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July 2026, New Releases

New Releases in Romancelandia, Canada July 2026

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Two young men, one with brown hair, one blond, embracing each other tenderly (cover illustration and design by @seajart)

Come Out with Your Hearts Up by Alden B. Atmore

  • MM
  • Contemporary Romance
  • Bi-awakening
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Slow burn
  • Only 1 bed
  • Cinnamon roll hero

A heartwarming, uplifting story of a tap dancer who falls in love with an actor.

Release Date: July 1, 2026

But Links:
Amazon

Green cover with hand drawn man and woman, man is wearing a Santa Claus suit, title in white says Checking Out Santa

Checking Out Santa by L.E. Wagensveld

A Library Love Notes Story

  • Contemporary romance
  • Grumpy/sunshine
  • Migraine rep
  • Small town

Watch those Christmas trees, because when Bronwyn convinces Jasper to act as the town Santa, sparks fly.

Release Date: July 7, 2026

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An illustrated cover with two people on a dock at the cottage. The women is in a deck chair and wears a red and white striped dress, while the man leans over her wearing shorts and a blue shirt. In the background is a lake and summer house.

Rich Girl Summer by Lily Chu

  • Rom-com
  • Forced proximity
  • Black cat/golden retriever
  • Opposites attract
  • Family secrets
  • Cottage summer vibes

Fake heiress. Real secrets. One sizzling summer she’ll never forget. A Celebration of Life planner agrees to help a wealthy client uncover a family secret with the aid of his aloof right-hand man.

Release Date: July 7, 2026

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A Simple Love, farm land background, couple back to back holding a pie & a script

A Simple Love by Melanie Moreland

  • Small Town
  • Contemporary
  • Celebrity Hero
  • Hometown Heroine
  • High School Sweethearts
  • It Was Always You
  • Opposites Attract

Second chances don’t come easy—but some loves were always meant to find their way home.

Release Date: July 22, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

Young, blonde woman in a flowing, green, medieval gown.

Forging a Fiance by Eva Starling

Book 2 of the Determined Damsels series of medieval romances

  • Friends to lovers
  • Feisty
  • Independent heroine
  • Troubled hero with secrets
  • Medieval craftsmen
  • Family drama

Everyone knows that blacksmiths have the ear of the Devil, but that doesn’t stop an irrepressible merchant’s daughter from reforging the friendship with her childhood pal, with consequences neither was expecting, for good and for bad.

Release Date: July 21, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

An illustrated couple - him, a white, auburn-haired man in a blue sweater, kilt, and boots, and her, a white brunette wearing a yellow short-sleeved shirt, jeans, and sneakers - against an illustrated background of mountains, trees, and flowers

The Way Back by Marie Landry

  • Romance
  • Second chance romance
  • Friends to lovers
  • Set in Canada and Scotland
  • Found family

14 years ago, she left a piece of her heart in Scotland. Now she wants it back, if it’s not too late…

Release Date: July 28, 2026

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A couple stands on the road facing a tornado funnel, debris and lightning in the sky.

No Home Without You: A Post-Apocalyptic Romance by Lena Gibson

  • Post-Apocalyptic romance
  • Sci-fi Romance
  • Forced proximity
  • Slow burn
  • Found family
  • Strangers to friends to lovers
  • Home is a person

In a world broken and divided by an asteroid strike, two guarded survivors must learn to trust each other and realize that home isn’t a place, but a person.

Release Date: July 9, 2026

Buy Links:
Black Rose Writing
Amazon

Young woman and hockey player in front of a sorority house

Undercover 101 by Melanie Ting

  • Hockey Romance
  • Opposites attract
  • Commitment phobia
  • Fear of intimacy
  • Dangerous secret

The captain of the Mustangs meets his match

Release Date: July 7, 2026

Buy Links:
Kobo

Man in regency attire dancing with a partner but looking at the reader

Reclaiming the Lyon by Michelle Helliwell

The Lyon’s Den Connected World

  • Historical Romance
  • Second Chance Romance
  • Best Friend’s Little Sister
  • Betting on a Partner

He’s wagering his inheritance. She’s wagering her future. Mrs. Dove-Lyon wants them to wager something far more dangerous.

Release Date: July 29, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

A woman sits in the foreground reading by a swimming pool while a man is reading on the other side of the pool. The pool is surrounded by a garden. Cover reads: USA Today Bestselling Author of Canadian Boyfriend Jenny Holiday, Book Club Boyfriend: A Novel. Sometimes it takes a nemesis to start the next chapter.

Book Club Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

  • Rom-Com
  • Grumpy-sunshine
  • Opposites attract
  • Mental health rep
  • Older protagonists

A snooty literary novelist turns down an invitation from a rom-com star turned Hollywood producer to be featured in her high-profile book club.

