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The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston · 2023
"A gorgeous love story from one of the finest romance writers out there." —Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After<br/><br/>A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023<br/><br/>A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ PopSugar ∙ Real Simple ∙ BookRiot ∙ and more!<br/><br/>An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.<br/><br/>Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.<br/><br/>So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.<br/><br/>And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.<br/><br/>Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.<br/><br/>Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.<br/><br/>After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark (The Magnolia Parks Universe)
Jessa Hastings · 2024
Book five in the sensational Magnolia Parks Universe series!<br/><br/>How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia and BJ are in the stars, but is that enough?<br/><br/>Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating loss as they try to plan what’s been dubbed “the wedding of the century”. As family tensions mount and their respective pasts begin catching up to them, they finally have to look the truth in the eye: Can they learn to trust and be with one another again, or will they die trying?
Love Redesigned - Lakefront Billionaire Tome 1: La nouvelle série de Lauren Asher, autrice de The Fine Print
Lauren Asher · 2025
Love Unwritten
Asher Lauren · 2024
Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez · 2024
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller and a Good Morning America Book Club Pick!<br/>This witty, slow-burn rom-com is the "ideal beach read." --Elle<br/>Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work.<br/>Emma hadn't planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka.<br/><br/>It's supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma's toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they're suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected--including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?
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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy - A Dark Romantic Comedy Series)
Brynne Weaver · 2023
A friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and spice, unlike anything you’ve read before. <br/> <br/>Every serial killer needs a friend. <br/>Every game must have a winner. <br/> <br/>When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country. <br/> <br/>But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. <br/> <br/>Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? <br/> <br/>Or have they finally met their match? <br/> <br/>Butcher & Blackbird is the first book in the Ruinous Love Dark Romance trilogy of interconnected stand-alone dark romantic comedies. This dual POV novel ends on a HEA.
The Favorites: A Novel
Layne Fargo · 2025
Love Interest
Clare Gilmore · 2023
The Nanny
Lana Ferguson · 2023
A woman discovers the father of the child she is nannying may be her biggest (Only)Fan in this steamy contemporary romance by Lana Ferguson. Suddenly unemployed and on the brink of eviction, Cassie Evans is left with two choices: get a new job (and fast) or fire up her long-untouched OnlyFans account. But the job market is terrible, and as for OnlyFans. . . . Well, there are reasons she can’t go back. Just when all hope seems lost, an ad for a live-in nanny position seems like the solution to all her problems. It’s almost too perfect—until she meets her would-be employer. Aiden Reid, executive chef and DILF extraordinaire, is far from the stuffy single dad Cassie was imagining. He shocks her when he tells her she’s the most qualified applicant he’s met in weeks, practically begging her to take the job. With hands that make her hindbrain howl and eyes that scream sex, the idea of living under the same roof as Aiden feels dangerous, but with no other option, she decides to stay with him and his adorably tenacious daughter, Sophie. Cassie soon discovers that Aiden is not a stranger at all, but instead someone who is very familiar with her—or at least, her body. Given that he doesn’t remember her, Cassie is faced with what feels like an impossible situation. As their relationship heats to temperatures hotter than any kitchen Aiden has ever worked in, Cassie struggles with telling Aiden the truth, and the more terrifying possibility—losing the best chance at happiness she’s ever had.
The Annihilator: A Dark Obsession Romance (Dark Verse)
RuNyx · 2022
The highly anticipated fifth book in the bestselling Dark Verse series.<br/><br/>What happens when the most ruthless obsession finds its darkest fixation?<br/><br/>She lives in the shadows. He rules them.<br/><br/>She's the moon, and he the dark night encompassing her.<br/><br/>She's surrounded by demons, and he's the biggest devil of them all.<br/><br/>And she's his.<br/><br/>Passion, obsession, possesion. Theirs is a tale of danger, deviance, dread, desires, and the darkest flavors of love.<br/><br/>Annihilation is born.<br/><br/>Disclaimer: The series must be read in order. Please read the author's note.
