Must-Read Romance Books Coming out in January and February
New Romance Books You Need on Your TBR
Earlier this year, I shared a sneak peek at some of the romance books that had me clearing space on my TBR for the months ahead. If that post was the trailer, this is the full feature. January and February are stacked with romances that span cozy contemporaries, sweeping fantasy, dark academia, heartfelt healing stories, and high-chemistry rom-coms.
Whether you are craving slow-burn tension, emotionally rich second chances, or romantasy worlds that pull you in and refuse to let go, the first two months of the year are delivering in a big way. Below is a deeper dive into the romances hitting shelves in January and February and why they stand out.
If you are the kind of reader who plans reading seasons like events, consider this your early-year romance roadmap.
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January Romance Releases Worth Adding to Your Shelf
January may feel quiet in other genres, but romance readers know better. These releases lean emotional, character-driven, and deeply satisfying, perfect for easing into a new reading year.
The Principal Problem
By Sienna Mills
Release date: January 14
Returning to her hometown was never part of the plan, especially not as a substitute teacher. But when life derails, she finds herself back in Blue Ridge, face-to-face with Sawyer Strong. He’s the former golden boy, current school principal, and the same guy who made her teenage years miserable.
Sawyer has grown into the role of dependable leader with ease, while she’s still figuring out what she wants next. Forced into close proximity by small-town life (and an unfortunate lack of personal space), old grudges clash with unexpected chemistry. The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to tell where resentment ends and something far more complicated begins.
The Principal Problem is a high-heat, small-town romance about second chances, messy feelings, and discovering that the people we think we know best might be the ones who surprise us most.
Tropes: Enemies-to-lovers • Small-town romance • Second-chance romance • Former bully / former crush • Forced proximity • Workplace romance (school setting) • High-heat romance • Grumpy hero / guarded heroine
Bound by the Sky
By Megan G. Elisabeth
Release date: January 28
Amaya Sinclair never imagined her life would take place above the clouds. When a sudden act of violence drags her into the dangerous world of skyships and floating cities, she’s forced to survive among people who see the sky as both freedom and weapon.
Her reluctant protector, airship captain William Lexington, has learned the hard way what ambition costs. Hardened by years in the sky and haunted by a past he can’t escape, Will wants nothing to do with the girl who upends his carefully controlled life until her presence threatens to expose secrets powerful enough to change the balance of the skies.
As danger closes in and old loyalties fracture, Amaya and Will must decide who they are willing to become in a world driven by power, invention, and control. Bound by the Sky is a fast-paced romantic fantasy about survival, choice, and finding solid ground in the most unlikely place, high above the world below.
Tropes: Romantic fantasy • Enemies-to-lovers • Forced proximity • Slow burn • Protector hero • High-stakes romance • Secret pasts
The Redo List
By Denise Williams
Release date: January 27
After a breakup that leaves her questioning who she is outside of her first love, Willow Lewis decides it’s time to reclaim the moments she never got to choose for herself. Back in her hometown temporarily, she creates a “re-do list” of experiences she wants to rediscover, this time on her own terms.
Enter Deacon, her brother’s best friend and the one person who’s supposed to be strictly off-limits. What begins as friendly support slowly deepens into something neither of them planned, built on trust, encouragement, and the kind of chemistry that’s hard to ignore. As Willow gains confidence and clarity, Deacon is forced to confront how far loyalty can stretch when real feelings are involved.
The Re-Do List is a warm, sexy romance about second chances, emotional growth, and learning that starting over doesn’t mean erasing the past, it means choosing yourself moving forward.
Tropes: Brother’s best friend • Second chances • Friends-to-lovers • Off-limits romance • Slow burn • Forced proximity • Emotional healing • Small-town romance
February Romance Releases You’ll Want on Your TBR
February is where romance readers truly get spoiled. From buzzy rom-coms and heartfelt second chances to sweeping romantasy and high-stakes fantasy romance, these releases bring big emotions, unforgettable chemistry, and stories that linger well past the final page.
Just for the Cameras
By Meghan Quinn
Release date: February 3
Graydon St. John is used to keeping his life private, avoiding headlines, and dodging drama, but a PR scandal forces him into the spotlight in the last place he wants to be: the city zoo. There, he meets Maple Baker, the zookeeper fiercely devoted to her flock of flamingos and completely uninterested in his brooding charm.
