Undead Oaths by Caitlyn Battelle The second Romantic Fantasy book in the Undead Gods series published by Twelfth House on Jan 5th, 2026 Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️ Rating: goodreads storygraph Pagebound Bookshop.org When a mortal woman makes a deal with a god and the fates come out to play... Can she change what has been woven, or will the mistake of a god be the ruin of them all?Elysia Parker is furious. After making a deal with the god of the dead to find his talisman, she's horrified to learn her mortality is on the line.

Someone Borrowed by Anna Worth A self-published Romance novel published on July 14th, 2025 Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 Rating: Pagebound bookshop.org goodreads storygraph Surviving my sister’s wedding to my ex-fiancé with my pride intact is the plan. Falling for my enemy turned fake wedding date is not. The last thing I expected was my safe choice of a fiancé to cheat on me with my own sister. Worse, my mother is on her side. What's a girl to do? Apparently, spill the whole sordid tale to the hot florist who has spent the last year trying to sabotage my business.

Where Shadows Meet by Patrice Caldwell A Young Adult Fantasy Romance published on April 1st, 2025 by Wednesday Books Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️ Rating: Pagebound bookshop.org goodreads storygraph The dark and thrillingly romantic debut vampire fantasy that questions what it truly means to sacrifice for love. You have no idea what I’ve done for love. Just as you have no idea what you may one day do. Once long ago, a girl named Favre sacrificed her wings for love. Thana, the young goddess she so willingly gave them up for, sacrificed that same love for power.

Head over Eels in Laguna by Kristy Tate A contemporary romance self-published on August 26th, 2025 Spice Rating: Rating: goodreads Pagebound Sometimes, the ocean speaks louder than words.Clare Thompson thought she was signing up for a simple bungalow renovation—not a front-row seat to small-town gossip, slippery family secrets, and one very inconvenient crush.Looking to reboot her life, Clare heads to sunny Laguna Beach to restore a historic seaside cottage. What she doesn’t expect? A rare, shimmering oarfish washing ashore and sending the town into a tailspin of omens, legends, and apocalyptic speculation.

drawings by Susanne. instagram handle: @susanne_draws Transcend by Natalia Jaster The fourth self-published book of the Dark Gods: Selfish Myths series published on October 22nd,2025 Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Rating: Pagebound bookshop.org goodreads storygraph SECOND EDITION with spicy adult content including extended, new, and revised scenes.WARNING: Reviews prior to October 2025 do NOT reflect the second edition or its adult content. They’ve hated each other for three thousand years. He’s Narcissus, vain and possessive, destined to love no one but himself. She’s a prickly goddess who refuses to bow to his ego.

Dare by Natalia Jaster The fourth book in a rewritten Romantasy series; Foolish Kingdoms: Dark Seasons self-published on August 14th, 2024 Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Rating: Pagebound bookshop.org goodreads storygraph Spicy enemies to lovers fantasy romance with an HEA. I’VE BEEN TAKEN PRISONER BY A MONSTER WITH A CROWN. Everyone fears the prince. Cold. Cruel. He has a thirst for his captives’ blood. I’m everything this vicious royal despises. A wild captive in chains. The object of his hatred—and his obsession. Behind the prince’s icy stare, forbidden temptation sets fire to my veins.

Touch by Natalia Jaster Self published on February 5th, 2025, the first of romantasy series SELFISH MYTHS: DARK GODS Rating: goodreads storygraph Pagebound bookshop.org Spicy dark fantasy meets Greek gods in this scorching mythology romance—where the villain IS the girl. Mortals got the myths all wrong. Olympus is a fantasy. Titans are mere stories. And Eros? Not the god of love, but the goddess of manipulation. Her arrows don’t merely incite passion. They shatter hearts. She stalks, hunts, and twists desire for her amusement. Humans are pawns in a cruel game of control, playthings in a world of elite power.

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In The Garden of Monsters by Crystal King A novel published September 24th,2024 by MIRA Rating: goodreads storygraph Spicy enemies to lovers fantasy romance. NA woman with no past. A man who seems to know her. And a monstrous garden that could be the border between their worlds…Italy, 1948 Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. The beautiful model can’t remember where she’s from, where she’s been or how she came to live in Rome. When she receives an offer to accompany celebrated eccentric artist Salvador Dalí to the Sacro Bosco—Italy’s Garden of Monsters—as his muse, she’s strangely compelled to accept.

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I Can Be The One by Ellie Blackbourne A College Hockey Romance novel, the second book in the Love You Moore series, published by Pink Panda Publishing on February 14th, 2025 Rating: goodreads storygraph He's the hot, cocky hockey player I've always had a thing for...and now he's my fake boyfriend. ALEXISMoney has always been an issue, and if I want to stay enrolled, I need tuition money fast. The school's Cute Couples Contest can be my saving grace--whichever couple is voted most swoon-worthy by Valentine's Day is offered a tuition-free year.

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Get Lost With You by Sophie Sullivan Book #2 of Rock Bottom Love published on February 11th, 2025 by ST. Martin's Griffen Rating: goodreads storygraph A second chance at love, small-town romance that’s all sweet with just a hint of heat from the “queen of sweet romance” (Falon Ballard) Sophie Sullivan. Jillian Keller took the long route to her best life, but is now happily settled in her hometown of Smile, raising her little girl alone while helping her brother run Get Lost Lodge. A lover of structure and routine, she doesn’t need anything, or anyone, disrupting her carefully curated life.

Sleeping With the Frenemy by Natalie Cana The third book in the Vega Family Love Stories series published by MIRA on October 29, 2024 Rating: goodreads storygraph The third book in the riotously funny Vega Family Love Stories finds self-assured firefighter Leo Vega trying to reignite a flame that’s gone cold and finally bring his secret love affair into the open.

A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya Published by Joy Publishing on December 14, 2024 Rating: goodreads storygraph Carolina Fuentes wants to join her family in hunting the bloodthirsty vampiros that plague her pueblo. Her father, however, wishes to marry her off to a husband of his choosing, someone who’ll take her away from danger. Determined to prove she’d make a better slayer than wife, Carolina vows to take down a monster herself.

Tainted Truths by Gayla J Reel and Brandi Reed the second book in the Torn Loyalties series self published on February 14, 2024 Rating: goodreads storygraph Ben and Chelsea's eyes are on the future. The promise of a wedding, the anticipation of starting a family, the excitement of their new life together… The couple's long-awaited happily ever after is finally within their grasp.

Catch and Keep by Erin Hahn A contemporary romance published on October 15, 2024 by St. Martin’s. Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Rating: goodreads storygraph In Erin Hahn's latest cozy, swoony romance, Maren Laughlin has been fishing her whole life, but she’s finally ready to be caught. At thirty-three, Maren Laughlin's just turned down her boyfriend’s proposal, walked away from her decade-long position as a park ranger, and returned to her childhood playground in Northern Wisconsin to accept her inheritance: a decrepit waterfront bait shop.

If I stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkins A paranormal Romance published on October 15th, 2024 by St. Martin's Press Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Rating: goodreads storygraph An enemies to lovers romance with a spooky twist where two feuding writers end up on a writers retreat together at a haunted castle in Scotland It's been months since horror author Penelope Skinner threw a book at Neil Storm.