A book a day keeps reality away.
As the year winds down, new releases are promising to keep you turning pages well into the new year. From a wolf shifter romance to dark academia and irresistible fantasies, the new books in December 2025 will satisfy every reader’s appetite. So, it’s time to end the year on a good note with these new books that are bound to be your favourites and your new obsessions.
Your guide to the best new books to read in December 2025:
The Mating Game
Lana Ferguson
If you love a good banter, angst and spice, then Lane Ferguson’s latest book will tick all your boxes. This wolf shifter romance follows contractor Tess Covington as her life is turnt upside down when a trip to the Denver ER reveals she’s not sick—she’s a late-presenting omega wolf shifter on the verge of her first heat. Desperate to complete a renovation job that could save her family and land her a TV show, Tess must avoid alpha shifters at all costs, which becomes impossible when her new client turns out to be Hunter Barrett, a brooding alpha determined to stay away from omegas after having his heart broken. With Hunter’s failing lodge depending on Tess’s work and her intoxicating scent making avoidance nearly impossible, they’re forced into close quarters where their chemistry ignites despite their best efforts to keep things professional.
Release Date: 2 December
At Whit’s End
Bailey Hannah
It’s time to yeehaw with a hot, charming cowboy. In this small-town romance, overwhelmed single mom Whitney Hart is desperately trying to raise her rebellious ten-year-old son Jonas with little help from his unreliable father, who only shows up when he’s single and hoping to rekindle their relationship. When Whitney enlists her sister Blair’s help over summer, Jonas is sent to work at Wells Ranch under the care of fun-loving cowboy Colt, who becomes the mentor and male role model the boy has never had—and discovers an unexpected joy in their growing friendship. As Whitney and Colt bond over their shared concern for Jonas, their connection deepens into undeniable attraction and chemistry, but Whitney’s insecurities and broken trust in men threaten to sabotage what could be her chance at happiness.
Release Date: 2 December
Sweet Venom
Rina Kent
Do you love an obsessive man? Then, you’ll love this one. Rina Kent is bringing us yet again another hockey romance filled with angst, spice and darkness. After accidentally witnessing a brutal murder, Violet freezes and pretends to see nothing, hoping to leave the horror behind—but her silence backfires catastrophically, making her the target of Jude Callahan’s ruthless revenge. No matter how desperately she runs or hides, he finds her, stalking from the shadows like a predator who won’t be satisfied with simply ending her life—because Jude has decided she can’t die, she must suffer for her sins. Dragging her kicking and screaming into his depraved world, he’ll show her that some obsessions are more terrifying than death itself.
Release Date: 2 December
Sin Bin
Chelsea Curto
The fifth book in Chelsea Curto’s D.C. Stars hockey romance series follows Coach Brody Saunders and Hannah Everett in a forbidden, grumpy-sunshine romance packed with heat and heart. Brody is the youngest coach to ever win a Stanley Cup and a single dad struggling to raise his teenage daughter while maintaining his scowling, grumpy demeanour—until burnt-out world champion figure skater Hannah Everett crashes into his life. Hannah, who sacrificed college to chase her Olympic dreams, finds herself with zero experience coaching teenagers but plenty of sarcasm and a talent for getting under Brody’s skin, especially since she happens to be his player Grant’s younger sister. After a forbidden one-night stand, they attempt to avoid each other, but forced proximity at the rink makes that impossible as their instant chemistry evolves into an unexpected friendship and something far deeper.
Release Date: 4 December
My Blade, Your Back
K.M. Moronova
The Dark Forces duet continues one month after the Under Trials, where Emery Maves awakens stripped of her memories in an unrecognisable world with Cameron Mortem—Mori—a haunted man whose secrets she can’t recall. Tormented by fragmented dreams of danger and death, Emery finds herself drawn to both an experimental drug that makes her nearly invincible while shattering her mind and to the enigmatic Mori himself. Cameron knows letting Emery close could destroy them both, but her amnesia has become an inescapable curse binding them together. As old wounds reopen, hidden conspiracies surface and loyalties fracture, their blood-forged bond may be their only salvation—if they can survive the secrets being weaponised against them and resist losing themselves to the darkness threatening to consume them both.