What begins as a staged partnership for the cameras quickly sparks real tension, laughter, and undeniable attraction. As their fake flirtation starts to feel dangerously real, both must navigate unexpected fame, personal secrets, and the risk of letting someone in when the world is watching.
Just For the Cameras is a playful, slow-burn sports romance about opposites clashing, chemistry igniting, and learning that sometimes the spotlight can reveal what truly matters.
Tropes: Sports romance • Grumpy/sunshine • Fake relationship • Slow burn • Opposites attract • Workplace • Forced proximity
The Wild Card
By Stephanie Archer
Release date: February 3
Working for a legendary hockey coach should be a career win, but from day one, sparks fly in all the wrong ways. Tate Ward is respected, controlled, and universally adored, except by the one person who seems immune to his charm. Their professional friction only intensifies when circumstances force them into close quarters and an uneasy partnership with the team’s future on the line.
As the season heats up, sharp banter gives way to reluctant trust, and glimpses of Tate as a devoted father and quietly supportive leader begin to crack his polished exterior. What starts as resistance turns into something deeper, challenging both of them to risk vulnerability, rewrite expectations, and decide whether love is worth changing the game plan.
The Wild Card is a heartfelt single-dad hockey romance about ambition, found family, and discovering that the biggest risks can lead to the best rewards.
Tropes: Single dad romance • Hockey romance • Boss/employee • Forced proximity • Grumpy/sunshine • Slow burn • Protective hero • Found family • Workplace rivals-to-lovers
The Lies the Summon the Dark
By Tessonja Odette
Release date: February 3
In a world where creativity is forbidden and beauty is punished, Inana survives by keeping her talent hidden and her heart guarded. Once nearly killed for her storytelling, she now trades forbidden fiction in the shadows of the city, where secrets are currency and survival depends on silence.
That fragile balance shatters when Dominic, a ruthless Shadowbane with blood ties to the immortal rulers, forces her into a dangerous bargain. Bound together by necessity and deception, they descend into a world of living darkness, unraveling truths about forbidden art, corrupt power, and the cost of desire. As trust blurs into temptation, Inana must decide whether her gift will doom her or become the weapon that changes everything.
The Lies that Summon the Night is a lush, dark romantasy steeped in forbidden magic, morally gray alliances, and slow-burning tension where desire itself may be the greatest sin.
Tropes: Forbidden magic • Dark romantasy • Forced proximity • Morally gray hero • Enemies-to-lovers • Shadow monsters • Slow burn • Gothic fantasy atmosphere
This Book Made Me Think of You
By Lilly Page
Release date: February 3
After the loss of her husband, Tilly Nightingale moves through her days on autopilot, unsure how to reconnect with the parts of herself that once felt alive. Then an unexpected message sends her to a small bookshop and into a year-long gift left behind by the man she loved.
Each month brings a new book and a note written with intention, inviting Tilly not only to read again, but to remember how stories can open doors she thought were closed forever. As the months pass, the quiet ritual of reading becomes a lifeline, guiding her toward new experiences, tentative friendships, and the possibility of joy beyond grief. Along the way, Tilly discovers that while love can be lost, its echoes have the power to shape what comes next.
This Book Made Me Think of You is a tender, life-affirming novel about mourning, memory, and the slow, brave act of letting yourself begin again.
Tropes: Grief and healing • Books about books • Letters from the past • Slow emotional rebuilding • Found community • Bookshop setting • Quiet romance • Second-chance-at-life
Songbird of the Sorrows
By Braidee Otto
Release date: February 3
Banished as a child and raised by a secretive spy network, Princess Aella has grown into a skilled Songbird, an elite agent trained to gather secrets, survive deadly missions, and trust no one. But nothing tests her like returning to the palace she once called home, tasked with a mission that forces her to step back into her former life as the Princess of Sorrows.
Caught between duty and desire, Aella must navigate treacherous political games, deadly trials, and the pull of a former flame who now commands the team she serves. As secrets unravel and loyalties are tested, she discovers that survival may demand defiance, and love may be the most dangerous choice of all.
Songbird of the Sorrows is a sweeping romantic fantasy about espionage, forbidden love, and the courage to reclaim your destiny in a world built on deception and power.
