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There’s something downright breathtaking about a Kate Canterbary novel and the way her characters pull you in straightaway with the sheer freshness and candour of their quirks and wit. But it’s the way she then breaks them wide open, tenderly, carefully, that has you hooked on her every word. Two perfect strangers meet at a wedding—he’s the best man, she’s not even supposed to be there—thinking one unforgettable night of passion would be all they’d ever have. But when their paths cross again, their new working relationship throws a wrench in any desire they might have of pursuing a romantic connection. Canterbary takes the familiar workplace romance trope and turns it on its head in this heartwarming, fun, thoughtful story about finding the courage to believe in love, and it just so happens to be one of my favourite reads of the year.

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A young woman stricken by grief after the gruesome murder of her beloved mother moves into a secluded cabin by the lake, looking for peace and quiet, only to discover that she is not only sharing the lake with a rowdy neighbour, but the lake is also believed to be haunted by lovers who were murdered there almost two decades before. We return to Misted Pines with yet another intricately plotted, beautifully paced, spine-tingling whodunit with a beautiful love story (or three) at its core. This gripping tale about long-buried secrets, family bonds, and unexpected twists had me guessing until the very end.

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The majestic landscapes of the Scottish Highlands have been stirring the hearts of romantics for countless centuries, and Samantha Young’s aptly named series continues to echo the romantic allure of its idyllic setting with yet another unputdownable love story, this time of the marriage-of-convenience kind. She pairs a pragmatic, self-reliant Scottish farmer with the rebellious younger daughter of a Hollywood power couple, in this slow-burning, friends to lovers romance that hits all the right emotional beats. An absolute must-read!

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Paranormal romances are so rarely my jam these days, having read little else during my twenties and thirties, but Ali Hazelwood’s brand of sharp-witted, lovelorn shenanigans is always hard to resist, even more so when her new marriage of convenience romp happens to be of the blood-sucking and howling variety. She takes the star-crossed lovers, fated mates tropes to new heights in this spicy, unputdownable tale of two mortal enemies who agree to marry in order to uphold the peace between their species. I loved the story, the characters, the dialogues, even all the drawn-out miscommunication angst, but Ali Hazelwood had me at knotting, and I’m (k)not embarrassed to admit it. (K)not even a little.

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Ginger Scott has revealed the cover of the first book in The Waiting Series Next Generation, an enemies to lovers, forbidden love, small town, coming of age romance, out on Oct 10.

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We have the cover of the sixth and final book in Brooke Blaine and Ella Frank‘s Park Avenue Prince series—a series of standalones set in the rich, luxurious, opulent playground that is Manhattan—out on Oct 3.

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Tessa Bailey has revealed the deluxe limited edition cover of the third book in her Big Shots series, out in February 2025, and it’s Chloe and Sig’s story. A steamy chance encounter between a professional hockey player and the dream girl he just can’t seem to forget takes a turn when the pair realise that their parents are engaged. The deluxe edition will only be available on the first printing, while supplies last. It features sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and colored illustrations on the inside cover.

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NBJ WEEKLY RECAP

New & Upcoming Releases; Bookish News; Latest Top Recommendations

3 September, 2024

NEW RELEASES

SINGLE DAD + ACCIDENTAL PREGNANCY + CITY GIRL/COWBOY + SMALL TOWN

When a hockey princess takes a trip to the south and two pink lines change everything!

Zara
The day I picked out my wedding dress is the day I found out my fiancé was cheating on me.
After that, I needed an escape.
A distraction to take my mind off what a mess my life was.
It was supposed to be a one-night thing.
Then it turned into more.
We knew going in that it was for two weeks.
Then, two pink lines changed everything.

Gabriel
I thought I had the perfect life.
I had an amazing son, and I was running the family bar.
But all that changed the day she walked in.
She was gorgeous and funny all wrapped into one.
It was temporary, we both knew that.
She’s a city girl. I’m a cowboy.
But I fell in love with her and let her go all at the same time.
Now she’s back and pregnant with my baby.
It’s time to show her she was meant for me.

This is the fourth book in the Meant For series of standalone novels with interconnected characters, a spin-off from the Southern Sunrise and This Is Wild.

Series recommended reading order: Meant For Stone | Meant For Her | Meant For Love | Meant For Gabriel


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SECOND CHANCES + SINGLE DAD + HOCKEY ROMANCE

You can fall in love in a matter of days.

It can take years to recover from the loss of it. I know that all too well. When I fell for Gavin Vaughn, I never expected to watch him marry someone else. The experience changed me, shaped the woman I became.

Now he’s divorced and wanting to reconnect after twenty years. As if that same shattered heart doesn’t still beat inside me.