Release Date: July 14, 2026

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Text: Love Wells Kept, a Wells Ranch Novel by Bailey Hannah USA Today bestselling author. Tagline: He's forgotten their love story. She'll help him write a new one. A white man with a close-shaved beard wearing a beige cowboy hat, burnt orange button-up shirt, blue jeans and light brown cowyboy boots stands with one foot on a tree stump, chin tipped down slightly. Background: A hillside farm field in sweeping greens, the sunsetting in the background, and a red barn to the left.

Love Wells Kept by Bailey Hannah

Final book in the Wells Ranch series

  • Cowboy Romance
  • Sad Girl Summer
  • Amnesia
  • Marriage in Crisis
  • Angsty
  • Emotional

He’s forgotten their love story. She’ll help him write a new one.

Release Date: July 7, 2026

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Escaping Commitment by Niccoyan Zheng

  • Contemporary Romance
  • Friends with Benefit
  • Single Mom
  • He Falls First
  • Banter & Chemistry
  • Learning to Trust Again

Neither of them expected to find something real. But some connections
are simply impossible to escape.

Release Date: July 3, 2026

Buy Links:
Books2Read
Amazon

Chrome Protector by Lizzie Quick. A dark haired man in sunglasses sits on a motorcycle on a highway in front of treed hills.

Chrome Protector by Lizzie Quick

  • Contemporary romance
  • MC romance
  • Biker romance
  • Military hero
  • Alpha hero
  • Rescue romance

If you’re looking for a serious vet tech who needs to lighten up, animal rescue, reformed bad boy biker instalove romance, you’ve found it

Release Date: July 21, 2026

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Author’s Website
Amazon

Red-coloured cover with a male figure in the foreground, with metal cybernetic components embedded in his skin. He is embraced from behind by a woman with long dark hair.

Tidal Force (The Coalition Book 2) by Jessica Marting

  • Sci-fi romance
  • Enemies to lovers
  • Forced proximity
  • He falls first
  • Slow burn

Being falsely accused of murder is hard, but being stuck in a shuttle with your mortal enemy is even harder.

Release Date: July 7, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

In the background, a Filipino-Canadian man and a Black woman cuddle on a couch. In the foreground is a snow globe with a Black Santa sitting in a beach chair wearing board shorts while sipping an umbrella drink.

Holiday Spirit by Lindo Forbes

  • Contemporary Romance
  • Holiday
  • Christmas in July
  • Multicultural

A man uses the magic of Christmas to win the woman of his dreams

Release Date: July 25, 2026

But Links:
Amazon

A couple stands in front of a window and another man looks at the woman longingly.

August Afternoons by Katrina Cappelli

Book Three in the Time Won’t Fly Series

  • Contemporary Romance
  • Time travel romance

When Ace feels like her life is falling apart who will be there to pick up the pieces? Her boyfriend or his best friend?

Release Date: July 14, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

Illustrated picture of a cowboy in a blue shirt and a woman in a white lace dress. On a background of a ranch with a fence and horses in the background.

Wrangled by the Star by Nikki Jewell

  • Cowboy Romance
  • Opposites Attract
  • He Falls First
  • Fake Dating
  • She’s in Charge
  • Mental Health Rep

Hollywood Meets Heartland, but Make it Spicy

Release Date: July 16, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

Couple paddle boarding

Return to Pebble Beach by Charlene Groome

  • Contemporary romance
  • Second chance
  • Closed-door
  • Hockey hero
  • Canadian setting
  • Family secret

Visiting her family’s beachfront house was supposed to be the perfect time to figure out her life after heartbreak, but her world gets rocked when she’s faced with a teenage crush and a family secret.

Release Date: July 22, 2026

Buy Links:
Amazon

Two illustrated women hugging and smiling in an Instagram-style selfie surrounded by pink heart notifications. Below is the title “Wildly Yours” and the name “Brenna Bailey.” The background is an olive green suggestion of a map with blue rivers running through it.

Wildly Yours by Brenna Bailey

  • Queer romance
  • Rom-com
  • Vacation romance
  • Fat MC
  • Fake marriage
  • Second chance

Two women, one safari, and a fake marriage that’s getting wildly out of hand.

Release Date: July 7, 2026

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Book Funnel

Two teenagers painting a gazebo a la the one from Gilmore Girls, giving each other equal parts side-eye and heart-shaped-eyes!

The Bad Boyfriend Curse by Farah Heron

  • YA Romance
  • Canadian Book
  • Fake Dating
  • Sweet and swoony
  • City girl, small town boy
  • good girl/bad boy with depth
  • singer/song writer
  • perfect summer romance

Meera Noorani has spent her whole life playing it safe. Raised by her single mom, Meera Noorani had to—especially in love. After all, it has been proven, generation after generation, that all Noorani women are cursed to have partners who ruin their lives…

Release Date: July 7, 2026

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