Heartwarming Interracial Romance Reads

Beloved author Jasmine Guillory is back with an endlessly entertaining romantic comedy with a sharp feminist edge. When Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, the last thing she expected was a scoreboard proposal. Turning him down wasn’t that hard–they barely know each other–but how can you hand out that kind of rejection in front of 45,000 screaming fans!

In this modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, a Korean American girl from Queens falls in love with a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn. Told with fluid and poetic language that resembles hip-hop and spoken word, the story of these two individuals comes alive as they become determined to protect their love against all odds.

When Brynn Larson opened up her bar, she never expected that it would become the local spot for the Denver Mustangs players and their significant others! And while she enjoys the success that comes with her new clientele, it doesn’t mean she wants the spotlight that comes with dating a professional athlete. She is determined to keep her relationships strictly business, that is until she meets Maxwell Lewis. Will she be able to keep up her defenses, or will she be tackled by love?

Vanessa Noble is too busy building a multimillion-dollar tech career as a Black woman before age thirty to be distracted by a relationship. But when she goes to the trendy barbershop, the Fade, for a shape-up, the owner Khalil is charming, intelligent, sexy, and definitely seems like he’d treat a woman right…but he’s not Black. Vanessa’s been known to break it off with anyone who doesn’t check off all the boxes on her list, so is she finally ready to take a chance on love or will old patterns keep them apart?

Smart and ambitious, Andrea Tang is focused on her career and doesn’t want to get distracted with a relationship, even if that proves to be a disappointment to her Chinese-Malaysian family. Yet when she meets the charming and wealthy Eric Deng, Andrea decides to give Mr. Right-for-her-family a chance. Too bad Suresh Aditparan, her office rival, keeps throwing a wrench in her plans. Now Andrea can’t help but wonder: In the endless tug-of-war between pleasing others and pleasing herself, is there room for everyone to win?

High school senior Rico has a lot on her plate tackling classes, taking care of her younger brother, and her after-school job as a cashier at the Gas ‘n’ Go. But when Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks her luck will finally change, but only if she–with some assistance from her popular and wildly rich classmate Zan–can find the ticket holder who hasn’t claimed the prize. Captivating and thoughtful, this pitch-perfect romance examines class, privilege, and how a stroke of luck can change an entire life.

After years of family pressure, Raina Anand has finally agreed to let her grandmother play matchmaker. But after a series of disastrous blind dates, Raina takes matters into her own hands. What her Nani doesn’t know won’t hurt her, right?

Natalie is the biggest popstar in Brazil but after a truly humiliating breakup on live television, she isn’t sure her career is going to make it through the embarrassment. So, her PR team comes up with a plan to pair her with a swoon-worthy but totally fake boyfriend. William is not who Natalie expected and she starts to fall for him. But if he doesn’t feel the same way will this fake boyfriend give her real heartbreak?

Benson and Mike have been dating for a few years, and yet while they love each other, their relationship seems to have come to a standstill. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Japan, just as his mother, Mitsuko, arrives for a visit, Mike flies across the world to say goodbye. It is here that he undergoes an extraordinary transformation. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together in an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them then they could have predicted. As each person grows, will they be stronger together, or fracture under the weight?

When someone starts sabotaging the celebrations leading up to this year’s Beltane festival with dark, dangerous magic, a member of the Thorn family gets badly hurt–throwing immediate suspicion on their rivals, the Avramov family. To clear the Avramov name, wild child Issa agrees to co-investigate with Rowan Thorn to get to the bottom of things. Issa and Rowan have always been told to be archenemies, but as the unlikely duo follows a perplexing trail of clues, they discover how little they really know each other..and stumble upon a maddening attraction that becomes harder to ignore by the day.

When her flailing department lands on the university’s chopping block, Professor Naya Turner’s friends convince her to shed her frumpy cardigan for an evening on the town. When she meets a charming stranger, he presents the perfect opportunity to check off the items on her list. Let the guy buy her a drink. Check. Try something new. Check. A no-strings-attached hookup. Check…almost. Soon she must decide if she should return to her old life and protect her professional reputation or flirt with the unknown and stay with the person who makes her feel like she’s finally living again.

