Heaving Bosoms

Hey HBs! We're back with part 2 of Muriel's Wedding with Jaime P. Bradley!!

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

Hey HBs! The wonderful Jaime P. Bradley is here to help Mel recap the movie Muriel's Wedding! This campy Australian movie may not be a romance, but it's got a stupidly-talented Toni Collette, wild coming-of-age antics, and lots of LADY LOVE!!!!

Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2025

Our duskwalker and captive (?) are just homesteading while they get to know each other, complete with growing their own food, crafting protection charms, and dyeing their own clothes. Is this actually the dream, or what? Except for all the demons who want to eat her. That's not ideal.

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2025

Hey HBs! It's high time for a monster romance! Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is here to help Mel recap A SOUL TO KEEP by Opal Reyne!

Transcribed - Published: 16 June 2025

These messy step-siblings get messier!

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2025

Hey HBs! Naima and Mel can't get enough of these messy step-siblings!

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2025

Hey HBs! It's time for part 2 of ETERNAL CRAVING! They may have banged on a room-sized bed, but it's super casual! Unless it isn't? Maybe it's forever? Saving the world should give them some clarity!

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

Hey HBs! I hope you're ready for some prehistoric action! Nina Bangs is serving up book 2 in her Gods of the Night series, ETERNAL CRAVING!

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2025

It's part 2 with these idiots. We still don't like them.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

Buckle up, HBs! We didn't love this one.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

We're back with part 2 of PALADIN'S GRACE by T. Kingfisher! When we left off yesterday, Stephen and Grace had just had the sweetest, hottest make out and then this bonehead APOLOGIZED to her, making her feel like a dirty mistake. Then! She stepped on a severed head! It’s a rough day for our ol’ pal Grace. That’s where we’re jumping back in.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

The pals recap PALADIN'S GRACE by T. Kingfisher! Book one about a survivor perfume artisan and a big ol' sebastian hero... who knits! Y'all, Sabrina and her morals almost didn't make it.

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025

We're back with part 2 of these mature characters solving mysteries, saving nuns, and falling in love along the way!

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

Hey HBs! We've got a charming, broken Paladin and a nun with SECRETS!!!! We LOVED the World of the White Rat and couldn't get enough!

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025

Hey HBs! We've got a charming, broken Paladin and a nun with SECRETS!!!! We LOVED the World of the White Rat and couldn't get enough!

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025

Hey HBs! We're here with part 2 of CLAIMED by Elle Kennedy, a post-apocalyptic romance that we had a blast with! Mel even did Quickies on the next two books for Sabrina in a Patreon episode.

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

We're rereleasing CLAIMED by Elle Kennedy, and wow is Outlaw Country sex and kink positive! We've got a heroine with a BIG secret, a hero with a vendetta, and a whole passel of boys we can't get enough of!

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025

There are greased-up snakes on this metaphorical plane!

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

Boy, oh boy, this MM superhero fantasy novel is fan-damn-tastic; the voice is SO UNIQUE, the world-building is incredible, and the romance is SMOKING HOT.

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2025

We're here with part 2 of LICK by Kylie Scott!

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

It's a rockstar romance and WE'RE INTO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

It's an alien romance with a grumpy hero and very hard-working heroine!

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

We're here with part 1 of a Sabrina alien special! It was theydies choice and S chose RIV'S SANCTUARY by AG Wilde!

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2025

HBs, it's the fourth and final part of DEVIL IN SPRING by Lisa Kleypas! Gabriel, the next St. Vincent is married to his neurodivergent queen Pandora, but they've been pulled into a big intrigue and Pandora might not make it!

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Hey HBs! It's time to finish up our St. Vincent Day celebration!

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

Here's part 2 of our 4 part St. Vincent Day extravaganza!!

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

HAPPY ST. VINCENT DAY, HBs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2025

We're back with part 2 of NEVER LOVE A HIGHLANDER by Maya Banks!

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

We've got NEVER LOVE A HIGHLANDER by Maya Banks for you this week! It's Highlander Times with a feminist icon heroine and the damaged guy who can't help his fascination with her. But he's only marrying her to do his brother a solid. Really!

Transcribed - Published: 24 March 2025

We're back and these two hot parents are making ago of it! Enjoy the conclusion of GOING DOWN EASY by Erin Nicholas!

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

OOOooooooohhhh it's time to head down to the Big Easy in GOING DOWN EASY by Erin Nicholas! It's Single Parent Times in this spicy contemporary.

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

OOOooooooohhhh it's time to head down to the Big Easy in GOING DOWN EASY by Erin Nichols! It's Single Parent Times in this spicy contemporary.

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

It's part 2 of BARED TO YOU by Sylvia Day! These two are stubbornly committed to this courtship and we're all along for the ride. Wheeeeeeee!

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2025

The pals recap a truly bonkers book about an unhinged gazillionaire, a gal just trying to mind her own business, and an intsa-obsession that won't be ignored.

Transcribed - Published: 10 March 2025

We're back with part 2, recapping Egotistical Puckboy by Eden Finley and Saxon James!

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025

It's enthusiastic gremlin hour over here at HBHQ. Also, MM hockey romance!

Transcribed - Published: 3 March 2025

Mac is still at it over in Ireland! Bonus Content: double bucket syndrome, no sneaky leakage, why has no one gotten Mel a Conservatory?, MAYBE a forehead kiss, being muzzled about glitter dragons, and so much more!

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025

We're here with bff of the pod Rebecca to recap DARKFEVER by Karen Marie Moning!

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2025

Our Duke and reluctant courtesan are getting so much closer!

Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025

It's a DickensTimes courtesan romance, plus murder mystery!!

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025

We're back with part 2 of THE OPPOSITE OF YOU by Rachel Higginson! More schmexy chef stuff for sure.

Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2025

Oooohh, it's enemies-to-lovers with hot chefs!!!!

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2025

Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2025

Oooh it's a dark MFM historical pirate romance so check the CWs and BUCKLE UP.

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2025

We're finishing up THE CORNERSTONE by Kate Canterbary! Turns out, Mel liked it way more than she thought at first. Vibrations are set on weird!!

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025

We're here with part 1 of THE CORNERSTONE by Kate Canterbary! She's a type A control freak, he's a gregarious Navy SEAL, and their banter is VICIOUS. Delish!

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2025

Kimberly Lemming and Alexis the Sword are the LOTHAIRE lovers we need in these dark times!!

Transcribed - Published: 22 January 2025

Kimberly Lemming and Alexis the Sword are here to recap LOTHAIRE with us!!

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

Kimberly Lemming and Alexis the Sword are here to recap LOTHAIRE with us!!

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

If you WANT an explanation for the 2025 Reading Embrace Categories, this is the episode for you!

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025