Beat the Heat and Chill Out With These Must-Read New Releases: Part Two
- BirdieMama
- Aug 2
- 20 min read
If you've landed here on part two of "Beat the Heat and Chill Out With These Must-Read New Releases" then I assume that you've already read part one, where I dove into the first twenty books that are set to release in August. However, in the event that you haven't seen part one let me gladly provide you the link to the article HERE. In part one, I introduced titles that I believe will be stand-out books filled with stories of gripping narratives, tug at your tiny heartstrings moments, and and even keep you on the edge of your seat thrills. As always, I do the legwork so you don’t have to. In these book lists you’ll find the books title, genre, author, date of expected release date, the blurb (or description in some cases), and a link that you can follow to purchase said book. Now that we've got that out of the way, let's dive back into the good stuff. Show us the books!! Am I right?!?
-New Adult Sports Romance-
Please Don't Go by E. Salvador
Expected Release: August 12, 2025
Description
He felt like he was drowning.
She was about to drown.
Josefine Resendiz, is struggling to figure out her life. Between her complicated relationship with grief and not having a single clue how to feel what she can't understand, she's sinking and isn't sure how to float back up to the surface.
Daniel Garcia, shortstop, a budding ray of sunshine, and potential first round pick for the MLB Draft, has life figured out. At least, that's what everyone assumes. On the surface, he's the embodiment of happiness and life. But beneath it all, guilt and grief have been consuming him since his brother passed away. Unsure how to deal with his feelings, he bottles them up and masks the pain of haunting reminders behind a mask of smiles.
That's until he stumbles upon Josefine on Christmas Day. That wasn't supposed to happen. He wasn't supposed to be there but neither was she, at least not for long. The night evolves into something neither one of them expected and when morning comes, she's nowhere to be found.
He can't stop thinking about her. She wants to forget him. But fate seems to have plans for them.
Once the semester begins they find out they have a class together, and avoiding Daniel becomes hard when they're paired to be hiking buddies. Much to Josefine's chagrin, she likes him more than she cares to admit. And Daniel is struggling to keep everything he's bottled up around her.
Hesitantly and unknowingly, they're opening up old wounds they wanted to keep closed. Feeling grounded around each other. And unintentionally falling in love.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Please Don't Go (The Midnight Strike Series Book 1), Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://a.co/d/0JyJAWS>.
-LGBTQ+ Fantasy-
A Vampire's Immortal Life by Sky Galter
Expected Release: August 13, 2025
Description
Alma is a different kind of vampire: she has a heartbeat and the constant need for human food. However, she possesses a trait that envies many — Immortality. No matter the method —asphyxiation, decapitation, fire — death never came for her.
When her troublemaker adoptive brother — Lex— calls her back to the town of Ravenside, a place where many supernaturals coexist, she is faced with more trouble than she signed up for. Now, fighting against a pack of wolves and a coven of witches, Alma must ensure Lex stays alive while continuing her search for the entity she has been after for a long time— Death.
Once they meet, Alma is taken aback by Death, becoming entrapped by her beauty and alluring nature. They make a deal: Death will help her in exchange for something very precious—her soul. However, the line starts to blur the longer they spend time in each other’s company. Between longing gazes and barely-there touches, will their attraction prevail over the lies that surround them?
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, A Vampire's Immortal Life: The Ravenside Chronicles, Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://a.co/d/aB9EBx3>.
-Dark Fantasy Horror-
The Phantom Noctis by Dahlia Jade
Expected Release: August 13, 2025
Description
“What’s the price of a life worth living? To be honest, I wouldn’t know. I chose to settle most of my debts in blood.”
What happens when a cryptic letter from the Vampires she’s meticulously avoided for years shows up on her doorstep, requesting her “elimination” services?
Lyssara Rowen spent most of her life as a pawn in a tyrannical government’s cruel games. After narrowly escaping their clutches, she spent years rebuilding her life in the refugee city of Amata. By day, she was the beloved local bakery owner. By night, she moonlighted as a vigilante assassin, poisoning the enemies of her high-paying clients.
Her steady, quiet life is thrown into chaos when she receives a cryptic letter from the Drevarian Vampire Prince. Her rocky history with the Vampires is yet another secret she’d worked hard to bury. Terrified by the consequence of ignoring the summons, Lyssara embarks on a journey to settle the score with the ghosts of her past.
