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2025 Must-Reads: The Hottest New Releases
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items Step into 2025 with the books everyone will be talking about! This list brings together the most anticipated romance, thriller, and contemporary releases hitting shelves this year. From slow-burn romances that keep your heart racing to gripping thril...
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📝 Rivals to Lovers | Teacher Romance | Secret Writer Emily and Jack are feuding second-grade teachers, next-door neighbors, and total opposites. She’s organized and secretly writing romance novels; he’s chaotic and hiding a bestselling mystery autho...
Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams
✨ Fake Dating | Sports Romance | Opposites Attract Spiral is a perfect blend of high-stakes hockey drama and graceful ballet dreams. Elias is the intense, spotlight-weary hockey rookie, while Sage is the determined ballerina fighting for her big brea...
Spiral by Bal Khabra
🎻 Forbidden Romance | Soon-to-be Stepsiblings | Hockey Player x Harpist | Forced Proximity Sig’s dream girl? Turns out she’s his soon-to-be stepsister. Chloe is a sheltered harp prodigy desperate to escape her controlling mother, and Sig offers her ...
Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey
🐾 Contemporary Romance | Slow Burn | Opposites Attract Xavier is a swoon-worthy veterinarian with Greek god vibes… and a tendency to say all the wrong things. Samantha loves proving him wrong, but life—and family crises—threaten to keep them apart. ...
Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
💎 Billionaire Romance | Enemies-to-Lovers | Slow Burn Vuk Markovic is dangerous, powerful, and obsessed—but his loyalty is tested when the woman he wants is engaged to his oldest friend. Ayana’s engagement is a business arrangement, yet the closer s...
King of Envy by Ana Huang
💼 Fake Dating | Enemies to Lovers | High Stakes Romance | Slow Burn Lorenzo and Lily have a complicated past, but when a fake relationship is the only way to save their futures, they agree to play along. What starts as a calculated arrangement soon ...
Love Arranged by Lauren Asher
🏎️ Marriage of Convenience | Steamy Romance | Slow Burn After being left at the altar, Stella never expects a wild night in Vegas to leave her married—to Formula 1 driver Thomas Maxwell-Brown, no less. Their unexpected union sparks sizzling chemistr...
Ride with Me by Simone Soltani
🏒 Second-Chance Romance | Slow Burn | Friends-to-Lovers Hallie and Rio were childhood sweethearts whose hearts broke years ago—but fate (and a new internship) has them living next door to each other once more. Renovating his bachelor pad might be th...
Rewind It Back by Liz Tomforde
🥎 Fake Dating | Reversed Grumpy x Golden Retriever | Sports Romance Skylar’s focused, fierce, and definitely not impressed by Boston’s newest hockey star. Robbie’s cocky, charming, and secretly dying to prove he’s more than a walking scandal. When h...
Pitcher Perfect by Tessa Bailey
📻 Cozy Romance | Radio Love Story | Slow Burn & Sweet First-Time Caller is a warm, heart-tugging modern take on Sleepless in Seattle vibes. Aiden, a cynical romance hotline host, meets Lucie, a woman whose love life is suddenly under the spotlig...
First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
🔥 Marriage of Convenience | Slow Burn | Second-Chance Romance When a contested guardianship forces her to marry the infuriating and broody Rhys Dupris, tension ignites under the same roof. But as his protective and patient side comes to light, hate ...
Wild Side by Elsie Silver
🐺 Paranormal Romance | Slow Burn | Mates & Destiny Serena is the first Human-Were hybrid, a target in a world of political scheming between Weres, Vampyres, and Humans. Koen, Alpha of the Northwest pack, will stop at nothing to protect his mate—...
Mate by Ali Hazelwood
🏈 Sports Romance | Marriage of Convenience | Slow Burn Blakely breaks into his house, and from that moment, nothing—and no one—could prepare him for the impact she’ll have. What starts as a simple arrangement to meet a deadline turns into undeniable...
Their Greatest Strength by Hannah Cowan
🇮🇹 Summer Romance | Age-Gap | Slow Burn Maya can’t stop thinking about Conor, her brother’s best friend, despite the problematic age gap and power imbalance. When they’re stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for a wedding, sparks fly, secret...
