Must Read Romance For February 2026

From the #1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Arcana Academy comes the first in a new, heart-pounding fantasy duology, about a young woman who must survive a score of brutal tests and trials to escape her cursed fate.

The moment you see a dragon is usually your last…

Since the dragons emerged – along with the scourge that ravaged our lands and people – there’s only one human city that remains standing: Vingard.

But the hellfire from above is nothing compared to the threat from within. For there is no worse fate than being Dragon Cursed. Slowly and excruciatingly, you’ll be transformed into a mindless beast who destroys everything – and everyone – you love.

Any of us could be tainted. Any of us could be lying. Any of us could be caught and killed by the authorities. And I’m terrified that I might be next.

There’s only one other person who might suspect my secret. He’s like my shadow, following me wherever I go. Part protector, part tormentor, fully annoying. Sometimes I think I am just one of the million unfathomable secrets he keeps hidden.

Because Lucan definitely knows something.

And if I’m Dragon Cursed, death might be the only mercy I get.

With her brother’s grumpy best friend – and her long-time nemesis – as Beth’s flight instructor, will her pilot lessons be a plane disaster or their first-class ticket to forever?

Mayday. Mayday. Engine failure.

The last thing Beth Lundberg needs is feelings for her brother’s best friend. But when he’s forced to execute an emergency plane landing during her first ever ride-along, she’s horrified to find herself with an adrenaline-fueled crush on George Bunsen.

Beth is even more shocked when George offers her discounted flight lessons. And, despite George’s annoying habit of departing any room the moment Beth enters, she really wants to accept – flying is Beth’s dream, even if she can’t afford it.

The more time they spend navigating the sky, the more the turbulence between George and Beth dissipates. But Beth has seen the burning wreckage that comes from mixing business with pleasure. Can she really take that risk when her pilot career isn’t even off the ground?

A salt-tinged Gothic fantasy romance for fans of A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid and House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig.

Corith Fraine has the power to control water with her words.

Corith has spent much of her life in an elite magic institution, training to serve one of the realm’s noble households. When she secures a post with House Shearwater, an aristocratic family living on a wave-battered island, she feels honoured. Until she discovers that her predecessor drowned in mysterious circumstances.

To avoid the same fate, Corith must harness the wild, unforgiving tides and cater to the whims of the enigmatic Shearwater siblings. But as she starts to unravel their secrets, she finds herself drawn to the brooding youngest brother, Llir.

With her loyalties pushed to breaking point, these treacherous waters may just pull Corith under…

A dark revenge romance with tattooed bikers, hilarious banter, high speeds, and high heat. Hold on tight for a hell of a ride!

🏍 Stalker romcom
🏍 Biker romance
🏍 Morally grey MMC
🏍 Found family
🏍 Revenge
🏍 Opposites attract

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REGAN

Iused to have big dreams.

Finish college, make beautiful art, and take over my dad’s business. But his illness wasn’t part of the plan. Neither was his sudden need to keep me locked up in his mansion. Until one night, I came face-to-face with a street biker. Rook Emberson is everything I should fear, yet he’s the only one who’s ever made me feel alive.

But loving him means risking everything.

ROOK
Revenge has always been my plan.

I’ve spent years plotting the perfect way to take back everything Regan Fletcher’s father stole from me. When fate puts us together, I know I’ve found the key to his destruction. Regan is everything I didn’t expect, and my plans begin to unravel. What starts as a twisted game of vengeance turns into an obsession.

The lines between love and vengeance blur, and I’m not sure where one ends and the other begins.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new marriage of convenience, friends-to-lovers sports romance about a baseball catcher and the burlesque club owner he can’t get out of his head.

Madden Donahue, the newest catcher for the Yankees, has been in love with Eve Mitchell since high school, but for some mysterious reason, the burlesque club owner always turns him down. That never stopped him from being her self-appointed protector. Case in point, now that Eve’s sister has left Eve with her two children indefinitely, Madden steps in with a proposition—marry him for the much needed health benefits.

Eve has secretly harbored feelings for Madden all along, but there’s one problem—her best friend Skylar called dibs on him when they were fourteen. Eve has always put their friendship above all else, and she’s not willing to risk losing Skylar over a man. Raised by the local strip club owner, Eve is woefully short on friends and treasures the ones she has. But with Skylar happily paired off, Eve finds herself accepting Madden’s proposal—on the condition that their marriage remains strictly private. She’s not about to let her unique profession and maligned reputation destroy Madden’s shiny new career.

Madden won’t let Eve get away that easily, though. What starts as a marriage of convenience soon ignites into something much hotter, and now it’s up to Madden to convince Eve that their connection is far more than a business arrangement. As the passion builds, can their fake marriage become the real deal?