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@fated-mates
t’s hard to believe it’s July, but we’ve got another quarterly upcoming romance episode here to ease the pain of half the year already passed! Here’s a huge list of books arriving in July, August & September 2026—historical, paranormal, speculative, contemporary, a YA or two and a romantic suspense or two, we’ve got something for everyone. As a reminder, we haven’t read most of these, but we have big plans!
Our July picks!
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t’s hard to believe it’s July, but we’ve got another quarterly upcoming romance episode here to ease the pain of half the year already passed! Here’s a huge list of books arriving in July, August & September 2026—historical, paranormal, speculative, contemporary, a YA or two and a romantic suspense or two, we’ve got something for everyone. As a reminder, we haven’t read most of these, but we have big plans!
This week we’re talking about books that focus on birthdays — something you would expect to be more common in romance. We talk about birthdays that are cursed, mistakes made on birthdays, why heroes don’t seem to have birthdays, and old reliable — I’m turning thirty, better get rid of this pesky virginity!
This week, we’re talking about one of our very favorite romance novels, Sarah Mayberry’s absolute banger, Her Best Worst Mistake. We talk about how enemies to lovers works best, about how POV changes the whole game with this particular trope, about how Mayberry threads a very difficult needle with the main characters’ past relationship, and about how conflict somehow remains queen, even when not a ton is going on on page. All that, and it’s a novella! An absolute gem.
You can pick this up for $3 right now, and you should.
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We’re back with a deep dive on one of our favorite recent romances, Seven Days in June by Tia Williams! We talk about yearning in contemporaries, about books that have a powerful sense of place, about dual timelines, about secondary characters, about lines that stick with us years later, and about how fated mates works as a trope in a contemporary romance.
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Ricardo Montalban for Silhouette Romance
Michel Gondry is always finding new ways to be Michel Gondry.
Metronomy - Love Letters
Love letters are the best because they’re personal and honest and raw and beautiful, and in this episode—by request—we’re talking about all the different ways romance tells epistolary love stories!
I was almost scared when they opened the door because it was like (she makes a whizzing sound) and this stampede of women came in and they were so alive and so excited in their eyes and their energy. And I was like, "What is this? What is this?" Now remember I'm here screaming, "Jane Austen. Come on women writers!" I have no idea what this is. So about 11 o'clock before my lunch break, I took a copy. I knew we were going to run out, and I hid it like under the counter. And on my lunch break I went back and put it in my locker because I thought, "I'm buying this, whatever this is. I don't know what it is, but it's something. It's something."
Romance trailblazer Elda Minger, on discovering historical romance in 1977.
Skip to 8:43 to hear the whole story. 👆
A movie adaptation of ⬇️THIS⬇️
✨STARRING✨
Tell me I’m wrong
Not only would they match each other’s freak, but their combined charisma would break the Richter scale, causing women everywhere to question their sexuality. 👀👏🏻
Satan's Angels: Kristin James and Fayrene Preston
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The Great.
Here, enjoy this meme, you five people out there who will get it
“Three’s a crowd." "He’s a third wheel." "It’s too crowded in here."
You’ll not encounter such phrases in these books.
Next week, our read-along is Seven Days in June by Tia Williams.
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This week, we’re visiting with Mary Kay Andrews, a longtime writer and certified badass who we adore for her WTAF Wednesdays and her delightful books. We talk about her writing journey, her decision to get publicly, vocally political, and about her new book Road Trip. We had a great time chatting and talking about writing, about research, and about how we should all just take a road trip through Ireland. Of course, we recommend a few books!
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We’re celebrating the paperback release of These Summer Storms this week, and that means we’re talking about rain and snow and wind and tempests and tornadoes and monsoons, and why we all like weather in books so much (hint, it’s because it’s dialed up to 11).
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FM recs under $2! Mila Finelli's MAFIA TARGET - Amazon amzn.to/49K9xVN R. Cooper's HOTTIE SCOTTY & MR. PORTER - Amazon amzn.to/4oa6Hza - Bookshop (DRM-Free) bookshop.org/a/5779/9781370311378 Ada Harper's A TREASON OF TRUTHS - Amazon amzn.to/4uUJ5kF - Bookshop bookshop.org/a/5779/9781488030659 #bde
DRM-free titles like HOTTIE SCOTTIE AND MR. PORTER can be read on any device, including Kindle. And they'll always be yours, which means you'll be able to say:
"YOU CAN TAKE HOTTIE SCOTTY FROM ME WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!"
We talked about MAFIA TARGET in It's Romance Science and Enemies to Lovers. We recommended HOTTIE SCOTTIE in Firefighter Romance and Summer Romance Bingo. We covered TREASON OF TRUTHS in Space Romance.
