New Romance To Read in 2025

A marriage of convenience threatens to go off track in this steamy Formula 1 romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Cross the Line.

Falling in love with your husband is anything but convenient in this steamy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Business or Pleasure.

When Andie lands her dream job as a senior book publicist, she’s ready to take the world of New York publishing by storm. Until her first day, when she discovers that her biggest author is Jack Carlson — the same Jack who ruined her life at university. To make matters even worse, the central part of this career-defining campaign is a book tour. For a month, Andie will have to travel across Europe with the man whom, if she were being totally honest, she’d like to hit with her car. But she will not lose this opportunity, especially not because of him. One month on tour with Jack Carlson, visiting some of the most romantic spots in Europe. Deep breath. She can do this.

The truth is stranger than fan fiction in the next sexy paranormal rom-com from the beloved author of The Roommate.

Geography professors in a failed marriage of convenience inconveniently reconnect for an emergency mission in this swoony historical-fantasy rom-com.

An R&B singer and a corporate executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot.

A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.

Campbell Andrews despises exactly three things in life: incompetence, tardiness, and love stories. That is, until she wakes up in Heart Springs — her own personal hell. The good news? She’s not dead. She’s been magically transported to a small town straight out of the Hallmark channel, complete with a meddling mayor, seasonal festivals, and friendly townsfolk. Cam can’t stand it, but in order to make it back to her real life, she has to fulfill three tasks … foremost among them, experience true love. It seems impossible. But anything’s possible with a change of heart.

Ex-grifter Phoebe Graves’s new life threatens to come crashing down around her in the next unputdownable novel from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Addicted series.

A small-town waitress and a Hollywood star’s worlds collide in this new romance by Ashley Herring Blake, USA Today bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date.

A small-town waitress and a big-city Broadway press agent swap homes to escape the messiness of their personal lives, only to find new purpose — and new love.

From the acclaimed author of Chef’s Kiss, a groundbreaking trans Regency romance that’s both delightfully witty and refreshingly iconoclastic. With its heady combination of dry wit, slow-burn romance, and a nuanced portrait of trans identity, A Gentleman’s Gentleman stands to transform the historical romance genre as we know it.

Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. But when she finds herself at the lake she spent the summer at when she was a teenager — alongside her crush, Charlie Florek — she feels seventeen again. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart. Because Alice sees people — that’s why she is so good at what she does — but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back. A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune.

How do you find yourself after you lose the one you loved the most? Grieving the loss of her best friend, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again, in this heartwarming, slow-burn romance by the author of Ready or Not.

A compassionate and hopeful romantic comedy, Passion Project is a reminder that love is waiting for us to let it in. With emotional resonance and sparkling banter, Passion Project is a fun, flirty, thoughtful story of finding a spark — and igniting happiness.

She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go. From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to rediscover what they lost.

Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget. One Day meets a contemporary Bridgerton in this high-drama, escapist wonder of a love story, Paige Toon’s best yet.

A PR partnership between a pop superstar and a pro-athlete bad boy turns into so much more in this swoony romance from the acclaimed author of When I Think of You.

A captivating and sizzling new queer romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.

A fast-paced, witty, and delightful new mystery about a marriage proposal planner whose biggest job yet is threatened by a dead body (or two).

A society matchmaker realizes she’s in danger when her clients’ weddings are sabotaged in increasingly disturbing ways — an utterly original mystery from the New York Times bestselling author Aisha Saeed.

In this latest installment of The Perfect Passion Company series, our favorite matchmaker, Katie Donald, continues her unwavering endeavor to help the lonely hearts of Edinburgh find love.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo, a podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating — but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love?

The long-awaited follow-up to the Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestselling global phenomenon The Light We Lost: A thrilling love story about the roles fate and choice play in shaping a life.

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is … complicated. So when her real dad — a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago — suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: About love, and what it actually means to be family.

When a husband asks his wife to consider what might be missing from their marriage, what follows surprises them both — sex, heartbreak and heart rekindling, and a rediscovered sense of all that is possible.

A delectable comedy of manners about cooking, ambition, and friendship set in the food world as a young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting a cookbook for a famous (and famously chaotic) Hollywood starlet.

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.