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It’s a strong pick for readers who want funny, tender queer romance with emotional mess, real growth, and do-over energy.
Here’s to Us
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance
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Arthur and Ben are older, supposedly wiser, and very much trying not to spiral when the universe keeps shoving them back into each other’s orbit. Here’s to Us follows exes, current relationships, and a whole lot of unresolved feelings as both boys try to figure out whether first love is something you outgrow or something that keeps demanding a second look. It’s a strong pick for readers who want funny, tender queer romance with emotional mess, real growth, and do-over energy.
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"A sweet, emotionally immersive gay romance with incredible chemistry and so much yearning, Here’s to Us completely wrecked me. Arthur and Ben’s push-pull dynamic felt honest, nostalgic, and deeply affecting from beginning to end." Apropos Books
#1 New York Times bestseller! Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera reunite to continue the story of Arthur and Ben, the boys readers first fell for in the bestselling rom-com What If It’s Us.
Ben survived freshman year of college, but he’s feeling more stuck than ever. His classes are a slog, his part-time job working with his father is even worse, and his best friend Dylan’s been acting weird for weeks. Ben’s only real bright spot is his writing partner Mario, who’s been giving him a lot of Spanish lessons and even more kisses. Mario’s big Hollywood dreams make Ben start to dream bigger—and the choices he makes now could be the key to reshaping his future. So why can’t he stop thinking about a certain boy from his past?
Arthur is back in New York City for the first time in two years, ready to take the theater world by a storm as the world’s best . . . intern to the assistant of an off-off-Broadway director. Of course, it sucks to be spending the summer apart from his sweet, reliable boyfriend, Mikey, but he knows their relationship is strong enough to weather the distance. Which is why it’s no big deal when his ex-boyfriend Ben stumbles back into the picture. And it’s definitely fine that Ben’s blissfully happy with some mystery boy. First loves are special, but it’s way too late for what-ifs. Right?
Even as the boys try to shake off the past, they keep running into each other in the present. Is this the universe trying to tell them there’s a do-over in their future?
Here's to Us is sure to be welcomed by fans old and new of these authors and their previous collaboration, What If It's Us. Critically acclaimed and bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera combine their talents in these smart, funny, heartfelt novels about two very different boys who can’t decide if the universe is pushing them together—or pulling them apart.
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A woman returns to the town she swore she’d never see again and finds herself trapped between old secrets and a house that feels alive with menace.
Hemlock
Thriller · Jaime's Picks · Romantic Suspense · Suspense
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A woman returns to the town she swore she’d never see again and finds herself trapped between old secrets and a house that feels alive with menace. In Hemlock, Maggie’s homecoming stirs up the past she tried to bury, while strange occurrences inside her new house push her toward a truth far darker than she expected. The story blends psychological suspense with romantic tension and the kind of dread that keeps tightening.
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She thought she’d escaped her poisonous past…
Thirteen years ago, Maggie Ellis left her small town and vowed to never return. In her rearview mirror were two men she loved and an ominous secret that would forever haunt her.
Now, tragedy has brought her back, and she’s determined to forget that fateful night. But in a town like Myers, with familiar faces and chilling memories lurking around every corner, moving on is easier said than done.
Before the ink can dry on the closing documents for her new residence, Maggie begins to feel unsettled. In every room, there’s the unmistakable sensation she’s being watched. The strange sounds, odd smells, and bizarre occurrences only add to her paranoia.
There’s something sinister about her new home…
When she discovers the devastating truth about the house and its grim history, Maggie’s worst fears are realized. In order to survive, she must unearth the secrets she’d always planned to keep buried.
After all, they say that home is where the heart is, but as Maggie knows, home is also where the skeletons lie.
Seamlessly blurring the edges between psychological thriller and romantic suspense, million-copy bestselling author Kiersten Modglin brings us a dark and twisted romantic thriller, perfect for fans of Verity, Tell Me Lies, The Ghost Writer, and YOU.
