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Romance
October/November 2025 |
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Coming Soon to the Waterford Public Library
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Overdue
by Stephanie Perkins
"Is it time to renew love or start a new chapter? Ingrid Dahl, a cheerful twenty-nine-year-old librarian in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, North Carolina, has been happily dating her college boyfriend, Cory, for eleven years without ever discussing marriage. But when Ingrid's sister announces her engagement to a woman she's only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory feel pressured to consider their future. Neither has ever been with anybody else, so they make an unconventional decision. They'll take a one-month break to date other people, then they'll reunite and move toward marriage. Ingrid even has someone in mind: her charmingly grumpy coworker, Macon Nowakowski, on whom she's secretly crushed for years. But plans go awry, and when the month ends, Ingrid and Cory realize they're not ready to resume their relationship-and Ingrid's harmless crush on Macon has turned into something much more complicated. Overdue is a beautiful, slow-burn romance full of lust and longing about new beginnings and finding your way"
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And then there was the one
by Martha Waters
In a quaint 1930s village in the Cotswolds, Georgiana Radcliffe has accidentally become an amateur detective after helping solve four murders in a single year, but when the chairman of the village council turns up dead, everyone agrees with the official ruling of a heart attack, except Georgie, who believes he is the fifth murder victim.
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Cover Story
by Mhairi McFarlane
Thirtysomething Connor left his seemingly perfect life in London for a chance to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a reporter, but after a bad first impression with journalist Bel, his internship begins to feel like another in a series of poor decisions, except that she's the first bit of excitement he's felt in a very long time.
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The heartbreak hotel
by Ellen O'Clover
After a breakup leaves her nearly homeless, Louisa Walsh convinces her withdrawn landlord to let her turn their Colorado house into a bed-and-breakfast for the brokenhearted, where unlikely guests -- and an unexpected connection with her landlord -- begin to mend wounds neither of them thought could heal.
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An academic affair
by Jodi McAlister
"Two English professors enter a fake marriage in order to secure partner hire, but soon realize their feelings for each other aren't as fake as they'd once thought"
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Secret Nights and Northern Lights
by Megan Oliver
Childhood best friends and first loves -- travel writer Mona Miller and photographer Benjamin Carter -- are reunited on a make-or-break work trip to Iceland, where old feelings come to the surface.
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Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain anymore
by Emily Krempholtz
"A powerful plant witch and a grumpy alchemist must work together in order to save their quiet little town in this debut cozy fantasy. Guy Shadowfade is dead and Violet Thistlethwaite doesn't know what to do with herself. Having spent her life as the dark sorcerer's right hand, the powerful witch is now at loose ends. But she does know one thing: she doesn't want to be evil anymore. For once, she wants to sprout peonies instead of poison. The quaint town of Dragon's Rest, she decides, will be her second chance at life-a place where she can set down roots, open a flower shop, keep her sentient (and mildly homicidal) houseplant out of trouble, and quit dark magic after a lifetime of villainy. While Violet's vibrant bouquets and feats of plant magic soon charm the welcoming townsfolk, nothing she does seems to impress the prickly yet dashingly handsome Nathaniel Marsh, an alchemist sharing her greenhouse. What Violet doesn't know is that Nathaniel is desperately seeking a second chance of his own. But just as Violet thinks she's pruned away all the thorns of her nefarious former life, a mysterious blight threatens her new home and a figure from her past comes knocking. Violet and Nathaniel must work together through their fears, their pasts, and their growing feelings for one another to save their community. But with everything she's built on the line, Violet can't help but wonder...does a villain like her truly deserve to grow her own happily ever after?"
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