
The world may be on fire, but the sun is shining brighter and our shelves runneth over this month with tons of new queer romance releases!
The Shots You Take

Author: Rachel Reid
Released: March 4, 2025 by Carina Adores
Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance
A sweet and sexy hockey romance about two ex-teammates and former best friends with benefits who are about to discover whether you can ever really have a second chance, from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Heated Rivalry and The Long Game.
After moving back to his hometown ten years ago, Riley Tuck thought he had left his major league hockey career—and his broken heart—far behind. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes, it brings ex-teammate and former best friend with benefits Adam Sheppard back into his life.
Coming to the small town of Avery River, Nova Scotia, might have been a mistake. Adam’s not sure he’ll ever win back Riley’s trust after the way they left things—and the attention he’s getting as a huge hockey star isn’t exactly helping. Yet the chemistry that crackles between them is undeniable, even now.
As Adam helps Riley navigate his grief, long-buried feelings start to resurface. But they’ll have to square off with their complicated past if they’re going to have a real shot at a new beginning.
The queen of m/m hockey romance returns with a new standalone that promises a sexy mashup of tropes in a second chance for former best friends with benefits, which is not a particular take I think I’ve read before and has me very intrigued.
Go Luck Yourself

Author: Sara Raasch
Released: March 11, 2025 by Bramble
Genre: Fantasy/Fairy Tale Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy
It’s enemies to lovers in this sexy and delightful holiday mash up that pairs the spare prince of Christmas with the crown prince of St. Patrick’s Day!
Someone has been stealing Christmas’s joy, and there’s only one clue to the culprit—a single shamrock.
With Coal busy restructuring Christmas—and their dad now having a full midlife crisis in the Caribbean—Kris volunteers to investigate St. Patrick’s Day. His cover: an ambassador from Christmas to foster goodwill. What could go wrong?
Everything, it seems. Because Prince Lochlann Patrick, Crown Prince of St. Patrick’s Day, happens to be the mysterious student that Kris has been in a small war with at Cambridge. They attempt to play nice for the tabloids, but Kris can’t get through one conversation without wanting to smash Loch’s face in—he’s infuriating, stubborn, loud, obstinate, hot—
Wait—hot?
Kris might be in some trouble. Especially when it turns out that the mystery behind Christmas’s stolen magic isn’t as simple as an outright theft. But why would a Holiday that Christmas has never had contact with, one that’s always been the very basis of carefree, want to steal joy? Can a spare prince even hope to unravel all this, or will Kris lose something way more valuable than his Holiday’s resources—like his heart?
Raasch’s Royals and Romance series is one of the best concepts I’ve seen in a long time, twisting brilliantly on royal romance by making our handsome leads kings of holidays instead of traditional nations. This follow-up to The Nightmare Before Kissmas takes on Christmas and St. Patrick’s Day, which is honestly just hilarious to me (complimentary), and nothing draws me into an m/m pairing like one of them wanting to punch the other one’s annoyingly hot face in.
Pole Position

Author: Rebecca Caffery
Released: May 30, 2024 by One More Chapter
Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance
Kian Walker has always been the golden boy of motorsport. The four-time Championship winner has racing in his DNA – his father was a legend on the track, just don’t let him catch you comparing the two. As reckless and unreliable at home as he was behind the wheel, there’s nothing Kian wants less than to be just like his dad.
Enter Harper James. This year’s rookie called up to compete with the big boys – and Kian’s new teammate. Cocky, hot-headed and with a reputation for breaking as many hearts as he does new track records, Harper’s the opposite of Kian in every way. But when the season starts, there’s no getting away from him.
This might be one of the most dangerous sports in the world, so why then does Kian’s heart feel safer flying around the track at 220mph than when he’s anywhere near his teammate?
Though this F1 racing m/m Romance released last year, this is it’s first thrill ride into US paperback, and for those of us who didn’t catch it the first time around, now’s the perfect time to flag it down and take it for a spin. (Was that enough racing puns? I feel like it was enough racing puns.) Also, find me a better pairing than grizzled vet meets sunshine-y rookie. Go on, I dare you.
Shoot Your Shot

