March books on my radar
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Not Quite by the Book
Series: None
Author: Julie Hatcher
March 1st 2025 by Lake Union Publishing
A bookstore owner discovers that life as a recluse isn’t for everyone in this sharp yet sweet novel about how sometimes you need to abandon the quest for love to find your true passion.
Emma Rini is in a rut so deep she could shelve books there. While her sister awaits her first baby, and her parents kick off retirement with vow renewals and travel, Emma stays put among the stacks of the family bookshop.
In fact, she can’t remember the last time she took a vacation. Or had a romance that hovered above disappointing. When her parents assume she’ll take over the shop for them without a break, she realizes she needs to get away—back to the nineteenth century. Channeling her favorite poet recluse, Emily Dickinson, Emma rents a crumbling manor house outside Amherst where she can learn how to be quietly, blissfully alone.
But becoming a world-weary spinster isn’t easy. She can’t start a fire or reason with the bunnies that are destroying the garden. She finds herself sparring constantly with the grumpy-hot architect who is renovating the manor. And then there’s the secret admirer who keeps sending her complicated floral messages…
No matter what she does, the outside world keeps knocking, and Emma starts to dream about the future. Will she forgo love for the family legacy? And will she shrink away or become the sort of bold person fortune favors?
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Something Like Fate
Series: None
Author: Amy Lea
March 1st 2025 by Skyscape
During a summer in Italy, two best friends discover whether true love is up to destiny or free will in this winning romantic comedy by the international bestselling author of Woke Up Like This.
For generations, the fortune-telling women in Lo Zhao-Jensen’s family have foreseen The One—the great loves of their lives—before ever meeting them. Except for Lo, who has zero psychic abilities. Just memories of old rom-coms and a lot of poor judgment when it comes to love.
Until now.
When Lo finally has the vision she’s been waiting for, her delighted aunties are convinced she’ll meet The One on her backpacking trip in Italy. Vero amore, here she comes.
Along for the summer is Lo’s best friend and confidant, Teller Owens, her opposite in every way. Upon arrival in Venice, Lo is saved from a runaway trolley by Caleb, a fellow backpacker. It’s a meet-cute so swoony, it has to be fate. But with each destination, Lo’s complicated feelings for Teller are becoming harder to ignore. From the cobblestone streets of Rome to the rocky cliffs of Amalfi, Lo begins to wonder if fate has other plans.
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Unlikely Story
Series: None
Author: Ali Rosen
March 1st 2025 by Montlake
From the bestselling author of Recipe for Second Chances comes a swoonworthy romance bursting with wit about a therapist who falls for the wrong man…but perhaps the right one was hiding in the margins all along.
As a relationship therapist, Nora helps patients explore their feelings honestly. But she’s hiding an embarrassing relationship secret of her she’s in love with someone she’s never even met.
J edits the advice column Nora’s been writing anonymously for the last seven years. He’s in London, she’s in New York, and they communicate solely through shared files. When he confides that his girlfriend’s out of the picture, and her boss asks her to come to London, Nora takes both as a sign.
But that’s not the only thing on her mind. A client’s ex-boyfriend just moved into her co-op, directly beneath her. Eli blames Nora for his breakup and seems determined to make her life miserable, gleefully planning a noisy renovation.
Yet despite all his bluster, Nora eventually starts to see the softness behind Eli’s brusque, charming exterior…and after a slipup reveals a startling secret, Nora wonders whether someone can be two things at once.
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A Chance in a Million
Series: The Chances #5
Author: Emily E.K. Murdoch
March 1st 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Thomas Chance, newly minted Duke of Cothrom, isn’t exactly brilliant at spotting chances in a million. For example, he’s gambled away the family fortune.
It’s hardly endeared him to his rule-following father, William, and now Thomas has to gain back the family wealth, earn back his father’s trust, and absolutely not fall in love with the woman whose fortune he’s trying to marry.
Easier said than done.
Fortunately perhaps, Miss Victoria Ainsworth has her wits about her and sees straight through the nobleman with rakish good looks and a devilish reputation. Victoria swiftly sees through Thomas’s ridiculous charade of affection—the man just wants her dowry!
Well. Let him have it. And her.
A marriage of convenience is supposed to be convenient, but there’s nothing more inconvenient for Thomas than the burgeoning emotions he can’t control, or the gossip starting to flicker through Society.
Worse still, Victoria’s con may be fooling more than just Thomas. Is it possible that instead of fooling him…she’s fooling herself?
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Say Cheese
Series: Destination Wedding Trilogy #2
Author: Sheri Tyler
March 3rd 2025 by Flowers and Fullerton
She Wanted Stability. He Thrives on Chaos. Love Was Never Supposed to Be in the Mix.
When librarian-turned-romance-author Rose Oliver tumbles into a pool at a posh wedding, stuntman Sean Ross is there to fish her out—soaked Louboutins and all. Rose is chasing her dream of becoming a bestselling author, but balancing her book deal, her day job, and a long-distance fling with a man who leaps off buildings for fun? That might be a stunt too daring for her.
Sean’s used to keeping relationships short and sweet—after all, his life is one big action sequence. But Rose is smart, funny, and the only woman who’s ever made him consider slowing down. Between whirlwind trips to Paris and decorating Christmas trees, they’re building something real. Until missed calls, canceled plans, and Sean’s high-risk career start threatening their happy ending.
In this flirty, feel-good romcom, opposites don’t just attract—they collide, with sparks flying at every turn. Will Sean and Rose overcome their fears and find forever, or will their love story be one stunt they can’t pull off?
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Wild Side
Series: Rose Hill #3
Author: Elsie Silver
March 4th 2025 by Bloom Books
I’d always dreamed of my wedding day. But not like this. Not looking into the eyes of the man who betrayed me.
But when my nephew’s guardianship is contested, I decide I’ll do whatever it takes to keep him in Rose Hill. Even if it means marrying the enemy.
Rhys Dupris.
A man who is secretive, broody, and completely infuriating. A man whose work takes him away for weeks on end and brings him back covered in mysterious bruises—ones he won’t talk about. In fact, we barely talk at all.
Which would be fine, except when he’s not talking, he’s staring. And the way he looks at me is borderline indecent.
The tension between us has always been palpable. But living under the same roof is a dangerous temptation.
I swore I would never forgive him. But that was before I knew the man behind the mask. The one who’s fierce and protective. The one who’s gentle and patient. The one who shows up for us when we need him most.
He’s not at all who I thought he was.
And that makes hating my husband so much harder… and loving him just a little too easy.
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The Trouble with Anna
Series: None
Author: Rachel Griffiths
March 4th 2025 by Gallery Books
A tart young woman and an arrogant lord collide in this flirty, sexy, and remarkably modern historical romance, perfect for fans of Bridgerton.
Anna didn’t intend to ride in a high-stakes horse race or start up a betting ring. She certainly didn’t mean to find herself in so many darkened corners with Lord Julian Ramsay, quarreling and kissing. But when her grandfather’s strange will stipulates that Anna must marry or she’ll be left broke, there’s nothing she won’t do to win her fight for independence. Even go head-to-head with Lord Ramsay, with her own heart as the prize.
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Promise Me Sunshine
Series: None
Author: Cara Bastone
March 4th 2025 by Dial Press Trade Paperback
Grieving the loss of her best friend, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again, in this heartwarming, slow-burn romance by the author of Ready or Not
Lenny’s a bit of a mess at the moment. Her best friend, Lou, recently passed away after a battle with cancer, and her death has left Lenny feeling completely lost. She’s avoiding her concerned parents, the apartment she shared with Lou, and the list of things she’s supposed to do to help her live again. The only thing she can do is temporary babysitting gigs, and luckily, she just landed a great one, helping overworked, single mom Reese and her precocious daughter, Ainsley. It’s not perfect: Ainsley’s uncle, Miles, always seems to be around, and is kind of... a huge jerk. But if Lenny acts like she has it all together, maybe no one will notice she’s falling apart.
Miles sees right through her though. Turns out, he knows a lot about grief and, surprisingly, he offers her a proposition. He’ll help her complete everything on her “live again” list if she’ll help him connect with Ainsley and overcome his complicated relationship with Reese. Lenny doubts anything can fill the Lou has left behind, but she begins to spend more time with Miles, Lenny is surprised to discover that, sometimes, losing everything is only the first step to finding yourself, and love, again.
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Take a Chance On Me
Series: None
Author: Elizabeth Eulberg
March 4th 2025 by Scholastic Inc.
The international bestselling author of Better Off Friends returns to form with a love story that's Once meets The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
Evie is heartbroken and betrayed when a video of her confronting her cheating ex boyfriend goes viral, so what's a girl to do? Flee to London for the summer, of course! Evie loves everything about London - the double decker buses, afternoon tea, history around every corner. Everything that is but having to stay with the person who's hurt her most of all - her father.
Desperate for a distraction from their contentious relationship, Evie spends her days wandering the historic streets . . . where as though fate is intervening, she keeps meeting a charming and beautiful British busker named Aiden.
Evie doesn't want to open herself up again, but Aiden is funny, kind, and he never treats Evie like she's too much. He may just be worth taking a chance on . . . if Evie can keep her past from getting in the way of her future.
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Scot and Bothered
Series: None
Author: Alexandra Kiley
March 4th 2025 by Canary Street Press
SCOT ON THE TRAIL!
Brooke Sinclair’s dream of being a published author derailed when she was expelled from the University of Edinburgh seven years ago. Now a ghostwriter, she sticks to other people’s stories. But when her college mentor, Mhairi McCallister, needs a cowriter for her memoir about Scotland’s most challenging trek, Brooke will do anything for the opportunity—including agreeing to hike the rugged Skye Trail for authenticity’s sake. What she doesn't know is that the nature photographer who’ll join her is Jack Sutherland, the teaching assistant who shattered Brooke’s writing career—and her heart.
Between falling for a student despite university rules and walking away from his family’s tour-guiding business to follow his photography dreams, Jack is desperate to prove he didn’t disappoint everyone for nothing. And he can’t ignore his aunt Mhairi’s final wishes for her memoir. Even if it means acting as guide and storyteller for the one who got away. Even if it means keeping secrets about Mhairi’s health.
As Jack and Brooke head into the solitude of the sweeping Scottish landscape, they’re forced to confront old feelings that haven’t disappeared with time. But can two weeks and eighty miles heal years of unspoken hurt and offer a second chance at the end of the trail?
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The Love Simulation
Series: None
Author: Etta Easton
March 4th 2025 by Berkley
A passionate vice principal and a guarded science teacher compete for a grand prize, only to realize their budding relationship might be the real jackpot.
Brianna Rogers has been told a time (or six) she needs to stop jumping into things head first. But when the principal rescinds his approval for a library upgrade, deciding to spend the money on a football field instead, she sees red. Literally. Brianna throws her hat in the ring and joins a team of teachers who will spend their summer in a Mars simulation. As the sister of an astronaut, this should be easy, right? What she didn’t count on was the last-minute addition to the team—Roman: science teacher, son of the principal, and too handsome for his own good.
Roman and Brianna have been hot and cold all year, and living in close quarters intensifies their animosity and attraction. Brianna is sure he’s been sent by his father to sabotage them, foiling their chance at prize money that will cover all of the school’s actual needs. But each day, Roman proves himself to be a dedicated teammate—and Brianna finds herself falling harder and harder. While it’s clear the feeling is mutual, she can’t shake the sense that he’s hiding something. As the simulation nears its end, Brianna realizes she may have to make an impossible choice, between the school she’s dedicated herself to, and the man who has won his way into her heart.
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Waiting for a Girl Like You
Series: None
Author: Katie Delahanty
March 5th 2025 by Make it Come True, LLC
Finding love. Finding yourself. And embracing everything in between.
Nobody is better at keeping a wedding drama-free than undercover bridesmaid Gwendoline Watson.
Unfortunately, being a bridesmaid-for-hire doesn’t exactly pay off law school loans, despite the job giving Gwen time to indulge in her writing for her music platform Shut Up & Sway.
Since thirteen subscribers don’t add up to a lucrative career, she agrees to work overtime at a destination wedding to pay for her cat’s emergency surgery. There could be worse ways to make money—or so Gwen thinks until she lands on the dreamy Italian coast and learns the groom is the first love who broke her heart.
Duncan Avila is a wedding singer with a modern yacht-rock vibe whose voice can make any bridesmaid fall at his feet. Except the one he really wants.
Between hilarious day trips to matchmake the mismatched bride and groom and swoony late-night schemes to help Duncan’s dreams come true, is Gwen destined to always be the bridesmaid in life and love? Or is everything she ever wanted right there in front of her, just waiting for a girl like her?
