Forget judging by the cover; this is all about the thrill of picking your next read based on intriguing themes and irresistible tropes.
We’ve got something for every romantic at heart. Craving the charm and hilarity of a rom-com? How about fake dating, meddling mothers, and small-town Aussie vibes? Or maybe you’re dreaming of a romantasy filled with magical realms, morally gray anti-heroes, and sizzling chemistry? For lovers of heartfelt stories, immerse yourself in a rural romance brimming with second chances, family secrets, and the warmth of a quaint small-town setting. And for a modern twist, fall for a millennial romance packed with Notting Hill-worthy escapades, celebrity intrigue, and life-changing holiday flings.
Which one will you choose? Take a chance, and you might just discover your next literary soulmate!
Have a blind date with a… rom-com!
✅ fake dating
✅ small town Aussie setting
✅ meddling mothers
✅ friends to lovers trope
A sassy fake-dating-with-a-twist, friends-to-lovers, laugh-out-loud romance for readers of Rachael Johns, Beth O’Leary and Marian Keyes.
When Finn and Sweeney return to their hometown to surprise their mothers at Ronnie and Connie’s joint sixtieth birthday party, they expect to be the biggest bombshell of the evening. And they are-just not in the way they’d assumed. Because they’re … engaged?
Apparently?
Sick of hearing everyone else’s exciting news of weddings and grandbabies, Ronnie and Connie spontaneously fabricated their own fairytale. Their absent children are engaged … to each other.
Finn and Sweeney will absolutely not pretend to be engaged. Just coming home is giving them both plenty of emotional baggage to unpack. But they have vastly underestimated their mothers and soon find themselves reluctantly agreeing to the fake engagement so their pillars-of-the-community mums aren’t exposed as big fat lying liars.
However, when their new relationship goes viral-not just in their small town of busybodies, but internationally-Finn and Sweeney realise that the lie is completely out of control. Will they ever be able to untangle themselves from its clutches?
And what if the biggest lie they’ve been telling is to themselves?
Have a blind date with a… romantasy!
✅ morally grey anti-hero
✅ shifters & magical realms
✅ humour & sass
✅ steamy heat level
Bestseller Jaymin Eve’s wildly popular dark romantasy trilogy, Shadow Beast Shifters, is now available in paperback with an all-new exclusive bonus scene.
My father made a terrible mistake. One I’m left paying for.
As a wolf shifter growing up in a strong pack, I should be living my best life. But after my father tried to kill our leader, I’m labelled an outcast, traitor, less than dirt.
When I can’t take pack life any longer, I run, but apparently they don’t like losing their punching bag. Torin, the leader’s son, drags me back before my first shift…a shift that will reveal my true mate. I never could have predicted who mine would be, but the moment my wolf looks upon him, I’m filled with hope for a brighter future.
After all, no one ever rejects their true mate, right?
Wrong. Very wrong.
When the wolves attack, my soul screams for vengeance, and somehow I touch the shadow realm. Somehow the Shadow Beast hears my call and our shifter god, the devil himself, arrives in our world.
Turns out being rejected by my mate was only the beginning.
Have a blind date with a… rural romance!
✅ small town setting
✅ second chance love story
✅ start of a series
✅ family secrets
Second-chance love, family secrets and a small-town mystery to uncover … A charming and heartwarming new series begins. Picture-perfect rural romance from bestselling author Alissa Callen.
When horticulturalist Rylea Laurent lost both her brother and the boy she loved, she fled rural Tasmania and found refuge among the lavender fields of France. After nine years, her father’s poor health brings her home, but to her dismay she’s not the only one back in town.
Kane Ashford has returned to Windamere in search of answers. Despite his success as a grain trader, the past still haunts him. What really happened to his brother and best mate, Rylea’s brother, on that long-ago camping trip? As for Rylea, the girl he was forced to leave behind to protect his family secret, he’s never forgotten her either.
Determined not to fall for Kane again, Rylea tries to keep her distance. But when the two are thrown together to unravel their family tragedies, old feelings resurface – along with a new threat to Rylea’s lavender farm.
As matchmaking whispers spread and Rylea and Kane become the small town’s most watched couple, will the not-so-subtle efforts of the Windamere Gardening Girls be enough to help them risk their hearts and claim a long-overdue second chance?
Have a blind date with a… millenial romance!
✅ Notting Hill vibes
✅ celeb X normie
✅ Melbourne & London
✅ holiday fling
Notting Hill meets Bridget Jones Baby in this whip-smart, funny, emotionally charged contemporary fiction about messy pasts, second chances and future families from a sparkling new voice.
Melbourne teacher Netta Phillips is staring down the barrel of her fortieth birthday with months’ worth of negative pregnancy tests behind her, her relationship in the bin and a mortgage she can’t afford. Things really aren’t going to plan.
When she unexpectedly finds the childhood diary of notoriously private celebrity musician Morrison ‘Mo’ Maplestone, things get even messier. Mo’s desperate to keep the diary’s dark contents hidden from the tabloids and well away from his beloved younger brother, and he’s willing to pay Netta handsomely to personally return it to him in London. The financial reward he offers would would mean Netta could keep her apartment and try assisted conception treatments; after all, the clock’s ticking. Loudly. But she can’t go. After what happened there twenty years ago, she vowed never to return to the UK.
Not for anything.
When necessity bites, Netta reluctantly accepts Mo’s offer and life quickly becomes even more complicated. There’s paparazzi to contend with, a fake date that feels all too real and a Christmas Day confession that changes everything.
Amongst the chaos, Netta and Mo forge a rare connection, and discover that facing up to the past might be the only way to find the real thing. Or maybe something even better.