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood
✈️ Steamy Romance | Forbidden Love | Slow Burn Sebastian is a grumpy, irresistible fire pilot… and the father of her ex. After a chance meeting and a year apart, fate throws them under the same roof, igniting forbidden desire and simmering tension. F...
Wild Card by Elsie Silver
🍳 Small-Town Romance | Slow Burn | Friends-to-Lovers Madison returns to Rome, Kentucky, to rebuild her culinary career, only to work alongside James, her brother’s best friend and longtime secret crush. Between family drama, professional stakes, and...
In Your Dreams by Sarah Adams
🎓 Opposites Attract | Rich Boy x Smart Girl | Prep School Drama Ruby is a scholarship student just trying to keep her head down. James is Maxton Hall’s golden boy — charming, arrogant, and way out of her league. When she stumbles upon a secret he’s ...
Save Me by Mona Kasten
💔 Angst | Miscommunication | Emotional Rollercoaster James made a mistake, and Ruby’s trust is shattered. But walking away isn’t easy — not when their connection still lingers in every hallway and glance. This book turns up the emotion, diving deep ...
Save You by Mona Kasten
🌹 Second Chance | Redemption Arc | Satisfying Finale In the powerful conclusion, Ruby and James must decide whether love is worth fighting for — even when the odds (and the elite Maxton Hall society) are stacked against them. Secrets come to light, ...
Save Us by Mona Kasten
⛸️ Sports Romance | Slow Burn | Second-Chance Vibes Sierra is an Olympian figure skater battling panic after a career-changing accident, and Dylan is a cocky hockey player who won’t let her off the ice—or in life. As they’re forced to train together,...
Revolve by Bal Khabra
🎄 Holiday Romance | Magical Twist | Slow Burn Nolan is the Ghost of Christmas Past, and Harriet is his sweetest assignment yet. As they explore her past, their unexpected connection grows, weaving magic, mayhem, and cozy holiday charm. Full of whims...
Good Spirits by B.K. Borison
⚽ Sports Romance | Slow Burn | Forced Proximity Vincent, a top football captain, never breaks the rules—until he can’t resist Brooklyn, his coach’s daughter and the ultimate temptation. Sharing a flat sparks undeniable chemistry, playful tension, and...
The Defender by Ana Huang
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🌊 Forbidden College Romance | Slow Burn | Sport Romance Scarlett is a focused Stanford diver determined to get into med school, while Lukas is a disciplined, world-champion swimmer with eyes on gold. When a well-guarded secret brings them together, ...
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
📝 Enemies to Lovers | Forced Proximity | Fake Dating | NYC Aesthetic Screenwriter Elle has writer’s block and one summer to save her career. Her glamorous NYC sublet? Perfect—except for Parker, the billionaire bachelor next door... and her ex-stairw...
Summer in the City by Alex Aster
📸 Small Town | Second Chance Vibes | Quiet Longing | Found Connection Alice returns to the lakeside town that changed her life as a teenager — and finds Charlie Florek, the boy from her past, now all grown up and impossible to ignore. With soft tens...
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
🕰️ Countdown to Death | Rich Girl Secrets | Solve-It-Yourself Suspense Not Quite Dead Yet is dark, addictive, and razor-sharp. Jet has seven days left to live after a brutal Halloween attack—and she’s using every second to solve her own attempted mu...
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
💍 Enemies to Lovers | Forced Proximity | Wedding Shenanigans | Slow-Burn Priscilla Cain lives for organization and perfectly executed events—but teaming up with Oliver, her best friend’s infuriatingly charming guy-bestie, was *not* on the checklist....
The Proposal Project by Donna Marchetti
🧽 Fake Dating | Class Gap | Forced Proximity | Grumpy x Sunshine Abi just needed a place to crash for a week. Declan needed a fake girlfriend to impress his family. Now the house cleaner and the uptight exec are pretending to be in love — and maybe ...
Maid for Each Other by Lynn Painter
⛸️ Childhood Friends to Lovers | Fake Dating | Hockey Town Dani and Alec were childhood best friends — until life pulled them apart. Now they’re teenagers navigating fame, feelings, and faking a relationship in a hockey-obsessed town. She remembers t...
Fake Skating by Lynn Painter