Category: Standalone

The Maplewood Inn by Kimberly Van Meter

Posted September 4, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, No Spice Romance, Small Town Romance, Standalone, Women's Romance Fiction / 0 Comments

Three estranged sisters. One crumbling Vermont inn. One last chance to become a family again.

When their grandmother dies, the Harper sisters are drawn back to the picturesque small town of Maplewood Hollow—the place they once called home and the place they’ve spent years trying to forget.

Waiting for them is an unexpected inheritance: the beloved Maplewood Inn.

There’s just one catch.

To claim it, Margot, Nina, and Sadie must live together under its roof for three months. If they can’t make it work, they lose the inn—and the last piece of their family history—forever.

For practical, career-driven Margot, the inn is nothing but another responsibility. For selfless Nina, who’s spent years putting everyone else first, returning home stirs dreams she buried long ago. And for free-spirited Sadie, whose answer to every problem is to keep moving, staying in one place may be the hardest challenge she’s ever faced.

Then they uncover a long-forgotten letter hidden among their grandmother’s belongings—a secret that finally explains the heartbreaking rift between the women who came before them.

As old heartbreaks reopen and buried truths come to light, the sisters must decide whether to hold on to the anger that drove them apart… or risk everything to rebuild the family they thought was lost.

Because sometimes going home is the bravest thing you can do.

~Standalone~

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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Broken Greek Vows by Lela May Wight

Posted September 2, 2026 by Marsha in Author ARC, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, Sexual Content, Standalone / 0 Comments

Reclaimed:  His runaway wife!

Poppy Ariti knew there was no world in which Greek shipping giant Konstantinos would give her a divorce. So she fled—their convenient marriage, the tragedy that shattered them, and his suspected betrayal of their wedding vows…

Finally, Konstantinos has found his missing bride. And now that he knows why she disappeared, his fury deepens. Her disappearance didn’t just cause a public scandal; it unleashed his own private torment. Because there’s always been one inconvenient truth to their on-paper union…he’s only ever felt this inexplicable, insatiable need for Poppy!

~Standalone~

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

Trigger Warning: stillborn death of a baby

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A Nantucket Fling by Kathryn Freeman

Posted July 16, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, NetGalley, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

Olivia is a fiercely independent woman climbing the ladder of corporate finance. But when her family demands she take time off to go to her niece’s bachelorette and wedding in Nantucket, she reluctantly agrees.

On the island, she catches the eye of Connor: a handsome, cocky, playboy type—also ten years her junior. Olivia’s sisters egg her on, encouraging a summer fling, but she’s more interested in catching up on her finance reading. Except…he’s funny and sexy, and doing her ego a world of good.

Connor might come across as a playboy because he was one, eight years ago. That all stopped when he became a dad and found himself raising his daughter single-handedly. But this summer, she’s with her grandparents for a month while he’s in Nantucket, working in a restaurant with the hopes of opening his own one day. His time on the island also provides a rare opportunity: to forget the struggles of being a single dad and become the carefree guy he used to be, who very much enjoyed flirting with the opposite sex. Especially when they’re cool, classy, probably older than him, and most definitely out of his league.

As their attraction steadily grows, Connor gets Olivia to relax her tightly held control and indulge in the fling she won’t admit she needs. But too soon, the holiday is over, and they’re back home, living two very different lives. When Connor’s presented with an opportunity to see Olivia again, he leaps at it, but this time it’s different. He’s no longer a charming young playboy but a struggling single dad. A relationship, a family, is not what Olivia wants.

And yet, neither can ignore the intense chemistry that didn’t go away after the summer. Are they just a Nantucket fling… or something much more?

