Lucy Hutton, baker-of-cakes, exemplary assistant and professional ‘nice girl’, is up against the tall, dark and charmless Joshua Templeman for a huge promotion at the publishing house they work at. Their hostility blooms into an addictive rivalry that culminates in a high-stakes agreement: If Lucy wins, she’ll be Joshua’s boss, but if she loses, she’ll resign.

Anna’s best friend’s wedding should be fun, but with her ex one of the groomsmen – and bringing along his new partner – she’s dreading the weekend they’ll be stuck together in a house. But she’s determined to smile through it … until her ex drops a bombshell that rocks her to her core. She needs a distraction, and the perfect-on-paper wedding photographer Patrick might be it. But the arrival of Mac, an actor from New York, complicates everything.

Single, jobless and pregnant, Poppy is forced to move back to her hometown. An awkward encounter with James, the man who turns out to be her midwife, is the last thing she needs. But as they keep crossing paths in the small town, Poppy realises she may have misjudged him. And that complicates things.

Recently divorced Makayla is ready to find herself again. She embarks on a revenge plot against her ex, makes a list of all the experiences she missed out on in her twenties and ticks off item #1 with ease – have a one-night stand with a stranger. But then that stranger shows up in the staff room at the school she teaches at.

Netta has hit rock bottom. After dumping her cheating ex she’s crashing on a friend’s couch, unable to make her mortgage payments. When she finds the childhood journal of rockstar Mo Maplestone, he offers to fly her to London to hand deliver the diary, lest his secrets fall into the wrong hands. With nothing to lose and a hefty finders fee on the table, Netta boards a plane. But she’s also got a history she was hoping to keep buried, and her association with Mo is about to bring it all back to light.

AFL player Theo Bestavros worked hard, but failed at a game-winning moment. The Brunswick Falcons offer him a second chance, but it means playing with Jake Cunningham, Falcons fan-favourite, and a colossal pain. When they’re forced into extra training together, they don’t expect to find friendship, let alone more. But Jake doesn’t want to come out, and Theo can’t jeopardise his shot at redemption.

Indy works on a sheep station that’s become her home and sanctuary after a tough youth. Carter, halfback for the Sydney Scorpions rugby league team, is coming off the back of a season loss his teammates blame him for. When the team comes to Windale Station for training, Indy and Carter are drawn to one another. But relationships on the station are forbidden …

Bigambul woman Brynn Wallace left Brisbane for New York, dreaming of making it in publishing. She ends up working at a doggy day care instead. But good things are always possible in New York, and Brynn has a collection of NYC Missions to set her on her way: challenges from her late mother. When she stumbles on a handsome dog-dad who happens to be a literary editor, it could be that her dreams will finally come true. But NYC is full of surprises.

Kit McBride knows that Buck’s Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Him and his brothers don’t need a woman around anyway, they have their little sister Junebug. But unbeknownst to Kit, Junebug has placed an ad in The Matrimonial News to get him hitched.

Maddy Mooney’s mistress answers the add, but when they arrive in town, her mistress abandons her. Penniless, and with no way home, Maddy must convince Kit she’s the wife he never knew he needed.

Solving a murder that hasn’t happened yet should be easy, right? Wrong. Recently released from jail, ex-cop Maxella Conrad struggles to be taken seriously by anyone, least of all Greyson Hawke, the Barbarani family’s ‘fixer’. When signs start pointing to her telling the truth though, Grey teams up with her to save the Barbaranis. But they won’t be able to stop this murder unless they learn to trust each other.

Everyone in South Star knows Sarah has just been dumped. She’d love to hide away on her family’s property, but her parents want her to get more involved in the local community. The new women’s rugby team is the perfect solution, as is moving in with Mabel to help her sort through her vast vintage wardrobe. But fashion might not be all that comes out of the closet.

A cut-throat literary agent, Nora’s life is books. With her terrible relationship history, she’s fine with that. But her sister convinces her to spend a month in her small town of Sunshine Falls. It’s like something from a romance book, but instead of meeting handsome doctors or cute bartenders, she runs into Charlie – her work nemesis. And then they keep running into each other, and she starts to wonder, if he really her nemesis at all?

Saima is a great matchmaker, but recently, her community has been turning against her and she’s losing work. But then an eligible bachelor’s wealthy parents show up with an offer she can’t refuse: convince their son to accept her services … without letting him know they’re pulling the strings. Kal turns out to be more interest in his matchmaker than the matches she’s finding him, but Saima wrote off love a long time ago. Can a matchmaker recognise a perfect match?

The Flatshare, Beth O’Leary

This popular British author has a few titles under her belt, but my favourite is still her debut, The Flatshare. It was recently turned into a television show starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Anthony Welsh, one of many romance books to have been optioned recently for the screen.

Tiffy and Leon share a flat and a bed, but they’ve never met. For them, it’s a win-win situation. For everyone else, a reason to question their sanity. But add in ex-boyfriends, demanding clients, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven’t met yet, they’re about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window…

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Librarian Bridget is a hopeless romantic. Connecting books to their readers is her superpower. If only she had as much success with her love life. Things seem to be on the up when her handsome barista joins the book club she runs at her library, but her cranky neighbour Sully keeps getting under her skin. She soon that romances don’t have to start with a meet-cute to end in happily ever after.

Single mum Zoe needs to get her kid into childcare, and the solution is right next door. Will’s boss has assumed he’s the baby’s father and insists he take parental leave. Now, a little lie could get Zoe out of a jam and help Will to make partner at his law firm. As they get deeper into the lie, the lines between truth and fiction blur. And the secret Zoe is hiding could have devastating consequences for them all.

