Swooon’s Top 5 Romance Best Sellers of February 2025: ‘Onyx Storm’ & More
Swooon has been in collaboration with romance booksellers all across North America to bring romance readers their own best sellers list. To celebrate the month of love, some of our favorite stores sent in their top sellers of February so romance readers everywhere could see hottest reads of the month.
This month’s list features the best sellers from The Last Chapter, Steamy Lit, Under The Cover, The Romance Era Bookshop, Love’s Sweet Arrow, Burning Pages Bookstore, Smitten Bookstore, Bedpost Books, Lovebound Library, All the Tropes, HEA Book Boutique, Blush & Bashful Romance Bookshop, Heart Bound Bookshop, and Beach Read Books.
Scroll down to see the top five romance book best sellers of February 2025, and see more must-reads from independent romance bookstores across the country.
First-Time Caller
B.K. Borison
Aiden Valentine has a problem: He’s the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, Heartstrings, who has become disillusioned with love. But when a young girl calls into the show to get dating advice for her mom, he and Heartstrings go viral and find more attention than ever. That mom in question is Lucie Stone, who thought she was doing just fine until her daughter brought attention to her lackluster love life. Now, she must decide what she wants — the romance the radio show is manufacturing for her, or the man in the headphones calling the shots.
Quicksilver
Callie Hart
A young woman named Saeris Fane harbors strange powers that she’s kept secret from everyone. When she reopens a realm gateway, Saeris finds herself in a new world and is drawn to a handsome and powerful Fae warrior named Kingfisher. As their bond deepens and treads into romantic territory, this unexpected relationship is tested by hidden agendas and a centuries-long conflict.
Deep End
Ali Hazelwood
Ali Hazelwood steps away from the laboratory and jumps in the pool for Deep End. Scarlett Vandermeer is a junior at Stanford and an Olympic-diving hopeful that enters into a no-strings-attached fling with swimming golden boy Lukas Blomqvist. As the pressure of an impending Olympics gets to them both, Scarlett has to question if her heart is going to get in the way of her goals.
Scythe & Sparrow
Brynne Weaver
Fionn Kane thinks the solution to his problems lie in small-town Nebraska, far away from his ex-girlfriend and his in-shambles medical career. What he finds is motorcycle performer Rose Evans, who is content with her life on the road with the Silveria Circus. When the crowd isn’t watching, she even indulges in a little murder. But when a kill goes bad, she finds herself stranded in Fionn’s Nebraskan neck of the woods. The final book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy.
Onyx Storm
Rebecca Yarros
The battle against the Venin continues for Violet Sorrengail in the third book of Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series. Now Violet must journey beyond the Aretian wards to find allies for Navarre’s cause, magic, and a potential cure for the man she loves.
If you’re an independent romance bookseller interested in joining our list, please email [email protected].