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Lady Graceless
Series: A Series of Senseless Complications #2
Author: Kate Archer
March 7th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
He’s shipwrecked himself on a beach. She happens to be standing on that beach. A beginning that dreams are made of, had he not a cousin who wants his title.
The Duke of Pelham is once more poised to bring the Nicolets to London and assault society once more. He’s got seven daughters to get rid of, and now he’s on to number two. Lady Grace Nicolet will make her debut. Unfortunately, she has the unique ability to find herself on the floor at the most awkward moments. She lives in terror that people will notice her clumsiness and make a joke of her name.
As the Nicolets set off from the Yorkshire Dales, the duke has the idea to meander to the coast so his girls might get their first glimpse of the sea. On arrival, they get more of a view than they’d anticipated. Miles Delatore, Viscount Dashlend, eldest son of the Earl of Gravesend, has spent two days adrift in his sloop and has just washed up on the beach. A duke’s daughter on her way to Town to find her husband encounters the heir to an earldom? They find each other wildly attractive and exceedingly genial? There is every reason in the world that a match should proceed.
Of course, it would, if it were not for a certain Baron Montclave. That fellow will become the Earl of Gravesend’s heir—if Dashlend dies before producing an issue. Thus far, it has seemed a likely eventuality, as Dashlend has been busy putting his life in danger in every conceivable manner. Montclave’s hopes had leapt to the sky when his cousin was reported lost at sea. But then, Dashlend did not stay lost.
Is Montclave to sit back and simply watch his future fade away?
A determined lord, a dizzy lady, and a desperate climber take the ton on another unnecessarily fraught ride through London’s season.
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Here Comes Trouble
Series: None
Author: Christy McKellen
March 9th 2025 by Boldwood Books
Sometimes it’s fun to kiss and tell!
Sensible journalist Jess is not a rule breaker, especially where her career is involved. But trying to extract a tell-all interview from notorious artist and bad boy Xander Heaton is going to test her patience… and self-control. Because she must, at all costs remain professional, respectable and stay focused on the job at hand.
But it’s not long before Jess realizes that Xander spells trouble with a capital T and is living up to his tempting reputation! Trying to keep her distance, Jess decides that maybe she could break her golden rule, just this once to get Xander out of her system and her job back on track. But one night is never enough! And she learns that actually breaking her rules once in a while can lead to more fun than sticking to them!
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Just One Season
Series: None
Author: Chrissy Hopewell
March 10th 2025 by Fox Hollow Publishing LLC
One day Lucy Knox is traveling across the country to escape her old life, and the next she’s fake dating Kellen Bassey, her brother’s pro hockey teammate. The couple is being gleefully managed by a committee of his teammates and her friends who vote on every move of “Kellcy”. But it’s the perfect way to show her ex—and her father—that she’s better off without them.
Single dad Kellen is determined to keep his spot on the Blizzard NHL team so he can stay near his daughter’s doctors. But when the team owner’s wife sets her sights on Kellen, he needs to deflect her attention.
As their fake dating scheme intertwines their lives—complete with Lucy coaching Kellen’s daughter’s kindergarten soccer team—the line between pretend and real starts to blur. Should Lucy follow her dream job to England, or risk her heart again in Colorado? And can Kellen trust himself to let someone in, or will their love be benched before it gets a chance to play?
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My Big Fat Fake Marriage
Series: None
Author: Charlotte Stein
March 11th 2025 by St. Martin's Griffin
Something has to give... Could it be her heart?
Connie has always distrusted nice guys. In her experience, they’re just waiting to reveal some horrible secret. And then she meets big, adorable, Henry Samuel Beckett—editor extraordinaire, lover of bow ties, sweet and so cheery she struggles to believe he’s real.
Until Henry Samuel Beckett—or Beck, as he’s known to most—tells her the secret underneath his sunny surface: He’s been single all his life. But in a moment of panic, he’s told everyone at his publishing house that he’s married. And when Connie, an aspiring writer herself, can’t help defending him, she ends up being the fake wife he doesn’t actually have.
When they head off on a writing retreat, surrounded by people convinced this must be a ruse, both of them can't help but agree. Until they share their first kiss, their first touch, their first time in only one bed. Side by side, every night, as the simmering tension builds…Connie starts to wonder if this might be real after all.
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Hard to Get
Series: Big Love from Galway #3
Author: Laura Moher
March 11th 2025 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
Tender, sexy, Southern small town romance that’s for everyone who’s ever had trouble trusting in love—or trusting in themselves.
Single and determined to stay that way, Andi Salazar treasures her independence, her charming small town and the dedication to hard work she inherited from her beloved Gram. To blow off steam, she occasionally takes the stage as a voluptuous bombshell singer who can rev you up even as she breaks your heart with a song.
Big, blond math teacher Kevin Mahoney is fresh off a bad breakup when he moves to Galway, NC. The school year’s about to start, and he’s determined to find the real Kev, not the “vanilla” guy his ex-fiancée didn’t want to marry. When he sees Andi onstage and then collides with her in the hallway, he damn near bursts into flame, and their hot, sweet hookup leaves him wanting more.
The man is entirely too attractive though—too endearing—so Andi breaks it off with very firm “no" to a second date. But when their work brings them together again, Andi and Kevin slowly embark on a friendship instead. Andi’s beginning to trust a man for the first time in maybe ever. Kevin’s beginning to enjoy having opinions of his own– and squabbling about them with his new friend. Silently they both yearn for more, even though they realize friendship is safer. But then an unexpected pregnancy turns their lives upside down in the best way possible.
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Four Steps to the Perfect Fake Date
Series: None
Author: Lilian Monroe
March 11th 2025 by Montlake
From the author of Four Steps to the Perfect Revenge comes a deliciously witty and lighthearted romance brimming with misadventures, misdeeds, misunderstandings…and one perfectly mismatched couple.
A notorious rule follower, the old Daphne Davis could do no wrong. But lately she can’t get anything right.
Jilted by her ex, ousted from her home, and laid off from her job, Daphne retreats to her little hometown, Fernley Island. But even there, she feels out of sync. So, bailing on her own sister’s engagement party, she suddenly embraces a brand-new no more goody-two-shoes.
Unfortunately, Daphne’s new mantra lands her squarely in the headlights—literally—of her high school nemesis, Calvin Flint. No longer a scrawny jerk, he’s Fernley’s acting sheriff, filling out his uniform waaay better than he ought to.
He’s also Daphne’s new boss.
As Daphne balances the books after a department scandal, a series of mishaps throws her and Calvin together. The sparks that fly take them both by surprise. But will a fake dating scheme and quest for a stolen heirloom ruin their chance at something real?
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Homegrown Magic
Series: Homegrown Magic #1
Author: Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos
March 11th 2025 by Del Rey
A delightful queer romantic fantasy full of friends-to-lovers chemistry, found family, rival family drama, and cozy garden magic from two acclaimed YA authors making their debut in the adult space.
Yael Clauneck is the only scion of an obscenely wealthy banking family with its fingers in every pie in the realm. They’re on the precipice of a predetermined life when they flee their own graduation party, galloping away in search of…well, they’re not sure, but maybe the chance to feel like life can still be a grand adventure.
Margot Greenwillow—talented plant witch, tea lover, and greenhouse owner—has never felt further from adventure in her life. She’s been desperately trying to keep what remains of her family's magic remedies business afloat. So when her childhood friend and former crush, Yael, rides back into her life, she’s shocked. But perhaps this could be a good thing. After all, Margot could use an assistant in the greenhouses.
Yael has no experience or, honestly, practical skills, but they’re delighted to accept. They can lay low for a while, flirting with Margot while they figure out what to do next. Meanwhile, Margot has plans of her own—but plans are notoriously unreliable things, unlikely to survive a swiftly blooming mutual attraction, not to mention the machinations of parents determined to get their heir back . . . no matter the cost.
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Every Borrowed Beat
Series: None
Author: Erin Stewart
March 11th 2025 by Delacorte Press
For fans of FIVE FEET APART, this emotional and romantic YA offers an unflinching look at not only the realities of heart failure, but at memory, grief, guilt, and what it means to live—in spite of another, because of another, for another. For yourself.
Sydney Wells should have died. She was supposed to die.
She never expected, after years of waiting, to receive a heart transplant. Now, seventeen-year-old Sydney doesn’t know what to do with her life. Her daily routine consisted of staying indoors, eating heart-healthy foods, and posting about her transplant list experiences on TheWaitingList with her long-distance BFF (and heart failure buddy) Chloe.
Now, Sydney latches onto the one thing that gives her learning as much as she can about the person whose heart she inherited. After finding the family of her likely-donor, Mia, Sydney falls deep into her world—and may also be falling for Mia's best friend, Clayton.
But Sydney isn’t the only one hiding something. Mia’s brother Tanner won’t talk to Clayton, and Clayton won’t tell Mia why. And hundreds of miles away, Chloe’s health has taken a turn for the worse. Sydney needs to face what’s in her heart—the truth, the guilt, and the future—before it’s too late.
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Fan Service
Series: None
Author: Rosie Danan
March 11th 2025 by Piatkus
The truth is stranger than fan fiction in this sexy paranormal rom-com.
The only place small-town outcast Alex Lawson fits in is the online fan forum she built for The Arcane Files, a long-running werewolf detective show. Her dedication to archiving fictional supernatural lore made her Internet-famous, even if she harbors a secret disdain for the show’s star, Devin Ashwood. (Never meet your heroes—sometimes they turn out to be The Worst.)
Ever since his show went off the air, Devin and his career have spiraled, but waking up naked in the woods outside his LA home with no memory of the night before is a new low. It must have been a coincidence that the once-in-a-century Wolf Blood Moon crested last night. The claws, fangs, and howling are a little more difficult to explain away. Desperate for answers, Devin finds Alex—the closest thing to an expert that exists. If only he could convince her to stop hating his guts long enough to help....
Once he makes her an offer she can’t refuse, these reluctant allies lower their guards trying to wrangle his inner beast. Unfortunately, getting up close and personal quickly comes back to bite them.
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Love Off Script
Series: None
Author: Laura Starkey
March 11th 2025 by Embla Books
She's just a script consultant, standing in front of a director, asking him to step back and let her do her job...
Jess should have known better than to fall for the English department's silver fox, but now she's left picking up the pieces after catching him cheating with a student and stealing the credit for her research paper. Desperate for a fresh start, she accepts a job as a script consultant on a new TV adaptation of the Regency novel, Anne of Arden - and no one knows Georgiana Scott's work better than she does.
Swapping the world of academia for the glamour of TV is supposed to be her big comeback. But standing in her way is Nathan Lambert, a famous director on a mission to sabotage his unfaithful ex-wife's latest work project.
As the two knock heads over every detail of the script, sparks fly, tempers flare, and their unexpected chemistry is anything but scripted. In a world where the lines between reality and fiction blur, can Jess and Nathan rewrite their own happy ending?
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Fallen Hearts
Series: The Bachelor Pact #1
Author: Cissy Mecca
March 13th 2025 by Boldwood Books
Bachelor best friends and steamy romance . . . Welcome to Cedar Falls. The emotionally riveting, uplifting and spicy small-town series from Cissy Mecca. Perfect for fans of Lucy Score, Elise Silver and Lauren Asher.
Rule one of the Bachelor Pact is Never fall in love.
Temporarily returning home to Cedar Falls comes with mixed emotions. But having to work alongside the distractingly beautiful Pia, hired by my father before his unexpected death to run and restore my family’s inn, is a test I could do without. I don’t need help, especially from a stranger whose delectable body is inviting me to forget the most important rule of the Bachelor Pact.
I learned early on to avoid attachments, and Pia is completely off-limits. I’m technically her boss. Working together to renovate the crumbling inn, I try to shield my heart and ignore my body’s traitorous responses. But Pia's laughter fills the dusty halls, melting my defences and testing my iron-clad resolve. But as each day passes, the thought of returning to my old life as a cop in the city and leaving Pia becomes more and more difficult. Now, with my future and an age-old promise on the line, I'm left wondering if I should finally crack open the door to love I sealed so long ago.
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Close Protection
Series: None
Author: Eden Victoria
March 13th 2025 by Gallery YA
Being the heiress of Greenway Discoveries, Daphne Green has always lived a life of privilege. But when there is a break-in at her father’s office, he enlists the service of Milosh Petrov to guard her as a precaution. Just a precaution . . .
Assertive and straight-talking Milosh takes his job keep them safe and walk away. But when he’s tasked with posing as a close protection officer for Daphne, walking away starts to feel impossible. And when the threat against her life becomes very real, Milosh vows to do whatever it takes to keep her safe.
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Her Brooding Duke
Series: The Worthington Legacy #7
Author: Marie Higgins
March 15th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Two strangers bound by fate—a duke haunted by distrust, and a woman with no memory—must unlock the secrets of her past to heal their hearts.
