I was beyond thrilled this week to discover that Lush Money got an incredible review in Entertainment Weekly.

Lopez’s gift is her ability to push the characters and their bedroom antics to extremes without ever losing the intense heat and lush romanticism of her writing. There’s a definitive old-school flavor to the narrative, but Lopez punches it up with modernity time and time again, allowing readers to indulge in the throwback vibes without ever having to sacrifice evolving ideals of enthusiastic consent and the sacred HEA.

I started writing when showing up in Entertainment Weekly — or The New York Times, the Washington Post, or on NPR — wouldn’t have even been a possibility except for the standard Valentine’s Day article. Now, all of those outlets have romance reviewers and are actively taking an interest in the genre.

Read an excerpt below and click to read full review…

Hot Stuff: Five new romance novels are all about second chances

by Maureen Lee Lenker

Angelina M. Lopez makes her publishing debut with a romance novel that combines the soapy deliciousness of a telenovela with all the old-school romance feels you could ever want. As a Latinx CEO with a past she’d prefer stay secret, Roxanne Medina has clawed her way to the top of the boardroom – so when it comes to crafting the ending to the perfect fairy-ttale image she’s chosen to project, it makes sense to rope the prince of a Spanish principality into a marriage contract that grants him time with her three nights a month in the hopes she’ll bear a royal baby. But Príncipe Mateo Ferdinand Juan Carlos de Esperanza y Santo is more preoccupied with perfecting his new vine that he hopes will restore prosperity to his wine-growing nation, and he’s not about to willingly have a baby with a stranger…(Click to keep reading.)