The Phantom Noctis is an immersive dark fantasy romance following two unlikely partners and their battle against an oppressive government. Their quest takes them on a harrowing adventure through complicated politics and overcoming trauma, all while navigating the steamy tension growing between them. Their journey is dark, romantic, and full of suspense and feminine rage.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, The Phantom Noctis, Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://a.co/d/4lbZBcx>.
-Science Fiction / Military Romance-
King by Natalie Starkoss
Expected Release: August 17, 2025
Description
She has a secret that will take her away from him, but he'll fight til his dying breath to keep her.
King
I'm obsessed with her. From the moment I see Kara, my instincts demand I claim her.But when I'm near enough to scent her? My stomach turns. Not because of the constant bitter stink of fear that surrounds her - because she doesn't smell like mine. One of my senses are deceiving me, and it's slowly driving me insane...Until she returns from her Mother's funeral. One inhale is all it takes for my rational, human brain to abandon all sense of reason. She's not Kara, she's Kara's identical twin, and if anyone else discovers it, they'll take her away from me.Too bad I'll kill every single one of them that tries to.
Sara
Two minutes in a bathroom stall is all I have to convince my twin to trade places with me - If she's allowed back from the secret military job she took six months ago.My fear and bruises convince her, but her warning doesn't make sense. Not until I see them.But they're still less terrifying than what I left behind, so I'll keep my head low and do my best to imitate her. I even think I've pulled it off, until one of them disobeys every one of their compounds rules and abducts me.Somehow King knows, and because he thinks I'm his, he's terrified what they'll do when they too discover I'm not Kara.He'd rather die trying to keep us together, then be separated from me. I should be terrified... but for the first time in long time, I finally feel safe.
The Military ‘found’ them. Hybrid super soldiers lab made for war. Tortured. Trained. Freed. Recovering on a secret compound, they're about to face their next battle - meeting the women their primal sides demand they claim!
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, King: A Hybrid/Monster Romance (Spliced Love Series Book 2), Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://amzn.asia/d/3pKkq9O>.
-New Adult Paranormal Romance-
A Lesson in Deceit by Allie Shante
Expected Release: July 19, 2025
Description
Riley Monroe has a pretty normal life, well, as normal as it gets being a human living in a world where magic can exist freely.
She’s been surrounded by magic users her whole life to the point that she hardly notices anything abnormal in her quaint suburb. She didn’t expect her world to change the night she meets River St. James at a bar. He’s charming, confident, and just so happens to be able to read her mind.
The tattooed telepath piques her interest, even when he tells her he’s a student at the institution where her father works: the notorious Mystic Riegan University, a school that caters to both humans and magic wielders.
When a mysterious tragedy strikes and Riley’s world is turned upside down, she is left with more questions than answers. She’ll have to take matters into her own hands to find the truth, starting with enrolling at Mystic Riegan. However, flying under the radar won’t be as easy as Riley hoped when she catches the attention of not only River’s best friend, Grayson but also his older brother, Asher.
Riley begins to unravel secrets within the seemingly prestigious university, discovering that some puzzles are better left unsolved. As truths began to surface, Riley will begin to question her new university friends while seeking help from others…including the three men that don’t mind sharing.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, A Lesson in Deceit (Mystic Riegan Duet Book 1), Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://amzn.asia/d/ccz1qeq>.
-Small Town / Workplace Romance-
The Spreadsheet Situation by Dawn Banks
Expected Release: August 19, 2025
Description
Evie Watson loves being a librarian. Is Sapling Grove a little too small town for her? Sure. Is she bad at setting boundaries when it comes to "other duties as assigned"? Maybe. Is her anxiety through the roof because of short staffing and a condescending English professor? Definitely. But put her in charge of a complicated spreadsheet, and she shines. She can analyze all kinds of statistics, including how likely a net-positive outcome is when dating a colleague: zero percent chance. A big city job opportunity may be the perfect solution to her personal and professional frustrations.
But now the history professor she's crushing on needs some serious help with Excel. Andrew Brandt loves nerdy books and cooking for people, plus he respects her intellect. If her calculations are correct, their time together is adding up to more than just friendship. Could Evie's strict approach to workplace romance actually be a formula error?
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, The Spreadsheet Situation, Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://amzn.asia/d/18Y2SLk>.
-YA Epic Fantasy-
Yuli by S. Jae-Jones
Expected Release: August 19, 2025
Description
The third book in the sweeping, richly imagined Guardians of Dawn fantasy series from S. Jae-Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Wintersong.