Louisa wakes from a deep, heavy fog, surrounded by strangers and horrified to discover she’s been the sole victim of a terrible buggy accident. Worse… she remembers nothing. But oddly enough, she trusts her rescuer and feels protected in his presence.
Trevor Worthington, Duke of Kenbridge, can’t trust women. Yet after nearly killing the amnesiac Louisa, he has little choice but to open his home to her. His heart softens to the straggly woman in beggar’s garb as he strives to help her regain her memory.
As proof of Louisa’s scars, both physical and those lurking beneath the surface, come to light, Trevor finds himself more and more drawn to the mysterious woman. However, he is hesitant to enter another nightmarish entanglement like his first marriage.
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Sam Squared
Series: None
Author: Cindy Dorminy
March 17th 2025 by Red Adept Publishing, LLC
Falling in love should be easy as Pi.
Seventeen-year-old Samantha Baughman has one month to raise her GPA, or she can kiss her coveted Auburn basketball scholarship goodbye. Her only hope lies with her high school’s resident bad boy—and closet genius—Samuel King.
The last thing Samuel wants is to get tangled in anyone else’s problems. But when he gets caught helping another student cheat, his teacher offers him a get-out-of-jail-free card. With a one-way ticket to boarding school as his only other option, Samuel reluctantly agrees to tutor Samantha… with one stipulation. They have to keep their arrangement on the down-low. No one can know about their study sessions, especially Samantha’s overprotective brother, who has already warned Samuel to stay away from his sister.
As the “Sams” spend more time together, their playful banter turns into genuine attraction, including one extra-credit-worthy kiss. But Samantha’s brother’s threats send Samuel backpedaling so fast that he denies their encounter ever happened. Now, it’s game on for Samantha to get him to confess. She may need his help to pass her classes, but he’s the one who needs schooling in matters of the heart.
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Spring Fling
Series: None
Author: Annie England Noblin
March 18th 2025 by Avon
Rekindle your belief in the magic of first love and the charm of small towns with Annie England Noblin’s delightful friends-to-lovers romantic comedy, perfect for readers of Jill Shalvis and Sarah Adams.
Spring is in the air and Mylie has everything she could ever want: her tackle shop is thriving and employs a third of Clay Creek, Arkansas, and she lives with her beloved Granny and little sister Cassie, who both keep her on her toes. As tourists pour into town for the annual fishing tournament, Mylie is in her element and ready to bring her all-women team to victory.
After moving to Chicago, Ben never thought he would return to Clay Creek. But with both his grandfather and mother gone, he’s left to deal with their estate. His plan is simple: come in quietly, fix up his lakeside childhood home, sell it quickly, and get out. He underestimates how quickly his arrival will stir up the local gossip, and how intensely his unresolved feelings for Mylie, his childhood best friend, will resurface.
Amid the buzz of competition and the rhythm of small-town life, Mylie and Ben find themselves unable to ignore their shared history. They tentatively explore a future together, despite the impending sale of Ben’s house and Mylie’s insistence on staying put in Clay Creek. Flings are easier said than done, and Mylie and Ben will have to address their clashing lifestyles before their feelings get away from them.
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Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder
Series: None
Author: Bellamy Rose
March 18th 2025 by Atria/Emily Bestler Books
A spoiled heiress must investigate her grandmother’s death in order to gain back her trust fund, all while discovering how to be her own person and maybe even in falling in love in this rom-com meets murder mystery.
When Pomona Afton, Upper East Side hotel heiress, stumbles out of a gala and upon the scene of her grandmother’s murder, her first thought is that the society queen won’t be missed for her kind, cookie-baking ways. In fact, she was mean, greedy, and paranoid—so paranoid that she secretly slipped a clause into her will mandating that, should she die an unnatural death, all the family assets get frozen. And if the “unnatural death” isn’t explained? Those accounts stay frozen.
Practically overnight, Pomona is locked out of her penthouse with no other option than to move in with a Gabe, the irritable (yet handsome) son of her former nanny. Not only is his apartment cramped, but it doesn’t even have a doorman. Or a chef! Pom needs someone to solve this murder, like, yesterday, so she can get her trust fund back.
And Gabe? He needs this murder solved because that’s the only way his mother, who toiled for the Afton family for years, will ever get the retirement money she deserves. As Pom’s family clams up, blocking the police at every turn, Pom quickly realizes that if she wants her glamorous life back, she’s going to have to put on her big-girl Manolos and do it herself…with the help of Gabe, who she’s falling for more and more by the day.
Can Pomona Afton (who previously couldn’t solve a crossword in the bath on a hungover Sunday) actually solve this murder? And if she does return to her former life of luxury, will it be worth the possibility of losing Gabe?
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Fake It Like You Mean It
Series: None
Author: Megan Murphy
March 18th 2025 by Alcove Press
Fake dating, enemies to lovers, and a wonderfully unique forced proximity debut romance, perfect for fans of Elena Armas’s The American Roommate Experiment and Drew Barrymore’s classic rom-com Fifty First Dates.
Elle’s grandmother Lovie has always taken care of her, as long as she can remember. But remembering is just the problem. With Lovie’s Alzheimer’s progressing fast, it’s Elle’s turn to step up.
Leaving Chicago behind, the last thing she expects when she walks through the door of her childhood home is Adam Wheeler—in her bed. Live-in nurse and pain in the ass, Adam is here to do his job. Eat, sleep, nurse, repeat.
Thrown together to care for Lovie, tensions rise and lines are drawn, but there’s a bigger problem: in her Alzheimer’s riddled mind, Lovie’s convinced that Elle and Adam are madly in love.
Certain she’ll forget by morning, Elle and Adam play along. The only snag? She doesn’t.
Lovie is the only person who thinks this fake dating scheme is real…so why is Elle fantasizing about Adam when he’s not around? And why is it getting harder to pretend?
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Love at First Flight
Series: None
Author: Jo Watson
March 18th 2025 by W by Wattpad Books
Things Pippa her job, airplanes, synonyms and tropical fish.
Things Pippa does not enjoy: repeating patterns, tight clothes, people asking why she's single and school reunions.
After six months of only speaking over intercom, when air-traffic controller Pippa Edwards finally meets pilot Andrew Boyce-Jones face-to-face, they discover they've got much more in common than simply working at the same airport. In fact . . . they both need a date.
Tired of every relationship ending before it's even begun, Pippa wants to evade the inevitable questions at her dreaded ten-year school reunion in Cape Town. And Andrew needs to get his well-meaning family off his back about settling down.
The solution seems simple. A pact - a fake dating pact - for as long as it's mutually beneficial. It's perfect.
Or at least it would be if their very real attraction wasn't about to make Pippa question everything she thought she wanted. . .
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True Life in Uncanny Valley
Series: None
Author: Deb Caletti
March 18th 2025 by Labyrinth Road
From the acclaimed author of A Heart in a Body in the World comes the gripping story of a girl living a lie in order to find the truth about her family and herself.
Eleanor, like so many others, is used to watching her famous father from afar. To the world, Hugo Harrison is the brilliant and charismatic tech genius whose AI inventions seem to create a new, better reality. But to Eleanor, whose mother had an affair with Hugo years ago, he is something even more intriguing, and dangerous—a secret.
When Eleanor’s spying leads her to a posting for a live-in summer nanny job for Hugo's young son—her half-brother—she knows she has to apply. This is finally her chance to learn about her father, his family, and the life that could have been hers. She only has to do one become someone else. With just a few well-placed lies, Eleanor is catapulted into an unfamiliar, intoxicating whirlwind of money and ego, and into a new romance with a cute boy who works for Hugo. But in a place where image is everything and reality can be rewritten, is anything real—even the Harrisons themselves?
Caught between her own secrets and the ones she’s uncovering about her father and his latest invention, Eleanor faces a question that technology can't what is your true self, and how do you know when you find her?
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Hangry Hearts
Series: None
Author: Jennifer Chen
March 18th 2025 by Wednesday Books
Love, family, and food collide in this sparkling Romeo and Juliet-inspired romance.
Julie Wu and Randall Hur used to be best friends. Now they only see each other on Saturdays at the Pasadena Farmers Market where their once close families are long-standing rivals.
When Julie and Randall are paired with ultra-rich London Kim for a community-service school project, they are forced to work together for the first time in years. It quickly becomes obvious that London has a major crush on Julie. But Julie can’t stop thinking about Randall. And Randall can’t stop thinking about how London is thinking about Julie. Soon, prompted by a little jealousy and years of missing each other, school project meetings turn into pseudo dates at their favorite Taiwanese breakfast shop and then secret kisses at the beach—far from the watchful eyes of their families.
Just as they’re finally feeling brave enough to tell their grandmas, the two matriarchs rehash their old fight and Julie and Randall get caught in the middle and Julie’s brother finds out they are dating. Their families are heartbroken.
But it’s the Year of the Dragon, an auspicious time to resolve disagreements and start anew, and Randall isn’t going down without fighting for what—and who—they love. Could the Lunar New Year provide not only a second chance for Randall and Julie, but for their families as well?
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Rules for a Bastard Lord
Series: Rogues Gambit #2
Author: Katherine Lyons
March 18th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
A bastard can protect a lady, but dare he love her?
Bram Hallowsby has spent his life knowing his place. As the duke's illegitimate son, he's carved out a precarious position serving society from its shadows. When he meets the newly-discovered granddaughter of the Earl of Cavener, he recognizes a woman who deserves better than the scandal of loving a bastard.
Maybelle Ballenger awakens feelings Bram has denied his entire life. Though he can protect her, guide her through society's treacherous waters, and even warm her bed in secret, he knows he must never claim her openly. A bastard's love would destroy her chance at the life she deserves.
But as Maybelle's suitors circle and pressure mounts for her to make an advantageous match, Bram faces an impossible step aside and watch another man claim the woman he loves, or defy society's strictures and risk destroying them both.
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Code Word Romance
Series: None
Author: Carlie Walker
March 20th 2025 by Orion
Two exes.
One mission.
A trip she'll never forget...
Max is just your average girl. She works odd jobs, has a soul-crushing amount of debt and just happens to have an uncanny resemblance to Europe's youngest female prime minister, Sofia Christensen . . .
So when the prime minister receives a credible death threat, the CIA approaches Max with a a life-changing amount of money if she pretends to be Sofia on the prime minister's annual Italian trip.
It would be a dream if it weren't for those pesky assassins and Flynn, Max's ridiculously hot handler - the man who broke her heart years and years ago.
With her life now on the line, Max knows she has no choice but to lose herself in the role. But losing her heart to Flynn again? Now that's a risk that she isn't willing to take . . .
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Falling Fast
Series: None
Author: Jenni Fletcher
March 20th 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd
Formula 1 superfan Ava Yearwood can’t quite believe her luck when she lands a job at Rask Racing.
Ava loves everything about working for the team . . . everything except their devastatingly attractive driver, Leif Olsen. His cold, brooding attitude should put her off, but frustratingly sparks fly during their every interaction.
Ever the professional, Ava is determined to avoid Leif at all costs. But when she’s assigned as his Media Officer, there’s just no getting away from him – and the flames smouldering between them begin to heat up…
Can Ava and Leif keep their careers on track, or will their insane chemistry steer them both off-course?
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Loving an Earl
Series: Widows of Mayfair #1
Author: Christine Donovan
March 22nd 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Entering London Society for the first time as a young, wide-eyed widow—will the ton eat her alive?
Lilliana St. Claire finds herself orphaned and married to an elderly earl days later. Lord Henry Langford, her deceased father’s closest friend, is her savior, and their marriage is one of convenience. Lilly will care for Henry in his advancing years, and he will prepare her for a life within the Beau Monde when she becomes his widow. Sadly, the title belongs to her only one year later at the tender age of eighteen.
Edmund Weston, the new Earl of Langford, returns from the West Indies to the news of his uncle’s death and that he has taken a wife. He arrives at Langford Manor in Kent, expecting an older woman, and is flabbergasted to find a mere slip of a girl. Tempers flare, and he accuses Lilly of tricking his uncle into marrying her and stealing from the earldom.
Furious, Lilly flees to London. After her year of mourning ends, she prepares to take on the ton with as much confidence as she can muster. But to Lilly’s dismay, the first gentleman who captures her interest is none other than her nemesis, and she struggles to equate this handsome, impressive earl with the man who had spewed such horrible accusations at her the year before.
Lilly and Edmund dance around each other during the season, each with their own secrets to hide, trying their best to ignore their growing attraction. However, sometimes fate has other plans.
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I Knew You Were Trouble
Series: Ever After Agency #5
Author: Sandy Barker
March 23rd 2025 by Boldwood Books
Don’t get mad. Get even.
