Casanova's Echo

By Ali Vali

Will the echo of Casanova open two romance nonbelievers to the possibility of love?

Rowan Whitney believed love was like the romance novels she read growing up, until her engagement party exploded in very public heartbreak. With New York gossiping about the scandal, Rowan and her sister escape to Venice for the summer.

Dante Morosini grew up in one of the most romantic cities in the world, but even though she’s a professor teaching romance, she isn’t a believer. The women in her life are temporary. So the last thing she needs is her new, extremely aggravating American neighbor stirring up feelings. Rowan Whitney has a talent for getting on her nerves, but their sisters Valentina and Wilhelmina are not having that problem.

Rowan and Dante don’t believe in love, but they’re about to discover the one thing neither of them saw coming—each other.

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Corporate Confessions

By Spencer Greene

In the superficial world of Hollywood glamour, tenacious journalist River Westwood’s path collides with Maxine Stone, the ice queen CEO of Stone Enterprises. Maxine is reluctantly paired with River as her biographer for a six-month project, sparking a battle of wills that ignites an unexpected burn of attraction. 

As they clash and spar, their animosity might not be animosity at all. Perhaps it is something deeper. Caught in the crossfire of their own making, River and Maxine are inexorably drawn to each other. Are image and ethics too dangerous to comprise or will the demands of the heart rule in the end?

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Keep You Close

By Jane Hardee

Scarlett Buchanan built a career telling women they deserve pleasure. Now, as the tattooed alt author of The Fat Girls’ Guide to Sex, Scarlett heads out on a chaotic national book tour, marred only by the online hate that comes with internet fame. When the hate hits too close a broad-shouldered security specialist with brown eyes she could drown in is assigned to shadow her every move. Riley Mason is all rules and restraint, the exact opposite of Scarlett’s impulsive, flirtatious energy. But the more miles they travel together, the harder it becomes to ignore the pull of attraction.

Riley has spent years believing she doesn’t deserve happiness after a tragedy on the job. Protecting Scarlett should be just another assignment, but Scarlett’s warmth begins to break through Riley’s carefully built walls. As an online follower closes in and the tour spirals toward a terrifying finale, they must decide if falling for each other is worth everything they stand to lose.

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More of You

By D. Jackson Leigh

JJ Jones receives the call everyone dreads. Her wife, Charleigh West, has been in a devastating accident, and now she lies in a hospital bed, unresponsive.

At her bedside, JJ has no choice but to sit and remember.

They fell in love in middle school, found each other again and again despite distance, college, and obligations pulling them apart. Then there’s the life they built together, JJ leaving the military to start her own financial planning business, Charleigh pouring her heart into teaching inner-city kids in Atlanta. Their wedding where they promised to never stop wanting more of each other.

Somewhere along the way, they broke that promise.

Now faced with the possibility of losing Charleigh forever, JJ must confront the painful truth that she never stopped loving her wife, but she just stopped choosing her. As time slips through her fingers, JJ reckons with the life they lived, the love they nearly lost, and whether it’s too late to fight for the woman who will always be the beat of her heart in this life and beyond.

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Portrait of the Senator’s Wife

By Julia Underwood

The world knows Anna Sterling as M.L. Hawthorne, a painter who guards her privacy fiercely and refuses commissions on principle. But when family obligation corners her, she reluctantly agrees to paint Juliet McGill, the polished wife of a rising senator. Whatever pull Anna feels toward Jules has to be professional. Jules is married, likely straight, and constantly in the public eye.

Juliet McGill is exactly what’s expected: poised, beautiful, and useful to her husband’s political climb. She knows how to play the role, even if it no longer feels like her. Sitting for a portrait she never asked for to boost her husband’s campaign feels like just another lie.

Anna expects an elitist socialite. Juliet expects a difficult artist. Neither is prepared for a connection they can’t ignore. A cheating husband. A carefully crafted image starting to crack. A break-in that doesn’t look like coincidence. And a press ready to turn everything into scandal. As the pressure builds, the portrait becomes more than a painting. It’s the only place they can stop pretending.

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Timeout

By Chelsey Lynford

Lindsey Schafer knew exactly what she wanted: a WNBA career and a life with Taylor Torrance. She had both, until distance and Taylor’s family tore them apart. Heartbreak should have ended everything, but it never did.

Over the years they weave in and out of each other’s lives. A surprise reunion in Dallas reignites old feelings, but ambition and fear drive them apart. By the time they meet again, their lives have taken very different paths. Until Lindsey’s career is sidelined by a devastating injury and she is sent home to recover.

Working with the high school team that first brought them together, Lindsey and Taylor try to keep things simple. Just friendship. Just temporary. But their love refuses to be benched.

This time they’ll have to decide—pull off the winning shot at love, or watch the clock run out.

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Between Two Hearts

By Kristin Keppler and Others

Between Two Hearts is a romance novella collection for readers who know that love doesn’t always come with clear answers. When you’re in a love triangle, choosing one heart means breaking another.

