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Fave Five: New Christmas Romances, 2025 Edition

For 2024 titles, click here.

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm by Mariama J. Lockington (YA, f/f)

Christmas With Her by Fiona Zedde (f/f)

A Mannequin for Christmas by Timothy Janovsky (m/m)

Yours for the Season by Kate Cochrane (f/f)

Any Girl But You by Dana Hawkins (f/f)

Bonus: For a Christmas in July romance, check out Holly Jolly July by Lindsay Maple (f/f)

New Releases: June 17, 2025

Young Adult

The Tournament by Rebecca Barrow

They Wish They Were Us meets Nothing Left to Tell in this young adult thriller about three girls with entangled pasts who compete for glory in their private school’s annual tournament, putting their survival skills and their relationships to the test.

Gardner isn’t like other boarding schools. They take in those who’ve been rejected everywhere else, they offer a survival skills class that has students killing and gutting animals, and then there’s the Tournament.

A competition available only to seven elite seniors, the Tournament is revered by the entire student body. They’d do almost anything—including completing a series of grueling physical challenges—to win the champion’s cup.

And this year, three seniors make the Tournament more cutthroat than ever.

Max, the ruthless scholarship student who can’t afford any distractions, not even her ex best friend Nora’s stupid confession of love at the end of last year that ruined everything between them.

Nora, who always put herself on the sidelines so Max could have everything she wanted, but might just be ready for center stage now that Max has brutally excised herself from Nora’s life.

And Teddy, the transfer who’s on her last chance and will chase any high that can pull her back from the gaping, dark void inside herself that’s always threatening to pull her in.
If one of them wants to win, then they can’t let anything—or anybody—get in their way.

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June 2024 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction

National Book Award finalist Alejandro Varela‘s MIDDLE SPOON, a humorous exploration of the universal experience of heartbreak, following the disintegration of a queer polyamorous relationship, upending expectations around family life, parenting, and public health, looking at the forces that shape modern romance, to Ibrahim Ahmad at Viking, at auction, by Robert Guinsler at Sterling Lord Literistic (world).

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