Kate Whitaker has always believed in love, but when a stranger named Willem shows up on her doorstep, the news he has to share isn’t as exciting as his god-like looks might suggest. He’s come to tell her that Kate’s fiancé is also engaged to his sister.
Kate doesn't know how she didn’t see the red flags: Jon’s work as an airline pilot having him flying around the globe, the postponed dates, the huge rock of an engagement ring that isn’t her style at all.
Overcome with fury – and entranced by the Nordic god’s piercing blue eyes and quiet allure – Kate agrees to accompany Willem to his hometown of Amsterdam to help break the news to his sister. Yet what begins as a simple gesture of support soon twists into a deliciously devious plan to get back at Jon.
Kate is drawn into a world of retribution, revenge and – unexpectedly – romance. Because sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else…
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Our Dear Miss H. Is on the Case
Series: None
Author: Violet Marsh
March 25th 2025 by Forever
The second book in this delightfully witty historical rom-com series combines scandalous mystery with swoony opposites-attract romance—perfect for fans Enola Holmes and Bridgerton!
Georgina Harrington should never have trusted her feckless cousin Percy with her most precious archaeological discovery. But no one would take her academic work seriously if they knew it was hers and not her male cousin’s. When Percy goes missing, only Georgina realizes that he is truly in danger. And to find him, she must rely on the help of his infuriating but incredibly attractive best friend.
Although Alexander Lovett is always up for an adventure, he vows to keep his distance from Georgina, who is on his insufferable parents’ list of suitable brides for a future duke. He’s a grown man who can pick his own wife, thank you very much. But he’s surprised to find himself falling for Georgina’s surprisingly bold initiative and independent thinking that save them from more than one deadly scrape. Yet as a simple kidnapping grows into a threat to the monarchy, their smoldering attraction might be snuffed out before it ever has a chance to ignite.
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Just Our Luck
Series: None
Author: Denise Williams
March 25th 2025 by Berkley
A lottery ticket + donuts = love in this steamy new fake dating romance from beloved author Denise Williams.
Who needs love? Not Sybil Sweet. After years of bouncing from job to job in search of something that feels right and from man to man in search of something special, Sybil is embracing her role as the directionless, floundering member of her family. All she really wants now is a little financial stability and carb comfort. Lucky for her, she’s got just enough in the bank to buy a lottery ticket, and the late-night donut store is open.
Kiran Anderson abandoned his dreams of becoming a doctor to take over running his family’s bakery, and after two years of fighting a losing battle to save the place, he’s exhausted and broke. But when a whirlwind of a woman sweeps in late one night, flirty energy gives way to more…until she runs out the next morning, leaving behind her winning lottery ticket.
Lucky for Kiran, his attempt to return the ticket looks like a grand romantic gesture and goes viral, sending sales through the roof. In an effort to keep the store afloat and to get Sybil’s family off of her back, they agree to fake a relationship for three months. Even with hundreds of millions of dollars, finding each other might end up being the sweetest bit of luck for both of them.
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The Prince and the Player
Series: Prince Pact #1
Author: Nora Phoenix
March 25th 2025 by Boldwood Books
The royally romantic, enemies-to-lovers college romance for fans of Casey McQuiston, Alexis Hall and Jax Calder. I’m determined to win over the one guy who hates me…but I never expected to fall for him
Being a prince may seem like a fairytale, but to me, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. That’s why I’m excited when I get permission from my uncle—the king of Norway—to go undercover as a student at an American college for a year. And I’m even more ecstatic to be selected for their football team. Soccer, I mean. The only problem? Farron, the team captain, dislikes me on sight. Determined to win him over, I start a charm offensive, but nothing works. He only hates me more.
Until the animosity comes to an explosive release…and we end up kissing each other. How did that happen when neither of us has ever been attracted to a guy before? Farron wants to let it run its course and get it out of our system, but I doubt that’ll work. I’m falling for him hard, but he has no idea who I really am. I fear that if he finds out, he’ll never speak to me again…
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The Lady Sparks a Flame
Series: The Damsels of Discovery #2
Author: Elizabeth Everett
March 25th 2025 by Berkley
A Lady with a past. A man with ambition. A romance far from London society that might bridge their divides.
Lady Phoebe Hunt never anticipated returning from exile. A fatal choice drove her from England, but the death of her father—and the revelation of his debts—has brought her home. Once she settles her father’s estate, she will return to America, where she has reinvented herself. There’s no reason to remain, not even for one gravitationally challenged but deliciously tempting Sam Fenley.
Samuel Fenley is all ambition. Rising from shop boy to wealthy investor, he’s left knocking on doors that open only for those with a title. Unless he buys the damned door itself—and the estate that goes with it. Sam offers to relieve Phoebe of her burdens, but is her crumbling mansion all Sam wants? Or is it the Lady herself?
When threats from Phoebe’s past spark new dangers, Sam and Phoebe discover that neither is what the other expected. Standing on the edge of disaster, the disgraced Ice Queen will have to decide if she wants to forge through life alone, or let an unlikely hero melt her heart.
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A Witch's Guide to Love and Poison
Series: None
Author: Aamna Qureshi
March 27th 2025 by Hodder Children's Books
Bisma knows three things to be true: the Enchanted Forest will always be her home, she would go to the ends of the Earth to protect her sisters, and Xander Chapman is the most irritating guy she's ever met.
Since finding a home in the Enchanted Forest, Bisma - a garden witch with a penchant for potions - has always been protective of other runaways. So, if a drop of one of her poisons finds its way into the porridge of those who have hurt them . . . that's none of her business.
But Xander, the charmingly handsome son of the apothecary, sees things differently and is fast becoming known for creating cures - much to Bisma's annoyance.
When her sisters are poisoned themselves, Bisma will need to put her feelings aside and enlist Xander's help to find out who is responsible and save the only family she has, before it's too late.
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Kilted Lovers
Series: None
Author: Megan Clawson
March 27th 2025 by Avon
The brilliant new novel from the Queen of royal-rom-coms!
All Lady Alice Walpole wants is to be swept off her feet, but she keeps finding herself on one bad date after another. And when she’s caught partying too hard with her latest royal beau, her father banishes her to Balmoral to clean up her act.
Fraser Bell just wants to do his job as Piper to the Sovereign at Balmoral. He prefers tartan to tuxedos, and spends his days with horses rather than dealing with people, so when he’s assigned to wake Alice up to the sound of bagpipes every morning, he’s less than pleased.
But as her time in Scotland stretches on, Alice finds herself falling for the rugged landscape – and maybe even Fraser, too. Soon, returning to her glittering but empty life in London sounds less like an escape, and more like a punishment.
She wears tiaras, and he wears tartan, but for this unlikely couple, can romance ever reign?
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The Jerk in Apartment 1B
Series: None
Author: Allie Everhart
March 27th 2025 by Allie Everhart
The guy next door is a total jerk. And I dated him!
When I moved into my apartment, I couldn’t stand my new neighbor with his loud music and wild parties. Then I got to know him and somehow ended up falling for him!
Scott’s the kind of guy that makes you forget all the reasons you hate him. He's hot, confident, and has a smile that makes you agree to things you shouldn’t. He convinced me to work for him, then go out with him, and before I knew it... I was dating him!
We didn’t call it that though, because Scott doesn’t date. He’s not a relationship guy, so we agreed to keep it casual.
Turns out, I can’t do casual. And just as I was about to confess my feelings, I found out the real reason Scott won’t let himself be with me.
I thought he was just afraid to commit, but it’s more complicated than that. Now I'm faced with a difficult decision. Do I try to change his mind about us, or is it best to let him go?
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Lord Fournier's Shameless Princess
Series: Scarlett Affairs #4
Author: Cerise DeLand
March 27th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Driven by duty, he rushes to help her.
Elizabeth von Rittenburg—Liesel, as she is known—is a princess with a plan. She’ll save her sisters and young brother from the French who would abduct and ransom them to get her renegade older brother, Crown Prince Rainer to turn himself in to the French.
Liesel has always made her own rules, disrupting London society and refusing to marry her betrothed, a dyspeptic British prince. She ignores those who would dampen her exuberant nature. Now to save her family, she will do anything, even barge into a stranger’s bathing room and upbraid him for his failures, while the poor fellow stands before her naked.
Torn by desire, he must save her, then leave her…if he can bear to let her go.
Dirk, Lord Fournier is heaven to look at. A charming devil to be near. But he agrees to help her. After all, rescuing dispossessed European royalty from the clutches of the French is his specialty.
He’s failed at so much else, but he’ll do her bidding. He’ll save her family. He’ll even save her reputation, damn his righteous soul…but must never touch her.
Her fire is enchanting. Her kisses, an ineluctable lure. Still, a crown princess is not for him. He’s a mere baron, English at that, and a spy in Scarlett Hawthorne’s network.
He’s unworthy of Liesel, his reputation tarnished by a lie he ruined a woman, denied her claim and left her alone to bear the shame.
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Dear Alex
Series: None
Author: Miranda Seymour & J-P Jones
March 28th 2025 by The Book Guild
Alex is a disaster, juggling multiple writing jobs and living paycheque to paycheque in one of the world’s most expensive cities: London. Desperate, she applies to write an online advice column for a men’s magazine, landing the role against all odds.
After offering some ill-fated relationship advice to Ryan, she tries to fix her mistake while hiding her identity as his ‘agony uncle’. The two fall for each other, and Alex believes she has finally met the love of her life — but Ryan is in love with a lie.
At the same time, Alex is ghost-writing the biography of Sir John Fenton, a retired Member of Parliament with secrets of his own. As her world unravels, can she help put Sir John’s back together?
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Ellena’s Secret
Series: Ladies of Munro #2
Author: Elizabeth Donne
March 28th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
An arranged marriage, sight unseen… or have they met before?
Viscount George Howell is tired of shallow courtship and whispered mockery. Awkward in conversation and weary of London’s polished façades, he seeks a bride who might accept him for who he truly is. When he learns of Miss Ellena Trenton, dutiful, graceful, and untouched by society’s games, he arranges their betrothal with hope in his heart.
Ellena, however, has no such hope. Raised to expect a joyless union like her parents’, she braces herself for a loveless marriage. But fate intervenes when a carriage mishap leaves her stranded in the woods, alone with a kind stranger she cannot forget.
With trouble stirred by a scheming relative and their engagement unraveling, George and Ellena must decide if the spark they once shared was merely a coincidence… or the start of something lasting.
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Lincoln
Series: The Boys of Castleview Cove #1
Author: V.H. Nicolson
March 29th 2025 by Boldwood Books
Love is for suckers.
It’s one of the reasons I’m here in L.A. on the other side of the world from my home in Scotland and the five-star hotel I run with my dad.
I’m sick of watching everyone else’s happy ever afters from the sidelines. I mean, if my own mother left me as a baby, what hope do I have of finding a woman who wants to stick around?
I’ve spent months traveling, surfing and working on my tan, but my need to work led me to take a temporary job in a gym for six weeks before I fly home.
What could possibly change in six weeks?
Apparently quite a lot.
I could meet someone who rocks my world with her killer curves, hypnotic hips and her purple dresses that leave little to the imagination.
She could ask me to take a leap of faith with her I can’t resist taking.
She could get me so hot and bothered I end up in the emergency room.
She could invite me into her home, introduce me to her dog that looks like a walking cloud, and break me out of my self-inflicted sex sabbatical.
She could show me what it feels like to be loved, so I never want to leave.
Violet West walked into my life and changed things forever. It’s just a shame that good things never last.
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Just About a Rake
Series: Ladies Who Dare #5
Author: Tanya Wilde
March 29th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
She only wants a moment to rule all moments. He only wants whatever light she is willing to shine . . .
Lady Leonora Heart is clever, flirtatious, and always ready to seize a moment—especially when that moment involves a rake. And particularly if that rake is the Earl of Dare. It’s all harmless fun—after all, she has no intention of reforming any man. The only problem? She is drawn to Dare in a way that defies logic. He is dangerous—and not just in the usual rakehell way. No, he is dangerous in a way that makes her pulse race, her breath hitch, and her common sense abandon her entirely.
Rake Sloane, the Earl of Dare, is handsome, hardened, and infamous. He is a rake through and through—one who will never be reformed. The only thing he loathes more than pain is entanglements. Love? Marriage? Never. He refuses to make the same mistakes as his father. But he has one glaring weakness, and her name is Lady Leonora Heart. She is temptation incarnate. A living, breathing complication.
All of this would be well and good, but what happens when you add a scandalous secret, an opinionated parrot, and a mysterious figure returning to London with the power to upend Leonora’s entire world? Why, mayhem, of course.
As secrets unravel and their attraction grows impossible to resist, will history repeat itself, or will love be enough to forge a new future?