Penny Harris just ruined her life. At the first-day-of-summer bash, things got out of hand and she cheated on her boyfriend Jordan when she kissed Kai Tanaka. Kai, her longtime nemesis and the same Kai who is Penny’s best friend Olivia’s boyfriend. Desperate to fix their relationships they hatch a plan: convince their friends that they really do have feelings for each other, which might make it easier for them to forgive them. But as the summer heats up, so does their fake relationship and they must decide if the life they’re fighting so hard to get back is the one they really want.

When Azere was twelve-years-old, she promised her dying father that she would marry a Nigerian man and her mother has been vigilant about reminding Azere to stay within the Nigerian dating pool ever since. But after a disastrous date with a guy her mother set her up with, Azere ends up at a bar and hits it off with Rafael Castellano, a man who is tall, handsome, and…white. Now Azere must decide whether to follow her heart, or remain the dutiful daughter.

As Nate is getting ready to go to his cousin’s lavish wedding in South Africa, he finds out that his ex-boyfriend is going to be at the reception, and he does not want to face this one solo. He asks his best friend (and secret crush), Jai Patel, if he would be his plus-one and Jai agrees! Maybe this trip will be epic after all. Now that Nate’s crush is on board, will love crash the party? Fall in love with this joyful, swoon-worthy rom-com.

Software engineer Daisy Patel has no interest in love, but her matchmaking relatives still expect her to get married. Left with few options, she asks her childhood crush to be her decoy fiancé. The timing is actually perfect for Liam Murphy who just found out that his inheritance is contingent on being married. But when Daisy and Liam go out on a few dates to legitimize their fake relationship, sparks fly and they realize that very little is convenient about their arrangement.

A novel from the author of A Separation, an electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. A woman of quiet passion, she confronts power, love, and violence, both in her personal intimacies and in her work. Soon she is pushed to the precipice, where betrayal and heartbreak threaten to overwhelm her, forcing her to decide what she wants from her life.

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root–that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.

Hunter never expected to be a boy band star, but his band Kiss & Tell is on their first major tour, selling out arenas all over North America. He should be happy but he is also dealing with a very painful breakup with his first boyfriend, and now everyone expects him to play the perfect queer role model for teens. Luckily, the drummer for the band opening for the K&T tour, Kaivan, is serving as a nice distraction. But when The Label finds out about Hunter and Kaivan, it spells trouble–for their relationship, for the perfect gay boy Hunter plays for the cameras, and, most importantly, for Hunter himself.

Natasha is a girl who believes in science and facts. Fate and destiny have no room in her life, especially when she is dealing with the possibility that her family might be deported. Daniel has always tried to live up to his family’s expectations, which mostly means that he pushes his love for art and poetry to the side. But when Natasha and Daniel meet on a street corner, they both think that there may be something extraordinary in store for them. In that moment there are a million futures that lie before them, which one will come true?

Now that Soraya Nazari has graduated from university, she thinks it’s time to get some of the life experiences she feels she’s lacking, partly due to her strict upbringing as the daughter of Iranian immigrants–and British lad, Magnus Evans, seems like the perfect way to get it. Distracting herself with Magnus is easy at first. But just as Soraya realizes there’s more to Magnus than she thought, long-buried secrets, and hard questions, begin to surface–will her relationship survive the truth coming out?

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases–a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice–with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan who agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan. Before long, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense in this heartwarming and refreshing debut that proves one thing: there’s not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Britta didn’t plan on falling for her personal trainer, and Wes didn’t plan on Britta. Plans change and it’s unclear if love, career, or both will meet them at the finish line. As things start to get complicated, walking away from each other would be the smartest thing to do, but running side by side feels like the start of something big.

Ava Granados will never forgive herself for being late to her beloved nana’s deathbed. But due to a fender bender with a mysterious boy, she missed her grandmother’s mystical blessing–one that has been passed between the women of her family upon death for generations. But as it turns out, Nana did give Ava a blessing, but it missed its target, landing with the boy instead. This heartwarming story weaves an unforgettable tale about family, fate, and finding love where you least expect it.