Hey everyone, welcome back. You're listening to Heaving Bozoms, the podcast where two best friends stay connected via their shared love of romance novels, goofing around, and each other.

This week in our maternity leave lineup, we have part one of the soldier's scoundrel by

Cat Sebastian.

It's our first queer novel in far too long, and you can thank our guest host for that. You're about to meet

Panya. She's been a friend and mentor for over a dozen years, has a heart that

loves without limits and is one of the most loyal people I know.

So, let's get into a soldier scoundrel. I'm singing the music. Oh! Hi Tanya! Hi now, how are you? I'm wonderful. How the hell are you? I'm great. Excellent. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, say it. Yeah, super

excited. Yeah, thank you for getting knocked up. It's really convenient. Right? Super, super cool. So just

so the listener knows, we have known each other since I was 18. Yes. It's been a many years. Uh huh. Yeah. Uh huh. I didn't know how that happened

actually. Yeah. No, so that would have been what two thousand something no

two thousand six that's right yeah yeah that's nutter butters it is totally crazy

Tanya started as my coach and then our relationship has sort of grown from there because I left that school and we became much more like mother-daughter than friends and then like, you know, peers.

And then you grew up.

And then I grew up.

Yes, and baby bird flew away from the nest.

Yeah.

But that's okay, not before I, not before I not before I taught her a few things and forced her to

enjoy pedicures do you remember when you like have never I've never experienced a park here.

Yeah, I also showed up to college never like having really drunk

in any kind of party atmosphere.

No, but that's the same for me.

I didn't do that in high school either but yeah no you were basically now from the movie now like you were a great farmer. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I didn't know anything about shaping my eyebrows certainly you can you can I should I mean I will thank you

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