The Introvert's Book Club

Get your copy 🖉 Rating: 4.5/5 🖉 Spice:  2/5 🖉 Plot: 5 /5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Paranormal Romance 🖉 Publication Date: October 6, 2026 🖉 352 pages 🖉 Blurb:  A woman reunites with her first love to the solve the mystery of the strange occurrences plaguing her family’s pear orchard—only to discover the land holds more magic than she thought—in this enchanting and cozy romance from the author of Racing Hearts. Ali Reid has luck so bad she might actually be cursed. The pear orchard she inherited from her late uncle is drowning in debt, her fiancé and best friend have left her, and now, with picking season looming, she has no way to harvest all her fruit before it rots on the branch. Desperate, Ali turns to Logan Wright—the town’s stoic carpenter, her first kiss, and the one she left behind. Now, fourteen years later, Logan agrees to move into her farmhouse to help, wearing plaid and a steady gaze, even though the land holds memories he's not keen to revisit. As they w...

Get Your Copy 🖉 Rating: 4.75/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Paranormal Romance 🖉 Publication Date: October 6, 2026 🖉 368 pages 🖉 Blurb:  A lonely librarian finds love, friends, and a few ghosts between the shelves in this cozy, paranormal tale from beloved bestselling author Auralee Wallace. It’s a dark and stormy night…and Amelia Bates is caught in the rain. Life hasn’t always been kind to her, and being a ghostseer certainly doesn’t make things any easier. Glowing warmly through the autumnal downpour is her safest the library. Amelia, the newly hired librarian, has always relished the comfort of curling up with a novel, vastly preferring it to the company of humans (alive or ghostly). But Amelia is shocked to discover the building is full of more than quiet stories and warm cups of tea. There are curious, talkative patrons, a shy, bespectacled head librarian who makes her heart skip a beat, and three quirky spirits causing paranormal havoc that en...

 Legends & Lattes - A Collection Of Short Stories Get your copy 🖉 Rating:  4.75/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Cozy Fantasy 🖉 Publication Date: September 30, 2026 🖉 224 pages 🖉 Blurb:  Award-winning storyteller Travis Baldree takes us back to the Territory in a heart-warming set of five stories, three making their first appearances in Tales from the Territory, that give readers a brand new look at beloved characters. Tales printed in two colors throughout, with a full-page illustration for each story. The delightful “Goblins & Greatcoats” is a tale of murder and intrigue that introduces Zyll, a goblin with too many pockets and a disturbing affinity for cutlery on a rain-soaked night that features four adventurers, a pair of corpses, a junk-drawer knife, some unfortunate taxidermy, and a beleaguered Gatewarden. We all know what happened in Legends & Lattes, where retired-soldier Viv dreamed of opening a cafe and ended up with a found famil...

A Court of Thorns and Roses Book #6 Get a copy 🖉 Rating: 4.5/5 🖉 Spice: 2.5/5 🖉 Plot: 3/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Fantasy Romance 🖉 Publication Date: October 27 , 2026 🖉 352 pages 🖉 Blurb:  What was broken will be remade. Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he's been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands. The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day. To make matters worse, those who rule and protect the Night Court are reeling from recent betrayals and revealed truths. The rifts dividing them seem insurmountable. But to defeat Koschei's creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other and res...

Buy your copy from Amazon here 🖉 Rating:  3.5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance 🖉 Publication Date: September 1, 2026 🖉 352 pages 🖉 Blurb:  A fantastical story of found family, love, and acceptance from author Ann Aguirre. Thea Winter has been stolen. She's the other side of the changeling story, and she's been raised by a hobgoblin named Mudge, who taught her wildcraft, how to know when the coin-sith would attack and how to get one to show its belly. Unfortunately, Mudge didn't teach Thea how to stay out of trouble. Which is why she's facing an unwanted marriage of convenience. Or would be, but her spouse bolted. Now she has to hunt down Devan J. Fenelon, but she's been saddled with a taciturn, humorless hunter known as Winter's Hound. He answers only to his cousin, and she's not looking forward to this quest at all. Kerboros has never known freedom. His life is an endless series of ceaseless commands from his reprehe...

