Romance
October 2025
Recent Releases
Pitcher Perfect
by Tessa Bailey

When Boston University softball pitcher Skylar Paige catches the eye of rookie Boston Bearcats hockey player (and notorious playboy) Robbie Corrigan, she wants nothing to do with him -- until he devises a fake-dating scheme to make her crush jealous. This 4th banter-filled entry in bestselling author Tessa Bailey's Big Shots sports romance series will be a home run for fans of Elle Kennedy's Campus Diaries novels. 
The Battle of the Bookshops
by Poppy Alexander

In this feel-good contemporary retelling of Romeo and Juliet, publishing assistant Jules Capelthorne returns home to quaint seaside village Portneath, England, to help her great-aunt Flo with her family's foundering bookstore. The only problem? Her childhood crush, wealthy Roman Montbeau, is also in town -- and he's just opened a rival bookstore across the street. For fans of: You've Got Mail; Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady.
Game point : a novel by Meg Jones
Game Point
by Meg Jones

In the aftermath of Dylan Bailey's tenth Grand Slam loss, she decides to put her racket away for good. Until a tempting bet from fellow pro Oliver Anderson convinces her to give it one last shot. After all, with the solid friendship they've built, surely working together could score a game point. They just need to keep their eyes on the ball and ignore their sizzling tension.
Gabriela and His Grace
by Liana De la Rosa

In this steamy 3rd and final Luna Sisters Victorian romance, Mexican heiress Gabriela Luna sparks an unexpected attraction with the arrogant Sebastian, Duke of Whitfield, with whom she is forced to share a ship cabin after fleeing from her would-be suitors. Try this next: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera.
Focus on: Paranormal Romances
Hungry like a wolf by Paige Tyler
Hungry Like the Wolf
by Paige Tyler

The leader of an elite Dallas SWAT team—and a pack of wolves—Gage Dixon and his tight-knit crew take down threats and protect their city, but when a beautiful investigative journalist is assigned to shadow him and his team, he finds that he is danger of losing his heart. By a USA Today best-selling author. 
The most unusual haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish
The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
by Roan Parrish

In haunted-house-loving New Orleans, special effects artist Jamie Wendon-Dale (transmasc they/them) falls for Edgar Lovejoy (cis he/him), a man genuinely haunted by ghosts, and as their bond deepens, both must confront fear, vulnerability and the supernatural truths that could bring them together or drive them apart. 
Crazy Spooky Love : A Melody Bittersweet Novel by Josie Silver
Crazy Spooky Love 
by Josie Silver

Melody Bittersweet launches her own ghostbusting agency in her hometown, but her first case, a haunted house with feuding ghosts, draws in her charming ex, a rival TV crew and a skeptical reporter who might be her biggest distraction.
Rise and Divine
by Lana Harper

In this steamy conclusion to the Witches of Thistle Grove series, devil eater Dasha Avramov and her witch ex-girlfriend Ivy team up to save their town -- and maybe their relationship -- after a malevolent entity descends on Thistle Grove during a festival. Try these next: Hazel Beck's Witchlore novels; Molly Harper's Starfall Point series. 
Fang Fiction
by Kate Stayman-London

When hotel manager Tess Rosenbloom discovers that the vampire world of her favorite book series is real, she finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about the Blood Feud novels -- including the villainous Callum's true nature. Readers who enjoy witty love letters to fantasy fandoms, like Rosie Danan's Fan Service, will sink their teeth into this "clever, richly imagined, and downright fun" romance (Booklist). 
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