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Best for readers who like small-town romance with flirty banter, messy family fallout, hidden pasts, and temporary plans that turn serious.
Where I Should’ve Been
Romance · Contemporary Romance · RomCom
Our take
Where I Should've Been follows Breezy Bishop, an art director leaving New York after a family betrayal, and Tad Hanson, a charming Red Bridge sheep farmer with a buried past, as a snowstorm sparks a secret fling that becomes harder to leave behind. Best for readers who like small-town romance with flirty banter, messy family fallout, hidden pasts, and temporary plans that turn serious.
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Small town. Big secrets. And one ridiculously hot mistake she doesn’t regret.
Everyone in the smalltown of Red Bridge, Vermont, knows Tad Hanson, the hot sheep farmer who can’t control his flock. He doesn’t believe in forever, but he’ll be the best time you’ve ever had—right now. What they don’t know is why.
He’s too charming, too good with that addicting smile of his, too committed to keeping his dark past buried, and too stubborn to imagine his life could be any other way.
Until a snowstorm—and one beautiful woman—send his carefully controlled world spinning.
Successful art director Beatrice “Breezy” Bishop thought she had life figured out—until her father gave her the middle finger from the grave and left the family galleries she built to her entitled younger brother. With nothing left in New York but resentment and regret, she temporarily heads to Red Bridge, looking for space to breathe.
Instead, she finds a sexy, flirty, secret fling with Tad, and a rivalry with the editor of Red Bridge’s newspaper. It’s chaotic, but it’s the happiest she’s ever been.
But secrets never stay secrets for long, and when hearts get involved—and the universe clearly has other plans—walking away isn’t as easy as they thought.
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Good for readers who want grumpy/sunshine romance, Hollywood drama, fake dating, identity, healing, and emotional growth.
Stars in Your Eyes
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance
Our take
Stars in Your Eyes is a contemporary romance about Logan Gray and Mattie Cole, two actors whose fake-dating scheme begins as damage control for their film and turns into real feelings under public scrutiny, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want grumpy/sunshine romance, Hollywood drama, fake dating, identity, healing, and emotional growth.
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The National Book Award-winning author of Felix Ever After delivers a beautifully tender story of two grumpy/sunshine, fake-dating actors navigating their love story both on and offscreen—perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexis Hall.
Logan Gray is Hollywood's bad boy—a talented but troubled actor who the public loves to hate. Mattie Cole is an up‑and‑coming golden boy, adored by all but plagued by insecurities.
When Logan and Mattie are cast as leads in a new romantic film, Logan claims that Matt has “zero talent,” sending the film’s publicity into a nosedive. To create positive buzz, the two are persuaded into a fake‑dating scheme—but as the two actors get to know their new characters, real feelings start to develop.
As public scrutiny intensifies and old wounds resurface, the two must fight for their relationship and their love.
Stars in Your Eyes is a heartfelt, hopeful, and nuanced story about identity, healing, and growth.
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This is a sweet bookish rom-com for readers who like slow-burn attraction, publishing-house tension, and love stories built through words.
Meet Me in the Margins
Romance · Contemporary Romance
Our take
In a workplace that treats romance as literary failure, one hidden manuscript becomes the start of a secret collaboration. *Meet Me in the Margins* follows Savannah Cade, an aspiring author whose anonymous editor leaves sharp, useful notes in the margins of her draft. This is a sweet bookish rom-com for readers who like slow-burn attraction, publishing-house tension, and love stories built through words.
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SOON TO BE A STREAMING ORIGINAL MOVIE | OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD | TRANSLATED INTO FIVE LANGUAGES | An aspiring author and a mysterious editor find love in this blend of humorous and sweet. | Perfect for fans of You've Got Mail and The Proposal.
