Romance Books to Movies & TV Series Coming in 2025
Every year I love to see which romance books are being adapted into movies and TV series to see my favorite characters and storylines come to life. If you love book-to-movie adaptations then Iโve got the inside scoop on whatโs to come in 2025 with all the romance books to movie and TV series you can get excited to enjoy.
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Podcast Episode 87: Romance Books to Movies & TV Series Releasing in 2025
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Romance Books to Movies Coming in 2025
Marked Men: Rule and Shaw
Based on Rule
by Jay Crownover
Release Date: January 22, 2025 on Prime Video
Summary: Shaw Landon loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule is everything a straight-A pre-med student like Shaw shouldnโt want โ and the only person sheโs never tried to please. She isnโt afraid of his scary piercings and tattoos or his wild attitude. Though she knows that Rule is wrong for her, her heart just wonโt listen.
To a rebel like Rule Archer, Shaw Landon is a stuck-up, perfect princess โ and his dead twin brotherโs girl. She lives by other peopleโs rules; he makes his own. He doesnโt have time for a good girl like Shaw โ even if sheโs the only one who can see the person he truly is.
But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule have to figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their loveโฆor each other.
Book to Movie News…
Get ready for this opposites attract, forbidden romance between Rule and Shaw to be played by Chase Stokes and Sydney Taylor. This film is being directed by Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook). Watch now on Prime Video.
Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy
by Helen Fielding
Release Date: February 13, 2025 on Peacock
Summary: Fourteen years after landing Mark Darcy, Bridgetโs life has taken her places she never expected. But despite the new challenges of single parenting, online dating, wildly morphing dress sizes, and bafflingly complex remote controls, she is the same irrepressible and endearing soul we all rememberโthough her talent for embarrassing herself in hilarious ways has become dangerously amplified now that she has 752 Twitter followers.
As Bridget navigates head lice epidemics, school-picnic humiliations, and cross-generational sex, she learns that life isnโt over when you start needing reading glassesโand why one should never, ever text while drunk.
Book to Movie News…
Get ready to jump back into the world of Bridget Jones this year with Renee Zellweger reprising her role as Bridget. She will be joined by cast members Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall..
A Lover’s Vow
by Brenda Jackson
Release Date: February 13, 2025 on Passionflix
Summary: Business mogul Dalton Granger is as passionate as he is gorgeous, but private investigator Jules Bradford won’t give him the time of day. She knows all about the youngest Granger brother -a charming bad boy whose only interest is playing the field.
But Dalton is more complicated than that, and he’s determined to show Jules that behind all the bravado is the honest heart of a devoted son, brotherย and a man whose own life is in peril.
Jules is the only person who can protect Dalton, and they embark on a mission to save his family and his legacy. But when their late nights in the office turn into early mornings in the bedroom, Jules and Dalton soon realize they have more at stake than they ever imagined.
Book to Movie News…
The movie is the epic conclusion to the Grangers series, based on the book by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson. Start your Passionflix subscription to start watching it today!
The Life List
by Lori Nelson Spielman
Release Date: March 28, 2025 on Netflix
Brett Bohlinger seems to have it all: a plum job, a spacious loft, an irresistibly handsome boyfriend. All in all, a charmed life. That is, until her beloved mother passes away, leaving behind a will with one big stipulation: In order to receive her inheritance, Brett must first complete the life list of goals sheโd written when she was a naรฏve girl of fourteen.
Grief-stricken, Brett can barely make sense of her motherโs decisionโher childhood dreams donโt resemble her ambitions at age thirty-four in the slightest. Some seem impossible. How can she possibly have a relationship with a father who died seven years ago?
Other goals (Be an awesome teacher!) would require her to reinvent her entire future. As Brett reluctantly embarks on a perplexing journey in search of her adolescent dreams, one thing becomes clear. Sometimes lifeโs sweetest gifts can be found in the most unexpected places.
Book to Movie News…
This romance book to movie adaptation was written and directed by Adam Brooks, starring Sofia Carson and Kyle Allen who is being called the new internet “boyfriend” after the release of this movie.
My Oxford Year
by Julia Whelan
Release Date: August 1, 2025 on Netflix
Summary: American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was thirteen: Study at Oxford. At 24, sheโs finally made it to England on a Rhodes Scholarship when sheโs offered an unbelievable position in a rising political starโs presidential campaign.
With the promise that sheโll work remotely and return to DC at the end of her Oxford year, sheโs free to enjoy her Once in a Lifetime Experience. That is, until a smart-mouthed local who is too quick with his tongue and his car ruins her shirt and her first day.
When Ella discovers that her English literature course will be taught by none other than that same local, Jamie Davenport, she thinks for the first time that Oxford might not be all sheโs envisioned. But a late-night drink reveals a connection she wasnโt anticipating finding and what begins as a casual fling soon develops into something much more when Ella learns Jamie has a life-changing secret.
