Category: Harlequin/MIRA

Five Star Summer by Sarah Morgan

Posted June 21, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Trade, Harlequin/MIRA, NetGalley, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

Running a five-star Cornish hotel should have been Evie Hamilton’s dream job. But restoring it to its former glory will take a miracle. All Evie has is grit and a hoard of unruly staff who love to speculate about her love life. She needs backup, and fast.

Enter Abby Jones. Parachuted in by the hotel’s umbrella company for the summer, Abby thinks Evie could be the best friend she never had. But Abby has her own agenda for being in Cornwall. If her real motives are uncovered, their friendship is going to melt away faster than an ice cream in the summer sun.

Yet Abby’s arrival starts a chain reaction. With the help of a charming chef and a gruff pub owner, they begin to embrace their true selves and the bonds that unite them. But it’s not just the hotel’s five-star reputation that needs rebuilding – Evie and Abby will also have to brave tearing down their lives in order to reshape their futures…

~Standalone~

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

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Rainy Day Meet Cute by Debbie Macomber

Posted June 20, 2026 by Marsha in Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin/MIRA, NetGalley, No Spice Romance, Previously Published, Small Town Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

Love ‘N’ Marriage: A young woman discovers that sometimes love’s right there in front of you in this workplace romance.

As Stephanie Coulter discovers, sometimes you find it in the most ordinary places―and what could be more ordinary than the office? Stephanie, who works as an assistant at Lockwood Industries in Minneapolis, is temporarily assigned to the boss – Jonas Lockwood himself. Jonas lives up to (or down to!) his reputation as a tyrant, dictator, and grouch.

But Stephanie’s colleagues, romance readers all, decide that he’s really the classic lonely hero. What he needs, they say, is Love ’n’ Marriage. And the woman they have in mind for him is…Stephanie.

Jury of His Peers: Two childhood rivals reconnect during jury duty—and are forced to navigate their complex feelings for one another.

Caroline Lomax is eager to exercise her civic duty and report for jury duty. However, when she sees a familiar face on her first day, she is near certain that she has come face to face with Ted Thomasson, the thorn in her side throughout high school—and the last person she’d want as a fellow juror.

Ted still seems to relish making Caroline squirm, but he shocks Caroline when he declares that he’s always harbored feelings for her. Just as she attempts to make sense of it all, they’re both selected for the same case . . . and as things intensify in and out of the courtroom, it becomes clear that Caroline has an enormous decision to make.

~Standalone~2-in-1 novel~

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

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The Rainy Day Bookshop by RaeAnne Thayne

Posted June 19, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Trade, Harlequin/MIRA, NetGalley, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Women's Fiction, Women's Romance Fiction / 0 Comments

Life is full of plot twists…

Sandwiched between caring for her mother and rebuilding the relationship with her estranged daughter, Emma, Rosie Lucas’s life is full. In the best way. With Emma and her 3-year-old daughter, Olive, back home, Rosie has a partner for The Rainy Day Bookshop, the family business, and a chance to fix the past.

What she doesn’t have time for is a romantic relationship. And even if she did, Andrew Morgan is the last person she’d choose. Not only is he an arrogant and reclusive writer, but he’s a single dad with two young kids. She’s already been there, done that. Still, as an irresistible flirtation builds between them, he becomes her unexpected confidante on the distance Rosie can’t seem to overcome with Emma, a secret she can’t quite unravel…

Emma isn’t proud of her past. But she’s pulled herself up by the bootstraps, caring for her own daughter, and protecting her mom at all costs. Just as she always has. She never told Rosie what she saw all those years ago, and she never will. But some secrets refuse to stay buried, and sometimes the truth is more shocking than fiction. Rosie and Emma will have to navigate an unimaginable path forward. Together.

~Standalone~

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

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A Cruise to Die For by Heather Graham

Posted April 20, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Trade, Harlequin/MIRA, Mystery, NetGalley / 0 Comments

Special Agent Chloe McMurray has been asked to do many things in the name of her job. Going undercover on a cruise ship leaving from her home port of Miami, however, is a new one. Not only that, but she’s tasked with posing as the wife of her federal counterpart, Special Agent Wesley Law.

Their investigation? A string of murders and suicides across three states that seem unrelated, until they uncover a deadly technological connection. Every victim was an expert in technology and had some connection to Milestones, a megacorporation with ties to many industries…including the cruise industry.

Chloe and Wesley must successfully go undercover as tech employees on the ship hosting the ten-year anniversary of the Milestones cruise company. A tough ask when the two have never met before. They’ll infiltrate the technology events, investigate their fellow passengers, and try to uncover what’s really going on.

However, danger is never far behind. Their killer can use tech to do the job without lifting a finger, and at sea, there’s no escape if their covers are blown.

~Standalone~

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

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Sugar and Spice Kisses by Debbie Macomber

Posted April 3, 2026 by Marsha in Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Trade, Harlequin/MIRA, Previously Published, Small Town Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

Sugar and Spice Kisses is a 2-in-1 title, featuring 2 previously published novels.

Yesterday Once More:

After abruptly calling off her engagement and leaving town three years earlier, Julie Houser is back in Wichita, hoping to start anew and earn the forgiveness of her ex-fiancé, Daniel Van Deen.  She may not have been ready to marry him back then, but she never stopped loving him. Yet every time she runs into Daniel, she can tell his hurt and anger haven’t faded; forgiveness won’t be so easy. Then his mother falls gravely ill, and her only request is for Julie and Daniel to resume their happily-ever-after. Can they make her wish come true?

Sugar and Spice: 

Jayne Gilbert longs to attend her high school reunion with a handsome man on her arm. Still single ten years after graduation, Jayne wants nothing more than to prove her former bullies wrong. The only romances in her life are those she reads about, so, at the encouragement of her coworker, a determined Jayne decides to do her research. As Jayne prepares to teach herself how to land a man, an encounter with her neighbor Riley Chambers quickly changes everything. Just when she believed she’d be alone forever, Jayne finds herself falling for Riley in ways she never expected. Riley is just as bold and mysterious as Jayne is prim and proper. Opposites may attract, but are Riley and Jayne built to last?

Standalone ~ 2-in-1 (individual titles previously published)

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

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Otherwise Engaged by Susan Mallery

Posted December 18, 2025 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Trade, Harlequin/MIRA, NetGalley, Standalone, Women's Fiction / 0 Comments

When Shannon gets engaged, her beloved mom, Cindy, is the first person she wants to tell—and the last. Cindy’s engaged, too, and has already hinted at a double wedding. The image of a synchronized bouquet toss with her mom fills Shannon with horror. She’ll keep her engagement a secret until Cindy’s I-dos are done.

Victoria has never been proper enough for her mother, Ava, so she stopped trying. She lives on her own terms and amuses herself by pushing Ava’s buttons. Ava loves but doesn’t understand her stuntwoman daughter. When a movie-set mishap brings Victoria home, Ava longs to finally connect.

Chance brings the four women together at a wedding venue, where a shocking secret comes tumbling out. Twenty-four years ago, desperate teenager Cindy chose wealthy Ava to adopt her baby—then changed her mind at the very last second. The loss rocked Ava’s world, leaving her unable to open her heart to the daughter she did adopt, Victoria. As Shannon and Victoria deal with the fallout from the decisions their mothers made, they wrestle with whether who they are is different than who they might have become.

~Standalone~

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

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