Closing the Book on 2025: A Year of Pages and Passions Hello, my lovely bookish friends! As we turn the final pages on 2025, I find myself curled up with my favorite cuppa, reflecting on another extraordinary year at The Phantom Paragrapher. What a journey it's been through countless worlds, characters, and stories that have made us laugh, cry, and stay up way too late with all the lights on. This year, we've explored over 360 books together, from spine-tingling thrillers that had me checking the locks twice to swoon-worthy romances that reminded us why we believe in happily ever afters. We've traveled from the romantic streets of Paris with N.D. Jackson's One Night in Paris to the champagne vineyards of Napa with Caroline O'Connell's The Champagne Crush. We've survived nail-biting encounters with the Mayday Killer in Emily Kazmierski's Don't Look Behind You and laughed through the hilarious chaos of accidentally hiring a hitman instead of an escor...