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What has caught your eye for March? Have you read any of these? Let me know :)
Series: None
Author: Julie Hatcher
March 1st 2025 by Lake Union Publishing
A bookstore owner discovers that life as a recluse isn’t for everyone in this sharp yet sweet novel about how sometimes you need to abandon the quest for love to find your true passion.
Emma Rini is in a rut so deep she could shelve books there. While her sister awaits her first baby, and her parents kick off retirement with vow renewals and travel, Emma stays put among the stacks of the family bookshop.
In fact, she can’t remember the last time she took a vacation. Or had a romance that hovered above disappointing. When her parents assume she’ll take over the shop for them without a break, she realizes she needs to get away—back to the nineteenth century. Channeling her favorite poet recluse, Emily Dickinson, Emma rents a crumbling manor house outside Amherst where she can learn how to be quietly, blissfully alone.
But becoming a world-weary spinster isn’t easy. She can’t start a fire or reason with the bunnies that are destroying the garden. She finds herself sparring constantly with the grumpy-hot architect who is renovating the manor. And then there’s the secret admirer who keeps sending her complicated floral messages…
No matter what she does, the outside world keeps knocking, and Emma starts to dream about the future. Will she forgo love for the family legacy? And will she shrink away or become the sort of bold person fortune favors?
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Something Like Fate
Series: None
Author: Amy Lea
March 1st 2025 by Skyscape
During a summer in Italy, two best friends discover whether true love is up to destiny or free will in this winning romantic comedy by the international bestselling author of Woke Up Like This.
For generations, the fortune-telling women in Lo Zhao-Jensen’s family have foreseen The One—the great loves of their lives—before ever meeting them. Except for Lo, who has zero psychic abilities. Just memories of old rom-coms and a lot of poor judgment when it comes to love.
Until now.
When Lo finally has the vision she’s been waiting for, her delighted aunties are convinced she’ll meet The One on her backpacking trip in Italy. Vero amore, here she comes.
Along for the summer is Lo’s best friend and confidant, Teller Owens, her opposite in every way. Upon arrival in Venice, Lo is saved from a runaway trolley by Caleb, a fellow backpacker. It’s a meet-cute so swoony, it has to be fate. But with each destination, Lo’s complicated feelings for Teller are becoming harder to ignore. From the cobblestone streets of Rome to the rocky cliffs of Amalfi, Lo begins to wonder if fate has other plans.
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Unlikely Story
Series: None
Author: Ali Rosen
March 1st 2025 by Montlake
From the bestselling author of Recipe for Second Chances comes a swoonworthy romance bursting with wit about a therapist who falls for the wrong man…but perhaps the right one was hiding in the margins all along.
As a relationship therapist, Nora helps patients explore their feelings honestly. But she’s hiding an embarrassing relationship secret of her she’s in love with someone she’s never even met.
J edits the advice column Nora’s been writing anonymously for the last seven years. He’s in London, she’s in New York, and they communicate solely through shared files. When he confides that his girlfriend’s out of the picture, and her boss asks her to come to London, Nora takes both as a sign.
But that’s not the only thing on her mind. A client’s ex-boyfriend just moved into her co-op, directly beneath her. Eli blames Nora for his breakup and seems determined to make her life miserable, gleefully planning a noisy renovation.
Yet despite all his bluster, Nora eventually starts to see the softness behind Eli’s brusque, charming exterior…and after a slipup reveals a startling secret, Nora wonders whether someone can be two things at once.
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A Chance in a Million
Series: The Chances #5
Author: Emily E.K. Murdoch
March 1st 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Thomas Chance, newly minted Duke of Cothrom, isn’t exactly brilliant at spotting chances in a million. For example, he’s gambled away the family fortune.
It’s hardly endeared him to his rule-following father, William, and now Thomas has to gain back the family wealth, earn back his father’s trust, and absolutely not fall in love with the woman whose fortune he’s trying to marry.
Easier said than done.
Fortunately perhaps, Miss Victoria Ainsworth has her wits about her and sees straight through the nobleman with rakish good looks and a devilish reputation. Victoria swiftly sees through Thomas’s ridiculous charade of affection—the man just wants her dowry!
Well. Let him have it. And her.
A marriage of convenience is supposed to be convenient, but there’s nothing more inconvenient for Thomas than the burgeoning emotions he can’t control, or the gossip starting to flicker through Society.
Worse still, Victoria’s con may be fooling more than just Thomas. Is it possible that instead of fooling him…she’s fooling herself?
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Say Cheese
Series: Destination Wedding Trilogy #2
Author: Sheri Tyler
March 3rd 2025 by Flowers and Fullerton
She Wanted Stability. He Thrives on Chaos. Love Was Never Supposed to Be in the Mix.
When librarian-turned-romance-author Rose Oliver tumbles into a pool at a posh wedding, stuntman Sean Ross is there to fish her out—soaked Louboutins and all. Rose is chasing her dream of becoming a bestselling author, but balancing her book deal, her day job, and a long-distance fling with a man who leaps off buildings for fun? That might be a stunt too daring for her.
Sean’s used to keeping relationships short and sweet—after all, his life is one big action sequence. But Rose is smart, funny, and the only woman who’s ever made him consider slowing down. Between whirlwind trips to Paris and decorating Christmas trees, they’re building something real. Until missed calls, canceled plans, and Sean’s high-risk career start threatening their happy ending.
In this flirty, feel-good romcom, opposites don’t just attract—they collide, with sparks flying at every turn. Will Sean and Rose overcome their fears and find forever, or will their love story be one stunt they can’t pull off?
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Wild Side
Series: Rose Hill #3
Author: Elsie Silver
March 4th 2025 by Bloom Books
I’d always dreamed of my wedding day. But not like this. Not looking into the eyes of the man who betrayed me.
But when my nephew’s guardianship is contested, I decide I’ll do whatever it takes to keep him in Rose Hill. Even if it means marrying the enemy.
Rhys Dupris.
A man who is secretive, broody, and completely infuriating. A man whose work takes him away for weeks on end and brings him back covered in mysterious bruises—ones he won’t talk about. In fact, we barely talk at all.
Which would be fine, except when he’s not talking, he’s staring. And the way he looks at me is borderline indecent.
The tension between us has always been palpable. But living under the same roof is a dangerous temptation.
I swore I would never forgive him. But that was before I knew the man behind the mask. The one who’s fierce and protective. The one who’s gentle and patient. The one who shows up for us when we need him most.
He’s not at all who I thought he was.
And that makes hating my husband so much harder… and loving him just a little too easy.
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The Trouble with Anna
Series: None
Author: Rachel Griffiths
March 4th 2025 by Gallery Books
A tart young woman and an arrogant lord collide in this flirty, sexy, and remarkably modern historical romance, perfect for fans of Bridgerton.
Anna didn’t intend to ride in a high-stakes horse race or start up a betting ring. She certainly didn’t mean to find herself in so many darkened corners with Lord Julian Ramsay, quarreling and kissing. But when her grandfather’s strange will stipulates that Anna must marry or she’ll be left broke, there’s nothing she won’t do to win her fight for independence. Even go head-to-head with Lord Ramsay, with her own heart as the prize.
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Promise Me Sunshine
Series: None
Author: Cara Bastone
March 4th 2025 by Dial Press Trade Paperback
Grieving the loss of her best friend, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again, in this heartwarming, slow-burn romance by the author of Ready or Not
Lenny’s a bit of a mess at the moment. Her best friend, Lou, recently passed away after a battle with cancer, and her death has left Lenny feeling completely lost. She’s avoiding her concerned parents, the apartment she shared with Lou, and the list of things she’s supposed to do to help her live again. The only thing she can do is temporary babysitting gigs, and luckily, she just landed a great one, helping overworked, single mom Reese and her precocious daughter, Ainsley. It’s not perfect: Ainsley’s uncle, Miles, always seems to be around, and is kind of... a huge jerk. But if Lenny acts like she has it all together, maybe no one will notice she’s falling apart.
Miles sees right through her though. Turns out, he knows a lot about grief and, surprisingly, he offers her a proposition. He’ll help her complete everything on her “live again” list if she’ll help him connect with Ainsley and overcome his complicated relationship with Reese. Lenny doubts anything can fill the Lou has left behind, but she begins to spend more time with Miles, Lenny is surprised to discover that, sometimes, losing everything is only the first step to finding yourself, and love, again.
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Take a Chance On Me
Series: None
Author: Elizabeth Eulberg
March 4th 2025 by Scholastic Inc.
The international bestselling author of Better Off Friends returns to form with a love story that's Once meets The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
Evie is heartbroken and betrayed when a video of her confronting her cheating ex boyfriend goes viral, so what's a girl to do? Flee to London for the summer, of course! Evie loves everything about London - the double decker buses, afternoon tea, history around every corner. Everything that is but having to stay with the person who's hurt her most of all - her father.
Desperate for a distraction from their contentious relationship, Evie spends her days wandering the historic streets . . . where as though fate is intervening, she keeps meeting a charming and beautiful British busker named Aiden.
Evie doesn't want to open herself up again, but Aiden is funny, kind, and he never treats Evie like she's too much. He may just be worth taking a chance on . . . if Evie can keep her past from getting in the way of her future.
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Scot and Bothered
Series: None
Author: Alexandra Kiley
March 4th 2025 by Canary Street Press
SCOT ON THE TRAIL!
Brooke Sinclair’s dream of being a published author derailed when she was expelled from the University of Edinburgh seven years ago. Now a ghostwriter, she sticks to other people’s stories. But when her college mentor, Mhairi McCallister, needs a cowriter for her memoir about Scotland’s most challenging trek, Brooke will do anything for the opportunity—including agreeing to hike the rugged Skye Trail for authenticity’s sake. What she doesn't know is that the nature photographer who’ll join her is Jack Sutherland, the teaching assistant who shattered Brooke’s writing career—and her heart.
Between falling for a student despite university rules and walking away from his family’s tour-guiding business to follow his photography dreams, Jack is desperate to prove he didn’t disappoint everyone for nothing. And he can’t ignore his aunt Mhairi’s final wishes for her memoir. Even if it means acting as guide and storyteller for the one who got away. Even if it means keeping secrets about Mhairi’s health.
As Jack and Brooke head into the solitude of the sweeping Scottish landscape, they’re forced to confront old feelings that haven’t disappeared with time. But can two weeks and eighty miles heal years of unspoken hurt and offer a second chance at the end of the trail?
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The Love Simulation
Series: None
Author: Etta Easton
March 4th 2025 by Berkley
A passionate vice principal and a guarded science teacher compete for a grand prize, only to realize their budding relationship might be the real jackpot.
Brianna Rogers has been told a time (or six) she needs to stop jumping into things head first. But when the principal rescinds his approval for a library upgrade, deciding to spend the money on a football field instead, she sees red. Literally. Brianna throws her hat in the ring and joins a team of teachers who will spend their summer in a Mars simulation. As the sister of an astronaut, this should be easy, right? What she didn’t count on was the last-minute addition to the team—Roman: science teacher, son of the principal, and too handsome for his own good.
Roman and Brianna have been hot and cold all year, and living in close quarters intensifies their animosity and attraction. Brianna is sure he’s been sent by his father to sabotage them, foiling their chance at prize money that will cover all of the school’s actual needs. But each day, Roman proves himself to be a dedicated teammate—and Brianna finds herself falling harder and harder. While it’s clear the feeling is mutual, she can’t shake the sense that he’s hiding something. As the simulation nears its end, Brianna realizes she may have to make an impossible choice, between the school she’s dedicated herself to, and the man who has won his way into her heart.
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Waiting for a Girl Like You
Series: None
Author: Katie Delahanty
March 5th 2025 by Make it Come True, LLC
Finding love. Finding yourself. And embracing everything in between.
Nobody is better at keeping a wedding drama-free than undercover bridesmaid Gwendoline Watson.
Unfortunately, being a bridesmaid-for-hire doesn’t exactly pay off law school loans, despite the job giving Gwen time to indulge in her writing for her music platform Shut Up & Sway.
Since thirteen subscribers don’t add up to a lucrative career, she agrees to work overtime at a destination wedding to pay for her cat’s emergency surgery. There could be worse ways to make money—or so Gwen thinks until she lands on the dreamy Italian coast and learns the groom is the first love who broke her heart.
Duncan Avila is a wedding singer with a modern yacht-rock vibe whose voice can make any bridesmaid fall at his feet. Except the one he really wants.
Between hilarious day trips to matchmake the mismatched bride and groom and swoony late-night schemes to help Duncan’s dreams come true, is Gwen destined to always be the bridesmaid in life and love? Or is everything she ever wanted right there in front of her, just waiting for a girl like her?
