Category: Contemporary Romance

Custody in the Crosshairs by Barb Han

Posted October 11, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Intrigue, Modern Western Romance, NetGalley, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Suspense / 0 Comments

To protect an innocent child, danger will follow them at every turn.

Child Protective Services agent Carys Aldric is caught between doing what’s right and following protocol.

Especially when it comes to rancher Blaize Wilde, the potential father of an orphaned baby, and hopefully the kind of man worth breaking the rules for.

But unraveling the web of deception around Blaize’s connection to the baby puts them in the line of fire as they dodge bullets and search for safety.

Danger closes in from a past that refuses to stay buried—and a mysterious mother who may have secrets of her own.

Titles in the Wilde Country series include: Custody in the Crosshairs ~ Betrayal at Close Range ~ Ambush at Close Range ~

This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.

Twice Tempted by the Princess by Nina Milne

Posted October 11, 2026 by Marsha in Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Romance, NetGalley, No Spice Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Once upon a royal reunion…

Lorenzo shared a magical night with a captivating stranger before discovering she was both a princess and his best friend’s sister—Liyana.

Years later, past and present collide when Lorenzo is the best man at Liyana’s brother’s wedding…and realizes she’s still forbidden temptation personified!

Lorenzo knows he’s flirting with danger—widowed Liyana deserves long-term commitment, but his faith in love has been rocked by his own history.

Only, surrounded by wedded bliss, can they resist their oh-so-glorious connection again?

Titles in the Long-Lost Rossi Siblings series include: The Bride Wore His Convenient Ring ~ Twice Tempted by the Princess ~ Tycoon’s Tuscan Reunion ~

This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.

Deadly Revenge by Kathleen Donnelly

Posted October 11, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin/Carina Press, Mystery, NetGalley, Romantic Suspense, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Suspense / 0 Comments

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire…

There’s nothing more terrifying than a trail of smoke over a summer-dry national forest—at least, that’s what Forest Service law enforcement officer Maya Thompson thinks when she and her boyfriend, sheriff’s deputy Josh Colten, spot the first signs of a fire over the Colorado mountains.

But when she learns that a teen girl has been kidnapped and taken deep into the wilderness, a new fear grips her: If she and her K-9 partner, Juniper, can’t reach them fast enough, the fire might not just destroy her beloved forest—it might be the end to an innocent girl’s life.

An innocent girl who is tied to Maya in ways she never could have imagined. And in ways that will upend everything she’s always believed about her family…and the dark past that haunts her.

Titles in the National Forest K-9 series include: Chasing Justice ~ Hunting the Truth ~ Killer Secrets ~ Buried Lies ~ Deadly Revenge ~ Blood Tracker ~

This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.

The Wife He Thought Would Understand by Romy Venn

Posted October 11, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Marriage In Crisis Romance, Series, Sexual Content, Standalone / 0 Comments

Mara Bennett has spent twelve years being the wife who understands.

She understood the minor leagues. The injuries. The travel. The sponsors. The interviews. The endless last-minute things that somehow needed Grant more urgently than she did.

And Grant loves her for it. He just got a little too comfortable believing she would always understand. So when Mara asks for one thing, to show up on time for the arts-foundation gala she’s spent six months building, Grant promises he’ll be there.

Then his team wins. One postgame obligation becomes another. Then another. Cameras are everywhere, his beautiful publicist is beside him, and when someone asks why he isn’t already at his wife’s event, Grant laughs.

“Mara’s good. She always understands.”

Unfortunately for Grant, Mara hears him. And for the first time in twelve years, she decides she’s done understanding.

Now Grant has to figure out how to save a marriage he genuinely thought was safe, while Mara starts building a life that no longer moves every time his does. He loves her. She still loves him. That doesn’t mean she has to come back.

No cheating. No secret affair. He just managed to screw up the best thing in his life entirely on his own.

Titles in The Husbands Who Lost Them series include: The Wife He Thought Would Understand ~ The Wife He Kept Waiting ~ The Wife He Didn’t Believe ~ The Wife He Let Take the Fall ~

This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.

