10 New Romance Reads for Your Beach Bag

Say You’ll Be Mine is Naina Kumar’s debut romance novel about theater trainer and aspiring playwright Meghna Raman. Despite going in opposition to her dad and mom’ needs for her to be an engineer, Meghna’s life goes nice. But then her greatest good friend (and secret crush) Seth instantly will get engaged and asks her to be his greatest man. In a determined effort to recover from the one which bought away, Meghna agrees to let her dad and mom set her up. And a pretend engagement with a grumpy (however good-looking) engineer looks as if simply the factor to assist Meghna recover from her crush.

This cute YA up to date romance follows lately graduated Riley, who spent her highschool years doing her greatest to be the proper, well-behaved daughter for her mother. But now that she’s rising up and transferring out, she has no concept what she actually desires from her life when she’s not frightened about pleasing others. Looking for a solution to discover herself, she groups up together with her greatest good friend Tom and strikes to New York for the summer season to finish The Getaway List — a listing of issues they’ve needed to do collectively since they have been youngsters, earlier than Tom moved away.

Singer-songwriter Riley Wynn turns into an in a single day sensation after she releases a breakup album that includes successful single nobody can get sufficient of. But when her ex-husband claims the tune is about him, Riley is decided to set the report straight. And so she contacts her previous faculty flame, Max Harcourt, the man the tune is absolutely about. When Riley asks Max to go public as the actual inspiration for the tune, he’ll solely agree underneath one situation. He desires to go on tour together with her. As the two journey the nation collectively, they start to marvel if what was in the previous shouldn’t keep in the previous.

Enemies-to-lovers followers, throw this one in your seashore bag instantly. Nami has at all times exceeded at every little thing. But that every one adjustments on her thirtieth birthday, when her engagement shockingly ends, and her tech firm is on the verge of shedding funding. Worst of all, simply when she asks the universe to convey her a soulmate, she is as an alternative delivered her hate mate. Jae Lee, her previous highschool nemesis who beat her out for valedictorian, has plans to take over her start-up.

This queer Victorian romance is the primary in a brand new collection from Emma R. Alban. There’s nothing debutante Beth desires lower than snagging a husband, but when she doesn’t throughout the subsequent 12 months, she and her mom might be out on the streets. Meanwhile, Gwen, the daughter of an earl, is on her fourth season and is simply having fun with the occasion, with no intentions of ever discovering a partner. So when Gwen meets Beth, she hatches up a plan to save lots of them each: they’ll arrange Gwen’s father with Beth’s mom.

Zoey Fong has one easy purpose: discover a remedy for most cancers. But the analysis shouldn’t be going in addition to Zoey hoped, and to make issues worse, a key a part of her analysis has unintentionally ended up within the arms of a good-looking stranger. All Davy Hsieh desires is to arrange an animal sanctuary away from the prying eyes of different people. He was undoubtedly not anticipating Zoey to enter into his quiet hermit bubble. And he wasn’t anticipating romance.

Raise your hand in the event you love pretend relationship tales! (Me!) Holden James auditions for the truth tv competitors, Madcap Market, considering this could possibly be the proper homage to his mom, who died six years in the past. But now his relationship along with his long-term boyfriend is on the rocks, and with out a boyfriend, his time on the present may be over earlier than it begins. Then, he meets lodge concierge Leo Min. Leo is sort and understanding and looks as if the proper particular person to be on the present. So perhaps they will throw collectively a pretend relationship and make this work?

Wells Whitaker is in a rut. Once golf’s hottest rising star, now he appears like he has nothing to indicate for his onerous work and just one remaining fan. Josephine Doyle has at all times believed in Wells, so when he asks her to be his caddy and cut up the prize cash if he wins, she after all says sure. Traveling collectively, the 2 quickly change into inseparable. Maybe Josephine was the important thing to his success all alongside.

Here’s one other sports-themed romance you gained’t wish to miss. High college basketball coach Julie Parker is prepared for the problem with smart-mouthed Vanessa Lerner becoming a member of the staff. What she wasn’t ready for was how star-struck she could be when she meets Vanessa’s mom, former basketball star Elle Cochrane. Eventually, Julie works up the braveness to ask Elle to change into the assistant coach for the 12 months. As the 2 develop nearer and nearer, Julie wonders how Elle continues to be single.

Boston vogue influencer Melanie Karlsen is determined to save lots of her model, which is how she finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. That’s the place she meets grumpy lobster fisherman Evan Whaler. The two don’t hit it off at first, however after Evan will get in a boating accident and winds up unconscious within the hospital, Mel is mistaken as Evan’s fiancée. After assembly Evan’s enjoyable, quirky household, Mel fortunately agrees to fake to be Evan’s fiancée for per week, so long as Evan agrees to assist her together with her social media content material.