The nights are getting darker, and the temperature is dropping, in other words, it’s the perfect atmosphere for snuggling up with a book. And to help you out, we have compiled a list of our favourite new romance books that are coming out this October.
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We know your TBR piles are more like mountains, but each month more new romance books are released. And, each month we promise ourselves we will read what we have before we download all these wonderful new romance books. And yet, each month my to-read list gets longer and longer.
As that’s the case, we are sharing the love – and all the new romance books we are excited about – so that your TBR can become as unmanageable as ours!
let us know in the comments what new romance books you’re adding to your TBR!
Contemporary Romance New Releases
Butt Dialling the Billionaire
by Annika Martin
Series: Billionaires of Manhattan #7
Release date: 11 October
romantic comedy | office romance | Billionaire hero
This is the latest in Annika Martin’s series of loosely linked romantic comedy standalones. This time we have an ill-timed butt dial bringing our plucky and smart heroine to the attention of a mega rich Manhattanite. Unfortunately that attention is because she was making fun of him…much to the amusement of the whole office.
More contemporary romance releases
But, don’t forget these New Adult romance new releases
Paranormal Romance New Releases
When Life Gives You Vampires
by Gloria Duke
Series: Standalone
Release date: 04 October
romantic comedy | vampires | plus sized heroine
Twenty-five year old Lily Baines is used to waking up hungover, overweight, and underemployed. Waking up with fangs? Not so much. But when it turns out a little light necking has more serious consequences than she ever imagined, Lily’s determined to get to the bottom of it.
Tristan hadn’t meant to turn Lily—it’s against vampire law—but now that she’s here, they need to team up to save their hides. They strike a truce, fending off other vampires, Lily’s work-rival-turned-slayer, and her mother’s tone-deaf romance and fitness advice—all while Lily faces down her insecurities about the fact that she lives in a diet-obsessed world with a body that will never age, never die, and never change. Can she learn to love the (plus size) woman she’ll be forever more?
More paranormal romance releases
Don’t forget the release of the Peculiar Tastes series!
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Urban Fantasy and Fantasy Romance New Releases
Archangel’s Resurrection
by Nalini Singh
Series: Guild Hunter #15
Release date: 25 October
angels | second chances | urban fantasy
We are deep into the Guild Hunter series now, so if you haven’t picked it up yet, this isn’t the book to begin with. Instead go back and pick up Angel’s Blood, the first in the series; you won’t regret it!
Archangel’s Resurrection focuses on the recently awakened Archangel Alexander and the mysterious Zanaya. There love story has crossed ages, has it finally come to an end?
More fantasy and urban fantasy releases
Did you miss these releases to close out September?
Sci Fi Romance New Releases
Vengeful Heart
by Tiffany Roberts
Series: The Infinite City #3
Release date: 1 October
fated mates
This is not a standalone book, should be read in series order. After Arcanthus defeats a ghost from his past and thinks him and his mate can move on, her past catches up with them and threatens to take her away from him.
More sci fi romance releases
Mystery, Suspense and Thriller New Releases
Into the Storm
by Rachel Grant
Series: Evidence: Under Fire #1
Release date: 07 October
special ops hero | Enemies to lovers | Action and suspense
As a storm rolls in, a team of elite Navy SEALs arrives at a remote lodge for a wilderness training exercise that becomes terrifyingly real. Xavier Rivera planned the exercise down to the smallest detail, but he didn’t plan the arrival of archaeologist Audrey Kendrick—a woman he shared a passionate night with before betraying her in the worst way.
As the storm is unleashed on the historic lodge it becomes clear the training has been compromised. Trapped by weather, isolated by the remote wilderness, and silenced as communication with the world has been severed, unarmed SEALs face an unexpected and deadly foe. Audrey and Xavier must set aside their distrust and desire and work together to save a team under fire and survive in a battle against the wild.
More mystery, suspense and thriller releases
Or is cozy mysteries more your thing? Check out these cozy mystery new releases!
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Romantic Suspense New Releases
Historical Romances New Releases
The Belle of Belgrave Square
by Mimi Matthews
Series: Belles of London #2
Release date: 11 October
arranged marriage | reclusive hero | heroine with social anxiety
A heroine who is an incurable romantic, has social anxiety and loves to ride and read? A reclusive hero with a murky past and who is rumoured to live in a haunted estate? When a marriage is arranged between these two, what could possible go wrong? And, what could be in that locked tower room, which the hero refuses to allow our heroine to enter….? I can’t wait to find out!
Historical Romance New Releases
Young Adult New Releases
By The Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone
by Stephanie Kuehn
Series: Murder, She Wrote #1
Release date: 13 September
retelling | cozy mystery
So, this isn’t exactly a retelling, so much as a…continuing, based on the TV series Murder, She Wrote. Maybe it’s just my age showing, even though the TV programme first aired 2 years before I was born, but to me Murder, She Wrote, is the queen of both daytime TV and murder mysteries. It centres around the Angela Lansbury’s character Jessica Fletcher, who just happens to find herself in the vicinity of every murder that takes place in Maine, USA. Or wherever she is visiting. What else can one do in these circumstances, but become an amateur sleuth?
But, back to the book! in By The Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone the main character is Jessica Fletcher’s young niece. And it seems as though she has inherited her aunts talent for sleuthing. Especially when one of her friends goes missing…
More young adult new releases
Holiday Romance New Releases
So This Is Christmas
by Jenny Holiday
Series: Standalone
Release date: 04 October
contemporary romance | enemies to lovers | Royal romance
Matteo Benz has served the Eldovian crown all his life. His life (and work…although they are one and the same) are disrupted when his king bring sin Cara Delaney from America to help straighten out the king’s affairs. Her brashness, her beauty and her brains all drive Matteo out of his mind. They are constantly at odd…but he still can’t help falling for her, even as she disrupts his carefully ordered world.
More holiday romance new releases
Horror New Releases
Such Sharp Teeth
by Rachel Harrison
Release date: October 4
small town | shifter | dark comedy
A woman moves back to her small home town to help her twin sister, who is pregnant and estranged from the baby’s father. After hitting an animal with her car one night, she’s attacked and her life starts to quickly change.
More horror new releases
Even more October romance book releases we are excited about!
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I’ve read four of them- Archangel’s Resurrection, Belle of Belgrave Square, and Widow Island novellas and have two more on the TBR pile. I’ll be adding the Murder She Wrote variation- thanks for putting me in the know.
October is going to be a great new release book month.