Tropes: Spy princess • Forbidden romance • Enemies-to-lovers • Secret society / elite assassins • Royal intrigue • Deadly trials • Slow burn • High-stakes fantasy adventure
Love and Other Brain Experiments
By Hannah Brohm
Release date: February 3
Frances Silberstein has built her life around logic, ambition, and proving she belongs in a field that never stops testing her. When a crucial academic conference puts her face-to-face with professional rivals, past regrets, and mounting career pressure, the last thing she needs is a distraction, especially one in the form of Lewis North, a fellow neuroscientist who challenges her at every turn.
A harmless misunderstanding spirals into a fake relationship that complicates everything Frances thought she wanted. As the lines between professional rivalry and personal connection blur, Frances is forced to question the narratives she’s built about success, independence, and love. Sometimes the most meaningful discoveries happen outside the lab.
Love and Other Brain Experiments is a sharp, heart-forward STEM rom-com about ambition, vulnerability, and choosing what truly matters both in science and in life.
Tropes: Academic rivals-to-lovers • Fake dating • STEM romance • Slow burn • Career-driven heroine • Intellectual banter • Emotional self-discovery • Forced proximity
Stolen Midnights
By Katherine Quinn
Release date: February 3
In a city ruled by capricious Fates and glittering privilege, Damien survives by stealing what the powerful believe they’re entitled to keep. But when a simple job goes wrong and he lifts a locket meant for Andalay’s golden girl, Wren Hayes, everything unravels.
The stolen necklace holds far more than magic, it holds a truth that ties Damien and Wren together in ways neither of them expected, forcing them into an uneasy alliance neither can afford to refuse. As cracks begin to form in Andalay’s polished upper class, the pair are pulled deeper into a dangerous game of secrets, ambition, and forbidden power.
With the city’s fate hanging in the balance and temptation growing harder to resist, Stolen Midnights blends romance and rebellion into a spellbinding YA romantasy where destiny is never as benevolent as it seems.
Tropes: YA romantasy • Thief x palace darling • Opposites attract • Forced alliance • Fate-bound connection • Hidden identity • Magical artifact • Class divide • Secrets of the elite • Slow burn
Get Over It, April Evans
By Ashley Herring Blake
Release date: February 3
April Evans arrives at a lakeside resort carrying more than just art supplies. She’s bringing heartbreak, financial stress, and a life that feels permanently off track. What’s supposed to be a fresh start quickly becomes complicated when she’s paired with a cabinmate who unknowingly represents everything April hasn’t been able to move past.
Daphne Love is chasing her own reset, hoping a summer surrounded by creativity and water will help her recover from love gone wrong. Forced into close quarters and professional competition, the two women circle each other with tension, resentment, and curiosity that slowly gives way to something neither expected. As summer unfolds, they must decide whether healing means holding on—or letting go in order to create something new together.
Get Over It, April Evans is a heartfelt contemporary romance about second chances, creative ambition, and finding unexpected love where old wounds once lived.
Tropes: Sapphic romance • Forced proximity • Summer at the lake • Creative rivals • Second-chance-at-life themes • Emotional healing • Slow burn • Resort setting
Two Can Play
By Ali Hazelwood
Release date: February 10
Viola Bowen finally lands her dream project: designing a video game inspired by her favorite book series. The catch? She has to work alongside Jesse Andrews, the co-lead she’s spent years clashing with and who seems determined to make her life miserable.
When a mandatory winter retreat strands them together in a remote, snowbound lodge, old rivalries ignite, secrets surface, and the tension between them becomes impossible to ignore. As their icy exteriors melt, Viola and Jesse discover that the spark they’ve been avoiding might just turn into something neither expected.
Two Can Play is a witty, spicy enemies-to-lovers novella full of gaming culture, snowed-in chemistry, and slow-burn romance.
Tropes: Enemies-to-lovers • Snowed-in romance • Workplace romance • STEM romance • Gaming / tech setting • Forced proximity • Slow burn • Spicy novella • Professional rivalry
And the Crowd Went Wild
By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Release date: February 10
After a career meltdown plays out under a very public spotlight, former actress Dancy Flynn retreats to the last place she expects to find refuge, the lakeside home of the boy who once loved her most. She’s looking for anonymity, not absolution. What she finds instead is Clint Garrett, now a superstar quarterback with a long memory and zero interest in reopening old wounds.
Clint is determined to keep his life controlled, focused, and free of distractions, especially the woman who broke his heart years ago. But as Dancy begins rebuilding herself and Clint’s carefully managed world starts to unravel, proximity has a way of stirring feelings neither of them ever truly resolved. Between outside pressures, personal reinvention, and emotions that refuse to stay buried, their shared past refuses to remain history.
