Best new romance books 2024, including This Summer Will Be Different, Funny Story, My Favourite Mistake and more.

Best new romance books 2024

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New romance books to read in 2024

Say You’ll Be My Jaan

'A warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us 
 
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"Think of it like Tinder. Except your parents are the algorithm" 
 
Meghna has tried everything to find her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even attempting conversations with strangers. Everything except arranged marriage. 
 
Then Seth, her best friend and the-one-who-got-away, asks her to be his "best man" and suddenly her parent's taste doesn't seem so bad. Which is how she meets the cranky but handsome Karthik, who knows marriage is not for him. 
 
They’re the perfect match – if not the one their parents think they are making – and a deal is struck. They’ll announce their engagement: Karthik will be excused from his mother’s set-ups and Meghna will have a date for the wedding from her nightmares. 
 
But how can you fake it and get away with it, when you’re not faking it at all? 
 
For fans of WEDDING SEASON, SAY YOU'LL BE MY JAAN is brimming with characters you can't help but fall for, off-the-charts chemistry and all the joy of a 90s romcom as it takes a fresh look on that age old search for your other half. 
 
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Everyone’s falling hard for Say You’ll Be My Jaan 
 
'The type of South Asian diaspora romance I’ve always wished for. Naina Kumar’s debut is spectacular' Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil 
 
'A fresh and charming story about finding love without losing yourself' Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over 
 
'This debut about love, culture, family, and friendship is absolutely irresistible?I didn’t want to put it down' Sarah Adler, Mrs. Nash’s Ashes 
 
'An instant romance classic!' Farah Heron, Accidentally Engaged 
 
'Stuffed to the brim with emotion, chemistry, and all the best microtropes' Ava Wilder, Will They or Won’t They

I couldn't put down this page-turner. A warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut with the most important lesson at its center: real love is built on courage. Meghna and Karthik happily ever after is the new When Harry met Sally. Naina Kumar's Just Pretend You will be my Jaan has it all

Colleen Hoover, #1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us

Naina Kumar is a lawyer by day and a writer of fun, swoony desi rom-coms at night. When she's not writing, she enjoys taking her rowdy rescue dog on walks, re-watching Gilmore Girls on a loop, and shopping at HEB, a shop in her home state of Texas. Flirting With Disaster is her second novel.

Meghna has tried everything when it comes to dating: blind dates, apps, attempting to drum up conversations with strangers at bars (ew). Everything except arranged marriage. 
 
But then Seth, her best friend and the-one-who-got-away asks her to be his "best man" and suddenly her parent's taste doesn't seem so bad... Which is how she meets the grumpy but handsome Karthik, who has seen enough of his parents' relationship to know marriage is not for him. 
 
Turns out, Meghna and Karhtik are a match made in heaven (if not the match their parents think they are making) - and a deal is struck. They will be fake-engaged for three months. That way Karthik will get out of the absurd number of arranged set-ups his mother has planned and Meghna will have a date to the wedding from her worst nightmares. 
 
But what will happen when the wedding is over? And might they find that what they thought the other was faking could be real after all?

Naina Kumar

Warm, smart, sexy and absolutely charming

Flirting With Disaster is achingly gorgeous

B.K. Borison, USA Today Bestselling Author of Lovelight Farms

Naina Kumar is quickly becoming a favourite author of mine... Flirting with Disaster was the most amazing rollercoaster of big feels and humour and heart

Hannah Bonham-Young, bestselling author of Out On A Limb

This second chance romance will linger in your heart long after you turn the last page

Sonali Dev, USA Today Bestselling Author of The Vibrant Years

The chemistry between Nikhil and Meena is as electric as the lighting from the storm stranding them together

Danica Nava, bestselling author of The Truth According to Ember

Hot shot DC lawyer Meena is about to get engaged to the perfect man. The only hitch? She is already married… 
 
Which is why she ends up travelling home to convince her first-love-slash-husband (courtesy of one slightly too wild night in Vegas nearly a decade ago) to finally agree to get UN-hitched. 
 
But life loves to throw curve balls, or in this case, a good old natural disaster. Meena touches down just in time to find out a hurricane hitting Houston - all flights are cancelled and the only place she can take refuge? Her soon-to-be-ex-husband's home. 
 
Will the storm force them to face what happened all those years ago? And might this be the best worst thing that has ever happened to them

Naina Kumar

Praise for Flirting With Disaster

Warm, smart, sexy and absolutely charming

Flirting With Disaster is achingly gorgeous

**Naina Kumar is quickly becoming a favourite author of mine... Flirting with Disaster was the most amazing rollercoaster of big feels and humour and heart**

Warm, smart, sexy and absolutely charming

Flirting With Disaster is achingly gorgeous

**Naina Kumar is quickly becoming a favourite author of mine... Flirting with Disaster was the most amazing rollercoaster of big feels and humour and heart**

Warm, smart, sexy and absolutely charming

Flirting With Disaster is achingly gorgeous

**Naina Kumar is quickly becoming a favourite author of mine... Flirting with Disaster was the most amazing rollercoaster of big feels and humour and heart**

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