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!
Discretion and Avarice by Mary Alice Alexander
This one is playing with some different what-if scenarios for Pride and Prejudice: Darcy and Elizabeth are younger, Darcy's parents are alive, and Darcy is the youngest of three, with a wastrel older brother Andrew who's the heir to Pemberley. Without having the riches and responsibilities and pride of the heir, Darcy can approach Elizabeth with a lot more openness, and they fall for each other. But Darcy isn't established in a career and can't support a wife.
But Andrew's vices are catching up to him, and the Darcy parents have ensured that our Darcy is in control of the money and Pemberley. Elizabeth, meanwhile, also has to care for her family, who is on the brink of ruin (but not because of the sister you expect!). Can Darcy and Elizabeth ever manage to be together when Darcy's responsibilities (without the title or the money) and Elizabeth's family are keeping them apart?
Discretion and Avarice is ou
Darcy and Elizabeth's Dreams of Redemption by Melissa Anne
After Darcy leaves Netherfield, he begins having dreams of Elizabeth in which she rejects his proposal—but it gets him thinking about Elizabeth and if she might not be the exact match for him if he can get past his pride. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is also having dreams that are making her reconsider her opinion of Darcy.
By the time they meet up again at Kent, they’re both ready for each other—but their families aren’t necessarily ready for them together. With opposition from both sides, they only have themselves and their dreams to keep them together.
A teeny tiny bit of a paranormal spin on the classic P&P story, Darcy and Elizabeth’s Dreams of Redemption is available now in KU!
Whiskey in the Jar by Irene
All Jenny wants is to protect her sister Nell and get her away from Nell’s abusive husband. When a highwayman’s ransom means that she no longer has the money to fund her and Nell’s escape, she decides she’ll capture the highwayman herself to get the reward.
What she doesn’t bargain for is Adam, the highwayman, having faerie luck on his side and being too charming for his (and her) own good. But she’s already too deep into her plan when she starts falling for him and might have already destroyed their chance for happiness.
This story is based on an old English ballad, but Irene’s updated it to have a badass heroine who takes no shit, a bit of magic and romantasy, and a morally grey hero who makes even his unflappable heroine (and me) swoon. It’s available on KU now!
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!
The Gentleman Spy by Georgina North
Beau has been a spy for years, escaping all the expectations heaped on him as a future duke. He's abroad when his father dies and manages big things from away, but Emerald, his father's—now his—ward, has actually taken on the day-to-day operations in his absence. When he finally returns (after an injury), Emerald is pissed that he's swooped in and taken away her work, and that he's still as handsome as he was when she was younger and had a crush on him.
They're clashing all the time about the estate, and Emerald is curious and suspicious about why he keeps running off in the middle of the night. At the same time, they're fighting their attraction to each other. But will Beau's spy past come back to haunt him and threaten Emerald?
This slow-burn, suspenseful historical romance is swoony and delightful, and it's available on KU now!
An Accidental Meeting by Melanie Rachel
This is a Pride and Prejudice variation in which Darcy and Elizabeth meet at Pemberley, and Darcy invites her and the Gardiners to stay at the house. He's trying to do everything he can to show Elizabeth that he's changed, and it's working! They're on their way to falling in love when they discover a mysterious treasure, and things (and people) around Pemberley start getting weird and suspicious.
This is a super engaging and funny novella that explores Darcy and Elizabeth's shaky new relationship in a sweet, lighthearted way, like all of Melanie's work in this series of novellas has. (They're all standalones so you don't have to read the previous to understand this one.) An Accidental Meeting is out now on KU!
'Til All the Seas Run Dry by Eliza MacArthur
Listen, if you want a masterclass in yearning and pining and longing, let me introduce you to Callum McLeod.
The man yearns for a THOUSAND years for his lost love (oops, did I mention he’s a vampire?) and arranges his entire life to make the world a better place as she would have wanted—and then finds out that hey, she didn’t die a thousand years ago and ALSO she’s not human.
She’s actually a selkie and he’s kept her skin all these years, not realizing that’s what it was. So now Jory has a chance to go back to her selkie life—that she originally gave up for him—even though her lost love Callum (who she also thought was dead for a thousand years) is right there. Which one will she choose?
Eliza MacArthur writes beautiful, aching emotion so well, and you will fall in love with Callum and Jory! ‘Til All the Seas Run Dry is out now!
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!
Rising Courage by Heather Moll
How do we feel about kidnapping in our romances? How do we feel when the hero and heroine are kidnapped together?
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This is a Pride and Prejudice variation where Darcy still makes his terrible proposal to Elizabeth and gets shot down. Elizabeth takes herself out for a walk after this, and kidnappers mistake her for Anne de Bourgh. Darcy sees her getting kidnapped and he gets taken along with her so that he can protect her (and also ‘cause he’s rich and can be ransomed for $$).
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Now, stuck together (gotta love that forced proximity!) and desperate to escape, Darcy and Elizabeth have to work together, get past their misunderstandings, and save themselves from danger.
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Adventure and angst await! Rising Courage is out now on KU!