And the Crowd Went Wild delivers a heartfelt, character-driven romance about redemption, resilience, and the complicated way first love lingers long after the cheering fades.
Tropes: Second-chance romance • Enemies-to-lovers • Childhood sweethearts • Forced proximity • Sports romance • Celebrity heroine • Small-town romance • Rekindled first love
Wicked Onyx
By Debbie Cassidy
Release date: February 10
Born into a cursed bloodline and stripped of her magic, the last Onyx knows she doesn’t belong at Nightsbridge Academy, but surviving it might be the only way to reclaim her family’s legacy. When her mother leaves a clue to prove their innocence, she must navigate a deadly magical school, uncover buried secrets, and outmaneuver the powerful Imperium determined to see her fail.
As alliances shift and dark forces close in, she finds herself torn between two men who stir feelings she thought forbidden, even as her curse begins to fracture in their presence. With danger at every turn, the last Onyx must decide how far she’s willing to go to seek justice and whether love is a risk worth taking when betrayal is everywhere.
Wicked Onyx is a dark academia romantasy full of magic, intrigue, forbidden romance, and a heroine determined to rewrite her fate.
Tropes: Dark academia • Magical academy • Cursed heroine • Forbidden romance • Love triangle • Slow burn • Secrets and family legacy • Revenge plot • Enemies in power
Heir of Illusion
By Madeline Taylor
Release date: February 10
Bound by magic and forced into servitude, Iverson Pomeroy survives by hiding her fury behind carefully crafted illusions. Trained as a weapon for a king she despises, she’s spent years planning her escape, waiting for the one chance that could finally set her free.
That chance arrives in the form of Thorne, a dangerous and enigmatic figure with his own reasons for hunting a powerful artifact. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Ivy must decide whether freedom is worth trusting someone whose very touch spells death. As deception, desire, and fate intertwine, their partnership threatens to unravel everything they believe about loyalty, power, and control.
Heir of Illusion is a fast-paced dark fantasy romance filled with lethal magic, morally gray choices, and a slow-burn connection forged in defiance of gods, kings, and destiny itself.
Tropes: Enemies-to-lovers • Fae assassin heroine • Morally gray MMC • Unlikely alliance • Slow burn • He falls first • Shadowy love interest • Touch her and die • Who did this to you • Banter-heavy romantasy
Racing Hearts
By Ann Adams
Release date: February 10
Katherine Parker has always believed discipline is the key to success on the water and in life. When a public breakup derails her performance and costs her the career she’s worked toward for years, she’s forced to return home with everything on the line.
Training with a new coach means surrendering control to someone who challenges her rigid routines and pushes her to rediscover why she fell in love with rowing in the first place. As long days on the river blur the line between professional focus and personal connection, Katherine begins to question whether winning requires perfection or the courage to change.
Racing Hearts is a spirited sports romance about ambition, balance, and learning that sometimes the fastest way forward is letting yourself enjoy the ride.
Tropes: Sports romance • Opposites attract • Coach/athlete dynamic • Forced proximity • Slow burn • Career comeback • Emotional growth • Small-town romance
The Sun and the Starmaker
By Rachel Griffin
Release date: February 17
In a remote mountain village that survives on borrowed sunlight, Aurora Finch’s life is quietly predictable until a single, enchanted moment alters her path forever. Drawn into the icy world of the reclusive Starmaker, Aurora discovers a dormant magic within herself that may hold the key to her village’s future.
Isolated in a frostbound castle, Aurora is forced to navigate both her growing power and her complicated bond with the enigmatic sorcerer who controls the sun’s reach. As winter deepens and hidden truths surface, love and sacrifice become inseparable, and Aurora must decide how much of herself she’s willing to give to protect the light she’s come to cherish.
The Sun and the Starmaker is a sweeping romantic fantasy about destiny, devotion, and the fragile balance between warmth and darkness.
Tropes: Mythic fairy-tale romance • Magical village survival • Enigmatic sorcerer • Forced proximity • Slow burn • Hidden magic • Sacrifice for love • Lyrical fantasy • Star-crossed vibes
Crown of War and Shadow
By JR Ward
Release date: February 17
Marked by magic she doesn’t fully understand, Sorrel has survived her life on the edges, unwanted, mistrusted, and painfully alone. When a crumbling world forces her into an impossible mission across demon-haunted lands, survival becomes secondary to destiny she never asked for.
