Love is in the air! Enjoy these new and recent romances in multiple genres.
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Secretly Yours
by Tessa Bailey CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: Returning home to his family's winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his ivy league job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life. |
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The rodeo queen
by Marcella Bell CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: Returning to the ring at plea of his old mentor, attorney-at-law Diablo Sosa--and Closed Circuit contestant--joins Rodeo Queen Sierra Quintanilla on the road to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime competition that ends in an explosive finale that exposes all their secrets. |
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Dark of Night
by Colleen Coble ROMANTIC SUSPENSE: Ranger Annie Pederson is preoccupied by another missing hiker in Michigan's Upper Peninsula when a woman claiming to be her long-lost, abducted sister shows up, in the second novel of the series following Edge of Dusk. |
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Take the lead
by Alexis Daria CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: Gina Morales wants to win. It's her fifth season on The Dance Off, a top-rated network TV celebrity dance competition, and she's never even made it to the finals. When she meets her latest partner, she sees her chance. He's handsome, rippling with muscles, and he stars on the popular Alaskan wilderness reality show Living Wild. With his sexy physique and name recognition, she thinks he's her ticket to the finals--until she realizes they're being set up. Stone Nielson hates Los Angeles, he hates reality TV, and he hates the fact that he had to join the cast of The Dance Off because of family obligations. He can't wait to get back to Alaska, but he also can't deny his growing attraction to his bubbly Puerto Rican dance partner. Neither of them are looking for romantic entanglements, and Stone can't risk revealing his secrets, but as they heat up the dance floor, it's only a matter of time until he feels an overwhelming urge to take the lead. When the tabloids catch on to their developing romance, the spotlight threatens to ruin not just their relationship, but their careers and their shot at the trophy. Gina and Stone will have to decide if their priorities lie with fame, fortune, or the chance at a future together. |
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The neighbor favor
by Kristina Forest CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE:. Enlisting the help of her new neighbor to find a date for her sister's wedding, not realizing he is her favorite fantasy author - the very same one who ghosted her months ago? - aspiring children's book author Lily Greene finds this simple favor between them becoming anything but. |
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A dash of salt and pepper
by Kosoko Jackson CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: Sometimes two cooks in the kitchen are better than one in this swoony romantic comedy. Xavier Reynolds is doing less than stellar. He just got dumped and was passed over for a prestigious fellowship. To top it all off, he's back home in Harpers Cove, Maine, population 9,000. The last thing he wants to do is to work as a prep chef in the kitchen of the hip new restaurant in town: The Wharf. Especially since the hot, single-father chef who owns it can't delegate to save his life. Logan O'Hare doesn't understand Xavier or why every word out of his mouth is dipped in sarcasm. Unfortunately, he has no choice but to hire him--he needs more help in the kitchen and his tween daughter, Anne, can only mince so many onions. It might be a recipe for disaster, but Logan doesn't have many options besides Xavier. Stuck between a stove and a hot place, Logan and Xavier discover an unexpected connection. But when the heat between them threatens to top the Scoville scale, they'll have to decide if they can make their relationship work or if life has seasoned them too differently. |
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Lunar love
by Lauren Kung Jessen CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: Endeavoring to take over her grandmother's matchmaking business, Olivia Huang Christenson is outraged when she learns a new dating app has made her Po ̤Po's traditional Chinese zodiac approach all about lust and "animal attraction." |
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Yours truly
by Abby Jimenez CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: When Dr. Jacob Maddox, whom she is prepared to hate, sends her a letter, which leads to sharing lunch dates in her "sob closet," Dr. Briana Ortiz tries not to fall hard for this sexy new doctor, especially when he gives her the best gift imaginable: a kidney for her brother. |
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The Portrait of a Duchess
by Scarlett Peckham HISTORICAL ROMANCE: An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women’s rights—on the condition she must wed—she is forced to reveal a secret: she’s already married. To a man she hasn’t seen for twenty years. A horse breeder with a clandestine taste for revolution, Rafe Goodwood never expected to become a duke. But now that the title is his, he is plotting to shock the ruling class with ambitions of reform—and reveal the infamous Cornelia is his duchess. That just presents one problem: he must not fall in love with her—again. Although determined not to sacrifice her principles for passion, Cornelia is still drawn to the man whose very being threatens her independence. Hurt too many times, Rafe can’t risk love again—especially with the woman who once shattered his heart. But a conspiracy to upend the inequalities of the aristocracy bring Cornelia and Rafe closer, forcing them to finally decide what—and who—they hold dear. |
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Never cross a Highlander
by Lisa Rayne HISTORICAL ROMANCE: Enslaved in the King's court despite her claim of being a free woman of the Highlands, Ailsa Connery plots her escape only to be interrupted by a misguided Highland warrior whom she must convince to lead her to home while guarding her identity. |
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Radiant sin
by Katee Robert FANTASY ROMANCE: As a disgraced member of a fallen house, Cassandra Gataki has seen firsthand what comes from trusting the venomous Thirteen. But when the maddeningly gorgeous and kind Apollo asks her to go undercover as his plus-one at a week-long party hosted by a dangerous new power player...Cassandra reluctantly agrees to have his back. On one condition: when it's all over, and Apollo has the ammunition he needs to protect Olympus, she and her sister will be allowed to leave. For good. Apollo may be the city's official spymaster, but it's his ability to inspire others that keeps him at the top. Despite what the rest of Olympus says, there's no one he trusts more than Cassandra. Yet even as their fake relationship takes a wicked turn for the scaldingly hot, a very real danger surfaces... threatening not only Cassandra and Apollo, but the very heart of Olympus itself. |
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After the bite
by Lynsay Sands PARANORMAL ROMANCE: Using golf to unwind, Immortal Enforcer Valerian is drawn to the Natalie, the owner of the golf course who is wary of a relationship of any kind, and decides to woo her the old-fashioned way until he puts her life in danger and risks losing her forever. |
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The duke gets even
by Joanna Shupe HISTORICAL ROMANCE: Purposely ruining her reputation years ago to escape the shackles of marriage, Nellie Young, dedicating her life to hedonistic pleasures only, has a secret affair with the proper Duke of Lockwood that turns into something far more than either expected. |
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Sorry, bro
by Taleen Voskuni CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: To appease her Armenian mother, Nar participates in a series of events in San Francisco where, instead of meeting a mom-approved man, she meets Erebuni, a woman who gives her the courage to come out as bisexual and proudly be herself for the first time in her life. |