January 2024 Romance Releases
Welcome to 2024! I actually hope you had a Merry Crisis and a Happy New Beard. Let’s make this yr one thing particular. This is MY record of MY most anticipated new romance books of January 2024! What new books are you wanting ahead to this month? There are lots of nice new books being revealed, sadly as a result of I’m collaborating within the boycott of St. Martin’s Press and Wednesday books, there have been a number of actually nice titles that I can’t in good conscience embrace in my record this month. However, I’m so excited to learn new books from Opal Wei, Katee Robert, Max Monroe and so many extra. There are round 20 romance novels on my record this January.
What new launch are you wanting ahead to this month? If I’ve missed a e book that you just really feel deserves to be on my record, please let me know. Be certain to bookmark this web page so you possibly can confer with it when you should all through the month.
January 2
Opposites appeal to when a free-spirited American singer-songwriter with ADHD groups up with a captivating Irishman to revitalize his household’s pub within the subsequent heartfelt romance from the writer of Luck and Last Resorts.
Raine Hart is used to the challenges of dwelling with ADHD. It’s why she ditched her life in Boston to busk round Europe as a touring musician. No boss. No schedule. No one to disappoint however herself. But when a careless mistake in Ireland leaves her unable to carry out, she sees no different possibility however to surrender her nomadic life.
Since inheriting the Local, Jack Dunne has wished to make the pub his personal. But the luggage of operating a household enterprise and the intrusive ideas that stem from his OCD make altering issues a problem.
Over a pint with good-looking, tattooed Jack, Raine by accident insults him and the pub. Instead of taking offense, Jack, impressed by her imaginative and prescient of what the pub might be, gives her a job bringing it to life.
But when Raine and Jack develop emotions for each other their reverse life gained’t accommodate, it turns into clear the pub isn’t the one factor that wants reinventing. As the top of their enterprise collaboration attracts close to, they’ll should discover a well past the bounds they’ve positioned on themselves or let go of a love that would final a lifetime.
Berkley Pub.
“If I’m too much, go find less.”
In the bingo card of life, Piper Delmonico didn’t count on to mark out the squares “widowed” and “sober” earlier than her ten yr highschool reunion. Pushing 30, designing lingerie for a supervisor who wouldn’t know silk from satin, and always ready for the opposite shoe to drop, she finds herself head to head with somebody who witnessed, first hand, the very public demise of her good woman fame. Thrown collectively a decade later, Piper expects “Marble Man” Fitz Westfall, the golden boy with the stoic face, to be one other particular person telling her she’s an excessive amount of. But does recently-divorced Fitz, together with his head within the sand, actually know as a lot about Piper as he thinks he does? He realizes she could also be simply what he must know that he’s not really made from stone.
Go Find Less is a primary particular person, twin perspective up to date romance that highlights the triumph of overcoming grief and loss whereas creating a brand new sense of self.
Tropes:
– Grumpy x Sunshine
– Second Chance Romance
– Slow Burn
– Plus Size FMC
Amazon Digital Services Pub.
January 4
A witchy, witty, wickedly horny story about love, books, friendship and the surprising connections that bind us collectively…
Bookbinding (verb): the artwork of making one thing magical out of material, leather-based and paper.
As a lonely foster child, Serafina Conte sought refuge in handmaking journals—and writing her needs inside their pages. Now, within the quirky new age retailer she shares together with her two greatest buddies, Sera’s intentions have paid off. Her journals are within the highlight—and rumored to manifest nice issues. Whether it’s witchy expertise, actual magic or not, Sera’s lastly able to be the main woman of her life story…
Until her plot hits a twist.
After the demise of her mentor, Ford Sitwell, all of the loneliness and insecurity of her previous returns. The solely balm is the field of vintage books he left to her. But Ford’s suspicious brooding grandson, Wes, is able to assume the worst of her—and get his grandfather’s books again! The first half doesn’t hassle her. The second? Forget it. Sera gained’t give Wes the books so simply. But it’s clear he’s looking for one thing extra, an emotional connection no e book can exchange. So she gives a deal—work in her retailer for six weeks, and in return, she’ll assist him get closure by sharing reminiscences of his late grandfather.