Princess Yulana has a few problems. Her late grandfather has died without naming an heir, civil war threatens to tear the Morning Realms apart, a strange waking dreamer sickness is sweeping through the land, and a plague of hungry ghosts roam the steppes. On top of all of that, Kho, her former best friend turned rival, is getting under her skin. A struggle for power divides the north, and the outcome rests on the winner of the Grand Game―a competition that will determine not just the future of her people, but the course of the entire empire.
When the world is out of balance, the Guardians of Dawn are reborn.
As the Guardian of Wind, it is Yuli’s responsibility to bring order to chaos, along with the Guardian of Fire and the Guardian of Wood. But can she restore balance to the Morning Realms when she can’t even win the political games being played at home? The fate of the Morning Realms depends on the Guardians of Dawn, and whether Yuli can manage both the demonic and political chaos at once.
Guardian of Wind, there you are.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Guardians of Dawn: Yuli (Guardians of Dawn, 3), Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://a.co/d/1dEfdNW>.
-LGBTQ+ Coming of Age / Fantasy-
Diminished by Erica Rose Eberhart
Expected Release: August 19, 2025
Description
Reese is trying to clean up his reputation, with coaches from the NHL interested in him again, he's ready to take things seriously.
Abby has always been attracted to Reese and wants to sleep with him. She doesn't even care about the why or the how, he's got a reputation and she wants to know if the rumors are true. Does he really have a one hundred percent satisfaction rate?
The only problem, he's promised his boss, Dylan Poletti, that he wouldn't get involved with her. In any capacity. She’s Dylan’s little sister after all.
When his agent subtly suggests the idea of getting a fake girlfriend to impress the NHL Coaching staff. He decides to ask if Abby would help him secure his spot on the Blakgow Shrieking Pirates... On the opposite side of the country.
After a drunken mistake, Abby gets a taste of the kind of person Reese is, and needs more. For the first time in her life, she realizes she does have a dream.
Will her new dream get in the way of Reese’s? Are they going to miss out on the opportunity to have their happily ever after because neither one is willing to sacrifice their dream for the other?
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Diminished (The Elder Tree Trilogy Book 2), Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://a.co/d/3EYSdac>.
-Dark Fantasy / Horror-
Crown of the Dunes by S.C. Grayson
Expected Release: August 19, 2025
Description
War brought them together. Forging peace could tear them apart.
Back in Kelvadan after narrowly escaping death, former exile Keera is now hailed as a hero for protecting the Great City against the lord of the clans. Forced to lie low as her injuries heal, she discovers the city’s position is more precarious than ever. Now, she faces an impossible choice: betray the city that offered her a home, or be the Champion Kelvadan needs. Worst of all, the enemy forces are led by the man to whom she has given her heart.
After spending his life running from his destiny, Erix finds himself thrust into leadership after the death of his cruel mentor. With the clans of the desert at his command and Keera ripped from his grasp, he wants nothing more than to march on the city that took her—but the desert has other plans. As the Ballan Desert continues to punish those who fractured her magic, sowing division among the clans, Erix desperately seeks to restore the dunes he swore to serve and exact revenge on those who stole Keera away.
Left to navigate ever-changing sands and even more quickly shifting alliances, Erix and Keera must fight to find their way back to each other, even when the desert seems determined to keep them apart.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Crown of the Dunes (The Ballan Desert Book 2), Amazon website, Accessed 29 July 2025, <https://a.co/d/fcclbpT>.
-Contemporary Romance / Erotica-
Month-By-Month by J. Wren
Expected Release: August 19, 2025
Description
Gavin has spent his entire life chasing something real–something lasting. Anxious to bring the girl of his dreams from his phone to his arms, he persuades her to finally go on a date. The driven, yet reserved woman in her late 20s has captivated him with just her blurry profile picture. For a self-proclaimed cynic in his early 30s, love has always been the one thing he truly believed in. And for one fleeting, perfect moment, he thought he’d found it with Veda. But that was over a month ago. Since then, Gavin has endlessly and shamelessly pursued her, despite her hectic schedule as a doctor, which often leaves her with little free time.
Veda’s mind is set on one thing, and one thing only: working to solidify her new career as a doctor in America. Under the pressure of her Indian parents to become successful, she has no time for romance in her life. One match on a dating website has flipped her world upside down, and now she has a hard time ignoring Gavin and his beautiful blond curls. Unsure of how to balance work and romance, she vows to keep her job as her number one priority and place Gavin on the back burner.
