Tessa Dare
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Search complete. 6 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Tessa Dare".
Oct 7, 2026
Jennifer ProkopHOST
Mm hmm.
Sarah MacLeanHOST
And if you love a Christmas novella, then I wrote a Christmas novella in an anthology with Tessa Dare, Sophie Jordan and Joanna Shoup.
Sarah MacLeanHOST
And the connection between all three was shortbread.
Sarah MacLeanHOST
And the joke was that in the first three, the shortbread, it's magical shortbread.
Alli MowreyHOST
And I found that absolutely fascinating.
Alli MowreyHOST
And then I was immediately on to Tessa Dare after that, because I was like, I want to read something else like this.
Alli MowreyHOST
And after that, it really started getting me thinking, you know, these books seem to be written quite differently than what we read in contemporary romance today.
Alli MowreyHOST
And I wonder, you know, even if I go a little bit further back, do these books hold up? And so The first like official book in the series was Linda Howard's Perfect, which is a romantic suspense.
speaker_0HOST
That makes total sense.
speaker_0HOST
And there are a few books here that completely subvert even those structures, like A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare.
speaker_0HOST
It's a regency setting, but instead of society forcing them together, they fake an elopement to Scotland to escape society entirely.
speaker_1HOST
They weaponize the trope.
Sarah WendellHOST
And the dialogue, the dialogue session, he said, she said, snappy dialogue, why it matters how to write it.
Sarah WendellHOST
Tessa Dare, Sophie Jordan, Sarah McClain, and Lauren Willig.
Sarah WendellHOST
That room was crowded is what I'm saying.
Sarah WendellHOST
And then we don't have this anymore.
Bree BridgesGUEST
So I'm glad that they give us lemons.
Bree BridgesGUEST
Tessa Dare has a lemon tree and I'm so jealous of her.
Sandra WongHOST
Well, another tip too is marigolds help keep slugs away.
Bree BridgesGUEST
Yes, that is what I heard.
Kate PriorHOST
read...
Kate PriorHOST
It was a Tessa Dare book.
Kate PriorHOST
And he's like a soldier...
Kate PriorHOST
Let me Google this real quick.