Yes, Wes appears grumpy, however really he’s scorching …and perhaps type? Deep down? And when need and vulnerability work their charms, Sera begins to surprise if the very best tales aren’t those you plan, however the ones that take you the place you least anticipated…
Afterglow by Harlequin Pub.
January 9
This charming fated-love rom-com about two star-crossed lovers will enchantment to readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Sarah Adams.
Just a date . . . or a coincidence?
When it comes to like and artwork, Rooney Gao believes in indicators. Most of all, she believes within the Chinese legend that everybody is tied to their one real love by the purple string of destiny. And that perception has impressed her profession as an artist, in addition to the big artwork installations she makes with ( clearly ) purple string. That is till artist’s block strikes and Rooney begins to query all the pieces. But then destiny leads her to the proper man . . . Jack Liu is ideal. He’s absurdly sensible, profitable, good-looking, and after one enchanting New York night time—beneath icy February skies and fueled by fried dumplings—all indicators level to future. Only Jack doesn’t consider. And after their magical date, it appears to be like like they could be misplaced to one another without end . . . till they’re given another probability to reconnect. But can Rooney persuade a reluctant skeptic to take a leap of destiny?
Forever Pub.
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance through which two debutantes distract themselves from having to hunt husbands by organising their widowed mother and father, and as an alternative discover their good match in one another—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you by no means knew you wanted!
Gwen has an excellent past sensible concept.
It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has only one season to snag a rich husband, or she and her mom can be out on the road. But taking part in the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s pores and skin crawl and she or he’d slightly be wherever however right here.
Gwen, however, is on her fourth season and counting, with completely no intention of discovering a husband, probably ever. She figures she has loads of safety as the one daughter of a rakish earl, from whom she’s gotten all her aptitude, enjoyable, and less-than-proper celebration video games.
“Let’s get them together,” she says.
It doesn’t take lengthy for Gwen to hatch her newest scheme: slightly than give up Beth to courtship, they need to arrange Gwen’s father and Beth’s newly widowed mom. Let them get married as an alternative.
“It’ll be easy” she says.
There’s simply…one, teeny, tiny downside. Their mother and father sort of appear to hate one another.
But no worries. Beth and Gwen are greater than as much as the problem of a bit twenty-year-old heartbreak. How exhausting can parent-trapping widowed ex-lovers be?
Of course, simply as their plan begins to unfold, a good-looking, rich viscount begins calling on Beth, providing up the proper, safe marriage.
Beth’s not mature sufficient for this…
Now Gwen should face the prospect of sharing Beth with another person, without end. And Beth should reckon with the truth that she’s caught emotions, exhausting, they usually’re undoubtedly not for her potential fiancé.
That’s the difficulty with matchmaking: typically you by accident fall in love along with your greatest pal within the course of.
Avon Pub.
Co-stars. Fake lovers. Real enemies.
I’ve landed my dream debut function on the TV crime collection, Urban Dawn, however my horny co-star and on-screen beau, Maddox Winter, barely is aware of I exist. He’s too busy together with his gold-digging arm sweet—often D-listers attempting to make it in Y’allywood, Atlanta’s scorching cinematic scene.
I’m thrilled to see my identify, Riley Glenn, on the high of the credit…even when the media has launched a smear marketing campaign in opposition to me.
When an unintentional bare entanglement lands Maddox and me on the quilt of Love Buzz, the information spreads like norovirus on a cruise ship. With scores skyrocketing, our director casts us into a fake relationship, and my wackadoodle godmother steps in to assist out.
In the midst of all of it, I’m grieving the lack of my grams. While sprinkling her ashes in Scotland, I expertise a brand new Maddox who brews my espresso and carries me by a subject of cow pies. Oddly, our faux relationship seems like the one actual factor in our lives.
But when our secret drops, it might be the top of our act, on and off display.
*Y’allywood Billionaire is a witty, heartfelt stand-alone romcom thriller with grownup language and steamy, open-door chemistry that can have you ever rooting for a happily-ever-after.
Autumn Sky Books Pub.
January 13
The dangerous information? Getting hit by a cab can formally get crossed off my bucket record.
