Good Morning, Everyone!
And welcome to another anticipated releases post. I’m a little late to the party, given that it is the eighth of September already. I like to use the phrase, better late than never. There are ten books I’m looking forward to adding to my shelf this month! Here are my most anticipated novels for September 2025!
Stitch & Steel
By: Jax Hart
Release Date: September 2nd, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3HXN5h2
Synopsis:
A grumpy biker. A sunshine schoolteacher. One remote cabin—and only one bed. She needed a quiet summer.
He was ordered to protect her.
Now they’re stuck together in the middle of nowhere… and the tension is about to explode.
Logan lives by one rule: no strings, no softness, no second chances. As Sergeant-at-Arms, he’s a weapon on two wheels—until a club debt lands him on babysitting duty at a mountain cabin.
His job? Watch the girl. Protect the cabin. Don’t touch.
Easier said than done.
Bella Grace came home to care for her fading Gram—not to catch feelings for a scarred biker with ice-blue eyes and a body built for sin. She’s sweet tea and stubborn pride. He’s all steel, heat, and barely leashed danger.
They’re opposites.
They’re alone.
And there’s only one bed.
Then the past comes hunting.
A rival MC with blood on their mind.
And a slow-burn connection that turns into a wildfire.
He was never supposed to fall for her.
But now that he has—
He’ll protect her with everything he’s got.
Lover Forbidden
(Black Dagger Brotherhood Series, Book Twenty-Three)
By: J.R. Ward
Release Date: September 9th, 2025
Amazon: https://amzn.to/4g2fu23
Synopsis:
The aristocracy is making a run for the throne in this latest thrilling, star-crossed paranormal romance entry in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
When Lyric goes out for the night, she’s not ready for a brush with death—and she’s really not ready for the male who comes out of nowhere and saves her. Her family, especially her father, Qhuinn, are so relieved she’s okay, but all she can think about is her mysterious savior.
Without telling anybody, she seeks out Devlin, and they are immediately drawn to one another. Her near-death experience has given her a fresh appreciation for life and the desire to live it to its fullest, but she has no idea that he’s hiding a secret—or that he could be the key to ending the war between the Black Dagger Brotherhood and the lessers forever.
Finding The One
(River Rain Series, Book Seven)
By: Kristen Ashley
Release Date: September 9th, 2025
Amazon: https://amzn.to/45J3q2g
Synopsis:
Their parents being family friends, American/English aristocrat, Blake Sharp, and Scottish playboy Alasdair Wallace were thrust together all through their childhoods.
Blake thought Dair was a filthy, obnoxious, little boy bully.
Dair thought Blake was a spoiled, prissy wee miss.
Then Blake grew up to be a beautiful, loving woman who took care of everyone and made amazing pistachio muffins. And Dair grew up to be a protective, fun-loving, hard-living professional rugby player.
In the meantime, they’d both been deeply betrayed by lovers.
When their paths cross again, Blake is still reeling from her fiancé’s treachery and what she learned about herself during it.
Dair thinks he’s recovered from a marriage to a woman who was not at all what she seemed, and now he’s smitten by the woman Blake has become.
So smitten, he has every intention of exploring what they can grow to be together.
But their combined family history is filled with secrets and lies. Secrets and lies that explode in their faces.
And while they deal with that, ghosts from the past rise up and threaten to haunt their future.
Is what they built together strong enough to hold true?
Or will their personal demons tear them apart?
Mistaken Identity
(Content Advisory Series, Book Five)
By: Lani Lynn Vale
Release Date: September 9th, 2025
Amazon: https://amzn.to/41sKxy5
Synopsis:
From the moment Creole Williams met Audric Ingram, they were inseparable.
But not the way one would think.
They shared a best friend.
What they did not do, however, was like each other.
You could say that it was a war to win the best friend title.
The only problem was, their best friend would never choose a clear winner. So they spent their teenage years fighting it out. What Audric didn’t know, though, was that Creole was desperately in love with him.
The same went for Audric. He wanted Creole more than his next breath.
But it was never the right time.
Then life happened, and it kicked them both in the teeth.
One second they’re acting, and the next the anger is real, and neither one of them can stand to be near the other.
For years, they fight it out, one-upping each other to the point where neither one of them can be in the same room with each other without things going to hell.
Then one day their best friend dies, and they have to figure out a way to live without her.
There’s no fighting anymore, at least verbally. Physically, however? They let their bodies duke it out the fun way.
But in the end, neither one of them wins.
Hunted Temptation
(Alpha Nights: Unlikely Heroes Series, Book Four)
By: Hayley Faiman
Release Date: September 10th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3VojJLN
Synopsis:
She wasn’t supposed to be part of the plan… but temptation never asks for permission.
Vaughn lives a life of solitude and control. Surrounded by luxury and discipline. It’s the only way he knows how to survive a past that dealt him nothing but pain.
Until her.
She’s a photograph with haunted eyes and a silent scream. A temptation he should resist—needs to resist. He sees himself in her broken stare. He can’t look away.
Vaughn doesn’t plan. He watches. Then he acts. One moment she’s trapped in California, the next she’s beside him, with no idea what comes next. All he knows is he can’t leave her behind.