Puppy Toys & Sleigh Bells by Jennifer Faye

Posted October 11, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance, No Spice Romance, Series, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

She’s searching for ghosts from Christmases past while he’s trying to escape his past…

Office manager Leah Mitchell longs to know who her father and extended family are, but her mother took that information to the grave. So when out of the blue Leah inherits her grandmother’s estate, she flies across the country anxious to find answers to old questions. However, when she arrives in Kringle Falls, she finds she has a bed and breakfast to run.

After an antagonistic divorce, Shaun Higgins is focused on his construction business as well as volunteering alongside his father at a local animal shelter. When he’s asked to deliver some rescue pups to the New England area, he agrees. But when he arrives in Kringle Falls, he’s greeted by an ice storm. It leaves him and one of the rescue pups seeking shelter at the Kringle B&B.

He quickly finds the innkeeper charming. Still, he has zero interest in getting involved with anyone. However, his stay in Kringle Falls is extended when a furry matchmaker draws them together. In the soft glow of the Christmas tree, feelings begin to grow. Together, will they be able to find what has been missing from their lives?

Titles in the Kringle Falls, Vermont series include: Puppy Wishes & Candy Kisses ~ Puppy Love & Snowflake Kisses ~ Puppy Smooches & Peppermint Kisses ~ Puppy Hugs & Mistletoe Kisses ~

Titles in the Kringle Falls Christmas Parade include: Puppy Toys & Sleigh Bells ~ Puppy Wags & Jingle Bells ~Puppy Cuddles & Antique Bells ~ Puppy Kisses & Christmas Bells ~

This is a clean, sweet romance with either closed doors/fade to black, or only kissing.

I Learned About His Vasectomy At Our Fertility Appointment by Kelsie Calloway

Posted October 10, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Marriage In Crisis Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

She spent nearly three years believing her own body was broken. Then a new specialist looked at her husband’s chart and asked how long ago he’d had the vasectomy.

Juliet Rourke built her life around certainty: a career preserving delicate history, a quiet lake house, and a marriage everyone envied. She loved her husband fiercely, which was why she endured every negative pregnancy test, every grueling fertility treatment, and thirty-four months of heartbreak believing she was the one who couldn’t give him a child.

Then came the new fertility appointment. With one question from a doctor reading Beckett’s lab results, six years of her marriage were shattered into a nightmare. Beckett didn’t deny it. He made the decision alone, got a secret vasectomy, and let her take medication for a problem that didn’t exist.

Juliet packs her bags and walks away.

Now they are separated, and Beckett is desperate. He isn’t asking for forgiveness. He submits to her strict rules, showing up every Thursday at a public library, answering her questions, and earning back every inch of ground he lost.

And against her better judgment, Juliet feels the ice beginning to thaw. Until an unsent document exposes the true timeline of what happened years ago and the secret he’s still keeping.

Juliet realizes the reasons he lied to her are far more dangerous than she ever imagined. Now, she has to decide whether the man who betrayed her body can ever be trusted with her heart… and whether the truth will heal them, or finish what he started.

~Standalone~

The Hero Who Came Home by Lexi B. Hart

Posted October 10, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, No Spice Romance, Series, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

I promised myself I would never fall for Luke Callahan twice. The first time, I was eighteen.

He was the boy who kissed me beneath the Willow Ridge covered bridge and promised we would leave our tiny hometown together. By morning, he was gone. Twelve years later, I’ve built a life without him.

I own the bakery my grandmother left me. I know every crack in Main Street. And I have absolutely no interest in reopening old wounds.

Then Luke comes home. Older. Quieter. Infuriatingly handsome. And apparently still capable of making my heart forget every sensible decision I’ve ever made.

But that’s not the worst part. Luke has inherited the building where my bakery is. And a developer is offering him enough money to walk away from Willow Ridge forever.

I should hate him. Instead, he’s repairing my leaking roof before sunrise. Driving me home in thunderstorms. Helping save the Harvest Festival. Making his grieving niece laugh again. And looking at me like twelve years haven’t passed at all.

The more time we spend together, the harder it becomes to remember why loving Luke Callahan is supposed to be a terrible idea. Until I discover the truth. Luke never stopped loving me. And the reason he left all those years ago changes everything I thought I knew about the worst night of my life.

Now the boy who broke my heart has become the man fighting to protect it. But second chances don’t erase first heartbreaks. And before I can give Luke my future, we may have to uncover who stole our first one.

