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There’s a reason why Annabel Monaghan is considered to be in a class of her own when it comes to uplifting, emotionally resonant romances that leave readers beaming from ear to ear, because this gem of a book delivers pure joy from its very first page. Witty, delightful, and a refreshing take on the well-loved trope of fake dating in a small town setting, everything about this radiant novel is simply beautiful. I didn’t know I was looking for a cosy romance like this, yet there has never been a book I needed more in my life.

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It doesn’t happen all that often that a book shakes me to my very core. But Wolfsong by TJ Klune has been a tectonic event in my reading life. I can tell you that it’s a male/male romance, I can tell you that there are werewolves in it, I can tell you it’s the very definition of a “found family” trope, but none of those descriptors do this book justice. TJ Klune’s minimalist prose and slow, poetic rhythm pull you in like a spell, seducing you into slow, wilful surrender, but his every word is purposeful and capable of delivering a lingering gut punch that will steal the air from your lungs. This is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read, and in many ways, one of the most painful, too. I read until 4am two nights in a row, crying into my pillow but unable to let these characters go. 6 STARS!

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The premise of two rival meteorologists who get stuck in a snowstorm together, sharing one bed, might not be uncharted territory in the Romance genre, but B.K. Borison manages to turn a familiar trope into a fresh, richly layered, deeply relatable, warm hug of a story that left me giggling, swooning, and smiling ear to ear. Achingly tender and romantic, Jackson and Delilah dazzle off the pages.

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NBJ WEEKLY RECAP

New & Upcoming Releases; Bookish News; Latest Top Recommendations

21 July, 2026

NEW RELEASES

MISTAKEN IDENTITY + TWIN SWITCH + FORCED PROXIMITY + ONE NIGHT STAND + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + SMALL TOWN

One lie, one storm, and a night that rewrites all the rules…

Grayson has built his life on order—rows of perfect vines, strict schedules, and a reputation as the grouchy Storm brother. At twenty-seven he’s already a curmudgeon in work boots, a “get off my lawn” kind of man whose scowl does most of the talking. And nothing ruffles him more than Lark—one of his family’s wild, impulsive tasting-room assistants.

So when “Lark” joins him for a weekend wine festival, he braces for chaos. What he doesn’t expect is her sudden sweetness…or the way she blushes, or listens, or curls trustingly into him when a drunk festival-goer won’t take no for an answer. He saves her, shaken by the fierce urge to protect the woman he shouldn’t want.

But it isn’t Lark at all.

It’s Wren—her shy, bookish twin sister. The town’s quiet librarian who’s never broken a rule in her life…until now. Caught in her sister’s lie, sharing one hotel room—one bed—and far too much heat with a man she absolutely cannot want, Wren tries desperately to keep her distance. If Grayson learns the truth, Lark could lose her job. And Wren could lose something even more fragile: the only man who’s ever really looked at her.

Back home, Grayson is determined to forget the confusing attraction he felt for Lark—that is, until a chance encounter in the library reveals the unmistakable pull he can’t explain. Because something about the quiet twin feels achingly familiar…

This is the fifth book in the Perfect Storm series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.

Series recommended reading order: Taken by Storm | Shelter from the Storm | Caught in a Storm | Riding Out the Storm | Before the Storm | Heart of the Storm (Dec 2026)

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MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE + ENEMIES TO LOVERS + SMALL TOWN

For better or worse is just the beginning…

Lainey Davis can’t wait for the day she’ll be able to escape her tiny Wisconsin town. But she’s not even close to covering her health insurance premiums and pricey migraine medication, let alone saving up enough to start over some place new. That is, until Lainey learns that through the archaic legal doctrine of adverse possession, she’s inadvertently squatted her way into owning a marvel of modern architecture.

But Lainey owns only the house. The surrounding property, a lakeside money pit the previous owner used as a front to deal illegal reptiles, has been willed to Elliot Hodges, a D.C. architect who wants to rent out the place to fellow architecture lovers. Their assets are tied together, but neither can move forward without the other.