The worse information? While I’ve woken up from my coma, the person I’m in love with hasn’t stirred from his.
And probably the most horrible information of all? A pregnant girl is at his bedside, holding his hand, and saying that he’s the daddy of her child.
Sammy Baker is a divorced, single mother looking for her approach once more. With two boys and an absent ex-husband, she’s received the world on her shoulders and Legos beneath her ft.
Amid the chaos lives the dream of, in the future, discovering love once more.
Though, she didn’t assume that may land her smack-dab in the midst of two males.
Will Sammy select the profitable businessman who doesn’t hesitate to inform her he’s ? Or will she go for the eligible bachelor physician with a continuing inflow of ladies vying for his consideration?
The sensible alternative and what the guts desires are two various things. And typically, destiny has a approach of creating it so the selection isn’t ours in any respect.
Independently Published
January 16
Eurydice Dimitriou has at all times been the harmless sister, however she’s lastly able to step out of the lengthy shadow forged by her highly effective household…and the ex who shattered her coronary heart. Perhaps tough arms on mushy pores and skin are precisely what she must overlook her heartbreak as soon as and for all?
Charon Ariti has been Hades’s right-hand man for years. He’s given all the pieces to the decrease metropolis, however now he’s able to take one thing for himself. He’s solely too pleased to provide Eurydice a particular sort of training…however is her coronary heart actually free sufficient to be claimed?
Orpheus Makos will do no matter it takes to make issues proper. Once the golden boy of the higher metropolis, he’s now a shadow of his former self. He’ll do something to get Eurydice again…even when it means she’s not coming into his arms alone. Three hearts. Three futures. Countless methods to get it improper.
But with enemies slipping by Olympus’s faltering barrier to put siege on the decrease metropolis, a trio of damaged hearts would be the least of those would-be lovers’ worries…
Sourcebooks Casablanca Pub.
Fortune favors the daring—however is a confirmed spinster daring sufficient to loosen the reins and settle for a favor from the depraved gentleman who haunts her goals?
Lady Anne Deveril doesn’t spook simply. A girl of lofty social standing recognized for her glacial magnificence and starchy opinions, she’s the unofficial chief of her small group of equestriennes. Since her mom’s devastating plunge into mourning six years in the past, Anne voluntarily renounced any fanciful notions of affection and marriage. And but, when destiny places Anne again into the totally too attractive path of Mr. Felix Hartford, she’s tempted to run…proper into his arms.
No one understands why Lady Anne withdrew into the shadows of society, Hart least of all. The youthful torch he as soon as held for her has lengthy since cooled. Or so he retains telling himself. But now Anne wants a favor to assist a pal. Hart will play alongside together with her little ruse—on the situation that Anne attend a vacation home celebration at his grandfather’s nation property. No extra mourning garments. No extra boundaries. Only the 2 of them, unrequited emotions finally laid naked.
Finally free to gallop out on her personal, Anne makes the tantalizing discovery that beneath the roguish exterior of her not-so-white knight is a person with hidden depths, scorching passions—and a young coronary heart.
Berkley Pub.
In this completely charming debut romance, a trainer with large goals joins forces with a no-nonsense engineer to outlive an ex’s wedding ceremony and escape matchmaking strain from their Indian households. Their plan? Faking an engagement, in fact.
Meghna Raman’s mother and father wished her to be an engineer, however as an alternative she’s adopted her ardour, changing into a theater trainer and aspiring playwright. But when she discovers that her beloved writing companion, greatest pal, and secret crush, Seth, is abruptly engaged—and to not her—she realizes he’s about to turn into the one-that-got-away. Even worse, he’s requested her to be his greatest man. And worse than that, she’s agreed. Determined to try to transfer on and relieve a little bit of the strain she feels, Meghna agrees to let her mother and father introduce her to a possible match. Maybe she’ll even discover the engineer her household needs she turned. . . .
Grumpy, good-looking engineer Karthik Murthy has seen sufficient of his mother and father’ marriage to know that it isn’t for him. He solely agreed to his mom’s matchmaking makes an attempt to make her pleased, by no means dreaming he would meet somebody as vibrant as Meghna. Though he can’t provide her a actual marriage, a faux engagement might assist Meghna soothe the sting of planning Seth’s wedding ceremony festivities and Karthik keep away from the absurd variety of set-ups his mom has deliberate for the subsequent yr.
