Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in March 2022
Despite having some truly atrocious weather in my part of the world over the past week, I’m firmly telling myself that we’re heading into Spring and that soon the daffodils will be flowering and we’ll be able to turn down the central heating! With a new month on the way, it’s time for our regular Coming Soon feature, in which we’ve selected the new titles** we think are going to make for the best reads over the coming weeks. Have a look at our choices and then drop by and tell us what new books YOU’RE most looking forward to reading in March!
** based on the information from authors and publishers available at time of writing.
Releasing 1st Mar 2022
Releasing w/c 7th Mar 2022
Releasing w/c 14th Mar 2022
Releasing w/c 21st Mar 2022
If some publisher can swing the rights, they could issue a boxed set of three of The Highlander’s Stolen Bride, by Madeline Martin (above), and Eliza Knight, and Melanie George.
Wonder how different/same the books are.
I am looking forward to some exasperated marketer titling a romance “Yet Another Highlander Steals a Bride.”
A.J. Demas tweeted yesterday that she is releasing a new book on 31 March. No cover or preorder yet.
Annabeth Albert announced she has a new book coming out March 24th titled Tough Luck. It’s the first in a new series called A List Security. Itlooks like a “best friend’s younger brother, body guard, forced proximity story.” I’m there! :-)
I’m there too! I remember that in one of the books in her Out of Uniform series, the main characters left to join a private security company. I’m hoping the 2 series intersect and we might see some familiar faces…
It’s on the list – when I put this together the cover wasn’t available but it should show up as soon as it goes up at Amazon.
Just making it into March, Stella Riley has a new book coming out on March 30, The Montessori Legacy, third in the Brandon brothers series. I haven’t read anything of hers that I haven’t loved, so I’m definitely looking forward to this.
I’d forgotten about that one! I’m also looking forward to the audio of The King’s Falcon which is sue out in March, as well! I’ve loved her Roundheads and Cavaliers books on audio, and I’m so excited for this one. Hopefully the last one will be recorded sometime in the near future.
Josh Lanyon has put several box sets of e-books on sale: Secrets and Scrabble (4), The Art of Murder (3), Dangerous Ground (6) and (divided into two sets) Adrien English. Each set is priced at $4.99. If you are into m/m romantic suspense, these are great prices for some very good reads. If you are new to the author, start with Adrien. (Sorry to put this here but worried too many won’t see it on the message boards.)
I have all of those, but there are some terrific reads there for anyone new to JL’s work!
Josh Lanyon has been on my radar for a while but I haven’t bought any of her books. I appreciate the tips about the sales and where to start!
Last year I bought the Adrien English sets on Smashword for $5 each and downloaded them to my Kindle. I loved the series, so when I got a new Kindle I decided to download them again and found that they were no longer available in mobi format. After a (sometimes) heated discussion with the Smashwords’ helpdesk (They said the books were never available in mobi, yet I have them on my Kindle and I DO NOT have any programs like Calibre. Plus checking for mobi is reflex for me–I won’t buy in another format because I can’t read for any length of time with backlighting), they finally gave me the vital piece of information: The author sets the format and can change it at any time. Obviously Lanyon decided to remove the mobi format for all their books on Smashwords (I had another title of his,too..also now not in mobi). I’m tempted to rebuy them, but then I get angry and stop myself. I’ve been miffed enough not to buy his Latest Secrets and Scrabble title. I’ll wait for the library to get it.
All that to say, they are great books and definitely worth the $5.
Of the list above, I am most excited for The Inconvenient Love. I am a huge fan of Briar Prescott and I just got the prologue to the book via her newsletter – it looks to be an emotional ride! It’s a best friend’s younger brother, age gap M/M romance and I can’t wait to read it. I will also read Shenanigans – Sarina Bowen is consistently good. Hook, Line and Sinker looks interesting but I haven’t read It Happened One Summer yet. The e-book price was too steep so I waited for it to go on sale, which it did! I might wait for Hook to do the same. I also really loved Annabeth Albert’s Out of Uniform Navy SEALs series and Tough Luck looks like it might be tangentially related.
I have several other books I’m looking forward to in March. For M/F romances, Penny Reid is coming out with a standalone called Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend. Looks like its an opposites attract, fake relationship-turns-real romance. I’m also interested in Beauty and the Baller by Ilsa Madden-Mills. It’s about a NFL quarterback turned coach and a former beauty queen fake dating and is set in Texas. I really liked her recent books Not My Romeo and Not My Match.
For M/M romances, Lane Hayes is starting a new series with The Real Baxter. Looks like it’s a famous Hollywood actor-bodyguard (or someone faking being a bodyguard), age-gap romance. Age gap isn’t my favorite but I do like this author a lot. Lucy Lennox is coming out with her latest Aster Valley novel called Thick as Thieves, about a guy in love with his best friend. I’ve enjoyed this series. I’m also interested in All Inclusive by Mia Monroe (in love with best friend) and Master of Mayhem by Saxon James (rival fraternities). I think it’s going to be a good reading month for me!