"Meet Me in the Margins is a delightfully charming jewel of a book that fans of romantic comedy won't be able to put down!" --Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of A Happier Life
Savannah Cade's dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful romance publishing company in the country, has requested to see the manuscript Savannah's been secretly writing. The only problem: she's an editor for a different company, and their philosophy is only highbrow works are worth printing and romance should be reserved for the lowest level of Dante's inferno.
But when Savannah drops her manuscript during a staff meeting and nearly exposes herself to the whole company--including William Pennington, the new boss and son of the romance-despising CEO herself--she has no choice but to hide the manuscript in a hidden room.
When she returns, she's dismayed to discover that someone has not only been in her hidden nook but has written notes in the margins--quite critical ones. But when Claire's own reaction turns out to be nearly identical to the scribbled remarks, and, worse, Claire announces that Savannah has six weeks to resubmit before she retires, Savannah finds herself forced to seek the help of the shadowy editor after all.
As their notes back and forth start to fill up the pages, however, Savannah finds him becoming pivotal not just to her work but her life. There's no doubt about it: she's falling for her mystery editor. If she only knew who he was.
With its irresistible bookish setting, slow-burn romance, and included discussion questions, Meet Me in the Margins makes a delightful pick for book clubs and readers who love stories about stories. Melissa Ferguson once again delivers her trademark laugh-out-loud charm and heartfelt romance--all without the spice.
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Best for readers who like dark contemporary romance, boss-employee tension, damaged characters, twisted secrets, and boundary-pushing heat.
In the Gray
Romance · Contemporary Romance
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In the Gray follows grieving Atlas Beck as a mysterious letter leads her to a new start working for Rowdy Wray, a dangerous man tied to her past and her future, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 6,300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dark contemporary romance, boss-employee tension, damaged characters, twisted secrets, and boundary-pushing heat.
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In the Gray is an all-new wickedly sexy and boundary-pushing standalone from bestselling author B.B. Reid.
ATLAS
I know what they say. Grief makes you do things.
After the year I’ve had, I’m bathing in it.
Dad’s dead.
Mom is…mom.
My boyfriend and best friend are too busy screwing to comfort me.
When a letter arrives with no return address telling me where to go for a new start, I don’t hesitate.
I pack some clothes and what’s left of my life and run.
But I didn’t expect the fire waiting for me when I arrived. I didn’t count on the burn.
Rowdy Wray.
They call him the lion of Idlewild.
Me…I call him boss.
He’s the key to my past and the path to my future.
What happens next is our twisted secret.
ROWDY
Who is this girl?
Atlas Beck.
This damaged young thing shows up at my place of business and tells me she’s my new receptionist.
I should have fired her.
I would have fired her if she hadn’t begged so beautifully.
Atlas told me not to let her go, but she didn’t know what she was asking. And now?
It’s too late to put the crazy back in the cage.
In the Gray is a dark contemporary standalone with themes some may find triggering. Please read the foreword before proceeding.
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Best for readers who like angsty contemporary romance with first love, second chances, emotional intensity, and a tortured musician hero.
No Tomorrow
Romance · College Romance · Contemporary Romance · New Adult
Our take
No Tomorrow follows a first-love romance between a young woman and Blue, the melancholy musician she loses and finds again years later when fame cannot hide the unseen battle he is still fighting, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 12,700 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like angsty contemporary romance with first love, second chances, emotional intensity, and a tortured musician hero.
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Carian Cole brings you a unique angsty love story that will grab you from the first page and keep you in a chokehold.
They say you never forget your first love, and that’s true. But some loves wrap themselves around your heart and never let go. They’re not just your first love but your forever love.
That’s what Blue is to me. My first, only, and forever love.
I'll never forget the day I first saw him. He was playing the guitar in a park with his adorable dog at his side. His smile made my heart race, and his eyes stilled my soul. I was completely captivated by his alluring melancholy. We fell hard and fast, and I dreamed of a forever with him.
Then he disappeared without a trace.
Five years later, I found him. Famous. Charming. Still just as in love with me as I was with him.