  Check it out on Amazon 🖉 Rating : 3.75/5 🖉 Spice: 2/5 🖉 Plot : 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Adult Contemporary Romance 🖉 Publication Date: September 8, 2026 🖉 304 pages 🖉 Blurb : Kristyn J. Miller's cozy autumn romance will have you falling for its changing leaves, hot apple cider, and unforgettable characters. Lenore’s life is falling apart. Propelled home from Manhattan to rural Vermont to spend one final autumn at her family’s historic apple orchard before it’s sold, Lenore struggles to say goodbye. Not only to French Hill Farm, but to everything that once inspired her art. Soon enough, entries in her late grandmother’s journal reignite memories of Lenore’s childhood—and the crush on the groundskeeper's son she's since tried to forget. Callan’s path has been laid out for him for as long as he can remember: live, work, and die in Whitbury, Vermont. He’s taken over for his father as the groundskeeper at French Hill Farm, but now that it’s soon to be sold, his future has...

  Get a Copy 🖉 Rating : 3/5 🖉 Spice:  0/5 🖉 Plot : 0/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Clean Adult Contemporary Romance 🖉 Publication Date: August 4, 2026 🖉 302 pages 🖉 Blurb : From USA TODAY bestselling author Kathleen Fuller comes a cozy, kisses-only romance about fresh starts, fall leaves, and finding love right next door, perfect for fans of Gilmore Girls and Sarah Adams. Via Dalton has sworn off men to focus on the two things she loves most: her quirky cat café, Pawsitive Vibes, and the charming town of Pecan Corner, Ohio. But her peaceful world is shaken when Earl Brewster, the owner of the beloved Second Chapter Books next door, passes away. Via is determined to buy the shop and preserve Earl's legacy, but her plans hit a snag in the form of a tall, handsome, and completely unexpected heir. Leo Brewster's life is thriving in LA, and the last thing he needs is an inheritance in the middle-of-nowhere, Ohio. But the alternative--letting his estranged mother inherit--has him packi...

Halloween Harvesters #2 Get a copy 🖉 Rating:  3/5 🖉 Spice: 2/5 🖉 Plot:  3/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  (very) Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:   Can't Stop is a MIDNIGHT horror hitchhiker traumance novellaWe're back for more! This time, don't let us pick you up. If you do, expect the unexpected. We can't stop now. -Dalton and Rayna The Halloween Harvesters *NOTE* This is a similar theme to the Ride or Die hitchhiker standalones but due to the horror nature of this story, it's not linked to that series. Check them out if you want to read more hitchhiker stories! This dark horror hitchhiker traumance has EXTREME content, Full list of content warnings on my website. Please read responsibly! 🖉 My Thoughts: Can part 2 be more unhinged than book 1? Idk I feel like there’s something wrong with me to be saying this but this book is like 90% less demented and I didn’t love that about it. I expected this book to somehow outdo book 1 in the series? I didn’t realize that about myself u...

 Vicious Lost Boys #1 Purchase a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 3.5/5 🖉 Spice:  4/5 🖉 Plot: 3/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:   The first book in the bestselling BookTok viral Vicious Lost Boys series, a Peter Pan-inspired enemies-to-lovers spicy romantasy where the villain gets the girl. The stories were all wrong—Hook was never the villain. For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their eighteenth birthday. Sometimes they’re gone for only a day, some for as long as a week or a month. But they always return broken. Now, on the afternoon of my eighteenth birthday, my mother runs around the house, making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked. But it’s pointless. Because when night falls, he comes for me. And this time, the Never King and the Lost Boys aren’t willing to let me go. NOTE: The Never King is a reimagining of Peter Pan and Wendy. Characters have been aged-up for this darker, grittier version. If you like your enem...

Buy a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 3/5 🖉 Spice: 5/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:   A USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon Charts bestselling novel. The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence: I’ll wait forever if I have to. It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know. Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. His reply? You. I told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. He said he didn’t. I said we’d never met, but he said I was wrong. We went back and forth, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. Then one day, the letters stopped. When I found out why, it was already too late. Dante was at my doorstep. And nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WARNING: This novel contains content intended for a mature audience only. Due to explicit languag...