Release Date: 9 December
My Favorite Fake Romance
Elizabeth O’Roark
Dr Easton Walsh expected to arrive at her best friend’s wedding with a fiancé and a ring, but instead finds herself newly dumped and accepting a desperate lifeline from the last person she’d ever choose: Elijah Cabot, her best friend’s older brother and the man who broke her heart years ago. The deal seems simple—fake a relationship to make her ex jealous while helping Elijah drive his grandmother cross-country to the wedding—but as the miles stretch on, their pretend romance starts feeling dangerously real.
Release Date: 11 December
In A Heartbeat
Laura Pavlov
If you love a small-town romance that’s filled to the brim with fluff, spice and charm, then Laura Pavlov will do you right. This friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance follows a ranch owner who is forced to confront the past when Wren Waterstone, a once-celebrated equestrian and former best friend, returns to their hometown.
Release Date: 16 December
A Fate so Dark and Delicate
Sophia St. Germain
Book four in the Compelling Fates Saga continues the high-stakes fantasy where readers left off. With the king dead, Elessia and her friends race to unite their realm against the invading Oakgards’ Fae. As Elessia wrestles with the deadly consequences of her newfound powers, she and Merrick uncover a devastating truth: the price of her gifts may force them to abandon Havlands and leave their friends to face the looming war alone. With fate demanding an answer, each must decide whether to heed the call—knowing that their choices will determine not only their survival but the future of their entire world.
Release Date: 17 December
Bluebird Gold
Devney Perry
Set in the 1980s, Devney Perry’s newest small-town romance is a gripping tale where a woman’s search for truth becomes a dangerous obsession. After her father’s sudden death, the protagonist moves to his lakeside cabin in Dalton, Montana, planning a quiet winter to settle his estate and say goodbye to the man who loved Montana legends. But as she takes a temporary teaching job and sorts through his belongings, strange clues suggest his death wasn’t what it seemed—and point to a lost legend of Montana gold. Caught between her growing feelings for Sheriff Cosi Raynes, whose son is her student and whose life is deeply rooted in a town she plans to leave, she finds herself drawn into a dangerous mystery where someone is willing to kill to keep the truth buried. What began as a winter of healing transforms into a race for answers that could cost her everything—or give her a future she never imagined, if she can survive long enough to claim it.
Release Date: 30 December
In Your Dreams
Sarah Adams
After fleeing her Kentucky hometown for culinary success in New York, Madison Walker returns home defeated, her confidence shattered and dreams in ruins. A job offer to head a new farm-to-table restaurant seems like the perfect fresh start—until she discovers it comes from James Huxley, her brother’s best friend and the last person she wants to work for. James has loved Madison quietly for years, and now he’s determined to finally win her heart, even if it means settling for friendship. But his charming younger brother Tommy has other plans, pursuing Madison relentlessly and with meddling townsfolk, keeping things professional becomes impossible. Both must face their deepest insecurities and decide whether love is worth the risk or if some dreams are safer left untouched.
Release Date: 30 December
An Arcane Inheritance
Kamilah Cole
If you love a dark academia setting, then it’s time to put this in your TBR list. Following Ellory Morgan as she arrives at Warren University, an Ivy League institution built on centuries of forbidden magic and BIPOC students—the ornate campus triggers an eerie sense of familiarity that grows more sinister by the day—she’s certain she’s been here before, though it defies all logic and reason. Desperate to uncover memories that seem to slip away through insidious magic, Ellory must convince brooding legacy student Hudson Graves to help her piece together a past the university wants buried, or risk losing herself forever to the same dark forces that have claimed countless students before her.
Release Date: 30 December
We Who Will Die
Stacia Stark
From the bestselling author of the Kingdom of Lies series comes a slow-burning romantasy filled with breathtaking combat, vengeful gods and magical creatures. Set in a merciless Roman-inspired world ruled by ancient vampires, Arvelle fights daily to keep her younger brothers alive in the brutal Thorn district—until a vampire’s impossible ultimatum forces her into a magically binding vow to assassinate the emperor himself, an immortal being forged by the god Umbros. To reach him, she must survive the Sundering. In this deadly arena, only the fiercest warriors earn a place in the emperor’s elite guard, but infiltrating the imperial court means confronting the Primus, the emperor’s powerful protector, who turns out to be the man who once broke her heart, and forming a dangerous alliance with Rorrik, the emperor’s sadistic and enigmatic son. Arvelle must navigate a treacherous conspiracy involving two vampires whose fates are impossibly tangled with her own, unravelling secrets that will shatter everything she believed about her past, her abilities, and her destiny.
