I do way too much browsing on Amazon, and I stumbled across some preorders that excited me.
Happenstance by Tessa Bailey – November
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer comes a romantic comedy about an accidental relationship between three smitten men…and one commitment phobic woman.
Elise Brandeis has never won a Pulitzerāand she never will. At least not while sheās delivering sandwiches at the Gotham Times, instead of working there as an actual reporter. Her only shot at seeing her byline in print is to prove to the no nonsense managing editor that she has a nose for news. And sheās got just the story to grab her elusive attention.
Right after she delivers this turkey on ciabatta.
Chasing down leads brings Elise to Roosevelt Island, but just when the trail of clues begins to take shape, she gets stuck. Literally. On a cable car with three strangers who couldnāt be more different. An uptight rugby coach, a construction worker and a former adult film star she pretends not to recognize a little too well.
At first, Elise wants nothing more than to be rescued ASAP.
An hour later, everything has changed. By pure happenstance, four separate journeys have collided in an intense, meaningful way. Suddenly, disentangling their lives feels more impossible than winning that Pulitzer. Good thing Elise is too busy proving herself at work to consider three boyfriends. Nobody has time for thatāeven if they make giving in feel oh so right. But three heads are better than one and these loners will teach themselves to work together to win Elise over foreverā¦
And more importantly, keep their dirty socks off her floor.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3UtdR2t
Untying the Knot by Meghan Quinn – November
A spin-off from the #1 Amazon bestsellers, A Not So Meet Cute and So Not Meant To Be, Meghan Quinn brings you a heart-warming, yet hilarious take on an enemies to lovers romance.
On the verge of a divorce, Ryot Bisley, former Chicago Rebels third baseman, and his wife Myla are forced to come face to face with their marital problems and whether they have more than just chemistry in the bedroom.
More to come.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3CdAVLz
A Long Time Coming by Meghan Quinn – January
From the #1 Amazon bestsellers, A Not So Meet Cute and So Not Meant To Be, Meghan Quinn brings the third Cane brother in this all new hilarious modern-day spin of My Best Friend’s Wedding.
With a new ring on her finger, Ophelia is in dire need when it comes to dealing with her nightmare of a mother-in-law, and planning a wedding. Thankfully her best friend of over ten years has recently found some time on his hands, so she recruits Breaker Cane to be her faithful, “man in waiting”.
More than happy to help, Breaker takes his title of Man of Honor very seriously, that’s until he starts to realize that the weird, butterfly feelings he’s been experiencing lately are directed at his soon to be married best friend. Now, he has four weeks to prove to Ophelia that he’s the one she should be marrying, but expressing his feelings isn’t that easy. Especially when the fiancĆ© doesn’t want to give up so easily.
More to come . . .
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3S6J1uF
Things We Hide From the Light by Lucy Score – February
Bestselling author Lucy Score returns to Knockemout, Virginia, following fan-favorite Things We Never Got Over with Knox’s brother Nash’s story.
Nash Morgan was always known as the good Morgan brother, with a smile and a wink for everyone. But now, this chief of police is recovering from being shot and his Southern charm has been overshadowed by panic attacks and nightmares. He feels like a broody shell of the man he once was. Nash isnāt about to let anyone in his life know heās struggling. But his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, sees his shadows. As a rule, sheās not a fan of physical contact unless she initiates it, but for some reason Nashās touch is different. He feels it too. The physical connection between them is incendiary, grounding him and making her wonder if exploring it is worth the risk.
Too bad Linaās got secrets of her own, and if Nash finds out the real reason sheās in town, heāll never forgive her. Besides, she doesnāt do relationships. Ever. A hot, short-term fling with a local cop? Absolutely. Sign her up. A relationship with a man who expects her to plant roots? No freaking way. Once she gets what sheās after, she has no intention of sticking around. But Knockemout has a way of getting under peopleās skin. And once Nash decides to make Lina his, heās not about to be dissuadedā¦even if it means facing the danger that nearly killed him.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Sv3LvR
Final Offer by Lauren Asher – January
A second chance romance featuring Callahan Kane and his mysterious ex.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3S96UC0
Happy Place by Emily Henry – April
A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in collegeāthey go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, nowāfor reasons theyāre still not discussingāthey donāt.
They broke up five months ago. And still havenāt told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend groupās yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.
Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week theyāll all have together in this place. They canāt stand to break their friendsā hearts, and so theyāll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. Itās a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one weekā¦in front of those who know you best?