 Pucking Wrong #1 Get a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating:  3.5/5 🖉 Spice:  4/5 🖉 Plot:  3/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:   A star athlete crosses the line from passion into obsession in this darkly addictive hockey-romance novel from USA Today–bestselling author C.R. Jane. “Give me a second chance, babe . . . and I’ll blow your mind.” Monroe doesn’t know why she answers the text that’s obviously meant for someone else. Or why she keeps answering. Maybe it’s because she’s all alone in a big city and in desperate need of a lifeline. Or maybe it’s because each exchange leaves her intrigued and more than a little turned on. Still, Monroe never would’ve snarked back if she’d known she was talking to the “Golden Boy” of the Dallas Knights. She couldn’t care less about Lincoln Daniels’ hockey-god status, and this only seems to attract him more. He’s used to scoring on and off the ice, and now he’s obsessed with his next goal: making Monroe his―no matter what it ...

Spellshop #3 Buy a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Cozy Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb:  Marin is a supply runner with her own boat that she sails from island to island, delivering whatever anyone will pay her to deliver: letters, flour, even the occasional enchanted lemur. It’s a lonely life, but it’s hers, and she wouldn’t trade the freedom of the sea for anything. Her only companion is a sea serpent, Perri, whom she saved from a fisherfolk’s net. One day, she sails to Alyssium and discovers the city is on fire. There’s been a revolution, and the empire has fallen. Marin, with Perri, begins transporting refugees, finding them new homes where they can start over. One such refugee is Dax, a composer who refuses to leave behind his instruments, no matter how much she tries to emphasize the gravity of the situation. Intrigued by his stubbornness, his passion for stories, and his charming smile, Marin discovers perhaps she isn’t saving him ...

   Spellshop #2 Purchase a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating:  5/5 🖉 Spice:  0/5 🖉 Plot:  5/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Cozy Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb:  New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst invites you to her new standalone novel nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes, and honeyed love. The hardcover edition features beautiful sprayed edges. Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium. This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. She’s starving and freezing, and the only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. To her surprise, he offers Terlu a place to sleep, clean clothes, and freshly b...

  Spellshop #1 Buy a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romantasy (2024) The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams, and even sweeter love. Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant, Caz—a magically sentient spider plant—have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire’s most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city’s elite. When a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames, she and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she’d see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy—and very handsome—neighbor who can’t take a hint and keeps sho...

  Get Yourself A Copy 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award  Winner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2023) Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Be...

 Assistant To The Villain #2 Get Your Copy On Amazon 🖉 Rating:  5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 5 /5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Cozy Romantasy 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romantasy (2024) NOTICE TO STAFF: There has been a disturbing increase in cheeriness, sprightly behavior, and overall optimism. Please resume your former dark, ominous terrors at your earliest convenience. -Mgmt Evie Sage has never been happier to be the assistant to The Villain. Who would have thought that working for an outrageously handsome, evil overlord would be so rewarding? Still, the business of being bad is demanding, the forces of good are annoyingly persistent, and said forbidding boss is somewhat . . . out-of-evil-office. But Rennedawn is in trouble, and all signs—Kingsley's included—point to catastrophe. Something peculiar is happening with the kingdom's magic, and it's made The Villain's manor vulnerable to their enemies . . . including their nemesis, the kin...

Purchase on Amazon 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romance (2020) Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love....

Purchase from Amazon 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2022) One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a booki...

Purchase on Amazon Sisters of Light and Shadow #2 🖉 Rating : 3/5  🖉 Spice : 1/5 🖉 Plot : 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Romantasy/Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb : Dark secrets. Deadly choices. A destiny that can’t be outrun. Welcome to Shadowcraft Academy. Eléa Deniz has dreamed of her home in the French countryside for the last four years after nearly dying in the Forgotten Forest. But when she finally returns, she finds the estate has become host to the Shadowcraft Academy, an elite graduate school where a world of mysteries and power plays await. It’s there she discovers a secret about her magic that’s not just a threat to the established order, but a prophecy that could change everything. What’s worse, her father is the school’s enigmatic and ruthless headmaster with an agenda of his own—one that could tear their world apart if she can’t find a way to stop him. As alliances shift and her power is tested, Eléa becomes torn between Alex, her stoic first love whose loyalties are as murky as ...

Purchase Your Copy Here 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice : 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance/Romantic Comedy 🖉 Blurb : A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion, from the New York Times bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script. If they start by pretending, can they end with something real? Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home. So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as ...