Happy Tuesday, everyone!
We’re halfway through June, but only have one more release this month. June through September is always a blur. Sometimes I forget August even exists.
How are your new release lists looking today? Anything you’re excited for?
For the Ring
Author: Jennifer Hennessy
Released: June 17, 2025 by Headline Eternal
Genre: Contemporary Romance, RomanceA funny, razor sharp and sexy adult romance for fans of Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood by romance author Jennifer Hennessy.
Life’s about to throw her a curveball!
Sports Analyst Frankie Sullivan needs a win. As an expert at using data to predict games, the loss of a World Series threw her off her game. Fresh off a nasty divorce, and ready for a new chapter, the New York Eagles is Frankie’s final shot at victory.
But things just got a whole lot more complicated.
Former baseball star Charles Avery, the Eagles’ new manager, is Frankie’s biggest enemy. At her last team, Charlie always made decisions with his heart, clashing with Frankie over her stats and data. This time shouldn’t be any different, but Frankie can’t seem to stop the way her heart jumps when he looks at her.
She can’t let anything happen with Charlie, but as the two attempt a daring move to take the Eagles to the top, her cool head mixed with Charlie’s fiery heart might be the ultimate winning formula…
Dahlia: I loved Hennessy’s last book Degrees of Engagement, where we first meet Frankie, and I was dying for her to get her own book. Hennessy (who writes YA as Jennifer Iacopelli, and full disclosure was my coeditor for an anthology about girls in sports) is one of those sports fiction authors who actually knows and loves sports deep down to her bones and beyond, and it always shows in her writing.
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Author: Lindsay Maple
Released: June 17, 2025 by Canary Street Press
Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance“We want to wrap this book up with a bow and leave it under everyone’s tree this year. Lindsay Maple delivers a confection of holiday charm, small town quirk, tenderly sketched characters, and scorching heat.” —Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, USA TODAY bestselling authors of A Merry Little Meet Cute
It’s the hottest Christmas on record…
Like naughty and nice, Mariah and Ellie are complete opposites. Small-time actress Ellie is thrilled to be back on set of a cozy holiday film, while makeup artist Mariah only views the low-budget project as a stepping stone on her way to more serious movies. The pair definitely don’t hit it off when they’re introduced, but if they want to survive the summer heat—and Mariah’s stifling Canadian hometown—they’ve got to keep it professional. Luckily, holiday cheer is Ellie’s specialty, and she’s determined to win stubborn Mariah over.
Mariah finds one bright spot in her forced second Christmas: hot hookups with an edgy local bartender. The romance even has her opening up to Ellie—who admits to crushing on her wholesome cottage-rental host. But when Ellie and Mariah realize the guys are cheating on them, they band together to get revenge. It’s fun planning their own Home Alone–inspired pranks…until Ellie and Mariah realize they’re actually falling for each other.
But the film shoot is too short to get serious, so they’ll have to decide: Was their romance simply a holiday fling or a real Christmas-in-July miracle?
“Full of hilarious hijinks and tenderness in equal measure, this holiday romance had me flipping the pages late into the cozy night. Come for the revenge, stay for the true love.” —Ashley Herring Blake, USA TODAY Bestselling Author of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care
Tara: My first thought was “A Christmas book? Now?” Then I read the premise and got excited. The book is even set in Canada!
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Author: Ann Aguirre
Released: June 17, 2025 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
Genre: Romance, Science Fiction/FantasyGalaxy Quest meets Roswell in this quirky sci-fi rom-com from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre.
He’s stranded. He’s desperate. He’s not looking for love.
Alien Tamzir Jaarn, a.k.a. Seeker, is paying the price for risking an illicit holiday on an interdicted planet. His ride off-world never showed, and he’s been stranded on Earth for nearly a year. His gear is breaking down, food is becoming a problem, and if his camouflage unit fritzes, he’ll wind up in a government lab.
But he’s met some cool humans online, and they’ve invited him to the biggest space-themed convention around. Why not make memories with them while he figures out how to get home?
Space Con or bust!
She’s nerdy. She’s flirty. She’s ready for romance.
Jennette Hammond is an endearing weirdo, voted most likely to bang an alien in high school. Her house is full of gray man collectibles, adorable tentacle monsters, and yes, in college, she volunteered for a SETI-type program. Not that she’s ever had any close encounters of the sexy, alien kind. Heck, she’s never even been able to convince anyone to attend Space Con.
But that’s about to change. Finally, she has online friends who have agreed to go, and it will be a romp to remember—and she’ll finally put a face to the name of her longtime crush, Seeker.