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A seaside town with too many bodies and two killers with very different agendas make for a romance that was never going to be normal.
Tourist Season
Romance · Jaime's Picks · Romantic Suspense · RomCom
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A seaside town with too many bodies and two killers with very different agendas make for a romance that was never going to be normal. In Tourist Season, Harper protects Cape Carnage with a shovel and a smile, while Nolan arrives bent on revenge and finds himself tangled with the one target who refuses to play victim. The story mixes dark humor, obsession, and slow-burn tension with a murderous small-town backdrop.
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“The undisputed queen of dark rom-coms is back with a new swoony, one-of-a-kind banger, and the book world better get ready for it!” —Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver comes a wickedly delicious new series where dark romantic comedy meets thrilling suspense—and where falling in love can be a killer.
Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever.
You can hide in the farthest reaches of the deepest hell, and I will still drag you out. Even the devil can’t save you from me.
Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. With tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary—and her aging mentor with a fading memory—at any cost. Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds.
But Nolan Rhodes isn’t your average tourist. Devilishly handsome, disarmingly charming, and skilled with a blade, Nolan is relentless in the pursuit of revenge. On every anniversary of the hit-and-run accident that fractured his life, Nolan slays another target. And he’s saved the best for last: the undeniably beautiful Harper Starling. The problem? Harper isn’t the monster he expected. And she won’t go down without a fight.
When an amateur true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage on the trail of a long-lost serial killer, Harper and Nolan strike an uneasy truce. If Nolan helps Harper protect her town, she’ll keep quiet about his hunting habits . . . for now. But their alliance soon spirals into obsession, one that threatens to shatter every secret in Carnage—including their fragile love.
Tourist Season is a darkly funny, slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romance where destruction and desire are balanced on the edge of a blade—and where love is the most dangerous battleground of all.
Tropes: Small-town romance / Fish out of water / Grumpy x grumpy / Forced proximity / He falls first / Touch her/him and die / Groveling
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The Bone Collector throws together an off-limits attraction, assassin school mayhem, dark humor, and a ridiculous amount of blood-soaked tension for readers who like their romance violent, messy,…
The Bone Collector
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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Park Chen is supposed to train killers, keep Gift safe, and absolutely not get pulled into the chaos of the one man he should keep at arm’s length. The Bone Collector throws together an off-limits attraction, assassin school mayhem, dark humor, and a ridiculous amount of blood-soaked tension for readers who like their romance violent, messy, and very hot.
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Park Chen has spent most of his life as a killer—a deadly, deep cover operative known as the Bone Collector. Now, he’s been benched. Reassigned as an instructor at Project Watchtower, he’s tasked with training a school of psychopathic assassins while trying to keep a promise to his friends.
Gift Ayutthaya isn’t treated like a gift at all. If anything, his parents treat him as a burden, though a spoiled one. After an attempt on his life, they pass that burden onto someone else. Park. The man Gift’s been fantasizing about for years. A man who sees him as an adorable but incompetent distraction.
It’s no secret that Gift doesn’t belong at the Watch, but Park’s made a vow to keep him safe. Gift has made a vow, too. He’s going to use every weapon in his arsenal to find a way to seduce Park and make him love him, once and for all. Or die trying.
Loving Gift was never the issue—Park’s already there. But assignments at the Watch aren’t optional. To stay, Gift has to prove himself, something Park just can’t allow. Can Gift get Park to see that, when it comes to murder, Gift is aptly named? Or will he be relegated to the sidelines in both school and in love?
The Bone Collector is an action packed, smoking hot, age gap romance with an HEA and no cliffhangers. It features a rule-following assassin turned reluctant teacher of psychopaths and an adorable, off-limits, fumbling student who just can’t seem to stay away from each other. Prepare yourself for gratuitous violence, very dark humor, more blood than an ‘80s horror movie, and enough heat to fog up a window factory. This is book one in The Watch series. Each book follows a different couple.
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A woman chasing a perfect love story keeps colliding with the one man who never fit the script.
