New To Me Authors – Romance

While I’ve always read my share of romance novels, they have recently become my go-to genre. I’d say 75% of what I have read this year, so far, has been romance and with that I have been branching out and reading new authors. I’ve found myself reading some stand-out authors, some of which have now become auto-buy authors, considered by me to be in the same league as Emily Henry and Abby Jimenez.

Stand-out authors that are new-to-me in 2025

Lyla Sage

Lyla Sage lives in the Wild West with her loyal companion, a sweet, old, blind rescue pitbull. She writes romance that feels like her favorite things: sunshine and big blue skies. When she’s not writing, she’s reading.

B K Borison

New York Times, Sunday Times, and USA Today Bestselling author B.K. Borison is the author of cozy, contemporary romances featuring emotionally vulnerable characters and swoon-worthy settings. When she’s not daydreaming about fictional characters doing fictional things, she’s at home with her family, more than likely buying books she doesn’t have room for.

Annabel Monaghan

Annabel Monaghan is the bestselling author of Same Time Next Summer and Nora Goes Off Script. She is also the author of two novels for young adults, A Girl Named Digit and Double Digit.

Elena Armas

Elena is a Spanish writer, a self confessed hopeless romantic and a proud book hoarder. Now, she’s also the author of International bestseller and soon to be adapted to film The Spanish Love Deception; and instant New York Times bestsellers The American Roommate Experiment and The Long Game. Her books are being translated to over 30 languages–which is bananas, if you ask her.

She hopes her stories make your heart skip a beat or two, your palms a little sweaty, and your cheeks flush in that rosy pink that makes other people want to peek at the page you are reading.

Lynn Painter

Lynn Painter is the international bestselling author of Better Than The Movies. She writes romantic comedies for both teens and adults, and when she isn’t reading or writing, odds are good she’s guzzling energy drinks and watching rom-coms.