Most Anticipated Romance Books Coming Out in August 2024
Hi Lovely Readers! I hope you’re absorbing the solar this summer season. And getting in some good studying days. I’ve a pleasant set-up on my balcony with a zero gravity lounger and a few lovely flowers. I’d get an umbrella too. Hmmm… I noticed “Fly Me To The Moon” with Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansen yesterday. I actually favored it. It’s an entertaining rom com set in opposition to the back-drop of 1960’s NASA and the race to the moon. I’ve acquired tickets to “Twisters” and “Deadpool and Wolverine” and I’ve excessive hopes for each of these films. I like Summer blockbuster. There are so many closely anticipated and nice romance books being revealed in August 2024.
But this August I really feel that it’s not as release-heavy a month as June and July – there’s nonetheless a lot of winners being revealed although! I’ve a listing of round 30 romances being launched in August. Hope you want my picks. I’m actually wanting ahead to Bananapants by Penny Reid. She’s one in all my favorite authors and I at all times love what she produces. Let’s get into this month’s checklist!
If I missed a ebook that you’re wanting ahead to in August, please contact me.
Kate
August 1
What occurs when an exquisite liar, a merciless prince, a ruthless manipulator, a seductive enchantress, and a person who’s keen to do no matter it takes to search out the girl he loves, get tangled in the identical net of lies and secrets and techniques?
Neira Aroya is an distinctive liar and a skillful thief. Ignorant of her true identification she makes use of solely her mortal presents to outlive in a world dominated by vicious faeries and crafty gods. But as she will get swept up by the peculiar energy she holds over the ether, the treacherous Realm of goals, she finds herself torn between an unnamed, obscured ether-man and the cruel prince of Fae. Entrapped inside a tempting however misleading world, she is going to quickly notice that each hero is a villain in disguise and each villain bears a fantastic tragedy. And love is essentially the most harmful and unreliable path to comply with.
Meet Me within the Ether is an intricate story of advanced characters and deadly secrets and techniques, set in a voluptuous world the place love and hate converge, reality is poison, and advantage turns into nothing greater than a sacrifice to the altar of survival.
This is the primary ebook in a fantasy romance sequence with a number of POVs. It ends on a cliffhanger.
August 6
Ariadne Vitalis is in hassle. She’s betrayed her father―and his benefactor―and now she’s left to depend on the questionable mercy of Olympus to maintain her secure. As with every little thing on this metropolis, mercy comes with a value. For Ariadne, which means a wedding to Dionysus. She has no alternative however to agree, even when there’s just one man she’s ever needed―a person she’s feared simply as a lot as she wishes. The Minotaur by no means had any illusions about Minos’s plans. He was keen to get his palms soiled so long as the previous man stored his phrase―on the finish of this, the Minotaur could be given Ariadne as a reward. Nowhere in that deal was her strolling down the aisle to a special man. She’s meant for him, and he means to have her. Ariadne is aware of higher than to encourage the Minotaur. Her relationship together with her new fiancé could be extra friendship than burning ardour, however she is all too conscious of how a lot fiery ardour can harm. She and the Minotaur are not any good for one another. She can by no means forgive him for what he’s accomplished, and he can by no means change. But when his palms are on her physique and his depraved phrases are whispered in her ear, she would possibly simply be keen to let all of Olympus burn…
Three lovers with unbridled hope, uncanny goals, and historic powers be part of forces in opposition to the best evil on this planet in a scorching fantasy by the authors of Consort of Fire.
Ash waited three thousand years for a consort who may break the Betrayer’s chains. Instead of 1 lover, he discovered Sachi and Zanya—the primordial powers that embody creation and destruction, reborn as people. Now, his historic enemy has returned to threaten every little thing he loves.
In the wake of her dazzling manifestation, Zanya seethes with magic and stressed power. Her command of the Endless Void will probably be a potent weapon within the coming struggle. To harness it, she’ll must embrace the darkness inside—however the scars of the previous are holding her again.
Sachi’s unprecedented connection to the Dream deepens, main her past the veil of actuality…and into the center of the Betrayer’s stronghold. Torn from her lovers, Sachi should use all her wit and crafty to outlive the Betrayer’s treacherous court docket. Because he doesn’t merely need her. He covets the slumbering energy she possesses—and plans to take it for his personal.