We Met Like This
Romance · Contemporary Romance · RomCom
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A woman chasing a perfect love story keeps colliding with the one man who never fit the script. In We Met Like This, Margot loses her job, tries to save her dream career, and finds unexpected steadiness in Oliver, the dating app match she cannot quite dismiss. The romance leans on witty banter, missed timing, and emotional hesitation.
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Beloved author Kasie West's sparkling adult rom-com debut about a hopeless romantic falling for the one man she never expected
Can a swipe right turn into swept away?
Margot Hart is a hopeless romantic. That’s why she wants to be a literary agent—to help bring romance books to the world. It’s also why she hates dating apps with all her romance loving soul. She wants her own love story to be just as much fun as the books she reads—a mixed up coffee order, a mistaken identity. She’s not going to tell the story that she swiped right on future husband’s shirtless pic for the rest of her life.
The problem is that her most consistent relationship over the last several years is with Oliver, a guy she keeps rematching with on the apps. They’ve only been on one date and it was a disaster…well, until the make out session in the car before parting ways. But, she keeps reminding herself, a make out session does not a relationship make. And so there will not be a date two regardless of how witty their app banter is.
When Margot gets fired from her job on the same day she meets Oliver again, her life becomes a veritable shit show. Her dream career is dying right before her eyes, and Oliver thinks she’s interested in only one thing: a repeat of the hot make out session they had three years ago so she can get him out of her system. And maybe that is all she wants from him, because she and Oliver are definitely not compatible—he doesn’t hit the snooze button, he runs five miles every morning, he reads nonfiction, and worst of all, she didn’t meet him in cute way! But in her scramble to keep her dream career alive, by opening her own agency, Oliver is there with his golden retriever energy, more steady and helpful than any man she’s ever dated. Just when she thinks she’s overcome her app bias, she realizes that maybe it’s not her who’s holding back, but him. And his reasons are more than she bargained for.
Kasie West's romantic and sexy adult debut is full of witty banter, meet cutes gone awry and, ultimately, true love.
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Every lifetime ends the same way: she kills the boy who cannot stop finding her.
After the Sky Falls
Dark Romance · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Every lifetime ends the same way: she kills the boy who cannot stop finding her. In After the Sky Falls, imperial assassin Ellas Valentin begins to question everything when her latest target claims to remember loving her across multiple lives. As rebellion spreads and fragments of past betrayals surface, this YA dark romantasy blends reincarnation, enemies-to-lovers tension, and dangerous secrets that challenge loyalty and fate.
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Every life, he finds her. Every life, she kills him.
Ellas Valentin was forged into the empire's deadliest weapon, trained to obey, conditioned to feel nothing, loyal only to the crown that sharpened her into a blade. Mercy is weakness. Hesitation is death.
Until the boy she’s sent to assassinate looks at her like she’s his salvation.
Noct Seraph has died nine times. In every lifetime, he finds Ellas, the girl with the storm in her eyes and a blade at his throat. And in every lifetime, she forgets him.
This time, he refuses to die quietly. When Noct’s memories begin bleeding into Ellas’s mind—flashes of past betrayals, stolen kisses, and a love that always ends in blood—she realizes the empire has lied to her about more than just her enemies.
As rebellion ignites across the kingdom, Ellas must choose:
Remain the crown’s perfect assassin.
Or trust the boy who remembers loving her in every life… even the ones where she was the villain.
Perfect for fans of These Violent Delights and An Ember in the Ashes.
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A new town promises a fresh start, but secrets and obsession quickly turn it into a trap.
The Invite
Romance · Dark Romance
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A new town promises a fresh start, but secrets and obsession quickly turn it into a trap. After moving to Fallthorne, a teacher becomes entangled with Augustus Grayson, a masked man who rules the town’s infamous Massacre Ball. In The Invite, forbidden attraction and buried threats collide as enemies close in, forcing her to confront the dangerous power games that define this dark romantic suspense.
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Every time I open my phone, two kinds of men fill my feed.
Masked men.
Biker men.
