With November finally bringing in that sweater weather, it’s time to pick up some choice new reading material to keep you warm. Whether you like your pumpkin spice lattes with a side of a spicy historical affair, or your caramel apples paired with contemporary sweethearts, this list of new releases caters to all tastes.
Dirty Letters
RELEASE DATE: November 5th
As children, Luca and Griffin were pen pals. For years they exchanged letters, telling each other things they’d never shared with anyone else. Then one day, Luca puts a stop to all of it.
Now an adult, Luca is a deeply anxious agoraphobe. Her anxiety isn’t lessened when she receives an unexpected letter—a furious correspondence from the British boy she hasn’t spoken to in eight years. After apologies and forgiveness, they keep in touch, but it’s nothing like it was during their childhood. Now their letters are steamy and risqué, filled with fantasy and flirtation.
The only problem? Griffin doesn’t want to meet in person.
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Spun Out
RELEASE DATE: November 5th
The tenth of the Blacktop Cowboys novels, Spun Out follows former soldier Bailey Masterson and cattle rancher Streeter Hale. Bailey is still struggling with nightmares from her time in the army. Streeter puts all of his focus on work and his five-year-old daughter, Olivia. However, when Bailey is put in charge of caring for Oliva, Bailey and Streeter find themselves undeniably attracted to one another.
Streeter told himself he’d never date again. Bailey thought she was prepared for anything. Both may be proven wrong as they struggle not to fall in love.
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Secrets of Paradise
RELEASE DATE: November 11th
As Will Ashby starts his first year of college, he moves in with his grandmother in the mysterious New England town of Paradise. It’s not a warm welcome. He’s given a stack of orders, the most important one being to stay far away from the house on the hill and the people who live there.
Roman Price lives in the house on the hill. He’s harboring dangerous secrets, and he knows it’s in his best interest to stay away from any newcomers if he wants to continue to keep under the radar. However, when Will and Roman meet they strike up an instant connection, and the two men find it a lot more difficult to follow the rules.
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Not the Girl You Marry
RELEASE DATE: November 12th
Andie J. Christopher’s new romance puts an updated spin on the trope made famous by How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days. Journalist Jack Nolan wants to cover stories about real, gritty politics, but he’s stuck writing how-to pieces online. Fed up with being an internet sensation and another victim of the unkind dating app scene, Jack plans one final piece before he moves on to bigger and better things— “How to Lose a Girl.”
Hannah Mayfield is an event planner who runs the other way whenever feelings get involved. Desperate to prove to her boss that she has the romanticism to plan weddings, Hannah decides to pick a man to date for a couple of weeks. When Jack and Hannah pick each other for their at-odds experiments, their fake relationship starts to feel a little too genuine.
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The Princess Plan
RELEASE DATE: November 19th
Scandal rocks London’s high society when Prince Sebastian’s personal secretary is found murdered. When gossip monger Eliza Tricklebank publishes an anonymous clue to the murder in her gazette, the prince is spurred on to investigate the crime himself. However, the intrigue of death isn’t the only point of interest between Sebastian and Eliza.
As attraction starts to brew between the noble and the commoner, the impossible lovers have to navigate the dastardly investigation, a precarious trade deal, and the harrowing choice between one’s duty to their country and one’s obligation to their heart.
Outmatched
RELEASE DATE: November 19th
Parker Brown is in serious need of a boyfriend when she finds out that her new boss only promotes employees with a settled lifestyle. Determined to avoid the drama that comes with any real relationship, Parker hires Dean Morgan to stand in as her fake boyfriend. Unfortunately, Dean’s rough around the edges ex-boxer brother Rhys accidentally steps into the role when he shows up to tell Parker off for her exploitative, half-baked idea. With Parker stuck playing along and Rhys seizing the opportunity to find sponsorship for his gym, things only heat up as they realize their very real attraction to each other.
Your Christmas Love
RELEASE DATE: November 19th
It’s Christmas, and there’s nothing Sienna Hensley loves more than carols and decoration. Her boss, Winston Statham, is more focused on keeping afloat the store his family built up from the bottom. That is, until he starts to fall for Sienna. Despite coming out of a recent break-up, Sienna finds herself catching feelings for her broody boss, too.
As the two of them get closer, sharing honesty and trust, work starts to slip from the forefront of their minds. Though with the looming threat of losing his business, Winston fears his romance with Sienna might not be able to last past the holidays.
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The Beast of Beswick
RELEASE DATE: November 26th
The Regency romance novel The Beast of Beswick twists a tale that stands as a realistic counterpart to Beauty and the Beast. Lord Nathaniel Harte—the Duke of Beswick—is a difficult and temperamental man. The sharp-tongued Lady Astrid Everleigh is not much better. When Lord Harte is set to marry Lady Everleigh’s younger sister, Astrid offers to marry the insufferable man herself.
Facially scarred from his time in the war, Lord Harte is not high on anyone’s list for marriage. For Lady Everleigh, that is the least of what’s wrong with him.
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Where Winter Finds You: A Caldwell Christmas
RELEASE DATE: November 26th
This novel is marketed as book 17.5 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, which follows a society of vampire warriors. After Trez’s lover died—as seen in The Shadows—he spiralled into an endless heartbreak. However, after Trez meets the enigmatic Therese, he begins to suspect that the love of his life has been reincarnated.
As Therese hides away in Caldwell to shut out the harsh truths of her own life, she finds herself impossibly drawn to Trez. Is this fate, or the romantic delusion of a man destroyed by grief? Is there a future for two people so haunted by their pasts?
Misadventures with a Time Traveler
RELEASE DATE: November 26th
Allie Fine is stuck on a vacation in the French countryside, relegated to sightseeing and wine tasting. For a workaholic, it’s unbearable. Things get a little more interesting when Maximillion De Leon shows up, falling into bed with her and keeping her mind off of anything that isn’t how amazing he is.
Maximillion would be the ideal man if he didn’t claim to be a prince from 1789, tormented by an ancient curse. Nobody’s perfect. Allie is content to use the charming Maximillion to impress at work, but things get a little more complicated when Maximillion insists he needs to marry her to stay alive.
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