Alice Aigner is going to prove that a woman can have it all: a man, marriage, career, kids and a mind of her own. Her thirtieth birthday in two years away, but with a ten-point plan that’s enough time to meet the perfect man and marry him. Although it turns finding Mr Right is not as easy as she thought.

For Stella Lane, mathematics is everything. It’s given her a job that’s made her a lot of money but it’s provided far less dating experience than she’d like. She needs practice. So she hires escort Michael Phan. Michael can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer to help her check off the boxes on her lesson plan. Before long, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. Maybe there is something better than mathematics …

Max is hiding away in her friend’s apartment after discovering her long-term boyfriend in bed with another woman. Also, she’s recently been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Her cheeky Tinder pen pal, Johnny, is the perfect distraction. Together, they cook their way through her ex-boyfriends’ pretentious French family cookbook. Their text exchange sees her through brain surgery, but when she travels to Paris for a fresh start, she must decide whether she believes in herself enough to chase the life – and the man – she really wants.

TV producer Murray O’Connell is the showrunner for a reality dating series. He’s the one in control. Until contestant Lily Fireball turns up. Her villain narrative should be easy to orchestrate, but Murray keeps getting in her way. Because before she was Lily Fireball, she was Lily Ong – Murray’s best friend, and he’s determined to stop her blowing up her life on television.

Gabriel is a tennis superstar. The Australian Open could be where he wins his first Grand Slam title, but something is distracting him from his goal. Noah. When they meet in a bar, Noah doesn’t recognise Gabriel, but they have an instant connection. The more time they spend together, the more their feelings grow. But both have reasons for wanting to keep their romance private, and when it comes down to it, will either risk everything for love?

When eighteen-year-old Australian Gordon arrives in Japan, he expects angry men ready to kill. Instead, he finds sixteen-year-old Cherry, a survivor of the atomic bomb. Against all odds, they fall in love. But when Gordon discovers the White Australia Policy prevents Cherry coming home with him, he vows to fight, even though it means leaving Cherry alone and pregnant in post-war Japan. A sweeping story spanning seven years and two countries reeling from the aftermath of World War II.

Gen’s ex won’t leave her alone, her bookkeeping business is floundering, and she’s just agreed to start a run club for her sister’s gym. Knox is only back in town to help his godfather recover from an injury and save his pâtisserie, then he’s leaving. But one night of fake-dating turns into weeks, then months, and the “fake” parts gets less and less real …

After a devastating break-up, lawyer Zara Patel is determined never to open her heart again, but she loves setting up others. She’s never met someone she couldn’t match, until Jay Donovan. Jay has no time for love, but he agrees to Zara’s proposal. She’ll find his special someone if he introduces her to his celebrity clients. But when their arrangement brings them together in ways they never expected, they realise that the perfect match might be their own.

After an on-air panic attack, Sydney TV news reporter Josie Larsen is shipped to a regional bureau in Newcastle. It’s already a blow, made worse by the fact that her best friend Zac lives in Newcastle, and they haven’t spoken in two years. Now thrown back into each other’s lives, they have to navigate their neglected friendship and secret attraction while struggling with their careers and mental health.

Country vet Primrose Cartwright has her work and her sisters, and she doesn’t need anything else – certainly not the new vet in town Blake Sinclair, whose love-them-and-leave-them reputation is well established. Besides, they’re total opposites, even if there’s a burning attraction between them. Blake is the last man she could ever trust though, even as he’s determined to unearth her secrets.

Beatrice Archer has always done everything she’s supposed to, and she’s over it. She’s taking her life back, starting with moving to Colorado. When a much younger, and delightfully attractive, cop is called to deal with her flagrant disregard for rules, Bea realises there’s something missing from her decathlon of decadence…and he might be the guy to help her out. But Bea’s about to discover that breaking the rules has consequences.

Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe can’t seem to get her life back on track. But after rescuing a dog, she finally starts to feel more like herself. Then Tucker’s owner reaches out. He’s a musician on tour, and he wants Tucker back. Sloan’s not about to give up her new dog, even if this Jason guy is hot and nice and funny. As their flirty texts turn into long calls, Sloan can’t deny a connection. But with his music career on the rise, how long will Jason really stick around? And is it possible for Sloan to survive another heartbreak?

Piper Bellinger is a wild child. When an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather cuts her off and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar in Westport. She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, sea captain Brendan—that she’s more than a pretty face. As she reconnects with her past, Piper starts to wonder if the glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan and this town may have caught her heart.

Theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway’s side-gig as a fake girlfriend has come to bite her in the ass. It turns out that Jack Smith, the arrogant older brother of her favourite client, is the cold-hearted physicist who rules over the physics department at MIT. In other words, he’s standing right between Elsie and her dream job. Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?

Down the Track, Stella Quinn

Australian rural romance with spirit.

Divorcee Dr Joanne Tan is an expert in a lot of things, but not love. Jo’s handling life with her 12-year-old son though. Just. Until her job at the museum is in jeopardy. An invitation to dig up dinosaur bones on a remote Queensland sheep station could be her saving grace. She just hopes she doesn’t run into that pilot she had that fling with 15 years ago. But of course, Gavin “Hux” Huxtable recognises her straight away. Digging up the past isn’t easy. Digging up the truth can be even harder.

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When Britta is asked to write about a new fitness app and personal training company for work, she’s eager to prove herself to her boss. The app’s CEO, Wes, it more than willing to step back into coaching, especially since he and Britta click, but it’s hard to deny their chemistry and maintain a professional distance. Walking away is the smart choice but falling never felt so good.