Category: Standalone

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~

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Your Soulmate is Attached by Joan F. Smith

Posted April 15, 2026 by Marsha in Mystery, NetGalley, Standalone, Thriller / 0 Comments

What if everyone in the world found out who their soulmates are at the same time?

Olivia Adler’s life is picture-perfect: a behind-the-scenes job she loves in a bustling Manhattan newsroom, an engagement to golden-boy Wells, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to create the documentary she’s always wanted to make.

Then one sleepless night, everything unravels.

One message on Wells’s phone shatters her engagement.

A second message—an anonymous global email quickly dubbed Soulmail—shakes the world.

Delivered to every individual on earth, Soulmail reveals the name and birthdate of their soulmates. Suddenly, love as the world knows it is rewritten overnight, and Olivia accidentally becomes the face of the phenomenon when she reports on the story live and goes viral.

With millions watching her every move, Olivia resolutely refuses to open her Soulmail. She’s not ready for fate to make her choices—especially not now. But when she crosses paths with her childhood best friend—the boy she loved and lost—everything she thought she knew about destiny, timing, and love comes into question.

Is true love written in the stars…or something we choose for ourselves?

~Standalone~

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A Secret to Shock the Earl by Laura Martin

Posted April 9, 2026 by Marsha in Harlequin, Harlequin Historical, Historical Romance, NetGalley, Standalone / 0 Comments

Long-lost love… Newfound heir!

Richard, the Earl of Farnleigh, believed he had lost his sweetheart, Hetty, forever. Amid the carnage of the Peninsular War, she was torn from his arms, thought dead.

But now she’s back on his doorstep—with their two-year-old child!

Thinking Richard had abandoned her, pregnant Hetty became trapped in a joyless marriage to a cruel man. Now a widow, she’s finally free—but alone, vulnerable, and penniless.

Richard is her only hope for refuge. They’re bound by their son and an undeniable connection, but when they both bear the scars of the past, is a rekindled romance more than she can promise?

~Standalone~

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Blackmail to White Veil by Clare Connelly

Posted April 8, 2026 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, NetGalley, Sexual Content, Standalone / 0 Comments

Forced to wed… Enticed into bed!

Despite their painful past, Annie Langley’s last resort is to beg Theo Leonidas to save the family business.

She should have known the self-made billionaire would seize his chance for revenge against her father, who had always despised him.

Theo’s outrageous counteroffer: he’ll help…on the condition that Annie marries him!

Annie hates how much her body still craves Theo—but he refuses to give in to tantalizing fantasy unless she admits she wants him!

In this battle of honeymoon seduction, Annie won’t surrender without a fight…

~Standalone~

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The Summer of Lost and Found by Toni Blake

Posted April 8, 2026 by Marsha in Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, NetGalley, No Spice Romance, Small Town Romance, Standalone, Women's Fiction, Women's Romance Fiction / 0 Comments

Recovering from cancer, Cincinnati news anchor Jessica Fox has no choice but to take a summer leave. Her boss’s proposal: for Jessica to take it easy and recharge at his late grandmother Mabel’s cottage in the Kentucky mountains.

The town of Lost and Found lives up to its name. Resistant at first, Jessica grows to appreciate the slower pace, the spectacular sunsets, the affable locals, and even Matt Cordray, the laid-back, too-friendly police chief next door. Most engaging of all is Mabel, who left behind a treasure map that leads Jessica to a collection of lost items—mementos and love letters—people have mailed to the town over the years. Jessica needs something to help pass the time, and she finds it in reuniting these precious things with the distant strangers who lost them.

Lost and in flux herself, Jessica has no idea just how connected to life this town will make her feel again or, by summer’s end, how transformative a season it will be.

~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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Rebuilding His Trust by Jenna Mindel

Posted April 7, 2026 by Marsha in Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Love Inspired (Harlequin), NetGalley, No Spice Romance, Series, Small Town Romance, Standalone / 0 Comments

Their surprising connection could be the key to a second chance.

Jace Moore has been afraid to love since losing his parents as a teen. But when he meets equine therapist Meredith Lewis and her horse Bella, something shifts inside him.

Soon, constructing her indoor riding arena turns into volunteering with her therapy program just to spend more time with them.

Initially wary of Jace’s charming ways, Meredith can’t deny her attraction to the off-limits builder, especially when he shows such kindness to one of her young clients.

But as sessions with the animals—and Meredith—begin to heal Jace’s closed-off heart, can he convince her that love is worth the risk?

~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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