Top 10
Behind Closed Doors
Shain Rose. Kensington, Feb. 24 ($18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4967-5817-0)
After an elementary school teacher saves one of her students from an attempted murder, the child’s father, a billionaire with a dark secret, invites her into his luxurious but dangerous world.
Crown of War and Shadow
J.R. Ward. Bramble, Feb. 17 ($32.99, ISBN 978-1-250-37362-5)
The doyenne of paranormal romance launches her Kingdoms of the Compass series, sending a reluctant chosen one and a brooding mercenary on a perilous quest across a demon-ravaged land.
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
Shailee Thompson. Gallery, Feb. 3 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6682-0671-3)
When a slasher targets a speed dating event, Jamie Prescott must use her knowledge of horror and romance fiction to survive both the blood bath and the love triangle she finds herself caught up in.
The Missed Connection
Tia Williams. Grand Central, June 16 ($29, ISBN 978-1-5387-7026-9)
Casting agent Sasha Cruz meets a dashing man on a flight to Paris and, after failing to get his number, enlists everyone she knows to help track him down—including the hot PI who once saved her life.
The Night We Met
Abby Jimenez. Forever, Mar. 24 ($30, ISBN 978-1-5387-5922-6)
Jimenez follows her bestselling Say You’ll Remember Me with a fraught contemporary romance. Chris knows that he and Larissa are meant to be. There’s just one problem: she’s dating his best friend.
One & Only
Maurene Goo. Putnam, Feb. 3 ($30, ISBN 979-8-217-18116-2)
In YA author Goo’s adult debut, a woman whose mystical matchmaking family has successfully found their clients’ soulmates for centuries falls for a man who is decidedly not the one. 100,000-copy announced first printing.
Our Perfect Storm
Carley Fortune. Berkley, May 5 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-95324-2)
This destination romance sends jilted-at-the-altar Frankie on her honeymoon with her best friend, George, causing long-simmering
tensions in their relationship to boil over. 500,000-copy announced first printing.
Rites of the Starling
Devney Perry. Red Tower, Apr. 7 ($32.99, ISBN 978-1-68281-675-2)
Perry picks up the story of princess Odessa and brooding warrior Ransom following the cliff-hanger ending of Shield of Sparrows. 500,000-copy announced first printing.
Royal Spin
Omid Scobie and Robin Benway. Morrow, Feb. 10 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-342480-7)
National Book Award winner Benway teams up with journalist Scobie for this royal romance, in which an American woman brought in to manage a Buckingham Palace scandal must navigate her feelings for both a reporter and a duke.
Vera Stein Is Fine
Julie Murphy. Avon, July 21 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-338683-9)
The heroine of this rom-com from bestseller Murphy gets an unexpected second chance at love when she moves into her grandmother’s raunchy retirement home and reunites with a college fling.
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Afterglow
Too Fast to Fall by Karen Booth (May 26, $15.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-335-50742-6). This grumpy/sunshine sports romance pairs brooding Formula 1 driver Emilio Baquero with his cheerful new live-in dog walker, Piper Murphy, who falls hard for both him and his adorable Lab.
Alcove
The Last Page by Katie Holt (May 12, $29.99, ISBN 979-8-89242-409-7). Passionate bookseller Ella clashes with Henry, the new owner of the Manhattan bookstore that practically raised her. Henry intends to sell the store—unless Ella can convince him otherwise. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
Amara
Stitcher by Tobias J. Rooke (Apr. 7, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68281-622-6) sets a dark, queer romantasy in a highly stratified world where necromancy is big business. 150,000-copy announced first printing.
Amazon Crossing
The Other Moctezuma Girls by Sofia Robleda (Feb. 24, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6625-3250-4) transports readers to 1551 Mexico, where an Aztec princess searches—with help from a strapping young cook—for a lost manuscript written by her mother.
Atria
Ruinous Creatures by Jessi Cole Jackson (Mar. 10, $30, ISBN 978-1-6680-9289-7). In a desert world where magic is derived from the bones of fantastical creatures, a woman awakens the dormant power of two phoenix skulls, and in the process irrevocably binds herself to a magic novice on a quest for revenge.
Ballantine
Chasing the Clouds Away by Debbie Macomber (Apr. 28, $30, ISBN 979-8-217-09167-6) chronicles the opposites-attract romance between cynical Chase Furst and sunny Maisy Gallaher, who encourages him to see the good in people.
Berkley
The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston (June 16, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-593-95275-7). Bestseller Poston serves up another magical realism–inflected rom-com. 200,000-copy announced first printing.
Blackstone
When Sparks Fly by Monica Murphy (May 26, $29.99, ISBN 979-8-8747-2783-3) pairs a socialite who’s riding out a scandalous breakup at her family’s lake house with the hunky firefighter who comes to her rescue when she almost burns the place down.
Bloom
Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score (Mar. 10, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-7282-9706-4). The sequel to Score’s bestselling Story of My Life unspools the romance between a broke former Manhattanite who resents her new small-town life and her new landlord, who hopes he can convince her to settle down.
