With spring comes warmer weather, greener landscapes, and new romance novels just begging to be read outside with a warm cup of coffee or tea.
This month’s rom-com lineup offers readers the latest best-selling novel from their favorite authors, books that follow whimsical travelers who jet set off to new beginnings, and swoonworthy romantic fantasies perfect for when we need to escape those rainy April days.
In order of release date, here are 6 rom-com novels to check out this April:
1. Swept Away by Beth O’Leary — April 1
In Beth O’Leary’s latest novel, a one-night fling on a boat turns into a mission to get back home when two strangers are stranded at sea and forced to work together to sail to safety.
What started as a harmless night together turns into something more as Lexi and Zeke lean on each other to survive and get to know each other better.
Book Description:
Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend’s daughter.
Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark, foggy night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke and Lexi realize all they can see is miles and miles of water.
With just a few provisions on the idle boat, Zeke and Lexi must figure out how to get back home. But aside from their survival, they’re facing another challenge. Because when you’re stuck together for days on end, it gives you a lot of time to get to know someone — and to fall in love with them.
2. Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez — April 1
It is a good old love story involving a seemingly disastrous pairing going on such a perfect first date that they have to reconsider a life without each other in it.
With family and life getting in the way, Samantha begs Xavier to move on from their perfect date and treat it only as a memory of what they could have been. But as the longing to make more memories together grows, the two reconsider parting ways.
Book Description:
There might be no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes — all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is, until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong. Unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake.
But after one incredible and seemingly endless date — possibly the best in living history — Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be.
No amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life — and even a love — worth remembering.
3. No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel — April 1
A pop star dares to separate herself from a toxic relationship with a music producer. Still, with a prenup and the media closing in, Ella struggles to do so without making the headlines.
When a wardrobe malfunction at an award show sends Ella stumbling into a PR relationship with an MLB pitcher, the two public figures’ relationship quickly becomes more authentic behind the scenes.
Book Description:
Ella Simone’s popstar life is what dreams are made of. Her eight year marriage to renowned music producer, Elliot Majors, has helped garner the hits, awards, and adoring fans to prove it. But when Ella tires of Elliot’s many infidelities, she decides to fight for her independence despite the ironclad prenup that threatens her career.
To help her case, Ella is under strict orders to stick to The no headlines, no rumors, no rocking the boat. But this strategy is thrown a curveball after an awards show wardrobe snafu and quick rescue by Miles Westbrook, MLB’s most eligible player, sends the tabloids into a frenzy. Amid tricky divorce proceedings, Ella’s magnetic connection with the charismatic pitcher might just be her downfall.
Now the pressure is on to turn a scandal into an opportunity and give their teams what they a picture-perfect performance that will shore up both Ella and Miles’ reputations. But as the lines between reality and PR begin to blur, Ella will either stick to the choreographed life she knows so well, or surrender to a love that could set her free.
4. Some Like It Scot by Pepper Basham — April 8
Some Like It Scot crafts a contemporary romance that explores the act of falling head over heels for a destination and its lovable locals.
Katie Campbell ends up in this predicament when the travel writer with no roots finds herself wanting to stay in Scotland and pursue something more with the grumpy owner of the local manor.
Book Description:
Katie Campbell has traveled her entire life. As the daughter of an army chaplain, changing homes — or even countries — was commonplace, so when her wild childhood storytelling turned into a lucrative career as a travel writer, she thought she’d found her perfect match. But as she’s nearly thirty with no real place to settle down, she’s starting to wonder where “home” actually is.
When a lengthy project in Scotland promises to not only give her travel fodder for months but also a shot at a coveted editing position, she accepts and is sent to spend three weeks in the newly created Craighill House, a Scottish home redesigned to offer guests an Edwardian experience. But her entrance to Craighill introduces her to a quirky group of characters and a surly Scot who is helping refurbish the magnificent woodwork of the estate house.
As Katie attempts to live “Edwardian,” she learns that all that glitters does not a comfortable lifestyle make and surly Scots may turn out to be dashing and creative uncles raising their orphaned nephews. When a few escapades from the Downton era lead Katie on hunts for mermaids and dragons or to a fireside chat with a family who has grown stronger through tragedy, Katie begins to wonder if “home” looks a whole lot like rolling green hills, magnificent braighs, and a few extra “ayes” thrown in for good measure. But can her world-traveling lifestyle fit in with a Scot whose heart is double-knotted to home?
5. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry — April 22
It’s always a good month when a new Emily Henry book releases. An author who never seems to disappoint with her grounded and heartfelt romances looks to make us fall in love all over again — this time with Alice and Hayden.
Two writers fighting for the rights to pen the biography of a mysterious former heiress must compete for her approval over the course of one month without falling for each other’s stories.
Book Description:
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years — or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.
When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice — and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.
6. Anywhere You Go by Bridget Morrissey — April 22
Inspired by The Holiday House Swap, this sapphic romance follows two women who swap their lives in a quaint small town and a bustling city, hoping to escape their past.
The swap soon becomes more than the two escapies bargained for as they navigate long-buried secrets, new loves, and hard-to-swallow truths that await them in these unfamiliar places.
Book Description:
Tatum Ward and Eleanor Chapman lead totally opposite lives. Tatum’s never left her Midwestern hometown. She resides in a quaint guest cottage on her parents’ property while working part-time as a waitress, where she spends most shifts ignoring her feelings for a beautiful regular named June. Eleanor dedicates every waking hour to her high-profile press career, sacrificing personal relationships for professional success, save for the occasional hookup to fight off her loneliness. When both women’s lives unexpectedly blow up at the exact same time, they each need an escape, and fast.
In Tatum’s hometown, Eleanor expects a quiet hideaway where she can recharge. Instead, she gets wrapped up in the family drama that Tatum left town to avoid, pulled in by Tatum’s charismatic older sibling, Carson, who charms Eleanor at every turn. Tatum ends up in Eleanor’s New York high-rise apartment with June. One week together in the big city might make it impossible for Tatum to avoid not just her true feelings for June, but her real dreams for her life.
Amid a friendship with a reclusive Hollywood actress and a complicated family reunion, Tatum and Eleanor each discover much more than they bargained for away from home. Their house swap won’t last forever, but it might be just long enough for both women to surrender their defenses and finally fight for the life — and love — they deserve.
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Alicia Gilstorf
Alicia is a writer from Canada. She credits her passion for TV and film to superheroes, workplace comedies, cheesy holiday movies, and coming-of-age stories.
