In Whitney, My Love Judith McNaught cleverly twists together beloved romance tropes to create a complex story that is impossible to put down.
Laura Kinsale’s Seize the Fire is a unique and memorable twist on the innocent woman-meets-cynical rake plot.
If you’re a fan of chatty, dialogue-heavy stories, you’ll love Loretta Chase’s lush historical romance My Inconvenient Duke.
Jerry Crozier of KJ Charles’ Any Old Diamonds is the king of reprobates—the one all the other reprobates cross the street to avoid.
One of the grand dames of historical romance, Eloisa James writes romantic romps with a light touch, sparkling with wit worthy of a writer who moonlights (daylights?) as a professor of English literature. Her latest follows a society debutante who runs away to Scotland after a disastrous season, and ends up having to save her reputation by marrying a Scottish lord.
A new series from Joanna Shupe, queen of the Gilded Age romance, is always cause for celebration, and her latest is especially intriguing. The first book, inspired by legend of the Russian princess Anastasia, follows aspiring singer Josie Smith as she gets embroiled in a plot to con the wealthy Pendleton family thanks to her striking resemblance to its matriarch, whose child was infamously kidnapped and never found. So will the rest of the series be inspired by beloved animated movies? Or will they be tales of imposters and/or con artists? Both? Only time will tell.
Remember When by Mary Balogh is a quietly enchanting story of second-chance love in the Regency period.
In The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right, Suzanne Allain’s playful Regency romance, delightful chaos ensues when an heiress and her impoverished cousin switch places.
A brooding duke is completely undone by a warmhearted heroine in Anna Bradley’s festive Regency romance.
J.M. Frey’s sapphic romance Time and Tide is a weird and wild time-travel story that embraces queer love.
Bethany Bennett’s Good Duke Gone Wild is a sweet but still sexy romance starring a bookseller heroine with a secret life as an erotica writer.
Lynsay Sands’ sizzling The Highlander’s Return hits all the classic notes of a satisfying historical romance.
Emma R. Alban’s gay Victorian romance is a wonderful depiction of found families and their power to heal.
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