Even if it ends their world.
In #1 New York Times bestselling writer Casey McQuiston’s newest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes by accident ebook the identical European meals and wine tour and problem one another to a hookup competitors to show they’re over one another—besides they’re undoubtedly not.
Theo and Kit have been numerous issues: childhood finest buddies, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European meals and wine tour, they exited one another’s lives as soon as and for all.
Time aside has accomplished them good. Theo has discovered confidence as a hustling bartender by night time and aspiring sommelier by day, with a protracted roster of informal lovers. Kit, who by no means returned to America, graduated because the reigning intercourse god of his pastry college class and now bakes at one of many most interesting eating places in Paris. Sure, nothing actually compares to what they’d, and life stretches out lengthy and lonely forward of them, however—yeah. It’s prior to now.
All that is still is the unused voucher for the European tour that by no means occurred, good for 48 months after its unique date and about to run out. Four years later, it looks as if a fantastic concept to lastly take the journey. Solo. Separately.
It’s not till they board the tour bus that they uncover they’ve each by accident had the very same concept, and now they’re trapped with one another for 3 weeks of gorgeous views, luscious flavors, and essentially the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It’s high-quality. There’s nothing left between them. So a lot nothing that, when Theo suggests a pleasant wager to see who can sleep with their scorching Italian tour information first, Kit is completely sport. And why cease there? Why not a full-on European hookup competitors?
But typically a style of every little thing solely makes you crave what you’ll be able to’t have.
Estranged childhood buddies unexpectedly reunite beneath weird circumstances and bicker their approach to love on this bonkers romantic comedy.
Ava Archer misses her finest childhood good friend most particularly in the course of the month of April. Ask any tax lawyer, it’s a lonely, grueling time of 12 months. Luckily, Ava has simply obtained a shocking and delectably absurd provide from her posh doppelgänger at work. She should faux to be the aforementioned posh co-worker for one night time at a particularly fancy occasion; a celebration so fancy, there exists completely no probability anybody will acknowledge her or suspect her ruse…
Desmond (Des) Sullivan is a thief. And not the heart-of-gold form. He’s the steal-from-the-rich-and-give-to-the-also-rich-so-he-can-get-paid form. He does, nonetheless, have one agency rule by no means steal what the goal can’t afford to lose. After a brutal falling out together with his father, Desmond hasn’t returned to Chicago in over ten years. But when good friend is swindled and one thing priceless is stolen, Desmond should return dwelling, each as himself and his thieving alter ego. Infiltrate a harmful secret society of the world’s most elite billionaires whereas leveraging his estranged father’s assets and never blowing his cowl? Sure. No drawback. Or it wouldn’t be an issue if Ava Archer hadn’t simply walked into the room, carrying a ridiculous wig, talking with a preposterous accent, and pretending (badly) to be somebody she’s not.
Bananapants is a full-length, modern romantic comedy crammed with hijinks and shenanigans. It may be learn as a standalone, however the mother and father of the primary characters will probably be acquainted to anybody who has learn the Knitting within the City sequence.
Pregnant. Homeless. Broke. Not what I’d anticipated for my senior 12 months in school. Neither was Rush Ramsey.
We met the day I went tenting and acquired stranded on the aspect of a gravel highway. I didn’t consider in white knights who freed damsels in misery. Life had taught me that if one thing dangerous may occur, it most likely would. The solely one who would save me was me.
But Rush Ramsey rescued me that day. He was candy and sort and charming. He made a darkish, starry night time rather less lonely.
I ought to have realized it was too good to be true. That an unbelievable night time of ardour would include penalties. That the dangerous luck rollercoaster I’d been driving for twenty-one years wasn’t able to cease.
Because Rush Ramsey, Treasure State University’s most eligible bachelor and quarterback extraordinaire, simply acquired me pregnant.
A young, laugh-out-loud debut romance a couple of girl who results in over her head after slightly white lie . . .