He’s as charming as he ever was, better looking, too. And a star player for the NHL team in the city I just relocated to.
I’m not that same girl who loved him and watched him leave. I’m a woman who built her own empire from scraps. I’m also the woman who will be mentoring his daughter to do the same.

I’m the woman who can still be brought to her knees by the only man she ever cared about. But it’s going to take more than sly smiles and bouquets of flowers to convince me he’s worth my time. Or my heart.

This is a standalone novel in the Seattle Blades series.

Series recommended reading order: Rainfall | Flurry | Tempest


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MARRIAGE IN TROUBLE + SECOND CHANCES

Charming and heroic, there’s nothing about Gabriel Woodruff that Avery Burke doesn’t love. His warm brown eyes, his generosity, that small scar above his lip. The newspaper photo of him carrying her from a burning home only adds to the romance of it all.

A fairytale beginning and a picture-perfect marriage practically guarantees Avery and Gabriel a ride into the sunset. But every relationship has flaws, and what they ignored while they were busy being flawless eventually surfaces. The unraveling begins with the smallest tug on the tiniest string.

Their fall is spectacular, the kind that makes the paper.

When the fairytale goes up in smoke, Avery and Gabriel are forced to ask themselves hard questions.

What does for better or worse really mean?
Is this their second chance at a once-in-a-lifetime love?
What do we keep, when we lose it all?

This is a standalone novel.


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✭ NBJ TOP RECOMMENDATIONROMANTIC SUSPENSE + POLICE PROCEDURAL

Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene…

On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls’ night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancée—two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii.

Despite the dozens of people present, useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve who once suffered an assault in the very same room—but she’d been able to fight back and survive. She’d gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin.

Eve knows that the level of violence and the apparent premeditation involved suggest a volatile mix of hidden, heated passion and ice-cold calculation. This is a crime that can be countered only by hard detective work and relentless dedication—and Eve will not stop until she finds the killer who destroyed this couple’s dreams before the honeymoon even began…

This is the 59th instalment in Nora Roberts’ (writing as J.D. Robb) incredible In Death series. Each book is a separate story/case, but the background story of these characters flows from one instalment to another. 


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FANTASY ROMANCE

“Prophecy always finds a way.”

The will of the fates has come to pass. Monsters swarm from the depths, while dragons soar overhead. And the throne of Islor lies vacant… but not for long.

Fleeing the merciless sirens, Tyree and Annika find themselves stranded on a distant shore. Forced together to survive, they find old magics and terrifying new enemies.

For Romeria and Zander, the long-held secrets of the casters’ magic reveal a chance to finally master the power that has held all their lives in the balance for too long. But with power comes betrayal. And sacrifices must be made.

This is the fourth and final book in the Fate and Flame series.

Series reading order: A Fate of Wrath & Flame | A Curse of Blood & Stone | A Queen of Thieves & Chaos | A Dawn of Gods & Fury


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ONE NIGHT STAND + ACCIDENTAL PREGNANCY

She’s a corporate lawyer; he’s a carefree bodyguard. When their worlds collide, sparks fly…

Life doesn’t always go as planned, but sometimes, that’s where the magic happens.

Enter me: Zoe Harper.

Let me tell you, life has a funny way of flipping you upside down when you least expect it.

Case in point: I’m currently packing up my life into cardboard boxes after leaving my long-term, commitment-phobic ex-boyfriend.

Just when I think things can’t get worse, I find myself at a destination wedding with a grumpy but ridiculously handsome bodyguard, Maximillian McCallister.

Max and I have always been frenemies: he’s annoyingly charming, and I’m just trying to figure out my next move without losing my mind.

But one night, fueled by tequila and maybe a little bit of spite, we end up having the most incredible one-night stand. It changes everything.

Now I’m back in Boston, trying to figure out my new life with my meddling family, my stressful career, and stupidly hot Max popping up everywhere I go.

He’s infuriatingly perfect, and did I mention he’s my brother-in-law’s best friend? Yeah, it’s complicated. Even before factoring in the positive pregnancy test that flips my world upside down.

This is a standalone novel in the Happily Ever Mishaps series.

Series recommended reading order: The Ex-cavenger Hunt | Knot Really Engaged | About That One Night | Hate The One You’re With (Oct 2024)

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SINGLE DAD/COUNTRY MUSIC STAR + FRIENDS TO LOVERS + SMALL TOWN

A rugged mountain town seemed like the perfect escape from a life in shambles. But on day one I ran full tilt into the world’s hottest single dad and now all my plans are ruined.

