From contemporary to historical, featuring royalty and commoners, enjoy this list of recently published romance novels chosen by our librarians. (Updated December 2023)
Chef's Choice
A fake dating arrangement turns to real love in this deliciously delightful queer rom-com from the author of the sweetly satisfying Chef’s Kiss.
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View Chef's ChoiceThe Long Game
A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team.
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View The Long GameCourting Samira
Set in Sydney, Australia, Courting Samira is a charming and frothy romantic comedy about a twenty-seven-year-old Palestinian woman who finds herself in an unexpected love triangle—a sparkling ode to meddling best friends, traditional courtship, The Princess Bride, and, of course, the possibility of love.
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View Courting SamiraThe Fiancée Farce
Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience.
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View The Fiancée FarceThe Art of Scandal
After discovering her husband is having an affair, Rachel Abbott agrees to keep playing the ideal Black trophy wife until after his reelection campaign but finds it hard to keep her side of the bargain when she falls in love with an artist whose secrets blow everything wide open.
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View The Art of ScandalA Long Time Dead
Poppy, a Victorian sex worker, awakens in a cobwebbed manor to find herself a creature out of a nightmare. Her only companion, Roisin, is a traumatized, stern vampire who has firm rules about drinking from humans (never) and sleeping with Poppy (also never, she protests a little too vehemently). (Olivia Waite, NYT)
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View A Long Time DeadThe Enchanted Hacienda
Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she’s chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is magic-less, until she opens her heart to love and creativity.
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View The Enchanted HaciendaGeorgie, All Along
When Georgie suddenly loses her job as a personal assistant, she heads home to her parents to regroup. While there, she comes across a teenage diary and uses it to explore her life. (LibraryReads)
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View Georgie, All AlongDo your Worst
Hired to break a curse on an infamous Scottish castle, Riley Rhodes meets a disgraced archaeologist, Clark Edgeware, who tries to get her fired for being in the way, sparking more than anger between them.
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View Do your WorstAna MarÃa and the Fox
Seeking refuge in London from the French occupation of Mexico, a Mexican heiress enjoys her first taste of freedom away from her domineering father and the scorching looks she begins receiving from a member of Parliament, Gideon Fox.
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