Happy Monday, everyone!
August is looking like it’s going to be a great month for new releases! There are eight books releasing this month I’m looking forward to! How am I ever going to find the time to read them all!? Let’s dive into this list!
The Autumn Affair
(A Love In Galway Series, Book Three)
By: Ivy Fairbanks
Release Date: August 17th, 2026
Amazon eBook: https://amzn.to/4w1ABYM
Synopsis:
A heated rivals-to-roommates-to-lovers forced-proximity romance set in the lead up to Galway, Ireland’s annual Halloween parade, from the author of TikTok sensation Morbidly Yours.
Autumn arrived with unfinished business.
Saoirse Delaney is done fooling around. Struggling to save her floundering flower shop, she makes a decision: If she can’t grow her business in the next six months, she’ll sell it.
Gabe Maguire is Galway’s premier event designer, and he makes sure everyone knows it. But after a blow to his ego following a failed business venture and a house fire, the divorced dad is looking for a new place to live and a chance to spread his wings.
Saoirse and Gabe go head to head for their dream job: a year-long contract displaying their creative work all around Galway—the kind of thing that could launch a career. The only problem? They might kill each other in the process. Until fate brings them into even closer proximity and the sparks between them ignite into something new. Can their newfound chemistry turn their competitive spirits into romance? Or will it destroy everything they’ve worked for…
Wilde Hearts
(Love Is A Cowboy Series, Book Four)
By: Kelly Elliott
Release Date: August 18th, 2026
Amazon eBook: https://amzn.to/4yRuJnD
Synopsis:
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Kelly Elliott, comes a new family saga series. Love is a Cowboy is a new small town series coming soon! Wilde Hearts is book 4 in the Love is a Cowboy series. While it can be read as a stand alone, it is highly suggested by the author that you read the books in order.
Ensley
Ten years ago, my world shattered when I lost not only my best friend, but the man I loved. Colt’s brother was my best friend, and his death took two people from my life in a single moment. One I lost to tragedy, and one I lost to grief
I waited for Colt to come home and grieve with the rest of us after his brother’s death, but after the first year passed, it became painfully clear he wasn’t coming back to River Falls.
I did what I had to do to keep moving forward. I pushed every thought of Colt out of my mind. If only my heart had known how to loosen its grip on him. Instead, I poured myself into building a career as a farrier, supported my family’s ranch, and watched one sibling after another find their happily ever after while I stood still, holding on to someone who wasn’t there
Eventually, I realized that if I was ever going to find my own happiness, I had to stop waiting for it. I had to take control of my future.
And just when I finally believed I had everything figured out, Colt returned to River Falls, and my carefully built life fell apart all over again.
Colt
After ten years away, I’m back in River Falls, not entirely sure where I fit anymore.
I left after my brother took his own life, drowning in guilt and convinced I was responsible. I couldn’t face my family. I couldn’t face Ensley. So, I ran and stayed gone far longer than I ever intended.
I told myself time would make it easier. It didn’t.
The moment I see Ensley Wilde sitting in a chair beside my father’s hospital bed, everything I buried comes rushing back. Including the guilt I’ve never managed to outrun.
For years, we’ve all carried our own version of what happened to Grady, and the guilt that came with each version. But when the truth finally comes to light, will it be enough to heal what’s broken between us, or will it destroy what’s left entirely?
Can I earn my parents’ trust again?
And more importantly… is there still a chance to win back Ensley Wilde’s heart, and the life I left behind? Can I finally give her the future she’s always dreamed of?
Sky’s Edge
(The Four Realms Series, Book Two)
By: Kristen Ashley
Release Date: August 18th, 2026
Amazon eBook: https://amzn.to/4bRXaI8
Synopsis:
Peace has been shattered in the Four Realms…
But Catla Truelock has bigger concerns.
Her father’s done what he’d been threatening to do. He’s arranged her marriage to a man not of Catla’s choice.
It’s the demon way, but Catla knows her new betrothed, and she doesn’t like him. He’s aloof. He’s arrogant. And he’s both in spades.
Tanyn, the new king of Sky’s Edge, feels differently about the half-demon beauty from Night’s Fall. He’s made his decision on who he wants to be his queen.
She’s perfect.
He simply has to convince her.
Tanyn sets about doing that, but he’s interrupted when his fiancée receives a death threat.
It’s then all the royals of the Four Realms understand that the danger is not over. For reasons unknown, there’s a sinister faction in their lands who’s targeting them, and the women who will rule at their sides.
Now, Tanyn has to keep his Catla safe, at the same time convincing her to wear his crown.
And Catla has to decide if she can leave everything she knows to be the bride of the handsome king in a land that is not her own.
Hard Pass
(Lone Star Rebels Series, Book Two)
By: Kristen Ashley
Release Date: August 20th, 2026
Amazon eBook: https://amzn.to/45EJYCM
Synopsis:
Falling for the one woman who has the power to end my football career was never part of the plan . . .
This was supposed to be Cole Valor’s record-breaking season.
Instead, the star quarterback can’t seem to find his game. Missed throws. Bad reads. And someone is making a fortune betting against him.
When suspicious betting patterns surrounding his performance raise red flags, the NFL assigns its top integrity investigator to determine if its golden boy is the victim . . . or the mastermind.
