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It’s not often that a romance can be described as both a laugh-out-loud romp and a heartrending tearjerker, but Cochrun manages to blend the two tones seamlessly as estranged childhood friends reunite to fulfill their mentor’s dying wish for a cross-country road trip. Hijinks ensue alongside sapphic love and a moving meditation on what makes life worth living.
In this swoonworthy romance, Ricki Wilde, the black sheep of her large Southern family, moves to Harlem to pursue her artistic ambitions, where she meets and falls for Ezra, an oddly old-fashioned jazz musician. Toggling between the modern day and the 1920s, Williams crafts a lyrical love story that defies time itself. Ricki and Ezra are made for each other.
Romance novel fan Elsy Merriweather magically stumbles into the fictional small-town setting of her favorite book series in this playfully meta rom-com. As Elsy meddles in her favorite characters’ lives and discovers a connection with a handsome local bookseller (whom she doesn’t remember from the series), Poston uses the clever premise to compose a heartfelt love letter to the genre.
This utterly enchanting series launch sends rival Victorian bird-watchers on a madcap race across Europe to find a mythical bird. Holton has a great deal of fun creating a tongue-in-cheek Victorian pastiche replete with gaslight, cobblestones, and mechanized parasols that enable ladies to fly. The irreverent worldbuilding and sparkling banter between the combative leads make this a winner.
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Hoffman’s rousing debut follows the first openly trans, openly gay recruit to a minor league baseball team, reuniting him with his ex-friend from college. Hoffman makes the game scenes thrilling even for readers with no knowledge of baseball and builds a gradual, deeply emotional connection between the leads. These are underdogs worth rooting for.
When devoted housewife Soledad’s husband is arrested for embezzlement and confesses to infidelity, she must rebuild her life from the ashes. Ryan makes her efforts to do so poignant and empowering, emphasizing the value that exists in the domestic sphere. Add in a steamy affair with the hot single father who investigated Soledad’s husband and this mature contemporary proves un-put-downable.
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