Poppy’s husband was murdered 5 years ago and left behind a Birthday List (like a bucket list but things he wanted to do for each of his birthdays). Poppy decided to tackle the list to help herself move on. One of the first things she does for the list is take a karate class where she ends up running into the cop who delivered the news of her husband’s murder.

I would highly recommend this if you’re a fan of the movie The Prince and Me as well as anyone who enjoys royal clean rom-coms! I don’t know that it’s 100% necessary but I would recommend reading Royally Rearranged first so that you get all of the background character info. Plus, I totally loved that story so I think you’d enjoy it anyway. 😊

This book. 😍 This book is living on my shelf with my all-time favorites. It honestly had everything I want in a story - emotional connection between the main characters (not just physical/lust), humor, action, suspense … I could gush on and on. I’m definitely living in my romantic suspense era, and this definitely hit the mark.

I don’t even know where to start on reviewing this duet. First off, you should know, these books are like 1700 pages combined and you HAVE to read them back to back because the first book ends on a cliffhanger. I did a combo of ebook and audiobook and I’m so glad I did because the audiobook was so helpful with all of the Irish pronunciations and accents.