I just got around to reading a couple of Briar Prescott’s books so I plan to check out her new one, and probably the Rachel Ember. Unfortunately the other authors on your list aren’t ones that really work for me :( I’m also kinda done with all the fluff and want stories I can really get my teeth into!
I completely understand! For myself, I do need my fluff…
Waiting for The Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz. Think I heard about it on Fated Mates podcast.
I may be the only person who didn’t love Float Plan, which I finally got on sale earlier this month. I found it very meh, so no plans to check out The Suite Spot.
Not among the covers in this post (not sure it has a cover yet), I’m looking forward to Claire Kingsley’s final Bailey brothers book.
June I felt the same! Meh might even be generous!
Yes to Claire Kingsley! I forgot to mention her in my post but I am very much looking forward to the final book, which I think will have a Romeo and Juliet feel.
But is it scheduled for March release? I can’t find any reference to it—even a title. And I’m going to consume it the minute I get my hands on it!
Yes it is! Rewriting the Stars will be out March 10th according to her website. No preorder link yet, but it’s on Goodreads.
BTW, it was your recommendation that got me into this series, so thanks for that :)
Pre-order went up today!
I was looking forward to The Valet’s Secret by Josi Kilpack. It sounds sweet and gentle which suits my needs right now. Unfortunately, it’s $12 and I just can’t bring myself to spend that much. It isn’t available at my library either. Hopefully it’ll come on sale .
The Suite Spot has been on pre-order since I read Float Plan last year. I have never heard of Josi Kilpack but the Valet’s Secret looks like my kind of catnip and I hope it gets reviewed here. It will have to be an A to tempt me, though, at the Kindle price showing on Amazon UK of £9.41!!!
The kindle prices for quite a few of these are outrageous. I looked at one that was $15.99, which got a big, disgusted nope from from me.
I feel like we’re increasingly stuck between over priced and KU. The latter is horrible for the industry but the former alienates romance readers who read far more books per month than readers from any other genre.
I have a hard time paying more than $5.99 for an e-book and most of my e-book purchases are $3.99 or less. I just stick the high priced ones on my Amazon wishlist and wait for the price to come down, which it very often does. My TBR is so large that I always have plenty of books to read anyway!
I’m very lucky in that I get a lot of the things I want to read as ARCs, but that’s not always the case and like you, I inevitably put things on a wish list and wait for the price to come down. Which is fine, but then by the time those prices DO come down, I have another huge pile on the wishlist and have forgotten about why I wanted to read the first lot!!
Happens to me all the time
Most of the too-high-price books on my wish list are by authors I like so I am still willing to buy the book months later. However, I admit that sometimes there is a book on the list by a new author and I can’t recall why I put it on the list. If it hasn’t gotten buzz at AAR then I might just delete it from the list. I am also fortunate that my library gets a lot of romance e-books so I can read a high-price book first then if I want it, I just keep it on the Amazon wish list until the price comes down!
Agree! KU is particularly horrible for public libraries. I have no problem with people who want to buy books (or borrow them for a fee) rather than get them from their library – for whatever reason. But not when it becomes a mechanism to specifically and determinedly undermine public libraries. And for what purpose? In the long run, it means fewer readers.
It’s like Spotify. The number of times a song has to be streamed to make a dollar, if you’re the artist, can be in the 100s. Compare that to 0.99, the price point to buy a digital version. Systems like Spotify–which I adore–and KU also push down quality because the pressure to keep putting things out is gargantuan.
I haven’t got anything preordered for March, which is unusual. None of the books above really grab me, so it will be interesting to see if any of their reviews make me change my mind! I did buy the first Aunties book yesterday for 99p though……….
Like stl-reader, I find the title of Big Duke Energy really annoying. I’m old though – maybe it’s age thing?! Also, I find loooots of things annoying at the moment!
I plan to check out the Rachel Ember and the Briar Prescott books, but that’s about it for me this month. The other authors Manjari mentions above aren’t ones that usually do it for me.
“Big Duke Energy”, terrible title and all the authors are so-so for me.
Ugh, I saw that title and was immediately “NOPE”.
I don’t have my upcoming calendar with me, so I’m not sure of every book I have on my March tbr, but I’m really looking forward to the rerelease of Serena Bell’s three Under One Roof books: DO OVER, HEAD OVER HEELS, and SLEEPOVER (March 1, 15, and 29, respectively). The blurbs say these have been “lightly edited” since their original release dates. I didn’t read them the first time around, so I’m eager to read them now.
As much as I liked Trish Doller’s FLOAT PLAN and Tessa Bailey’s IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER, paying $10.99 for the ebooks of their follow-ups (SUITE SPOT and HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER, respectively) is too rich for my blood. I’d like to read both of these books (the heroine in each is the sister of the previous book’s heroine), but unless our library has them, I’ll be waiting for a sale.
I worry when books I love–Sleepover–are edited. I’m hopeful she hasn’t changed much.
