Conceal Your Pockets: June twenty fourth Launch Week

Conceal Your Pockets

Glad Tuesday!

It’s the final launch week in June and it’s a reasonably robust finish of the month. There are many contemporaries, historic romances and settings, and even a fantasy romance anthology.

Which releases are in your radar this week? Tell us within the feedback!

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A Magic Deep and Drowning

Set within the waning days of the Dutch Golden Age, this enchanting, lush reimagining of The Little Mermaid is ideal for followers of Jesse Burton’s The Miniaturist and Leigh Bardugo’s The Acquainted.

The Dutch Republic, 1650. One nice spring day in Friesland, twenty-year-old Clara van Wieren is confronted with an unwell a whale, beached and rotting within the noonday solar. However Clara doesn’t consider in magic and superstition, and this portent is shortly dismissed when a proposal from a rich service provider arrives, promising Clara the liberty she seeks from her mom’s overbearing rule.

When her makes an attempt at overseeing the family on the household’s property result in her likelihood encounter with a younger man with russet hair and glowing eyes the colour of the ocean, she finds herself unusually drawn to him. As Clara grows nearer to Maurits, she should select between the regular, mild life she has been raised for and the person who makes her blood sing.

However Maurits isn’t who he appears to be, and his secrets and techniques, as soon as hidden beneath the waves, threaten to stand up and drown them each. And when an historic discount, solid in blood between the legendary individuals of the ocean and the rulers of the land, begins to unravel, Clara finds herself on the coronary heart of a lethal wrestle for energy.

What are you able to anticipate in A MAGIC DEEP & DROWNING? Lush & Enchanting Gender-swap of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid Historic Fantasy Set in seventeenth Century Netherlands.

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Elyse: This e-book is about within the Dutch Golden Age, a time interval I’ve by no means learn earlier than.

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An American in London

For a people-pleasing New Yorker and a unpleasant (if severely scorching) Brit, it’s love at fourth sight in a humorous and emotional romantic comedy by a Wall Avenue Journal and USA Immediately bestselling creator.

Tuesday Reynolds’s dreamy life in Manhattan has gone belly-up. Ditched by her school sweetheart and together with her Wall Avenue banking job in danger, she’s off to London to show herself to a brand new CEO. Plans change when Tuesday meets Ben Kelley, a rich, scowly, and movie-star-handsome stranger. He’s simply lacking one factor to make his skilled goals come true.

What does Ben want? Oh, only a pretend fiancée to impress a duke and duchess. What’s in it for Tuesday? Sufficient cash to place a down fee on an house again in New York, a brand new wardrobe, and a weekend within the nation on the stately house of the duke and duchess. The Bridgerton vibes are completely off the charts.

Every part between Ben and Tuesday is totally skilled, till the rehearsals for his or her weekend romance begin to really feel…nearly genuine.

It’s official. Tuesday’s life has been hijacked by a rom-com scriptwriter. However the very best love tales aren’t those on the large display screen. Possibly they’re the actual ones that sneak up on you while you least anticipate it.

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Elyse: I really like a pretend courting romance, and Bay is certainly one of my favourite modern authors.

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Eliza and the Duke

American heiress Eliza Dove was resigned to a well mannered marriage of comfort…till she spent one depraved night time with the Duke.

All hopeless romantic Eliza Dove requested for was one night time of journey. One superb night of freedom to discover the darkish corners of London with a mysterious stranger earlier than a lifetime trapped in a quiet, respectable marriage of comfort. Besides now she needs extra. Now she needs him.

Simon Cavell is not any gentleman. Identified solely as ‘the Duke,’ Whitechapel’s prize boxer is one battle away from attaining his objective: to safeguard his late sister’s solely treasure and depart the streets for good. He can not permit some fairly younger heiress to spill his secrets and techniques, irrespective of how tempting she could be. In return for her silence, Simon will give Eliza a style of the darkness…and hope he doesn’t lose his coronary heart within the course of.

However one night time collectively may by no means be sufficient. And now Eliza has a brand new plan—an much more scandalous discount that can both land the heiress her duke or spoil them each.

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Amanda: Alert: The duke is a prize boxer! Additionally St. George is an autobuy for me.

Elyse: I’m loving this collection.