They are everywhere ruling the hearts of naïve girls.
I was one of those girls, fascinated by them. Often, fantasizing about them.
Until I got caught by one.
On the first night I moved to the town of Fallthorne.
The heart of these wicked men’s debauchery, where people from all over the world visit to partake with them at The Massacre Ball.
Moving here was supposed to be a fresh start.
It became my fresh hell.
The devil reining it with an iron fist is Augustus Grayson.
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The one I had suspended after being terrorized by him.
Now he’s out for revenge.
But he isn’t the only one who’s after me.
A sinister enemy lurks in the darkness who knows our weaknesses.
I’m not the only one they’re targeting.
The only way to save ourselves is to play their game.
Otherwise, deadly secrets will rise from the ashes.
None of us are safe.
I don’t know who scares me more.
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Author's Note: This is a dark viral masked biker forbidden romance. It features a morally black anti-hero with medium to high burn. Please check the author's note or full list of TWs on her website.
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Desperation and control collide when two men accustomed to power lose the foundations of their lives.
Disciplinary Action
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Romantic Suspense
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Desperation and control collide when two men accustomed to power lose the foundations of their lives. In Disciplinary Action, Leopold Gideon has spent years mastering dominance among the elite, while Callum Whyte suddenly finds himself stripped of wealth and security. Their charged encounter evolves into a dangerous battle of wills when Gideon becomes headmaster at Cal’s school. This dark romance explores power, vulnerability, and obsession.
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He'll go down for his permanent record.
LEOPOLD GIDEON spent his childhood as the poor kid in a rich school until he met an older man who took him under his wing and into his bed, teaching him to not only survive but thrive among the elite and to never submit to anybody…except him. For fifteen years, Gideon had everything, but then tragedy strikes, leaving him alone once again.
CALLUM WHYTE was raised with every conceivable luxury but one: loving parents. When his father is indicted for federal crimes and his assets frozen, Cal has to learn to survive with nothing. When a friend offers him money to spend the night with a hot older man, Cal has no choice but to say yes or literally risk going without medication he needs to stay alive.
One night with Gideon leaves Cal’s head spinning and his body longing for something he never thought he’d want: discipline. Too bad Gideon never plays with the same boy twice, not even ones who beg as sweetly as Cal.
Just when Cal thinks all hope is lost, he discovers Gideon is the new headmaster for his school, leading him to devise a plan to get what he wants by blackmailing the older man into spending the next six weeks with him. But Cal is about to learn it doesn’t pay to blackmail someone who doles out his punishments.
Will this battle of wills end in a ceasefire or heartbreak?
This book is complete at 78,000 words with no cliffhanger and a HEA.
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A perfect life begins to fracture when the roles everyone expects no longer fit.
Damaged Goods
Romance · College Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
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A perfect life begins to fracture when the roles everyone expects no longer fit. In Damaged Goods, Bailey Followhill’s polished image unravels after failure and rumor reshape how the world sees her. Lev Cole, the golden quarterback next door, is tired of living a life chosen by others. Their lifelong friendship turns into something riskier as both confront pressure, identity, and the fear of losing everything that once defined them.
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From L.J. Shen, the WSJ bestselling author of Vicious and The Kiss Thief, comes a brand new angsty, delicious standalone in the All Saints series. This friends-to-lovers, boy-obsessed romance will make you cry your eyes out and laugh with joy, sometimes on the same page.
Underneath the goody-two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her?
Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter.
Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak.
Not a hair out of place, not an inch out of line, she is everything her troublemaking sister Daria isn't.
But when her A game turns out to be a lukewarm C- at Juilliard, Bailey's picture-ready life starts fraying faster than the worn satin ribbons of her pointe shoes.
She's becoming a piece of gossip.
The Troubled Child. A drug abuser.
No longer the girl her best friend once knew.
Lev Cole is so golden, he's got the Midas Touch.
Prized quarterback. Football captain. Hottest guy in SoCal. A textbook cliché.