The blurb says “lightly edited,” so maybe it’s just a matter of removing references to outdated technology (Blackberry, anyone?), online entertainment (Angry Birds, same), or other pop culture ephemera. I didn’t read the books the first time around, so things will be all new to me. If you’re ambivalent about a reread, perhaps it’s best to just remember the books as they were when you first read and loved them.
I hope so. The redos by Lisa Kleypas have me on edge….
Ok—I now have access to my March tbr. Here are some other books I’m looking forward to:
DUET by Julie Kriss (March 3): a rock-star romance from one of Romancelandia’s most underrated writers. I can trust Kriss to bring something new to even the most worn-out trope.
PUSHING THE LIMITS by Riley Hart (March 8): m/m involving adult step-brothers, one of whom has been pining for the other for a long time.
BEDHEAD by Brooke Blaine (March 15): antagonists-to-lovers m/m featuring rival publishers. This begins Blaine’s new Hate to Love You series.
LAST RESORT by Amelia Wilde (March 22): third and final book in Wilde’s Collectors Trilogy about a reclusive art collector and the innocent young artist he has “collected.” The first two books were very dark, and I’m not expecting that to change for book three.
ROMEO by Sybil Bartel (March 22): the next in Bartel’s Alpha Elite series romantic-suspense books set in Florida and featuring beyond-gonzo alpha heroes.
RETURN OF THE OUTBACK BILLIONAIRE by Kelly Hunter (March 29): the latest HP from the always-reliable Hunter. This features an ex-con hero who took the fall for a crime he did not commit. Should be all kinds of angsty. Can’t wait!
I’m listening to the first book in that Riley Hart series right now – Off Limits. This one is the husband – who came out as gay five years earlier – falling for his ex-wife’s brother. It’s okay – the romance is nicely done and I like the characters, but I really don’t get all the hand-wringing and guilt involved. I’m reviewing it for AudioGals, so I’ll get the chance to organise my thoughts then!
I’m curious about the Bell reissues as well. I read and liked Sleepover and somehow missed the other two in the trilogy. My library isn’t carrying any of them ;-(
Hoping the reissues are reasonably priced!
Each book is priced at $3.99 on Amazon, which I think is a fair price for a republished book.
First time I’ve looked at the list of upcoming books and not found one or two that really grab me. Hopefully, after you guys will read and report back, and I’ll be able to put a couple of these books on my TBR list.
Also, Big Duke Energy? Could be the greatest HR anthology ever, but I’ll pass it by because the title irks me. Maybe subsequent anthologies in the series will continue the peerage theme with titles like:
A friend of mine used to say that some bands spend so much time coming up with a funny/cute/weird band name, they completely forget to create engaging music to go along with it. I think BIG DUKE ENERGY may be the case of a title that is supposed to sell the book—not sure what the quality of the writing will be like.
Better than Duke I’d like to F*ck but not by much.
Oh, I totally forgot about that one! Another title that is totally at odds with what I expect from a book about a duke. Who was the audience for that anthology, exactly?
As you say – marginally better, but it was a low bar to start with!
“Lady Claire is All That” was an actual book title.
The book I am most looking forward to this month is The Suite Spot by Trish Doller. I really enjoyed Float Trip and I’m hearing good things about her new one.
I can’t be the only one who is interested in the authors, not the titles (until they actually come out). Unfortunately, the print on these covers is so small that I often can’t read it. I’ve asked in the past if the pictures could be made bigger, but I assume that they can’t because you’ve not done it, and you are so accommodating, always . However, barring that, could you just list the authors and the titles at the bottom for those of us who are blind? (Metaphorically, fortunately!) I would really appreciate it! Thank you.
Sadly, we are so understaffed we are barely able to get posts like this that require lots of work done.
Clicking on the book covers will take you to Amazon where you can see all the info.
I am in the process of redoing the site with an eye to making it easier to code. I hope that will work–it’s all about the Benjamins!–and then perhaps we will find it easier to do as you’ve asked.
Sorry. <3
As Dabney says, it is a lot of work to complile and then put this post together. It doesn’t take quite as long now we don’t include reviewer comments, but it’s still a big job that can get really messy if I lose my place in all the coding!!
I don’t think I can add alt text because we’re not using uploaded images, but are using the direct Amazon links. I’ll have a look though.
Like you Lynda, I care about author names as well. This was probably totally obvious to everyone else, but it took me a while to remember that I have a computer with a touch screen. FWIW, enlarging the images I can’t read immediately works fairly well. Just a thought until a more efficient solution can be found.
Oh, I didn’t realize the impact of my request. Sorry.
No worries. I am working on a site reboot that should make our work easier. Comments like yours help me know what to fix!
The week of March 8 you show Anne Bishop’s Wild Country. That title was released in March, 2019. I think you meant to show Anne Bishop’s Crowbones, the next book in that series, which will be released on March 8, 2022.
Oh, sorry, I’ll double check and correct.
Jeannie Lin has a new Lotus Palace Mystery coming out in March that I’m looking forward to.
Oh good! I love those books.
Ooh! I hadn’t seen that! I love those!