To Love Again by Kristin Keppler: After learning to live without her wife, Nicole is certain she’s closed the door on love. Then she meets Kira. Is there room in her heart for the possibility of loving again?

Kiss Cam Romance by Kel McCord: Meg thought she was committed to her girlfriend, Jordan, but distance has begun to erode her certainty. When a kiss cam moment with her former assistant goes viral, Meg is forced to confront her feelings, and her relationship.

Love Triangle by Jeanine Henning: Jack García Heath has built a steady life, balancing her remote career and a situationship with magnetic bartender Tiffany. But when captivating chef Cate moves in next door—and turns out to be Tiffany’s best friend—Jack is forced to choose between familiar chaos and a love that might finally feel like home.

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It's Not Really Over

By Sarah G. Levine

For the past three years, thirty-one-year-old Dina Graber’s life has been all work all the time. As the general manager of a new restaurant, there’s been little time for anything else. But when her best friend and executive chef Kay demands Dina finally take a break, she signs up for the Maiden Voyager Retreat, a five-day women’s wellness experience in the woods of Maine. Also attending? Lana Horowitz, her first girlfriend and the woman she hasn’t been able to get over.

Lana is used to pushing through. She spent her twenties in marketing for a holistic wellness company, until a chronic illness and burnout forced her to quit. Now, at thirty-two, all her energy goes into keeping her pottery business and her body running. When her old coworker invites her to attend a retreat at her new wellness center, Lana jumps at the chance for some relaxation. But she didn’t bargain for the intensity of the programming, or for her roommate to be her ex-first love.

Throughout the retreat, Dina and Lana are forced to face some hard truths about their lives. The deepest truth? Their love story might not really be over.

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Shadow Kingdom

By Sam Ledel

The Odium Trilogy | Book 4

Cara Einwright has tried to live a normal life as Gultero’s princess. She supports her parents, fulfills her royal duties, and has even discovered a budding romance with Vyla – a charming selkie. But Cara has a secret: for years, she’s been haunted by her cousin Drest’s ghost.

Determined to learn why he won’t leave her in peace, Cara recruits her friends to summon Drest from the Otherworld. After all, what could possibly go wrong when you conjure the spirit of your maybe-evil dead relative?

Cara is caught dangerously between her family’s tragic past and the brighter future she knows is possible. Will she be able to escape the painful web her cousin has weaved, or is she destined to live forever in his shadow?

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Showmance

By Marie Incontrera

The rules of theater: Don’t miss your entrance, don’t upstage your scene partner, and whatever you do, don’t start a showmance.

But when Grace’s musical begins its journey to Broadway, she ends up working closely with Nova, the dazzling performer at the center of the show. Their chemistry is undeniable. Their timing is terrible. Oh, and also? Showmances have a reputation for wrecking shows before they ever reach opening night. With investors watching, careers on the line, and Broadway dreams within reach, they both know better.

Yet between late-night rehearsals, electric performances, and one almost-kiss they can’t forget, keeping things professional gets harder every day.

Because sometimes the biggest drama isn’t happening onstage. It’s happening in the wings.

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The Precipice of Forever

By Gun Brooke

London Pace is a time-traveling law enforcer from 2670 on a high-stakes mission.

Posing as the owner of a small Jersey City law firm, she tracks down temporal fugitives threatening to unravel history. She’s relentless and emotionally locked down—until she hires Ivy Denell.

Ivy is a paralegal driven by her passion for helping people in need. When she uncovers London’s real work, she’s pulled into a hidden world of time travel and risky missions. What starts as partnership turns, against all odds, into romance.

But their love is built on a lie, because London has already altered Ivy’s life in the worst way imaginable. To protect the timeline, she made a call that doomed Ivy’s mother. And never told her.They must navigate the past to save the future, working side by side, balancing betrayal against a love that neither can deny. When the truth comes out, it might just break their hearts and unravel time.

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Late Bloomer

By Lisa Moreau

Morgan Wellington has built a life of wealth, a globe-trotting luxury lifestyle, and a successful career. Her life is upended when her emotionally distant father dies, leaving her a cryptic last wish letter to help restore the Healing Hearts Sanctuary. Morgan has never heard of the place and she’s certain it has nothing to do with the man she thought she knew.

Trading her five-star lifestyle for the crumbling sanctuary, Morgan meets the fiercely devoted owner, Allie Bennett, who is determined to revive the retreat, especially the legendary rose garden. Corporate polish clashes with rustic passion and ignites sparks neither woman expects.

As they work side-by-side, a secret tied to Morgan’s father comes to light, binding their pasts together. Then a devastating threat puts the sanctuary’s future at risk, and Morgan must choose between the life she’s always known and the one she’s only just begun to imagine.

