Hello, Everyone!
Welcome to another anticipated Romance Releases post! There are so many new romances releasing this month and I had the hardest task of narrowing this list down to my top ten anticipated releases of may 2025. It was definitely a struggle and without further wait, here are the ten I’m anticipating!
Let’s get started!
Ruined Vows
By: Stasia Black
Release Date: May 1st, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4iM9V7V
Synopsis:
He thinks I’m off-limits. But rules were made to be broken.
I’m the perfect daughter—an heiress with a spotless reputation and a ring on my finger to prove it. But perfection is a fragile thing, and mine shatters the moment I meet Isaak.
My bodyguard.
Ex-military. Battle-scarred. All sharp edges and dark glances.
He’s the last man I should want—older, all grit and danger, and everything my family would never approve of.
Also, he hates me.
He thinks I’m spoiled, entitled, a rich girl playing pretend.
But there’s one thing he can’t fake:
The way his eyes darken when I walk into the room.
The way his jaw clenches when another man gets too close.
The way his touch—his bed—is the only place I feel safe.
I’m engaged to a man my family has chosen for me.
But my body betrays me whenever Isaak is near.
I thought my stalker was my biggest problem.
I was wrong.
Because every time Isaak whispers my name, it feels like a promise.
Long Time Coming
By: S.L. Scott
Release Date: May 1st, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4cTSJvA
Synopsis:
It didn’t take long for news to spread that Tagger Grange was back in Peachtree Pass. I found out even faster when I fell right into his arms—not by choice.
The barstool wobbled under me when reaching for a cheddar biscuit. They’re my weakness. Much like he used to be.
Rolled up sleeves and tailored pants have replaced the boots and jeans my brother’s best friend once wore. But it’s not just the clothes that have changed. His shoulders are broader and he’s broodier. Somehow, he’s even more handsome than ever.
And seeing the little boy smiling at his side? My heart instantly melts. I can’t handle Tagger as a hot single dad.
Since he has no plans to stay, I know it’s best to avoid him. But daily run-ins at Rollingwood Ranch make him hard to ignore, and even harder to walk away.
His heated glances warm my insides, his smile awakens my dormant heart, and one stormy night leads to crossing lines we vowed we wouldn’t.
But when falling in the hay turns into falling in love, I start to wonder if our happy ending is a long time coming. Or will he return to the city leaving me with a broken heart?
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, S.L. Scott, will lasso your heart and tie the bow in this Swoony, Single Dad, Forbidden to Date, Cowboy Romance that will have you falling in love along with the characters.
Daisy Whispers
(Return To Coal Haven Series, Book Two)
By: Marie Johnston
Release Date: May 6th, 2025
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/3YNViKb
Synopsis:
Alder Duke was my high school sweetheart turned husband, then he became a stranger who wanted his freedom. I gave it to him.
Fifteen years later, I’m a single mom who desperately needs a place to live. He’s a powerful CEO who needs a wife in order to get the house he grew up in, thanks to a trust his grandma left behind.
He makes a deal with me: get married to him—again—and live with him for a year. Once the house is in his name, we can divorce—again—and he’ll rent the place to me.
Just one year. No strings. No feelings. Simple.
But nothing about my ex-husband is simple. Gone is the man who wanted to stay out all night drinking with his buddies. This Alder cooks and cleans and unclogs sinks in gray sweatpants. He gets my stubborn daughter to like him. And with me? He looks at me like I’m the only woman in the world.
I can’t fall for his sweet daisy whispers. I know how it ends. This time we planned it. My life was already derailed by him once, and I barely came out intact. He’s had my heart forever, but he only gets one year.
Grumpy Sunshine
(Content Advisory Series, Book One)
By: Lani Lynn Vale
Release Date: May 6th, 2025
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4iIwA4P
Synopsis:
The first day that she walked onto the surgical floor that Chevy Clayborne spent most of his time on, he knew that he’d do anything to make her his.
For two years, he played the long game.
He slowly insinuated himself into her life, and the moment that she needed him, he swooped in like the knight in shining armor that he only pretended to be but most assuredly wasn’t.
