Clutch My Pearls

Come enjoy getting scared with The Girls! This week Vanessa is continuing her bad boy era with “Haunting Adeline” by HD Carlton. This book was not only heavily recommended by our listeners, it comes with a FULL page of trigger warnings! The Girls are all in and along for the ride…but ready to get out by the end. When scare-happy Adeline moves into her dead grandma’s spooky house, dark Scorpio stal...

Count to three and come with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “The Maddest Obsession,” the second book of the Made Series also seen in episodes 2 and 16! In this mafia romance we have Christian Allister, the cold, controlling, orderly, OCD counting, sexy mafia man who also works for the FBI! Then there’s Gianna, our sexy, sassy, can’t be controlled, “not like the other girls” FMC. Over t...

Come pay off your father’s debt with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Den of Vipers” by K.A. Knight! This  why choose (wide shoes) dark romance has everything…maybe too much for some! When mafia hotties Ryder, Kenzo, Garrett, and Diesel collect their debt in the form of sassy babe Roxy…she doesn’t go willingly. Thankfully everyone involved likes to put up a fight and use sharp...

Come test positive with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Kissing the Coronavirus” by M.J. Edwards! This 15 page novella (if you don’t count page 9) was brought as revenge on Vanessa for blindsiding Barbara in the July Patreon-exclusive episode. When woman-in-STEM Dr. Alexa Ashingtonford is working on a cure for the newly discovered COVID-19, things get a little…testy. Even though this b...

Come climb Jacob’s Ladder with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “The Pucking Wrong Guy” by C.R. Jane! As we continue the “Pucking Wrong" series we started in episode 27, we meet Ari Lancaster and Blake (or Serena!). When Ari crosses paths with his long lost foster care first love, he doesn’t let her know he recognizes her. Instead he brings in his old stalker pal Lincoln Daniels to help...

Come ask “What’s in the box?!” with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting with a physical copy of “Ransom” by Julie Garwood! This book is set in the medieval Scottish highlands and follows our FMC Gillian and MMC Brodick! There are also at least 13 more people and since Emily is not into historical romance or meeting a lot of characters, Barbara thankfully came prepared with a whiteboard...

Come throw lettuce heads out of the top window with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Heartless” by Elsie Silver! Part of the Chestnut Springs series, this book brings us back to the cowboy brothers we met in Episode 25 “Flawless”. This book is focused on grumpy cowboy Cade who needs help with his little boy Luke. When fun city girl Willa is hired to help out, her panties literally drop....

Come collect a debt with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Ruthless Creatures” by JT Geissinger! Part of the Queens and Monsters series, this book brings us back into the world of mafia romance. Five years after Natalie’s soon to be husband disappears, tall hunky Kage with a K shows up to collect a debt. But what is the debt?! Don’t start *Russian* Barbara for that information because yo...

Follow The Girls to the second star to the right and straight on till morning…to Neverland! This week Vanessa is presenting “Devourer of Men” by Nikki St Crowe! Part of a series of the reimagined Peter Pan universe, this book is focused on Wendy, Captain Hook, and the crocodile. But this Croc is a man who eats..peanuts? When Wendy goes missing for 200 years, tensions rise between Hook and Croc. Bu...

Come cure your daddy issues with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Caught Up” by Liz Tomforde! The Girls continue the Windy City Series, first seen in episodes 1 and 21! When independent pastry chef Miller Montgomery leaves her commitment-free life in a van to come nanny for Major League Baseball Daddy Kai Rhodes, it’s a home run! As always, this episode is all over the place but eventua...

Come snuggle your favorite pillow with The Girls! This week Barbara is hungover and Vanessa is presenting a cure with “Stuffed” by Sylvia Morrow! Gamer girl Anne can’t stand human touch, so she connects DEEPLY with her favorite…pillow. Yes. Her pillow. It may look like any other pillow, but it has a magical phoenix feather in it! Of course. So as Anne is grinding away, the pillow starts to come to...

Put on your mask and go undercover with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Velvet” by Lisette Marshall! When Princess Viviette senses trouble in her medieval times kingdom, she goes to her Dad’s right hand Spymaster, Jaghar. Jaghar just so happens to fall in love with Viviette, but his way of getting information from the enemy involves seduction. This Princess may be a virgin, but this sp...

