A Darling Artist by Lark Holiday

Grace moved to the tiny community of Darling, Alaska when she finally had enough of her famous photographer husband travelling the world without ever giving them the opportunity to put down roots. At least now she's living life on her own terms, running her own coffee shop, and doing what she wants...even if she is a little bit lonely.

Hunter threw himself into his work when Grace left him. But after his best friend dies suddenly on a trip, the only person he wants to turn to is Grace, so he heads to Alaska to find her again.

Hunter is disrupting her well-ordered life, but Grace can't deny that she likes having him around. But can she ever expect him to stay put in Darling when his career calls?

This is a closed-door second-chance romance with lots of banter and heart. Check out Lark Holiday’s latest A Darling Artist in paperback, ebook, and audio!

Fret Me Not by Sarah Estep

Sam Shoop, reclusive rock star and grump, really wants the whole town of Crane Cove to stop trying to matchmake him. So he makes up a fake girlfriend the next time a sweet old lady tries to set him up. The problem? He gave her the name of the new girl in town, Lacey, whose name he can never remember (oops) and who he's forgotten he had a one-night stand with years ago (also oops).

Lacey just wants to make enough money to get out of debt and then move on to pursue her dancing dreams. But she agrees to Sam's accidental fake relationship in order to get an ex of hers to stop annoying her. And pretty soon they've somehow adopted a dog, she's staying at his house, and she's sleeping in his bed. The fake relationship is becoming real, but what's it going to take to get either of them to admit it?

If you haven't been reading Sarah Estep yet, what are you even doing? This rom-com is legit hilarious AND sexy, and you will fall in love with all the Brunch Bros. Fret Me Not is out on KU today!

Seat Mates by Anna Harbom

After a very road-ragey airport meet-cute (meet-rage?), Daisy and Charlie find themselves sitting next to each other on a plane to D.C. Once they work past their initial animosity, they find themselves spilling much more than they intended to each other. (And there is some JUICY gossip that's revealed later.)

They also happen to be staying at the same hotel, which means they can continue their flirtation over the weekend of his work conference and her mom's wedding, which is a fraught topic for Daisy. Charlie offers himself up as her date for the wedding so she can avoid an ex and have a buffer with her...difficult mother.

Daisy really needs to confront her issues that all happen to be coming to a head at this wedding. But when Charlie gets tangled up in them, can she keep him as her one lifeline away from them?

Seat Mates is Anna Harbom’s debut rom-com, and it's available on KU now!

Years in the Making by Megan McSpadden

Nellie’s doing great and everything’s falling into place for her--except for her love life. She never got closure on the guy she fell for one summer who seemed perfect and then ghosted her out of nowhere, and she hasn't been able to find something like that since then. But now that guy is back in her life via their mutual friends and they’re going to be spending the summer in a tiny town up north together. Now that she's seen him again, she’s TOTALLY over him...right?

Teddy has never forgiven himself for leaving Nellie without any explanation all those years ago. He ran all over the world to escape his grief and regret, but now that he’s back, he’s determined to show her that they’re meant to be.

Banter, second-chance romance, small town meddling, lots of dogs, and Megan’s fearlessness into diving into hard emotions = Years in the Making. It’s out now in KU!

Summer on Butterfly Bay by Judith Natelli McLaughlin

Widow Ali needs to get out of the city and spend the summer away from her grief. The most beautiful house on Butterfly Bay is hers for the summer--except she has to share it with infuriating finance bro Brooker and his vapid model girlfriend.

Brooker has hidden depths, though, and starts Ali on a new path. With the help of Brooker, a rescue dog, and an old woman who keeps dropping wisdom and then disappearing, Ali might find herself again on Butterfly Bay.

This is a sweet romance about two people who have been mired in grief and need each other to push themselves out of it. It's available everywhere today!

A Darling Aviator by Lark Holiday

Food influencer Elle does NOT want to be on her fiancé’s dream trip to Alaska, yet here she is. It’s really a relationship of convenience, but he’s done so much for her that she wants to do something for him. But when he runs off into the wilderness, he throws off all of her meticulous plans for her life.

The additional complication? The grumpy pilot and guide who she finds herself attracted to. She enlists Mac to help find her wayward fiancé, but in their search, she discovers that she might need to blow up her carefully curated life in order to be happy...and that Mac might be the key to that happiness.

Grumpy-sunshine, NO cheating (promise!), lighthearted fun in this small-town Alaska sweet romance! A Darling Aviator is available everywhere in print, ebook, and audio now!

Sex, Lies and Sensibility by Nikki Payne

Nora is not having a good year. She’s just discovered that she and her sister Yanne are her late father’s secret family, all they got left in the will was a barely habitable house in MAINE of all places, and oh yeah, her sex tape just went viral. With no options at home, she and Yanne head to Maine with hopes of fixing the place up and making it a viable inn before they run out of money.

Bear has a habit of taking on more responsibility than he can handle, and the weight of his Abenaki community rests on his shoulders. If his tourism business fails, the community fails too—and it’s not looking good for business right now, especially since the abandoned house they use as a home base is suddenly un-abandoned by a beautiful woman and her sister. But maybe if they work together, all of them can succeed—or maybe it’ll bring all of them down?

This is a modern retelling of Sense and Sensibility, and in Nikki’s capable hands, it’s fresh and funny and sexy. It’s out everywhere today!

(I’m not the editor on this one—just worked with Nikki on an early version of the story. But I’m always happy to hype her up!)

Freelance Fiance at Mistletoe Inn

Only in romcoms do you get a crazy inheritance clause, and this one is no exception!

Addison is desperate to fulfill her dream of owning her family’s cozy inn in North Dakota, but the deal is that family tradition says she’s gotta be married by the age of 25. She’s hoping she can rope her high school boyfriend into it, but oops, he just eloped. But there is the cute guy she met at the airport...

Said cute guy is Teddy, who’s a freelancer stranded in ND. He jumps in to save Addison, and suddenly become a freelance fiance, whisked off to the Mistletoe Inn, surrounded by family for the first time in his life, and fake-engaged to a pretty stranger.

They have to play engaged until Addison’s 25th birthday on Christmas, but will Addison’s nosy family and Teddy’s own past catch up to their game before then? Freelance Fiancé at Mistletoe Inn by Lillian Joubert is out now!