Winter is here (though if you live in Los Angeles, maybe not so much).
Grab that warm drink and curl up with one of our eight favorite romance novels of the winter.
Cameron, who has been harboring feelings for Kenya longer than he’d care to admit, readily agrees.
Penguin
After a divorce and something of a life crisis, Dahlia Woodson is looking to start over.
In short, neither of them have time for the mess that is be falling in love on TV.
Kelly’s book is sublime, a true paean to the power of good food and even better love.
Grand Central Publishing
Meanwhile, Dahlia must also learn to trust herself again.
Can you give a book a Michelin star?
Imagine if Oscar Wilde wrote a romance novel and you’d get something like this.
Amazon Publishing
Bonny is unabashedly queer, or at least, as much as one can be in the era.
He readily sleeps with people for information, relishing every moment.
The Tarletons, Belle in particular, are deliciously over-dramatic, made so from a steady diet of novels.
Penguin
Jane Austen’s send-up of the gothic novel via Cathy Morland inNorthanger Abbeycomes to mind each time Belle swoons.
But it’s the joy on the pages that makesSomething Fabulousso enrapturing.
Does your head hurt yet?
HarperCollins
Only they know what really happened.
ButThe Roughest Draftis predominantly about surrendering to success and accepting happiness.
Psyche and Eros are a crackling couple, their electric chemistry hot enough to singe even cupid’s wings.
Sourcebooks
It’s enticing to watch her slip headlong from playing her masterful game into an all-consuming passion for Eros.
As they connect emotionally and physically, they both fear risking their hearts and paying the ultimate price.
There’s a lot to be learned from her approach.
Carina Press
Pulses of want and need permeate the book, but they’re never purely sexual.
Myths exist to explain our own humanity our basest desires and our noblest natures to ourselves.
Robert inherently understands that in this series and exploits it to her own fabulously smutty ends.
Grand Central
She can steal our hearts and a place on our shelves any time.
She wants something that will last and is eager to come on the show to find true love.
However, improbable that may be.
D’Vaughn and Kris have an instant connection, an attraction and care underlining their every interaction.
That’s not through any fault of the abundance of great writing out there.
Trapped in the throes of a blackmail plot, Sylvia doesn’t have any interest in a romance.
She’s been burned trusting the wrong man before.
But Sullivan’s real gift is how she layers in heartfelt connection amidst all the intrigue.
In keeping with her assumed surname, Sylvia is very much a wounded bird.
