Ribbonwood

By: Ruby Landers

Narrated by: Katherine Littrell

GCLS Goldie Award Winner for Best Contemporary Romance 2025

Lara Bennett is world-famous in Ribbonwood, population 907.

She's the woman you don't trust your husband with: a real-life femme fatale. If there's a scandal in town, she's at the center of it, ruining businesses, marriages, and egos everywhere she goes, with her sharp tongue and that body that makes you look twice. Besides… didn't she more or less kill a man?

Ollie Gabrielli left Ribbonwood right after high school, back when Lara was her arch-nemesis. The queen bee and the closeted soccer star: natural enemies. When she comes home for three months, it's to recover from burnout and spend time with her chaotic family, not to reconnect with old classmates. Only somehow, she can't seem to take her eyes off Lara. How did she only get hotter? And is she really everything they say she is?

Sometimes, there's a reason you should never try to go home.

Contains mature content. A complete list of content warnings can be found on the author's website.

©2024 Ruby Landers (P)2025 Podium Audio

It’s good

The writing and the story a great, but Ollie is annoying. A woman in their 30’s acting like a conceited teenage boy is super annoying. It’s a bit disappointing how annoyingly childish one of the main characters is. Good otherwise.

Heartwarming

I believe in love now! The storytelling and story line are so captivating, just fantastic.

Small town sapphic romance 💙💙

Loved the storytelling of this novel. Was excited once I saw it was fem / sporty gal romance. Quick/easy and fun read. Excited to read another by this author.

Unexpected Favorite!

I wasn't sure what to expect when I started this book, hoping for something realistic and easy. What I got was realistic and emotional and deep and a story that had me obsessing over the story trying to figure out how it would play out. I laughed, I ached, I raged and I shook my head more than I imagined I would.
This book was amazing. The performance was excellent. I'm sad it over with.

Very steamy

Engaging story, complex characters, everything I want from a romance novel. Banter was enjoyable, picture painted so well it would entice me to consider living in a small town.