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Lady Graceless
Series: A Series of Senseless Complications #2
Author: Kate Archer
March 7th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
He’s shipwrecked himself on a beach. She happens to be standing on that beach. A beginning that dreams are made of, had he not a cousin who wants his title.
The Duke of Pelham is once more poised to bring the Nicolets to London and assault society once more. He’s got seven daughters to get rid of, and now he’s on to number two. Lady Grace Nicolet will make her debut. Unfortunately, she has the unique ability to find herself on the floor at the most awkward moments. She lives in terror that people will notice her clumsiness and make a joke of her name.
As the Nicolets set off from the Yorkshire Dales, the duke has the idea to meander to the coast so his girls might get their first glimpse of the sea. On arrival, they get more of a view than they’d anticipated. Miles Delatore, Viscount Dashlend, eldest son of the Earl of Gravesend, has spent two days adrift in his sloop and has just washed up on the beach. A duke’s daughter on her way to Town to find her husband encounters the heir to an earldom? They find each other wildly attractive and exceedingly genial? There is every reason in the world that a match should proceed.
Of course, it would, if it were not for a certain Baron Montclave. That fellow will become the Earl of Gravesend’s heir—if Dashlend dies before producing an issue. Thus far, it has seemed a likely eventuality, as Dashlend has been busy putting his life in danger in every conceivable manner. Montclave’s hopes had leapt to the sky when his cousin was reported lost at sea. But then, Dashlend did not stay lost.
Is Montclave to sit back and simply watch his future fade away?
A determined lord, a dizzy lady, and a desperate climber take the ton on another unnecessarily fraught ride through London’s season.
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Here Comes Trouble
Series: None
Author: Christy McKellen
March 9th 2025 by Boldwood Books
Sometimes it’s fun to kiss and tell!
Sensible journalist Jess is not a rule breaker, especially where her career is involved. But trying to extract a tell-all interview from notorious artist and bad boy Xander Heaton is going to test her patience… and self-control. Because she must, at all costs remain professional, respectable and stay focused on the job at hand.
But it’s not long before Jess realizes that Xander spells trouble with a capital T and is living up to his tempting reputation! Trying to keep her distance, Jess decides that maybe she could break her golden rule, just this once to get Xander out of her system and her job back on track. But one night is never enough! And she learns that actually breaking her rules once in a while can lead to more fun than sticking to them!
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Just One Season
Series: None
Author: Chrissy Hopewell
March 10th 2025 by Fox Hollow Publishing LLC
One day Lucy Knox is traveling across the country to escape her old life, and the next she’s fake dating Kellen Bassey, her brother’s pro hockey teammate. The couple is being gleefully managed by a committee of his teammates and her friends who vote on every move of “Kellcy”. But it’s the perfect way to show her ex—and her father—that she’s better off without them.
Single dad Kellen is determined to keep his spot on the Blizzard NHL team so he can stay near his daughter’s doctors. But when the team owner’s wife sets her sights on Kellen, he needs to deflect her attention.
As their fake dating scheme intertwines their lives—complete with Lucy coaching Kellen’s daughter’s kindergarten soccer team—the line between pretend and real starts to blur. Should Lucy follow her dream job to England, or risk her heart again in Colorado? And can Kellen trust himself to let someone in, or will their love be benched before it gets a chance to play?
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My Big Fat Fake Marriage
Series: None
Author: Charlotte Stein
March 11th 2025 by St. Martin's Griffin
Something has to give... Could it be her heart?
Connie has always distrusted nice guys. In her experience, they’re just waiting to reveal some horrible secret. And then she meets big, adorable, Henry Samuel Beckett—editor extraordinaire, lover of bow ties, sweet and so cheery she struggles to believe he’s real.
Until Henry Samuel Beckett—or Beck, as he’s known to most—tells her the secret underneath his sunny surface: He’s been single all his life. But in a moment of panic, he’s told everyone at his publishing house that he’s married. And when Connie, an aspiring writer herself, can’t help defending him, she ends up being the fake wife he doesn’t actually have.
When they head off on a writing retreat, surrounded by people convinced this must be a ruse, both of them can't help but agree. Until they share their first kiss, their first touch, their first time in only one bed. Side by side, every night, as the simmering tension builds…Connie starts to wonder if this might be real after all.
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Hard to Get
Series: Big Love from Galway #3
Author: Laura Moher
March 11th 2025 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
Tender, sexy, Southern small town romance that’s for everyone who’s ever had trouble trusting in love—or trusting in themselves.
Single and determined to stay that way, Andi Salazar treasures her independence, her charming small town and the dedication to hard work she inherited from her beloved Gram. To blow off steam, she occasionally takes the stage as a voluptuous bombshell singer who can rev you up even as she breaks your heart with a song.
Big, blond math teacher Kevin Mahoney is fresh off a bad breakup when he moves to Galway, NC. The school year’s about to start, and he’s determined to find the real Kev, not the “vanilla” guy his ex-fiancée didn’t want to marry. When he sees Andi onstage and then collides with her in the hallway, he damn near bursts into flame, and their hot, sweet hookup leaves him wanting more.
The man is entirely too attractive though—too endearing—so Andi breaks it off with very firm “no" to a second date. But when their work brings them together again, Andi and Kevin slowly embark on a friendship instead. Andi’s beginning to trust a man for the first time in maybe ever. Kevin’s beginning to enjoy having opinions of his own– and squabbling about them with his new friend. Silently they both yearn for more, even though they realize friendship is safer. But then an unexpected pregnancy turns their lives upside down in the best way possible.
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Four Steps to the Perfect Fake Date
Series: None
Author: Lilian Monroe
March 11th 2025 by Montlake
From the author of Four Steps to the Perfect Revenge comes a deliciously witty and lighthearted romance brimming with misadventures, misdeeds, misunderstandings…and one perfectly mismatched couple.
A notorious rule follower, the old Daphne Davis could do no wrong. But lately she can’t get anything right.
Jilted by her ex, ousted from her home, and laid off from her job, Daphne retreats to her little hometown, Fernley Island. But even there, she feels out of sync. So, bailing on her own sister’s engagement party, she suddenly embraces a brand-new no more goody-two-shoes.
Unfortunately, Daphne’s new mantra lands her squarely in the headlights—literally—of her high school nemesis, Calvin Flint. No longer a scrawny jerk, he’s Fernley’s acting sheriff, filling out his uniform waaay better than he ought to.
He’s also Daphne’s new boss.
As Daphne balances the books after a department scandal, a series of mishaps throws her and Calvin together. The sparks that fly take them both by surprise. But will a fake dating scheme and quest for a stolen heirloom ruin their chance at something real?
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Homegrown Magic
Series: Homegrown Magic #1
Author: Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos
March 11th 2025 by Del Rey
A delightful queer romantic fantasy full of friends-to-lovers chemistry, found family, rival family drama, and cozy garden magic from two acclaimed YA authors making their debut in the adult space.
Yael Clauneck is the only scion of an obscenely wealthy banking family with its fingers in every pie in the realm. They’re on the precipice of a predetermined life when they flee their own graduation party, galloping away in search of…well, they’re not sure, but maybe the chance to feel like life can still be a grand adventure.
Margot Greenwillow—talented plant witch, tea lover, and greenhouse owner—has never felt further from adventure in her life. She’s been desperately trying to keep what remains of her family's magic remedies business afloat. So when her childhood friend and former crush, Yael, rides back into her life, she’s shocked. But perhaps this could be a good thing. After all, Margot could use an assistant in the greenhouses.
Yael has no experience or, honestly, practical skills, but they’re delighted to accept. They can lay low for a while, flirting with Margot while they figure out what to do next. Meanwhile, Margot has plans of her own—but plans are notoriously unreliable things, unlikely to survive a swiftly blooming mutual attraction, not to mention the machinations of parents determined to get their heir back . . . no matter the cost.
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Every Borrowed Beat
Series: None
Author: Erin Stewart
March 11th 2025 by Delacorte Press
For fans of FIVE FEET APART, this emotional and romantic YA offers an unflinching look at not only the realities of heart failure, but at memory, grief, guilt, and what it means to live—in spite of another, because of another, for another. For yourself.
Sydney Wells should have died. She was supposed to die.
She never expected, after years of waiting, to receive a heart transplant. Now, seventeen-year-old Sydney doesn’t know what to do with her life. Her daily routine consisted of staying indoors, eating heart-healthy foods, and posting about her transplant list experiences on TheWaitingList with her long-distance BFF (and heart failure buddy) Chloe.
Now, Sydney latches onto the one thing that gives her learning as much as she can about the person whose heart she inherited. After finding the family of her likely-donor, Mia, Sydney falls deep into her world—and may also be falling for Mia's best friend, Clayton.
But Sydney isn’t the only one hiding something. Mia’s brother Tanner won’t talk to Clayton, and Clayton won’t tell Mia why. And hundreds of miles away, Chloe’s health has taken a turn for the worse. Sydney needs to face what’s in her heart—the truth, the guilt, and the future—before it’s too late.
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Fan Service
Series: None
Author: Rosie Danan
March 11th 2025 by Piatkus
The truth is stranger than fan fiction in this sexy paranormal rom-com.
The only place small-town outcast Alex Lawson fits in is the online fan forum she built for The Arcane Files, a long-running werewolf detective show. Her dedication to archiving fictional supernatural lore made her Internet-famous, even if she harbors a secret disdain for the show’s star, Devin Ashwood. (Never meet your heroes—sometimes they turn out to be The Worst.)
Ever since his show went off the air, Devin and his career have spiraled, but waking up naked in the woods outside his LA home with no memory of the night before is a new low. It must have been a coincidence that the once-in-a-century Wolf Blood Moon crested last night. The claws, fangs, and howling are a little more difficult to explain away. Desperate for answers, Devin finds Alex—the closest thing to an expert that exists. If only he could convince her to stop hating his guts long enough to help....
Once he makes her an offer she can’t refuse, these reluctant allies lower their guards trying to wrangle his inner beast. Unfortunately, getting up close and personal quickly comes back to bite them.
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Love Off Script
Series: None
Author: Laura Starkey
March 11th 2025 by Embla Books
She's just a script consultant, standing in front of a director, asking him to step back and let her do her job...
Jess should have known better than to fall for the English department's silver fox, but now she's left picking up the pieces after catching him cheating with a student and stealing the credit for her research paper. Desperate for a fresh start, she accepts a job as a script consultant on a new TV adaptation of the Regency novel, Anne of Arden - and no one knows Georgiana Scott's work better than she does.
Swapping the world of academia for the glamour of TV is supposed to be her big comeback. But standing in her way is Nathan Lambert, a famous director on a mission to sabotage his unfaithful ex-wife's latest work project.
As the two knock heads over every detail of the script, sparks fly, tempers flare, and their unexpected chemistry is anything but scripted. In a world where the lines between reality and fiction blur, can Jess and Nathan rewrite their own happy ending?
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Fallen Hearts
Series: The Bachelor Pact #1
Author: Cissy Mecca
March 13th 2025 by Boldwood Books
Bachelor best friends and steamy romance . . . Welcome to Cedar Falls. The emotionally riveting, uplifting and spicy small-town series from Cissy Mecca. Perfect for fans of Lucy Score, Elise Silver and Lauren Asher.
Rule one of the Bachelor Pact is Never fall in love.
Temporarily returning home to Cedar Falls comes with mixed emotions. But having to work alongside the distractingly beautiful Pia, hired by my father before his unexpected death to run and restore my family’s inn, is a test I could do without. I don’t need help, especially from a stranger whose delectable body is inviting me to forget the most important rule of the Bachelor Pact.
I learned early on to avoid attachments, and Pia is completely off-limits. I’m technically her boss. Working together to renovate the crumbling inn, I try to shield my heart and ignore my body’s traitorous responses. But Pia's laughter fills the dusty halls, melting my defences and testing my iron-clad resolve. But as each day passes, the thought of returning to my old life as a cop in the city and leaving Pia becomes more and more difficult. Now, with my future and an age-old promise on the line, I'm left wondering if I should finally crack open the door to love I sealed so long ago.
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Close Protection
Series: None
Author: Eden Victoria
March 13th 2025 by Gallery YA
Being the heiress of Greenway Discoveries, Daphne Green has always lived a life of privilege. But when there is a break-in at her father’s office, he enlists the service of Milosh Petrov to guard her as a precaution. Just a precaution . . .
Assertive and straight-talking Milosh takes his job keep them safe and walk away. But when he’s tasked with posing as a close protection officer for Daphne, walking away starts to feel impossible. And when the threat against her life becomes very real, Milosh vows to do whatever it takes to keep her safe.
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Her Brooding Duke
Series: The Worthington Legacy #7
Author: Marie Higgins
March 15th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Two strangers bound by fate—a duke haunted by distrust, and a woman with no memory—must unlock the secrets of her past to heal their hearts.
