Clutch My Pearls

Come ride an elevator with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Take Me Apart” by Brea Alepoú and Skyler Snow. This is book one in the Vitali Brothers series, so you know what that means- Mafia, ayeeeee! When cutie rookie cop Tex wants a big bust, he looks to the Vitali mafia family, specifically Enzo Vitali. Enzo Vitali is a sexy tidy mob man and he gives Tex the bust he so desperately nee...

Come onto the field with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Only Between Us” by Ellie K. Wilde! When pro football player Brooks Attwoods gets a head injury and starts getting freaky in back alleyways, his chances for rejoining his favorite team start to dwindle. Brooks tries to work his way back, but after a (literal) run-in and one selfie with Siena Pippen, everything changes! Siena Pipp...

Come out to the woods with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Fight” by Sloane St. James! It’s book one of the Sky Ridge Hot Shots series, and it lights a spark! When hottie captain firefighter Callahan Woods isn’t busy battling blazes in the woods, he’s banging randoms. But then Prescott Simmons escapes her religious cult and strolls into town. As the new EMT, Prescott and Callahan cross...

Come do it LIVE with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com” by Kimberly Lemming! This episode was performed and recorded LIVE as part of the Homebrew Austin podcast showcase! This book follows Dorothy (Dory) Valentine, a woman in STEM-wildlife-biologist who was attacked by a lion! But when it fades to black, she isn’t dead… she was re...

Come down to Little Italy with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Caught Up” by Navessa Allen! This sequel to “Lights Out” (Episode 59) follows mafia-bad-boy-sweetie Nico “Junior” Trocci as he reconnects with his high school flame Lauren Marchetti. Lauren isn’t the girl he once knew, she’s now a beautiful cam girl who also happens to co-own a sex club! Since dating Lauren is off limits IR...

Come hold hands with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Rewind it Back,” the fifth (and final?) book in The Windy City series by Liz Tomforde! When busy business interior design intern Hallie moves out to Chicago, she lands a big job but the client happens to be famous hockey player Rio Deluca. After “a lot happened” six years ago, Hallie has tried her hardest to stay away from Rio, but t...

Come shed your skin with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Guarded By The Snake” by Layla Fae! As part of the Monster Security Agency series, this book follows Kim, who must hire protection to keep her safe after she steals a special golden statue. That’s when Asan walks in…well, slithers in. Asan is a snake man (man on top and BIG snake on bottom) and he’s been hired to protect Kim. Don...

Come play poker with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Tell Me All Your Lies” by Angel Anders! This is book four from the “In The Carolinas” series. This book was just released and given to the girls as an ARC so we made sure not to include too many spoilers! When contract spy Cara Collins from the Carolinas (say that three times fast!) is brought on to catch a mafia mastermind, The Agen...

Come make a wish with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Phantasma” by Kaylie Smith! In this book we meet Ophelia who is trying to find her sister that went into the haunted mansion known as Phantasma. This ghoulish place is not like the other haunted houses, it has challenges and riddles you must solve if you want to survive and win a single wish! Once inside the house, Ophelia meets a c...

Come climb into a coffin with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor” by Kathryn Moon! This is book #1 in the Tempting Monsters series. When seductive Dr. Underwood meets hottie Esther, he offers her a position at the tantalizing and mysterious Rooksgrave Manor. Turns out Rooksgrave Manor is a palace of pleasure and Esther is REALLY good at her job. There are a vari...

Come hop on a motorcycle with the Girls! This week, Vanessa is presenting “Wolf.e” by Paisley Hope! When sexy motorcycle president Gabriel Wolfe crosses paths with the beautiful Brinley Rose Beaumont (Brin for short), his engine starts to roar! This book had the girls squealing and squirming all while laughing and clutching! Play hide-and-seek, stick a tampon in your pocket, smear some strawberry...

Come smell the lilacs with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Alive and Wells” by Bailey Hannah! This is book one in the Wells Ranch series and it had the girls kicking their little feet! When city babe Cecily Kennedy has to escape her bad marriage, she seeks refuge by helping out at Wells Ranch. Fresh air isn’t the only thing Cecily gets when she meets the brooding and moody RANCHER (NOT...