The silence has only sharpened the need in Gavin’s heart. He’d risked it all when he began trying to romance Veda, but he wanted more than what she was giving him. He wanted to know everything about her; every facet of her mind, every inch of her body. Despite the missed calls and unanswered texts, Gavin’s determination only grows. He’s convinced they’re meant to be. If only Veda would stop running and let herself believe it, too. For him, this isn’t just another love. And he’s ready to fight for it, no matter how rocky the road ahead may be.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Month-by-Month: A Spicy Interracial Contemporary Romance Story, Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/0qLjRFy>.
-Dark Contemporary Romance-
Motive by Madison Abigail
Expected Release: August 20, 2025
Description
June
I can recall the first day I met Ava Steven’s. she was feisty, gorgeous and off limits. She still is, because the moment I step into a room, the wall of ice I face goes up quicker than I can say, “ Oh f*ck me.”
Never in my life have I wanted a woman so intensely, the commitment she deserves is a noose I will wear with pride. It’s driving me crazy. Too bad she wants nothing to do with me, that her distaste only makes me crave her more.
Ava
Juniper Gunn is the bane of my existence. Every breath he takes, every syllable that leaves his mouth, ignites a fire in my veins that I can’t seem to extinguish. The moment I find a guy I’m interested in, he butts in, sabotaging my love life to the brink of extinction.
When I’m with Eric, June makes it more clear that he lives in my head rent free, and I need to evict him yesterday.
Long story short, I hate him, but with each passing day, and every bouquet of lilies he sends my way, I’m finding it more and more difficult to push him away.
I just can’t figure out why he wants me when he’s in the habit of warming every bed but his own.
Source Citation:
Madison Abigail (@authormadisona), Posted 10 Feb. 2025, Motive Blurb, Instagram, <https://www.instagram.com/p/DF5rJJUPzSp/>.
-Military Romance / Police Romance-
Beautiful Broken Pieces by Roxy Storm
Expected Release: August 21, 2025
Description
Nyx has lived her life trying to be the perfect daughter, and eventually the perfect cop to honor her dad's memory. When her police captain assigns her to work with two Marines for rooftop security during a Tigers Playoff game, her whole world changes.
From the two men who want her more than any woman they have shared before, to the new stalker haunting the shadows. Can her men protect her or will her stalker get what he has always wanted?
HER.
This is the first book in an interconnected world that will follow the men and women of Devil Dog Security. They all face their own demons every day, but can love prevail? Meet Nyx, Demitri, and Graham in Beautiful Broken Pieces.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Beautiful Broken Pieces (Devil Dog Security Book 1), Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/9ak424z>.
-Dark Romantic Fantasy-
Daughter of the Dark Sun by D. Kathleen McATEER
Expected Release: August 23, 2025
Description
Cursed by the Dark Goddess, Apattar desires only one thing in life: to make the world feel her pain. Trapped in a remote oasis and abused under the guise of “purification” by her father and a society entrenched in superstitions, she knows she is unlovable.
Until he looks at her.
Now, she will not stop hunting her prey.
After witnessing the brutal murder of his parents as a child, Therat struggles to contain the dark voices in his head. He clings to life but yearns for death. When he sees a raven-haired woman cloaked in the Shadow-weave, she becomes his unwilling obsession. As the siren’s song pulls his darkest urges to the surface, one thing is clear: she will be his ruin if he cannot find an escape.
She is the Maiden of Shadow, the woman in the night who sends men to madness with just one look.
She is the Coming Reckoning, the cursed Daughter of the Dark Goddess sent to ready the world for Death Herself.
She is inevitable.
Burn it all, for him.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Daughter of the Dark Sun: A Dark Romantic Fantasy (Songs of the NIght Book 1), Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/iFuA3xb>.
-Dark Contemporary Mafia Romance-
Avenging Love by Black Rose & da Knight
Expected Release: August 24, 2025
Description
He is a Bloody King, risen from the ashes of his Fallen Queen.
Revenge for his beloved is what he seeks.
Once a boy, he is now a man with his morals more than just bent.
On a Kingdom, he once repulsed, he has returned to stake his claim.
Earlier a pawn on someone’s chess board, he is now the master of his own game.
With a dead heart and the Devil in his soul, his culprits he will maim.