Dublin Locke has built her career on facts, not feelings. She’s determined to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even if it points back to the man whose kiss she’s never forgotten.
The deeper Dublin digs, the more the evidence points to Cole. Yet he insists on helping her uncover the truth. Is he proving his innocence . . . or trying to throw her off his trail?
Working side by side as the investigation tightens its grip, the line between professional and personal begins to blur—and every stolen kiss pushes them further over a line neither of them can afford to cross.
Because every instinct tells Dublin to keep her distance.
But the more she falls for him, the harder it becomes to know which to believe—the facts . . . or her heart.
Beg Me
(Play Me Series, Book Five)
By: Adriana Locke
Release Date: August 24th, 2026
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4xcqjWF
Synopsis:
Markie St. James is officially done with men.
Unfortunately, she needs one to defend her pickleball championship title against her cheating ex-boyfriend.
Her solution comes in the form of Jory Plath, her brother’s best friend, a single dad, and a professional rugby player. He’ll help her defend her title if she helps tutor his son. It’s a simple arrangement. Everybody wins.
Until they don’t.
Somewhere between practices, late nights, and giving the town something to gossip about, Markie and Jory go from pickleball partners to fake dating. And the more time she spends with him, the more she realizes he’s exactly the kind of man she swore off.
Now she’s not sure what’s worse—losing her title, losing the man, or losing her heart.
Speak No Claim
(Blood Oath Brotherhood Series, Book One)
By: M. Robinson
Release Date: August 26th, 2026
Amazon eBook: https://amzn.to/452cIoU
Synopsis:
An all-new dark academia standalone romance from the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, M. Robinson.
I don’t do welcomes or charity cases. I definitely don’t waste my time on girls who don’t belong in my world.
Then I saw her.
She stood there like she had no idea what this place was capable of, like the wolves circling her were just guys in blazers instead of sinners raised on power and dominance.
I should’ve walked away.
I didn’t.
She’s living next door now, at her uncles house, walking my college halls and breathing my air. She’s sitting at tables she didn’t earn a seat at. My father’s best friend brought her here, like that makes her untouchable.
It doesn’t.
Nothing does.
She thinks I’m a monster.
She’s not wrong.
I break rules because I can. I take what I want because no one’s ever stopped me.
Legacy isn’t just a title here, it’s free rein and I’ve spent years proving it.
But her?
She’s the only thing I didn’t plan for. The only thing I can’t seem to leave alone either.
She doesn’t know what this place really is. What we really are.
The brotherhood.
The secrets.
The things no one admits out loud.
Our blood oath…
I was going to ignore her.
But now?
Now, I’m going to ruin her.
Take My Soul
(Willow Branch Mountain Series, Book Four)
By: Brooke Montgomery
Release Date: August 26th, 2026
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4pSeanv
Synopsis:
An accidental pregnancy stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a single mom with a traumatic past and the younger cowboy who knocks her up, but has to prove he’s here to stay…
We met at the most cliché of places—a backyard western-themed wedding on a perfect spring afternoon.
When I catch him staring at me from across the room, something inside me awakens for the first time in years—something I should ignore.
But when he finds me on the dance floor, it’s impossible to avoid it. Wrapped in his arms, listening to his quiet hum against my ear, I almost forget we’re strangers.
Then he asks for my number, and I hesitate.
I’m in no place to be dating—especially someone seven years younger. The man who vowed to love and cherish me became my worst nightmare. But he did leave me one precious gift before going to prison—my daughter.
Still, years of trauma and abuse don’t just disappear once I get my life together, so friendship is all I can offer him.
Until texting, hanging out, and finding comfort in each other grows into more.
After months of stolen glances, lingering touches, and late-night calls, my restraint finally breaks.
One reckless decision leads to another, and soon we’re sneaking around and stealing every chance we can to be together.
But then two pink lines change everything.
I’ve already survived one man who lied about forever. Falling for another was never part of the plan—neither was carrying his baby.
Darlin’
(Aster Springs Series, Book Four)
By: Samantha Leigh
Release Date: August 27th, 2026
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4wFHiB4
Synopsis:
She’s the woman I loved and left. Now I’m back with a ten-year-old boy at my side and a heart full of regret.
I spent my whole life broke and unreliable—proving my father right. A Covington boy never amounts to anything.
Until my sister took off and left her son behind.
So I do what no man in my family’s ever done. I step up. He needs a home. Stability. A man he can count on. Which means I need a job. And fast.
Desperation has me taking the first one I’m offered—at Silver Leaf Ranch.
My new boss? Daisy Davenport.
The feisty, ranch-raised hellion I walked away from over a year ago takes one look at me and wants me gone.
Until she sees the little boy holding my hand.
Her brothers hate me. Her sisters tolerate me. Everybody on this whole damn ranch has an opinion.
And Daisy? She’s sworn off love, sworn off me, and made it real clear I’m not getting a second chance.
I don’t blame her. But I never stopped loving her.
So when she’s sick, I take care of her. When she flirts with another cowboy, I see red. When she shows up drunk on my doorstep demanding answers, I kiss the fight right out of her instead.
Then a job offer comes. The kind that could finally make me the man I always wanted to be.
But my nephew’s already calling her name in his sleep.
And I have to choose.
Chase the life that proves my father wrong…
Or stay with the woman who already thinks I’m worth loving.
Which books are you most anticipating this month?
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