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Romance
Contemporary and rom-com leaning love stories, read for the relationship arc as much as the plot.
Beach Read
This is the Emily Henry book that put "opposites-attract authors swap genres" on the romance map: January's genre-fiction skepticism versus Gus's literary gloom, with a dare-fueled summer forcing them both to write somet…
Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan writes romance that doesn't flinch from real grief and mental health struggles; this is a second-chance story about co-parents rebuilding trust, not just rekindling chemistry, and it leans heavier than typic…
Heated Rivalry
Heated Rivalry is the rivals-to-lovers hockey romance that built Rachel Reid's name in M/M sports romance: public rivalry, private relationship, and a years-long secret slowly unraveling. It's book two of Game Changers b…
Into the Blue A Love Story
Brodie's follow-up to Songs in Ursa Major was Reese Witherspoon's April book club pick and the debut title for Jenna Bush Hager's Thousand Voices imprint, that's a lot of attention for a sophomore novel. The decade-spann…
Wicked Beauty
Wicked Beauty is part of Katee Robert's Dark Olympus series: modern-day Greek gods reimagined as a crime-syndicate elite, with this entry centering a throuple dynamic between Achilles, Patroclus, and Helen. It's spicier…