Ally Carter’s The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year is a vastly entertaining rom-com/mystery hybrid.
By Ally Carter
Ally Carter’s The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year is a vastly entertaining rom-com/mystery hybrid.
Ally Carter’s The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year is a vastly entertaining rom-com/mystery hybrid.
Prepare for a few tears along with your hot chocolate while reading The Christmas You Found Me.
If you’ve ever wondered if the other parents on field trips are judging you, Nora Dahlia’s debut rom-com is the book for you.
A charming and mature holiday romance set in an adorable English village, Kiss Me at Christmas is practically wrapped in a sparkly Christmas bow.
Clare Gilmore’s Perfect Fit is a fresh, modern rom-com that doubles as a coming-of-age story.
Tony Award-nominated playwright Chad Beguelin’s entertaining debut romance, Showmance, is a sweet tribute to local theater.
Karina Halle’s The Royals Upstairs is a transportive pleasure for us commoners.
Set in Los Angeles in 2016, Kate and Danny Tamberelli’s The Road Trip Rewind is a quirky tale of detours taken on the path to love.
Katie Shepard’s No One Does It Like You is a sweet but realistic second-chance romance.
Tessa Bailey already releases two books a year (we loved both of 2024’s offerings), but demand for the rom-com queen’s work is so fervent that Avon has had to start printing the author’s previously self-published works to keep up! Those who fell in love with Window Shopping in 2021 will soon be able to snag an adorable new edition, and newcomers to decorator Stella’s romance with a dashing department store owner should prepare to be swept away.
Another self-published gem about to get a wide print release for the very first time, Kennedy Ryan’s Reel is an epic love story between a rising Hollywood star and the director who casts her in her big break. Having been named to several “Best of the Year” lists during its initial release, Reel will surely win Kennedy Ryan even more fans than she already has thanks to her emotional Skyland romances.
It’s always nice to balance out holiday hijinks with a mellower, more emotional, but still seasonal love story: Enter Ashley Herring Blake. The author of the acclaimed Bright Falls series will return with her first-ever Christmas romance, which follows exes Charlotte and Brighton as they rekindle their relationship while staying at the same house and attending a bunch of adorable dating events.
There is a LOT going on in Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone’s holiday rom-com series, A Christmas Notch, and all of it is great. Ready? The setting is the titular little town in Vermont, host to a cottage industry of both squeaky-clean and gloriously dirty holiday movies. The heroine is Sunny Palmer, Christmas Notch’s jack-of-all-trades who’s just sold her very first screenplay. The hero is Isaac Kelly, widower and former member of Ink, the once-popular boy band that the previous two male leads of the series also belonged to. While helping each other work through their respective creative dry spells, Sunny and Isaac find that they also work together in other ways (wink, wink).
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