When thirty-year-old post-double-mastectomy BRCA 1 service and reluctant thrill-seeker Alison Mullally arrives at her ex-boyfriend Sam’s funeral to search out that nobody is aware of he dumped her, she agrees to play the grieving girlfriend for the sake of the household and pack up Sam’s house together with his prickly finest good friend, Adam Berg. After all, it’ll solely take 4 weekends . . .
But Adam doesn’t need Alison anyplace close to him. Forced to spend lengthy hours with the grump, and his monosyllabic demeanor, Alison decides she should put her people-pleasing skills to the take a look at. She will make him like her. And after awkward household affairs and packing up dilemmas, the 2 kind a tenuous friendship . . . if “friendship” means unbelievable chemistry and pressure between them. Can Alison come clear and eventually embrace the life and love she’s at all times needed? Or will her little white lie get in the way in which of her new, sudden romance?
This contemporary and whip-smart fashionable retelling of Jane Austen’s traditional Pride and Prejudice transports you to summer season within the Hamptons, the place lessons conflict, rumors run wild, and love has a irritating behavior of popping up the place you least anticipate it.
It’s a reality universally acknowledged—properly, by Elizabeth Bennet anyway—that there’s nothing worse than summer season within the Hamptons. She ought to she’s lived on the market her complete life. Every June, her hometown on the sting of Long Island is inundated with wealthy Manhattanites who occasion till daybreak after which disappear by September. And after twenty-five years, Lizzy desires to depart, too.
But after placing her personal goals on maintain to assist save her household’s failing bakery, she’s nonetheless browsing the identical seashore each morning and ready for one thing, something, to alter. She’s not holding her breath although, not even when her sister begins flirting with the recent new bachelor on the town, Charlie Pierce, and he introduces Lizzy to his even hotter good friend.
Will Darcy is every little thing Lizzy Bennet will not be. Aloof, conceited…and wealthy. Of course, he’s by no means cared about cash. In reality, it’s primary on his lengthy checklist of issues that irk him. Number two? His good friend Charlie’s insistence on setting him up together with his new girlfriend’s sharp-tongued sister. Lizzy Bennet is all flawed for him, from her money-hungry household to her uncanny potential to talk to him as bluntly as he does everybody else. But then perhaps that’s why he can’t cease interested by her.
Lizzy is bound Will hates everyone. He thinks she willfully misunderstands them. Yet, simply as they strike an uneasy truce, errors threaten Charlie and Annabelle’s romance, with Will and Lizzy caught within the undertow. Between a hurricane and a hypocritical stepmother, a drunken voicemail and a misleading property developer, the 2 should sift by the gossip and lies to guard the happiness of everybody they love—even when it means sacrificing their very own. But when the reality additionally forces them to see one another in a wholly new gentle, they have to swallow their delight to study that love is loads like typically the one approach to survive is to let your self fall.
One over-the-top Italian wedding ceremony. Two pretend {couples}. And 1,000,000 hilariously disastrous potentialities…
Nora D’Amato would do nearly something for her finest good friend. Pretend she’s smitten with him to get his overly invested Italian household off his again? Absolutely. Attend a marriage for mentioned overbearing household? Bring it. Spend the subsequent six days at a fancy resort watching the bride and groom’s households hate on one another? Pass the popcorn.
There’s just one tiny little hiccup. Nora’s crush—and the thing of some very inappropriate ideas—is right here, too. And wanting so delectable that she may spoon him quicker than stracciatella gelato in a warmth wave.
But Sebastian Rossi isn’t accessible…formally. He’s right here together with his pretend wedding ceremony date. And he owes her large time for maintaining a tally of his nonna whereas he’s away months at a time for work. Per week within the Adirondacks is a bit of overly frosted cake. Besides, it’s not as if he can have an actual relationship when he’s consistently on the transfer. Definitely not with the lovable bookstore supervisor he can’t cease interested by.
And a marriage struggle zone with two feuding households will not be the time or place for flirting or horny sneak-arounds. Everyone is watching—whether or not it’s in the course of the pickleball match, the indignant patriarch showdowns, and even the bull-riding bachelorette occasion. This wedding ceremony is one slipped fauxcade away from disaster, and if Nora and Sebastian can’t hold to their very own sides of the aisle, they danger exposing the very secrets and techniques they’re sworn to guard.