The Finisher: A Dark Marriage of Convenience Romance (Dark Verse)
RuNyx · 2022
The highly anticipated fourth book in the Dark Verse series.<br/><br/>What happens when a beast of blood finds a bride of light in the land of death?<br/><br/>Growing up on the streets of Los Fortis, Alessandro 'Alpha' Villanova scrapped his way to the top, fighting for his very survival, losing everything in the process. A city that shunned him then is now the one he rules, albeit alone, as the king of a dark empire few know about.<br/><br/>Far from Alpha's world, Zephyr de la Vega has a normal life, normal family, normal drama. Her biggest problem is people trying to make her lose a few pounds. When a chance encounter puts her on his path, she makes a proposition that changes the course of their lives.<br/><br/>As a killer goes on a spree in Alpha's city, taking apart his scarred empire corpse by corpse, and The Syndicate comes into play, their partnership evolves into something deeper, more enduring, more powerful than either of them anticipated.<br/><br/>Evil ascends. Darkness descends.<br/><br/>A new order is born.<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>The Finisher is not a standalone. Reading the series in order is highly recommended.
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The Blonde Identity
Ally Carter · 2023
Happily Never After
Lynn Painter · 2024
My Season of Scandal
Julie Anne Long · 2024
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson · 2024
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a gripping mystery thriller following one teen’s search for the truth about her mother’s shocking disappearance—and even more shocking reappearance—during the filming of a true crime documentary. A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR Lights. Camera. Lies. Eighteen-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on. But the case is dredged up from the past when the Price family agrees to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again. Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And—could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . . From world-renowned author Holly Jackson comes a mind-blowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse Duet Book 2)
H. D. Carlton · 2022
Waking Olivia
Elizabeth O''Roark · 2024
Powerless: A Chestnut Springs Special Edition
Elsie Silver · 2023
Two childhood friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. That’s all this was supposed to be. After all, I’ve been living in the friend zone for years now.<br/><br/>But hockey heartthrob Jasper Gervais isn’t looking at me like a friend anymore. And he isn’t touching me like one either.<br/><br/>To his fans, he’s the handsome, talented athlete on TV. To me, he’s still the lost boy with sad eyes and a heart of gold.<br/><br/>The man I’ve loved in secret for years.<br/><br/>So when my life falls apart on my wedding day, it only makes sense that he’s the one to swoop in and save me. And when his world comes crashing down around him, I’m there to return the favor.<br/><br/>But the more time we spend alone, the more Jasper doesn’t feel like a friend at all. He feels like everything I’ve ever wanted and thought I could never have.<br/><br/>Our feelings aren’t straightforward though. They twist and turn around the pain of his past and the reality of my present.<br/><br/>Jasper Gervais acts like he wants me.<br/><br/>But after years of turning me away, he’s going to need to prove it.
God of Fury (Legacy of Gods)
Rina Kent · 2023
From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new STANDALONE MM college romance.<br/>I’m not attracted to men.<br/>Or so I thought before I slammed into Nikolai Sokolov.<br/>A mafia heir, a notorious bastard, and a violent monster.<br/>An ill-fated meeting puts me in his path.<br/>And just like that, he has his sights set on me.<br/>A quiet artist, a golden boy, and his enemy’s twin brother.<br/>He doesn’t seem to care that the odds are stacked against us.<br/>In fact, he sets out to break my steel-like control and blur my limits.<br/>I thought my biggest worry was being noticed by Nikolai.<br/>I’m learning the hard way that being wanted by this beautiful nightmare is much worse.<br/>This book can be read on its own, but for a better understanding of the world, you might want to start with God of Malice.
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The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren · 2024
Christina Lauren, the instant New York Times bestselling and “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar), returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance.<br/><br/>Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways.<br/><br/>Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.<br/><br/>Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.<br/><br/>But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.
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Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse Duet)
H. D. Carlton · 2021
"The Manipulator. I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. The Shadow. I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that I have, I can't stay away. I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves. The way she undresses... I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine. And once she is, I'll never let her go. Not even when she begs me to." --
