ep goes live March 30)!

Find a loooooong sample (if you’d like) of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews.

Julia Quinn is curating a romance box - check out the Kickstarter here.

Books Discussed:

A Vow in Vengeance by Jaclyn Rodriguez

Restore Me by J.L. Seegars

Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh

Game Changer by Rachel Reid

Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Dating Dr. Dil and the whole If Shakespeare Was an Auntie series by Nisha Sharma

Bring on the Blessings and the whole Blessings series by Beverly Jenkins

Better Than People and the Garnet Run series by Roan Parrish

It Had to Be Him by Adib Khorram

Sherry Thomas’s Heart of Blade duology, starting with The Hidden Blade

The Christina C. Jones Cinematic Universe, starting with Getting Schooled

The Unleashing and the Call of Crows series by Shelly Laurenston

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

Unwritten Rules - and the whole series - by K.D. Casey

Kit Rocha’s Bound to Fire and Steel series, starting with Consort of Fire

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