A Chickasaw girl who can’t catch a break serves up slightly white lie that snowballs into far more on this witty and irresistible rom-com by debut writer Danica Nava.
Ember Lee Cardinal has not at all times been a liar—properly, not for something that counted a minimum of. But her job search will not be going properly and when her resumé is rejected for the thirty-seventh time, she takes issues into her personal palms. She will get “creative” itemizing her {qualifications} and solutions the ethnicity query on functions with a lie—a half-lie, technically. No one needed Native American Ember, however white Ember has simply landed her dream accounting job on Park Avenue (Oklahoma City, that’s). Accountant Ember thrives in company life—and her love life appears to be wanting up Danuwoa Colson, the IT man and fellow Native who caught her eye on her first day, appears to truly be excited by her too. Despite her unease over the no-dating coverage at work, they begin to see one another secretly, which one way or the other makes it even hotter? But once they’re caught in a compromising place on a piece journey, a scheming colleague blackmails Ember, threatening to show their relationship. As the manipulation continues to develop, so do Ember’s lies. She should make the laborious choice to both keep silent or lastly inform the reality, which may value her every little thing.
Discover what occurs when a younger girl unexpectedly finds herself inside a ebook of fairytales the place she is charged with breaking a frog prince’s curse and looking for a manner dwelling.
Every good fairytale begins with “Once Upon a Time,” or they’re alleged to a minimum of. But for twenty-five 12 months previous Josephine Hart, her “Once Upon a Time” started together with her actually crash touchdown inside a ebook of fairy tales and practically crushing a frog—who is definitely a prince. An annoying, snarky frog prince named Aneurin, looking for the kiss of real love to interrupt his curse. He vows that if Jo agrees to assist him discover his princess, he’ll get her dwelling.
With each flip of the web page, their journey leads them deeper into fairytales acquainted to Jo. Through their journey, they uncover that regardless of their preliminary clashing, they’re each precisely what one another wants. It is simply once they encounter a devious man with a expertise for spinning straw into gold that they notice simply how shortly their plot can take an sudden twist.
August 8
Everyone thinks Colleen is the sweetest member of the household, till she falls for a sizzlin’ scorching chef…
Wade Jenkins struggles with the challenges of operating his thriving landscaping firm and elevating his spirited 8-year-old daughter Mari. Lemon Walsh has simply moved to Magnolia Grove as the brand new elementary principal. She’s forsaking the hustle and bustle of the town looking for a extra peaceable and fulfilling life.
August 13
It’s love at first haunting in a seaside city that raises everybody’s spirits.
Small Florida coastal cities usually discover themselves scrambling for the tourism {dollars} that the Orlando theme parks depart behind. And inside the city limits of Boneyard Key, the residents determined way back to lean into its ghostliness. Nick Royer, proprietor of the Hallowed Grounds espresso store, embraces the ghost tourism that retains the native financial system afloat, in addition to his spectral roommate. At least he doesn’t should run air-conditioning.
Cassie Rutherford probably overreacted to all her buddies getting married and having children by leaving Orlando and shopping for a flipped historic cottage in Boneyard Key. Though there’s one thing uncommon together with her new dwelling (her laptop computer gained’t cost in any shops, and the poetry magnets on her fridge undoubtedly didn’t learn “WRONG” and “MY HOUSE” when she put them up), she’s charmed by the colourful historical past surrounding her. And she’s catching a sure vibe from the grumpy espresso store proprietor every time he slips her a free slice of banana bread alongside together with her espresso order.
As Nick takes her on a ghost tour, sharing city gossip that vacationers don’t get to listen to, they usually spend nights side-by-side wanting into the previous homeowners of her haunted cottage, their connection solidifies into one thing very actual and engaging. But Cassie’s fearful she’s in too deep with this complete (haunted) dwelling possession factor…and Nick’s afraid to get too shut in case Cassie will get scared away for good.
Two finest buddies who haven’t spoken in ten years faux thus far after break-ups with their respective exes go viral, on this delightfully enjoyable and deeply emotional novel.