When alien meets adorkable, they’re destined for an out-of-this-world affair…
Shana’s pick!
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Author: Ashley Poston
Released: June 17, 2025 by Berkley
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Science Fiction/FantasyA hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from Ashley Poston.
Joni Lark is living the dream. She’s one of the most coveted songwriters in LA…and she can’t seem to write. There’s an emptiness inside her, and nothing seems to fill it.
When she returns to her hometown of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, she hopes that the sand, the surf, and the concerts at The Revelry, her family’s music venue, will spark her inspiration. But when she gets there, nothing is how she left it. Her best friend is avoiding her, her mother’s memories are fading fast, and The Revelry is closing.
How can she think about writing her next song when everything is changing without her?
Until she hears it. A melody in her head, lyric-less and half-formed, and an alluring and addictive voice to go with it—belonging, apparently, to a wry musician with hangups of his own.
Surely, he’s a figment of her overworked imagination.
But then the very real man attached to the voice shows up in Vienna Shores. He’s aggravating and gruff on the outside—nothing like the sweet, funny voice in Joni’s head—and he has a plan:
They’ll finish the song haunting them both, break their connection, and hope they don’t risk their hearts in the process.
Because that song stuck in their heads? Maybe it’s there for a reason.
Ashley Poston’s latest magical realism romance!
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Author: Ry Herman
Released: June 17, 2025 by The Dial Press
Genre: LGBTQIA, Science Fiction/FantasyA princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters, a dozen identical masked heroes, and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom—and herself—in this affectionate satire of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale The Twelve Huntsmen.
Someone wants to murder Princess Melilot. This is sadly normal.
Melilot is sick of being ordered to go on dangerous quests by her domineering stepmother. Especially since she always winds up needing to be rescued by her more magically talented stepsisters. And now, she’s been commanded to marry a king she’s never met.
When hideous spider-wolves attack her on the journey to meet her husband-to-be, she is once again rescued—but this time, by twelve eerily similar-looking masked huntsmen. Soon, she has to contend with near-constant attempts on her life, a talking lion that sets bewildering gender tests, and a king who can’t recognize his true love when she puts on a pair of trousers. And all the while, she has to fight her growing attraction to not only one of the huntsmen, but also her fiancé’s extremely attractive sister.
If Melilot can’t unravel the mysteries and rescue herself from peril, kingdoms will fall. Worse, she could end up married to someone she doesn’t love.
Amanda: Retellings are having a moment and this cover is gorgeous.
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For those in the Seattle area, Ann Aguirre is speaking about her new book at Third Place Books tomorrow (June 18). https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/ann-aguirre
I love Ann Aguirre’s alien romances! Strange Love is a book I return to over and over and I think it really shows the best of what romance is capable of. Can’t wait to read her new one!
Very excited for the Ann Aguirre and the Ry Herman. This week, I’m also adding to my TBR the latest in Claudia Gray’s Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mysteries, “The Rushworth Family Plot.” They’re fun stories following the young-adult children of the original Austen characters. Blurb:
Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney understand each other perfectly; it’s a pity their families do not. A series of misunderstandings, misplaced pride, and—indeed—prejudice, has led their parents to deem the pair unsuited to wed. Now, with the Season approaching, Juliet’s grandfather, General Tilney, has sent her to London with a new wardrobe and orders to prove herself worthy of someone better than the snobby Darcys. Meanwhile, Jonathan has been forced to accept an invitation to stay in town with old friends Edmund and Fanny Bertram at the house of Edmund’s brother, Sir Thomas. Oblivious to and undesiring of female attention outside of Juliet’s, Jonathan is at risk of being ensnared by Caroline Bingley’s previously rebuffed plans to make herself—or her daughter—mistress of Pemberley.
But when Mr. Rushworth, the former husband of Edmund’s sister Maria, is discovered dead in his home, Jonathan and Juliet find themselves with problems far weightier than the marriage market. In one of the greatest scandals of its day, Maria abandoned her new husband in favor of the notorious rake Henry Crawford, and when he wouldn’t marry her, was forced to flee to the continent in disgrace. Now Maria is back, accompanied by a daughter she claims Mr. Rushworth fathered after their divorce—and who he wrote into his will just before his death. To spare Edmund and Fanny further social shame, Jonathan and Juliet must unmask a killer before the drama surrounding the Rushworth family fortune claims another victim.
All on my TBR! And The Rushworth Family Plot sounds fun too!
“Hide Your Walle” sounds like sexy times with a fun Australian.