Immediately, Ella is faced with a seemingly impossible decision: turn her back on the man sheโs falling in love with to follow her political dreams or be there for him during a trial neither are truly prepared for. As the end of her year in Oxford rapidly approaches, Ella must decide if the dreams sheโs always wanted are the same ones sheโs now yearning for.
Book to Movie News…
My Oxford Year is being written by Allison Burnett and directed by BAFTA nominee Iain Morris, based on a novel by Julia Whelan, which was adapted from Burnettโs original screenplay. Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest lead the cast.
The Map that Leads to You
by J.P. Monniger
Release Date: August 20, 2025 on Prime Video
Two strangers take the road less traveled…
Heather Mulgrewโs world is already mapped out: she is going to travel abroad with her friends after college, come back to a great career in September, and head into a life where not much is left to chance. But that was before an encounter on an overnight train introduces her to Jack, a passionate adventurer who changes the course of her journey and her life.
Throwing Heather’s careful itinerary to the wind, they follow Jack’s grandfather’s journal through post-World War II era Europe: Vienna, Budapest, Turkeyโexotic places that serve only to heighten their feelings. As September looms, Jack urges Heather to stay with him, to keep traveling, to give in to the romance of their experience; Heather convinces him to return to the United States.
Jack has a secret that could change everything. And Heatherโs world is about to be shaken to the core.
Book to Movie News…
This romance book to movie adaptation stars Madelyn Cline, KJ Apa, Sofia Wylie, Madison Thompson, Orlando Norman, and Josh Lucas and is available to watch on Prime Video.
Adventures in Love & Birding
based on Birding With Benefits
by Sarah T. Dubb
Release Date: September 27, 2026 on Hallmark Channel
Newly-divorced, almost-empty-nester Celeste is finally seeking adventure and putting herself first, cliches be damned. So when a friend asks Celeste to โpartnerโ with his buddy John for an event, Celeste throws herself into the role of his temporary girlfriend. But quiet cinnamon roll John isnโt looking for love, just birdsโhe needs a partner for Tucsonโs biggest bird-watching contest if heโs ever going to launch his own guiding business. By the time they untangle their crossed signals, theyโve become teammatesโฆand thanks to his meddling friends, a fake couple.
Celeste canโt tell a sparrow from a swallow, but John is a great teacher, and the hours they spend hiking in the Arizona wilderness feed Celesteโs hunger for new adventures while giving John a chance to practice his dream job. As the two spend more time together, they end up watching more than just the birds, and their chemistry becomes undeniable.
Since theyโre both committed to the single life, Celeste suggests a status upgrade: birders with benefits, just until the contest is done. But as the bird count goes up and their time together ticks down, John and Celeste will have to decide if their benefits can last a lifetime, or if this love affair is for the birds.
Book to Movie News…
The Hallmark Channel took on this romance book to movie adaptation, where a divorcee embarks on her “year of yes!”
Regretting You
by Colleen Hoover
Releasing in Theaters: October 24, 2025
Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.
Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesnโt want to follow in her motherโs footsteps. Her predictable mother doesnโt have a spontaneous bone in her body.
With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is ChrisโMorganโs husband, Claraโs father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.
While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy sheโs been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.
Book to Movie News…
Colleen Hoover has several books to movies in the works ever since the release of the It Ends With Us movie, and the next is Regretting You this October followed soon by Verity which releases in 2026.
The Christmas Ring
by Karen Kingsbury
Releasing in Theaters: November 6, 2025
While searching for her family’s long-lost heirloom ring, military widow Vanessa Mayfield meets handsome antique dealer Ben Miller. The two are drawn to each other and forge a friendship that soon becomes a deep and breathtaking romance. But neither are sure that what they’ve found can last.
As Vanessa organizes her annual Columbus Cares Christmas Military Dance, she looks forward to her daughter’s return from college. But Vanessa hasn’t told Sadie about Ben. After all, Vanessa hadn’t anticipated finding love again after losing her husband. And now she wrestles with feelings that are becoming hard to ignore.
Just as Ben is about to declare his love for Vanessa, he learns more about her missing Christmas ring: her great grandfather found it in France on D-Day, and engraved on the band is a single meaningful word. The details confirm a terrible truth, one that Ben cannot ignore.
Certain he now knows where Vanessa’s ring is, Ben leaves town in a frantic rush. But can he stop a certain sale, or will Vanessa’s ring be lost forever? Days before Christmas, when all seems hopeless, Ben and Vanessa learn an important eternal truth: Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Book to Movie News…
This new Christmas romance book released in October with the film adaptation releasing the following month in theaters! It has a great cast including Kelsey Grammer, Jana Kramer and Benjamin Hollingsworth.