Her only chance lies with Merc, a dangerous mercenary whose loyalty is for sale and whose past is wrapped in shadow. As they journey through war-torn territory, desire collides with distrust, and the line between protection and possession begins to blur. With ancient forces rising and betrayal lurking close, Sorrel must decide whether embracing her power and the man beside her is the key to saving a kingdom or the spark that will destroy it.
Crown of War and Shadow is a sweeping, slow-burn fantasy romance about cursed magic, brutal choices, and a love forged in darkness and danger.
Tropes: Slow burn • Cursed / hidden magic • Chosen one • Brooding mercenary hero • Forced proximity • Dangerous journey • Touch her and die • Who did this to you • Morally gray hero • Found family • High-stakes fantasy world • Betrayal and secrets • Fate vs free will
The Halifax Hellions
By Alexandra Vasti
Release date: February 17
Matilda and Margo Halifax have spent their lives defying society, but when Matilda impulsively elopes with the dangerous Marquess of Ashford, chaos follows. Determined to stop her sister, Margo enlists her steadfast friend Henry Mortimer to chase them to Scotland, only to find that nothing goes as planned.
Along the way, secrets are revealed, passions flare, and every encounter tests their wits and hearts. As the journey unfolds, the Halifax twins discover that love is as unpredictable as scandal and sometimes, the greatest rebellions lead to the most unexpected romances.
Tropes: Historical romance • Road trip romance • Forced proximity • Sibling dynamics • Second-chance romance • Secret identities • Scandalous high society
If Only You Knew
By Ellie K. Wilde
Release date: February 17
Summer Prescott and Parker Woods have always been inseparable, so intertwined in each other’s lives that romance never seemed like an option. But as adulthood refuses to fall neatly into place, a well-intentioned plan to fix each other’s love lives only highlights what they’ve been avoiding all along.
When heartbreak pushes Summer to chase a fresh start far from Oakwood Bay, Parker is forced to confront the truth about his feelings and the risk of losing the one person who’s always felt like home. With distance, timing, and years of unspoken emotion standing in the way, both must decide whether friendship is enough, or if love has been there all along.
If Only You Knew is a heartfelt friends-to-lovers romance about timing, growth, and finding the courage to choose each other before it’s too late.
Tropes: Childhood best friends • Friends-to-lovers • Mutual pining • Small-town coastal setting • Late-blooming romance • Emotional slow burn • Career crossroads • “Right person, wrong time” vibes • Surf-town atmosphere
Catch Her If You Can
By Tessa Bailey
Release date: January 20
Madden Donahue has loved Eve Mitchell since high school, but the fiery burlesque club owner has always kept him at arm’s length. When her sister leaves Eve with two children, Madden offers a solution: a marriage of convenience that provides the health benefits she desperately needs on the strict condition that it stays private.
Eve can’t deny her feelings, but loyalty to her best friend and fear of jeopardizing Madden’s baseball career make her cautious. As fake vows turn into fiery chemistry, both must navigate secrets, family obligations, and their own hearts to discover whether a marriage built on convenience can survive the heat of real desire.
Tropes: Marriage of convenience • Friends-to-lovers • Sports romance • Fake relationship • Slow burn • Protective MMC • Secret romance • Single parent heroine • Second-chance romance
War of Fire and Flame
By Marion Blackwood
Release date: February 23
As the final war ignites, Selena is no longer just fighting an enemy, she’s fighting the aftermath of magic that has already taken too much from her. With the Iceheart Dynasty advancing and defeat looming, every spell she casts threatens to cost her more than she has left to give.
Surrounded by allies who are fraying under the same relentless pressure, Selena must confront impossible choices, fractured loyalties, and the reality that survival will demand sacrifice. Old wounds resurface, long-simmering conflicts finally explode, and love is tested in the crucible of war. Victory may be within reach, but it will not come without loss.
War of Fire and Fury delivers an emotional, high-stakes conclusion to the Flame and Thorns series, where magic has consequences, war spares no one, and the future is forged in ash and flame.