Author: Lexi LaFleur Brown
Released: March 11, 2025 by Canary Street Press
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romance
Don’t miss NHL insider and #BookTok influencer Lexi LaFleur Brown’s steamy and superstitious hockey rom-com debut!
When Jaylen Jones doesn’t secure an NHL contract at the end of training camp, he worries his hockey career is over. But after an anonymous one-night stand on his last night in town, his luck turns around and a last-minute roster spot opens up on the Seattle Rainiers. Connecting his fortune to the girl he spent the night with, superstitious Jaylen is suddenly desperate to keep her around.
Aspiring tattoo artist Lucy isn’t so sure about the proposition to remain Jaylen’s lucky charm—she’s been called a lot of things in her life, but good luck has never been one of them. But stuck in a career slump, Lucy has everything to gain. Hoping for an apprenticeship at a tattoo parlor hasn’t offered her much stability, and Jaylen is willing to pay any price to get Lucy to agree…so maybe sending him a routine text message before each game won’t be too hard.
What starts as an agreement to trade favors—a good luck text for an appearance at a charity event, or well wishes in exchange for prime game tickets—quickly turns into sizzling chemistry that’s too delicious not to give in to. But Lucy’s been in too many situationships to even think about getting attached again, and Jaylen is clearly only with Lucy as long as it’s helping his career…neither of them expecting getting lucky could be so complicated.
‘Tis the month for queer hockey romance, though this is the rare one that pairs up a queer woman with a serious edge and a straight male sweetheart who happens to handle a puck (and other things) extremely well. The queerness is very present in this one, not just in bi tattoo artist Lucy but in both of her best friends, and Jaylen is an extremely rare Black hockey player, which adds an extra layer of interest and insight. (For those unfamiliar with LaFleur Brown, as I’ll admit I was, she’s married to J.T. Brown, who is, in fact, a rare Black former hockey player.) For those who care about authenticity in sports writing, the insider knowledge absolutely bleeds through the ink on every page here.
A Gentleman’s Gentleman

Author: TJ Alexander
Released: March 11, 2025 by Vintage
Genre: Historical: European, LGBTQIA, Romance
From the acclaimed author of Chef’s Kiss, a groundbreaking trans Regency romance that’s both delightfully witty and refreshingly iconoclastic.
The notoriously eccentric Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and even more unusual habits: he prefers to live as far from the prying eyes and ears of the ton as possible, and would rather have the comfortable company of his childhood cook and his aged butler, Plinkton, than the swarm of servants and hangers-on befitting a man of his station.
But Christopher’s pleasant, if occasionally lonely life is upended when he receives word from his lawyers that, according to his late father’s will, he must find a wife by the end of the Season if he intends to keep his family’s fortune and the Eden’s End estate. Christopher cannot imagine a worse fate: as he isn’t attracted to women, his chances of making a wife happy are slim. Furthermore, if his quest to marry has any hope of succeeding, he must move to London posthaste and acquire some more suitable staff.
Enter James Harding, Christopher’s new, distractingly handsome—if rigidly traditional—valet. After a rocky start, the two strike up a fragile friendship amid the throes of the London Season . . . a friendship that threatens to shatter under the looming shadow of Christopher’s impending nuptials—and the secrets both men are keeping.
With its heady combination of dry wit, slow-burn romance, and a nuanced, complex portrait of trans identity and relationships that’s as relevant now as it was during the Regency era, A Gentleman’s Gentleman stands to transform the historical romance genre as we know it.
I mean. TJ Alexander genuinely does not miss for me, and while I’m not a huge historical romance reader, I absolutely devoured this trans m/m, even if I found myself screaming “Just kiss already!!!” a whole lot. (I am not known for my patience with slow burns.) It’s so full of charm and characters you desperately want to find happiness and love in all its forms, and it’s just… so delightfully gay.