Desperate, Elliot proposes an unconventional arrangement: marry him for health insurance and in exchange, Lainey will allow him to buy her out. Win-win: Lainey will finally have a way out of town, and he’ll own the house designed by his idol. Married in name only and living together while fixing up the property, Lainey and Elliot find themselves unable to keep their hopes, dreams, or bedsheets from getting entwined. And as their connection grows, Lainey’s no longer sure what’s more terrifying: leaving Elliot behind or letting him in.

This is a standalone novel.


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TWIN BROTHER’S EX + SECRET RELATIONSHIP + FOUND FAMILY + PRO FOOTBALL ROMANCE

I knew falling for Evangeline Carrington would ruin everything.
I just didn’t know how fast.

She was my twin brother’s girlfriend in college.
But I’d wanted her first.

Gorgeous, sharp-tongued, impossible to ignore, Evangeline is the kind of woman you never really forget. And when I run into her at a teammate’s wedding years later, one dance turns into too many drinks … and one reckless night neither of us can take back.

I try putting distance between us again, but that becomes impossible once Evangeline starts covering my team as a field producer. She’s determined to prove she earned her place, and keeping us a secret is the only way to protect the career she’s fought for.

And I want to keep us a secret because my brother wants her back.

But secrets like ours were never built to survive.

Not with cameras following her every move, looking for a scandal.

Not with my brother suddenly showing up at my games and making a play for my girl.

And definitely not when every stolen touch between us feels less like a mistake … and more like something neither of us is willing to give up.

Because the deeper I fall for Evangeline, the more impossible the decision becomes—choosing my family … or the woman I think was always meant to be mine.

This is the third book in the Gridiron Legacy series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.

Series recommended reading order: The Trade | The Pact | The Secret | The Decoy (Sep 2026)


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SHIFTERS + PARANORMAL ROMANCE

Something called to me from the darkness…

I should’ve ignored it. Walked away like I have from so many things. But I couldn’t. Not when it whispered my name like it knew me.

Then I found her.

Hidden. Untouched by time. A mystery I don’t understand—and a temptation I can’t resist. There’s something about her that pulls at me, threads through wounds I thought long buried.

I don’t trust it. I don’t trust her.
But I can’t stay away.

Something is stirring. Something that shouldn’t exist. And the closer I get to her, the more I feel it…waiting.

She may be the answer.

Or the beginning of the end.

Either way—I’m not walking away.

This is a standalone novel in the Dragon Kings series.

Series recommended reading order: Dragon Revealed (novella) | Dragon Mine | Dragon Unbound (novella) | Dragon Eternal | Dragon Lover (novella) | Dragon Arisen | Dragon Kiss (novella) | Dragon Born | Dragon Marked | Dragon Forged | Dragon Sieged


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FORBIDDEN + SECRET HOOKUPS + FOOTBALL PLAYER/ CHEERLEADER + SPORTS ROMANCE

When I make the cheerleading team for Seattle’s pro football organization, there are many rules.

Most notably?
Stay away from the football players.

Everyone on my squad takes that warning to heart.
I, on the other hand, take it as a challenge.

Especially after I meet Braden Lock.

With his easy smile, endless patience, and heart-of-gold reputation, the star receiver is everything I’m not — soft where I’m sharp, steady where I’m mayhem. Braden Lock has always played by the rules.

Unfortunately for him, I’m very good at breaking them.

And after one unexpected turn of events leaves me spiraling, I convince the league’s golden boy to indulge in one very forbidden distraction: me.

What starts as secret hookups and harmless fun quickly turns into something far more dangerous — because the more time we spend sneaking around behind closed doors, the harder it becomes to pretend we’re not already in too deep.

But our organization has one ironclad rule: players and cheerleaders are strictly off limits. If anyone finds out about us, Braden’s contract — and my spot on the squad — could disappear overnight.

We knew the risks of our illegal formation. We just didn’t realize the real danger wasn’t getting caught.

It was how badly we’d destroy ourselves trying to hold on.

