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April is a time of progress: flowers begin to bloom, individuals (hopefully) get their tax returns, and what looks like hundreds of romance novels launch each week. Penning this checklist was actually painful, as I needed to one way or the other pare down a listing of about 40 fascinating new releases to one thing just a little extra manageable. (If you wish to hold monitor of a bigger checklist of titles, try E-book Riot’s New Launch Index, accessible by subscription!)
Amongst these hundreds, April guarantees a heckuva lineup of prime tier titles, together with modern, historic, and fantasy romances. Right here, we’ve obtained a smattering of these issues (although, per traditional, it leans closely into modern). We’ve obtained retellings and sequels. We’ve obtained musicians and mermaids. We’ve obtained a number of grownup debuts by widespread Younger Grownup authors, and long-awaited new books by beloved favorites. We’ve obtained books you don’t want me to let you know about, together with new books from Ruby Dixon, Eloisa James, and Emily Henry. We’ve obtained the sequel to Phantasma, the subsequent Darkish Olympus guide, and the hilarious follow-up to The Ornithologist’s Area Information to Love. Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory are bringing it with the pinks and pastels of their new books, and Brenda Jackson brings us again to the Madaris household with Spilling the Tea, her ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH BOOK.
However as traditional, I like to focus on the books you may not discover on the entrance desk in your native massive field retailer, or going viral on social media (although we will hope for each of these issues to occur for each guide right here!). So listed here are 17 new romance books out April 2025 that you need to completely try.
The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
4 years after the occasions of Delight and Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas turns into a widow. When her BFF Elizabeth Darcy can’t come to Hunsford to assist her, she sends her youthful sister Mary in her stead. Properly, Mary has grown up—bodily sure, however emotionally extra so, and the 2 girls hit it off in a approach neither of them expects. I really like an excellent Delight and Prejudice revisit, particularly one which queers it up!
As soon as Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky
Taylor’s boss’s child is having a candy sixteen occasion within the Catskills, and she or he sends Taylor to maintain the ultimate particulars main as much as it. That’s all superb and dandy, however he can’t assist the attraction he feels to the supervisor of the mountain resort…who can also be the daddy of the birthday woman and Taylor’s boss’s ex. Oh pricey.
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My Greatest Pal’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
When Elsie breaks issues off together with her fiance of a yr and a half, she finally ends up occurring a non-refundable honeymoon together with her greatest pal Ginny as an alternative.
(I do know, proper?)
Ginny has been in love with Elsie without end, however they’ve stood again whereas Elsie pursued what she thought she needed. Now, on this trip, they take their Greatest Pal function critically and attempt to assist Elsie work out the best way to take what she desires and converse up for herself. However what if what Elsie desires is them?
Darn it. As soon as once more, mates to lovers reels me in like a marlin.
Gold Coast Dilemma by Nana Malone
A Ghanaian heiress sure to obligation? Sure, please!
Ofosua and Cole meet at a flowery occasion and hit it off instantly, however Ofosua’s function in her household attracts her again to Ghana and the Gold Coast, the place she’s affianced to somebody even her mom likes. When Circumstances result in Issues, she and Cole run into one another in a really totally different setting from their first assembly. However tradition and custom nonetheless have their grip on Ofosua, and she or he’s undecided she is prepared to surrender one thing so central to her existence for a person she hardly is aware of.
When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelly
1910s. Boricua. Blacksmith. Falls in love. With a merman. On Coney Island.
That’s it. That’s the guide. It sounds beautiful and heartbreaking, and I can’t wait to choose it up.
The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide
In a magical Regency world, Lord Nicholas Monterris has to get married. The girl his household chooses is a household rival, and for some motive there’s a Negotiator concerned? This man is a former flame of Nic’s, and so they nonetheless have chemistry, however socially they’re not allowed to be collectively, for extra causes than one.
After which the murders started.
The Duke and Woman Scandal by Christy Carlyle
I imply, I can write something over right here, since you’re too busy drooling over that cowl. I’m proper, aren’t I?
This can be a sequence opener “inspired by National Treasure” and there aren’t many 4 phrase phrases that would work more durable for me. When Alexandra overhears some shady fellows speaking a couple of plot to steal the Crown Jewels, she goes to Detective Inspector Benedict Drake to enlist his assist in stopping them. He turns her away, however she retains popping up the place he doesn’t count on. I do know the place that is going.
Ms. V’s Scorching Lady Summer season by AH Cunningham
We’ve obtained a “single” mother. We’ve obtained Carnival in Trinidad. We’ve obtained an age hole romance with the recent man she’s staying with. We’ve obtained AH Cunningham’s sensible writing. We’ve obtained that completely superb cowl. All that provides as much as one thing I’m prepared to choose up instantly!
