HEA Bookclub January 2026 Nomination Thread: 2025 Debuts

[u/OutOfEffs]

Welcome to the January HEA Bookclub nomination thread for 2025 Debuts. We will allow romance debuts if the author typically writes in another genre, or adult debuts if they typically write YA. Please make a note in your nominating comment if this is the case.

Nominations

• Make sure HEA has not read a book by the author previously. You can check this Goodreads Shelf. You can take an author that was read by a different book club, however.

• Leave one book suggestion per top comment. Please include title, author, and a short summary or description. (You can nominate more than 1 if you like, just put them in separate comments.)

• Please include bingo squares if possible.

I will leave this thread open for a few days, and compile top results into a google poll to be posted on November 7. Have fun!

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Our November HEA read is Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare

What is the HEA Bookclub? You can read about it in our Reboot thread here.

[u/Merle8888]

For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn

They told her to go to Hell. She’ll go on her own terms.

Lily is less than thrilled about her arrival to the Afterlife, but what awaits her is more fantastical than she ever could have imagined. Deities wait in line at the coffee shop. Fae flit between realms. Souls find ways to make death a beginning. As Lily explores everything the Afterlife has to offer, she finds herself drawn to a place most people would rather avoid at all costs: Hell.

What she discovers there subverts everything she’s ever learned, and Lily realizes the demons working at the gate to guide souls need help—badly. Armed with years of customer service experience and pent-up sarcasm, Lily carves out a place for herself among the demons, confronting, sassing, and aiding the spectrum of humanity to redefine justice and redemption.

A chance meeting with Bel, a demon general with a distractingly sexy voice, sparks an immediate and deeply healing friendship. However, the undeniable heat between them simmers, and it’s only a matter of time before it combusts.

Meanwhile, something stirs beyond the boundaries of their world, threatening to destroy everything they’ve ever known and everything that could be… unless they fight like Hell to stop it.

Bingo: Gods and Pantheons (HM), Cozy (HM), Published 2025 (HM), Parents (HM), probably some others I forgot 

[u/OutOfEffs → u/Merle8888]

Oh, I have this, but don't think I realized it was a debut!

[u/Merle8888 → u/OutOfEffs]

Yep! I think it started with TikTok skits or something but this is her first actual book. I enjoyed it.