2026 Fall Romance Books You’ll Want to Read Right Now

Rory Woods is a paranormal medium who gives psychic readings at Ye Olde Spirit Shop by day and leads ghost tours through Boston by night. Her coworker Ezra Blackwell, an adjunct history professor, is a charming know it all who loves teasing her, and she can’t stand him.

When the two host a tour together, they disturb a matchmaking ghost and end up hexed with bad luck unless they stay close. They try everything from séances to kissing, and start to wonder if getting closer is really a curse.

Allegra Bianchi heads to Tuscany to escape New York, her ex’s new relationship, and a career that stalled when she was passed over for partner. Her plan is to settle her eccentric Italian grandmother’s estate, sell what she can, and go home. Then she finds a crumbling antique shop, two hundred acres of leased vineyard, and a will that says she must live and work in the shop for three months or inherit nothing.

Her neighbor, winemaker Matteo Lucchese, is stubborn, unimpressed by her résumé, and her exact opposite. But as the weeks pass, Tuscany wears down her armor, and she’s no longer sure she wants to leave.

Penny Darling owns Bonfire & Bliss Bookstore in Hope Harbor and prefers book boyfriends to real ones after a very public failed engagement. Then her high school best friend, Jake “Monty” Montgomery, comes home. He’s a struggling author with inked forearms who needs her help.

Their deal is simple. She’ll teach him to write the perfect book boyfriend, and he’ll pose as her real one to keep the town’s busybodies at bay. But as pretend kisses in the apple orchard turn into real ones, Penny wonders if Monty could truly love her.

Willow James is a rising Hollywood actress and secret witch who accidentally turns her manager into a cat while trying to escape her contract. To fix it, she heads to London to find a rare spell hidden in Coven & Codex, an occult bookstore.

There she meets the shop’s brooding owner, Oliver Hadley, who would rather avoid magic altogether. With a ragtag group of human and feline friends, they search museums, festivals, and street markets for the missing pieces of the spell, and run into the one thing neither can escape: love.

Ruby Bellerose lives in a fairy tale cottage on the edge of the woods outside Maple Hollow. She has almost no love life and steers clear of the town’s whispered gossip. Then she has a chance encounter with Rafe, a brooding woodsman who lives deep in the forest.

Ruby is drawn to him and curious about the mysterious stranger, but Rafe is hiding a secret. With something lurking in the shadows of the forest, Ruby has to find out whether he’s her knight in shining armor or something far more dangerous.

Julia is a Nebraska girl who loves her quiet life, until her neighbor, a secret millionaire, leaves everything to her family. Suddenly she’s living in a historic brownstone in New York City and attending an elite school for the super rich, where she’s failing.

Enter Damion, her handsome tutor, who is the great nephew of the man who left her family everything. He doesn’t believe the man would leave his home to strangers, so he schemes to earn Julia’s trust and prove it. But his plan backfires as he falls for her.

Sasha Sinclair has been alone since her documentary filmmaker parents died in a car accident three years ago. She drifts through odd jobs and casual hookups, but can’t stop thinking about their dream project, the story of Alice Bishop in Clare Mountain, North Carolina.

Margot Bishop isn’t a witch, despite a century of town rumors. Her family runs Ghostlight, an occult themed amusement park, but business is slow, so her mother proposes a documentary. Margot gets stuck as Sasha’s point person. As they dig into Alice’s story, the ice melts and things heat up.

Willow runs the café in Maple Hollow, a small town full of paranormal busybodies, and she’s been crushing on the baker, Wyatt, for years. The whole town thinks they’re a perfect match, but Wyatt keeps her at a distance. What nobody knows is that he’s the werewolf pack’s next alpha, and falling for a human could spell trouble.

Then the blackmail notes and eerie warnings start showing up, and someone clearly wants the two of them apart. With Halloween right around the corner, Willow and Wyatt have to decide whether their love is worth the risk, especially with someone watching from the shadows.

Penelope Reid survived foster care and has her life mapped out, and she’s determined to prove she can manage the halfway house at Twelve Bluebells Ranch. She doesn’t need charming Luke Granger, who asked her to dance three years ago and vanished before the music began.

Luke, a security specialist who never stays put, takes a quick job after the neighboring ranch is vandalized. Then he finds Penelope again. Working side by side, her walls crack and his restless heart finds reasons to stay, until tragedy makes them decide whether a real home is worth the risk.

Rosie Mayfield owns a bookstore in Heartwood Hollow, and she’s a witch whose family curse means every romance ends in heartbreak. To break it, she conjures a ghost who agrees to help, but only if she brews a potion to send him to the other side. The catch is that she needs help from Jack Haggerty, the one person in town who can’t stand her.

Jack, the ghost’s grandson, has spent years complaining about Rosie and has banned her from his gaming shop. He doesn’t believe in ghosts until his grandfather shows up. He’ll do anything for his family, but the chemistry between him and Rosie keeps growing, and neither of them knows how to admit they’re falling when the plan says they’re doomed.

A pro baseball player is forced into early retirement just as his team heads to the playoffs without him. After he totals his Lambo, his agent ships him off to a lakeside retreat in Maine with no phone, no internet, and too much time to think.

There, Blaze, the retreat’s activities director, makes everything feel easy, from hiking to stargazing, until one candlelit dinner feels a lot like a date. When his old team makes an unexpected offer, he has to choose between the life he knew and Blaze.

Kat Hadley comes from a long line of witches in Mystic Hollow, yet she’s sure she’s invisible to boys. Then she learns her perfect older sister, Harriet, secretly cast a curse to protect her from heartbreak. Kat is so furious that she loses control, and the blast shatters their sisterhood and the town’s magic.

Now every Hadley spell reverses, good magic turns evil, and the veil between worlds is thinning. As the sisters race to fix things before Halloween, every boy who ever rejected Kat suddenly falls for her, even her class rival, and she starts to wonder if it matters that it’s all just a spell.

Marley Maples thinks she’s finally escaped Halsten, the vampire who has stalked her across lifetimes. When he shows up in Hollow Brook anyway, she’s devastated, so her witchy best friends suggest a spell to make him forget her.

Instead, he forgets everything about himself. Now Halsten believes he’s a big, hot vampire Viking who adores Marley, his beloved little witch, and will protect her at all costs. She’s skeptical, but his warrior ways charm her, and she’s falling for a man she swore to hate, who could revert at any moment.

Rebecca Macintosh has thirty days to fix up her late grandmother’s diner back home, or face the consequences. September usually feels full of possibility to her, but not this year, especially once she learns the only contractor in town is Cort Adams, the man who rejected her a year ago.

He’s even better looking as a single dad than he was as the high school football star she once tutored. As the leaves turn, Rebecca starts to see that there’s more to her hometown, and to Cort, than she realized, and that the dreams she’s been chasing might have been the wrong ones.

Elizabeth Starling has one goal this fall: save the family farm by throwing Sweetbriar’s best harvest festival ever. Then her best friend enters Officer Matt Hartford, the town’s most serious and annoyingly handsome man, in the Mr. Pumpkin pageant, and he’s suddenly at every rehearsal. She makes him promise not to fall in love. He breaks it almost immediately.

Matt has always quietly protected people, so when he discovers a secret that could cost Elizabeth everything, he handles it alone. Winning her back will take a microphone, a sash, and one very public promise.