Pay off your student loans with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Morning Glory Milking Farm” by C.M. Nascosta! When no-show-sock-wearing millennial Violet is down on her luck, she gets a job at the local pharmaceutical milking farm! When busy business bull Rourke comes to be milked, Violet realizes he’s not like the other Minotaurs. This heavy load of a book is not only educational, but...

Come cure cancer with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood! This is Barbara’s comfort read, and if the Libra inside her allowed it - her favorite book. When women-in-STEM scientist Olive Smith starts fake dating big-handed professor Adam Carlsen… Bunsen burners get cranked up! This episode will have you kicking your little feet straight out, wondering i...

Hit that subscribe button with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “For The Fans” by Nyla K! This book features Kyron and Avi, stepbrothers who have nothing in common. But when strapped for cash, they do what any Busy Business Boys would do…they start an OnlyFans! What starts out as “just for the fans” and a way to get money becomes so much more. This book will have you cheesin’, pearl clut...

Go down with the ship of “No icks” with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting a truly unhinged request from Emily… “Conquered by Clippy” by Leonard Delaney. When busy business blogger and woman in STEM Christie Aackerlund is sent on an assignment by Phil Gates she learns how beneficial it can be to receive assistance from a familiar friend…Clippy. Yes, Clippy the original AI assistant pa...

Come blow out your birthday candle with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Birthday Girl” by Penelope Douglas. When hard working hottie Jordan is alone on her birthday (because her boyfriend Cole sucks), she meets a hard working hottie stranger, Pike. Jordan and Pike have an instant connection, but Pike isn’t like the other guys he’s Cole’s…DAD! This episode is a wild one, with forbi...

Come end Gender Discrimination with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “The Devil You Know” by Elizabeth O’Roark! This enemies to lovers book follows hot lawyer Ben Tate and his coworker busy business lawyer Gemma Charles. These two have a lot of BANTER and the girls love it! Do they actually end gender discrimination or does it just continue in a different font? Who cares, it’s only a boo...

Come stalk your soulmate with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “The Pucking Wrong Number” by CR Jane! When hot hockey player Lincoln Daniel accidentally texts mystery babe Monroe, sparks fly and stalking intensifies! This book will have you questioning how far is too far to go for love. Is it okay to have a tracker on or…IN your crush? Be a good girl and get your pee pad because you’re g...

Come read your dead dad’s will with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Montana Sky” by Nora Roberts! Barbara brought this artifact all the way from her angsty teen years and her step mom’s bookcase! In this book we have three estranged sisters who have to live on their father’s ranch for a full year so they can get their inheritance. Of course there are three local cuties to keep them com...

Try to hang on for 8 seconds with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Flawless” by Elsie Silver! When superstar bull rider Rhett needs some image rehabbing after a big milk fiasco, his boss’s daughter Summer is assigned to keep an eye on him. This episode includes some of your favorite book tropes and some of our least favorite technical difficulties! How many times will Barbara and Emily...

Brace for impact with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Ice Planet Barbarians” by Ruby Dixon. This book starts with Georgie being kidnapped in the middle of the night and waking up on the way to an unknown planet! On the way there, the spaceship crash lands onto an icy cold planet full of snow and big sexy blue aliens! Georgie is supposed to go find help for the other women stuck huddlin...

Help raise a baby with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Nanny for The Neighbors” by Lily Gold! Cyrus, Sebastian and Jack do everything (everything!) together, but when a baby appears on the doorstep, they realize they can’t do this alone. Thankfully their hot neighbor, Beth, is a nanny! Beth doesn’t just take care of the baby, she takes care of the guys too! This book takes place in Lon...

Head to an open house down under with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “A Sinners Promise” by Kylie Kent! This book was recommended by none other than “Shirley” our infamous one star reviewer from episode two! When busy business real estate woman Eloise is asked to show a house to mafia boss Gio, things get spicy! This episode is all over the place, sometimes it has to do with the book a...

Come shoot your shot with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “The Right Move” by Liz Tomforde. This book is the sequel to our Episode One feature “Mile High”! We are back in The Windy City, but this time we are focusing on the hot new captain of the Devils basketball team Ryan Shay and his sister’s coworker Indy! It’s a real grumpy-sunshine/messy-tidy fake dating to lovers kind of book. Th...