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3UzTkt2
IB by J. Saman – January
From J. Saman, bestselling author of the Boston’s Billionaire Bachelors series comes a brand-new hilarious, emotional, and steamy series set in the same Boston world about five best friends whose lives were torn apart by tragedy and the irresistible women who piece them back together.
Zaxton Monroe is rich, powerful, infuriatingly gorgeous, and thinks I’m here to ruin his life. Problem is, he might not be wrong.
More coming soon.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3UvVslr
Drama King by Penny Reid – December
Drama King is book #2 in the Three Kings series, coming December 13th, 2022!
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3dxEORX
Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade – November
After All the Feels and Spoiler Alert, Olivia Dade once again delivers a warm and wonderful romantic comedy about two co-stars who once had an incredible one-night standāand after years of filming on the same remote island, are finally ready to yield to temptation againā¦
Mariaās one-night-standāthe thick-thighed, sexy Viking of a man she left without a word or a noteājust reappeared. Apparently, Peterās her surly Gods of the Gates co-star, and theyāre about to spend the next six years filming on a desolate Irish island together. She still wants himā¦but he now wants nothing to do with her.
Peter knows this role could finally transform him from a forgettable character actor into a leading man. He also knows a failed relationship with Maria could poison the set, and he wonāt sabotage his career for a woman whoās already walked away from him once. Given time, maybe they can be cooperative colleagues or friendsāpossibly even best friendsābut not lovers again. No matter how much he aches for her.
For years, they donāt touch off-camera. But on their last night of filming, their mutual restraint finally shatters, and all their pent-up desire explodes into renewed passion. Too bad they still donāt have a future together, since Peterās going back to Hollywood, while Mariaās returning to her native Sweden. She thinks she needs more than he can give her, but heās determined to change her mind, and heās spent the last six years waiting. Watching. Wanting.
His shipwrecked Swede doesnāt stand a chance.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3S6gkOp
King of Wrath by Ana Huang – October
She’s the wife he never wanted…and the weakness he never saw coming.
Ruthless. Meticulous. Arrogant.
Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally.
The billionaire CEO never planned to marryāuntil the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows.
Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy.
It doesnāt matter how beautiful or charming she is. He’ll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal.
Thereās only one problem: now that he has her…he can’t bring himself to let her go.
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Elegant. Ambitious. Well-mannered.
Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her familyās ticket into the highest echelons of high society.
Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family.
While the rude, elusive Dante isn’t her idea of a dream partner, she agrees to their arranged marriage out of duty.
Craving his touch was never part of the plan.
Neither was the worst thing she could possibly do: fall in love with her future husband.
King of Wrath is a steamy arranged marriage billionaire romance. It includes explicit content and profanity. Recommended for mature readers only.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3SsZ9Xm
Accidentally, Scandalously Yours by Nina Levine – November
A standalone accidental marriage, billionaire romance from USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nina Levine.
This is Bradford Black’s & Kristen Blaise’s story.
Opposites attract.
Woke up in Vegas accidentally married.
This book can be read as a standalone. It will feature some of the characters from my Escape With a Billionaire series too!
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3f9SoLE
Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese – November
Opposites become allies to fool their matchmaking friends in this swoony reimagining of Shakespeareās beloved comedy, Much Ado About Nothing.
Jamie Westenberg and Bea Wilmot have nothing in common except a meet-disaster and the mutual understanding that they couldn’t be more wrong for each other. But when the people closest to them play Cupid and trick them into going on a date, Jamie and Bea realize they have something else in common after allāan undeniable need for revenge.
Soon their plan is in place: Fake date obnoxiously and convince the meddlers theyāre madly in love. Then, break up spectacularly and dash everyone’s hopes, putting an end to the matchmaking madness once and for all.
To convince everyone that theyāve fallen for each other, Jamie and Bea will have to nail the performance of their lives. But as their final act nears and playing lovers becomes easier than not, they begin to wonder: What if Cupidās arrow wasnāt so off the mark? And what if two wrongs do make a right?
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3DIBhea
Butt-Dialing the Billionaire by Annika Martin – October
It was just some silly fun. A goofy imitation of the faceless mega-billionaire who owns our faceless international mega-corporation.
Yes there was laughterāscreams of it.
How was I to know that Dave from accounting had sat on the speakerphone, butt-dialing said mega-billionaire? Or that heād listen to me make fun of him for ten straight minutes.
Ummmā¦he couldāve announced himself!
They say heās a notorious rake. A paparazzi-punching scoundrel. An international jet-set bad boy.
And now I hear heās determined to track down the jokester. Me.
Eep!
But weāre tight like family in this officeāno way will my co-workers rat me out, in spite of the pressure from the top. Plus, who brings the cookies? Moi!