~Standalone Title~

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

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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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So Not a RomCom by Heidi Rice

Posted June 4, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Previously Published, Sexual Content, Standalone / 0 Comments

Ruby Graham has just found out she’s been made co-owner of her favorite place in all of London – The Royale, a crumbling yet still beautiful independent cinema in Notting Hill. It’s a place where she gets to live in a world of dreams and happy endings, a place where there are no lost causes and where falling in love is just like a movie romcom in which Ruby is the star…

But all that comes under threat when Luke Devlin, an elusive Manhattan property developer and rumored son of a Hollywood icon, arrives to claim his half of The Royale. As they butt heads over their plans for the place, Ruby and the infuriatingly gorgeous Luke find themselves in a dramatic plot of their own that’s fit for the silver screen… The only problem is, it’s so not the romcom Ruby wanted to star in!

Previously published as “Just Like in the Movies”.

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Chasing the Clouds Away by Debbie Macomber

Posted June 2, 2026 by Marsha in Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, NetGalley, No Spice Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

Maisy Gallagher has her own dreams, but when her father passes away, she selflessly sets them aside to help her family. Despite knowing it was the right thing to do, she can’t help but wish for the road not taken.

Chase Furst, the hardened heir to a financial empire, is, on the other hand, primarily focused on his own life and on his work as a bank executive. His childhood was marred by his mother’s struggle with addiction, which left him cynical and emotionally distant.

But then Chase meets Maisy, a beautiful woman full of optimism and kindness who can see past his defenses. To his surprise and annoyance, she offers to help him during a time of need and declines his offer of payment. Instead, she asks him to pay it forward—and not with money or a quick fix, but through an act of true selflessness. At a loss, Chase doesn’t know where to begin.

~Standalone~

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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While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein

Posted April 20, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, Standalone / 0 Comments

The road to love is bumpy in a sexy, heartwarming contemporary romance filled with fake-dating hijinks, delicious forced proximity, and top-tier banter.

Daisy Emmett has been enemies with famous romance author Caleb Miller since they were in college together, and time hasn’t lessened their mutual loathing. So when she agrees to maneuver him through a PR disaster of his own making, she knows it’s not going to be easy. She just doesn’t realize how not easy it is until they somehow end up trapped in the same truck, on an endless road trip from one book tour stop to another, bantering and butting heads along the way.

Then, even more horrifying: people appear to be mistaking her for the woman he dedicates all his books to. The love of his life, his adored beloved—the one who doesn’t actually exist. Now they’re trapped into pretending she does, and that Daisy is her, each fake kiss and phony embrace ratcheting up the tension to the point where enemies suddenly seem a lot closer to lovers than either of them would like.

Or so they’re telling themselves.

But sometimes it’s hard to be sure, when seething turns into something so much more…

~Standalone~

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

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A Rocky Mountain Reunion by Debra Moser

Posted April 18, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Heartwarming, Modern Western Romance, NetGalley, No Spice Romance, Small Town Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

They’re worlds apart… Can love bridge the gap?

Paleontologist Meg Farrell’s real life is twelve hundred miles away from her hometown in the Colorado Rockies.

But every time she returns to Bent Fork, she’s reminded how much of an outsider she still feels like—her whole family treats her as if she’s too fragile for ranch work.

But neighboring rancher Joe Hawk sees not only how capable she is but also how smart and kind she is.

When they rescue an injured dog together, she’s reminded of why she fell for him all those years ago…and the danger of repeating old mistakes.

Yet Hawk might be the one piece of history Meg can’t leave in the past.

~Standalone~

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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Million Dollar Baby Doc by Colette Cooper

Posted April 17, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Medical Romance, NetGalley, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

Doctors…with benefits!

Pediatric consultant Will’s medical tech company made him a millionaire but destroyed his marriage. A fresh start at York Hospital is just what the doctor ordered—a refuge where nobody knows about his wealth or his heartbreak.

And his no-strings fling with fellow consultant Maddie is completely heart safe. It’s all about their mutual fiery attraction!

Only as their connection deepens, Will has a dilemma—keep his secret and spare himself more hurt or reveal his million-dollar deception and take a chance on forever with the woman he loves…

~Standalone~

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

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