But with a girlfriend he doesn't love and a career path he doesn't value, Lev is coasting.
The only two things he cares about―Bailey and becoming a pilot―are out of reach.
But Lev is done being satisfied with the life others have chosen for him. He wants to pick his own cards. To demolish the seamless kingdom of lies his family stitched together on the ruins his mother left behind.
The question is, can he save his best friend and his dream before too much damage is done?
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Life feels comfortably predictable until new people begin to disrupt everything.
First & Then
Romance · Teen + Young Adult · RomCom
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Life feels comfortably predictable until new people begin to disrupt everything. In First & Then, Devon Tennyson is content with quiet routines, a long-held crush on her best friend, and avoiding thoughts of the future. When an unconventional cousin and an infuriatingly confident football player enter her life, shifting relationships force Devon to reconsider love, family, and who she wants to become.
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Recommended in John Green's Book Giving Guide: A novel of friendships, crushes, and romance that "captures the exhilaration and agony of being a teen" (School Library Journal).
Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy silently crushing on her best friend and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive football player, Ezra, right where she doesn't want them—first into her P.E. class, and then into every other aspect of her life . . .
With wit, heart, and humor to spare, First & Then is a contemporary novel about falling in love—with the unexpected boy, with a new brother, and with yourself.
"A fresh, smart, inventive, and altogether impressive debut." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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A debt meant to save her family’s lobster business becomes something far more complicated when it places her inside the home of the town’s most feared recluse.
Happily Ever Maybe?
Romance · RomCom
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A debt meant to save her family’s lobster business becomes something far more complicated when it places her inside the home of the town’s most feared recluse. In Happily Ever Maybe?, a determined young woman agrees to work for Malcolm Bettencourt, a scarred billionaire with a grudge against her family. Forced proximity, simmering attraction, and a Beauty and the Beast dynamic drive this contemporary romance toward an uneasy, emotionally charged connection.
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"I loved this book so hard!Full of heartstopping feels and sizzling chemistry with a broody, forbidden hero, this is the funny, filthy, drop-everything read of the year…perfect for fans of Lucy Score." ~New York Times bestelling author Annika Martin
He’s the billionaire Beast of Calico Cove and I’m his sacrificial lamb… I mean, his new employee.
Malcolm Bettencourt is a recluse with a nasty scar across his face and a bad attitude. He has a bone to pick with my family over a loan my dad can't pay back, so in order to save our lobster business, I agreed to live in his house as his housekeeper and cook.
We have nothing in common and there’s no reason to think he would want anything to do with someone like me. Except I can’t stop thinking about him and he can’t stop looking at me.
Author's Note: This beauty and the beast retelling includes a grumpy hero, a sassy heroine looking to lose her v-card and a Pretty Woman moment with a black Am-Ex. Oh and an age gap romance with someone who may or may not be her lobster.
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A career setback sends a professional hockey player into the wilderness, where attraction complicates his plans for escape.
Barn Burner
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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A career setback sends a professional hockey player into the wilderness, where attraction complicates his plans for escape. In Barn Burner, a trip to rural Alberta brings him face to face with a guarded cowboy whose life revolves around the ranch. As identities blur and desire deepens, this MM sports romance explores vulnerability, pride, and the risks of loving across different worlds.
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I’ve ridden a Zamboni, but never a cowboy…
Missing out on my first Stanley Cup has left me more torn up than I expected. It was in my sights. So close, I could almost touch it.
With my brother back in England, I’m facing nothing but an empty house and my thoughts, and there’s only two ways to soothe my mind:
The ice and nature.
But when I pack up my car and head out into the Alberta wilderness, my bad luck lands me in the reluctant hands of a grumpy cowboy with a perpetual scowl.
I shouldn’t get involved with Jesse.
His life is the ranch, whereas my life is hockey.
So why do I allow myself to fall for him so hard?
And why do I keep my real identity a secret?
I live for barn burners, but this is one I might not survive.
Barn Burner is a part of Love the Game, a multi-author MM sports romance shared world.
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