The Queen of Sapphic Romance, Ashley Herring Blake, is back with a cozy fall romp set in small-town North Carolina. After losing her parents in a car crash three years ago, Sasha Sinclair is determined to continue their legacy as documentary filmmakers, and she’s set her sights on her next big project: Alice Bishop. Margot Bishop, despite her family’s struggling business, is not interested in some wannabe documentarian’s take on the Bishop family legacy. Sure, her ancestor was believed to be a witch, but all she wants is to keep her family’s apothecary and occult-themed amusement park afloat here and now. Falling for the annoyingly upbeat woman trying to make her name off of Margot’s family is not part of the plan—but it might be in the cards regardless.

In the small town of Peach Blossom, romance will find you in the unlikeliest of places. When a house fire leaves mechanic Aiden homeless and artist Janae living in a half-finished house, they agree to a practical solution: Aiden will help finish the building in exchange for a place to stay. Neither of them was expecting it to turn into something more, but it’s impossible to deny the sparks when they’re living together under one roof. When secrets from their pasts threaten their future, they’ll have to decide whether this is a love worth fighting for or simply a fall fling.

From Celestine Martin’s witchy romance series also featuring Witchful Thinking and Kiss and Spell comes a delightfully autumnal rom-com about a former celebrity chef whose powers are on the fritz and a one-time reality TV star with a serious crush. When Sirena makes a wish for a second chance to fix her life, she finds herself repeating the entire month—but this time, she’s determined to get it right. She’s only thinking about saving her career and her reputation, but when Gus offers to help her get her magic back on track, she realizes it may be a chance for something even more.

Nathan Camber has set his post-grad-school sights on cryptid hunting, specifically on uncovering the legend behind the Salamander Man. It’s a small town legend for a very small town, and his handsome, grumpy new landlord wants to keep it that way. Mack wants to protect his hard-earned peace and safety and has no place for believing in monsters. But somehow Nathan convinces him to join the hunt nonetheless. The hunt—and their growing attraction—start to heat up, and soon they realize there’s more than one mystery to uncover amidst the forest and lakes.

Arthur and Sal are a totally normal (undead) couple opening up a B&B in small-town Oregon. They’re just like you, if you too are a vampire who would rather stay in than go out and slather on sunscreen as part of your daily skincare regimen. They want nothing more than to become a part of the community, even if that community is a little less than friendly to its new supernatural neighbors. But when the mayor turns up dead in their begonias with puncture marks in his neck, they’ll have to team up with the other magical members of their community to solve the murder and prove their hands are entirely clean.

Raised in the American South by a clan of formidable Black women, Galilee has always known there were secrets around her origin—secrets she assumed would haunt her without answers until her dying day. Then she meets the man working as head of security for her rich friend’s family, and Galilee immediately knows there’s something different about him. Lucifer Helel isn’t human. At first touch, Lucifer knows Galilee isn’t either. But their love is dangerous, and there are those on Earth and in hell who would go to dangerous lengths to stop it.

A doctor who’s given up on finding love surprises everyone—most of all herself—by falling for a younger man. Julian may be eleven years Sean’s junior, but he possesses surprising depth and sorrow for his age. He’s also pursuing her in ways that should probably raise red flags. Sean can’t seem to make herself care, though. In fact, she’s been uncharacteristically reckless of late—tired too—and she seems to be missing certain memories, all around the time she spends with Julian. Could it be that this bad idea of a relationship is even riskier than she first thought?

Sometimes a romance is between an eldritch shapeshifting monster and the village woman she falls in love with. Unfortunately, Shesheshen doesn’t entirely understand that yet. She just thinks Homily would make an excellent host for her eggs. But as the two grow closer, Shesheshen begins to realize she doesn’t want Homily to be eaten alive from the inside out. In fact, she doesn’t want anything bad to happen to Homily ever. Now if only they can convince the rest of the village to leave woman and monster alone in peace long enough for them to live happily ever after.

Dracula’s Lucy, as you’ve never seen her before, is back in this haunting gothic thriller romance from the author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein. Lucy thought she would never find love again after facing the ultimate betrayal: being turned into a vampire. After escaping Dracula’s clutches, she meets Iris. Despite their intense attraction, the people in Iris’s life and forces from Lucy’s past threaten to keep the two eternally apart.

Marcella is always careful when it comes to her meals. She likes her comfortable career in academia, so when bodies start piling up after she takes a new position at the prestigious Preston University, she knows she’ll have to intervene. Lacie only wants to make tenure at the boys’ club that is Preston. Keeping her head down and following all the rules has always been her way, but when her friend is brutally murdered, she suspects darker forces are at play. Along with the mysterious new Marcella, she starts to dig into the secrets lying in wait beneath Preston’s marble-clad halls. Even monsters have their weaknesses, and Lacie might just be Marcella’s.