But behind the fame and the sexy smile, the quiet, tortured soul I met in the park years ago still lived. I was naive. I didn’t realize that Blue, my love, was fighting a battle no one could see.
Not even me.
He called me the keeper of his heart, and I guarded it fiercely. He promised me all his tomorrows, and I cherished every single one.
I never wanted or needed a perfect love. I only wanted his love. Our love.
This is our story. It’s raw and sexy and beautiful and sad and filled with endless ups and downs.
They say love conquers all, and I hope—I believe—that’s true.
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Good for readers who like intense billionaire romance with danger, obsession, suspense, and protective heroes.
Merged With Him
Romance · Contemporary Romance · New Adult
Our take
Merged With Him follows Alyssa and Zac, a billionaire club owner whose instant attraction becomes a dangerous, forbidden romance. As threats close in, Zac is willing to go to war for the woman he loves, while Alyssa risks everything for a future with him, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 10,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like intense billionaire romance with danger, obsession, suspense, and protective heroes.
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Alyssa
When my eyes met Zac's from across the bar, I knew. I knew my heart was forever lost. I also knew I could never have him. It wasn't just a matter of wrong place, wrong time.
If only it were that simple…
Being with Zac means risking everything—including my life. I know I shouldn't want him, but my heart won't listen to reason. And neither will Zac.
Can the promises he makes of us “always having a tomorrow together” be real?
Zac
The moment I saw Alyssa enter my club, I knew I wanted her. Even as she sat across the bar with another man, I knew I’d make her mine. Then, the moment our skin connected, every cell in my body exploded like fireworks.
A few moments in time sealed her fate. I was keeping her.
When someone threatens to take her away from me, I’m ready for war. I don’t have to go to hell and back to save the woman I love. I’m already there, my soul stained with the blood of those who thought they could cross me.
I promised her we would always have a tomorrow together. I don’t break my promises.
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Good for readers who want YA romcoms with music, family illness, humor, and first love.
The Heartbreakers
Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Contemporary Romance
Our take
A #1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Music Fiction eBooks called “Adorably romantic and fun!” by Kasie West, The Heartbreakers follows a teen girl who falls for the lead singer of a world-famous boy band while her sister is sick with cancer, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want YA romcoms with music, family illness, humor, and first love.
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"When I wasn't reading this book, it was all I wanted to be doing. Adorably romantic and fun! I loved it." —Kasie West author of The Distance Between Us
From beloved Wattpad sensation Ali Novak, author of My Life with the Walter Boys, comes this swoon-worthy YA romcom about a teen who accidentally falls for the lead singer of a world-famous boy band, perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Miranda Kenneally
When I met Oliver Perry, I had no clue he was the lead singer for The Heartbreakers. And he had no idea that I was the only girl in the world who hated his music.
Stella will do anything for her sick sister, Cara—even stand in line for an autographed Heartbreakers CD…for four hours. She's totally winning best birthday gift this year. At least she met a cute boy with soft brown hair and gorgeous blue eyes while getting her caffeine fix. Too bad she'll never see him again.
Except, Stella's life has suddenly turned into a cheesy love song. Because Starbucks Boy is Oliver Perry—lead singer for the Heartbreakers. And even after she calls his music crap, Oliver still gives Stella his phone number. And whispers quotes from her favorite Disney movie in her ear. OMG, what is her life?
But how can Stella even think about being with Oliver—dating and laughing and pulling pranks with the band—when her sister could be dying of cancer?
First a hit on the online community Wattpad, Ali Novak's second novel has over 38 million reads and is loved by readers around the world.
With a perfect balance of humor, heart, and romance, The Heartbreakers is a great choice for readers looking for:
- fun contemporary romance for teens
- Wattpad love stories
- romcoms that cover deeper issues like family, illness, and self-discovery
- binge-worthy YA novels
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Good for readers who want angsty frenemies-to-lovers romance with first love, heartbreak, and emotional fallout.