Louisa wakes from a deep, heavy fog, surrounded by strangers and horrified to discover she’s been the sole victim of a terrible buggy accident. Worse… she remembers nothing. But oddly enough, she trusts her rescuer and feels protected in his presence.
Trevor Worthington, Duke of Kenbridge, can’t trust women. Yet after nearly killing the amnesiac Louisa, he has little choice but to open his home to her. His heart softens to the straggly woman in beggar’s garb as he strives to help her regain her memory.
As proof of Louisa’s scars, both physical and those lurking beneath the surface, come to light, Trevor finds himself more and more drawn to the mysterious woman. However, he is hesitant to enter another nightmarish entanglement like his first marriage.
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Sam Squared
Series: None
Author: Cindy Dorminy
March 17th 2025 by Red Adept Publishing, LLC
Falling in love should be easy as Pi.
Seventeen-year-old Samantha Baughman has one month to raise her GPA, or she can kiss her coveted Auburn basketball scholarship goodbye. Her only hope lies with her high school’s resident bad boy—and closet genius—Samuel King.
The last thing Samuel wants is to get tangled in anyone else’s problems. But when he gets caught helping another student cheat, his teacher offers him a get-out-of-jail-free card. With a one-way ticket to boarding school as his only other option, Samuel reluctantly agrees to tutor Samantha… with one stipulation. They have to keep their arrangement on the down-low. No one can know about their study sessions, especially Samantha’s overprotective brother, who has already warned Samuel to stay away from his sister.
As the “Sams” spend more time together, their playful banter turns into genuine attraction, including one extra-credit-worthy kiss. But Samantha’s brother’s threats send Samuel backpedaling so fast that he denies their encounter ever happened. Now, it’s game on for Samantha to get him to confess. She may need his help to pass her classes, but he’s the one who needs schooling in matters of the heart.
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Spring Fling
Series: None
Author: Annie England Noblin
March 18th 2025 by Avon
Rekindle your belief in the magic of first love and the charm of small towns with Annie England Noblin’s delightful friends-to-lovers romantic comedy, perfect for readers of Jill Shalvis and Sarah Adams.
Spring is in the air and Mylie has everything she could ever want: her tackle shop is thriving and employs a third of Clay Creek, Arkansas, and she lives with her beloved Granny and little sister Cassie, who both keep her on her toes. As tourists pour into town for the annual fishing tournament, Mylie is in her element and ready to bring her all-women team to victory.
After moving to Chicago, Ben never thought he would return to Clay Creek. But with both his grandfather and mother gone, he’s left to deal with their estate. His plan is simple: come in quietly, fix up his lakeside childhood home, sell it quickly, and get out. He underestimates how quickly his arrival will stir up the local gossip, and how intensely his unresolved feelings for Mylie, his childhood best friend, will resurface.
Amid the buzz of competition and the rhythm of small-town life, Mylie and Ben find themselves unable to ignore their shared history. They tentatively explore a future together, despite the impending sale of Ben’s house and Mylie’s insistence on staying put in Clay Creek. Flings are easier said than done, and Mylie and Ben will have to address their clashing lifestyles before their feelings get away from them.
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Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder
Series: None
Author: Bellamy Rose
March 18th 2025 by Atria/Emily Bestler Books
A spoiled heiress must investigate her grandmother’s death in order to gain back her trust fund, all while discovering how to be her own person and maybe even in falling in love in this rom-com meets murder mystery.
When Pomona Afton, Upper East Side hotel heiress, stumbles out of a gala and upon the scene of her grandmother’s murder, her first thought is that the society queen won’t be missed for her kind, cookie-baking ways. In fact, she was mean, greedy, and paranoid—so paranoid that she secretly slipped a clause into her will mandating that, should she die an unnatural death, all the family assets get frozen. And if the “unnatural death” isn’t explained? Those accounts stay frozen.
Practically overnight, Pomona is locked out of her penthouse with no other option than to move in with a Gabe, the irritable (yet handsome) son of her former nanny. Not only is his apartment cramped, but it doesn’t even have a doorman. Or a chef! Pom needs someone to solve this murder, like, yesterday, so she can get her trust fund back.
And Gabe? He needs this murder solved because that’s the only way his mother, who toiled for the Afton family for years, will ever get the retirement money she deserves. As Pom’s family clams up, blocking the police at every turn, Pom quickly realizes that if she wants her glamorous life back, she’s going to have to put on her big-girl Manolos and do it herself…with the help of Gabe, who she’s falling for more and more by the day.
Can Pomona Afton (who previously couldn’t solve a crossword in the bath on a hungover Sunday) actually solve this murder? And if she does return to her former life of luxury, will it be worth the possibility of losing Gabe?
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Fake It Like You Mean It
Series: None
Author: Megan Murphy
March 18th 2025 by Alcove Press
Fake dating, enemies to lovers, and a wonderfully unique forced proximity debut romance, perfect for fans of Elena Armas’s The American Roommate Experiment and Drew Barrymore’s classic rom-com Fifty First Dates.
Elle’s grandmother Lovie has always taken care of her, as long as she can remember. But remembering is just the problem. With Lovie’s Alzheimer’s progressing fast, it’s Elle’s turn to step up.
Leaving Chicago behind, the last thing she expects when she walks through the door of her childhood home is Adam Wheeler—in her bed. Live-in nurse and pain in the ass, Adam is here to do his job. Eat, sleep, nurse, repeat.
Thrown together to care for Lovie, tensions rise and lines are drawn, but there’s a bigger problem: in her Alzheimer’s riddled mind, Lovie’s convinced that Elle and Adam are madly in love.
Certain she’ll forget by morning, Elle and Adam play along. The only snag? She doesn’t.
Lovie is the only person who thinks this fake dating scheme is real…so why is Elle fantasizing about Adam when he’s not around? And why is it getting harder to pretend?
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Love at First Flight
Series: None
Author: Jo Watson
March 18th 2025 by W by Wattpad Books
Things Pippa her job, airplanes, synonyms and tropical fish.
Things Pippa does not enjoy: repeating patterns, tight clothes, people asking why she's single and school reunions.
After six months of only speaking over intercom, when air-traffic controller Pippa Edwards finally meets pilot Andrew Boyce-Jones face-to-face, they discover they've got much more in common than simply working at the same airport. In fact . . . they both need a date.
Tired of every relationship ending before it's even begun, Pippa wants to evade the inevitable questions at her dreaded ten-year school reunion in Cape Town. And Andrew needs to get his well-meaning family off his back about settling down.
The solution seems simple. A pact - a fake dating pact - for as long as it's mutually beneficial. It's perfect.
Or at least it would be if their very real attraction wasn't about to make Pippa question everything she thought she wanted. . .
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True Life in Uncanny Valley
Series: None
Author: Deb Caletti
March 18th 2025 by Labyrinth Road
From the acclaimed author of A Heart in a Body in the World comes the gripping story of a girl living a lie in order to find the truth about her family and herself.
Eleanor, like so many others, is used to watching her famous father from afar. To the world, Hugo Harrison is the brilliant and charismatic tech genius whose AI inventions seem to create a new, better reality. But to Eleanor, whose mother had an affair with Hugo years ago, he is something even more intriguing, and dangerous—a secret.
When Eleanor’s spying leads her to a posting for a live-in summer nanny job for Hugo's young son—her half-brother—she knows she has to apply. This is finally her chance to learn about her father, his family, and the life that could have been hers. She only has to do one become someone else. With just a few well-placed lies, Eleanor is catapulted into an unfamiliar, intoxicating whirlwind of money and ego, and into a new romance with a cute boy who works for Hugo. But in a place where image is everything and reality can be rewritten, is anything real—even the Harrisons themselves?
Caught between her own secrets and the ones she’s uncovering about her father and his latest invention, Eleanor faces a question that technology can't what is your true self, and how do you know when you find her?
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Hangry Hearts
Series: None
Author: Jennifer Chen
March 18th 2025 by Wednesday Books
Love, family, and food collide in this sparkling Romeo and Juliet-inspired romance.
Julie Wu and Randall Hur used to be best friends. Now they only see each other on Saturdays at the Pasadena Farmers Market where their once close families are long-standing rivals.
When Julie and Randall are paired with ultra-rich London Kim for a community-service school project, they are forced to work together for the first time in years. It quickly becomes obvious that London has a major crush on Julie. But Julie can’t stop thinking about Randall. And Randall can’t stop thinking about how London is thinking about Julie. Soon, prompted by a little jealousy and years of missing each other, school project meetings turn into pseudo dates at their favorite Taiwanese breakfast shop and then secret kisses at the beach—far from the watchful eyes of their families.
Just as they’re finally feeling brave enough to tell their grandmas, the two matriarchs rehash their old fight and Julie and Randall get caught in the middle and Julie’s brother finds out they are dating. Their families are heartbroken.
But it’s the Year of the Dragon, an auspicious time to resolve disagreements and start anew, and Randall isn’t going down without fighting for what—and who—they love. Could the Lunar New Year provide not only a second chance for Randall and Julie, but for their families as well?
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Rules for a Bastard Lord
Series: Rogues Gambit #2
Author: Katherine Lyons
March 18th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
A bastard can protect a lady, but dare he love her?
Bram Hallowsby has spent his life knowing his place. As the duke's illegitimate son, he's carved out a precarious position serving society from its shadows. When he meets the newly-discovered granddaughter of the Earl of Cavener, he recognizes a woman who deserves better than the scandal of loving a bastard.
Maybelle Ballenger awakens feelings Bram has denied his entire life. Though he can protect her, guide her through society's treacherous waters, and even warm her bed in secret, he knows he must never claim her openly. A bastard's love would destroy her chance at the life she deserves.
But as Maybelle's suitors circle and pressure mounts for her to make an advantageous match, Bram faces an impossible step aside and watch another man claim the woman he loves, or defy society's strictures and risk destroying them both.
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Code Word Romance
Series: None
Author: Carlie Walker
March 20th 2025 by Orion
Two exes.
One mission.
A trip she'll never forget...
Max is just your average girl. She works odd jobs, has a soul-crushing amount of debt and just happens to have an uncanny resemblance to Europe's youngest female prime minister, Sofia Christensen . . .
So when the prime minister receives a credible death threat, the CIA approaches Max with a a life-changing amount of money if she pretends to be Sofia on the prime minister's annual Italian trip.
It would be a dream if it weren't for those pesky assassins and Flynn, Max's ridiculously hot handler - the man who broke her heart years and years ago.
With her life now on the line, Max knows she has no choice but to lose herself in the role. But losing her heart to Flynn again? Now that's a risk that she isn't willing to take . . .
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Falling Fast
Series: None
Author: Jenni Fletcher
March 20th 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd
Formula 1 superfan Ava Yearwood can’t quite believe her luck when she lands a job at Rask Racing.
Ava loves everything about working for the team . . . everything except their devastatingly attractive driver, Leif Olsen. His cold, brooding attitude should put her off, but frustratingly sparks fly during their every interaction.
Ever the professional, Ava is determined to avoid Leif at all costs. But when she’s assigned as his Media Officer, there’s just no getting away from him – and the flames smouldering between them begin to heat up…
Can Ava and Leif keep their careers on track, or will their insane chemistry steer them both off-course?
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Loving an Earl
Series: Widows of Mayfair #1
Author: Christine Donovan
March 22nd 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Entering London Society for the first time as a young, wide-eyed widow—will the ton eat her alive?
Lilliana St. Claire finds herself orphaned and married to an elderly earl days later. Lord Henry Langford, her deceased father’s closest friend, is her savior, and their marriage is one of convenience. Lilly will care for Henry in his advancing years, and he will prepare her for a life within the Beau Monde when she becomes his widow. Sadly, the title belongs to her only one year later at the tender age of eighteen.
Edmund Weston, the new Earl of Langford, returns from the West Indies to the news of his uncle’s death and that he has taken a wife. He arrives at Langford Manor in Kent, expecting an older woman, and is flabbergasted to find a mere slip of a girl. Tempers flare, and he accuses Lilly of tricking his uncle into marrying her and stealing from the earldom.
Furious, Lilly flees to London. After her year of mourning ends, she prepares to take on the ton with as much confidence as she can muster. But to Lilly’s dismay, the first gentleman who captures her interest is none other than her nemesis, and she struggles to equate this handsome, impressive earl with the man who had spewed such horrible accusations at her the year before.
Lilly and Edmund dance around each other during the season, each with their own secrets to hide, trying their best to ignore their growing attraction. However, sometimes fate has other plans.
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I Knew You Were Trouble
Series: Ever After Agency #5
Author: Sandy Barker
March 23rd 2025 by Boldwood Books
Don’t get mad. Get even.