June and Levi have been finest buddies as youngsters—till the day they weren’t. Now June is struggling to make lease on her beachside tea store, Levi resides a New York cliché as a disillusioned hedge fund supervisor and failed novelist, they usually’ve barely spoken in years.
But after they each expertise public, humiliating break-ups with their exes that unfold like wildfire throughout TikTookay rabbit holes and daytime discuss exhibits alike, they by accident make some juicy gossip of their very own—a photograph of them collectively has the web satisfied they’re a pair. With so many individuals rooting for them, they resolve to place apart their rocky previous and make a pact to gas the hearth. Pretending thus far will assist June’s store get again on its toes and make Levi’s ex notice that she made a mistake. All they should do is persuade the world they’re in love, one swoon-worthy photograph opp at a time.
Two viral break-ups. One pretend relationship. Five glowing, heart-pounding dates. June and Levi can undoubtedly pull this off with out their hearts getting concerned. Because everybody is aware of pretend courting doesn’t include actual emotions. Right?
After getting handed over for tenure and having her life upended within the course of, a physics professor decides to throw warning to the wind and stay by her horoscope predictions for a 12 months on this effervescent rom-com from the New York Times bestselling writer of Made in Manhattan .
As the youngest physics professor at her college, practical-minded Miranda Reed plans her life with minute precision. But that’s earlier than she’s denied tenure and the promotion she thought was assured. Suddenly, her tidy life is something however fixed.
Overdue for a sabbatical, Miranda takes a while to look in direction of the celebrities—solely this time, she’s not searching for black holes. With her religion in science shaken, Miranda turns to a follow she’s lengthy dismissed as astrology.
Determined to determine why her life has immediately gone sideways, Miranda commits to a 12 months of letting her horoscope information her. Put a down cost on a house? Not whereas Mercury’s in retrograde. Spontaneous banquet invitation? Sorry, horoscope says Gemini Rising finest keep in tonight. And so far as the intriguingly aloof artist residing subsequent door? Never. His Aries power is all flawed. On the opposite hand, the charming father of her new tutoring pupil is Sagittarian perfection. Made for her…proper?
As Miranda navigates life with new a perspective, she slowly discovers neither science nor the celebrities have all of the solutions. And that, with regards to love, you typically simply should belief your coronary heart.
Ben Rosewood by no means meant to be sure to a vampire succubus, particularly one as sexy-yet-terrifying as Eleanora Bettencourt-Devereux, however he has to confess there are some fang-tastic perks….
Werewolf Ben Rosewood is blissful together with his life. One hundred p.c. Everything is okay. His enterprise, Ben’s Plant Emporium, is prospering, and he’s even increasing the store. His anxiousness dysfunction is…properly, it’s been higher, however that comes with the territory of operating a enterprise and having beastly urges each full moon, proper? As for love—who has the time? Though his household is determined to see him settled, Ben is okay approaching forty as a single werewolf. But after drunkenly bidding on and successful a supposedly-possessed crystal on eBay one night time, he finds himself face-to-face with an exquisite however indignant vampire.
Eleanora Bettencourt-Devereux is a uncommon breed—a vampire succubus born from two elite European bloodlines throughout medieval occasions. But due to an evil witch, she’s been caught in a crystal since she was thirty, pressured to obey orders from the possessor of the rock. Eleanora’s been dreaming of breaking the spell and severing the witch’s head for hundreds of years. But did this witch actually promote her to somebody new, and for under ninety-nine cents?
Eleanora would claw this werewolf’s coronary heart out and eat it, if solely the binding spell would permit her to. But Eleanora and Ben quickly notice they can assist one another with each vengeful and fewer hostile wants. And why not have slightly enjoyable alongside the way in which?
re·spect·a·ble/rəˈspektəb(ə)l/
1) Regarded by society as being good, correct or right
2) Of some advantage or significance
After a good profession as a catcher on skilled baseball’s grandest stage, Adam Powell is returning to his hometown to handle the Detroit Mustangs. Taking on the most important problem of his profession, Adam has to handle expectations – from the followers, the town, the workforce, and one baseball author decided to get beneath his pores and skin.
ex·pec·ta·tion/ˌekˌspekˈtāSH(ə)n/
1) A robust perception that one thing will occur or be the case sooner or later.
