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June 2026, New Releases

New Releases in Romancelandia, Canada June 2026

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An illustrated cover in pink and indigo. Two teenagers are walking down an alley in Japan arm-in-arm with cherry blossoms and lanterns. The girl is wearing a pink shirt and looking back over her shoulder.

The Vacation Shift by Lily Chu

  • Young Adult romance
  • Travel
  • Mother-daughter relationship
  • Mental health
  • Falling in love

While on a group tour to Japan, 16-year-old Ivy teams up with a fellow traveler to keep their parents from falling in love with each other.

Release Date: June 23, 2026

But Links:
Author’s Website

Text: Leave and Come Back by Lavanya Lakshmi Image: A light pink background featuring festive streamers in orange, red, and white with red and pink flower petals. In the foreground: Five characters are visibly South Asian and dressed as such, one character is white. Four women and three men, adorned with Indian wedding formalwear, including a bride and groom, dancing around the cover.

Leave and Come Back by Lavanya Lakshmi

  • Huge Indian wedding
  • DDLJ-inspired + Bollywood-coded
  • Hijinks + heartache
  • Secret Romance
  • Ultimate g.f. bf (green flag boyfriend)
  • Cousins + siblings as co-conspirators
  • Everyone has a secret

You’re invited to the most romantic, chaotic wedding of the season!

Release Date: June 16, 2026

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Author’s Website

A man and a woman sitting back to back by a campfire by a lake, under the watchful eye of a hidden camera.

Forever is the Sweetest Con by Joanna Thurlow

  • Mystery romance
  • Fake dating
  • Reality TV
  • Forced proximity
  • Just one bed
  • Reverse Grumpy/Sunshine

Love wasn’t part of the plan… but neither was survival.

Release Date: June 16, 2026

Buy Links:
IndieBookstores.ca
Amazon

The cover of The Puck Stops Here shows two men, one holding a hockey stick the other holding children's sized skates

The Puck Stops Here by Sean Michael

  • MM
  • Hockey Romance
  • Grumpy/sunshine
  • Second chances
  • Gay families
  • Hurt/comfort

The Puck Stops Here is a second chances romance with a grumpy hockey player, a sunshine stay at home dad, some hurt/comfort loving, and two adorable kids.

Release Date: June 6, 2026

Buy Links:
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Blue-toned library shelves background featuring a tall, trim, blond white man wearing a green bomber jacket and blue jeans snuggled close to a shorter, curvy brunette white woman wearing a light blue jean jacket and slate-grey dress. A little blond boy is peeking out from behind her. Text reads: Notes of the Past, A Library Love Notes Story, Award-Winning author Alyssa Milani.

Notes of the Past by Alyssa Milani

A Library Love Notes Story

  • small town
  • open door
  • friends to lovers
  • second chance
  • single mom
  • PTSD/Anxiety rep
  • love triangle
  • Canada

The moment my feelings for him came to life, I knew I wanted him to be my first everything.

Release Date: June 9, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

A couple stands amongst the bookshelves in a teal-toned library. They are embracing and looking into each other’s eyes. The woman is wearing a colourful tank top and embroidered shorts. She has pale skin, red hair, and dark blue eyes. Her hands are on his chest and his bicep. The man is wearing a grey T-shirt, black shorts, and polka dot socks. He has slightly tanned white skin, floppy brown hair, and brown eyes. He has a hand on her cheek, tenderly caressing.

Written in the Margins by Madeline Nixon

A Library Love Notes Story

  • Contemporary romance
  • bad boy x good girl
  • small town
  • summer romance
  • found family
  • shared-world
  • romance series

He has a reputation in town. She’s determined to give him his second chance.

Release Date: June 16, 2026

Buy Links:
MyBook.to

Couple on cover in library. Fit man in his forties standing looking down at a woman with short black hair and a purple knit winter hat.

Loving the First Edition by Shelby Rae

A Library Love Notes Story

  • Ex’s dad
  • coming home
  • age gap
  • small town
  • hurt/comfort

Kinslee never planned to return to Beavwr Creek. Matthew has no plans to let her go.

Release Date: June 2, 2026

Buy Links:
MyBook.to

Image of a red-haired man giving a blonde woman a piggy back ride in a library. They're standing in front of books and smiling.

The Perfect Story by Becky Tzag

A Library Love Notes Story

  • Contemporary romance
  • Small town
  • scared to love
  • single dad (but his kids are 20&22)
  • she never stays in one place long
  • he’s a hometown guy

Nora will never stay. Justin would never ask her to. But what if that’s what they both want?

Release Date: June 23, 2026

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firefighter embracing a woman, holding her up in the air, in a library.

Borrowed Hearts by Isla Winter

A Library Love Notes Story

  • Contemporary Romance
  • Friends to lovers
  • fake dating
  • small town
  • he falls first
  • open door

The dating may be fake, but the feelings? They’re all too real.

Release Date: June 30, 2026

Buy Links:
Books2Read