But as they discover frequent floor, develop protecting of each other’s hearts, and be taught to fall for the issues they thought they hated, an simple chemistry takes form. Soon, Meghna and Karthik’s expectations and insecurities threaten to danger one thing that’s turn into much more actual than they hoped.
Say You’ll Be Mine is a pleasant journey again to the heyday of swoony romantic comedies from the nineties, however with a deep and poignant have a look at the results of tradition and household in our most intimate relationships.
Dell Pub.
Ivy Lawson loves a to-do record, hates surprises, and the one out of doors exercise she’s thinking about is brunch on a patio.
After catching her long-term boyfriend—and co-worker—dishonest, she’s thrown into main a high-profile consumer occasion at The Emerald Canopy Lodge.
AKA: her nightmare vacation spot.
Ivy finds herself determined and anxious to get her job performed and go away the lodge as quickly as doable. But when she meets the lodge proprietor, Holland Holt—a person of few phrases who prefers even fewer individuals—she begins to comprehend that perhaps the lodge has a number of extra charming attributes than she initially assumed.
After one chaotic mishap after one other, Ivy is pressured to increase her keep and are available to phrases together with her affection towards the lodge’s proprietor.
As their paths proceed to overlap, Ivy should determine if she’s able to relinquish management over each facet of her fastidiously curated life; and Holland must discover a approach to transfer ahead with the hand life dealt him.
A Lodge Affair is a grumpy sunshine, opposites appeal to rom-com.
Independently Published
Frenemies + Fake Dating = Falling for the improper particular person…for all the correct causes
Charity Simmons could have nice style in buddies, felines, and fruit tarts, but when there’s one factor the baker and co-owner of Meow and Furever Cat Café is aware of, it’s that she has horrible style in males. Case in level: Will Schwartz. He could also be the very best pal of her greatest pal’s boyfriend, however after their one night time collectively, Charity is constructive Will’s nothing however a womanizing charmer—regardless of his nice-guy persona and cute, crooked smile. So why then did she decide him to fake-date to get her mother and father off her again about being single?
Will Schwartz could give relationships a tough cross, however he’s not about to say no to fake-dating Charity. She’s sensible, hilarious, and better of all, she’ll put an finish to his mom’s interrogations about his love life. And perhaps, in any case this time giving him the chilly shoulder, Charity will lastly heat as much as him. But it’s not lengthy earlier than Will and Charity notice they received way more than they bargained for–they usually’re freaking out. What if what they’ve isn’t make consider however the actual, without end sort of love?
Forever Pub.
January 17
Two athletes, one shared rink, and a rivalry heating up on and off the ice.
LOGAN BECKETT has one last season to safe his professional or school hockey goals. As the staff captain of the Waybrook Winter Wolves, the USHL’s worst-performing staff, Logan works tirelessly to remodel his teammates from the league’s laughingstock into the subsequent Anderson Cup champions. With the upcoming season and a few promising performances beneath his management, all eyes are on him to take the underdogs to victory.
But when a world champion determine skater strikes into his small city, taking on rink time and snatching the highlight away from the staff’s efforts, Logan’s decided to hate her. Yet that turns into extra of a problem than he anticipated when going through off in opposition to a delicate, swish skater like Ava.
AVERIE “AVA” LAURIER plans to spend her first unbiased season dwelling together with her coach within the small city of Waybrook, dreaming of a recent begin. Without her mother and father looming over her each determination, her hopes to reinvigorate her love of skating appear promising. For the primary time in virtually nineteen years of life, she has an opportunity to style true freedom from the expectations befitting a former world champion and the darling of Team USA.
She doesn’t perceive why Logan dislikes her so closely, however she commits to ignoring him and scoring an all-gold season. However, Waybrook isn’t a large enough city to cease their paths from colliding.
When the gold-medalist skater and the underdog hockey captain conflict, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than ice-cold hostility melts into ardour.
Lucky Ace Pub.