Bold Strokes
The Girl Next Door by Georgia Beers (Apr. 14, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63679-932-2). Cynical book reviewer Sawyer and romance bookstore owner Jenna meet ugly when Sawyer insults Jenna’s beloved genre. Only later do the women realize they’re next-door neighbors.
Bramble
How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles (Apr. 28, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-250-39591-7). Titus, a shopkeeper who recently inherited a vast fortune, becomes a target for scam artist Nico in this queer Regency crime novel—but Nico’s scheme is complicated when he finds himself falling in love.
Carina Adores
More Like Enemigas by Stephanie Hope (Apr. 7, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-335-52609-0). Teenage rivals Isabella and Sofia are reunited at a wedding where Isabella hopes to promote her father’s restaurant and Sofia dreams of running away with the bride. When they agree to help each other out, sparks fly.
Central Avenue
The Missing Baroness by Bianca M. Schwarz (June 16, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77168-451-4) launches the Inconvenient Heirs series with a Regency-set romantic suspense novel about a woman who teams up with her long-standing crush to locate
her father’s missing will and thwart the avaricious schemes of her murderous uncle.
Cosmo Reads
It Seemed Like a Good Idea by Lauren Blakely (Mar. 3, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4642-2883-4). When the
identical twin of a Hollywood starlet agrees to let her sister hire a bodyguard to protect her from the paparazzi, she’s not expecting to come face-to-face with the man who loved and left her the month before.
Del Rey
Broken Dove by Dani Francis (May 12, $32.99, ISBN 978-0-593-87549-0). Returning to the dystopian future of BookTok sensation Silver Elite, this sci-fi romance finds heroine Wren torn between resistance commander Cross and spy Grayson.
Delacorte
The Lies That Summon the Night by Tessonja Odette (Feb. 17, $30, ISBN 979-8-217-09490-5). In a world where all art is outlawed due to its power to draw forth demons, a monster hunter strikes up an unlikely partnership with a storytelling outlaw.
Dell
Love Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Swati Hegde (May 12, $19 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-217-09203-1). Lawyers Naina Shetty and Tejas Rajput meet in Goa and agree to a vacation fling with no strings attached and nothing personal shared. A year later, they wind up working at the same firm and sharing a career-making case.
Running Home to You by Samantha Saldivar (May 19, $20 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-217-09261-1) chronicles the tumultuous, decade-long relationship between Katie Hutchins and Abby Cruz, who first fall in love while playing on their college softball team, but for whom the timing is never quite right.
Dial
Don’t Tell Me How It Ends by Adrienne Thurman (Apr. 14, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-593-97898-6). When Kai’s sister starts a matchmaking business, jaded Kai reluctantly signs on to be the first client—only to fall for a man who her sister never would have chosen.
Diversion
Of Forges and Fury by T.C. Kraven (Apr. 7, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89515-061-0) is the third Greek myth retelling in the Dark Fates series, this time focusing on the why-choose romance between Aphrodite, her lover Ares, and Hephaestus, with whom she is forced into an arranged marriage.
Dutton
How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh (Mar. 10, $19 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-217-04378-1) pairs a woman intent on finishing the final novel in her late father’s bestselling series with the editor sent to her Irish estate to oversee her progress.
Flatiron
Skate It Till You Make It by Rufaro Faith Mazarura (Feb. 3, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-250-42525-6). Both reeling from bad breakups, Ari Shumba, captain of Great Britain’s women’s hockey team, and up-and-coming sports photographer Drew Dlamini agree to fake a relationship during the Winter Olympics.
Forever
Kiss, Marry, Kill by Cara Tanamachi (July 7, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5387-7938-5). In this horror romance, a true crime podcaster fears for her life when she comes to suspect that one of the three men she’s dating may be a serial killer.
Gallery
Every Version of You by Natalie Messier (July 7, $29, ISBN 978-1-6682-1364-3). When Joey Vasquez, 32, is sent back in time to relive her college days, she’s determined to get it right, starting with wooing her long-standing crush, Elle, and avoiding her nemesis, Alex.
Generous Press
You x Me by Ayla Vejdani (May 26, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-9987596-7-3) collects six interconnected love stories centered on relationships between queer people of color.
Griffin
The Duke by Anna Cowan (Apr. 28, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-250-38284-9). In an alternate Regency England ruled by libertine female nobles, French courtesan Celine is out for revenge against Kate, the dastardly Duke of Howard, who bedded and abandoned her during the French Revolution.
Harlequin
Accidentally Wedded to a Werewolf by Isabelle Taylor (Mar. 24, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-335-00170-2). Inclement weather strands socialite Luna Stack in Claw Haven, Alaska, a refuge for monsters—among them hunky werewolf innkeeper Oliver Musgrove, to whom Luna winds up mated when a spell goes wrong. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
Harper Perennial
Sometime This Century by Samantha Silva (June 9, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-345235-0). A Jane Austen–obsessed aspiring writer travels back in time to the Regency era while seeking inspiration for her novel.
