Romance
June 2025
Recent Releases
Along Came Amor
by Alexis Daria

Roman is the perfect fling, until Ava sees him at her cousin’s engagement party—as the groom’s best man, no less! Maintaining her boundaries becomes a lot more complicated as she tries to hide their relationship from her family, but Roman isn’t content being her dirty little secret. With her future uncertain and her family pressuring her from all sides, Ava will have to decide if love is worth the risk—again.
Can't Get Enough
by Kennedy Ryan

Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business. Tech mogul Maverick Bell is a dilemma wrapped in an exquisitely tailored suit and knee-melting charm. From their first charged glance at the summer's hottest party, Hendrix feels like she's met her match. Only he can't be.
Courtroom Drama
by Neely Tubati Alexander

Legally Blonde and Jury Duty meet The Real Housewives in this high-stakes courtroom love story—a sexy and sweet but heartfelt novel about friendship, romance, and reality television.
Give Me a Shot
by Gia De Cadenet

Sparks fly between an amateur blacksmith and an outspoken professor with a passion for archery in this heartfelt contemporary romance from the author of Getting His Game Back and Not the Plan.
Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts

Surviving a near-fatal shooting, injured Maryland Natural Resources Police officer Sloan Cooper moves back to her quiet hometown and investigates a string of mysterious disappearances across three states with some help from the new man in her life.
It's a Love Story
by Annabel Monaghan

The heartwarming and hilarious story of Jane Jackson, who spent her adolescence as the funny girl, the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punchline on a B-list tv show, and learning that true love doesn't exist. Now a grown woman, she is determined to be the executive calling the shots, and never to be laughed at again.
The Love Haters
by Katherine Center

Video producer Katie Vaughn heads to Key West to profile Coast Guard rescue swimmer Tom“Hutch” Hutcheson, but between his family drama, her escalating lies, and their growing attraction, she must confront her fears and find courage in paradise.
One Golden Summer
by Carley Fortune

Charlie was 19 when Alice took his photo near her Nan's cottage in Barry's Bay, but now he's a grown-up flirt who makes Alice feel seventeen again—warm nights on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice's soul, but she begins to worry for her heart.
Problematic Summer Romance
by Ali Hazelwood

Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists.
A Simple Twist of Fate
by April Asher

At the bright-eyed age of eighteen, witch Harlow "Harry" Pierce attended her first Fates Festival Finding Ceremony certain the Blue Willow Wisp would lead her to her Fated match, her cougar shifter boyfriend, Jaxon Atwood. But Fate had other plans, guiding her best friend to him instead. Thirteen years later, she returns to her magical hometown.
Songs of Summer
by Jane L. Rosen

A young woman crashes the wedding of the summer on Fire Island in search of her birth mother-and gets a whole lot more than she bargained for-in this warm, heart-stopping getaway from Jane L. Rosen.
Thunder Game
by Christine Feehan

Diego Campos, a weary psychic warrior returning to the Appalachian Mountains to end his dark journey, rescues the fierce and captivating Leila during a violent ambush, discovering a chance for love and redemption amid chaos.
What Happens in Amsterdam
by Rachel Lynn Solomon

When single and unemployed Angeleno Dani Dorfman moves to Amsterdam to work for a fledgling startup which soon folds, she scrambles to find a new job before her visa runs out. Enter her high school ex, Wouter van Leewuen, who offers to marry her for their mutual benefit -- Wouter can inherit his family estate while Dani can stay in the Netherlands. 
Focus on: LGBTQIA+ Romances
Kiss Me, Maybe
by Gabriella Gamez

Librarian Angela Gutierrez has never been kissed. But after posting a video about her late bloomer status and ace identity, she's finally ready to get some firsts out of the way. Enter Krystal Ramirez, hot bartender and Angela's unrequited crush of five years. But Krystal is convinced that she isn't capable of love and before long, Angela realizes she's falling head over heels for a woman who may never love her back.
Hotter in the Hamptons
by Tinx

As New York City's fashion it-girl, Lola has been living her dream. But when her career comes to a screeching halt after a very public snafu, everything Lola has worked for starts to go up in flames. When Lola flees to the Hamptons to escape her mistakes, she finds none other than her rival and newest neighbor: Aly Ray Carter.
Chef's Kiss
by T.J. Alexander

As culinary publisher The Discerning Chef pivots to video, recipe developer Simone Larkspur navigates a fraught working relationship with test kitchen manager Ray Lyton, which gets more complicated when Ray comes out as nonbinary. 
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
by KJ Charles

In 1810 Kent, England, London clerk Gareth Inglis unexpectedly inherits a baronetcy and an estate on Romney Marsh, where he encounters his former lover, Josiah "Joss" Doomsday, now the head of a smuggling gang. 
Here We Go Again
by Alison Cochrun

This moving romance by the author of The Charm Offensive reunites estranged best friends Rosemary Hale and Logan Maletis, who agree to put up with each other long enough to honor their dying mentor's request to accompany him on a cross-country road trip.
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal
by Adriana Herrera

In 1889, Dominican artist Manuela del Carmen Caceres Galvan is determined to enjoy a summer in Paris before submitting to a loveless marriage, and enlists Cora Kempf Bristol, the widowed Duchess of Sundridge, to serve as her guide to the city's lesbian enclaves. 
All The Right Notes
by Dominic Lim

Frustrated composer Quito Cruz recruits his one-time musical collaborator and ex-lover Emmett Aoki, now an actor, to perform at Quito's dad's retirement concert. Though it's been 20 years since they last spoke, the attraction between the two still smolders. 
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