Surprise! A brand-new release dropping from Cat Andrews just in time for Christmas!
This is a Pride and Prejudice-inspired modern second chance romance, where our Darcy is a musician trying to make it big and he meets Elizabeth at a Christmas frat party when they’re at college in the ‘80s. Except we start with them separated in the ‘90s.
We see the Christmases when he makes a disastrous first impression to their happier holidays together and then how things fracture and the awkward post-breakup run-ins in holidays following. So can they make it back together at a future holiday season?
As always with Cat’s stories, this gets deep into emotions and angst, plus the chemistry and heat that she brings to every book. An Old Acquaintance is available now on Amazon and KU!
Hold Fast by Eliza MacArthur
It’s release day for Eliza MacArthur’s Hold Fast, and can we have some commotion for the old-schoolness of this cover??
Una has just ended a handfast marriage with a terrible man she is desperate to be free of. A gifted healer, she takes off to the neighbouring/rival clan when she saves the laird’s brother and finds safety and purpose there. After suffering a year of abuse in her marriage (check the CWs!), she wants nothing to do with men.
Meanwhile, the laird, Ewan, is deeply impressed with Una’s competence and her determination. He’s got his own issues, though, and has promised himself to never marry.
As much as both of them are scarred from their pasts, they’re still drawn to each other, and when they’re forced to handfast each other, they have to work through their trauma together and separately so they can stand against an old foe. But that trauma isn’t quickly healed by love or sex—so how much will their trauma get in their way and potentially tear them apart?
If you love old-school historical Highlander romance but want a more modern sensibility behind it, you HAVE to check this out! Hold Fast is on KU and Amazon now!
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!
An Unexpected Path by Megan McSpadden
It's release day for Megan McSpadden’s An Unexpected Path!
Bennett has a perfectly fine life in the country mostly keeping to himself and his 20–count 'em, TWENTY—dogs that he rescues. On one of his daily walks, he doesn't expect to find an injured woman who upends his quiet, reclusive life.
Marley is a conflict photographer who's become ambivalent about her high-demand job and chaotic lifestyle. Her hike to think about her life puts her in Bennett's path and strands him at his house where they open up to each other. (Gotta love that forced proximity!)
Their days together learning about each other might be idyllic, but they don't keep the real world away for long. But they both need to figure out what path will lead them back to each other.
This is an emotional, heartfelt journey, and it's available now on Amazon and KU!
Mr. Darcy's Christmas Letters by Melanie Rachel
SO. MUCH. PINING.
(And yes, it’s a pun, because Christmas.)
It’s release day for Melanie Rachel’s Mr. Darcy’s Christmas Letters!
Darcy didn’t come back to propose to Elizabeth after Lydia’s disastrous elopement, and he’s been regretting it ever since. He’s heading back to Hertfordshire for Bingley and Jane’s wedding in December and trying his best to respectfully stay away from Elizabeth. All he can do is write a letter to confess all his feelings, though he never intends to send it.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth has also been pining for him and wishing she didn’t waste her chance with him. When Darcy gets detained at Netherfield (for...nefarious reasons?), they’ll finally have a chance to actually clear the air—if Caroline Bingley doesn’t get in their way first. (And what happens with the letter? You’ll have to read to find out.)
A second-chance holiday novella that’s perfect for a cozy afternoon of reading! It’s out on Amazon and KU now!
So Flocked by Sarah Estep
Listen, none of us saw Jordy Taylor coming.
Sarah Estep’s group of CPs, betas, and early readers (including me as her editor) did not expect Jordy to become our fave (out of the Brunch Bros, I was betting on Peter), but Sarah makes him a hell of a hero.
So Flocked features Jordy, a pro football player in the twilight of his career, and Annie, a recent ornithology PhD unsure about her future, accidentally sharing a lighthouse in the run-up to their best friends’ wedding.
They decide that they’re going to be friends with benefits up until the wedding, and are DEFINITELY not going to catch feelings, no they are not. (OF COURSE they do.) But they’re at totally different points in their lives, so how will they make it work?
This is a laugh-out-loud-funny rom-com with tons of heat—Jordy and Annie are SO into each other, physically and emotionally. So Flocked is out on KU and Amazon now!
Hazel and Elijah Get Mixed Up by Marty Vee
It’s release day for Hazel and Elijah Get Mixed Up by Marty Vee in the Fall into Love anthology. The anthology is all small-town romances with big fall vibes, and I got to edit Marty’s!
Hazel and Elijah had a one-night stand a while back, and it was unforgettable for both. So unforgettable for Elijah that he’s willing to go back to their hometown that he was essentially run out of when he was younger just so he can spend more time with Hazel.
But Hazel is a super-busy veterinarian who hates asking for help even when she needs it, and she needs to raise money for the animal society in town. When she puts together a bachelor auction, she comes under fire from the more conservative townspeople, led by Elijah’s estranged father, who wants to use her relationship with black sheep Elijah against her.
Who will prevail? Read and see! The Fall Into Love anthology is out in KU now!
All the Ways We're Wrong by Amelia Elliot
It’s release day for Amelia Elliot’s All the Ways We’re Wrong!
Movie star Ava Blum just wants to process turning 40 alone in the mountains—but when a mudslide washes away her cabin (with her inside!), she has to trek down the mountain with a hot, grumpy structural engineer who saves her life and luckily has more survivalist skills than she does.
Killian and Ava trauma-bond on their days-long hike, and even though they’re opposites in every way (he makes a list), they can’t stay away from each other. With totally incompatible lives, how are they supposed to be anything but wrong for each other?
It’s out now on Amazon and KU!
Stay by Tracy Ewens
Listen, Tracy and I talked about it, and we agree that this hero is just stop-and-double-take hot. He doesn’t know it, but he is.
World-renowned cellist Clara arrives in small-town Bodega Bay to claim her inheritance to a historic hotel owned by her late grandfather—who she never knew existed. Meanwhile, hometown boy Dylan is at a crossroads in his career when his mentor leaves him his hotel—yeah, the same hotel.
Under the terms of the will, they’ll have to live and work together for six months to renovate the place before they decide what to do with it.
Digging deep into both their pasts brings them together, but it’s the future that might push them apart.
Stay by Tracy Ewens is out now!
Birthdays and Bachelors by Elle Rush
Gloria only joked to her friends that she needed a boyfriend for her 30th birthday--but they made it happen, or at least set her up with some bachelors. Now she has more dates than she knows what to do with. Between her high school sweetheart, the billionaire, the town bad boy (there's a less polite word for him, but this is a sweet romance here!), PLUS the bonus new-in-town doctor, she's got more dates than she knows what to do with.
The new-in-town doctor, Daniel, is determined to win Gloria's heart. But with all this competition, how can he stand out? He's accidentally witnessed all of her dates be disasters, so he's gotta pull out all the stops to show her he's worth the risk.
This is such a great premise, and so much fun! It’s part of Elle Rush’s Holiday Beach series, in which each book is a novella based around a holiday. Birthdays and Bachelors is available now!