Coming Soon – The Books We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in December 2024
We’d love to hear which books you’re looking forward to in the coming weeks. Here are a few AAR reviewers have pulled together. Are you excited about any of these? Let us know!
Releasing the week of 1st Dec 2024
A Five-Letter Word for Love by Amy James (December 3
Avenging Angels Back in the Saddle by Kristen Ashley (December 3)
The Christmas Switch by Briar Prescott (December 3)
Deck the Palms by Annabeth Albert (December 4)
Designs on You by Jaci Burton (December 3)
PS: I Hate You by Lauren Connolly (December 3)
So Into You by Kathleen Fuller (December 3)
The Broken Places by Mia Sheridan (December 1)
The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right by Suzanne Allain (December 3)
The Shadowed Land by Signe Pike (December 3)
Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson (December 3)
Releasing the week of 8th Dec 2024
Flirting with Alaska by Belle Calhoune (December 10)
A Monsoon Rising by Thea Guanzon (December 10)
How to Get a Life in Ten Dates by Jenny L. Howe (December 10)
Kiss My Glass by Catherine Robertson (December 13)
No Ordinary Duchess by Elizabeth Hoyt (December 10)
Not in My Book by Katie Holt (December 10)
She’s a Wild One by Kristen Proby (December 12)
Sunflower Cottage on Heart Lake by Sarah Robinson (December 10)
Symphony of Salvation by Nicky James (December 13)
The Champagne Letters by Kate Macintosh (December 10)
Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin (December 10)
When We Had Forever by Shaylin Gandhi (December 10)
Releasing the week of 15th Dec 2024
Again with Feeling by Gregory Ashe (December 16)
Between Now and Forever by Adriana Locke (December 17)
False Evidence by Rachel Grant (December 19)
Lawbreaker by Diana Palmer (December 17)
Reckless Hearts by Jax Calder – 17th Dec
Something Extraordinary by Alexis Hall (December 17)
Releasing the week of 22nd Dec 2024
A Tempest of Desire by Lorraine Heath (December 24)
Love in Translation by Joss Wood (December 24)
River Wild by B.J. Daniels (December 24)
Stuck in the Country with You by Zuri Day (December 24)
The Earl’s Marriage Dilemma by Sarah Mallory (December 24)
The Secret Daughter by Anne Gracie (December 24)
The Matter of the Secret Bride by Darci Wilde (December 24)
The Trouble with the Daring Governess by Annie Burrows (December 24)
Wedding Night with her Viking Enemy by Lucy Morris (December 24)
Just discovered that one of my favorite romance writers has a new book scheduled for December 4: Kelly Hunter’s MUST LOVE MISTLETOE is the latest in her long-running Montana Bachelors and Babies series. It features one of my favorite tropes: a man in love with his late best friend’s widow. Can’t wait
I do love that trope. I will have to check that out. Thanks! (Have you read The Christmas He Loved Her?)
Yes! One of my favorite Juliana Stone books.
Not surpeisingly I’m planning on reading most the M/M books books/authors on the list. My caveats are: I’m not sure about Gregory Ashe’s book. I wasn’t wowed by bk 1 and I paused that series. I’m waiting to see how the reviews of the rest of the series go. I’m not sure about Something Extrodinary as yet. I’ll wait for some reviews. Sometimes Alexis Hall works extremely well for me, and sometimes not so much. I’m interested in Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin, but I still haven’t gotten around to listening to the first book in the series, so I need to do that. I’m really looking forward to the 3rd installment of her Roaring 20’s series, but that isn’t out until late spring, I think.
I recently read Beautiful Hearts by Jax Caulder and I’m really looking forward to Reckless Hearts.
Twisted Shadows will definitely be on my Best of 2024 list, but it ends with a humdinger of a cliffie, so be prepared. It’s a fantastic series.
Ainsley Booth’s THE REBOUND PLAN (December 1) is the 4th book in her Off the Ice series of hockey romances. In this one, the ex-wife of the team’s captain enters a fake (and then not so fake) relationship with a player who has loved her from afar.
