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XO Romance Recommends

New romance novels you won't want to miss from Lucy Parker, Eloisa James and Lana Harper and more!

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Maya Rodale
Aug 26, 2023
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Today is Women’s Equality Day, created to commemorate the 19th Amendment which declared that the right to vote shall not be prohibited on account of sex. The story of how American women got the vote is outrageously amazing (psst: I’m writing a novel about it now). But while today is Women’s Equality Day, we’re not yet equal in the United States Constitution. We’re just waiting for the Equal Rights Amendment to be formally published (tell President Biden #ERANow!).

So what does this have to do with romance novels? I see these novels as stories that relentlessly and unapologetically celebrate love and equality. Here are some new releases, hot off the presses, for your reading pleasure…

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