The same Fire that took her will now wipe their names.
Because once a victim, he is now a Monster disguised as Royalty.
For, to his love, he pledged his undying loyalty.
A story filled with angst, suspense, thrill, and love. Read this story to discover if he succeeds in his quest to avenge the only girl he ever loved.
This tale delves into dark and mature themes with content that might be triggering for some readers. This story is not a standalone. It’s the second book in The Deathly Love Series so, Book 1, Addictive Love should be read before reading this book.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Avenging Love (The Deathly Love Serie Book 2), Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/bI6JdG9>.
-Contemporary Urban Fantasy-
Wings of Steel & Fury by Sarah J. Daley
Expected Release: August 26, 2025
Description
The human world is no place for a god, but toiling on Earth may just teach an angel how to fly once again…
Eleazar Starson, prince of Splendour and heir to the Great Throne of Honor, is living his worst nightmare. Betrayed and grievously injured, he has been cast from a world of light and beauty to suffer in the Below, a world of darkness and despair populated with demonic ghouls and vile creatures. It is a terrible world, a human world. It is an awful place for a god, especially one as beautiful and brilliant as Eleazar.
But, broken and lost, he is a god struggling in the muck, his only allies a pair of atheist siblings who would sooner worship a burnt ghoul than show him proper obeisance and the closest gateway back to Splendour is half a world away through a wild and daunting landscape of chaos, monsters and men. He has no choice but to endure the unspeakable horrors of this human place, this war-torn world of carbines and steel rails and smoke-belching factories, not if he wishes to return to Splendour and reclaim his place among the Angelus.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Wings of Steel & Fury, Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/7TB2t3Z>.
-LGBTQ+ Historical Romance-
Adversity by Ren Browne
Expected Release: August 26, 2025
Description
A gunslinger. A gambler. And the girl they stole.
After the murder of her father, Cora runs away into the unforgiving Old West, determined to hunt down those responsible. But a suspicious small town in the Arizona Territory offers little mercy to a young woman alone.
In a twist of fate, she’s rescued by Aiden and Cypress—two outlaws as enigmatic as they are deadly. Their bond forged by trust, loyalty, and temptation that simmers just beneath the surface. As they help Cora navigate the untamed world they call home, she soon finds they have far more to teach her than just simple survival.
With trouble on their heels and her heart pulled in unexpected directions, Cora must choose between returning to the perceived safety of what she knows or finding an entirely new place in the dangerous life they already share.
Adversity is a fast-paced, frontier romance where justice comes at a cost—and love doesn’t always come in pairs.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Adversity, Adversity, Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/i3zg8Vd>.
-Contemporary Western Romance-
Saving the Rain by Elliot Rose
Expected Release: August 26, 2025
Description
Forbidden love heats up in this spicy, age-gap rodeo cowboy romance from internationally bestselling author Elliott Rose.
All it takes is eight seconds for your world to come crashing to a halt. What happens when you’re injured, stuck with the one man who makes your blood heat in a way you’ve never experienced before?
I’ve been on a path to redemption. Kayce Wilder, former screw-up. The bareback bronc rider with big dreams. I had it all figured out.
Only, I didn’t count on a ride gone wrong to leave me with no other option than to ask for his help. Zeke Rainer. Raine. The gruff cowboy covered in tattoos, surrounded by mysteries.
We’ve been at odds forever. Rivals in the arena. Two rodeo riders in pursuit of the same buckle . . . before he left me behind, without warning.
My stepbrother.
When urgent help is needed to run the ranch, he’s the last person I want to be relying on for a favor. As the fall nights lengthen, tension and angst thicken the more time we spend alone together.
I shouldn’t be noticing so many small details—especially not how strong his hands look while working with the horses—and I certainly shouldn’t be wondering if he thinks about me as much as I think about him.
I’ve never been attracted to a man before. It would be unthinkable to be drawn to him. Wouldn’t it?
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, Saving the Rain (Crimson Ridge), Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/a3VW8eX>.
-YA Supernatural Mysteries / Detective Stories-
The Hex Girls by Lily Meade
Expected Release: August 26, 2025
Description
Everything’s chill in Coolsville. . . until the Hex Girls move to town. Can Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang solve the mystery surrounding the goth rockers before someone gets hurt? Find out in this dark, mysterious, and exciting take on the beloved Scooby-Doo cartoon!
