Romance
June 2025
Grab These for Some Summer Fun!
Songs of summer
by Jane L. Rosen

"A young woman crashes the wedding of the summer on Fire Island in search of her birth mother-and gets a whole lot more than she bargained for-in this warm, heart-stopping getaway from Jane L. Rosen."

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Plus size player
by Danielle Allen

"Danielle Allen brings another steamy, witty novel about finding the perfect partner-and how sometimes what you're looking for is right in front of you."
The tides of time
by Sarah M. Eden

After fleeing Revolutionary France in 1793, Lili Minet is cast eighty years into the future by a violent storm, where she finds unexpected refuge with lighthouse keeper Armitage Pierce, but their growing bond is tested as past dangers resurface to threaten their timeless love. 
Battle of the bookstores
by Ali Brady

"Rivalry and romance spark when two bookstore managers who are opposites in every way find themselves competing for the same promotion."
Nine month contract
by Amy Daws

A grumpy mountain man decides he wants to be a father and advertises for a baby momma, and Trista is perfect—but he quickly realizes he may want her to be more than a surrogate.
Everything's coming up Rosie : a novel
by Courtney Walsh

"Sometimes what you think you want and what you actually want turn out to be different things ... "
Binge These Series this Summer
If you hate me
by Hunting, Helena

When a young woman has no choice but to move in with her hockey player brother, she soon has to contend with his playboy teammate and roommate, but their fights only mask the attraction sizzling between them.

Book 1 in the Brother's Best Friend Hockey Romance series.
Summer ever after
by Keisel, Kortney

Falling in love is easy. Finding the right guy to spend happily ever after with... that's the hard part.

Part of the Falling for Summer series.
The serendipity
by St. Clair, Emma

He’s a no-nonsense businessman. She’s a free-spirited baker. But the magical building they live in seems to think they’re a perfect match…

Part of the Only Magic in the Building series.
Daindreth's assassin
by Wheatley, Elisabeth

Magic has two immutable rules-every spell requires a sacrifice and every curse can be broken. Amira Brindonu is a sorceress turned assassin, bound in a curse that forces her to obey her father, even to the point of high treason. When he orders her to kill the future emperor, she fails, but discovers a secret that could bring the whole of the empire to its knees.

Book one in the Daindreth's Assassin series. 
Focus on: LGBTQIA+ Romances
Here We Go Again
by Alison Cochrun

This moving romance by the author of The Charm Offensive reunites estranged best friends Rosemary Hale and Logan Maletis, who agree to put up with each other long enough to honor their dying mentor's request to accompany him on a cross-country road trip. 
Big Name Fan
by Ruthie Knox

Bexley Simon and Sam Farmer aren’t detectives, but they play them on TV. Well, played, past tense. The iconic cult hit that was Craven’s Daughter ended five years ago, and their friendship died along with it. Fans were disappointed that the pair’s legendary chemistry went unfulfilled—and crushed that the actual spark between actresses Bex and Sam didn’t pay off, either. The network never intended for two women to get romantic, in life or onscreen, despite the fans. But the bigger tragedy was the loss of their dear friend, makeup artist Jen Arnot, whose accidental death cast a pall over the series’ last episodes.
Flirting Lessons
by Jasmine Guillory

Fresh off a break-up with her longtime boyfriend, timid Avery Jensen meets free-spirited commitment-phobe Taylor Cameron, who offers her weekly flirting lessons to help her get back in the dating pool. Little does Avery know that Taylor has just accepted a bet to not sleep with anyone for the summer...and she's finding it increasingly difficult to resist her new friend. 
My best friend's honeymoon
by Meryl Wilsner

Two lifelong best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover sometimes to find a happily ever after, you just have to ask. Elsie Hoffman has been engaged to her college boyfriend for a year and a half. Ginny Holtz has been in love with Elsie for almost a decade and a half. When Elsie discovers her fiance already planned their wedding and honeymoon as a surprise and she's expected to be in a white dress in seven days, she swiftly realizes she's let herself become too comfortable with a future she never wanted. She breaks things off, and a week later is on a plane to the Caribbean for her non-refundable honeymoon with her best friend Ginny instead. 
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