January 18
Things Pippa her job, airplanes, synonyms and tropical fish.
Things Pippa doesn’t get pleasure from: repeating patterns, tight garments, individuals asking why she’s single and faculty reunions.
After 4 months of solely talking over intercom, when air-traffic controller Pippa Edwards lastly meets pilot Andrew Boyce-Jones face-to-face, they uncover they’ve received way more in frequent than merely working on the similar airport. In truth . . . they each want a date. Tired of each relationship ending earlier than it’s even begun, Pippa desires to evade the inevitable questions at her dreaded ten-year college reunion in Cape Town. And Andrew must get his well-meaning household off his again about settling down. The answer appears easy. A pact – a faux relationship pact – for so long as it’s mutually useful. It’s good.
Or a minimum of it will be if their very actual attraction wasn’t about to make Pippa query all the pieces she thought she wished. . .
Headline Eternal Pub.
I’ve two objectives this season:
1. Stay single.
2. Get Rory Sinclair to confess she doesn’t fully hate me.
When I discover a stray canine roaming the streets of Seattle, the final place I count on to finish up is within the workplace of a grumpy veterinarian—the one girl who can resist my attraction. Twin to my teammate’s girlfriend, Rory is stuffed with hearth, however I’m not afraid of her flame.
It doesn’t take lengthy for me to comprehend that the extra time we spend collectively, the extra I need it to final. But regardless of how exhausting I attempt, Rory solely sees me as a playboy, refusing to take me severely.
One weekend journey to a cabin later, I believe I’ve my in…however provided that I can get her to confess her emotions towards me aren’t all dangerous.
Only one in all us will win this face-off, and I intend for it to be me.
FACE OFF is a standalone hockey romance novel. It has a golden retriever hockey participant, a grumpy veterinarian who’s unamused by him, rowdy teammates, absurd textual content conversations, the proper quantity of steam, and a cheerful ending.
Independently Published
January 20
Driven and sensible, Marissa Mayer has labored her approach to COO at a significant Fintech startup in addition to launching her personal profitable app on the facet. Now what she desires greater than something is a child. And having given up on love after her coronary heart was damaged by the boy subsequent door, she’s ready to do it alone.
Recently returning to New York from LA, Dr John Raikes is an skilled in his subject of neonatal drugs. But when John introduces himself as Marissa’s physician, sparks fly, and never in a great way. Because Dr John Raikes is not any he’s her teenage sweetheart all grown up.
Marissa is aware of she ought to preserve John at arm’s size, lest she have her coronary heart damaged once more… But there’s one thing a couple of man in a white coat. And with John decided to indicate Marissa he’s modified, can she preserve saying no when her coronary heart is saying sure?
A gorgeously humorous enemies-to-lovers, second-chance rom com, good for followers of Sarah Adams, Lynn Painter and Jo Watson.
Boldwood Books Pub.
January 23
They’re strolling on the wild facet…
The Plan was easy: discover a remedy for the most cancers that just about took her sister’s life. But for Zoey Fong, one thing about The Plan isn’t working anymore. Maybe it’s her unsuccessful analysis, perhaps it’s burnout. But when an important tissue pattern by accident winds up within the arms of a really distracting—and disarmingly good-looking—customer, Zoey jumps on the probability to comply with him house to retrieve it.
Davy Hsieh’s rugged island property is not any manicured suburban park. His plan is straightforward: set up a legit animal sanctuary and embrace life as a hermit to make up for a sketchy previous. Zoey invading his fortress of solitude mustn’t, beneath any circumstances, be a romantic improvement.
And but it’s the one most invigorating week of their lives…once they’re capable of set their many variations apart and embrace it. Stranded amid all method of natural world—together with a semidomesticated cougar referred to as Baby—Davy and Zoey first should survive the island. Then they’ll have to take a leap of religion, perhaps even trusting in one another, to put it aside.
Harlequin Pub.
A rising-star musician has a second probability at love with an outdated flame she remembers all too effectively on this swoony romance from the acclaimed authors of The Roughest Draft .
Riley Wynn went from a promising singer-songwriter to a famous person in a single day, due to her breakup track idea album and its unforgettable lead single. When Riley’s ex-husband claims the hit track is about him, she does one thing she hasn’t in ten years and calls Max Harcourt, her school boyfriend and the actual inspiration for the track of the summer time.