Briar Prescott’s THE CHRISTMAS SWITCH is an antagonists-to-lovers paranormal with “Freaky Friday” elements: two workplace rivals, working together to put up decorations for the company Christmas party, somehow switch bodies when there’s a problem with the Christmas lights. What will each of them discover when inhabiting the other’s body? I anticipate this will be a lot less angsty than Prescott’s usual output.
SIN AND SNOWFLAKES: A MAFIA CHRISTMAS ANTHOLOGY (December 5) is exactly what it says on the tin. I’m looking forward to Mafia Christmas stories from Cate C. Wells, Alexandr Voinov, and Lucy Monroe—and perhaps I’ll discover a new writer or two in this multi-author offering.
Kati Wilde’s ONLY ONE BED is currently scheduled for December 10. It’s an antagonists-to-lovers/enforced-proximity-in-a-snowstorm/only-one-bed romance—and I am so here for it! You guys know I’m a Kati Wilde fangirl, but her publication dates are often more suggestions than actualities, but I’d love to have a new Kati for Christmas. Fingers crossed.
Nicky James’s SYMPHONY OF SALVATION (December 13) features one of the supporting characters from her MEMORIES OF FOREVER (my favorite book of 2024 so far): a music teacher who falls for a visiting maestro who has been suppressing his sexuality most of his life. I love James’s angsty style and can’t wait for this one.
RECKLESS HEARTS (December 17) is the second book in Jax Calder’s Rainbow Redemption series. The first book, BEAUTIFUL HEARTS, was wonderful, and I’m hoping RECKLESS HEARTS, which features a man falling for his best friend’s brother, continues the brilliance.
THE WILD WOLF’S REJECTED MATE (December 26) is the fifth book in Cate C. Wells’s Five Packs series of shifter romances. I expect plenty of Wells’s trademark steam, feminism, and a hero who wants to do better but sometimes lacks the emotional bandwidth to do so without blunders.
I’m eagerly waiting to see if I can snag an ARC of the Calder to review here! The Prescott is a lot of fun and not without depth, and I’ll be getting a copy of the James any day, so watch this space!
I thought it might be fun to read some authors on the list that are from my very, very distant past reading. However, at £14.90 for the Kindle version of the Diana Palmer book and £7.44 for the B J Daniels book, not a chance in hell. Ridiculous pricing for what are really light-weight authors who may be well past their authorship prime. If they get reviewed here, I will be very interested to see what is said.
Some of the names on that list surprised me; I imagined they were no longer writing or possibly dead.
I will definitely read Alexis Hall’s Something Extraordinary (it is also priced right). I was almost tempted by Shaylin Gandhi’s When We Had Forever, but at $10+ probably not.
I enjoyed the Hall a lot more than I expected to given that I really disliked Arabella in the other books. It’s very funny – had me laughing out loud in places.
You got the ARC? Will you be reviewing it here?
Yes and yes!
I will read anything Briar Prescott writes and look forward to her first Christmas book. From the list above, I am also excited for Deck the Palms by Annabeth Albert (she writes a really nice Christmas book), Symphony of Salvation by Nicky James, and Reckless Hearts by Jax Calder (next in the series after Beautiful Hearts, which is a truly excellent book that I highly recommend). Also on my own list are Christmas books by Lane Hayes (Moody’s Humbug Holiday), Charlie Novak (Ice & Sweet), and Noelle Adams (A Christmas Mystery). Also The Best Man’s Secret by Ana Ashley and Protecting Mr. Fine by Lucy Lennox, both the next in series (note: all of the above are M/M contemporary authors except Noelle Adams who is M/F contemporary)
I’ll be reviewing quite a few of those – I enjoyed the Prescott and am reading the Albert now. As I said upthread, I’m hoping to get an ARC of the Calder as well, and I’m really looking forward to the James.