26 New Spring Romance Books You Need to Read This Month

Paris in the 19th century was a passionate and vivid place, and Elizabeth Berg's The Dream Lover captures its essence in a novel about a courageous woman leaving her loveless marriage for a new life in the big city.

Out April 14

Bethenny Frankel has built herself a successful career as an author, businesswoman, and TV star but hasn't always had the best of luck in love. In her new book, I Suck at Relationships So You Don't Have To, she lays out 10 rules for not screwing up your relationship so that you can avoid some of the same mistakes she says she's made.

Out April 7

In the rainy city of Seattle in the 1920s, a young white boy and African-American girl are kept apart by society, only to rediscover their connection over a shared love of music. The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough tells an intricate story woven by the two powerful external forces of Love and Death.

Out April 28

In Neel Shah and Skye Chatham's charming novel Read Bottom Up, a romance blooms between a recently dumped NYC sous chef on the rise and a cookbook editor looking for love.

Out April 7

A mother and daughter navigate love — both in the past and present — in Sàntà Montefiore's romantic novel The Beekeeper's Daughter.

Out April 14

We've all imagined what it would be like to date prince charming, but Rebecca Porter finds this to be her reality when she falls for Prince Nicholas, Great Britain's fictional future king. In The Royal We, an American girl who is out of her depth in the ritzy royal society must find a way to reconcile the man she loves with "the monarch he's fated to become."

Out April 7

In Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes, a girl and boy both beholden to a corrupt government regime — she as a slave and he as a solider — seek freedom from the tyranny and realize just how connected they really are.

Out April 28

Fantasy writer Anne Rice never disappoints, and the fourth installment in her Sleeping Beauty series promises to bring even more magic. Beauty's Kingdom is an erotic novel full of princes, princesses, lords and ladies, and lots of sex.

Out April 21

TV host and bestselling author Wendy Williams debuts her sexier side in Hold Me in Contempt, a down-and-dirty romance novel about a couple's passionate affair turning into something much more.

Out April 15

Fans of Sarah Dessen will love Katie Cotugno's 99 Days, a Summer love story about a girl caught in a triangle between two brothers.

Out April 21

A woman, born in a brothel in the 18th century and abused growing up, finds an outlet through bare-knuckled fighting in her city's prize rings. She meets another woman with a different cross to bear, and both discover their own strengths together in Anna Freeman's The Fair Fight.

Out April 14

In her autobiography A Fine Romance, Candice Bergen shares the most memorable events in her life, like her marriage to a famous French director, having her daughter, her time as Murphy Brown, her husband's death, and then finding love again.

Out April 7

A codebreaker discovers a woman's 300-year-old journal and finds parallels between her life and the author of the diary. In Susanna Kearsley's A Desperate Fortune, the two women's stories collide in "a clash of love and fate."

Out April 7

Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, Amanda Quick's Garden of Lies follows the compelling story of a woman and man tracking down a killer and finding romance along the way.

Out April 21

Moms know everything, something many of us don't fully accept until we are much older. Listen to Your Mother, edited by Ann Imig, is a collection of hilarious, sometimes-raunchy, and always thought-provoking stories about personal experiences with race, gender, and motherhood.

Out April 7

Maria Dahvana Headley's YA fantasy Magonia is about a girl trapped between "two worlds, two races, and two destinies." Suffering from a lung disease her whole life, Aza discovers another world where she can finally breathe, but only one person — her best friend Jason — believes her, until she disappears into that world.

Out April 28

When a woman discovers that the man she loved — one she now knows to be a liar and adulterer — never really existed at all, she returns to her hometown for comfort. Nora Roberts's The Liar is a compelling novel full of hidden secrets, betrayal, and mystery.

Out April 14

Motorcycles I've Loved by Lily Brooks-Dalton is an empowering memoir about the author's journey to self-discovery and how motorcycles helped her get there.

Out April 7

Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby is not quite your average YA romance novel. In the story, a young girl meets the recipient of a heart donation that came from her ex-boyfriend who died in an accident and, despite her reservations, begins to fall for him.

Out April 21

An elderly woman finds her mother's long-lost pendant, and in Julia MacDonnell's Mimi Malloy, at Last!, this discovery brings back painful and shocking revelations for a family, forcing them to face the past head-on and find the positives.

Out April 8

I. W. Gregorio's groundbreaking YA book None of the Above is about a young girl who discovers she is intersex and how her friends, family, and peers deal with this revelation.

Out April 7

A psychic must delve into the secrets of an old friend and rival in order to fulfill her final request before she was murdered in Simone St. James's The Other Side of Midnight. This romantic suspense novel is a haunting tale of love, passion, friendship, and revenge.

Out April 7

Margaret Dilloway's Sisters of Heart and Snow deftly weaves the story of two daughters of an American businessman and his passive Japanese wife with that of an ancient female samurai into one epic tale of love, family, and finding the inspiration to be warrior women no matter the age or era.

Out April 7

Two teens plagued by heartbreak reluctantly find solace in one another in Ann Aguirre's YA romance The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things.

Out April 7

The ups and downs of love, trust, ambition, and loyalty are explored when three women cross paths in the south of France in Anita Hughes's French Coast.

Out April 7

Nora Roberts's second installment of Three Sisters Islands, Heaven and Earth, follows a sheriff deputy's rising romance with a researcher who has come to investigate the rumors of witchcraft on the island.

Out April 28