He’s no real knight.
In fact, he’s the villain in everyone’s story but his own.
He lives life the way he wants to live it, and damn anyone and anything that gets in his way.
He may appear like an upstanding anesthesiologist at work, but the moment he gets out of those scrubs and into his jeans, biker boots, and leather cut with the Truth Tellers emblem at his back, he morphs into his alter ego.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ain’t got nothin’ on him.
He’s been putting on a front for two years, and just when he has Aella Cowan right where he wants her, he closes down every possible avenue of escape.
He thinks he has a future fight on his hand, but Aella proves that she’s not quite as sheltered as Chevy thinks. She’s perfectly happy being the old lady of one of the scariest members of the Truth Tellers Motorcycle Club and couldn’t care less if he spends his nights doing questionable things to despicable people.
As long as she has breakfast with him every morning, what does she care how he spent his night?
Jilted
By: Vi Keeland
Release Date: May 6th, 2025
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/3EOLmsU
Synopsis:
From #1 New York Times bestseller Vi Keeland comes a brand new slow burn, swooning romance where 27 Dresses meets The Hating Game.
Weddings. I spend every working minute talking and writing about them, when just the thought of one makes me want to scream. After my fiancé abandoned me at the altar last year, my dream job at Bride magazine has turned into a reoccurring nightmare.
To add insult to injury, the bridezilla at my latest assignment, somehow roped me into filling in for a missing bridesmaid. Of course, I had to get paired with the most gorgeous groomsman. Wilder Hayes is perfect—except when he opens his mouth and we end up bickering all evening. That is, until the coat closet incident.
At least I’ll never have to see him again. Or so I think… Until I walk into work on Monday and find out Wilder isn’t just a jerk, he’s also my boss’s son. And I’ll be spending the rest of the season working with him at every single wedding I cover this year.
Can the jilted bride and the man who is afraid of love find a way to heal each other?
The Perfect Catch
(Tennessee Terrors Series, Book Three)
By: Jessica Marin
Release Date: May 6th, 2025
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/3You5NP
Synopsis:
I was the single dad baseball star living my dream life filled with family pride, thrilling games, and a community that cheered me on. But when a surprise trade to Nashville whisked me away from everything I knew and loved, I found myself struggling with my new normal and questioning my career.
Then I went and did something I haven’t done in years–I surrendered to a wild, impulsive one night stand with a gorgeous redhead, whose blue eyes mesmerized me the moment she glanced my way. After the numerous games my ex played on me, I was anti-relationships. So I took advantage of a lonely night to have some consensual fun.
But fate has a wicked sense of humor and threw me another curveball: the woman from that steamy night walked back into my life, this time as a candidate interviewing to be my daughter’s nanny. Hiring Cassie Warner might be the wrong decision, but I’m desperate to find someone, so I make it clear to her there will be no repeat performances of our hook up. Problem is that every time our eyes meet, I’m pulled back to that memorable night, which leaves me wanting more.
Seeing her love and protect my daughter as if she’s her own makes me question if I’m doing the right thing by keeping her at arms length or is Cassie Warner the perfect catch?
The Perfect Catch is the third book in a series with ten amazing authors about the Tennessee Terrors baseball team. All books have crossover characters but are standalone novels and can be read in any order.
When We Break
(The Blackwells of Montana Series, Book Two)
By: Kristen Proby
Release Date: May 8th, 2025
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/42RQHHN
Synopsis:
From New York Times Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes When We Break, a small-town, cowboy, heroine in danger romance, set in Bitterroot Valley!
Beckett
I’ve seen the gorgeous redhead with the big black dog that never leaves her side around town. She’s impossible to miss with that lush red hair and perfect green eyes. But it’s when she opens her plump lips and the sound of Ireland comes out of her kissable mouth that I know I’m a goner. I know she’s the one for me and I’ll do whatever it takes to make Skyla Gallagher mine. I can be a patient man and all I want in the world is to worship every bit of her, inside and out.
