08.03: Fall 2025 Preview
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
It's October, which means we're thinking about fall, which comes with spice, heat and hanging out under the blankets! Today, our Fall 2025 romance novel preview, guaranteed to fill your TBR pile. There’s something here for everyone — historicals, contemporaries, a splash of magic, princesses, superheroes, time-travel, widows, F1 drivers...a real ideal dinner party roster.
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Books
September Releases
- Faster by Andie J. Christopher
- The Earl That Got Away by Diana Quincy
- Resisting the Forbidden Widow by Maggie Weston
- The Scot's Seduction Megan Frampton
- The Dreamer and the Deep Space Warrior by TK Tucker
October Releases
- Hell's Heresies by Kat D. Coffin
- Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia
- Wrecking Caine by Amelia Shea
- A Scar in the Bone by Sophie Jordan
- Cowboy, It's Cold Outside by Maisey Yates
- Strings Attached by Noel Bailey
- A Pack for Winter by Eliana Lee
- Isn’t It Obvious by Rachel Runya Katz
- London Calling by Rita Gordon
- Backslide by Nora Dahlia
- Play You For It by Samantha Saldivar
- The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur
- All of us Murderers by KJ Charles
- Only Rakes Need Apply by Kate Pearce
- Julia Song Is Undateable by Susan Lee
- Some Kind of Famous by Ava Wilder
- A Star Is Scorned by Maureen Lee Lenker
- Blue Collar Billionaire by Amy Andrews
- Once Upon a Courtesan by Jess Michaels
- Claiming the Princess by Charis Michaels
- Heartsick by Kristina Forrest
- Reel Love by Addie Woolridge
November Releases
- The Dramatic Life of Jonah Penrose Robyn Green
- Not You Again by Erin La Rosa
- These Violet Delights by Madeleine Roux
- All Superheroes Need Photos Ops by Elizabeth Stephens
- Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz
- Call Me Anytime by Max Monroe
- The Maid of Sherwood Forest by Sian Ann Bessey
- Pick Me by Victoria Schade
- Ellie Hayes and the Himbos by Vanessa King
- Next Time Will be our Turn by Jesse Q Sutanto
- Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi
- Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen’s Unsung Characters
- Big Sky Safe House by Juno Rushdan
- Snowbound and Royally Forbidden by Maya Blake
- The Reluctant Reaper by MaryJanice Davidson
- Midnight Book Club by E.W. Anderson
December Releases
- Bodyguard Affair by Amy Lee
- Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot by Alexis Hall
- Something Wicked by Falon Ballard
- Her Time Traveling Duke by Bryn Donovan
- How to Grieve like a Victorian by Amy Carol Reeves
- A Most Worthy Husband by Faye Delacour
- Love letters for Other People by Shaylin Gandhi
- Sparks Fly by Zakiya N. Jamal
Sponsors
- Jaylee Austin, BL Lucas, Tegan Lleuad, Brie Blackmore, RM Fire, & Natasha Wilco, authors of Monsters in Moonlight series, six books available at Amazon, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
- HarperCollins, publishers of Diana Quincy's The Earl That Got Away, available at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
- Pippa Grant, author of The Spite Date, available at Amazon, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
- Jamie Varon, author of Charlie Quinn Lets Go, available at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
The Rest
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Autumn. Fall is here. Listen, my favorite season. Oh, me too. Welcome to like jeans and like cozy |
| 0:10.3 | sweaters. I ordered some new sweaters already. I am going to Denmark and Sweden at the end of the |
| 0:17.2 | month. And so I was like, oh, it's gonna be like crisp fall. |
| 0:23.7 | So I did, I ordered a new pair of jeans and some new boots |
| 0:27.1 | and I'm gonna try to be stylish in Scandinavia |
| 0:31.8 | for a cold weather snack. |
| 0:34.6 | But listen, it's just nice. |
| 0:36.5 | The whole place turns different colors here in the Northeast. |
| 0:41.5 | And that's before. I'm not a pumpkin spice person, but I understand there are a lot of people who |
| 0:46.5 | love those spices, and I support you, as Jen would say. And not in an ironic way, like Jen would say. |
| 0:53.5 | Like Jen, Jen often texts me when I say, I'm enjoying a book that she doesn't like. |
| 0:58.1 | She's like, well, I support you. |
| 1:00.8 | I never say it that way. |
| 1:02.7 | I always just support you. |
| 1:06.4 | Well, la-di-da. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome to Fade of Mates, everyone. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm Sarah McLean. |
| 1:12.8 | I read romance novels and I write them. |
| 1:16.0 | And I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader and editor. |
| 1:18.9 | And this is our like fall preview episode, right? |
| 1:22.3 | So it's October 1st. |
| 1:23.7 | We do four years. |
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