Love in the Mess: 6 Romances That Don’t Play Perfect

30 May 2025

Love in the Mess: 6 Romances That Don’t Play Perfect

These stories don’t pretend love is tidy. From complicated exes to grief, secrets, and second chances, these six messy, emotional romances show how real love begins where the fairytale ends.

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Tango Love (Tango Club Trilogy Book 1)

by Mari Jack

Release Date: May 8, 2025

After being bullied at work, Adrienne Blake goes dancing at the local tango club to relieve her stress. There, she meets club owner Vic Kirby. As things heat up between them on and off the dancefloor, will their difficult pasts interfere?

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Shadow (The Boys of Chapel Crest Book 6)

by K.G. Reuss

Release Date: May 23, 2025

I was always a nobody. My father despised me and forced me into the Underground to cater to the needs of monsters after deeming me unworthy of being his son due to my unique abilities. The Underground nurtured what my father hated, and I became a tool to be used by the wicked. I played the game well. I was a nobody who lurked in the shadows, doing the bidding of the sick and twisted. And then she arrived and changed everything.

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Ansel (Regretfully Yours)

by Maya Alden

Release Date: May 21, 2025

Ansel Tyler has the perfect assistant—smart, dedicated, and secretly in love with him. But when jealous colleagues whisper in his ear, he makes a cruel mistake, deciding to let Neha Rao go once he secures his promotion. Neha never expected forever, but she didn’t expect disrespect, either. When she overhears Ansel saying he intends to fire her once he gets his shiny new Vice President title, she refuses to wait for the inevitable and resigns.

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No, You Hang Up

by AJ Merlin

Release Date: April 30, 2025

After surviving a miserable week with my family, I needed something to lift my spirits. My two best friends thought a late-night movie binge—one of those stupid, loud ones we used to have as teenagers—was the answer. Reluctantly, they talk me into revisiting our old prank call habit. After all, what could possibly go wrong?

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Dear Reader (Devil’s Backbone Book 1)

by Tate James

Release Date: May 20, 2025

You want my advice? Never look a gift horse in the mouth. You don’t want to see the rotten teeth. In this case, the gift is a scholarship to attend the prestigious Neveah University. The rotten teeth? Well, they came in the form of my brand new stepbrother and his little cohort of entitled, arrogant best friends. Four dangerously handsome and stupidly wealthy men who made up their minds about me long before we met.

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Rewind It Back (Windy City Series Book 5)

by Liz Tomforde

Release Date: May 20, 2025

When I was eleven, my family moved next door to his. When I was thirteen, he was my first crush. When I was sixteen, we fell for each other. And when I was nineteen, we broke each other’s hearts. Six years later, I’ve landed an internship with a big-name interior designer in a new city. Unfortunately, that city just so happens to be the one he plays hockey for.

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