Coming Soon – The Books We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in June 2025
June Releases! What are you excited about?
Releasing the week of 3rd June 2025
Always Murder by Gregory Ashe (June 3)
Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady (June 3)
Devil and the Deep Blue Fish by Amy Lane (June 3)
He’s to Die For by Erin Dunn (June 3)
In the Family Way by Laney Katz Becker (June 3)
It Takes a Psychic by Jayne Castle (June 3)
Just Beachy by Wendy Wax (June 3)
Ready to Score by Jodie Slaughter (June 3)
Scotch on the Rocks by Elliot Fletcher (June 8)
Seven Summers Later by Laila Rafi (June 3)
Summer of Love by Lily Easton (June 5)
The Promised Queen by Kate Johnson (June 5)
The Expat Affair by Kinberly Belle (June 3)
The Summer That Changed Everything by Brenda Novak (June 3)
Till Summer Do Us Part by Meghan Quinn (June 3)
Releasing the week of 10th June 2025
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell (June 10)
Caught Up by Navessa Allen (June 10)
If I Told You I’d Have to Kiss You by Mae Marvel (June 10)
Last Night Was Fun by Holly Michelle (June 10)
Never Been Shipped by Alicia Thompson (June 10)
Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver (June 10)
Release Me by K.A. Tucker (June 10)
With a Vengeance by Riley Sager (June 10)
Writing Mr. Right by Alina Khawaja (June 10)
Releasing the week of 17th June 2025
Avenging Angels: Tenderfoot by Kristen Ashley (June 17)
Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor (June 19)
Breaking the Ice by Beth Bolden (June 18)
Cold Truth by Toni Anderson (June 23)
Gloves Off by Stephanie Archer (June 17)
I Think I’m in Love With an Alien by Ann Aguirre (June 17)
Love and Paklava by Alyssa Jarrett (June 17)
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel (June 17)
To Defend a Damaged Duke by Fearne Hill (June 17)
Seven Year Itch by Amy Daws
Someone Knows by Vi Keeland (June 17)
Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston (June 17)
Steal My Breath Away by Sarah Castille (June 17)
The Proposal Project by Donna Marchetti (June 19)
The Ripple Effect by Maggie North (June 17)
Releasing the week of 24th June 2025
Cruel Summer by Maisey Yates (June 24)
Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell (June 24)
Eliza and the Duke by Harper St. George (June 24)
Fan Favorite by Adrienne Gunn (June 24)
Finders Keepers by Sarah Adler (June 24)
Isaiah and Isolde by Julie Anne Long (June 24)
Paternal Instincts by Nicky James (June 24)
Severed Heart by Kate Stewart (June 24)
The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain by Hannah Brown
Thus With a Kiss I Die by Christina Dodd (June 24)
What Happens in the Highlands by Anna Bradley (June 24)
When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa (June 24)
Look Before You Leap by Virgina Heath (June 24)
The Love Fix by Jill Shalvis (June 24)
You can see–and purchase them! – here.
I see that JAL finally wrote Isaiah & Isolde’s origin story and I am soooo torn about this!! I love JAL, but those who’d read her Pennyroyal Green series already knew how their story ended (which did not have the traditional romance genre ending), so I don’t know if their origin story will serve any purpose other than to satisfy curiosity. I think I will sit this one out in the end.
I just got a preorder notice that Josh Lanyan has a New Romantic suspense novel coming on June 27! Kill Your Darlings. Lanyan is still an auto buy for me, especially when she’s writing about the publishing the publishing world.
I got that, too, but I’m going to wait for reviews. I was pretty disappointed in the last Art of Murder book (are Sam and Josh ever going to get their HEA?) and I lost interest in the Secrets and Scrabble series about halfway through, so I’ll be sitting on the fence, waiting…
Julie Anne Long has a book coming June 24, Isaiah and Isolde: A Penny Royal Green Prequel. (192 pages) I added it to the list.
I am reading it now! I will review it.
yes, please – I look forward to reading your review.
I just finished Isaiah and Isolde’s story and am dying to talk about it. Has anyone else read it? Jacob and Isolde have been part of the 10 or 11 books in the series and this is their story. It was very moving but I think I’m Team Isaiah and wish Isolde had met him at the trees. It’s probably an A for me because it has me thinking about it long after finishing it, even though she ended up with Jacob (not a spoiler). She said she may write a second novella about it and I would be up for that. Now I have gone back to reread The Perils of Pleasure, the first book in the series. I think Jule Anne Long is one of my favorite historical romance authors.
I am reading it now. I adore JAL’s work. She’s a wonder.
In June, I’m looking forward to Hockey 101 by Melanie Ting (It’s a KOBO original, not available at Amazon), The Body at the Vineyard by Kate Hardy, Roommating by Meredith Schorr, and Writing Mr. Wrong by Kelley Armstrong (the multi-genre author whose historical mystery book Death at a Highland Wedding I just reviewed here).
I wasn’t aware Christina Dodd is still writing. And using Verona as a setting, no less. I guess I’ll be checking it out.
We reviewed the first book in that series – https://allaboutromance.com/book-review/a-daughter-of-fair-verona-by-christina-dodd/
I reviewed the first book in the series. It’s very not-Shakespearian, but mildly amusing.
I’m looking forward to It Takes a Psychic by Jayne Castle. We didn’t get an Amanda Quick book last year and I don’t see one scheduled for this year. I wonder if she is only doing two books a year now (Castle and Krentz)?
I was wondering whether Krentz had retired her Amanda Quick name due to the current unpopularity of historical romance and publishers’ reluctance to publish books in that genre. Amanda Quick is massively popular, so hopefully there’ll be a new book from her soon.
Her last few books were, IIRC, 20th century historical mysteries with some romance, rather than Regencies, but given the way trad publishers are dumping HR it may be that she’s not contracted for those any more.
I was shocked to look at my upcoming dates spreadsheet and see that I only have one book on it for June: Nicky James’s PATERNAL INSTINCTS (June 24) is the 8th book in her Valor & Doyle m/m romantic-suspense series. In this post-HEA outing, the MCs (both police detectives) are preparing to welcome a child into their home just as they are assigned to a missing child case.
Same here, although I do have a handful of reviews scheduled for June. I definitely recommend He’s to Die For although that was a chance I took on a new author that worked out well, so wasn’t on my radar for the month. Toni Anderson has a new book in her Cold Justice:Most Wanted series out on 23rd – Cold Truth – she’s one of the few m/f authors whose stuff I still read these days and her books usually work for me.
I picked up a book by new-to-me author Xanthe Walter called Crocodile Tears – she appears to have written mostly fanfic – but I liked the sound of it so decided to give it a try, and I couldn’t put it down. It’s a dystopian romantic suspense story told over 4 books, so the romance hasn’t really got going yet, but book 2 is out soon and I’m really looking foward to it.
I’ve been looking at Crocodile Tears, but I’ll probably wait to see how the rest of the series goes before jumping in.
It’s pretty angsty and there’s a fair bit of family drama – although not of the meddling family type that you and I both dislike. The rest of the series is scheduled for publication between now and Sept so not too long to wait.
Same here, DDD. The James book is the only one on my radar at the moment. I put the one Caz reviewed today on my TBR list, but it’s too expensive right now for my budget.
It’s 5 quid in the UK. I have no idea why the pricing this side of the Pond is so different.
It is $5.83 for me here.
From the list: The Lisa Jewell (Don’t Let Him In), I Think I’m in Love With an Alien by Ann Aguirre Not on the list: Amy Lynn Green The Codebreaker’s Daughter.