Broken Knight
Romance · College Romance · Contemporary Romance · New Adult
Our take
A #1 Amazon bestseller in the entire Amazon store, Broken Knight follows childhood friends and neighbors Luna and Knight as their long-simmering, complicated romance resurfaces amid tragedy, betrayal, and loss. As Luna grows beyond the girl Knight once protected, both are forced to face painful change, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 19,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want angsty frenemies-to-lovers romance with first love, heartbreak, and emotional fallout.
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Now #1 Amazon Bestseller in the entire Amazon store
Everyone needs to read this book. I’m certain you won’t feel a single regret. " - Harloe Rae, USA Today Bestselling author.
From Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a new, standalone romance about first loves, betrayal and loss.
Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending.
Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower.
Sweet. Caring. Charitable. Quiet. Fake.
Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants—namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language.
Who taught her how to laugh. To live. To love.
Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero.
Gorgeous. Athletic. Rugged. Popular. Liar.
This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but he only has eyes for the girl across the street: Luna.
But Luna is not who she used to be. She doesn’t need his protection anymore.
When life throws a curveball at All Saints’ golden boy, he’s forced to realize not all knights are heroes. Sometimes, the greatest love stories flourish in tragedy.
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The Prodigal Son is good for readers who like MM romance with forbidden attraction, celebrity secrecy, trauma recovery, and high heat.
The Prodigal Son
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance
Our take
A lonely country music star falls for a preacher who becomes his secret lover during his tour, as both men deal with their past traumas. Spicy romance with mature themes, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 4,600 Amazon reviewers. The Prodigal Son is good for readers who like MM romance with forbidden attraction, celebrity secrecy, trauma recovery, and high heat.
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I’ve been alone long enough.
As a chart-topping country singer, I’m living the dream.
While my family is all back in Austin, embracing their happily-ever-afters, I’m on the road on a sold-out tour.
I should feel ecstatic, yet all I am is lonely.
Maybe that’s why I find myself drawn to a fan who pops up at one of my shows.
Something about the way he watches me on stage has me thinking…he knows my secret.
And after the first kiss, I can’t seem to let him go.
But Jensen Miles has some secrets of his own:
He isn’t just a regular fan. He’s a preacher.
And not just any preacher—the new preacher at my dad’s church.
Where I come from, preachers don’t have filthy mouths and dirty hookups, let alone with a male country singer.
But Jensen has scars like mine. They just run deeper.
We can’t stay away from each other, though. One night turns into nearly every city of the tour; the two of us sneak around backstage, onto tour buses, and in hotel rooms.
And while I’ve never been happier…I’m tired of hiding.
With Jensen, I might be able to escape the monsters from my past—even if the scariest one has just been set free.
With Jensen, we can outrun our demons together.
With Jensen, I’m finally ready to come home.
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Good for readers who like steamy enemies-to-lovers romance with inherited drama, forced proximity, and sharp attraction.
The Rivals
Romance · Contemporary Romance
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Generations of family rivalry follow Weston Lockwood and his enemy into a shared hotel inheritance neither of them can escape. In The Rivals, old grudges, business tensions, and constant fighting turn complicated when their worst arguments keep ending in bed, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 9,900 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like steamy enemies-to-lovers romance with inherited drama, forced proximity, and sharp attraction.
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A sexy, enemies-to-lovers standalone from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland.
The feud between Weston Lockwood and me started at the altar.
Only neither of us attended the wedding, and the nuptials happened decades before either of us was born.
Our grandfathers had been best friends and business partners, at least up until my grandfather’s wedding day—when his bride-to-be blurted out she couldn’t marry him because she was also in love with Weston's grandfather.
The two men spent years fighting over Grace Copeland, who also happened to be their third business partner. But in the end, neither man could steal half of her heart away from the other.
Eventually, they all went their separate ways. Our grandfathers married other women, and the two men became one of the biggest business rivals in history.