As a chart-topping country singer with a recent streak of bad press it’s hard to find any peace. But I find it in Rose Hill. With a little boy and a little girl who steal my heart just as thoroughly as their dad.

Weston Belmont.

The man is a shameless flirt. He oozes confidence and masculinity in a way that’s downright distracting. And in bed? He’s addictive.

Everything with him is wild and impulsive and I’m desperate to regain some control.

But no one has supported me like West does. And no one has ever made me feel as loved as he does either.

So, while my brain says settling down with a small-town horse trainer is impossible… my heart says I’m right where I belong.

Still, my life as a celebrity haunts me. It has the power to pull us apart.

I can see in his eyes that wants me to stay. And I want that too.

But I know better than anyone that we don’t always get what we want.

Oh, and not fall in love.

This is a standalone novel in the Rose Hill series.

Series recommended reading order: Wild Love | Wild Eyes | Wild Side (Mar 2025)


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PARANORMAL ROMANCE

There’s nothing Jasper Maxwell likes better than a good chase. He is patient and cunning, and he is known as one of the coldest hunters in the immortal realm. As a vampire with a hint of demon blood in him, he stands out even amongst the finest trackers in the shifter world. So the fact that his mate has managed to escape him for the past five decades is something that keeps him intrigued and more obsessed with every passing year. The game is beyond delicious until a century old enemy resurfaces, putting his sweet little mate in danger. At that point, he has no choice but to secure her.

Leah Ferry enjoys immortality almost as much as she thrills at the cat and mouse game she’s playing with the Maxwell hunter. Once human, she figured she’d live her life wearing pearls and vacuuming in pressed dresses only to be thrown into the immortal world where freedom is intoxicating. On a mission to take down degenerate humans and make them pay, things go wrong, so per her usual arrangement, she starts to run. But this time, her sexy and deadly vampire mate stands in her way. She quickly learns that the sensual chase between them was nothing compared to the real danger coming for her.

This is a standalone novella in the Dark Protectors/Rebels series.

Click to Read An Excerpt


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FORBIDDEN + AGE GAP + STUDENT/TEACHER + SPORTS ROMANCE + SMALL TOWN

Nothing blurs the line between right and wrong more than love…

Liza
After moving to the small town of Mason Creek, I meet the perfect man.
He’s everything I’ve ever wanted—sweet, sexy, protective.
I fall for him fast and hard.
Then, I find out he’s a senior in high school.
And he’s one of my students.
I should walk away. Being with him could burn my life to the ground.
Trouble is, I’m starting to think it might be worth it…

Eli
I don’t have time for romance. Between school and sports, I’m too busy.
Until I meet her.
I know I’m younger than her. I know student-teacher relationships are forbidden.
But none of that matters when I’m with Liza.
Soon, I’ll be a professional baseball player, and the tiny age gap between us won’t mean anything.
We’ll have our happily ever after.
Assuming I can keep the disapproving world from breaking us apart first…

This is the third book in the Leighton River series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.

Series recommended reading order: How We Hated | How We Loved | How We Fooled


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PARANORMAL ROMANCE + WITCHES

When it comes to love, hex marks the spot…

As a child, Delia Merriweather believed with all her heart that she was a witch. Because all Merriweather women were witches. There was just one problem: they had no magic. As an adult, Delia no longer believes magic even exists. However, when she accidentally breaks a hex and restores her family’s powers, she’s forced to accept a new reality: she is a witch. And maybe that’s why the crushingly handsome guy next door has been looking at her like he’s expecting her to fly off on a broomstick, cackling into the night.

Just when Max thinks he’s done keeping an eye on the bumbling Merriweather women, now he must help his neighbors learn to control their magic before they out witches everywhere. But Delia can’t decide if Max is helping or hexing, and Max can’t tell whether his growing feelings for Delia are real, or if he’s come under the spell of the most powerful—and clueless—witch he’s ever known. And the last thing Max needs is to fall for the one witch who could rule the entire witching world by controlling the hearts of men.

This is a standalone novel.


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ENEMIES TO LOVERS

Casey Hughes is a struggling travel journalist desperate for a big break when she lands the assignment of a lifetime: hop on board Aurelia for its maiden voyage through paradise. While she’ll bask in the luxury cruise ship’s fine dining and complimentary spa treatments, her real mission is to snag an exclusive interview with Phillip Woodmont.

Casey and the elusive shipping heir have history. Once, they were nothing short of brutal enemies. Though the former brace-faced teen is now a suited-up CEO with devastating good looks, he makes it clear to Casey that he has no interest in forgetting their past.

The volatile grudge between them is as explosive as ever. More than once Casey is tempted to toss Phillip overboard, but for her work, she’ll have to swallow her pride. If it’s an apology he’s after, she’ll serve it up on a silver platter. If he wants her to walk the plank, she’ll salute with an aye, aye, Captain.

