It is good news to those of us who love reading romance novels
over and over again. The romance novels always continue to captivate readers
with their engrossing stories of romance and bonding. A wide range of releases
in the genre have occurred in 2024, each providing an own viewpoint on love,
passion, and the human heart.
I have taken my time to get you the best seven romance novels of
the year that have won our hearts and minds.
I would love to know whether you agree with my list or you have
any other book suggestion that i should include in this list and also read. My
comment section is open with love to you.
So let’s dive in to it.
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1. *Not in Love* by Ali Hazelwood
Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has
enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she
yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline,
one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is
stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively
attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.
Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own
reasons for pushing this deal through – and he’s a man who gets what he wants.
With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The
woman who’s off-limits to him.
Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution
out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret,
no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their
companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business – one that plays for
keeps.
2. *The Rom-Commers* by Katherine Center
Emma Wheeler
desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying,
obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies―good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole
caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she
gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates―The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing
god!―it’s a break too big to
pass up.
Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking
duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime.
But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to
write with anyone―much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.” Worse, the romantic comedy
he’s written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He
doesn’t even care about the script―it’s just a means to get a different one
green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.
But Emma’s not going down without a fight. She
will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself. She will
convince him that love stories matter―even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But . . .
what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so
much . . . more real than fiction? What if the love story they’re writing
breaks all Emma’s rules―and comes true?
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3. *A Novel Love Story* by Ashley Poston
Eileen Merriweather
loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway.
Because at least imaginary men don’t leave you at the altar. She feels
safe in a book. At home. Which might be why she’s so set on going her annual
book club retreat this year—she needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand
romantic gestures—no matter what.
But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself
stranded in a quaint town that feels like it’s right out of a novel…
Because it is.
This place can’t be real, and yet… she’s here, in Eloraton, the town of her
favorite romance series, where the candy store’s honey taffy is always sweet,
the local bar’s burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the
afternoon. It feels like home. It’s perfect—and perfectly frozen, trapped in
the late author’s last unfinished story.
Elsy is sure that’s why she must be here: to help bring the town to its
storybook ending.
Except there is a character in Eloraton that she can’t place—a
grumpy bookstore owner with mint-green eyes, an
irritatingly sexy mouth and impeccable taste in novels. And he does not want her finishing this book.
Which is a problem because Elsy is beginning to think the town’s
happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own.
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4. *Happily Never After* by Lynn Painter
When Sophie
Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fiancé has cheated yet
again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future
father-in-law is her dad’s cutthroat boss, she doesn’t want to be the one to do it. Her savior comes in the form of
a professional objector, whose purpose is to show up at weddings and proclaim
the words no couple (usually) wants to hear at their ceremony: “I object!”
During anti-wedding festivities that night, Sophie learns more about Max the
Objector’s job. It makes perfect sense to her: he saves people from wasting
their lives, from hurting each other. He’s a modern-day hero. And Sophie wants
in.
The two love cynics start working together, going from wedding to wedding, and
Sophie’s having more fun than she’s had in ages. She looks forward to every
nerve-racking ceremony saving the lovesick souls of the betrothed masses. As
Sophie and Max spend more time together, however, they realize that their
physical chemistry is off the charts, leading them to dabble in a little hookup
session or two—but it’s totally fine, because they definitely do not have feelings for each other. Love doesn’t exist, after all.
And then everything changes. A groom-to-be hires Sophie to object, but his
fiancée is the woman who broke Max’s heart. As Max wrestles with whether he can
be a party to his ex’s getting hurt, Sophie grapples with the sudden
realization that she may have fallen hard for her partner in crime.
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5. *Tangled Up in You* by Christina Lauren
Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question,
or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself
to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books
she’s read, Ren has never found one that’s taught a woman raised on a homestead
and off the grid for most of her twenty-two years how to live in the real
world. So when she finally achieves her lifelong dream of attending Corona
College, it feels like her life is finally beginning.
Fitz has the rest of his life mapped out: Graduate from Corona at the top
of his class, get his criminal record wiped clean, and pass himself off as the
rich, handsome player everyone thinks he is. He’s a few short months from
checking off step one of his plans when Ren Gylden, with her cascading blonde
hair and encyclopedic brain, crashes into his life, and for the first time
Fitz’s plan is in jeopardy.
But a simple assignment in their immunology seminar changes the course of both
their lives, and suddenly they’re thrown out of the frying pan and into the fireon a road trip that will lead them in the most unexpected
directions. Out on the open road, the world somehow shifts, and the unlikely
pair realize that, maybe, the key to the dreams they've both been chasing have
been sitting next to them the whole time.
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6. *Husband and Lovers* by Beartriz Williams
New England, 2022.
Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every
parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp
with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for
his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance
for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her
past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her
own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best
friend, Monk Adams— one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters—a fairy
tale cut short by a devastating betrayal.
Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension in the war, Hungarian
refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself—marriage
to a wealthy British diplomat with a coveted posting in glamorous Cairo. But a
fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel bristling with spies
leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken Hannah’s longing for everything
she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah
finds herself snared in a game of intrigue between two men . . . and an act of
sacrifice that will echo down the generations.
Timeless and bittersweet, Husbands & Lovers takes readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and
redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed
beaches of contemporary New England. Acclaimed author Beatriz Williams has
written a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human characters
entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and the female
experience—inside worlds brought shimmeringly to life.
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7. *A Little Kissing Between Friends* Chencia C. Higgins
Music producer on
the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the
studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster has
never been a problem until her latest fling clashes with Jucee, her best friend
and the most popular dancer at strip club Sanity.
It makes Cyn see Jucee in a different light. One with far fewer boundaries and
a lot more kissing.
Juleesa Jones makes great money dancing the early shift and spends most
evenings with her son, her Sanity family or at Cyn’s house. Relationships are not high on the priority list—until she’s forced to admit that maybe
friendship isn’t the only thing she wants from her bestie.
But hooking up with your ride-or-die is risky. Jucee isn’t just Cyn’s best
friend—Jucee is her muse. When Cyn lays down her tracks, it’s Jucee she
imagines in the club throwing it back to every note. If they aren’t careful,
this could crash and burn…but isn’t real love worth it?
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These books reflect different perspectives on relationships, love, and personal development, which sets them apart as 2024 romance picks. Every romance fan will find something to adore in these engrossing novels, regardless of their preference for clever romantic comedies, poignant love stories, or emotionally complex storylines.
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