2) A perception that somebody will or ought to obtain one thing.
Molly Mitchell, in her fourth season as beat author for the Detroit Mustangs isn’t any stranger to the expectations that include her job. That include being a girl in sports activities media. The Mustangs new supervisor proves to be a problem for the seasoned author – difficult her expectations and her preconceived notions of the person behind the supervisor. When the 2 start to develop nearer, will they strike out or will their love be a house run for the ages?
He’s my brother’s greatest hockey rival… however he’s bringing the warmth for me.
Nikolai
Hockey is my life, and I must make this final season depend. But once I’m pressured to switch to rival college McKee University for my senior 12 months, I danger pissing off the captain, who occurs to be the older brother of Isabelle Callahan: the beautiful beam of sunshine I messed round with in secret this summer season.
Rekindling our fling may danger her brother icing me off the workforce—to not point out the truth that my scarred previous makes having an actual relationship unimaginable—and but the second I see Isabelle once more, all my wild, burning emotions come speeding again.
Izzy
I’ve two targets for sophomore 12 months: win again my previous volleyball place, and overlook I ever knew devilishly good-looking hockey defenseman Nikolai Abney-Volkov. As the youngest and solely daughter in a household stuffed with athletes, failure isn’t an choice.
But when Nik crashes again into my life, I can’t avoid his broody appeal. I’m decided to protect my coronary heart this time, however between the furtive hookups and the heartfelt conversations, the strains between friends-with-benefits and extra start to blur.
As we fall deeper into a spot we will’t come again from unscathed, we’ll have to select: combat for a future collectively, or watch it go up in flames.
Filled with swoons, spice, sports activities, and koalas, Wicked Serve is a don’t-miss new grownup school sports activities romance.
August 15
The enemies-to-lovers queer Victorian romance follow-up to Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend, by which a younger lord and a second son conflict, however discover themselves thrust collectively time and again by their meddling cousins.
“That man is, without a doubt, the absolute most obnoxious…
Bobby Mason is sick of being second: born the spare, never trusted with family responsibility, never expected to amount to much. He’s hungry to contribute something that matters, while all around him his peers are squandering their political and financial power, coasting through life. Which is exactly why he can’t stand the new Viscount Demeroven.
…insufferable…
James Demeroven, just come of age and into the Viscountcy, knows that he’s a disappointment. Keeping his head down and never raising anyone’s expectations is how he’s survived life with his stepfather. To quiet, careful James, Bobby Mason is a blazing comet in his endless night, even more alive than he was at Oxford when James crushed on him from afar. But Mason is also brash and recklessly unapologetic, destined to shatter the fragile safety of James’s world. Worst of all, he keeps rubbing James’s failures in his face.
…hottest man to ever walk the ton.”
They can barely get by a single dialog with out tensions boiling over. Neither Bobby nor James has ever met a extra intriguing, infuriating, infatuating man.
If solely they might keep away from one another fully. Bad sufficient their (great however decided) cousins Beth and Gwen hold conveniently establishing group outings. But when an extortionist begins focusing on their households, threatening their reputations, Bobby and James should discover a approach to work collectively, with out pushing one another’s buttons (or tearing them off) within the course of…
August 16
What may very well be worse than having a one-night stand with my twin’s greatest rival on the ice?
Umm…nothing.
Nothing is worse than that.
It’s the explanation why my brother can by no means discover out that I connected with Maverick McKinnon, ridiculously scorching defenseman for the Western Wildcats. It doesn’t matter if the reminiscences from our night time collectively are sufficient to make my toes curl and my panties—
Well, you get the thought.
He’s the primary man to return alongside and never deal with me like I’ll shatter into 1,000,000 items when he lays his palms on me. Even if there’s a teeny tiny half inside that want to see him once more, the fallout could be brutal.
I’ve sufficient to cope with. Like attempting to interrupt out of the field my household has positioned me in since my analysis.
The solely drawback?
I’ve misplaced one thing priceless.
Something I would like again.
And I’m fairly certain whose mattress I’ll discover it in.