Kate Whitaker has always believed in love, but when a stranger named Willem shows up on her doorstep, the news he has to share isn’t as exciting as his god-like looks might suggest. He’s come to tell her that Kate’s fiancé is also engaged to his sister.
Kate doesn't know how she didn’t see the red flags: Jon’s work as an airline pilot having him flying around the globe, the postponed dates, the huge rock of an engagement ring that isn’t her style at all.
Overcome with fury – and entranced by the Nordic god’s piercing blue eyes and quiet allure – Kate agrees to accompany Willem to his hometown of Amsterdam to help break the news to his sister. Yet what begins as a simple gesture of support soon twists into a deliciously devious plan to get back at Jon.
Kate is drawn into a world of retribution, revenge and – unexpectedly – romance. Because sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else…
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Our Dear Miss H. Is on the Case
Series: None
Author: Violet Marsh
March 25th 2025 by Forever
The second book in this delightfully witty historical rom-com series combines scandalous mystery with swoony opposites-attract romance—perfect for fans Enola Holmes and Bridgerton!
Georgina Harrington should never have trusted her feckless cousin Percy with her most precious archaeological discovery. But no one would take her academic work seriously if they knew it was hers and not her male cousin’s. When Percy goes missing, only Georgina realizes that he is truly in danger. And to find him, she must rely on the help of his infuriating but incredibly attractive best friend.
Although Alexander Lovett is always up for an adventure, he vows to keep his distance from Georgina, who is on his insufferable parents’ list of suitable brides for a future duke. He’s a grown man who can pick his own wife, thank you very much. But he’s surprised to find himself falling for Georgina’s surprisingly bold initiative and independent thinking that save them from more than one deadly scrape. Yet as a simple kidnapping grows into a threat to the monarchy, their smoldering attraction might be snuffed out before it ever has a chance to ignite.
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Just Our Luck
Series: None
Author: Denise Williams
March 25th 2025 by Berkley
A lottery ticket + donuts = love in this steamy new fake dating romance from beloved author Denise Williams.
Who needs love? Not Sybil Sweet. After years of bouncing from job to job in search of something that feels right and from man to man in search of something special, Sybil is embracing her role as the directionless, floundering member of her family. All she really wants now is a little financial stability and carb comfort. Lucky for her, she’s got just enough in the bank to buy a lottery ticket, and the late-night donut store is open.
Kiran Anderson abandoned his dreams of becoming a doctor to take over running his family’s bakery, and after two years of fighting a losing battle to save the place, he’s exhausted and broke. But when a whirlwind of a woman sweeps in late one night, flirty energy gives way to more…until she runs out the next morning, leaving behind her winning lottery ticket.
Lucky for Kiran, his attempt to return the ticket looks like a grand romantic gesture and goes viral, sending sales through the roof. In an effort to keep the store afloat and to get Sybil’s family off of her back, they agree to fake a relationship for three months. Even with hundreds of millions of dollars, finding each other might end up being the sweetest bit of luck for both of them.
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The Prince and the Player
Series: Prince Pact #1
Author: Nora Phoenix
March 25th 2025 by Boldwood Books
The royally romantic, enemies-to-lovers college romance for fans of Casey McQuiston, Alexis Hall and Jax Calder. I’m determined to win over the one guy who hates me…but I never expected to fall for him
Being a prince may seem like a fairytale, but to me, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. That’s why I’m excited when I get permission from my uncle—the king of Norway—to go undercover as a student at an American college for a year. And I’m even more ecstatic to be selected for their football team. Soccer, I mean. The only problem? Farron, the team captain, dislikes me on sight. Determined to win him over, I start a charm offensive, but nothing works. He only hates me more.
Until the animosity comes to an explosive release…and we end up kissing each other. How did that happen when neither of us has ever been attracted to a guy before? Farron wants to let it run its course and get it out of our system, but I doubt that’ll work. I’m falling for him hard, but he has no idea who I really am. I fear that if he finds out, he’ll never speak to me again…
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The Lady Sparks a Flame
Series: The Damsels of Discovery #2
Author: Elizabeth Everett
March 25th 2025 by Berkley
A Lady with a past. A man with ambition. A romance far from London society that might bridge their divides.
Lady Phoebe Hunt never anticipated returning from exile. A fatal choice drove her from England, but the death of her father—and the revelation of his debts—has brought her home. Once she settles her father’s estate, she will return to America, where she has reinvented herself. There’s no reason to remain, not even for one gravitationally challenged but deliciously tempting Sam Fenley.
Samuel Fenley is all ambition. Rising from shop boy to wealthy investor, he’s left knocking on doors that open only for those with a title. Unless he buys the damned door itself—and the estate that goes with it. Sam offers to relieve Phoebe of her burdens, but is her crumbling mansion all Sam wants? Or is it the Lady herself?
When threats from Phoebe’s past spark new dangers, Sam and Phoebe discover that neither is what the other expected. Standing on the edge of disaster, the disgraced Ice Queen will have to decide if she wants to forge through life alone, or let an unlikely hero melt her heart.
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A Witch's Guide to Love and Poison
Series: None
Author: Aamna Qureshi
March 27th 2025 by Hodder Children's Books
Bisma knows three things to be true: the Enchanted Forest will always be her home, she would go to the ends of the Earth to protect her sisters, and Xander Chapman is the most irritating guy she's ever met.
Since finding a home in the Enchanted Forest, Bisma - a garden witch with a penchant for potions - has always been protective of other runaways. So, if a drop of one of her poisons finds its way into the porridge of those who have hurt them . . . that's none of her business.
But Xander, the charmingly handsome son of the apothecary, sees things differently and is fast becoming known for creating cures - much to Bisma's annoyance.
When her sisters are poisoned themselves, Bisma will need to put her feelings aside and enlist Xander's help to find out who is responsible and save the only family she has, before it's too late.
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Kilted Lovers
Series: None
Author: Megan Clawson
March 27th 2025 by Avon
The brilliant new novel from the Queen of royal-rom-coms!
All Lady Alice Walpole wants is to be swept off her feet, but she keeps finding herself on one bad date after another. And when she’s caught partying too hard with her latest royal beau, her father banishes her to Balmoral to clean up her act.
Fraser Bell just wants to do his job as Piper to the Sovereign at Balmoral. He prefers tartan to tuxedos, and spends his days with horses rather than dealing with people, so when he’s assigned to wake Alice up to the sound of bagpipes every morning, he’s less than pleased.
But as her time in Scotland stretches on, Alice finds herself falling for the rugged landscape – and maybe even Fraser, too. Soon, returning to her glittering but empty life in London sounds less like an escape, and more like a punishment.
She wears tiaras, and he wears tartan, but for this unlikely couple, can romance ever reign?
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The Jerk in Apartment 1B
Series: None
Author: Allie Everhart
March 27th 2025 by Allie Everhart
The guy next door is a total jerk. And I dated him!
When I moved into my apartment, I couldn’t stand my new neighbor with his loud music and wild parties. Then I got to know him and somehow ended up falling for him!
Scott’s the kind of guy that makes you forget all the reasons you hate him. He's hot, confident, and has a smile that makes you agree to things you shouldn’t. He convinced me to work for him, then go out with him, and before I knew it... I was dating him!
We didn’t call it that though, because Scott doesn’t date. He’s not a relationship guy, so we agreed to keep it casual.
Turns out, I can’t do casual. And just as I was about to confess my feelings, I found out the real reason Scott won’t let himself be with me.
I thought he was just afraid to commit, but it’s more complicated than that. Now I'm faced with a difficult decision. Do I try to change his mind about us, or is it best to let him go?
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Lord Fournier's Shameless Princess
Series: Scarlett Affairs #4
Author: Cerise DeLand
March 27th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Driven by duty, he rushes to help her.
Elizabeth von Rittenburg—Liesel, as she is known—is a princess with a plan. She’ll save her sisters and young brother from the French who would abduct and ransom them to get her renegade older brother, Crown Prince Rainer to turn himself in to the French.
Liesel has always made her own rules, disrupting London society and refusing to marry her betrothed, a dyspeptic British prince. She ignores those who would dampen her exuberant nature. Now to save her family, she will do anything, even barge into a stranger’s bathing room and upbraid him for his failures, while the poor fellow stands before her naked.
Torn by desire, he must save her, then leave her…if he can bear to let her go.
Dirk, Lord Fournier is heaven to look at. A charming devil to be near. But he agrees to help her. After all, rescuing dispossessed European royalty from the clutches of the French is his specialty.
He’s failed at so much else, but he’ll do her bidding. He’ll save her family. He’ll even save her reputation, damn his righteous soul…but must never touch her.
Her fire is enchanting. Her kisses, an ineluctable lure. Still, a crown princess is not for him. He’s a mere baron, English at that, and a spy in Scarlett Hawthorne’s network.
He’s unworthy of Liesel, his reputation tarnished by a lie he ruined a woman, denied her claim and left her alone to bear the shame.
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Dear Alex
Series: None
Author: Miranda Seymour & J-P Jones
March 28th 2025 by The Book Guild
Alex is a disaster, juggling multiple writing jobs and living paycheque to paycheque in one of the world’s most expensive cities: London. Desperate, she applies to write an online advice column for a men’s magazine, landing the role against all odds.
After offering some ill-fated relationship advice to Ryan, she tries to fix her mistake while hiding her identity as his ‘agony uncle’. The two fall for each other, and Alex believes she has finally met the love of her life — but Ryan is in love with a lie.
At the same time, Alex is ghost-writing the biography of Sir John Fenton, a retired Member of Parliament with secrets of his own. As her world unravels, can she help put Sir John’s back together?
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Ellena’s Secret
Series: Ladies of Munro #2
Author: Elizabeth Donne
March 28th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
An arranged marriage, sight unseen… or have they met before?
Viscount George Howell is tired of shallow courtship and whispered mockery. Awkward in conversation and weary of London’s polished façades, he seeks a bride who might accept him for who he truly is. When he learns of Miss Ellena Trenton, dutiful, graceful, and untouched by society’s games, he arranges their betrothal with hope in his heart.
Ellena, however, has no such hope. Raised to expect a joyless union like her parents’, she braces herself for a loveless marriage. But fate intervenes when a carriage mishap leaves her stranded in the woods, alone with a kind stranger she cannot forget.
With trouble stirred by a scheming relative and their engagement unraveling, George and Ellena must decide if the spark they once shared was merely a coincidence… or the start of something lasting.
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Lincoln
Series: The Boys of Castleview Cove #1
Author: V.H. Nicolson
March 29th 2025 by Boldwood Books
Love is for suckers.
It’s one of the reasons I’m here in L.A. on the other side of the world from my home in Scotland and the five-star hotel I run with my dad.
I’m sick of watching everyone else’s happy ever afters from the sidelines. I mean, if my own mother left me as a baby, what hope do I have of finding a woman who wants to stick around?
I’ve spent months traveling, surfing and working on my tan, but my need to work led me to take a temporary job in a gym for six weeks before I fly home.
What could possibly change in six weeks?
Apparently quite a lot.
I could meet someone who rocks my world with her killer curves, hypnotic hips and her purple dresses that leave little to the imagination.
She could ask me to take a leap of faith with her I can’t resist taking.
She could get me so hot and bothered I end up in the emergency room.
She could invite me into her home, introduce me to her dog that looks like a walking cloud, and break me out of my self-inflicted sex sabbatical.
She could show me what it feels like to be loved, so I never want to leave.
Violet West walked into my life and changed things forever. It’s just a shame that good things never last.
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Just About a Rake
Series: Ladies Who Dare #5
Author: Tanya Wilde
March 29th 2025 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
She only wants a moment to rule all moments. He only wants whatever light she is willing to shine . . .
Lady Leonora Heart is clever, flirtatious, and always ready to seize a moment—especially when that moment involves a rake. And particularly if that rake is the Earl of Dare. It’s all harmless fun—after all, she has no intention of reforming any man. The only problem? She is drawn to Dare in a way that defies logic. He is dangerous—and not just in the usual rakehell way. No, he is dangerous in a way that makes her pulse race, her breath hitch, and her common sense abandon her entirely.
Rake Sloane, the Earl of Dare, is handsome, hardened, and infamous. He is a rake through and through—one who will never be reformed. The only thing he loathes more than pain is entanglements. Love? Marriage? Never. He refuses to make the same mistakes as his father. But he has one glaring weakness, and her name is Lady Leonora Heart. She is temptation incarnate. A living, breathing complication.
All of this would be well and good, but what happens when you add a scandalous secret, an opinionated parrot, and a mysterious figure returning to London with the power to upend Leonora’s entire world? Why, mayhem, of course.
As secrets unravel and their attraction grows impossible to resist, will history repeat itself, or will love be enough to forge a new future?
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What has caught your eye for March? Have you read any of these? Let me know :)