25 Sexy and Sweet Books You Need to Read This Month

Dr. Emily Nagoski's Come as You Are is an educated exploration into how a woman's sexuality works, and her research reveals surprising truths about how to maximize female pleasure.

Out March 3

Bestselling author Marisa de los Santos's The Precious One, told from the alternating perspectives of two estranged sisters, captures the essence of family, friendship, love, and the hope of second chances.

Out March 24

In her latest book, Has Anyone Seen My Pants?, New York Times bestselling author and comedian Sarah Colonna honestly and hilariously recounts the challenges she faces when trying to balance a busy professional career with her love life.

Out March 31

An investigator seeks to uncover the secrets a famous (and smoking hot) entrepreneur is hiding, but in Katy Evans's Manwhore, the tables may get turned regarding who ends up revealing what.

Out March 24

A family of women "separated by oceans, generations, and war" is connected by one unique thing: they all have wings. Michele Young-Stone's magical novel Above Us Only Sky is a story of survival, love, and finding your place in the world.

Out March 3

In an attempt to heal from her past, Auburn Reed seeks out a job at an art studio where she finds an unexpected attraction between herself and the artist who works there. In Colleen Hoover's Confess, a secret threatens to ruin the relationship she has put her heart on the line for, but could the confession be even worse?

Out March 10

In Debbie Macomber's Last One Home, a woman tries to make amends with her family after running away from home and marrying the wrong man.

Out March 10

A woman in New England rediscovers romance and works to rebuild family ties — all over sweet treats and tea — in Belinda Jones's novel The Traveling Tea Shop.

Out March 3

From the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes Heartbreak Hotel, a charming story about a retired actor who moves from London to rural Wales and meets a colorful collection of guests.

Out March 3

A large part of our 20s are often spent in a cloud of existential angst, and in Karina Halle's Where Sea Meets Sky, a young man's quest to New Zealand to find the woman he loves perfectly captures the essence of that exciting and sometimes tumultuous period of our lives.

Out March 31

In 1777 British-occupied New York, an actress secretly writing rebellious plays gets put on the hanging list for her actions, but in Mistress Firebrand by Donna Thorland, a British intelligence officer who has fallen for her might be the only who can save her.

Out March 3

The Witch of Painted Sorrows is a gothic novel set in 1890s belle epoque Paris about a young woman's escape from her dangerous husband and her discovery of the underground occult world that comes alive after dark in the city.

Out March 17

Chloe has learned the hard way what happens when you let someone get too close. In Jay McLean's Where the Road Takes Me, her promise to keep people at a distance is challenged when she meets someone who may take her down a road she never thought she'd go back to.

Out March 3

In Susan Crawford's The Pocket Wife, a woman with bipolar disorder can't remember if she murdered her best friend, and now she must put together the pieces to find out if she is in danger herself, or if she's the dangerous one.

Out March 17

Growing up is hard enough, but a recently orphaned teenager has it even harder in Jenn Marie Thorne's YA novel, The Wrong Side of Right. She must deal with a new family, first love, and the fact that the father she barely knows is running for president — and she doesn't always agree with his politics.

Out March 17

Chris Cander's multigenerational story of love, betrayal, and dark secrets, Whisper Hollow, spans 50 years and follows the intertwined lives of three women living in a Southern mining town.

Out March 17

In J.S. Cooper's second installment of the Swept Away series, Disillusioned, two strangers stranded on a desert island begin to fall in love — but can they trust each other?

Out March 17

Water For Elephants author Sara Gruen returns with another period piece, At the Water's Edge, a novel set against the backdrop of World War II. In the book, a young woman, her husband, and their friend leave the world they know behind in America in search of the Loch Ness Monster — but they discover something else entirely in the small Scottish village they wind up in.

Out March 31

From Rachel Joyce, the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, comes The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, a love story about Queenie Hennessy, the friend who inspired Harold’s cross-country journey in the original bestselling novel.

Out March 3

In a novel that's "Madame Bovary meets Fifty Shades of Grey," Jill Alexander Essbaum's Hausfrau packs romance, sex, and infidelity into the story about a woman searching for meaning in her life.

Out March 17

If your sister is a mermaid, what does that make you? Carrie Anne Noble's magical YA novel The Mermaid's Sister chronicles the adventures of three young girls in their attempt to get a weakening mermaid to water.

Out March 1

Paige's first boyfriend died in a car accident, and after two years, she's finally ready to return to high school. In Emery Lord's YA novel The Start of Me and You, her plans for a grand return go awry when she begins to fall for someone unexpected.

Out March 31

After a plane crash leaves three small children, 19-year-old Avery, and her swim teammate Colin alive, the two older survivors must find a way to get them all to safety. Claire Kells's Girl Underwater is a story perseverance, survival, and new love.

Out March 31

In Amy Scheibe's A Fireproof Home For the Bride, a woman escapes the confines of her abusive arranged marriage and her family's questionable morals and, in doing so, gets a job at a local newspaper and falls into a forbidden love affair.

Out March 10

Author D.C. Hallman contemplates "sex, book jackets, an old bed and breakfast, love, Monica Lewinsky, Paris, marriage, more sex, the logistics of libraries" in his novel B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal.

Out March 10