This is a standalone novel in the Red Zone Rivals series.

Series recommended reading order: Fair Catch | Blind Side | Quarterback Sneak | Hail Mary | False Start | Illegal Formation


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ENEMIES TO LOVERS + WEDDING PLANNER/DIVORCE LAWYER + HE FALLS FIRST + FORCED PROXIMITY

Gracie Holland can plan the perfect Happily Ever After—unless it’s her own. After a soul-flattening breakup, she’s rebuilt her life planning weddings at Larkwood—an ivy-covered Rhode Island estate where she lives in the staff cottage (and only occasionally cries herself into a blanket burrito). But when her beloved boss passes away and leaves the estate to her grandson, Gracie suddenly finds herself pitted against a love-allergic divorce lawyer determined to sell Larkwood by summer’s end—even if it means crushing his grandmother’s legacy and everyone’s jobs beneath his polished wingtips.

As someone who cleans up romantic disasters for a living, Jude Larkwood has no intention of keeping the estate as a wedding venue, no matter how much he loved his Nana. Selling it is critical for reasons he can’t discuss, but there’s just one problem: his Nana inexplicably left the guest cottage to the estate’s maddeningly romantic wedding planner, who has somehow turned his mind into her permanent residence.

So, when Gracie proposes that he help her plan her ex’s shotgun wedding to prove Larkwood is worth saving, he agrees—on one condition. If she fails to convince him by the big day, she’ll sell him her cottage.

But as bickering and cake tastings turn into late-night confessions, Gracie and Jude find themselves breaking every vow not to fall for each other. After all, opposites may attract—but can a hopeless romantic and a professional cynic really say “I do” to their own love story?

This is a standalone novel.


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BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE + SMALL TOWN

Does Asher Remington really deserve the reputation of a surly beast who murdered his father?

The first time I met Asher Remington, I thought he was a self-centered, uber-wealthy jerk who cared about no one but himself.

I thought he deserved the horrible reputation he had with some of the townspeople in Crystal Fork, Montana.

Unfortunately, he also had an available job that I desperately needed. Employment that would put me in close quarters with Asher almost every day.

I told myself I could deal with his obnoxiousness and his uncivil behavior. And so I probably could have…if he’d continued to act like an egotistical beast.

It didn’t take long for me to realize that there was so much more to Asher Remington than what people could see on the surface.

The man had his reasons for being standoffish, and the more I learned about Asher, the more I was drawn to him.

I knew that getting closer to him was dangerous, but it was a compulsion that I couldn’t seem to control.

The chemistry between us was electric—a white-hot attraction that threatened to consume me.

But I’d promised myself I’d never be vulnerable again, and giving in to a temptation like Asher Remington was terrifying for me.

We were both injured by our painful pasts.

And what would happen if I revealed all of my dark secrets?

Was it really possible for two very wounded people to heal each other’s souls, or was I about to end up with the biggest heartache of my life?

This is a standalone novel in the Montana Billionaires series, part of the larger The Billionaire’s Obsession series.

Series recommended reading order: Billionaire Unexplained ~ Kaleb | Billionaire Unforgettable ~ Tanner| Billionaire Undeceived ~ Devon | Billionaire Unforgiven ~ Cole | Billionaire Unbroken ~ Asher | Billionaire Undefeated ~ Gideon (2027)


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SECOND CHANCES + WORKPLACE ROMANCE + FORCED PROXIMITY

Welcome to Starlight Palms, a favorite retirement facility among Hollywood actors and industry professionals tucked away just outside of sunny Palm Springs. Filled with forgotten scream queens, eccentric screenwriters, and heartthrobs of the past, it has a brand-new resident: Vera Stein, age forty.

Vera knows she’s missed her chance at a life worthy of the silver screen, just like she missed her chance at ever finding true love. But Vera isn’t one to take chances. She’s spent most of her adult years caretaking for her dying mother and her movie star boss’s ego. Now abruptly houseless and jobless, Vera has nowhere to land, so to grandmother’s house we go!