Our fathers continued the family tradition of feuding. And then Weston and I did, too.
For the most part, we kept as much distance as possible.
Until the day the woman who started the feud died—and unexpectedly left one of the most valuable hotels in the world to our grandfathers to share.
Now I’m stuck in a hotel with the man I was born to hate, trying to unravel the mess our families inherited.
As usual, it didn’t take long for us to be at each other’s throats.
Weston Lockwood was everything I hated: tall, smart, cocky, and too gorgeous for his own good. We were fire and ice.
But that shouldn’t be an issue. Our families were used to being at war. There was just one minor problem, though. Every time Weston and I fought, we somehow wound up in bed.
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For readers who like snowy settings, forced proximity, and guarded hearts.
Any Trope but You
Romance · Contemporary Romance · RomCom
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An internationally bestselling debut, a canceled romance author who secretly rejects happy endings flees to Alaska to write a murder mystery in Any Trope but You, only to land in a rom-com setup with Forrest, the resort owner caring for his ailing father, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 2,400 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like snowy settings, forced proximity, and guarded hearts.
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A bestselling romance author flees to Alaska to reinvent herself and write her first murder mystery, but the rugged resort proprietor soon has her fearing she’s living in a rom-com plot instead in this internationally bestselling debut by Victoria Lavine.
Beloved romance author Margot Bradley has a dark secret: she doesn’t believe in Happily Ever Afters. Not for herself, not for her readers, and not even for her characters, for whom she secretly writes alternate endings that swap weddings and babies for divorce papers and the occasional slashed tire. When her Happily Never After document is hacked and released to the public, she finds herself canceled by her readers and dropped by her publisher.
Desperate to find a way to continue supporting her chronically ill sister, Savannah, Margot decides to trade meet-cutes for murder. The fictional kind. Probably. But when Savannah books Margot a six-week stay in a remote Alaskan resort to pen her first murder mystery, Margot finds herself running from a moose and leaping into the arms of the handsome proprietor, making her fear she’s just landed in a romance novel instead.
The last thing Dr. Forrest Wakefield ever expected was to leave his dream job as a cancer researcher to become a glorified bellhop. What he’s really doing at his family’s resort is caring for his stubborn, ailing father, and his puzzle-loving mind is slowly freezing over—until Margot shows up. But Forrest doesn’t have any room in his life for another person he could lose, especially one with a checkout date.
As long snowy nights and one unlikely trope after another draw Margot and Forrest together, they’ll each have to learn to overcome their fears and set their aside assumptions before Margot leaves—or risk becoming a Happily Never After story themselves.
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Their connection is volatile and deeply tangled, making this a fit for readers who like protective antiheroes, emotional friction, and high-risk romance.
A Hateful Negotiation
Romance · Contemporary Romance
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A woman chasing normality can’t outrun the dangerous man who built his life around protecting her. A Hateful Negotiation follows Blake and Creighton into a slow-burn mafia romance where obsession, power, resentment, and chemistry collide. Their connection is volatile and deeply tangled, making this a fit for readers who like protective antiheroes, emotional friction, and high-risk romance.
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In a slow-burn mafia romance from New York Times bestselling author Tijan, a dangerous psychopath—and deadly crime boss—drops his defenses for the one girl he’s vowed to protect.
Creighton was a dangerous crime boss with a growing empire. And he’s a psychopath.
He’s also obsessed with Blake.
She wanted a normal life. That meant new friends and a life without Creighton.
Except when Blake moves to New York for her senior year of college, Creighton follows because he knows that danger is close behind. He has always protected Blake, and he always will protect her, even if Blake hates how ruthless Creighton has become for her.
However, once they’re in New York, the dynamics between the two begin to change. Tensions heat up, and soon their chemistry is sizzling beyond what Blake can handle.
That means that their usual back-and-forth has to change, with new rules and a new agreement.
Perhaps this negotiation could be for their happily ever after?
They’ll just need to survive each other first…
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