Smutty Side Up

Bull riders, Small Towns, He Falls First, Steamy One Night Stands.

We can't get enough of fellow Canadian Elsie Silver's books, so dive in with me and this week's guest - my often mentioned SISTER, as I sell her on starting one of the best series ever! Reckless by Elsie Silver

Today's guest cannot resist a series, so where better to take her than to the epic Highlands Series by Samantha Young, starting with single mom Sloane and the grumpy Scot Walker Ironside.

Let's flip through pages and see if Beyond The Thistles should take the next spot on your TBR!

It's season 2!! We've made some changes to the podcast, but hoping you'll be excited to stick around as we continue to work our way through our TBR lists.

In this episode Alexis has found the entry point to hockey romance for Rikki... spoiler alert it involves a corruption kink!

The episode is spoiler free, listen and see if you might want to add Stand and Defend by Sloane St. James to your TBR!

One girl, four older men, one weekend, and all the kinks. For our last episode of our first season we are getting deeply into the spiciest book we've covered with the amazing Harley Madison and the second book in her Sugar Life Series - Good Girl.

It's a classic story really - girl moves to a palace to marry the king while secretly plotting revenge for her father's murder, but the unexpected attraction to the kings dark and broody brother may disrupt her plans. We're discussing everything the light touches with Scarred by the amazing Emily McIntire.

We're 20 episodes in so we're doing a little recap!

Come hang with Rikki and Alexis as we rank the Book Boyfriends from all the books we've covered so far, chat about tropes we love and the ones that we can't handle, as well as some of the weirder romance books we haven't covered yet!

He’s not a good man, he’s done questionable things, but for her he would burn down the world. Come hang out with us as we get into Twisted Love by Ana Huang for one of the ultimate Morally Grey MMCs!

Anonymus pen pals as kids turned high school rivals - things get complicated in this Friends to Enemies to Lovers by Penelope Douglas. We're heading to high school this week with Punk 57.

Escaping your oppressive life in LA is one thing - ending up in a cabin with an incredibly hot older cowboy is another. When he's your father's adopted brother... that is going to make this messy. Saddle up for a wild ride with us as we jump into Braving the Storm by Elliott Rose.

One day you are just a regular old hacker for the Russian Mob when a quartet of Irish brothers storm in. You convince them to spare you, so now you’re living in their penthouse - and they seem to have an aversion to wearing shirts. Join us this week to get into Ryan Rule by Sadie Kincaid!

After your Dad passes away, a trip to Scotland to connect with the Grandparents you never knew should be exactly what you need. An agressively hot, angry Scotsman who thinks you're an idiot, less so. Come explore the highlands with us as secrets are discovered and magic revealed in the phenomenal Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson

What do you do when you're brother's best friend, also known as the man you tried and failed to seduce at a teenager becomes your new boss? When he starts trying to push you out, you do the only logical thing. Push back. We are diving into a Brother's Best Friend/Billionaire romance this week with Rosa Lucas' Taming Mr Walker.

If you're not doing well in math class you would get a tutor, so why isn't it the same if you're bad at sex and relationships? Listen in this week as we dive into The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang, with a neurodivergent FMC, ultra hot MMC, this steamy and sweet reverse Pretty Woman story is an formula for a good time.

We've all done that thing, you know where you sneak into your best friends room to have sex with him and fundamentally change your relationship, and you do - but it turns out it was his older brother... No, just Emory, cool! Let's dig into Devious Lies by Parker S. Huntington to see what happens when down on her luck Emory needs to take a job at the same brother's company, it's okay, he won't realize she's even there - right??

Three hot hockey men, a feisty MD, an adorable dog, and more smut than you'll know what to do with! This week we are officially adding #WhyChoose to the podcast after much discussion. Come along for the ride with Pucking Around from the incredible Emily Rath!

Bring a cold drink because cause this book brings the SPICE ❤‍🔥 ❤‍🔥 ❤‍🔥 ❤‍🔥 ❤‍🔥

Check your content warnings and turn on your nightlight things are getting dark in this episode as we look at part one of the Cat and Mouse Duet - Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton.

Lots of couples tell the story of how they first met, but with a fake engagement, fake pregnancy, and angry sex you might call it A Not So Meet Cute! Hang out with us as we chat about this hilarious and steamy book by Meghan Quinn.

When you're ex turns into a stalker, your Navy Seal brother does the logical thing and forces you to move in with of his team members... he just happens to be the super hot guy you almost hooked up with at the bar the other night. Elle Kennedy is making things steamy with Heartbreaker from her Out Of Uniform Series,

Forced Proximity, curvy FMC, and all kinds of dirty talk, we're skating into our first hockey romance with Liz Tomforde's Mile High.