TOP RECOMMENDATION: IDOL by Kristen Callihan (Read my Review)
SQUEE!!! I absolutely LOVED reading this book! Ahhhh, I can’t stop smiling. It was absolutely PERFECT!! Every word was loaded with SWOON, hotness, and the most intensely passionate romance you can imagine. It was the ULTIMATE ROCK STAR ROMANCE!!!! Holyyy, IT WAS AMAZING!!! My heart was RACING non-stop from the moment I started reading until the very last page. The banter was pure GOLD, their CONNECTION was so intense that I FELT every step of their story, and the writing was top notch. The story had depth, emotion, angst, passion, and was beyond ADDITIVE. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this as a new TOP FAVORITE!!
NEW FAVORITE: Dark Sexy Knight: A Modern Fairytale by Katy Regnery (Read my Review)
OMG!!! This was such a great read! It was sweet, sexy, heart-warming, and incredibly romantic!! I read it in one non-stop sitting because I just didn’t want to put it down. It’s a contemporary fairy tale with a moody, brooding, deeply protective modern-day bad-boy knight who falls utterly in love with a down-on-her-luck damsel in distress who he rescues. This was exactly the kind of addictive book I was looking for and I highly recommend it as a new favorite!! If you’re looking for a swoony love story to sweep you away, definitely try this! It’s a completely standalone romance.
NEW FAVORITE: One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Read my Review)
This is one of those stories that’ll tear your heart in two directions as you read but ultimately lead you to the exact right place. A bittersweet and yet deeply heart-warming romance that takes a really unique look at the concept of true LOVE!! It’s a standalone romance and I loved it!
It has always been him.
My whole life.
It has always, always been him.
WEEKLY NEW RELEASES RECAP
- Idol by Kristen Callihan (TOP FAVORITE: fun, sexy rock star romance, can standalone)
- Dark Sexy Knight by Katy Regnery (TOP FAVORITE: a modern fairytale romance standalone)
- One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid (TOP FAVORITE: unique romance standalone)
- White-Hot Hack by Tracey Garvis Graves (highly-anticipated sequel to Heart-Shaped Hack)
- When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel (modern day mixed with historical romance standalone)
- Unbreak My Heart by Nicole Jacquelyn (‘What do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend?’)
- All the Rage by T.M. Frazier (dark romance standalone)
- 738 Days: A Novel by Stacey Kade (very unique set up: rescued girl with PTSD and fallen movie star)
- Six by K.I. Lynn (dark romantic suspense standalone)
- Lovegame by Tracy Wolff (“darkly addictive novel of seduction and psychological obsession”)
- Beautiful by Ella Bordeaux (YA romance, this is author Kelly Elliot under a pen name)
- Third Base by Heidi McLaughin (re-release through a publisher — a baseball sports romance)
- Love Thy Enemy by Katie Reus (romantic suspense in Red Stone Security Series)
- From This Day Forward by Lauren Layne (standalone novella, start of the Wedding Belles series)
- Wicked Burn by Rebecca Zanetti (paranormal romance, Realm Enforcers novella)
- BURN by Ruth Clampett (romantic comedy standalone, L.A. Untamed series)
- The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell (Women’s Fiction standalone)
- Foolproof Love by Katee Robert (pretend relationship romance standalone)
- Paradise Found: Cain by LB Dunbar (sports romance, standalone in Paradise Stories series)
- F*cking Awkward by 24 author (anthology of short rom.com. stories)
- The Falling Series Boxed Set: Books #1-3 by Ginger Scott (three standalones for the price of one)
- Shut Out by Kelly Jamieson (college hockey romance, can standalone)
- End of Watch by Stephen King (supernatural horror, The Bill Hodges Trilogy Book 3)
- One Paris Summer by Denise Grover Swank (YA romance)
- The Leaving by Tara Altebrando (YA mystery/suspense/thriller/romance)
- With Malice by Eileen Cook (YA mystery/supernatural)
- Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh (YA prehistoric fantasy—with allusions to Pride and Prejudice)
DETAILED LIST: NEW RELEASES
Idol by Kristen Callihan — New Release!!
TOP FAVORITE! Can standalone, rock star romance: I found Killian drunk and sprawled out on my lawn like some lost prince. With the face of a god and the arrogance to match, the pest won’t leave. Sexy, charming, and just a little bit dirty, he’s slowly wearing me down, making me crave more.
He could be mine if I dare to claim him. Problem is, the world thinks he’s theirs. How do you keep an idol when everyone is intent on taking him away?
Dark Sexy Knight by Katy Regnery — New Release!!
TOP FAVORITE! Standalone romance: Loosely inspired by the legend of Camelot, this is the story of dinner theater knight Colt Lane, who meets down-on-her-luck Verity Gwynn on the worst day of her life. Evicted from their home, she and her special-needs brother must find jobs or risk being separated. Colt, who is the furthest-possible thing from a white knight in real life, comes to their unlikely rescue…
He has dark, deeply buried secrets which have kept people away… until he meets Verity, who seems immune to his gruff manners and taciturn ways. The more time he spends with her, the more he longs for her in his life and yearns to be the knight in shining armor she so desperately needs….
