RomanceOctober 2025
Recent Releases
Sunny side up : a novel by Katie Sturino
Sunny side up : a novel
by Katie Sturino

After a painful divorce, thirty-five-year-old PR maven Sunny Greene embraces self-love and body confidence, navigating new romances, career opportunities, and unexpected run-ins with her ex while defining beauty, success, and happiness on her own unapologetic terms.
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.
Total dreamboat : a novel by Katelyn Doyle
Total dreamboat : a novel
by Katelyn Doyle

"Hope Lanover needs a vacation. Her relationship has imploded, her creative ambitions have flatlined, and she can't seem to locate the badass girl she used to be. So when her best friend invites her on a luxury cruise, she goes along with it, despite decidedly not being a cruise person. Felix Segrave, a sober, determinedly single, workaholic chef, hates leaving his restaurant and routine. But when his parents surprise him and his sisters with cruise tickets, he can't say no-he's disappointed them too many times in his troubled past. Hope and Felix are prepared to grin and bear it...until they lock eyes at check in. Suddenly, a ten-day fling in the Caribbean with a sexy stranger doesn't seem so bad. But when their romantic demons catch up to them, and a huge fight leaves them stranded in paradise, they must work together-not to mention share a bed-to make their way home. Can they navigate the stormy seas of love, or will they face romantic shipwreck?"
Slanting towards the sea :  a novel by Lidija Hilje
Slanting towards the sea : a novel
by Lidija Hilje

A decade after divorcing Vlaho, Ivona returns to her Croatian hometown to care for her ailing father, finding unexpected solace in his new family, but when a new man enters her life, the fragile balance between past and present is suddenly upended.
Focus on: Paranormal Romances
Immortal by morning by Lynsay Sands
Immortal by morning
by Lynsay Sands

Immortal rogue enforcer and homicide detective Crispinus Delacort learns human bones have been found in the garden of Abril Newman's boss's rural home, and his mutual attraction to Abril distracts him as he solves the case.
Lover Forbidden by J. R. Ward
Lover Forbidden
by J. R. Ward

Devlin comes out of nowhere to save Lyric's life, and when she later searches for him they are drawn to each other, but she doesn't know he's hiding a secret -- or that he could be the key to ending war between the Black Dagger Brotherhood and the lessers forever.
The echoes by Evie Wyld
The echoes
by Evie Wyld

"From the award-winning novelist, a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australia, both a love story and a ghost story. Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the apartment they shared and begins to realize how much of her life was invisible to him. In the weeks and months before Max's death, Hannah was haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape. A relationship with Max seemed to offer the potential of a fresh new chapter, but the past refused to stay hidden. It found expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up with, and the events that broke her family apart and led her to Max. Both a celebration and autopsy of a relationship, spanning multiple generations, The Echoes is a novel about love and grief, motherhood and sisterhood, secrets and who has the right to reveal them-what of our past can be cast away and what is fixed forever, echoing down through the years"
Slaying the vampire conqueror by Carissa Broadbent
Slaying the vampire conqueror
by Carissa Broadbent

Serving the Goddess of Fate has turned Sylina from orphaned street rat to disciplined killer, determined to overthrow Glaea's tyrannical king, but when she is asked to infiltrate a vampire conqueror army and become seer to warrior Atrius, her forbidden connection with him keeps growing stronger.
Atonement sky by Nalini Singh
Atonement sky
by Nalini Singh

On the brink of a mental collapse, Justice-Psy Eleri Dias returns to confront Falcon changeling leader Adam Garrett, the man she once betrayed, and a ruthless serial killer, in the ninth novel of the series following "Primal Mirror."
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