Tropes: Final battle • Epic fantasy romance • War-torn world • Magic with consequences • Found family • Emotional devastation • High-stakes sacrifice • Broken alliances • Bittersweet ending • Series finale
Once Upon a Song
By Nadine Wells
Release date: January 23
Ana thought a singing job at the glamorous Hôtel de Neige would be her ticket to a dream life, a place of glittering chandeliers, applause, and a sense of belonging. But behind the grandeur, the hotel holds shadows that don’t belong in any fairytale. Sinister sleepwalking episodes, cryptic threats from a mysterious ballerina, and a haunting phantom in white quickly turn Ana’s dream into a chilling puzzle.
As she uncovers the fate of the hotel’s previous singer, Ana realizes the stakes are higher than she ever imagined. Trust is a luxury she can’t afford, not with secretive coworkers, not with the magnetic yet elusive manager, Dimitri. In this Gothic tale of ambition, desire, and danger, Ana must decide how far she’s willing to go for her moment in the spotlight and whether the price of belonging might be more than she can survive.
Tropes: Gothic romance • Workplace romance • Enemies-to-lovers undertones • Haunted hotel mystery • Slow burn • Protective love interest • Dark academia vibes • Fairytale-like suspense
Now Back to You
By B.K. Borison
Release date: February 24
Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart couldn’t be more different. He thrives on routine and control from behind his radio booth, she thrives on chaos and adventure in the field. When a historic snowstorm forces them to work together, their clashes are inevitable, but so is the spark neither can ignore.
As the pair navigate icy roads, high-pressure assignments, and each other’s stubborn personalities, friendship slowly turns into something deeper. Amid blizzards and unexpected intimacy, they must decide whether their connection can survive beyond the mountains.
And Now, Back to You is a witty, heartwarming opposites-attract romance about finding love in unexpected partnerships and rediscovering joy in the middle of chaos.
Tropes: Opposites attract • Workplace romance • Forced partnership • Slow burn • Snowed-in / storm setting • Enemies-to-lovers • Friends-to-lovers • Winter vibes
Behind Closed Doors
By Shain Rose
Release date: February 24
Paradise Grove looks flawless from the outside, gated estates, obscene wealth, and rules designed to keep secrets safe. For a quiet schoolteacher, it’s never meant to be more than a workplace, until violence shatters the illusion and pulls her into the orbit of one of the enclave’s most powerful residents.
Jameson Knight is controlled, private, and impossible to read, offering protection that feels as dangerous as the threats closing in around them. Forced to share his home under the guise of safety, she begins to see the cracks beneath his polished exterior and the darkness woven into the neighborhood itself. As desire and distrust intertwine, walking away becomes harder than staying, especially when the truth behind Paradise Grove may be the most dangerous thing of all.
Behind Closed Doors is a provocative romantic suspense about obsession, protection, and the cost of loving someone who lives by secrets.
Tropes: Billionaire romance • Forbidden attraction • Forced proximity • Protective MMC • Live-in arrangement • Dark secrets • Possessive hero • Romantic suspense • High-heat romance
Beauty and the Demon
By Aurora Ascher
Release date: February 24
Murmur has always embraced his role as a villain until his own magic starts turning against him. Haunted by prophetic dreams and the relentless noise of the dead, the powerful necromancer is racing to outwit fate itself. His solution requires one dangerous constant: a witch who refuses to be afraid of him.
Suyin, leader of her coven and far more formidable than her captor expects, isn’t interested in playing damsel or pawn. Trapped in Hell and forced into close quarters with a demon unraveling at the seams, she challenges Murmur at every turn, exposing cracks in his carefully constructed cruelty. As their uneasy alliance deepens, desire and defiance blur, and Murmur is forced to question whether survival is worth the cost of his humanity.
Beauty and the Demon blends sharp humor, cozy-hell vibes, and sizzling tension into a romance where villainy meets vulnerability and love becomes the most dangerous magic of all.
Tropes: Enemies-to-lovers • Villain romance • Forced proximity • Captor/captive • Powerful witch heroine • Morally gray MMC • Cozy fantasy in Hell • Spicy paranormal romance
Final Thoughts
January and February are setting the tone for a year full of romance that feels intentional, emotionally rich, and wonderfully varied. Whether you are reaching for comfort reads, intense romantasy, or character-driven contemporary love stories, there is something here waiting to become your next favorite.
If you want help narrowing these down by spice level, tropes, or reading mood, that is coming next. Until then, start clearing space on your shelves and your reading calendar. These romances are worth it.
Let me know which one is already on your TBR.