Steamy Summer Reads: Romance Favourites You’ll Fall For

Angelika Frankenstein Makes her Match - Sally Thorne

If you love a good historical romance with a twist, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match might just make your heart flutter. From the same author as The Hating Game, you’ll meet Angelika, a clever, pretty, and odd young woman that’s decided to make her perfect match using her brother Victor’s ground-breaking experiment to bring a reassembled man back to life.

The Soulmate Equation - Christina Lauren

Christina Lauren are not an author duo unfamiliar with summer reads as their smash-hit novel, The Unhoneymooners, took readers and BookTok by storm. In this book, we meet Jess, a numbers genius who is strong-armed by her best friend into trying a new dating app that uses your DNA to find your perfect match. This apparently seems to work too well, as she gets a 98% compatibility with the app’s founder, leading them down a rabbit hole of fake dating for publicity.

Love on the Brain - Ali Hazelwood

This irresistible novel is none other than Ali Hazelwood’s next bestseller. Part of the STEMinist series of novels, we meet another couple of brainiacs; Bee, a modern physicist forced to co-lead with the tall, dark and handsome Levi, an old archnemesis from the same university, as they try to work together at NASA for a ground-breaking project. What more could you ask for in a frenemies-to-lovers romance?

Things We Never Got Over - Lucy Score

If you’re a fan of small-town romances and a good grumpy x sunshine trope, look no further! This spicy rom-com has captured hearts everywhere with Naomi, a runaway bride mistaken for her evil twin sister in town, and Knox, the bad-boy barber who can’t help but keep her safe. With the sequel coming out in March, this summer is the perfect time to get hooked on these characters.

Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas

A long-time indie favourite in the romance reader community, Punk 57 is now available in paperback form. Ryen and Misha were accidentally paired up as pen pals by their teachers and have kept their friendship going for years - that is, until Misha breaks their unspoken rule and meets Ryen in real life without her knowing.

King of Wrath - Ana Huang

If you loved Ana Huang’s Twisted series as much as we did, you’ll devour this new steamy billionaire romance. Featuring our male love interest, Dante Russo, a ruthless, meticulous billionaire CEO who never planned to marry until he’s forced into an engagement with Vivian Lau, a jewellery heiress and the perfect daughter of his enemy. They never planned for it to actually work...

My Killer Vacation - Tessa Bailey

One of BookTok’s favourite romance authors, Tessa Bailey, now has a new murder-mystery romance. No one expected a brash bounty hunter and an energetic schoolteacher to team up in solving a murder, but when Taylor gets caught up in a crime in the middle of her sunny holiday, she needs to find the killer - even if it means working with a grumpy bounty hunter.