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. 
It's me they follow : a romance by Jeannine A. Cook
It's Me They Follow
by Jeannine A. Cook

In a magical bookshop where stories guide hearts, a bookseller who helps others find love through fiction confronts her own long-buried longing for a vanished customer and discovers that her story may still hold a happy ending. For fans of: A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston; Zora Books Her Happily Every After by Taj McCoy. 
The Gilded Heiress
by Joanna Shupe

In Gilded Age Boston, cash-strapped con artist Leo Hardy meets street performer Josie Smith, who bears a striking resemblance to a New York socialite whose daughter was kidnapped as a child. Leo concocts a scheme to pass Josie off as the daughter so he can collect a sizeable reward, but the pair's growing chemistry makes the deception difficult. For fans of: Anastasia-inspired romances like Kate Bateman's The Princess and the Rogue.
Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti
Ladies in Hating
by Alexandra Vasti

Authoress Lady Georgiana Cleeve has achieved not only fame and fortune, but also an enemy -- author Lady Darling -- so when Georgiana tries to unmask her rival, she finds that it is none other than Cat Lacey, the butler's daughter and object of Georgiana's very secret, very embarrassing teenage infatuation. Try this next: Lady Like by Mackenzi Lee; Is This Real or Just Pretend? by Emily Sullivan.
Focus on: Paranormal Romances
My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
My Roommate is a Vampire
by Jenna Levine

For the too-good-to-be-true monthly rent of $200, Chicago-based artist Cassie Greenberg is willing to risk getting murdered by her handsome and deeply eccentric Craigslist roommate, Frederick J. Fitzwilliam. Read-alikes: Lana Ferguson's The Fake Mate; Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip.
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Bride
by Ali Hazelwood

Misery Lark, daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest must abandonee her cloaked existence among humans and uphold a historic alliance with the Weres by marrying their Alpha, Lowe Moreland. For fans of classic vampire/werewolf novels like Twilight by Stephanie Meyer and Abagail Owen's Inferno Rising series.
Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson
Under Loch and Key
by Lana Ferguson

Keyanna “Key” MacKay is used to secrets. Raised by a single father, it’s only after his death that she finds herself thrust into the world he’d always refused to speak of. Lachlan Greer has his own secrets to keep, especially from the bonnie lass he pulls to safety from the slippery shore. Up against time, mystery, and a centuries old curse, they’ll quickly discover that magic might not only be in fairy tales, and that love can be a real loch-mess. Try this next: Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan.
Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon
Bull Moon Rising
by Ruby Dixon

In this 1st in a steamy new romantasy series from the author of Ice Planet Barbarians, destitute Lady Aspeth Honori, desperate to save her family home, joins the Royal Artifactual Guild and agrees to a marriage of convenience with her minotaur teacher, Hawk. For fans of: Kimberly Lemming's Mead Mishaps series.
Best hex ever : a novel by Nadia El-Fassi
Best Hex Ever
by Nadia El-Fassi

Dina Whitlock, a talented kitchen witch running a London café with magic-infused treats, grapples with a love curse while preparing for her best friend's upcoming wedding where she unexpectedly hits it off with the best man. Try this next: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna.
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