Our Books to Binge On feature is pretty simple in its purpose. Every month, we put together a monthly new releases list of books that we’re all looking forward to. These are the books that we can’t wait to read and want everyone to add to their monthly binge-reading lists. Here are the books that we plan to binge on in November of 2022.
Before I Let Go (Skyland) by Kennedy Ryan
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything.
It couldn’t save their marriage.
Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she’s is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had.
Soon, one stolen kiss leads to another…and then more. It’s hot. It’s illicit. It’s all good—until old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better, the second time around?
Holly: I’m not a huge fan of Ryan’s novels, but Ames tells me this was really good.
Raven Unveiled (Fallen Empire #3) by Grace Draven
A woman with the gift to speak to the dead—and the assassin pursuing her—may be the only chance a crumbling empire has of holding back true evil, in this electrifying fantasy romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance.
Siora has been on the run for longer than she cares to remember, from her past and her gift. Born with the ability to see and speak to ghosts, she has heard their desperate pleas as an otherworldly predator stalks the dead amid the fertile killing fields of the collapsing Krael Empire. The creature’s power and reach are growing with every soul it consumes, but Siora is preoccupied with her own troubles: namely an assassin who has sworn an oath of vengeance against her.
Gharek of Cabast was once the right-hand man of the reviled empress but is now a wanted fugitive. Although his reasons for hunting Siora are viscerally personal, what Gharek can’t anticipate is that when he finally does find her, she will hold the key to saving his world, or what’s left of it. To make good on old debts and protect the vulnerable dead from a malevolent force, Gharek and Siora will both need to make an ally out of an enemy—and trust that will be enough to save each other.
Holly: A new Fallen Empire novel! Come to mama.
How the Grump Saved Christmas by Claire Kinglsey
A standalone Christmas book! It will take place in Tilikum (home of the Bailey Brothers) and y’all, it’s going to be SO GOOD.
Casee: I love Claire Kingsley & Christmas books!
Jett Powers is brilliant, nasty, and forbidden.
He takes what he wants, has no regrets, and makes no excuses.
Not to mention he’s tall, dark, and irresistible.
From our first secret encounter, I’m addicted.
He’s the last man that should be making my stomach flip, and heart pound.
Unfortunately, my mind and body are not in sync.
Because Mr. Powers is not mine.
He can’t be.
He’s my mother’s fiancé.
Casee: I’m usually a Cassandra Robbins fan, but I’m not sure what I think of this summary. We’ll see.
I can’t think of a single title, but I’m sure I’ll find plenty to read!
And, yes, that is quite the summary, Casee.
Mother’s fiancé? Yikes! I like dark and transgressive, but that may just be a bridge too far even for me.
As of right now, I have very little on my November TBR, which is just as well given as I’m still trying to catch up with books from October.
NATURAL DISASTER by Skye Warren & Amelia Wilde (November 8) is the second book in their MMF Deserted Island trilogy about a man and a woman stranded on an island and their encounters with the island’s sole inhabitant, a hermit waiting for the end of the world.
FORGIVE ME FATHER by Garrett Leigh (November 14) is the next book in her m/m Rebel Kings MC series.
HIDING PLACES by Skye Warren (November 15) is part of her Rochester series inspired by JANE EYRE. This book involves two people who were secondary characters in the original trilogy.
New HPs from three of my favorite Queens of Angsty Heartache arrive November 29: Maisey Yates’s FORBIDDEN TO THE DESERT PRINCE (a woman falls for her betrothed’s brother); Caitlin Crews’s THE CHRISTMAS HE CLAIMED HIS SECRETARY (a virginal secretary agrees to pose as a billionaire’s mistress); and Jackie Ashenden’s THE MAID THE GREEK MARRIED (to escape a compound where she has been held in domestic servitude, a maid agrees to marry a wealthy widower).
COME BACK FOR ME by Ellis (Ella) James is scheduled for November 30. It’s a forced-proximity, age-gap, m/m romance set amongst fire fighters in Wyoming. However, there is very little about the book (the start of a new series) on Amazon right now, so I won’t be surprised if the publication date is postponed.