Get ready to fall head over heels! Whether you’re seeking your next book boyfriend or a love story that’ll keep you turning pages until dawn, we’ve curated the perfect collection to make your heart flutter. From bestselling favorites to hidden gems, these romance novels promise unforgettable characters, passionate connections, and those butterflies-in-your-stomach moments we all adore. Happy reading!
Must Read Romance For August 2025
Secrets of the Starlit Sea
9781398720060 | Orion | TPB
Santa Montefiore
ONE FATEFUL NIGHT.
ONE FINAL PROMISE…
The moment psychic detective Pixie Tate steps inside the opulent Aldershoff Hotel in Manhattan, one of the last relics of New York’s Gilded Age, she senses instantly that a dark spirit is wreaking havoc within its elegant walls.
Pixie knows that she must use her unique gift to travel back in time in order to discover the secrets of the past, and as she slips back over a hundred years, she’s shocked to find herself in the midst of one of the most famous events in history.
As the stars twinkle overhead, Pixie realises that time is running out. But when she comes face-to-face with a man she thought she’d lost forever, will she keep her promise to save only the souls she should – or is it too late, and has she already changed the future?
Secrets of the Starlit Sea is an epic and stunningly romantic time-travel mystery, and the second book in Santa Montefiore’s sensational new series.
Sweet Heat
9781472286444 | Headline Review | TPB
Bolu Babalola
Not every relationship makes it out of university.
But Kiki and Malakai were supposed to be forever.
Everything was perfect, until it all went up in flames.
Three years after their epic break-up, Kiki’s worked hard to forget her first love. But just as she thinks she’s got her life under control – jumping into the distractions of her romance-by-calendar-invite boyfriend, and plans for her best friend, Aminah’s, wedding – Kiki’s career implodes, the family business teeters on collapse, and Malakai returns . . .
As Malakai takes up his role as Best Man opposite her Maid of Honour, suddenly Kiki can think of nothing else: their simmering chemistry, what went wrong, and why it is now impossible to act normal around each other.
Juggling a new job, the prospect of her parents’ restaurant being sold, and keeping her best friend from going full bridezilla, dealing with The Ex is the last thing she needs. But somehow the spark between them is only getting hotter – and threatening to ruin everything.
They just have to get through the wedding, so why does it feel like playing with fire?
Heart-melting, hilarious and completely addictive, Kiki and Malakai return in this standalone second novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Bolu Babalola.
Love Arranged
9780349438016 | Piatkus | PBO
Lauren Asher
Get ready for the final addictive romance in the Lakefront Billionaires series from Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Lauren Asher
Lorenzo
Five months. Two people ‘in love’. One fake relationship with an expiration date.
Sounds simple enough.
The problem is, Lily Muñoz and I have history.
So, when she volunteers to date me so I can improve my public image, I should say no.
Our past complicates everything, but since my future depends on her, I agree to her plan.
Faking it for the public is expected, but falling in love in private?
That isn’t part of our arrangement.
Lily
Using a dating app sounded like a great idea, up until I discovered Lorenzo Vittori was my match.
My sister’s boyfriend hates him. My mom is wary of him.
And me? I’ve spent the last year avoiding him.
But when my business is threatened, I’m forced into teaming up with Lorenzo to save it.
All I need to do is help him win the mayoral election, and he promises to protect my shop.
It doesn’t take me long to learn that I’m not cut out for fake relationships, but Lorenzo?
He isn’t capable of a real one.
The Nightingale Dilemma
9781803280240 | Apollo | PBO
Katy Moran
1812
Following the drum in Spain, rebellious aristocrat Cressida Nightingale has put her tumultuous past far behind her, and with it her short-lived marriage to Lord Greville.
Having escaped the constraints of her previous life and now scorned by society, Cressida has spent years surviving as a spy for her government. Whilst this is a hard life, it’s hers and she will fight to keep it. Then her world comes crashing down when she is caught behind enemy lines by none other than her estranged husband.
Betrayed by those who have willingly taken the information she offered, Cressida is offered a deal. Entrap her childhood friend, Lord Byron, now the most famous man in England and one who is suspected of treason, or pay the ultimate price for her own treasonous acts.
Can this nightingale escape the shackles of her past, and what price will she pay for it is she can’t?
Time of Your Life
9781398728318 | Orion | TPB
Jessa Hastings
She wasn’t supposed to meet someone like him.
He wasn’t supposed to be her undoing.
It’s 1995, Joah Harrigan is the brash, enigmatic frontman of the biggest band in the world, and Ysolde is the iconic face of a generation. She’s who people write their songs about-the kind of girl who could ruin a man.