Things die down after a few months, and Iām pretty sure Iām safe.
Thank goodness, because I have my hands full with our lazy, arrogant new office gopher. He has the worst work ethic Iāve ever seenāhow did he even get hired? He doesnāt know how to work a vending machine, and heās baffled when we send around a card to be signed for somebodyās birthday. Itās as if heās never set foot in a place of business in his life.
But little by little, we’re drawing closer. He’s funny. Sexy. Wicked. Still, heās all wrong for me. I like respectable men with a work ethic.
Also, I canāt shake the feeling that heās hiding somethingā¦
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Sq9bs3
Fluke by Adriana Locke – February
Jess Carmichael falls head-over-heels in this sweet and steamy contemporary romance.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BDPiXY
Merritt and Her Childhood Crush by Emma St. Clair and Jenny Proctor – August
I said Iād never set foot on Oakley Island again. Not so long as HE lived there. But after my life implodes, Iām reconsidering EVERYTHING ā¦ including my reasons for hating the first–and only man–Iāve ever loved.
Merritt and Her Childhood Crush is a childhood friends to enemies to lovers romantic comedy. The Oakley Island series will follow three very different sisters as they renovate the house they inherited and find love on the island along the way. Each book will have sizzling chemistry but no spice.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3C5xeqQ
Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams – May
When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends to lovers romance begins to bloomāfrom the author of When in Rome and The Cheat Sheet.
Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect matchāsomeone who nicely compliments her happy, quiet life running her flower shop in Rome, Kentucky. Unfortunately, she worries her goal might be too far out of reach when she overhears her date saying she is āsounbelievably boring.ā Is it too late to become flirtatious and fun like the leading ladies in her favorite romance movies? Maybe she only needs a little practiceā¦and Annie has the perfect person in mind to become her tutor: Will Griffin.
Willāthe flirtatious, tattooed, and absolutely gorgeous bodyguardāis temporarily back in Rome, providing security for Amelia Rose as excitement grows for her upcoming marriage to Noah Walker. He has one personal objective during his time in town: stay away from Annie Walker. But no sooner than he gets settled, Will soon finds himself not only breaking his rule, but tasked with far more than simply providing security.
Will wants no part in changing the sweet and lovely Annie, but he canāt bring himself to say no to her request, so he officially agrees to teach her how to be the next leading lady of Rome, Kentucky, and find the love of her lifeāeven if he doesnāt believe in love himself. Between faking a relationship so the meddling town doesnāt catch on to whatās really happening on their practice dates, and tutoring lessons that convince Annie to add passion to her list of must-haves in a mate, it doesnāt take long for the lines of their friendship to blurā¦
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3UClaVE
The Co-op by Tarah DeWitt – October
They say love and construction donāt mix.
By that logic, hate and construction may as well be condemned.
LaRynn Lavigne and Deacon Leeds had one short and contentious summer fling when they were teens.
Certainly nothing to build a foundation on.
But a decade later, when their grandmothers have left them with shared ownership of their dilapidated Santa Cruz building, theyāre thrust back together and have to figure out how to brace up the pieces.
LaRynn has the money, but to access her trust, she has to be married.
Deacon has the construction expertise, but lacks the funds.
A deal is struck: Marry for however long it takes to fix up the property, collect a profit, and cut ties.
Thrust into a home without walls, they quickly learn that itās easy to hide behind emotional ones, even in a marriage. But, with all the exposure and pitfalls that come with living with the opposite sex (and none of the perks) theyāll also have to learn what it means to truly co-operate as a team.
The Co-op is a steamy story about restoration and renovation, and uncovering all the things that build character within ourselves. Itās about the never-ending construction project that partnership is, and finding enjoyment at every stage.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3S9W12h
Miles High Ever After by TL Swan – February
Miles Ever After.
The book of magical endings, featuring extended epilogues for the following,
The Stopover
The Takeover
The Casanova
The Do Over
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3S6fKAk
The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren – May
Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next levelābut only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off scriptāfrom the New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners.
Felicity āFizzyā Chen is lost. Sure, sheās got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when sheās asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasnāt been practicing what sheās preached.
Fizzy hasnāt ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, canāt-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism sheās spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie?
Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard passāunless he agrees to cast the contestants according to a list of romance archetypes. When he says yes, and production on The True Love Experiment begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too.
The True Love Experiment is the book fans have been waiting for ever since Fizzyās debut in the New York Times bestselling Soulmate Equation. But when the lights come on and all eyes are on her, it turns out the happily ever after Fizzy had all but given up on might lie just behind the camera.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xO0X58
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