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Romance
May 2026

Recent Releases
The Paris Match
by Kate Clayborn

In Paris for her ex-sister-in-law's wedding, physician Layla Bailey finds herself reluctantly paired with best man Griffin when the latter accuses her of giving the bride cold feet. While working together to make sure the wedding goes off without a hitch, Layla wonders if she's finally ready to move on from her divorce -- and if Griffin is the one to help her do it. Try this next: Wedding Dashers by Heather McBreen; The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa.
How Simi Got Her Groom Back by Sonali Dev
How Simi Got Her Groom Back
by Sonali Dev

The Naik sisters escaped their traumatic past in Mumbai to come to the States, but their journeys have been vastly different. Simi is working toward a bright future as a pediatric nurse in a small town in Kentucky when Rupi shows up at her door in distress, on the run, and as always, dragging trouble in her wake.With Rupi's safety in jeopardy, the sisters hatch a desperate plan to keep her in the country: Rupi must get married--and fast--even if it means Simi recruiting the man she's been secretly dating as her sister's groom. A perfect plan? Not quite. But there aren't many alternatives.As the big day inches closer, Simi and Rupi face a storm of wedding shenanigans and romantic surprises, not to mention sisterly jealousies. As the stakes and tensions rise, will their secrets tear them apart or will they find a way to risk everything for love?
Love Song
by Elle Kennedy

After her boyfriend cheats on her, college student Blake Logan decides to spend her summer at the Lake Tahoe home her family co-owns, but she doesn't count on Wyatt Garrett, her teenage crush, staying there too. The pair agree to a no-strings-attached fling, but find it difficult to keep things casual. This steamy 1st in a spin-off series stars the children of the characters introduced in Elle Kennedy's Off Campus novels. For fans of: One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune.
The Fortune Flip
by Lauren Kung Jessen

Seeking reassurance from a fortune teller, unlucky data analyst Hazel Yen has a run-in (literally) with Logan Wells, a perpetually lucky carpenter with whom she shares a kiss -- and a winning lottery ticket. When they cash in their winnings, their fortunes flip. As they work together to change Logan's bad luck, they find themselves learning more about themselves -- and each other. For fans of: One & Only by Maurene Goo.
The Write Off by Kara McDowell
The Write Off
by Kara McDowell

It's been thirteen years since Mars Darling first met West Emerson on a bench outside their writing class. What started out as a friendly rivalry turned into a best friendship and then, for a brief time, a romance. Now over a decade later, as Mars stands at their college campus as a once-esteemed YA fantasy author, ready to take on a book festival, she comes face to face with West--the muse behind her infamous trilogy's heartthrob hero, the man who betrayed her in the worst way. Mars is determined not to let her comeback tour be ruined by the fact that West is also at the festival as an author. But the longer they are on the campus that holds so many shared memories, the more time they have to untangle their past, and Mars starts to question if maybe it's not only her writing career that deserves a second chance.
Darling Daffodils Farm
by Brittanée Nicole

After her father's death, Tally Darling returns to her small New England hometown to help out with her family's flagging daffodil farm, where she butts heads with farmhand Jesse Walker, who has his own ideas about how to save the business. Fans of steamy grumpy/sunshine romances like Isabelle Popp's Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About will want to check out this banter-filled 1st in the Hope Harbor series.
Enemies to Lovers
by Alisha Rai

When his FBI agent brother Avi goes missing, librarian Krish Anand poses as Avi and enlists the help of con woman Sejal Chaudhary to track down members of Cobra, the Indian crime syndicate that he believes is responsible (and is run by Sejal's family). But Sejal has secrets of her own -- including an ex-boyfriend hot on her trail -- and the pair's road trip becomes increasingly dangerous. Fans of Charish Reid's Fool Me Twice will enjoy Alisha Rai's 2nd action-packed Partners in Crime novel.
Once and Again by Rebecca Serle
Once and Again
by Rebecca Serle

Lauren has spent a lot of her life waiting. She spent her childhood on her surfboard, waiting to catch the perfect wave. She waited a long time for her husband Leo. Now she and Leo are together waiting for those two lines on a pregnancy test that will tell Lauren she's finally pregnant. But many women wait for those things. Lauren has also spent her life waiting to use the gift that only the women in her family have: the opportunity, just once, to turn back time and reverse a bad decision, or a moment of catastrophic luck. When Lauren was fifteen, her mother Marcella reversed the car crash that killed Lauren's father, and ever since then, both Marcella and Lauren have been extra cautious around Dave, and perhaps extra brittle with each other. Even though Dave is alive and healthy, and out on the Malibu waves every day. Lauren and Leo's marriage has been rock-steady for the three years they've been married, but their fertility journey is starting to wear on both of them. When Leo takes a six-week job in New York, Lauren temporarily moves back to her childhood house. She'll spend time with her dad, spend time on the water, and try not think about the relationship with her mother she wishes she had. What Lauren doesn't expect is to run into the love of her youth: fellow surfer Stone, back home for the first time in ten years. Since he left and broke Lauren's heart. Now Lauren's thinking about all the choices that have brought her to this moment in her life--and wondering if one of them should be undone.
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