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Finders Keepers

Two estranged finest associates discover {that a} long-abandoned treasure hunt could be the important thing to a contemporary begin—for each their futures and their emotions, from USA Immediately bestselling creator Sarah Adler.

Final week, Nina Hunnicutt was a professor about to maneuver into a stunning new house together with her long-term boyfriend. Now, she’s single, unemployed, and dwelling together with her mother and father. Much more shocking is the truth that Quentin Bell, her childhood neighbor (and okay, nice, crush), can be again on the town—and desires to renew the treasure hunt that ended their friendship nearly twenty years in the past.

Hoping the reward promised to whoever finds the rumored riches left behind by the city’s eccentric turn-of-the-century seltzer magnate will assist her get her life again on monitor, Nina agrees. Granted, final time the search resulted in a damaged coronary heart and seventeen years of silence. However Nina’s older and wiser now—certainly issues can be completely different.

Besides, Quentin can be older and wiser…to not point out distractingly good-looking. As they resume their hunt, Nina and Quentin start to rediscover all of the issues they as soon as cherished finest about one another. However in contrast to the treasure, the secrets and techniques that left them empty-handed the primary time refuse to remain buried. If there’s any hope of discovering what they’re searching for—and for a future collectively—Nina and Quentin should be courageous sufficient to excavate their previous as properly.

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Lara: I’m studying this e-book proper now for assessment on the positioning and thus far I’m completely loving it! Will report again!

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One Darkish Kiss

Rebecca Zanetti explores the forbidden and the taboo on this trendy darkish romance twist on Snow White—the second in a fascinating new collection set in a seductive world of cash, energy, billionaires, and the harmful wishes that drive them.

Mirror, Mirror . . . Innocence or Sin. The reflection holds a darker fact.

ALEXEI
I’ve spent the final seven years within the hell of a maximum-security jail, each second consumed by the necessity for revenge—revenge towards the bastards who framed me, and revenge towards the household who stole every thing I owned. Now that I’m lastly free, nothing will stand in my means. Not even her—my scorching as sin new lawyer. Possibly she’s one other weapon despatched by my enemies to interrupt me, or perhaps she’s the important thing to my freedom. Both means, as soon as she’s mine, I’m by no means letting her go.

ROSALIE
Once I took this case, I assumed I had it underneath management. However Alexei is not any typical convicted killer—he’s a dangerously seductive pressure of nature. Maybe it’s the lingering energy from his days as inheritor to a world social media empire. Harmless or not, he’s harmful within the worst and finest methods.

I safe Alexei’s launch as we put together for a brand new trial, however he wastes no time turning towards his traitorous kin and plotting his return to energy. Amidst the chaos, our explosive chemistry ignites, placing us—and everybody I care about—within the crosshairs of ruthless enemies. If we are able to’t cease them, Alexei plans to burn the entire world down. And if something, he’s a person of his phrase . . .

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The second e-book in Zanetti’s darkish fairytale retelling collection

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The Secret Romantic’s Ebook of Magic

Enemies change into lovers, rivalry turns to romance, and handy marriages create real love in these 12 addictive Romantasy tales.

That includes Olivie Blake, Kelley Armstrong, Katherine Arden, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Tasha Suri, Melissa Marr, and extra.

Fall in love with these 12 beautiful romantasy tales from bestselling and beloved authors.

Misplaced lovers return for a second likelihood – however what are their motives? Tutorial rivals compete for a prestigious place, however their scorching chemistry would possibly get in the best way. A monster slayer posing as an unwitting sacrifice meets an intriguingly ethical prince.

From relationships caught on disparate timelines to ghostly ballrooms and dragons that want rescuing from princesses, this anthology offers you an creative new spin on all of your favourite tropes and far more you’ve by no means seen earlier than.

That includes tales by:

Olivie Blake
Kelley Armstrong
Katherine Arden
Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Tasha Suri
Melissa Marr
Megan Bannen
A. G. Slatter
A. C. Smart
Kelly Andrew
Kamilah Cole
Eliza Chan

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Amanda: An awesome lineup on this anthology.