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid — New Release!!
TOP FAVORITE! Standalone romance: In her twenties, she marries her high school sweetheart… On their first wedding anniversary, he is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, he’s gone forever…
She quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, she runs into an old friend and finds herself falling in love again. When they get engaged, it feels like her second chance at happiness.
That is, until [her husband] is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, she has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly? She knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.
White-Hot Hack by Tracey Garvis Graves — New Release!!
Sequel to Heart-Shaped Hack: When cybercriminals doxed undercover hacker Ian Bradshaw and forced him to flee, he begged Kate Watts for forgiveness and vowed never to hurt her again. He also convinced her to marry him, and when their idyllic summer on Roanoke Island comes to an end, the newlyweds relocate to their new home deep in the heart of Virginia’s horse and wine country. Ian still struggles with boundaries, but he keeps Kate’s lingerie drawer filled with surprises, and there’s no shortage of number-six kisses…
Ian promised Kate that life with him would never be boring, but spending her days picking out paint colors and going to Pilates isn’t going to cut it. Meanwhile, Ian discovers that he might have underestimated how much he’d miss the undercover work he walked away from.
Kate and Ian have always worried that their past would catch up to them, and when faced with the biggest showdown of their lives, they must capitalize on the one thing they excel at most: teamwork. Ian claims no one is a better hacker than him, but in order to triumph, he’ll have to prove it. And if he can’t, he risks losing the woman whose heart he worked so hard to hack.
When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel — New Release!!
Standalone: Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad ran out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when she was seventeen, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away as well. But when she’s laid off from her reporting job, she finds herself completely at sea…until the day she receives a beautiful, haunting painting of a young woman standing at the edge of a sugarcane field under a violet sky. That woman is recognizable as her grandmother—and the painting arrived with no identification other than a handwritten note saying, “He always loved her.”
Unbreak My Heart by Nicole Jacquelyn — New Release!!
Standalone romance: What do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? If you’re Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. The fact that Shane’s in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes.
After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel’s death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret.
Shane’s been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too — for sleeping with his wife’s best friend and liking it… liking her. Kate’s ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer.
Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. So Kate’s only choice is to fight for the future she deserves — with or without Shane…
All the Rage by T.M. Frazier — New Release!!
Standalone dark romance: “This life is all I know. It’s all I want to know. It keeps the shit buried that I need kept buried. It allows me to live without thinking too much. Without dwelling on the past. Until him…
It all changes when an ordinary boy becomes my next target. And my first love. I have to choose. The only life I’ve ever known has to die, or he does.
Either way, I’ll be the one pulling the trigger…”
738 Days: A Novel by Stacey Kade — New Release!!
Standalone: At fifteen, Amanda Grace was abducted on her way home from school. 738 days later, she escaped. Her 20/20 interview is what everyone remembers—Amanda describing the room where she was kept, the torn poster of TV heartthrob Chase Henry on the wall. It reminded her of home and gave her the strength to keep fighting.
Now, years later, Amanda is struggling to live normally. Her friends have gone on to college, while she battles PTSD. She’s not getting any better, and she fears that if something doesn’t change soon she never will.
Six years ago, Chase Henry defied astronomical odds, won a coveted role on a new TV show, and was elevated to super-stardom. With it, came drugs, alcohol, arrests, and crazy spending sprees. Now he’s sober and a Hollywood pariah, washed up at twenty-four.
To revamp his image, Chase’s publicist comes up with a plan: surprise Amanda Grace with the chance to meet her hero, followed by a visit to the set of Chase’s new movie. The meeting is a disaster, but out of mutual desperation, Amanda and Chase strike a deal. What starts as a simple arrangement, though, rapidly becomes more complicated when they realize they need each other in more ways than one…
Six by K.I. Lynn — New Release!!
Standalone dark romance: I had a one-night stand. It wasn’t my first, but it would be my last. A gun to the head. A trained killer. A deadly conspiracy. Kidnapped and on the run, my life and death is in the hands of a sadist captor who happens to be my one-night stand. Armed with countless weapons, money, and new identities, the man I call Six drags me around the world.
The manhunt is on and Six is the next target. Stockholm Syndrome meets bucket list, and the question of what would you do to live before you died. The questions aren’t always answered in black and white. Gray becomes the norm as my morals are tested. Death is a tragedy, and I’ll do anything to stay alive. Are you ready for the last ride of your life? Six has a gun to your head—what would you do?
Lovegame by Tracy Wolff — New Release!!