All Fired Up by MK England
MK England could be a well-known identify when you’re into books about queer nerdy teenagers, however that is their first grownup romance.
In All Fired Up, we meet Nicole, who left Seattle to begin fires—aka study “fire dynamics”—and recover from a crush on one among her greatest mates. However now she’s again, and Skylar is transferring the world over. When she and a brand new pal, Kira, work collectively to get Skylar to vary her thoughts, sparks fly between the firestarter and the firefighter.
Marriage Cut price with the Comte by Parker J. Cole
Discuss one other cowl you may simply stare at for hours at a time! This can be a mates to lovers, marriage of comfort romance set within the Courtroom of Louis XVI and on the island of Saint Domingue (which I found studying evaluations, as the outline doesn’t point out it). Dieudonné, Comte de Montreau, results in a sticky state of affairs when he rescues a pal from a ruination plot solely to be caught in a compromising state of affairs together with her himself! In order that they get married.
Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa
That is one other grownup debut by a tremendous YA creator! In the event you’ve learn any of Jonny’s different work, you recognize they’re superb with placing collectively phrases and making their plots Angsty However Enjoyable. I count on nothing totally different from Futbolista.
Gabi is a freshman soccer soccer participant, with desires of enjoying for La Liga or MLS. He’s additionally fairly positive he’s straight. However when a brand new pal gives to tutor him, the time they spend collectively leads Gabi to ask just a few questions on himself. I’m sat, and I’m able to cry. Convey it.
Hooked on You by Ada Barume
I used to be unfamiliar with Ada Barume earlier than coming throughout this guide, however the cowl drew me in—the Attractive Boat Physician Present has undoubtedly made me extra focused on maritime romance! This one entails a reporter attempting to get her dream job and the yacht captain whose subsequent massive transfer depends on retaining his crew in line as an alternative of letting the reporter attempting to get the news on the billionaire chartering the yacht distract them. However apparently there’s one thing shady occurring with this CEO…
Unlikely Neighbors by Renee Daniel Flagler
When Holland inherits a Brooklyn brownstone, she takes the leap to vary every thing about her life. Leaving her southern small city, she takes on the problem of restoring the brownstone and beginning a brand new job. After which it seems her good-looking subsequent door neighbor can also be on the board at her new job.
The Final Man You Kiss by Carla de Guzman
This can be a retelling of a Pinoy romcom that I’m going to have to take a look at, Acquired 2 Consider. A marriage visitor, uninterested in the lonely life, decides to strive one thing totally different. Rumor has it that Jay, one other visitor on the marriage ceremony, is a romantic good luck allure—when you kiss him, you’ll discover your real love subsequent. However Mara may discover a new twist on this allure, as a result of she may simply be catching emotions for Jay as an alternative.
No Strange Love by Myah Ariel
Pop star Ella is prepared for independence. She is uninterested in her husband’s dangerous performing and can do no matter it takes to efficiently divorce him, whatever the ironclad prenup between them. However when she’s saved from a “wardrobe snafu” by a MLB hotshot, the pair’s PR groups provide you with a plan to learn everybody concerned. This was apparently impressed by Mariah Carey and Derek Jeter?!
Beast by Jade Linwood
Jean-Marc Charming Arundel is a former con artist. When he will get misplaced in an enchanted wooden and finds himself in entrance of a stupendous mansion, he takes an opportunity. The home is, in fact, inhabited by a cursed noblewoman—the Beast on this story, when you haven’t figured that half out. Charming would love to determine the best way to get out of this place, as a result of he’s obtained an appointment to maintain…however that’s not how this story works, so I’m trying ahead to seeing how this all resolves itself. (That is the second guide in a sequence and it seems prefer it could be worthwhile to learn Charming earlier than this.)
Takes One to Know One by Lissette Decos
A number of weeks in the past, a trusted social media mutual talked about that this was a reggaeton romance. And I’ve been ready for it ever since.
Dani has simply gotten a coveted job with a document label, but it surely was by way of a Little White Lie: she hates reggaeton, however stated that she cherished it. So now she’s on her solution to Puerto Rico to assist clear up the picture of massive reggaeton star Rene Rodriguez. However their preliminary head-butting offers solution to every studying issues concerning the different and about themselves, all beneath the beautiful Puerto Rican solar.
As I discussed, that is the tip of the iceberg with regards to April romances. And naturally I all the time go away with questions primarily based on individuals’s unclear descriptions with regards to romantic tales. The place the Jasmine Blooms, for instance: is it a romance? It sounds fairly romantic, however who’s to say?
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