Coolsville is shaken up when eco-goth band The Hex Girls move to town. Teenagers Thorn, Luna, and Dusk are looking for a fresh start for themselves and their band after the disastrous events that destroyed their hometown and Thorn’s reputation. But things take a turn for the worse when a mysterious mist starts killing crops and making people sick wherever Thorn goes. She quickly becomes the town’s prime suspect and is outcast once again.
As her band falls apart, Thorn turns to the Mystery Inc. gang, especially Velma, for help as they try to solve the mystery and prove Thorn’s innocence. While the gang thinks that Thorn’s magical powers are the key to stopping the growing threat to Coolsville, Thorn is sure magic will only bring more harm than good—and that revealing her true nature would make her an outsider forever. Can they solve the mystery and save Coolsville before someone gets seriously hurt. . . or worse?
Full of classic Scooby-Doo antics mixed with darker, more mysterious horrors, this spooky, romantic mystery is sure to thrill teens and Scooby-Doo fans!
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, The Hex Girls: A Rogue Thorn (Scooby-Doo and Friends) , Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/34B9PIe>.
-LGBTQ+ Black & African American Romantic Literature-
The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee
Expected Release: August 26, 2025
Description
A dedicated single mother and a librarian with a secret write their own sweet and sexy love story in this small-town rom-com about family, friendships, and embracing the next chapter.
“HAWT sex scenes… Every touch, kiss, caress, feels incredibly real and deliciously sexy.”—Autostraddle on The 7-10 Split
Nothing cures a lonely heart quite like a good book and an unexpected crush....
For Dani, life is a juggling act. As a single mom devoted to her son and family, she barely has a moment to herself. But when her sister announces she’s moving out of the house, the ache of loneliness creeps in, and Dani can’t help but wonder if there’s something else she’s been missing in her life.
Zoey came to Peach Blossom eager to start her new job as the town’s librarian and to do a little research for her next book. Yet she never expected to find inspiration in fellow book club member Dani, whose captivating brown eyes tell a story of their own. Before they know it, lingering glances over their favorite fiction turn into first dates and sizzling nights.
As their connection deepens, the two women must decide if they should turn the page on what their lives used to look like, or if this thrilling plot twist is the happily-ever-after they’ve been chasing all along.
From showing up to glowing up, the characters in Afterglow Books are on the path to leading their best lives and finding sizzling romance along the way. Don’t miss any of these other fun titles....
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, The Secret Crush Book Club: Peach Blossom, Book 3, Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/e7ZealD>.
-Epic Romantic Fantasy-
On the Origins of Magic by J. Lynn Carr
Expected Release: August 26, 2025
Description
Welcome to Elden, where books grow from petals and bones, and magic lives in the air…
Artemis Fairchild, a thirty-eight-year-old divorced witch, finds herself at a crossroads. Burdened by a mysterious curse, she steps into her new role as Head Librarian at Wymore College of Magical Studies ready to unlock the secrets of ancient tomes and, perhaps, her own fate.
Enter River Starling, the enigmatic Sigil Craft professor whose formidable presence masks a complicated past. With a penchant for solitude, he seems eager to keep his history buried and live out his days in quiet atonement.
When River is tasked with aiding Artemis in her quest to break her curse, sparks ignite between them. As they delve deeper into the mysteries of magical theory, River can't help but question: Are their feelings a genuine connection, or merely a byproduct of the dark enchantment that plagues Artemis?
This standalone romance fantasy is a love letter to libraries and the written word, a testament to the persistent pursuit of knowledge, and, most importantly, a story of finding connection when least expected.
Source Citation:
Amazon.com 2025, On the Origins of Magic, Amazon website, Accessed 02 August 2025, <https://a.co/d/5mrelwF>.
The anticipation of August’s new releases has been building all Summer, and I can hardly contain my excitement now that the time has arrived when I can finally begin to dive into these stories. Each book holds the potential to transport us to different worlds, introduce us to unforgettable characters, and invite us to diverse storytelling styles. I would love to hear what you thought of my round-up of just some of titles that I highlighted for August’s releases. I have my eye on quite a few of these titles but I want to know what book’s you’ve got your eyes on or even what books you’ve found on my list to add to your own TBR. As always, let me know in the comments below. Tell me what you’re most excited about and what your must haves are. Your insights and opinions are invaluable, and I look forward to hearing about the books that have sparked your interest and ignited your passion for reading this August.
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