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The Most Hotly Anticipated Romances for July
Some people love books. Some people fall in love. And some people love books about falling in love. Every month our team sorts through the new romance books and sees how early readers are responding. We use this information to curate a list of soon-to-be-beloved favorites.
New in June: Katherine Center inverts a familiar romance template with The Bodyguard. Angie Hockman explores the notion of an imaginary boyfriend in Dream On. And Sophie Irwin travels to Regency-era London with A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting. Also new this month: Pinup girls, bingo boys, and foodies in love.
Add what catches your fancy to your Want to Read shelf and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
New in June: Katherine Center inverts a familiar romance template with The Bodyguard. Angie Hockman explores the notion of an imaginary boyfriend in Dream On. And Sophie Irwin travels to Regency-era London with A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting. Also new this month: Pinup girls, bingo boys, and foodies in love.
Add what catches your fancy to your Want to Read shelf and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
Italian neuroscientist Ali Hazelwood is enjoying plenty of critical and commercial success with her romance series The STEMinist Novellas, featuring women in science and the people they love. This third installment finds NASA aerospace engineer Hannah stranded at an Arctic research facility. Her only hope is a rescue mission by longtime rival Ian, the one guy she does not want to see. (Except that she kinda-sorta really, really does.)
Different Hannah, different dilemma: The Bodyguard spotlights executive protection agent Hannah Brooks, who’s been assigned to guard superstar actor Jack Stapleton. Jack has a stalker, it seems, and Hannah will have to stay on her toes when Jack decides to return to his family’s Texas ranch. Rule Number One in the bodyguard racket: Never sleep with your client. Rule Number Two: No one pays attention to Rule Number One.
High-powered attorney Lizzy Chung is burned out. Since a recent panic attack caused her to rethink Life Itself, Lizzy has been convalescing in her childhood hometown, with her childhood bestie Jack Park. While working together to restore the neighborhood’s old bookstore, friendship turns to something hotter. Bonus trivia: Author Jayci Lee (The Dating Dare) is a semi-retired defense litigator.
It’s a pickle, all right: After a traumatic car crash, law student Cass Walker is flooded with dreams and memories of her boyfriend Devin. Unfortunately, Devin doesn’t exist. The doctors tell her he’s a kind of delusional side effect from the accident. After a year of recuperation, Cass drops in at a Cleveland flower shop. Wait a second. Isn’t that...Devin? Goose bumps! It’s Fate vs Reality from author Angie Hockman (Shipped).
Prolific up-and-coming author Jodie Slaughter (All Things Burn) is back with another tale of humor, heart, and heat. When South Carolinian Aja Owens meets Walker Abbott, he’s just an irritant—the grandson of one of her elderly bingo buddies. Then the sparks start to fly. Bet On It keeps the mood light by including—and we quote —“a bingo-based sex pact,” which has got to be a first in the romance genre, right?
On her popular student radio show, Kiki Banjo offers counsel and advice to the women of the Afro-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University. Her mission? To save womankind from the heartbreak of shady, doomed, complicated “situationships.” Alas, Kiki did not factor in the easy charm and intrinsic hotness of Malakai Korede, the kind of guy she typically warns others away from. Look for plenty of humor and heart in this debut novel from writer Bolu Babalola.
Sophie Brunet just wants to cook. She’s a good head chef, and she knows it. She definitely doesn’t want to deal with her new hard-case boss. Amy Chambers just wants to get her foundering restaurant back on the map. She’s a micromanager, and she knows it. She definitely doesn’t want to deal with her new moody chef. When a buzzy TV series shows interest in the restaurant, the two women find that their opposites-match thing is turning out pretty OK.
Foodies need love, too. That’s the moral of the story in this romantic comedy set in the world of professional kitchens and reality TV shows. For Butter or Worse spotlights the messy love life of celebrity chef Nina Lyon, recently paired with hot-but-obnoxious restauranteur Leo O’Donnell on the series The Next Cooking Champ! Bonus trivia: Erin La Rosa is also author of the nonfiction The Big Redhead Book: Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair.
He’s a mild-mannered university professor with a small apartment above the local tavern. She’s a tattooed bartender who’s just taken the other room over the local tavern. He longs for the boisterous affection of her close-knit and rowdy Mexican-American family. She admires his calm demeanor and overall lust-inspiring qualities. With just a single thin wall between them, Alejandra and Jeremiah are about to have an adventure in this new romance from author Angelina M. Lopez.
Devotees of horny historical romance may want to check out A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting, which follows the adventures of the resourceful-and-quite-desperate Kitty Talbot. The estimable Miss Talbot needs money, frankly. Her father’s debts are…significant is perhaps the polite term. So she’s heading into Regency-era London to find a husband. The canny Lord Ratcliffe, meanwhile, knows exactly what Kitty is up to. But that doesn’t render him immune from her charms.
Nadia Palacio has a problem. Her expensive wedding is only a month away, and she’s just dropped her philandering fiancé. But the venue is already booked and her extended Argentinian family is flying in from all corners of the globe. The solution: a second quinceañera—a treintañera, if you will—to celebrate her 30th birthday. It’s pretty genius, really. Bonus trivia: Yamile Saied Méndez is author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick Furia.
Debut author Danielle Jackson—co-host of the Fresh Fiction podcast—checks into the game with the story of Cassie Harris, a proud and plus-sized Black photographer who suddenly finds herself on the other side of the camera. Cassie is all about reinventing the classic lingerie pinup photo, even if modeling wasn't quite how she'd envisioned doing it. Further complicating matters: The new photographer, her former rival Reid Montgomery, is problematically good looking.
Which new releases are you looking forward to reading? Let's talk books in the comments!
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Jul 01, 2022 01:06AM
Some of these are going on my tbr! Can't wait to read them!
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Several of these I already have marked on my ever growing tbr list. I am a sucker for any & all romance novels.
Sharon, may I just say that I truly LOLd at your first line about my book (I mean this in a great way—it really is true!!): "Foodies need love, too."Thank you for including For Butter or Worse on this amazing list!! I am so honored!! Happy reading, everyone!
Some of these books look really good. But it seems that they often reproduce the classic patterns, and instead I would love to find a feminist romance book - does that even exist? Would anyone have recommendations please?
Cléo wrote: "Some of these books look really good. But it seems that they often reproduce the classic patterns, and instead I would love to find a feminist romance book - does that even exist? Would anyone have..."I've heard good things about
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TO THE BOOKSTORE!!! All of them are now on my tbr.... guilty!!