The Starlight Palms Senior Living Center is midcentury Hollywood down to its pastel-painted bones. This desert gem isn’t lacking in saucy plot twists (swinging seniors, anyone?) or a leading man: Elias Buckley, the on-site doctor and Vera’s former ill-fated college fling and—for reasons that will stay in Vegas—legally her ex-husband according to the state of Nevada.

It’s not long before Vera falls into a job as the activities coordinator and under the spell of a certain smart-mouthed doctor… Suddenly all those empty years in LA look less like mistakes and a lot more like backstory. With a fresh start at her fingertips, Vera begins to see that even with all the detours she’s taken, there’s still a Hollywood ending (and maybe even a happily ever after) in sight…

This is a standalone novel.


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AGING ROCKSTAR + LATER IN LIFE ROMANCE + SMALL TOWN

Liam Page spent decades singing about love. Now he’s ready to talk about it.

The stadiums aren’t selling out like they used to. His bandmates are ready for a change. And Liam is finally okay with that because being home in Beaumont with Josie, their son Noah, their daughter Paige, and three perfect grandchildren is everything he never knew he needed.

When a producer pitches him a late-night call-in radio show, Liam is skeptical. But “The Love Line with Liam” becomes something unexpected. A chance to help strangers navigate heartbreak, second chances, and everything in between.

He’s good at giving advice. It’s his own life that keeps getting complicated.

Because after decades of silence, his estranged father is asking for forgiveness. And Liam isn’t sure he has any to give.

This is a continuation of Liam Page’s story, set decades after Forever My Girl.


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There’s a reason why Annabel Monaghan is considered to be in a class of her own when it comes to uplifting, emotionally resonant romances that leave readers beaming from ear to ear, because this gem of a book delivers pure joy from its very first page. Witty, delightful, and a refreshing take on the well-loved trope of fake dating in a small town setting, everything about this radiant novel is simply beautiful. I didn’t know I was looking for a cosy romance like this, yet there has never been a book I needed more in my life.

Read More...

It doesn’t happen all that often that a book shakes me to my very core. But Wolfsong by TJ Klune has been a tectonic event in my reading life. I can tell you that it’s a male/male romance, I can tell you that there are werewolves in it, I can tell you it’s the very definition of a “found family” trope, but none of those descriptors do this book justice. TJ Klune’s minimalist prose and slow, poetic rhythm pull you in like a spell, seducing you into slow, wilful surrender, but his every word is purposeful and capable of delivering a lingering gut punch that will steal the air from your lungs. This is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read, and in many ways, one of the most painful, too. I read until 4am two nights in a row, crying into my pillow but unable to let these characters go. 6 STARS!

Read More...

The premise of two rival meteorologists who get stuck in a snowstorm together, sharing one bed, might not be uncharted territory in the Romance genre, but B.K. Borison manages to turn a familiar trope into a fresh, richly layered, deeply relatable, warm hug of a story that left me giggling, swooning, and smiling ear to ear. Achingly tender and romantic, Jackson and Delilah dazzle off the pages.

Read More...

In a rapidly changing world, there is one constant that continues to provide this reader with refuge and much needed escapism, and that constant is Kristen Ashley’s inimitable brand of storytelling. As one of the most versatile Romance writers of today, Ashley’s extensive catalogue stretches across several subgenres and tropes, but all her stories have one thing in common—emotional depth and rich character development—and her latest novel is a perfect testament to that. The quiet, restrained beauty of the English countryside offers an idyllic setting to a poignant tale of love, friendship, and mystery, that is only intensified by a touch of the supernatural. When it comes to delivering stories that take over your entire life while reading them, then settling deep into the fabric of your soul, Kristen Ashley reigns supreme.

Read More...

Bookish News

The long-awaited sequel to J.T. Geissinger‘s twisty paranormal romantic suspense novel, Pen Pal, is releasing in November 2026, continuing Aidan and Kayla’s story.

Read More...

An all-new second chance romance is coming from Max Monroe in January 2027, and we have the cover.

Read More...

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