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This week, I have added a rather popular contemporary romance to my TBR. I have been hearing great things about it such as it being really swoony and no spice which is what I love lol.

Synopsis

Hope Elmswood has spent her entire life in a dental office, whether she wanted to or not.

A few months after graduating as a dental hygienist and preparing to submit her dental-school applications, she’s completely burned out. And after a frightening incident with her father’s neurotic dental associate, she realizes she has to get away from the dental world…now.

With nothing but a suitcase and a dream she’s never been allowed to chase, Hope flees to a small mountain town to stay in her brother’s off-grid survival cabin.

She’s finally going to find a job she doesn’t despise, with no dentist drama and no spit.

But her plans for a dental-free existence unravel when she literally runs into her handsome new neighbor, Jay Alarcón. At first, he seems harmless enough, until Hope discovers he just so happens to be the very thing she ran from: a dentist.

Hope wants absolutely nothing to do with her new neighbor. Dentists are her personal villain origin story. But when a series of mishaps forces her to accept a job at his clinic and rent his accessory apartment, Hope starts to wonder if maybe not all dentists are the same.

As Hope confronts her anxiety and workplace trauma, she begins to wonder if healing and love might be possible after all.

Updates

I am currently 23% of the way through The Inklings Detective Agency by John R. Kelly. It has begun to pick up a bit so, hopefully I will have that done within the next couple of days.

It has truly been so hot here and juggling reading, the van, the heat and family health issues, it has been a struggle to keep focused on anything.

I have not even picked out an audiobook as I am not about to overburden myself at the moment.

My Goodreads 2026 Reading Challenge

44/48 (92%)

Just FOUR moure to go!

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What is in your TBR and how are you doing with your reading challenges?