Come attend Montridge University with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Forged in Blood” by Sadie Kincaid! This why-choose dark paranormal fantasy is book one in the Broken Bloodlines series. When little orphan Ophelia Hart (“pee pee pants” to her bullies) is offered an opportunity to attend the magical Montridge University she of course takes a chance and surprise! She's not like the ot...

Come fly the friendly skies with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “AirPeen” by Holly Wilde! This book is so educational for all aviation enthusiasts. When flying Sentient Air, our FMC “Princess” really needed to relax, so she opted for an upgrade into the Exclusive Section. None of us have ever flown Exclusive so this book offers a peek behind the curtain of what really goes down when yo...

Come wear a claw with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Kiss of the Basilisk” by Lindsay Straube. Originally called Split or Swallow, this is one of the most unhinged books Vanessa has ever read, so buckle up! When Temperance Verus (Tem for short) is ready to compete to win the prince’s hand in marriage, she has a few things to learn. Tem is paired with her personal Basilisk, Caspen, who...

Come refuse to speak about what happened two years ago with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “People We Meet On Vacation” by Emily Henry! After a brief stop through Bible study and Lilith Fair, The Girls finally get around to the book where we meet NYC travel blogger Poppy and her longtime Ohio teacher friend Alex. Poppy and Alex used to spend summers traveling together…but. That was bef...

Come get snowed in with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Chasing The Wild” by Elliot Rose! When veterinarian-in-training Layla Birch has some loose ends to tie up- like getting rid of her scammer boyfriend Kaycee, she heads to his small mountain town in the winter. When she meets a dark, sexy, rugged, older man named Colton Wilder she soon realizes not only is this man FINE, he’s Kaycee...

Come catch a flight with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Puck Me Secretly” by Odette Stone! This is the first book in the Vancouver Wolves Hockey series. When Aurora “Rory” Ashford is on a flight and seated next to hottie Max Logan, their connection is so powerful the plane crashes! Rory can’t help but confess to her seatmate that she has never “reached her full potential” from a man!...

Come relieve your stress with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “The Charlie Method” by Elle Kennedy! This hot-off-the-presses book is #3 in the Campus Diary series. When student woman in STEM Charlotte Kingston gets super stressed out it gets her super horned up. When it’s time to release some of that stress, she becomes Charlie, a less inhibited version of herself who is only looking fo...

Come sweat it out in the sauna with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “The Professional” by Kresley Cole! When hottie mafia enforcer Aleksandr 'The Siberian' Sevastyan is tasked with bringing Nebraskan Natalie Porter back to her mob boss father in Russia, he not only breaks her “manalyzer,” he breaks into her house! As much as he tries to stay professional, he realizes he simply must have...

Come back to your hometown with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Done and Dusted” by Lyla Sage! When Clementine “Emmy” Ryder heads home to small town Wyoming, she runs into none other than her brother’s-hottie-best-friend Luke Brooks! Emmy strolls into the single bar in town, and under the light of the neon moon, she and Luke realize they’ve grown up quite a bit since they last saw each...

Come into the alleyway with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Wicked Sexy” by J.T. Geissinger! When badass ex-special ops hottie Connor Hughes is tasked with helping a major movie studio stop an evil cyber criminal from exposing them, he enlists badass hacker girl Tabitha West. Tabitha isn’t like all the other badass hacker girls with pierced nipples, she also likes Hello Kitty! Tabitha...

Come climb a ladder with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “The Pucking Wrong Date” by C.R. Jane! Bring yourself back into the “it’s just a book” mindset you had when The Girls covered the previous “Pucking” books in Episodes 27 and 41. When Disney Prince hottie Walker Davis is bit by the love bug for a mysterious beauty in a wig, he goes down HARD. Walker knows he must have her and be wi...

Come pee your pants with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Bratva Devil” by Sonja Grey! This is the second book in the Medvedev Bratva series, but you know we hardly ever read anything in order. When hot Bratva boss Volodya accidentally kidnaps the wrong girl, they make an agreement where Maddie will clean his house and he will take LOTS of intense showers. This episode has Emily finally...

Come get a million followers with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Twisted Lies” by Ana Huang! This is book four in the ‘Twisted’ series that the girls also covered from Episode 12. When influencer Stella Alonzo is needing to up her social media content and busy business boy Christian Harper needs hot dates to events, they decide to do what every normal person does and fake date! He’s b...