August 20
She’s the one night time stand I by no means forgot.
And now her dad is about to marry my mother.
It must be some form of cosmic joke, proper? For as soon as, I really feel like I’ve acquired my life collectively—good job, nice buddies, a contemporary begin in a brand new place. I’ve been on my finest conduct for ages. At final, every little thing’s developing Javier.
Until the second I stroll into my stepdad’s home and meet his daughter.
I ought to say: I meet her once more. Madeline and I’ve already met. It was one night time, two years in the past. A fast, informal hookup that had no proper to be as mind-blowing because it was. I haven’t stopped interested by it–or her–ever since.
But our mother and father are getting married, so in no way ought to we sleep collectively once more.
Or… once more. Or yet one more time after that, simply to get it out of our techniques.
Madeline’s humorous, fiery, and so beautiful together with her pink hair and nerdy tattoos that I can barely take a look at her with out breaking right into a sweat. But she has an excessive amount of occurring to be excited by dedication, and God is aware of I’m a foul boyfriend candidate.
Once the marriage’s over, we’ll be regular stepsiblings who don’t have intercourse with one another, and Thanksgiving gained’t be awkward in any respect.
Right?
Diamond necklaces, billionaires, Mafia bosses, and pupil loans—it’s all in a day’s work for Simi Chopra and her ragtag heist crew within the subsequent romantic-comedy caper from Sara Desai.It’s been a 12 months since Simi Chopra’s motley crew pulled off a high-wire diamond necklace heist with the assistance of horny rogue Jack Danger. After residing it up on the reward cash, they’re again the place they began, struggling to pay their payments. So when a Chicago Mafia boss calls for they return the jewels—plus curiosity, or else—they should get the workforce again collectively…and quick.
Unfortunately, Simi quickly discovers that the necklace is within the palms of Jack’s nemesis, a highly-skilled and supremely vengeful grasp thief who will not be above slightly blackmail to get even. (Did Jack actually should piss her off?) Now, the crew is pressured into her working her con with a purpose to get the necklace again. As if Simi wanted any extra issues whereas attempting to rob a billionaire’s mansion, she and Jack are on the rocks, another person is after her rating, and a beautiful detective is scorching on her tail. Simi higher watch out or she’ll find yourself within the much less enjoyable form of handcuffs.
Everly Plum is delighted to be heading up the Bridesmaid for Hire program at Magical Moments by Maggie. And when Hardy Hopper, one in all their billionaire buyers, approaches Everly for assist together with his buddies’ wedding ceremony, she’s more than pleased to step in. But Hardy has an additional task for her: his ex-girlfriend would be the maid of honor reverse his position as finest man, and he desires Everly’s assist getting her again.
There’s just one drawback: Everly might have a tiny crush on the dashing businessman. But regardless of the way in which Hardy makes her abdomen flutter, she’s decided to show herself, each as a bridesmaid and as a matchmaker. That is, till she finds her crush turning into actual emotions. Not to say, Hardy can’t assist however discover how properly he clicks with Everly, and earlier than he is aware of it, he’s not searching for his ex’s consideration anymore.
But even after their simmering attraction lastly rises to the floor, they must take care of meddling buddies, poor timing, {and professional} boundaries—and the danger that nobody would possibly get a second probability in any case.
August 22
Pain trapped me on this home. Can love set me free?
Death had been chasing me my whole life. I survived the horrors of struggle, nevertheless it was the aftermath that really destroyed me.
People known as me a recluse, however the one time I didn’t really feel like I used to be suffocating was inside that home.
For my daughter, I stored some semblance of normalcy by implementing a inflexible routine. Once per week, I pressured myself to stroll to the diner on the finish of the block—a ritual I despised however relied on as my final anchor to the actual world.
Until the day a “Closed” signal on the door shattered my fragile existence. Worse, the brand new proprietor was essentially the most haunting ghost from my previous.
It had been years since I’d laid eyes on Gwendolyn Pierce. She hated me—and rightly so. But when a movie crew arrived on the town to dig into my previous, she grew to become my solely ally.
With my secrets and techniques threatened, I leaned on Gwen, forging a connection neither of us may deny. But with a previous as darkish as ours, I feared it could eclipse any hope for a future.