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Sunny Aspect Up

“A intelligent and trendy journey.”
—New York Instances, The Summer time’s Greatest Seaside Reads

“Escape right into a world of designer garments and classy NYC eating places, the place profession goals come true on the drop of a hat, ideally by the pool in a flattering swimsuit.”
—Oprah Every day, 26 Greatest Summer time Reads of 2025

From body-acceptance advocate and MEGABABE founder Katie Sturino comes a heartwarming and hilarious debut.

Sunny Greene is thirty-five, lately divorced, dealing with the looming prospect of going solo to her little brother’s marriage ceremony, and at present looking for something plus-sized within the Bergdorf Goodman swimsuit division that doesn’t make her wish to cry. It’s not going properly. However isn’t all-time low the proper place to begin a climb?

She decides it’s now or by no means. Sunny has her PR empire, her beautiful Chelsea house, her two canine, and her loyal finest associates. Possibly it’s time to only love her physique and settle for herself for who she is. With a brand new dedication to confidence, her journey begins. Who says a plus-sized divorcee can’t put herself first, really feel stunning, and date up a storm?

After all issues are by no means simple within the courting world. Is destiny knocking at her door with Dennis, the charming and down-to-earth mailman, or ought to she be with Ted, the enterprise tycoon who appears able to make her size-inclusive swimsuit model a actuality? And what ought to she do about her ex, who reveals up unexpectedly, desirous to reconnect?

With the identical candor and confidence her followers love, Sturino brings us Sunny Greene, a Carrie Bradshaw for the following era, and her journey via the trials and triumphs of courting, friendship, and discovering your self.

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Katie Sturino, founding father of Megababe, releases her debut novel. Amanda can be in dialog together with her at Lovestruck tomorrow night time!

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When Javi Dumped Mari

The USA Immediately bestselling creator of The Worst Greatest Man is again with a enjoyable and flirty rom-com about a pact between associates that goes awry when certainly one of them abruptly decides to get married.

Two finest associates. One marriage ceremony to cease. Numerous shenanigans.

On the eve of their school commencement, finest associates Javier Báez and Marisol Campos swore by no means thus far somebody the opposite doesn’t approve of. Now, nearly a decade later, Javi has an issue. Mari, the girl he’s secretly pined for since sophomore yr, is engaged—and Javi didn’t even get the prospect to vet the Pedro Pascal knockoff she plans to marry.

A profitable leisure lawyer in Los Angeles, Mari is not searching for Javi’s courting recommendation or ready for him to declare his love for her. As a substitute, she’s made a special pact—with herself. And to succeed, Mari’s vowing to construct a future with another person.

Together with his life and theater profession lastly on monitor, Javi’s able to confess his emotions. Besides Mari’s modified the script and moved on with out him. Javi has simply six weeks to persuade Mari this marriage is a flop. If meaning he must ruffle some feathers to assist her avert a catastrophe, properly, he’s up for the problem. In any case, isn’t that what finest associates are for?

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A brand new modern romance by Mia Sosa!

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Writing Mr. Unsuitable

From a New York Instances bestselling creator, a second-chance rom-com a few debut creator who unexpectedly goes viral when readers uncover her hero was impressed by a beloved professional hockey participant—and her highschool crush.

Debut creator Gemma Stanton is aware of romance readers love a nasty boy—and she or he has the proper prototype for her Mason Moretti. Highschool hockey god-turned-pro participant, Mason was Gemma’s first crush, however she couldn’t neglect the sting of his very public rejection. So, she casts him as a hot-headed Highlander in her spicy new historic romance. She by no means anticipated readers would discover out on dwell TV when a morning present host invitations Mason for a shock on-air reunion…

As an getting older hockey participant with a rep for being ruthless on the ice—and roguish off of it—Mason has a picture drawback. So, when his meet-cute with Gemma goes viral, Mason proposes they construct on the momentum with a number of pretend dates to spice up her e-book gross sales…and his sagging profile. However when the fictional flirting will get a bit too actual, Mason realizes Gemma really makes him wish to change into a greater man—somebody worthy of her belief and her love.

Will Gemma give him a second likelihood? Mason is aware of it’s a protracted shot, however taking pictures is sorta his factor, and apart from, who loves a redemption arc greater than a romance creator?

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Lara: I used to be so charmed by the emotional depth, maturity and nuance on this e-book. Assessment incoming!

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