Romance & other Fiction September 2025 |
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| The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold by Ally CarterIn Ally Carter’s 2nd action-packed Blonde Identity spy romance, rival CIA agents (and exes) Alexandra Sterling and Michael “King” Kingsley find themselves handcuffed to each other in the middle of the desert with no memory of how they got there. Forced to work together to survive, the pair find their long-simmering passions for each other rekindled -- but will they live long enough to find their second chance at love? For fans of: Tiana Smith's My Spy novels. |
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Total dreamboat : a novel
by Katelyn Doyle
From the beloved author of Just Some Stupid Love Story comes a rom-com about what happens when a cruise ship romance goes… overboard.
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Such good people : a novel
by Amy Blumenfeld
"It's 10 p.m. on a Thursday in the spring of her freshman year of college, and April is standing at the back of a crowded Manhattan bar waiting for her friend, Rudy, to arrive. Their eyes lock the moment he enters the room, and in an instant, lives and legacies are altered forever. Within hours, Rudy is arrested. Within days, April is expelled. Within weeks, he's incarcerated. And within months, she meets Peter, a prodigious young attorney who makes her world recognizable again. Nearly fifteen years later, April is happily living in Chicago married to Peter, a mother of three with a fulfilling career and standing yoga date with her girlfriends. On the eve of Peter's election for local office, Rudy is up for parole. Headlines explode about April's past, jeopardizing Peter's campaign and everything they hold dear. Suddenly, April is faced with an impossible choice: protecting the life she created, or the person who sacrificed everything to make that life a possibility. Such Good People is a captivating portrait of blurred lines, divided loyalties, and what it means to love purely, steadfastly, and interminably"
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Totally and completely fine : a novel
by Elissa Sussman
"In her small Montana hometown, Lauren Parker has assumed a few different roles: teenage hell-raiser, sister of superstar Gabe Parker, and most recently, tragically widowed single mother. She's never cared much about labels or what people thought of her,but dealing with her grief over the loss of her husband, Spencer, has slowly revealed that she's adrift in her own life. Then she meets the devilishly handsome actor Ben Walsh on the set of her brother's new movie. They have instant chemistry, and Laurenrealizes that it has been far too long since someone has really and truly seen her. Her rebellious spirit spurs her to dive headfirst into her desire, but when a sexy encounter becomes something more, Lauren finds herself balancing old roles and new possibilities. There's still plenty to contend with: small-town rumors, the complications of Ben's fame, and her daughter's unpredictable moods. An unexpected fling seemed simple at the time--so when did everything with Ben get so complicated? And is there enough room in his life for the woman Lauren wants to be? Alternating between Lauren's past with Spencer and her present with Ben, Totally and Completely Fine illuminates what it means to find life-changing love and be true to oneself in the process"
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For richer for poorer : a novel
by Danielle Steel
As fashion designer and single mother Eugenia Ward faces business setbacks, her daughter's questionable, lavish wedding and a looming hurricane, she finds unexpected support and a chance for a new beginning with a real estate developer.
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Heart strings
by Ivy Fairbanks
"She doesn't do second chances. But he's not done writing their song. Cielo "Lo" Valdez doesn't believe in second chances. Surviving cancer at seventeen taught her life is too short to spend time on someone who wronged you. But Aidan O'Toole is determined to show her life is too long not to spend it together. When the tough-as-nails Texan moved to Galway for medical school, she wasn't looking for love. Aidan, the tattooed, guitar-playing lawyer who had helped her cousin, slipped past her defenses. They each fell hard and fast. But when Aidan was given the opportunity of a lifetime, to move to London and record an album-he took it. Lo cut him off, yet more than two years and a successful album later, every song he writes is still about her, the one he letget away. And every time Lo hears his voice on the radio singing about love, it's an arrow straight to her heart. Now they're on a collision course as maid-of-honor and best man at Lo's cousin's wedding. Are some mistakes worth forgiving? Can Aidan convince Lo their song wasn't meant to end?"
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I know how this ends
by Holly Smale
Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode. Following the implosion of a 10-year relationship, she's willfully derailing her successful career, joyfully taking down men on dating apps and living in total chaos, until she meets the actual man she had pictured in a vision.
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Something to look forward to
by Fannie Flagg
This collection of thirty humorous and heartfelt stories follows everyday Americans—from a Kansas great-grandmother to small-town café regulars—navigating love, loss, and change with wit and resilience, all observed by a curious outsider trying to understand the quirks of the human spirit.
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Among friends
by Hal Ebbott
At a New York country house where two deeply intertwined families have gathered to mark the host's fifty-second birthday, envy and resentment erupt into an unspeakable act; accusations, denials, and shattered illusions follow, driving wedges between friends, spouses, children and parents.
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Maggie ; : or, A man and a woman walk into a bar
by Katie Yee
A Chinese American woman discovers her husband is cheating with someone named Maggie; she then finds out she has cancer and names the tumor Maggie, talking to her body's new inhabitant as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation.
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The Sandy Page Bookshop : a novel
by Hannah Roberts McKinnon
After her career and engagement collapse, Leah Powell returns to Cape Cod to turn a crumbling sea captain's house into a bookstore café, working alongside local contractor Luke Nicholson as they build something new for themselves and their town. Original.
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Only lovers in the building
by Nadine Gonzalez
"After her legal career comes to a sudden and humiliating end, Liliane Lyon books a restorative summer rental at The Icon, a quintessential Art Deco building in Miami Beach, where her only plan is to bask in the sun, read, and sip cocktails. But soon she's enchanted by the colorful community, including university professor Benedicto Romero--resident tortured poet, whose sole intention for sabbatical is to indulge in brooding introspection. When they discover a shared passion for romance novels, Lily and Ben are soon spending hours reading together by the pool, the spark between them unwittingly giving the other residents the impression that they're experts in matters of the heart...no matter that IRL their disastrous love lives bear little resemblance tothe stories they're reading. But while Ben and Lily can pinpoint a trope a mile away and give excellent advice to others, they can't make sense of the sizzling chemistry between them, and the suggestion of a professional podcast suddenly forces them to consider the long-term. So what if it means working even closer together! So what if their banter makes Lily's head spin! It's the summer of taking chances, but a word to the wise: Miami isn't the place for growth and rebirth. It's the place to get messy"
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