I at all times mentioned that when Death lastly got here for me, I might be prepared, keen, and alone.
Always alone.
But for Gwen, perhaps I may face the world once more so long as it meant I may very well be alone—together with her.
August 27
The third and ultimate installment in Nisha Sharma’s beloved Shakespeare-inspired rom-com trilogy—an ode to Twelfth Night—is the right buddies to lovers romp that includes an unintentional wedding ceremony, meddling households, and loads of scorching chemistry.
Veera Mathur has been by loads prior to now 12 months. Both of her buddies discovered soul mates, the person she fell in love with acquired engaged to a different girl, and her father fired her earlier than promoting the household firm. When her twin sister, Sana, tells her there is no such thing as a manner of getting her previous life again, Veera feels misplaced at a single, unemployed mess with a foul tattoo and tons of expertise, however nowhere to go.
Deepak Datta hasn’t had the perfect luck both. To safe sufficient board votes for the CEO place at his household’s firm, Illyria Media, he’s able to marry board member and well-known magnificence influencer, Olivia Gupta. That is till he wakes as much as a prepare with me video asserting their separation. Despite his instant aid, Deepak must do one thing quick to restore his picture.
After a sequence of handy mishaps carry them collectively once more—together with a literal shipwreck, manner too many drinks, and a sundown elopement on the seashore—Deepak and Veera notice their unintentional wedding ceremony could be the answer to their profession aspirations. Together, they plot in opposition to the very firm that ruined their lives within the first place.
As they attempt to persuade the world their friendship was a ruse for love they’ve felt all alongside, the road between pretend and actual begins to blur. Now Veera and Deepak should ask themselves the terrifying query that has haunted them for the reason that first time they’ll love destroy every little thing?
With her signature humor and heartfelt storytelling, Nisha Sharma writes a messy, spicy romance about identification, household honor, and love. In Marriage & Masti, readers are certain to like the extremely anticipated finale of this beloved trilogy.
A sensible, tender, vivacious romantic comedy about mistaken identities, the road between love and intercourse, and the way in which one night time—and one particular person—can change your life endlessly.
When it comes to like, Farzan Alavi is a catastrophe. After his most up-to-date heartbreak, he’s drowning his sorrows at Kansas City’s latest wine bar. Only as a substitute of being crowded between strangers, he’s escorted to a VIP desk for one. There, the recent sommelier does greater than deal with him to the meal of his life. The manner he flirts with Farzan ignites immediate sparks.
There’s only one drawback: David Curtis thinks Farzan is Frank Allen, Kansas City’s most influential meals critic. The reality solely comes out after the 2 spend an unforgettably scorching night time collectively. Good information—each suppose the mix-up is hilarious. Bad information—David is finding out to grow to be a grasp sommelier and has no real interest in a relationship.
Neither expects their paths to cross once more . . . till Farzan inherits his household’s bistro and desires David’s restaurant information. The two comply with an change: David will reply Farzan’s questions, and Farzan will assist David research for his take a look at. Only enterprise turns to pleasure when neither can ignore the attraction nonetheless scorching between them. But with David set on transferring after his take a look at, and Farzan dedicated to his household’s restaurant, how can their relationship final previous the expiration date?
August 29
An angsty, age hole, forbidden romance from bestselling writer, Elizabeth O’ Roark.
Once upon a time, my buddy’s niece was a toddler in a swim diaper following me across the seashore. Now Daisy’s twenty-one, the loveliest factor I’ve ever laid eyes on, and blackmailing me into letting her keep for the summer season.
If she’s not bent over on my deck in yoga pants, she’s in a bikini that covers far much less. She makes me chortle once I wish to keep pissed off and forces me to recollect all of the issues I used to like. If solely she wasn’t so rattling younger and so extremely off-limits.
The scorching pressure between us is getting tougher to withstand, however giving in would destroy a few of my oldest friendships. Worst of all, although?
It would possibly destroy Daisy too.
August 30
The Goode Brothers Number 3…
I hope this checklist serves you properly in August. Let me know what you’d prefer to see subsequent month.
