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April 2026, New Releases

New Releases in Romancelandia, Canada April 2026

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An illustrated cover featuring a white couple with a pink and purple sunset background and fireflies around them

Take a Leap by Marie Landry

  • Second-chance romance
  • Opposites attract
  • Forced proximity
  • Grief rep

She has wanderlust running through her veins. He has roots that are buried deep. Will love and a lifetime of history be enough to keep them together?

Release Date: April 21, 2026

But Links:
Author’s Website

A man and a woman in a flower shop standing back to back and holding hands, with a Persian New Year haftseen next to them

The Nowruz Negotiation by Arezou Amin

  • Contemporary romance
  • Second chance romance
  • Iranian-Canadian MCs
  • Lovers-to-exes-to-friends-to-lovers

On-again, off-again longtime sweethearts Kasra and Zay reunite ahead of Persian New Year in the face of an unexpected emergency and decide whether to give their relationship another go, or if it’s over forever.

Release Date: April 14, 2026

Buy Links:
Author’s Website
Amazon

A couple holding hands holds a basket of food

Pick Up Steam by Jemi Fraser

  • Small town romance
  • Workplace romance
  • Romantic suspense
  • Former military hero
  • Forced proximity
  • Grumpy/sunshine

This kitchen is steaming up!

Release Date: April 7, 2026

Buy Links:
Books2Read

Power Play

Power Play by S.L. Sterling

  • Sports Romance
  • Forced Proximity
  • Coach’s Daughter
  • Injured Hero
  • Workplace Romance

Release Date: April 24, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

The cover for Blaze in the City by Jessica E. Subject shows a light-skinned, dark-haired, bare-chested man with a firefighter coat over his shoulder. There are trees behind him and a dragon flying above the trees. In front of him are sparks. This book is part of the Love Sync Firefighters shared world.

Blaze in the City by Jessica E. Subject

  • 2SLGBTQIA
  • MM Romance
  • MPreg
  • Shifters
  • Dragon shifter
  • Firefighter

Saramto is my fresh start. It’s where I meet Ladon. The moment my dragon scents him, I know. He’s mine.

Release Date: April 5, 2026

Buy Links:
Books2Read
Amazon

Young woman wearing a medieval-style blue and yellow gown and a crown

Fashioning a Knight by Eva Starling

  • Historical Romance
  • Enemies to lovers
  • Strong, ambitious, independent heroine
  • Forced proximity
  • Class differences/animosity
  • Troubled hero with secrets

When the precocious daughter of a draper meets a troubled knight returning from the far east, her ambition to become a royal dressmaker seems within reach, but at the risk of losing her heart to a man who despises her.

Release Date: April 25, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

When the Light Turned Red. A Novel. Simi Joel.

When the Light Turned Red by Simi Joel

  • Christian Romantic Suspense
  • Faith & Family
  • Clean Romance
  • Second Chances
  • Positive Friendships
  • Hidden past

When The Light Turned Red is a story of hope after loss, of redemption after denial, of love against all odds, and of faith after falling.

Release Date: April 8, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

book cover with text, Raven's Wake L. E. Sterling, with image of a storm-tossed sea, ship, raven with silver crown, and a castle

Raven’s Wake by L.E. Sterling

  • Romantasy
  • Secrets
  • Forbidden love
  • Soul mates/fated mates
  • Ethical pirates
  • Women mages/gods struggling with power

In a world of legends, some stories turn deadly

Release Date: April 17, 2026

Buy Links:
Kobo (including Kobo Plus!)
Amazon

Loving the Cowboy by Shana Gray

The Wild Vista Ranch Series

  • cowboy romance
  • reunion romance
  • found family
  • steamy romance
  • he falls first

He risked everything to save her once…now he’s risking his heart to make her stay.

Release Date: April 28, 2026

Buy Links:
Books2Read

A Black woman is standing in front of San Francisco bridge dancing whike a red headed man watches her.

Sexy off Stage by D.S. Walls

  • Plus size romance
  • Interracial romance
  • Black author
  • He falls first
  • Friend’s brother

Some stories aren’t about falling apart, they are about learning to be held.

Release Date: April 10, 2025

Buy Links:
Author’s Linktree

Cover of book titled A Bond of Storms and Stitches by Elizabeth F Shearly, dark blue sky with blurred snow and a silver bee brooch with blue gemstones.

A Bond of Storms and Stitches by Elizabeth F. Shearly

  • historical fantasy romance
  • accidental mate bond
  • magical animal companion
  • duel for her hand

Bonds require give and take, but he won’t give and she won’t take…

Release Date: April 21, 2026

Buy Links:
Books2Read

Purple vibes with an antique sword featured in front of a purple vortex. Flower background.

Edge of a Shadow, Part Two by J.E. McDonald

  • Paranormal Fantasy Romance
  • Badass FMC
  • Fish out of water
  • Spicy
  • Portal travel
  • He falls first

They may have escaped the FBI, but they’ve landed in a whole different mess.

Release Date: April 7, 2026

Buy Links:
Books2Read

A dark blue cover with a number of icons surrounding the title, A Ghostly Affair, in bold off-white letters. The icons include a ghost, paintbrush, octopus tentacle, moth, heart, snowflake, maple leaf, anchor, necklace, notebook, planchette, and winter scarf.

A Ghostly Affair by Madeline Nixon

  • Paranormal mystery
  • she sees dead people
  • maritime setting
  • new adult
  • roommate’s brother romance
  • cozy
  • quirky
  • funny

After Maryl discovers she can see dead people, she decides to solve the murder of the ghost that haunts her residence hall.

Release Date: April 14, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

Purple vibes with an antique sword featured in front of a purple vortex. Flower background.

Edge of a Shadow, Part Two by J.E. McDonald

  • Paranormal Fantasy Romance
  • Badass FMC
  • Fish out of water
  • Spicy
  • Portal travel
  • He falls first

They may have escaped the FBI, but they’ve landed in a whole different mess.

Release Date: April 7, 2026

Buy Links:
Books2Read