Casey can’t let him provoke her. She needs this interview. So if Phillip wants to play dirty, Casey will just have to play dirtier.

This is a standalone novel.


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CELEBRITY ROMANCE

She found The One. But when everyone wants him, can she keep him?

Edie found true love. And on Christmas day, he’s knocking at her door.

Elliot Owen is handsome, charming and basically Hollywood royalty. And, he insists, madly in love with Edie Thompson: an ordinary citizen with tomato soup stains on her coat. It’s going to be complicated. Edie will have to learn how to live in the limelight, but they’re just too good together not to try.

Edie discovers it’s not easy when the press is the third person in your relationship, or when stories start leaking that force you to mistrust the motives of those around you. It’s tricky when you’re separated by an ocean and gorgeous co-stars and charismatic new colleagues are closer by. It’s harder still when your past is raked up by envious people determined to destroy your present.

Edie already knows how it feels to be infamous, now she’s going to find out what it’s like to be famous.

Are she and Elliot a fairytale, or a cautionary fable about getting what you wish for?

This is a follow-up novel to Who’s That Girl.

Series reading order: Who’s That Girl | You Belong with Me


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There’s something downright breathtaking about a Kate Canterbary novel and the way her characters pull you in straightaway with the sheer freshness and candour of their quirks and wit. But it’s the way she then breaks them wide open, tenderly, carefully, that has you hooked on her every word. Two perfect strangers meet at a wedding—he’s the best man, she’s not even supposed to be there—thinking one unforgettable night of passion would be all they’d ever have. But when their paths cross again, their new working relationship throws a wrench in any desire they might have of pursuing a romantic connection. Canterbary takes the familiar workplace romance trope and turns it on its head in this heartwarming, fun, thoughtful story about finding the courage to believe in love, and it just so happens to be one of my favourite reads of the year.

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A young woman stricken by grief after the gruesome murder of her beloved mother moves into a secluded cabin by the lake, looking for peace and quiet, only to discover that she is not only sharing the lake with a rowdy neighbour, but the lake is also believed to be haunted by lovers who were murdered there almost two decades before. We return to Misted Pines with yet another intricately plotted, beautifully paced, spine-tingling whodunit with a beautiful love story (or three) at its core. This gripping tale about long-buried secrets, family bonds, and unexpected twists had me guessing until the very end.

Read More...

The majestic landscapes of the Scottish Highlands have been stirring the hearts of romantics for countless centuries, and Samantha Young’s aptly named series continues to echo the romantic allure of its idyllic setting with yet another unputdownable love story, this time of the marriage-of-convenience kind. She pairs a pragmatic, self-reliant Scottish farmer with the rebellious younger daughter of a Hollywood power couple, in this slow-burning, friends to lovers romance that hits all the right emotional beats. An absolute must-read!

Read More...

Paranormal romances are so rarely my jam these days, having read little else during my twenties and thirties, but Ali Hazelwood’s brand of sharp-witted, lovelorn shenanigans is always hard to resist, even more so when her new marriage of convenience romp happens to be of the blood-sucking and howling variety. She takes the star-crossed lovers, fated mates tropes to new heights in this spicy, unputdownable tale of two mortal enemies who agree to marry in order to uphold the peace between their species. I loved the story, the characters, the dialogues, even all the drawn-out miscommunication angst, but Ali Hazelwood had me at knotting, and I’m (k)not embarrassed to admit it. (K)not even a little.

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Bookish News

Delicate Escape by Catherine Cowles is getting a deluxe limited edition with gorgeous foil accents and sprayed edges, but only for the first print run, while supplies last. This deluxe edition will be released on Dec 31.

Read More...

The next instalment in Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter series is coming in May 2025, and we have the cover.

Read More...

Ginger Scott has revealed the cover of the first book in The Waiting Series Next Generation, an enemies to lovers, forbidden love, small town, coming of age romance, out on Oct 10.

Read More...

We have the cover of the sixth and final book in Brooke Blaine and Ella Frank‘s Park Avenue Prince series—a series of standalones set in the rich, luxurious, opulent playground that is Manhattan—out on Oct 3.

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Tessa Bailey has revealed the deluxe limited edition cover of the third book in her Big Shots series, out in February 2025, and it’s Chloe and Sig’s story. A steamy chance encounter between a professional hockey player and the dream girl he just can’t seem to forget takes a turn when the pair realise that their parents are engaged. The deluxe edition will only be available on the first printing, while supplies last. It features sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and colored illustrations on the inside cover.

Read More...

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