She only ever wanted freedom. A life untouched by cruelty. But her father, Chief Scoggins, won’t let her go. He’s carefully crafted a gilded cage, and he’s determined to keep her locked inside—forever.
Vaughn knows the risks. She’s a liability he can’t afford, a complication he swore to avoid. But setting her free is worth the danger. He’s not trying to keep her. He just wants to see her thrive.
Sometimes darkness doesn’t fall—it hunts. And sometimes, temptation comes wrapped in a broken girl you were never supposed to save.
Only For Tonight
(Only For Series, Book One)
By: Natasha Madison
Release Date: September 12th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/41w3XCe
Synopsis:
From Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a brand new sports romance. A spin-off from the Only One series! When one night changes everything.
Ariella
The last time I saw him, I’d just turned eighteen.
Six years later we’re face-to-face again.
Neither of us wanted the night to end.
The next morning, we made a pact.
Each of us going our separate ways.
Until two pink lines changed everything.
Jaxon
Life was going my way.Hockey. Family. All of it.
Until…I saw her.
She was different now.
One thing led to another and we got carried away.
It was supposed to be one night.
Our secret.
Then she’s at my door with news that rocks my world.
I’m going to be a dad.
In My Hockey Era
(Must Love Hockey Series, Book One)
By: Kendall Ryan
Release Date: September 15th, 2025
Amazon: https://amzn.to/4nc5ypf
Synopsis:
Lucy Quinn loves hockey. What she doesn’t love? The latest PR stunt from her favorite team—a hockey romance book club designed to lure in more female fans. Pandering to so-called “thirsty” fans? It totally cheapens the sport.
The worst part? They’ve slapped Bennett Wilder—the infuriatingly cocky, annoyingly handsome star forward—on the cover of this PR disaster like he’s some kind of book boyfriend. Gross.
So Lucy does what any passionate, totally rational fan would do—she starts a boycott.
Bennett doesn’t love being the face of a book club, but, hey, it’s harmless fun… until he finds out some feisty, foul-mouthed superfan is trashing it, he’s intrigued. And maybe just a little bit turned on.
So, naturally, he makes it his mission to shut her up—with charm, persistence, and exceptionally skilled hands. And somehow, he always manages to make her forget why she was mad.
But as their very public rivalry turns into something much deeper, Lucy realizes one terrifying truth—she might just be falling for the one guy she swore to hate.
Love At The Fall Fair
By: J.R. Boles
Release Date: September 15th, 2025
Amazon: https://amzn.to/41w3ZtQ
Synopsis:
Librarian Katy Caterby is obsessed with cinnamon lattes and mini libraries. To save the summer reading program, she must pull off the greatest used book sale at the Fall Fair. Captain Luke Taylor is “volun-told” to lead a special literacy initiative for kids living on Dover Air Force Base. Literacy is completely outside his wheelhouse, so he reaches out to the only expert he knows—Katy.
After having her heart broken by Luke years ago, Katy is nervous about working together. But she can’t say no when young readers can be reached. With his potential move, they both know they can’t be anything more than friends. Can one mini library heal her heart and help him realize what he’s always been missing?
Wild Roots
(Wild Heartlands Series, Book One)
By: KA James
Release Date: September 30th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/47lmx3M
Synopsis:
Sometimes the long way home is the only way back to yourself.
It’s been twelve long years since I last set eyes on Avery Blake, the only woman I’ve ever loved. She chose a life in the spotlight while I stayed behind, tied to my family’s Montana ranch.
Although she asked me to go with her, my family needed me but I didn’t expect her to cut me off so brutally. I certainly didn’t expect her silence when grief tore me apart.
So, of course, I’m angry.
Hurt, even.
But now she’s back.
My family might forgive her actions, but she’s left scars on my heart that I don’t think will ever heal. There is nothing she says or songs she can sing that will change my mind.
Except, she keeps showing up.
She keeps trying to make things right. She keeps reminding me of all the reasons I loved her. But her career is still there waiting, and my life is still tethered to the ranch.
And the question is, can I ever loosen the reins enough to chase after the one thing that made me happy?
Hunted Temptation
(The Chain Of Lakes Series, Book One)
By: Jewel E. Ann
Release Date: September 30th, 2025
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4g0gHqP
Synopsis:
A romance inspired by TS “Fortnight”
I was hers, but she was never mine.
Alice Yates is the hired “homemaker” for the Morrisons, an affluent couple in Minneapolis. For Alice, it’s a dream job to dress up like a 1950s housewife and read romance novels to Mr. Morrison before his afternoon nap.
But when the Morrisons’ only daughter returns home for the summer with her fiancé, Alice comes face- to-face with her shattered past—the only threat to her perfect life.
Eight years earlier, vacation rental owner Murphy Paddon had an impeccable vinyl record collection and did the most irresistible thing before kissing Alice, earning him a five-star rating. Their fortnight love affair was life-altering and ended tragically.
Murphy doesn’t know if Alice remembers him or whether he should tell his fiancée that the hired-help living in the guesthouse is the woman who irreparably broke his heart. He needs closure, but will the lingering glances and silent yearning lead to the end or just the beginning?
Grab your copy of The Homemaker, from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Jewel E. Ann, and lose yourself in this forbidden, high-stakes romance.
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