As winter’s chill settles in and snowflakes dance outside your window, there’s no better time to curl up under a blanket with a steamy romance novel. These page-turners offer the perfect escape from frigid temperatures, warming you from the inside out with passionate tales and heart-melting moments. Let’s explore some sizzling stories that will keep you cozy all season long.
Heat Up This Winter With These Romance Books
Ordinary Love
9780349146898 | Virago | TPB
Marie Rutkoski
There’s no such thing as an ordinary love story
When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought it was forever.
Twenty years later, Gen is an Olympic runner, the career she strived for, while Emily is living a picture-perfect life: Manhattan townhouse, two young children and a wealthy husband, Jack. But Jack’s controlling behaviour is spiralling, and Emily has lost sight of who she once was.
Now, despite Emily’s fracturing marriage and the pressures of Gen’s career, they are drawn back together by a magnetic attraction. After years of heartbreak, missed chances and misunderstandings, will they finally get a second chance at first love?
A sweeping love story about desire, friendship, mistakes and the possibility of second chances, for fans of The Paper Palace and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Storybook Ending
9781526683793 | Bloomsbury Publishing | TPB
Moira Macdonald
This is the story of a love triangle… of sorts.
April is lonely. Since her office issued a permanent work from home mandate, she’s lost herself a little. So, in a bid to break out of the funk, she leaves an anonymous note inside a book for the hot guy at her neighbourhood bookstore.
Laura is a busy single mum. Thanks to the meddling hand of fate, she’s the one who finds April’s note, thinking it’s from the guy who served her at the bookstore. A little flirtation with an attractive man who loves books might be just what she needs.
Meanwhile Westley, handsome but not so perceptive, is too distracted by a movie filming at the shop to notice either woman’s furtive glances as they leave notes for each other amid the books in the stacks.
April and Laura’s continued anonymous correspondence will shake all three of these characters out of their mundane routines, sparking a glimmer of hope that they might just get what they want: a storybook ending of their own.
An intricate web of miscommunication and serendipitous encounters, Storybook Ending is a playful tribute to romance, friendship and bookstores; and to the objects – from a forgotten slip of paper to someone’s heart – left between the pages of books.
Welcome Home to Ivy Falls
9781804368039 | Canelo Hera | BPB
Amy True
Doesn’t everyone deserve their happy-ever-after?
Piper Townsend is working hard to build her new life in Ivy Falls but fears she will never escape her past reputation.
When Dr Crawford ‘Ford’ Foster breezes into town they recognise each other from a dark time in Piper’s life and she resolves to avoid him.
But Ivy Falls is a small town, and with Ford covering for the local doctor for the whole summer, their paths keep crossing. Despite herself, PIper feels a chemistry she has never known before. Perhaps she could take a chance, just for the summer?
But can Ford find his way into Piper’s heart and is she ready to trust in love?
An irresistible small-town romance that fans of Jessica Redland and Laurie Gilmore will adoreDoesn’t everyone deserve their happy-ever-after?
Piper Townsend is working hard to build her new life in Ivy Falls but fears she will never escape her past reputation.
When Dr Crawford ‘Ford’ Foster breezes into town they recognise each other from a dark time in Piper’s life and she resolves to avoid him.
But Ivy Falls is a small town, and with Ford covering for the local doctor for the whole summer, their paths keep crossing. Despite herself, PIper feels a chemistry she has never known before. Perhaps she could take a chance, just for the summer?
But can Ford find his way into Piper’s heart and is she ready to trust in love?
An irresistible small-town romance that fans of Jessica Redland and Laurie Gilmore will adore.
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom
9780571380121 | Piatkus | BPB
Sam Taylor
One man, one choice, two lifetimes.
In one unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Max Spiegelman’s life splits in two.
As Max sleeps, a house fire creeps through his parents’ shop. Woken by smoke, Max manages to escape – orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his identity and his prospects.
But when he awakes a second time to smoke, he finds he has the chance to save his parents and escape unharmed, facing life as a Jew in 1930s Austria.
In each parallel universe, he is haunted by visions of what could have been. But in both worlds, he and his alter ego share a love with an enchanting, grey-eyed girl. . .
To The Moon
9781526690982 | Bloomsbury Publishing | TPB
Jan Ryujin
The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.
In Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane desk jobs at a confectionary manufacturer. They become fast friends, taking their conversations out of the group chat as they bond over their ‘average’ employee report cards, the incompetence of their male team leader and a mutual longing for financial freedom amid mediocre raises.
Eun-sang, the eldest of the group, is always looking for ways to earn extra money, but faces trouble at work after she opens a mini mart at her desk.
Jisong, the youngest, dreams of a perfect romance with her Taiwanese boyfriend and spends her low salary on trips to Taipei.
Meanwhile, Dahae searches endlessly for a better apartment – albeit one she can actually afford.
One day over lunch, Eun-sang announces a plan to make enough money to quit her job, by investing her life’s savings in cryptocurrency. What’s more, she thinks the others should join her. All they need to do, she says, is hold on tight and wait for the price to skyrocket . . . to the moon. But as the market begins to fluctuate and spiral out of their control, the fate of their friendships – and their futures – soon hangs in the balance.
Coming July 2025
The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop
9780008736446 | Avon | PBO
Annabel French
The first book in a gorgeous new series of European-set escapist romances!
One fresh start. One unexpected encounter. Can love bridge the gap?
When Rosie leaves behind her ordinary life in England to open a flower shop on Amsterdam’s water, she expects nothing less than a fairytale.
Max, her handsome but brooding new neighbour, prefers to keep the world at arm’s length – and living on the houseboat next door, he’s not too thrilled about the new company.
As Rosie’s business blossoms, so do her feelings for Max. But Rosie isn’t sure she’s ready for a relationship, and Max is still nursing a broken heart.
Then a rival in the flower market threatens her dreams, Rosie discovers that the most beautiful things can bloom when you learn to go with the flow – and allow someone to stand by your side.
Will Rosie and Max allow themselves to be swept away by love, or is their relationship doomed to sink before it can swim?
A fun, feel-good romance that will whisk you away to Amsterdam’s picturesque canals. Perfect for fans of Julie Caplin, Rebecca Raisin, and Cressida McLaughlin.
Love on a Book Shelf
9781035427567 Headline Accent | PBO
Kiah Thomas
What if a gorgeous, grumpy author dedicated his new bestseller to the stranger who inspired him – and that stranger was you…?
Clarrie Brooks isn’t just having a bad day – her life seems to be falling apart. She’s struggling to keep her beloved grandmother’s bookshop afloat, her boyfriend has just dumped her and now it’s, quite literally, raining inside her run-down apartment.
To top it off, the bookshop loses power for the tenth time this week . . . just as new author Declan Archer walks in to sign stock. Declan advises Clarrie to invest in better lighting. Clarrie suggests to him that he write a better book…
Two years later, Declan’s new book is on its way to becoming a bestselling cult classic – and he’s dedicated it to the bookseller who told him to write a better one. As speculation builds over the identity of the bookseller, Clarrie finds herself thrown into the spotlight. Could it be time to open her heart and draft a brand-new love story?
One Dark Kiss
9781035417933 | Headline Eternal | PBO
Rebecca Zanetti
For fans of Scarlett St. Clair, Harley Laroux, and Emily McIntire, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti explores the forbidden and the taboo in this modern dark romance twist on Snow White – the second in a captivating new series set in a seductive world of money, power, billionaires, and the dangerous desires that drive them . . .
Mirror, mirror on the wall . . .
will desire make them fall?
Alexei Sokolov spent the last seven years in a maximum-security prison, consumed with thoughts of revenge against those who framed him and stole everything he owned. Finally free, nothing will stand in his way – not even his sinfully attractive lawyer, Rosalie. Suspicious of her motives, Alexei is determined to work out if she’s just another weapon sent by his enemies to break him, or if she could be the key to his freedom.
When Rosalie Mooncrest took Alexei’s case, she thought she had everything under control. But Alexei isn’t like any criminal she’s ever met. Innocent or not, he’s dangerous in the worst and best ways.
Alexei wastes no time in plotting his return to power. And amidst the chaos, their explosive chemistry ignites, putting Rosalie, and everyone she cares about, in the crosshairs of Alexei’s ruthless enemies. But now she’s his, Alexei would burn the world down to protect her . . . and he’s a man of his word..
