Your Romance Book Bargains for August 9, 2026

All her life, Elena has trained hard to become a professional dancer. Since the death of her older brother a few years earlier, her passion has been her only ticket to a better life. The day she has an accident, her world collapses.

Alex Niessen has it all: he’s smart, talented and the guy every girl wants – and he’s haunted by a heavy secret. When Elena’s mother begs him to befriend her daughter, his childhood crush, he agrees.

As the former ballerina sinks into despair, Alex tries to make her see that life is worth it. Elena will have no choice but to come to terms with her past and how much this tragedy has changed her family.

Despite a tumultuous start, the two teenagers forge a friendship that quickly develops into something deeper. But things get complicated when Alex’s ghosts resurface. Will he be able to accept that Elena discovers this part of him?

A decade after a cold breakup, Diana returns to Oregon to secure a game-changing deal—only to face her ex, Logan. He’s fighting to save his winery, and she’s hired by his competitors. As past hurt collides with present passion, can they forgive the past and fight for a second chance?

Category: Contemporary Romance

He taught me how to bleed. I taught myself to bite.

Three years ago, my father dragged me out of Agony Hollow in the middle of the night. No goodbyes. No apologies.

Now I’m back on a scholarship, risking everything for a chance to finally, finally fix my shitty life.

Day one, I catch the attention of the two most dangerous men in school.

An old friend. A new predator.

Kai Jordan isn’t the same green-eyed boy who escaped with me into the woods behind our trailer park. The boy I used to trust with my life now wants me on my knees, begging for mercy…and him.

Professor Bastian Rooke is a different kind of dangerous. He loves fattening up his prey before killing them. Nurturing. Pretending to care.

I don’t even feel his claws sinking into me until I’m already bleeding.

One expects me to break.

The other hopes I run, so he can give chase.

What they don’t know is Haven Lee has many talents. Enduring pain and degradation is top of the f*cking list.

I didn’t come back to Agony Hollow to bleed. I came back with a plan.

But Rooke isn’t only hunting me. Kai can’t see the trap closing around him — but I can.

I need to convince him we’re not enemies…we’re both prey.

But Kai spent three years hating me.

He’s not ready to stop teaching me lessons in cruelty yet…and he may never be.

A dark why-choose MMF college romance. Childhood friends-turned-enemies, a professor with a pitch-black heart, and a fierce, damaged heroine who discovers that sometimes the only way to survive cruelty is to embrace it.

Book one of the complete Lessons in Cruelty trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Logan Fox.

Category: Contemporary Romance

For fans of Buffy who think she shouldn’t have had to choose between Spike, Angel, or Zander! A fierce vampire hunter is forced into an alliance with three vampires to take on hell itself. Expect chosen family saving the world in a steamy reverse harem where they fall for her first. Try Book 1 free or listen to the new audiobook!

Category: Paranormal Romance