Haven
A Deal with a Debutante by Chelsea Bobulski (Apr. 7, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7642-4525-1). In Edwardian England, a broke earl courts an American heiress for her money—but what starts as a relationship of convenience becomes more complicated as feelings grow.
Hera
Only You by Celeste Daniels (Mar. 24, $25 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-217-25326-5) tracks the romance of Dani and Jones across the decades—from 1880s Paris to modern day Howard University—as they find each other in every reincarnation.
Hyperion Avenue
The Alchemary by Rachel Vincent (Apr. 7, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-368-11590-2). In this dark academia romantasy series launch, Amber Fallbrook, one of her magical college’s top students, wakes with amnesia and must navigate both school politics and her complicated relationships with a pair of handsome brothers.
Keylight
Love from the Cosmos by Mowa Badmos (Feb. 3, $32.99, ISBN 979-8-88798-130-7). Moyo puts her trust in an astrology-based
dating app and gets burned, leading her to post a rant review online. Enter the god Saturn, one of the app’s co-owners, who’s determined to restore Moyo’s faith in the stars.
Mira
The Auction by Sadie Kincaid (Apr. 14, $32, ISBN 978-0-7783-0608-5). Billionaire Jacob Knight, a member of the shadowy secret society known as the Brotherhood, buys 21-year-old virgin Imogen at auction in this dark erotic romance. 200,000-copy announced first printing.
Montlake
First Witches Club by Maisey Yates (Mar. 1, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6625-3545-1). After being abandoned by their husbands, three women discover their latent magical abilities and put them to use seeking revenge and second chances.
Morrow
Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell (Apr. 14, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-338026-4). The eponymous heroine of this contemporary romance from bestseller Rowell is desperate to distance herself from the caricatured version her estranged husband made famous in his graphic novels. Reuniting with an old flame may be just what she needs.
Podium
Shadows of Sparta by C.R. Jane (June 2, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-3470-0486-7) launches a romantasy series riffing on the Trojan War. After being forced into a royal marriage, beautiful Helen is abducted by the dashing Paris and brought to his magic-infused kingdom. 80,000-copy announced first printing.
Primero Sueno
Only Friends by Lydia San Andres (Feb. 10, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6680-9806-6). Aspiring screenwriter Mariel Rivera has created an ideal Regency hero in the Duke of Harding—and model Dashwood Bennet is perfect for the role. Love blossoms behind the scenes as together they launch
a viral TikTok account for the duke.
Putnam
Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan (May 26, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-593-85397-9). A struggling single mother accepts an indecent proposal to help a billionaire save face after a devastating breakup by faking a relationship. 150,000-copy announced first printing.
Quirk
Mothman Is My Boyfriend: Ten Tales of Cryptid Love and Lust by McKayla Coyle, illus. by Wendy Stephens (May 5, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-68369-518-9), collects a dozen cozy, interconnected monster-human love stories set in the inclusive town of Cryptid Creek. 50,000-copy announced first printing.
Red Tower
Six Bullets and a Crown by Alexis Calder (Apr. 21, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-64937-996-2) follows a heroine hiding forbidden magic and the gunslinger she hires to escort her across a dangerous desert. 450,000-copy announced first printing.
Requited
The Wicked Sea by Jordan Stephanie Gray (Apr. 7, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-59633-6). A mermaid who’s been passing as human in the kingdom of Mortia, where anti-merfolk prejudice runs deep, is captured by a warlock who needs her help on a dangerous quest. 200,000-copy announced first printing.
Saturday Books
Burnout Summer by Jenna Ramirez (May 12, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-250-41092-4). Twenty-something Camille has been floundering since college, so she jumps at the chance to regroup over the summer in her slacker friend Danny’s seaside hometown—where she is shocked to see a whole new side to him.
Slowburn
The Art of Loving You by Natasha Bishop (Apr. 14, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63893-274-1). In Bishop’s sequel to Only for the Week, the death of a shared mentor reunites old flames who set out to honor her dying wish on a road trip across the U.S.
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Father Material by Alexis Hall (June 2, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-7282-6429-5) sends out the bestselling London Calling series with central couple Luc and Oliver ready to take their relationship to the next level.
St. Martin’s
The Shippers by Katherine Center (May 19, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-40805-1). Jojo Clark’s childhood friend Cooper mysteriously dropped out of her life four years ago. Now the pair are stuck together during a wedding aboard a cruise ship, but it might be just what they need to work out their issues.
Tiny Reparations
Double Happiness by Heather Eng (May 19, $19 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-217-04698-0). Workaholic Mei thought she was happy with her rewarding start-up job and supportive, if needy, fiancé. Then she meets her brother-in-law’s brother, Alexandre, and unexpected chemistry ignites.
Vintage
A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander (Mar. 10, $18 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-217-00728-8). The heroine of Alexander’s Regency-set sequel to A Gentleman’s Gentleman finds herself falling for both poet Flora and novelist William—not realizing that they’re one and the same.
Zando
Puck by Samantha Allen (June 2, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63893-341-0) riffs on A Midsummer Night’s Dream as nonbinary dating show producer Puck meddles in their friends’ love lives over the course of one chaotic wedding weekend.