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Murder on the Back Roads

By Karis Walsh

Librarian Willa McCourt has made peace with her predictable life, bringing books and conversation to the outlying communities near Washington’s coast. Until rookie State Patrol officer Steph Douglas crashes into her life, bringing with her a missing person case that pulls Willa off her quiet coastal route and into danger.

Steph Douglas’s plan is to prove herself, earn a better posting, and always move forward. But when a local man vanishes, a routine search quickly spirals into a potential homicide. With few leads and a community full of secrets, Steph reluctantly accepts Willa’s help, and her bookmobile becomes a base of operations.

As clues twist and turn and the case edges toward murder, Willa and Steph are drawn together by an undeniable attraction they don’t expect or know how to handle. On roads where everyone is hiding something, trusting each other could be the most dangerous risk of all.

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Two Truths and a Crime

By Carsen Taite

Former prosecutor Raleigh Drake walked away from the courtroom when justice failed her, leaving her with a lingering bitterness and an unshakable resolve to seek justice on her own terms. Now a true crime investigator and host of the hit podcast, <i>Two Truths and a Crime</i>, Raleigh’s latest case brings her to a small Texas town to uncover the truth behind Lily Collins’s tragic death. But as she gets closer to the victim’s aunt, Quinn, Raleigh is caught between her growing feelings and the chilling suspicion that Quinn knows more than she lets on.

Quinn Collins has spent years guarding her secrets. When Raleigh arrives, digging deep into Lily’s murder, Quinn fears that her hidden past will finally be exposed. Drawn to Raleigh’s intensity yet wary of her intentions, Quinn is forced to confront the guilty memories she’s long buried. As their attraction deepens and the investigation unravels, each woman must decide how much she’s willing to risk—and who she can trust.

In a town where silence conceals deadly mysteries, will Raleigh uncover the truth, or lose herself in Quinn's secrets?

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Under the Stars: An Age-Gap Romance

By Ursula Klein

Ellie Mack is supposed to be applying to doctoral programs in biology and pursuing the high-powered career in science her parents chose for her. Love isn’t on the schedule.

Then she meets Cade Williams.

Cue the instant attraction and automatic denial. Ellie isn’t dating a woman fifteen years older than her, with an ex-wife and a kid who comes first, no matter how hot she is.

When Ellie’s parents’ marriage implodes, Ellie’s life begins to unravel; she seeks solace in Cade’s arms. Over the course of the summer, long hikes, starlit nights, and a connection that feels safe and real are the perfect comfort she desperately needs.

But when summer ends and real life interrupts their romantic bubble, the gap in their ages and life stages may be too great. Family obligations and insecurities mount. Are Ellie and Cade just a summer fling, or truly written in the stars?

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Doctor's Orders

By Ronica Black

Dr. Willow Foster is in control. Her small-town medical clinic in Meadowbrook, Colorado, is thriving, her patients respect her, and the mountain trails offer the perfect escape when people get too close for comfort.

Poppy McCoy is unconventional. A naturopathic doctor with a free spirit, she only relies on herself and has returned to Meadowbrook to care for her grandmother and open a holistic clinic. But her first day ends with a near collision with the town’s stuck-up physician, and sparks fly... not the good kind.

Willow thinks Poppy’s remedies are reckless. Poppy thinks Willow’s closed mind is the real problem. But a troubled younger sister, a shared patient crisis, and one too many late-night house calls keep throwing them together. And the more time they spend together, the harder it is to ignore their growing attraction.

They’re opposites in every way. But love doesn’t always follow the doctor’s orders.

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For Love or Money

By Jesse J. Thoma

A Hot Hires Novella

Short-seller Frances “Frankie” Sender has always been good at picking winners, but her skills might make her the ultimate loser when a company she is researching frames her for a crime. Her only chance at staying alive is Dakota “Oz” Osborne, a woman with a million-dollar reason to toss her in jail. They’ll have to trust each other and avoid the easy cash out if they want the stock to rise on a chance at love.

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Kaleidoscope

By Georgia Beers

Dr. Madeline Bishop has built her life with surgical precision, from her successful dental clinic to the daughter, Zoe, she raised mostly alone. She did everything right, and yet somewhere along the way, she stopped having fun. With her birthday looming, Maddie can’t ignore the truth anymore: She’s lonely and hasn’t let herself want anything, or anyone, in years.

Then a so-so-hot encounter with a younger woman brings Maddie back to life in a stunning kaleidoscope of color.

Evan Dawson doesn’t do complicated relationships. She pours her energy into helping others through her therapy practice as well as Hope and Harvest, where she helps feed the people who need it most. Romance will just have to wait. That's why exchanging numbers with a gorgeous older woman was a lapse in judgment. Falling into intense, flirtatious texting with her? Even worse.

What starts as fun quickly turns into a romance neither of them planned, and both of them desperately need. But when Zoe's career aspirations and awkward crush come between them, their love story may not survive the collision with real life.

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