These new Romance picks explore connections that defy expectations, testing timing, circumstance, and everything characters thought they knew about their hearts. From slow-burning tension and emotionally charged reunions to forbidden attraction, complicated entanglements, and love that arrives at exactly the wrong moment, each story leans into the beautiful unpredictability of relationships.
The Marriage Clause (The Kauffman Billionaire Series Book 1)
by Kenna King
Release Date: May 26, 2026
He fired her. But she really needs this job. So when she overhears that he needs a wife… she makes him an offer he knows he should refuse.
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Dubious (Belle Argo Escorts Book 4)
by Beth Christopher
Release Date: May 5, 2026
Dubious by Beth Christopher is a dark MMM late-bi-awakening age-gap romance. It contains a down-on-his-luck divorcé, two chaos gremlins who teach him how to have fun, and a potentially haunted bed-and-breakfast.
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Queen of Shadows
by Anna Belfrage
Release Date: May 21, 2026
Leonor loved the sun, loved standing side by side with her man. But she should have stayed in the shadows... Based on the true story of Leonor de Guzmán and her lifelong love story with King Alfonso XI.
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Risking It All (The Naked Men Series Book 1)
by Christi Barth
Release Date: May 18, 2026
The risks Lt. Griffin Montgomery takes to save lives get him suspended. Letter writer Chloe Widmore is comfortable with her quiet existence. When the hottest man she’s ever seen invades her coffee shop, it’s a surprise how much she wants him. Griffin makes her deliciously uncomfortable. But falling for him is a risk she might not be ready to take.
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Hart's Landing
by Melanie Harlow
Release Date: May 12, 2026
Four friends made a promise to live one night like it was their last. That night changed everything. Ten years ago, Mila Ferguson left behind a devastating fire, a stolen kiss, and a shattered circle of friends in her hometown of Hart’s Landing. But when a crisis brings her back, Mila just wants to get in and get out, unscathed by her mother’s constant criticism and unseen by her former crush...
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Dolly All the Time
by Annabel Monaghan
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If they start by pretending, can they end with something real? Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine, when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.
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