
5 New Enemies-To-Lovers Romance Novels That You Should Read

There’s a thin line between love and hate, and it’s the reason why the enemies-to-lovers trope is very popular in the romance novels genre. The witty banter, the slow realisation of feelings, and the denial that eventually leads to a heartwarming ‘Happy Ever After’ make for the perfect ingredients for a book you can’t put down.
The recently released movie adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s Red, White and Royal Blue, a beloved title in the subgenre, has turned many in the romance novel reading community towards Enemies-To-Lovers storylines.
If you’re looking for your next enemies-to-lovers romance novel, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ve curated a selection of new books that feature the trope and there’s something for everyone…
Add These New Enemies-To-Lovers Romance Novels To Your Reading List

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Another book in Ali Hazelwood’s series of novels about women in STEM fields and academia, this one is also a delicious enemies-to-lovers novel that you will find hard to put down once you start reading. It follows physicists Elsie and Jack who get caught up in each other’s lives after a few misadventures. It would have been fine if only the two didn’t hate each other to bits.

Will They Or Won’t They by Ava Wilder
Will They Or Won’t They by Ava Wilder
In this second-chance romance novel, two co-stars with a complex past reunite to film the final season of a beloved paranormal drama. With the eyes of thousands of fans upon them, it’s going to be a wild ride pretending they don’t want to murder each other IRL!

A Love By Design by Elizabeth Everett
A Love By Design by Elizabeth Everett
This Victorian romance is the third novel in Elizabeth Everett’s Secret Scientists of London series. Maggie Gault has one mission only: return to London and establish England’s first woman-owned engineering firm. She’s a woman with a plan, however, she hadn’t accounted for a boulder in her path in the form of the gorgeous George Wills, the Earl of Grantham, who also happens to be her childhood sweetheart and had abandoned her without giving any reason.

Brynn & Sebastian Hate Each Other by Bethany Turner
Brynn & Sebastian Hate Each Other by Bethany Turner
Morning show host Brynn Cornell has to return to her hometown after making a gaffe onscreen that could derail her entire career. While she was (ill) prepared to confront the demons she had left behind, she hadn’t planned for cynical journalist, and her unofficial enemy, Sebastian to become a big part of her plan to get her life back on track.

Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen
Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen
Lauren Kung’s debut rom-com novel follows Olivia Huang-Christenson, who is ready to take on the world of dating after inheriting her grandmother’s matchmaking business. She soon finds herself in competition with the infuriatingly handsome founder of a new dating app that threatens to destroy her business.
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