COMING JUNE 16, 2026
THE MISSED CONNECTION
It was love at first flight. Now she just has to find him.
​Sasha Cruz knows types. As a booked-and-busy casting agent, she’s always casting—at happy hour, the post office, the grocery store, everywhere. She’s all about finding the perfect person to slot into the perfect role. What she doesn't do, however, are relationships. Too much energy, not enough time. Men find her intimidating, and she likes it that way.
But when Sasha’s seated next to a mysterious, broodingly handsome Italian man on the way to a work trip in Paris, sparks fly —but they miss the chance to exchange contact information.
Now, convinced that she's lost out on her soulmate, Sasha is on a manhunt to find Seat F.
Sasha enlists her work friend for help in the search, but when she accidentally emails the entire global company, colleagues around the world begin looking for Seat F, too—with some finding love along the way. Meanwhile, Sasha takes matters into her own hands, hiring a smoldering detective who complicates matters in unforeseen ways.
AUDRE & BASH ARE JUST FRIENDS
A sweet, funny, electrifying story of first love and summer romance
​MEET AUDRE. Junior class president. Debate team captain. Unofficial student therapist. Desperately in need of a good time.
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MEET BASH. Mysterious new senior. Everybody’s crush. Tall, floppy, great taste in jewelry. King of having a good time.
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It’s the last day of school at Cheshire Prep, Brooklyn’s elite academy—and Audre Mercy-Moore’s life is a mess. Her dad cancelled her annual summer visit to his Malibu beach house. Now? She’s stuck in a claustrophobic apartment with her mom, stepdad, and one-year-old sister (aka the Goblin Baby).
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Under these conditions, she’ll never finish writing her self-help book—ie, the key to winning over Stanford’s admissions board.
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Cut to Bash Henry! Audre hires him to be her “fun consultant.” His job? To help her complete the Experience Challenge—her list of five wild dares designed to give her juicy book material. She’ll get inspo; he’ll get paid. Everybody wins.
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He isn’t boyfriend material. And she’s not looking for one. Can they stay professional despite their obvious connection?
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SCORCHING-HOT SUMMER. SCORCHING-HOT CHEMISTRY. But Audre and Bash can’t forget—they’re just friends.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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“Laugh-out-loud humor sparkles throughout…A good choice for teens looking for a summer rom-com that has depth. —School Library Journal
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“The dialogue is quick (think Gilmore Girls), and the characters give Gossip Girl vibes. A delightfully epic romance.” —Booklist
A LOVE SONG FOR RICKI WILDE
One florist. One pianist. One love story…
One hundred years in the making.
​Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she’s the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they’re long-stemmed roses, she’s a dandelion: an adorable bloom that’s actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, she knows that a more exiting life awaits her, elsewhere.
When a regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della, invites her to rent the bottom floor of her Harlem brownstone, Ricki jumps at the chance to escape her family—and realize her dream of opening a flower shop. And just beneath the surface of her new neighborhood, the music, stories and dazzling drama of the Harlem Renaissance still simmers.
One evening in February as the heady, curiously off-season scent of night-blooming jasmine fills the air, Ricki encounters a handsome, deeply mysterious stranger who knocks her world off balance in the most unexpected way.
Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a steamy, swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic of New York—and whose lives are irreversibly linked.
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2024 NOMINEE: NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK - FICTION
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“Funny, sexy, and breathtakingly romantic. Another rapturous knockout from Tia Williams.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy Place
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"With humor, soulful prose and a touch of magical realism, Ricki Wilde is one of our most memorable reads of 2024.” —People
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A Best Romance Book of the Year: New York Times • NPR • People • Library Journal • BookPage • Publishers Weekly
SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE
Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again…
Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can’t deny their chemistry—or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years.
Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect—but Eva’s wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered…
With its keen observations of creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter, Seven Days in June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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“A sexy, modern love story to start the summer off right.” —Reese Witherspoon
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“A hugely satisfying romance that is electrifying and alive.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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A Best Book of the Year: NPR • Kirkus • New York Public Library • Bustle • Reader’s Digest • Harper’s Bazaar • Oprah Daily • Shondaland • The Los Angeles Times • CBS News • Good Housekeeping • The Washington Post • USA Today • Vulture • Goodreads • BookPage
THE PERFECT FIND
Will a forty-year-old woman with everything on the line—her high-stakes career, ticking biological clock, bank account—risk it all for a lusty secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback?
Jenna Jones, former It-girl fashion editor, is desperate for a second chance. When she’s dumped and fired (in the same week), she takes a job working with her nemesis, the beyond-bitchy publisher of StyleZine.com—and soon realizes that’s she’s in over her head. She’s working with digital savants half her age, has never even “Twittered,” and her twenty-two-year old coworker’s driving her crazy. Wildly sexy with a scandalous secret identity, Eric Combs is off-limits—but too delicious too resist.
The Perfect Find is a blazing-hot, laugh-out-loud funny saga about star-crossed love and starting over.​
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NOW A NETFLIX MOVIE STARRING GABRIELLE UNION​
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“An irresistible blend of humor, heart, and haute couture.”
—New York Times
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"Tops our collection of can’t‑put‑down page‑turners. Our new favorite beach read!" —People StyleWatch
IT CHICKS: SIXTEEN CANDLES
First-day-of-school buzz? So over. It’s the end of September, and the spotlight-loving, drama-obsessed It Chicks’ lives are getting juicier by the second.
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“Williams, who has an ear for the way teens speak, has created a hip series filled with heart and a lot of sass.” —Essence
IT CHICKS
Welcome to Louis B. Armstrong, New York City’s most prestigious performing arts school, where the gifted, wanna-be starlets, and It Chicks are all on the rise. But when rehearsals give way to hot and heavy after-school sessions away from the barre and without the mic, the real drama begins.
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Meet the hottest cast in town: Tangie, the Dreamer. Skye the Drama Queen. Eden the Bombshell. Trey the Bad Boy. CJ the Thug with the Heart of Gold. Izzy the Wild Child. Regina the Silent Threat. And the Entourage: Marisol, Kamillah, Blackadocious, Vineet, and Lyle.
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“Tia Williams is a writer’s writer…with a fashionista twist.” —NBC News
THE ACCIDENTAL DIVA
Being a diva isn't all it's cracked up to be. Just ask Billie Burke. Brainy, beautiful, and at the top of her game, she's the beauty editor at the world's leading fashion magazine, where paying tribute to the perfect pink lip gloss is serious business. Trouble is, all this corporate climbing and party-hopping has left her with a long, lonely bout of celibacy.
Enter Jay Lane—a gorgeous performance artist who grew up in a tough part of Brooklyn, completely foreign to Billie. In no time, this beauty expert is caught in an affair that's as addictive and crazy as the city itself.
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“Williams has a gift for sexy prose and an insider’s ear.”
—Publishers Weekly
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“A sexy first novel.”—Essence