He doesn’t fall, and she doesn’t chase. But from the moment they meet, it’s headfirst, reckless, and inevitable.
Too much, too fast, too consuming.
Loving Ysolde makes Joah feel alive, but it also makes him feel trapped. Her star burns just as bright as his, and he doesn’t know how to be with someone he can’t control. The more he wants her, the more he resents her for it.
But fame is corrosive, and so is love. Neither Ysolde nor Joah were built to survive both, because some loves don’t end-they can’t-so they just destroy you.
Matchmaking for Psychopaths
9781398716797 | Orion | TPB
Tasha Coryell
He was so good-looking that I felt manipulated by his face. There was a kind of pleasure in knowing that he couldn’t have me. I was already reserved for someone else, even if that person had temporarily left me for my best friend.
Alexandra doesn’t want to think about her fiancé running off with her so-called best friend.
She doesn’t want to think about the next time her self-centred mother will call her from prison.
She certainly doesn’t want to think about her old identity coming back to haunt her.
Instead, she tries to use her job as a matchmaker as a distraction. At work, she gets lumbered with the clients who show signs of psychopathy on the personality tests, but she doesn’t mind. She’s used to spending time with psychopaths, and doesn’t everyone deserve love?
But when a devastatingly handsome client walks into her life, everything changes. Because he’s too interested in her. He seems to know all about the things she’d rather keep hidden. And when someone close to her drops dead, it appears that he’d kill to make her his perfect match…
Matchmaking for Psychopaths is an unbelievably twisty and gripping read about obsession, filled with Tasha Coryell’s signature observational humour and satirical slant.
The Days I Loved You Most
9781526674586 | Bloomsbury Publishing | BPB
Amy Neff
What if you could write the final chapter of your own love story?
Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1941, Joseph and Evelyn fell in love on the shores on their New England beach homes.
Now, they gather their three grown children to share the staggering news: in one year’s time, they will end their lives on their own terms. She has received a diagnosis and he cannot – will not – live without her.
But as their final days draw closer and their choice becomes more real, will they – can they – go through with their plan?
This unforgettable debut is a joyful celebration of life and a deeply romantic love story.
Bound to Happen
9781761152610 | Hardie Grant| PBO
Jonathon Shannon
Accidental strangers or star-crossed lovers? Tom and Sophie are about to find out.
Tom is a music student and aspiring songwriter. He wholeheartedly believes in meant to be and, more specifically, in his turbulent relationship with a far more successful recording artist. Even when her sudden overseas tour threatens to upend everything.
Sophie is an astrophysics PhD candidate. To her, the vast mysteries of the universe can be reduced down to cold hard science. She knows there’s no such thing as fate or destiny, and not even the handsome undergrad assigned to her research project will change her mind.
Sophie doesn’t know it, but she’s been orbiting Tom all year.
They might be destined for each other, if only their meet-cutes were not a series of near misses…
Coming Soon!
Seven Rules for a Perfect Marriage
9781526681379 | Bloomsbury Publishing | PBO
Rebecca Reid
It looks like Jessica and Jack have it all. Their social media accounts show them glamorous, happy and sickeningly in love. They even landed a book deal to share their seven rules for a perfect marriage – an instant bestseller, of course.
But behind the scenes it’s not so simple. Jessica is determined to make a success of her business and has stopped making time for Jack. Meanwhile Jack is learning that he hates the life of an Instagram husband.
In a bid to reboot their relationship, they decide to go back to basics and follow their own rules. But they’re about to learn that there is simply no such thing as perfect, and, in fact, there might be a lot more to making a marriage work than just following the rules…
Seven Rules for a Perfect Marriage is a funny and poignant celebration of long-term love, asking what happens when Happily Ever After doesn’t always look so happy.
The Bride Stone
9781804541845 | Apollo | TPB
Sally Gardner
AN ESTATE ON THE LINE.
1796. Duval Harlington, recently released from prison in France, is on his way home. Memories of the tranquil family estate kept his spirits high through his worst days in La Force, so it is no small sorrow to return and find Muchmore thrown into chaos. His despicable father, he learns, has died. And while he has left the estate to Duval, there is one small stipulation: he must be married, or else lose everything.
A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE.
With only two days and seven hours to find a wife, devoted bachelor Duval is prepared to walk away. But then he stumbles upon a wife sale. With women being bought and sold like chattels, Duval is horrified by what he sees. Until he lays eyes on one intriguing figure.
A BRIDE WITH A HIDDEN PAST.
Duval makes an extravagant bid, and he and Edmée are married with minutes to spare. But little does Duval know, this is only the beginning of his troubles. For Edmée is not who she says she is, and her secrets will soon threaten to dismantle everything he holds dear.
