A terrifying monster is both a real entity and a manifestation of taboo desires in Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta’s Feast While You Can.
The paranormal romance and romantic suspense icon’s latest series comes to an end with Shattering Dawn. Following three women who wake up in an abandoned hotel with psychic powers—but no memory of how they acquired their new abilities—the Lost Night Files has been a showcase for Krentz’s page-turning plotting and absorbing world building. Shattering Dawn will follow Amelia Rivers, a photographer who believes that someone is stalking her, and that the mysterious figure may be connected to the organization that used her as a guinea pig.
The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells is an engrossing, atmospheric and emotional paranormal romance set in England.
A gentle, ghostly love story with a queer Jewish relationship at its center, Rules for Ghosting will make you laugh and make you cry, maybe even at the same time.
Lana Harper brings Thistle Grove, her beloved paranormal romance series, to a close with the richly crafted, eerie yet warm Rise and Divine.
Erin Sterling’s two previous witchy love stories are some of the most acclaimed of the current paranormal romance boom. Her highly anticipated third romance, The Wedding Witch, will provide a welcome bit of spooky fun amid the annual blizzard of holiday romances. Taking place during a (literal) Yuletide wedding at an isolated Welsh estate, The Wedding Witch follows Bowen Penhallow and Tamsyn Bligh, two guests who are accidentally transported back to 1958 when a spell goes wrong. That’s right: It’s a witchy, midcentury, Christmas rom-com! Bless you, Erin Sterling.
Here’s the thing about Lana Ferguson: She can take tropes and concepts that seemingly belong only in the more scandalous corners of BookTok, and somehow make them seem like the most natural thing in the world. This is the woman who made a romance between a nanny and her boss into an ode to sex positivity and emotional maturity, the genius who decided to make an omegaverse fake-dating rom-com. Ferguson turning her particular set of skills to what looks for all the world to be a Loch Ness Monster-shifter romance? The exact sort of insane perfection we’ve come to expect.
It has been three long years since one of Shelly Laurenston’s gleefully deranged, gloriously violent shifter romances graced shelves, and at long last, a new honey badger heroine awaits us. Nelle Zhao might not be as outgoing as her fellow honey badger shifters, but she’s just as chaotic and indomitable. So even though tiger shifter Keane Malone has announced that he’s going to take on a trafficking ring all by himself, Nelle’s definitely going with him, no matter what he says.
Lightning in Her Hands is a gorgeous friends-to-lovers romance that builds beautifully upon author Raquel Vasquez Gilliland’s debut, Witch of Wild Things.
Charlotte Stein delighted us with her Roy Kent-coded rom-com, When Grumpy Met Sunshine, and her follow-up sounds just as charming, albeit with a paranormal twist. Billed as “What We Do in the Shadows with the small town feels of Gilmore Girls,” How to Help a Hungry Werewolf follows Cassie and Seth, two ex-best friends who reconnect when Seth reveals that he’s a werewolf and he needs help from Cassie and her burgeoning magical powers.
To certain adventurous readers (you know who you are), Ruby Dixon needs no introduction. But to those of you who haven’t ventured into romance’s wilder waters, Dixon is the author of Ice Planet Barbarians, a self-published, megaviral alien romance series. As you would expect, Ice Planet Barbarians took BookTok by storm and Dixon has now made the jump to traditional publishing. Bull Moon Rising is a fantasy romance starring Aspeth, a noblewoman who wants to join the Royal Artifactual Guild and rebuild her family’s fortune by hunting for rare magical artifacts, and her new husband-of-convenience: a minotaur.
Sarah Adler’s grumpy-sunshine romance presents a delightful twist on the “sunshine” half: a ruthlessly practical scammer with a heart of gold.
The eloquent devotion of the hero of Sarah Hogle’s Old Flames and New Fortunes will melt even the flintiest of hearts.
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