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Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lifelong best friends spend a fateful summer discovering what might happen if they were to be something more in this radiant, heart-clenching adult debut. Laniah Thompson is a homebody who craves privacy. Issac Jordan is internet famous and spends his days followed by paparazzi. She runs a small business with her mom in her hometown. He runs an international brand. And they've been best friends since childhood. When Issac comes home to Providence...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A woman must woo her lover's soul back into his body to wake him from a coma-or risk losing him forever-in this moving novel from the author of The Hundred Loves of Juliet. Claire Walker has always had her life in perfect order, including her high-powered job at one of Manhattan's top corporate law firms. Yet the one thing she cannot seem to find is that perfect love to complete it. Until fate drops Mataias de Leaon into her life. Mataias is a Spanish...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set against a sizzling-hot Greek summer filled with sunshine and souvlaki, Rufaro Faith Mazarura's Let the Games Begin is a page-turning debut rom-com about two strangers at the top of their game. Athens, 2024. Olivia Nkomo has always been ambitious, smart, and an overall go-getter. Now that she's graduated from university, she's willing to do whatever it takes to land her dream job at the Summer Games. The first step? Securing her new internship,...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Hazel Elliot never looks back. If a door closes, she burns the whole house down. But when she's invited to her father's wedding, she's forced to return to Lockett Prairie, Texas, for the first time since she fled for college. Ash Campbell has been in love with Hazel since she dated his best friend in high school. Now, Ash and Hazel's relationship is limited to playful feuding over the best chair in their favorite coffee shop, but his attraction to...
66) WINTER LOST
Author
Series
Mercy Thompson series volume 14
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the supernatural realms, there are creatures who belong to winter. I am not one of them. But like the coyote I can become at will, I am adaptable. My name is Mercy Thompson Hauptman, and my mate, Adam, is the werewolf who leads the Columbia Basin Pack, the pack charged with keeping the people who live and work in the Tri-Cities of Washington State safe. It's a hard job, and it doesn't leave much room for side quests--which is why when I needed...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Triumphantly Black, queer and contemporary... The dialogue snaps and shimmers." —New York Times Book Review on D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster has never been a problem until her latest fling clashes with Jucee, her best friend and the most popular dancer at strip club...
Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster has never been a problem until her latest fling clashes with Jucee, her best friend and the most popular dancer at strip club...
68) ONE LAST SHOT
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the creator of viral TikTok account Betty's Book List, a debut romance about a supermodel and a photographer with a past marriage pact who meet again ten years later on a photoshoot in Cinque Terre, Italy. From the moment Emerson and Theo met as teenagers, they were inseparable. But just when they finally expressed their feelings to one another, they were torn apart. Now, supermodel Emerson is nearing her twenty-eighth birthday, and she's tired...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"You've Got Mail for a new generation, set in the days of AOL and instant messenger, following a lonely editorial assistant in publishing whose surprise meeting with "the other woman's" boyfriend changes the trajectory of her summer Summer Fridays is a witty and emotional love letter to New York City that also captures the feeling of being young and starting out, uncertain of what to do on your Summer Friday. It's also perfect for readers who remember...
Author
Series
All Souls volume 5
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself--and her family history--in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two other-worldly beings found themselves at the center...
72) DARK RESTRAINT
Author
Series
Dark Olympus volume 7
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ariadne Vitalis is in trouble. She's betrayed her father--and his benefactor--and now she's left to rely on the questionable mercy of Olympus to keep her safe. As with everything in this city, mercy comes with a price. For Ariadne, that means a marriageto Dionysus. She has no choice but to agree, even if there's only one man she's ever wanted-a man she's feared just as much as she desires. The Minotaur never had any illusions about Minos's plans....
73) PRIMAL MIRROR
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The next riveting novel in the Psy-Changeling Trinity series by New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Both of them want a relationship—but is beginning it a big mistake?
On the outside, twenty-seven-year-old Darcy Larsen is a pretty, put-together professional—but inside she's falling apart. Eighteen months ago, she lost her fiancé in an accident she still blames herself for. After a successful transplant, her kidney disease seems to be in check, but she worries that her future children—if she has
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Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Izzy Wells-aka burlesque superstar Blue Lenox-doesn't have time for anything more than a hookup. She has a theater to renovate, and turning it into a safe space for queer performers costs money. Money she doesn't have. With the mortgage overdue, the onlyway she'll save the theater is to win the prize money from the Great American Talent show. And if that means forgetting about the beautiful Black ballerina she spent one night with in order to focus...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historica--fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that's beside the point. As someone highly educated...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dara Willcox, up in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. If love at first sight can happen, it happens to them. These two vivid, ambitious people are on different trajectories - he's British, working temporarily in New York. She's set on law school. They don't care. They will make their lives together happen. At their engagement dinner at Dara's family home, her mother Lee sets a beautiful table and the family and close...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's love at first haunting in a seaside town that raises everyone's spirits in this new series from USA Today bestselling author Jen DeLuca. Small Florida coastal towns often find themselves scrambling for the tourism dollars that the Orlando theme parks leave behind. And within the town limits of Boneyard Key, the residents decided long ago to lean into its ghostliness. Nick Royer, owner of the Hallowed Grounds coffee shop, embraces the ghost tourism...
Author
Series
Somerset Lake novels volume 5
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After a bad break-up and a health diagnosis of Lupus earlier this year, Savannah takes an impulsive trip to her favorite aunt's home, where she spent childhood summers. When she arrives, Savannah is surprised to see the house overflowing with books and the garden overflowing with roses. Aunt Eleanor recommends books to her visitors, including Savannah, which help them grow and blossom-just like the flowers she nurtures with so much care. While soul-searching...
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