Titles in The Hearts of Willow Ridge series include: The Hero Who Came Home ~

This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.

If You Forget Me by Roselin Brown

Posted October 10, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Marriage In Crisis Romance, No Spice Romance, Series, Standalone / 0 Comments

This long-awaited wedding was supposed to save our drowning marriage. Colin shattered it himself, in front of everyone I loved, with no good reason: He said, “The wedding is off. You know exactly why.”

Nora

I used to believe love could conquer all. Maybe it can—but it takes two people actually trying. When Colin had nothing, he swore he’d give me the world. Now that he has everything, all he’s ever given me is an unlimited credit card.

I shrank myself smaller and smaller, told myself it was just the price of loving a man who was scared of losing everything he’d built—including me. Then, again and again, he crushed every effort I made and every hope I held onto—absent, dismissive, suspicious of nothing—until he delivered the final blow.

I didn’t cry. I didn’t beg. I just left—and some things don’t stay buried. Colin isn’t the only one with a secret that’s about to change everything.

Colin

I thought loving her meant giving her a life she’d never have to worry about—a mansion, a fortune, a name that opened every door. I thought money could stand in for the things I never had time to give her.

I was wrong. Completely, unforgivably wrong. But I can’t survive losing her.

If it takes tearing myself apart and building something better from the pieces, I’ll do it. I will do it. Whatever it costs me, I’m going to become the man who actually deserves her again.

Titles in the Begging for a Second Chance series include: If You Forget Me ~ Talk to Me ~ Stop Taking Me for Granted ~ Stop Treating Me Like a Footnote ~ Stop Showing Me Off Like a Trophy ~

This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.

The Wife He Let take The Fall by Romy Venn

Posted October 9, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Marriage In Crisis Romance, Series, Sexual Content / 0 Comments

Her husband ignores her warning and opens their newest luxury hotel anyway. The launch is a public disaster. And he lets his wife take the fall for his decision.

For fifteen years, Laurel Weller has built a luxury-hotel empire beside her billionaire husband, Julian. She is his cofounder and the woman who has spent their entire marriage turning his impossible ambitions into reality.

She agreed to take the blame for one disastrous opening. She never agreed to let that one sacrifice become the story of her entire career.

Months later, Laurel has been publicly disgraced, erased from the company she helped build, and replaced by a new female executive who has become Julian’s right hand.

Julian is still the brilliant billionaire founder.

And Laurel is the failure everyone believes he had to replace.

She’s done.

Done protecting him. Done watching another woman step into the role Laurel spent fifteen years building. Done being privately loved by a husband who was willing to let her be publicly erased.

By the time Julian finally realizes exactly what he has lost, Laurel is already building a life without him.

And if he wants his wife back, apologies won’t be enough.

Titles in The Husbands Who Lost Them series include: The Wife He Thought Would Understand ~ The Wife He Kept Waiting ~ The Wife He Didn’t Believe ~ The Wife He Let Take the Fall ~

This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.

Cocoa Cottage at Peppermint Falls by Liv Hollis

Posted October 8, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Christmas Romance, Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance, No Spice Romance, Series, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

She came home to start over. Falling for Cal Mercer was not on the menu.

Rachel Ashby expected Christmas in Peppermint Falls to be temporary. She never expected to find the first thing she’d wanted for herself in years.

Now Cocoa Cottage is hers, and Rachel has a plan: turn her love of baking into something of her own.

Then the oven dies.

The only kitchen she can use belongs to Cal Mercer—the infuriating owner of the Cocoa Café and the man Rachel has spent years blaming for taking the future they once planned to build together.

Cal remembers things differently.

But with New Year’s approaching, he’s suddenly short a baker. Rachel needs his kitchen. Cal needs her help. One reluctant bargain means spending every night side by side, arguing over recipes, competing over pastries, and discovering the chemistry between them has nothing to do with baking.

As old resentment gives way to something neither expected, Rachel must decide whether being needed is enough—or whether she’s finally ready to choose what she wants.

Even if what she wants is him.

Titles in the Peppermint Falls series include: Mistletoe Cottage ~ Cocoa Cottage ~ Peppermint Cottage ~

This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.