Romance
July 2025
Recent Releases
When I Think of You
by Myah Ariel

Aspiring filmmaker Kaliya Wilson's career is going nowhere slowly until she unexpectedly gets her big break. The catch? She'll have to work with up-and-coming director Danny Prescott, the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart. For fans of: Rebekah Weatherspoon's If the Boot Fits; Falon Ballard's Right on Cue; Melissa Ferguson's How to Plot a Payback. 
The love lyric
by Kristina Forest

"An R&B singer and a PR executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot. Iris Greene used to be a woman with a plan. But all of that changed after she met the love of her life at twenty-four, got pregnant and married...and then became a widow and a single mother all within the span of a year and a half. Now, after years of hustling, Iris is the director of partnerships at a beauty company and mother to spunky five-year-oldCalla. Despite her busy life, she still can't help but feel lonely. She just needs to catch her breath-and one night, at her sister Violet's wedding, when she steps outside to do just that, she sees a certain singer who takes her breath away. . . . By all accounts, pop R&B singer Angel Harrison has it made. He's a successful musician and has just scored a brand ambassador deal with an emerging beauty company. But he's still not fulfilled; he's not producing songs he's passionate about, and there's a gaping hole in his love life. When he visits the Save Face Beauty office to kickstart his campaign, he's shocked to see Iris, his stylist's sister-the beautiful woman he hasn't stopped thinking about for longer than he wants to admit. Despite their obvious attraction to each other, they must stay professional throughout the campaign tour-which doesn't quite pan out. But when it becomes clear their lives aren't in sync, can they fall back in step to the same rhythm and beat?"
Slow dance
by Rainbow Rowell

Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, 33-year-old Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up in, attends a high school friend's wedding in hopes of seeing Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.
Bad Publicity
by Bianca Gillam

Newly minted senior publicist Andie is thrilled when she gets her first book tour assignment -- until she discovers that her charge is famous author Jack Carlson, who broke her heart when the two were university students in Edinburgh five years ago. Try this next: Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver.
The Love Remedy
by Elizabeth Everett

Apothecary Lucinda Peterson hires private investigator Jonathan Thorne to track down her ex-lover, who seduced her in order to steal her formula for throat drops. Jonathan, a former boxer, single father, and recovering alcoholic, has enough complications in his life without getting involved with Lucinda, but discovers he can't resist her. This steamy Victorian romance kicks off the Damsels of Discovery series.
Rebel in the Deep
by Katee Robert

In bestselling author Katee Robert's final steamy volume of the Crimson Sails romantasy series, nonbinary ship captain Nox's role in a secret rebellion becomes complicated when their ex, high-ranking rebellion member Bastian, is captured, and Nox is forced to team up with Bastian's new lover Siobhan for a rescue mission. Fans of polyamorous romances and S.T. Gibson's Evocation will want to check out this "rip-roaring" and "swashbuckling" tale (Publishers Weekly).

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Can't Get Enough
by Kennedy Ryan

In this 3rd and final novel of the Skyland trilogy, ambitious talent manager Hendrix Barry tries to quell her attraction to off-limits billionaire tech tycoon Maverick Bell while also juggling caregiving responsibilities for her mother, who has Alzheimer's. Will her complicated family dynamics and forbidden feelings keep her from her happily-ever-after? Try this next: Plus Size Player by Danielle Allen.
Swordheart
by T. Kingfisher

"Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of a wealthy uncle. Unfortunately, she is also saddled with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest the inheritance away from her. While locked in her bedroom, Halla inspects the ancient sword that's been collecting dust on the wall...Out of desperation, she unsheathes it--and suddenly a man appears. His name is Sarkis, he tells her, and he is an immortal warrior trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. Sarkis is sworn to protect whoever wields the sword, and for Halla...he finds himself fending off not grand armies and deadly assassins but instead everything from kindly-seeming bandits to roving inquisitors to her own in-laws. But as Halla and Sarkis grow closer, they overlook the biggestthreat of all--the sword itself"
Finding Mr. Write
by Kelley Armstrong

For her new book, Daphne McFadden poses as an over-the-top, macho, outdoorsy male author. The unexpected result? A bidding war, a huge book deal, and fame. To maintain the ruse, she hires Chris Stanton (who isn’t an actor) to convincingly become “Zane Remington.” As their deception becomes increasingly precarious, Chris finds himself balancing wilderness dangers, fandom, and a crush on Daphne. 
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