Skyla
I moved to the lovely town of Bitterroot Valley, Montana because I needed a safe place. I left my life in New York as a prima ballerina after an injury that I never fully healed from, and to escape the obsession of a madman. I adore this new community, but I must admit that Beckett Blackwell is the very best part. I love his kindness, his patience, and his thoughtfulness. But most of all, I can’t get enough of the way he worships my body, and then does everything he can to pamper me afterwards. Beckett is a drug that I’ve become addicted to. But will my stalker find me in Montana, ruining everything we’ve started together, before we have had our chance at forever?
Stolen Dreams
(Dream Series, Book Four)
By: Natasha Madison
Release Date: May 9th, 2025
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4k4bizP
Synopsis:
Montgavin Township will never be the same when one night changes the lives of six people.
The course of their lives and the trajectory of the town sets them on a collision course for disaster.
Lilah
I was left for dead when I was eighteen.
Coming to Mustang Creek Ranch gave me something to live for.
My boss is grumpy and reclusive.
But I’m secretly in love with him, even though he’s made it known he’ll never settle down.
Even though he’s made it clear, he’ll never be mine-or anyone’s.
Emmett
I’ve kept my distance from Lilah for years. No matter how much I want her, she’s off-limits.
The only family I will ever have are the ones I fought beside in battle-the family I chose.
Until the phone rang and I found out I had an eight-year-old daughter.
Watching Lilah with my daughter makes me wonder what it would be like to do the thing I
swore I never would: have a family and fall in love.
When I move her into my house to keep her safe from the dangers of her past, all bets are off.
Strike Zone
(Tennessee Terrors Series, Book Four)
By: Mignon Mykel
Release Date: May 20th, 2025
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4319QaB
Synopsis:
I’ve been employed by the league for five years, assigned to the Tennessee Terrors for the last two, and never once have I been tempted to break the number one rule in my contract: no fraternization with the players.
Okay, “never been tempted” is probably a stretch.
In my defense, it’s only one athlete, and sure, he smiles and flirts when I take his photos, but I’m just one of many photographers he encounters every day at Music City Park—or, so I’ve been telling myself.
When I run into Tripp Nash during off season in Arizona of all places, I give in to that easy smile and flirty way of his. If I can have one night with the sexy all-star catcher, I’m going to take it.
Yet as we part ways, he shocks me again: he wants more.
If we’re caught, he’ll be fine … but I’ll lose my job. Probably even my reputation as a professional sports photographer. I should say no. I shouldn’t give in …
Except he treats me unlike any man has before and the weeks we spend apart have me craving more.
Just like he does on the diamond, he gets to call the pitches—and I’m going to trust he knows how to work around the strike zone.
Strike Zone is the fourth book in a series with ten amazing authors about the Tennessee Terrors baseball team. All books have crossover characters but are standalone novels and can be read in any order.
Brim Over Boot
(The Darling Brothers Series, Book Two)
By: Emmy Sanders
Release Date: May 22nd, 2025
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/4mb6hay
Synopsis:
He may be a King, but I’ll never kneel.
Colton
If asked to list all the folks in Darling, Montana I can’t stand, I’d have a single name.
Noah King.
He’s the second-best farrier in town (me being the first). A royal pain in my behind. And an all-around smug pest I wouldn’t mind knocking down a peg or two.
It’s no surprise after so many years, our animosity has come to a head. I just never in my wildest, hate-fueled fantasies expected Noah’s attack to involve his lips on mine.
It was a mistake, no question. But apparently I still have some things to figure out about myself.
One thing I do know? Noah King and I have been bitter rivals from the start. And nothing, not even the fire he lights under my skin, makes a lick of difference in the end.
Surrendering to my enemy isn’t an option.
Brim Over Boot is a small town, enemies-to-lovers romance between rival farriers, with a double bi-awakening, tension and banter galore, scorching encounters, a slow fall from hate to love, and one very HEA. It’s book 2 in The Darling Brothers series but can be read as a standalone.
What new releases are you most excited to read this month?
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