Booklist: The Biggest, Buzziest Romance Books of 2024

In this charming rom-com about two star-crossed lovers, a woman whose life is guided by her belief in the red-string of fate finds her perfect match—but his skepticism about true love puts a knot in their chances.
Just a date . . . or a twist of fate?
​When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes

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Graceland "Grace" Braun is a self-reliant, dedicated high school counselor. She spent her youth moving around as her mother, Maybelle, a Dolly Parton-wannabe and Elvis groupie, worked her way through several marriages while desperately searching for her "one true love." Their relationship was more like sisters than mother/daughter, with Grace becoming the practical one who worried about paying for food and rent. When her mother abandoned Grace at...

Can life ever be the same again? The start of a fabulous new series set at Trenwith Estate from bestselling author Rosie Clarke Hampshire, 1913 Amidst the glitz and glamour of England's High Society, Sarah Trenwith is more of a wallflower living in the shadow of her beautiful sister Marianne. But as the war approaches Sarah will have to step out of the place society and her family have assigned her if she's to do her part and claim the love she...

Persephone loves the free-wheeling lifestyle of an inter-planetary freighter pilot. Like her namesake of Ancient Greece, she lives a two-fold life. Part of the year sequestered in deep space and part in various ports with a good friend and hopefully a willing man. Until her heading converges with fellow pilot Reggie. Shy yet quirky, teasing yet kind. He possesses great depths that only Persephone can cross over. When their orbits suddenly diverge,...

Ashley Sweet was living her dream-baking cupcakes and making plans to expand her bakery-until Thorton Hodges walked in with an offer she could, and did, refuse.Dismayed at her refusal of his client's offer, Thorn briefly wonders what the pretty young baker's lips would feel like beneath his before immediately dismissing the idea. After all, fate only grants a man one true love.Both Ashley and Thorn are hesitant to acknowledge the growing attraction...

He's not a man, but he's not a monster... Young and professional, Ashley is also lonely, which is why she's resorting to a magic spell to dream of her "one true love." Ashley's not a witch, though. She's just a humble office assistant. And the man who appears in her dream isn't a man at all, but a centaur. He's muscular and golden-skinned, with eyes that are brimming with the wisdom of the ages. For some reason, he can also speak English, and he promises...

This short story "El Príncipe que no sabía que era Príncipe" tells the love story between two very different souls that were hurt when they found each other. It's a simple girl meets boy kind of story where the girl tries to show the boy how she sees him and that she is capable of everything to protect him, and her undying love for him. This is a love letter to her one true love that tries to leave a sense of hope, faith, and loyalty. This is meant...

When we met, the world around us turned upside down and nothing made sense. When we come together in body, there is nothing hotter. In desire, nothing deeper. In the realization of one true love, there is nothing stronger. This journey-through hell on earth-has brought me to the point in my life where I finally know I'm capable of love and deserving of it too. Will I be able to give Harper the love her father always wanted for her? Will our souls...

A young English woman is kidnapped by pirates and sold to the Sultan's harem in this historical romance. Sold to Suleiman Bakhar after being taken prisoner on the high seas, Eleanor Nash is fearful of what will become of her. The all-powerful Suleiman will not allow her to leave Constantinople, while Eleanor is adamant that she will not willingly become his concubine. Impressed by his spirited captive, Suleiman seeks her out at every opportunity....

The third book in the Thoroughly Educated Series is provocative, uncensored, and downright mischievous. He's tried to win her affection for years, but he's done with begging for her love. Davis Healy is known around town as the poor little rich kid; spoiled but generous. He doesn't know how to shrug off the reputation that he's stuck-up and shallow. Luna Moss is his one true love, having fallen head over heels in their first year of college. Now...