Max hasn’t spoken to Riley since their relationship ended. He’s content material with managing the retirement house his household owns, however it’s not the life he dreamed of crammed with music. When Riley asks him to go public as her songwriting muse, he agrees on one he’ll be part of her in her band on tour.
As they carry out throughout the nation, Max and Riley begin to notice that whereas they hit some improper notes up to now, their future might maintain unimaginable issues. And their rekindled relationship will both final without end or go down in flames.
Berkley Pub.
January 24
Mirror mirror made from gold,Here’s the story you have been by no means informed . . .
I’ve at all times suspected some type of thriller surrounding my adoption—I imply, who doesn’t bear in mind something earlier than they have been 5? But the tall, darkish, axe-wielding fae huntsman displaying up at my door yelling that I’m a misplaced princess and the Unseelie Queen is coming to kill me? That I didn’t see coming.
It’s exhausting to argue with a pack of evil wolves in your doorstep, so I seize my sword, my cookbook, and my seven chickens (sure, you heard me proper), and comply with him to Faerie. I’m all for not being eaten by wolves. I’m much less enthusiastic about the truth that the huntsman appears to assume I’m the one one who can defeat the Unseelie Queen and save Faerie. I’m not highly effective or magical, even when my baking expertise are legendary.
But the longer I keep in Faerie, the extra I need to assist its individuals. And the extra time I spend with the terrifyingly good-looking huntsman, the extra I need to persuade him that he’s who I would like by my facet whereas I do. He’d do something to guard me, however it’s my coronary heart he’s placing in peril.
Do I’ve what it takes to go from baking pies to saving kingdoms? Who will handle the chickens if I fail?
**This candy and comfortable retelling of Snow White is a stand-alone novel within the Faerie Tale Romances collection. If you want a bit cottagecore slice-of-life along with your fantasy romance, learn The Frost Gate right this moment!**
Phouka Pub.
January 30
Fate brings collectively a ballet trainer and a hockey participant on this big-hearted novel about second possibilities and taking dangers.
Once upon a time teenage Aurora Evans met a hockey participant on the Mall of America. He was from Canada. And quickly, he was the proper faux boyfriend, a get-out-of-jail-free card for all types of sticky conditions. I can’t go to promenade. I’m going to be visiting my boyfriend in Canada. He was simply what she wanted to cowl her social awkwardness. He by no means needed to know. It wasn’t like she was ever going to see him once more…
Years later, Aurora is educating children’ dance lessons and battling panic and consuming issues—souvenirs from her failed ballet profession—when professional hockey participant Mike Martin walks in together with his daughter. Mike’s honesty about his struggles with widowhood helps Aurora confront a few of her personal demons, and the 2 forge an unlikely friendship. There’s only one downside: Mike is the boy she spent years pretending was her “Canadian boyfriend.”
The longer she retains her secret, the extra she is aware of it is going to shatter the belief between them. But to have the life she desires, she must deal with an important factor of all—believing in herself.
Forever Pub.
January 31
Free-spirited espresso store proprietor meets uptight espresso addict. Is an opposites-attract match brewing… or burning? Crushed beneath the burden of author’s block and a looming deadline, Mack escapes from New York to Seattle. She meets Charlie, a wonderful, beneficiant, practically bankrupt espresso store proprietor recovering from heartbreak. For the primary time, Mack has a muse. And then Mack begins utilizing Charlie’s personal tales in her novel…When a storm traps Mack and Charlie within the espresso store, they share a mind-bending, knee-shaking kiss. But Charlie is an everlasting optimist who sleeps with fairy-lights on, whereas Mack is an ironing-at-5am worrier who sleeps with… everybody. They might by no means flip this chemistry into one thing actual, proper?And if Charlie finds out what Mack has been doing, turning Charlie’s most intimate secrets and techniques right into a juicy page-turner, will they actually have a probability to attempt?
A swoony, steamy queer romcom good for followers of Ashley Herring Blake, Casey McQuiston, and Alexis Hall.
Storm Pub.
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