True Crime novelist Ian Sharpe has spent his career writing about serial killers for very personal reasons [and] when his research leads him to Hollywood’s most private and provocative actress, he will break every rule to uncover her truth…The daughter of one of Hollywood’s golden couples, chased by paparazzi and treated as a commodity her entire life, she wields her sex appeal like a weapon. She expects him to be as easy to control as every other man she’s ever known. But from the beginning, he refuses to fall into line. Mysterious and cool, challenging and just a little bit dangerous, he somehow makes her feel safe… But if she’s learned anything, it’s that the line between pleasure and pain is a narrow one—and when caught between them the only thing that matters is how you play the game…
Beautiful by Ella Bordeaux — New Release!!
YA romance: She unknowingly drew him toward her. He wanted… needed to learn everything about her [and] struggled to understand the sadness she attempted to mask with an amazing smile.
When her eyes met his for the first time, her breath caught and she couldn’t look away from the new guy standing in the school office smiling at her. The connection only grew when he sat next to her in English class…
For the first time in months, she felt alive.
The moment he expressed an interest, the notes started again… Never believing the rumors being spread around school about her, he made sure he went out of his way to prove how much he cared about her. But when the past resurfaces, will he stand by her side? Or will he turn against her like everyone else?
Love Thy Enemy by Katie Reus — New Release!!
Can standalone: She refuses to trust him. After losing both her parents, she keeps her distance from anyone tied to her past—especially the man she’s hated for years. And he isn’t going to change her mind about who he really is—no matter how determined the infuriatingly sexy Russian is.
He’s determined to win her over. She may hate him and not trust him, but he’s determined to crack through her icy exterior one way or another—even if it means taking the game into his own hands. With a past like his, he’s made more than a few enemies along the way [and] when he realizes her life is in danger because of him, he’ll stop at nothing to protect her…
Wicked Burn by Rebecca Zanetti — New Release!!
Can standalone: She knows she can beat the rap her enemies are pinning on her. An Irish witch is nobody’s fool, and she didn’t get to her position on the high council without serious power. But her cousins want her to hide out—and they somehow convinced her arch nemesis to play getaway driver.
Of all the men she’s known, he’s the hardest to intimidate. He’s as desirable as he is dangerous. And he knows better than to underestimate her. So when he pulls up on a roaring bike and tells her to climb on or fight it out, she grabs a handful of jacket and holds on tight. Running from the law may not be the smartest plan. But when it comes to him, hot pursuit and a blazing fast ride are exactly what she’s looking for…
BURN by Ruth Clampett — New Release!!
Can standalone: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire… And I would know. As the only woman in a squad of firefighters, I’m fierce, fearless, and I get the job done. I’ve got a past that hurt me, nearly destroyed me. But who doesn’t? I’m no damsel in distress … I fight my own battles, my own wars, and my own fires.
Now I’m sizzling for my lieutenant, Joe Murphy, and that’s one fire I don’t want to put out. But it’s a complicated situation. A hot and wild situation… When things spiral out of control should I fight for the new life I was trying to build, or just let it burn?
The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell — New Release!!
Standalone Women’s Fiction: Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really?
On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, she discovers her thirteen-year-old sister lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible? … Dark secrets, a devastating mystery, and the games both children and adults play all swirl together in this gripping novel, packed with utterly believable characters and page-turning suspense.
Foolproof Love by Katee Robert — New Release!!
Standalone: He put [his hometown] in his rearview mirror years ago and hasn’t stopped running since. Now he’s back—temporarily, if he has any say about it. Restless, he finds himself kissing the sexiest girl in town…and agreeing to be the fake boyfriend in her little revenge scheme.
But this thing between them has an expiration date. Putting down roots isn’t in his blood, and her roots are deep. He’ll leave, even if it rips out his heart. But this time, he’s not sure he’ll survive it…
From This Day Forward by Lauren Layne — New Release!!
Novella, can standalone: Up-and-coming wedding photographer Leah McHale’s career is on the rise–thanks in no small part to the Wedding Belles, the elite New York wedding planning agency that always throws top-tier business Leah’s way. So when one of the Belles asks Leah to fill in at the former First Daughter’s wedding, Leah is overjoyed to say yes — until she finds out who she’ll be working with.
Jason Rhodes is the one man who was able to capture Leah’s heart and, once he had it, promptly stepped all over it and left her broken. Now he’s working side-by-side with her at the biggest wedding of the season and Leah is determined to give him the cold shoulder. Despite his persistence, she is not going to fall for his charming, impish ways again. Not even if he still has that killer, irresistible smile…
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Lisa says
I have one-clicked SO MANY books this week! Its crazy! But awesome lol
Aestas says
Right?? Haha ME TOO!! 😀
Chelsea says
I’m reading DARK SEXY KNIGHT right now and swooning all over the place 🙂
Aestas says
YAY!!! Colt is definitely swoony 😀
Emily says
Thank you for the list!!!
Aestas says
You’re so welcome, Emily!! 😀
Taryn Plendl says
Thank you for sharing F*cking Awkward! <3
Aestas says
Very welcome!! 🙂