I Wish You All the Best
by Mason Deaver
Releasing in Theaters: November 7, 2025
It’s just three words: I am nonbinary. But that’s all it takes to change everything. When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they’re thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met.
Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents’ rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben’s attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing.
As Ben and Nathan’s friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.
Book to Movie News..
This Goodreads Choice Awards nominee is written and directed by Tommy Dorfman in her directorial debut and stars Corey Fogelmanis and Miles Gutierrez-Riley.
Her Knight at the Museum
by Bryn Donovan
Release Date: TBD in 2025 on Hallmark
Summary: Forgotten by time and abandoned by hope, Sir Griffin de Beaufordโs existence stretches out before him. Cursed by a ruthless enchanter to see, hear, and think, but never to move or speak, Griffin suffers the long, lonely centuries trapped in stoneโฆuntil an unexpected kiss from a fair maiden breathes new life into his soulโand his body.
Emily Porter, a recently divorced conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago, is charged with the restoration of a statue of a medieval English knight. Breaking curses was not part of the job description.
And yet, here he is, the man of her dreams come to life, resplendent in shining armor as he joyously barrels into priceless antiquities…and goes on to dismantle her defenses, wreak havoc on her senses, and tempt her to believe once more in happy-ever-afters.
But the modern age tries Griffinโs patience and pride, and Emily is a prime suspect in the investigation of the missing sculpture. In a complicated world, can they find their way to a fairy-tale ending?
Book to Movie News…
Donovanโs novel released in November 2024, and was inspired from a childhood visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. It is already in the works as a movie for the Hallmark Channel. There is no word yet on the cast or a release date.
Romance Books to TV Series Coming in 2025
Sweet Magnolias Season 4
Based on the Sweet Magnolias Series
by Sherryll Woods
Release Date: February 6, 2025 on Netflix
Book to Movie News…
Sweet Magnolias Season 4 has 10 episodes which all released on Netflix in February 2025.
Related: Sweet Magnolias Series Order
Ransom Canyon
Based on the Ransom Canyon Series
by Jodi Thomas
Release Date: April 17, 2025 on Netflix
Summary: Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon’s founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O’Gradyโฆor that she has her own secret that no one living knows.
Young Lucas Reyes has his eye on the prizeโcollege, and the chance to become something more than a ranch hand’s son. But one night, one wrong decision, will set his life on a course even he hadn’t imagined.
Yancy Grey is running hard from his troubled past. He doesn’t plan to stick around Ransom Canyon, just long enough to learn the town’s weaknesses and how to use them for personal gain. Only Yancy, a common criminal since he was old enough to reach a car’s pedals, isn’t prepared for what he encounters.
Book to Movie News…
Ransom Canyon will debut in April 2025 on Netflix with 10 episodes with Josh Duhmal and Minka Kelly in the starring roles.
Sullivanโs Crossing Season 3
Based on Sullivanโs Crossing Series
by Robyn Carr
Release Date: May 7, 2025 on the CW
Book to Movie News…
Sullivanโs Crossing will debut its third season in May 2025 on the CW after it first releases in Canada.
Related: Sullivan’s Crossing Books in Order
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3
Weโll Always Have Summer
by Jenny Han
Release Date: July 17, 2025 on Prime Video
Summary: Belly has only ever been in love with two boys, both with the last name Fisher. And after being with Jeremiah for the last two years, sheโs almost positive he is her soul mate. Almost.
While Conrad has not gotten over the mistake of letting Belly go, Jeremiah has always known that Belly is the girl for him. So when Belly and Jeremiah decide to make things forever, Conrad realizes that itโs now or neverโtell Belly he loves her, or lose her for good.
Belly will have to confront her feelings for Jeremiah and Conrad and face the inevitable: She will have to break one of their hearts.
Book to Movie News…
The book takes place two years after the events of Itโs Not Summer Without You as Belly once again finds herself questioning where her heart lies between the Fisher brothers. Only in the third book, she finally makes a decision. Tune in for the 10 episodes on Prime Video.
My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2
by Ali Novak
Release Date: August 28, 2025 on Netflix
Moving in with eleven boys was not part of the plan.
Jackie’s goal is perfectionโperfect grades, the perfect look, getting into the perfect school. If she can achieve that, then maybe her too-busy mom and dad will take notice. But when her parents die in a tragic accident, Jackie is shipped off across the country to live with the Walters, her new guardiansโฆwho just happen to have eleven sons (plus a daughter who is basically one of the boys).
The Walter boys are loud, dirty, annoyingโand, okay, some of the older boys might be Greek god level hot, but they don’t think a city girl belongs on their horse ranch. How is Jackie supposed to fit into their chaotic world when she needs to keep her parents’ memory alive by living up to the promise of perfect?
But as Jackie spends more time with the Walter boys, she begins to wonder if the perfection she’s always strived for isn’t the only way to find love after all.
Book to Movie News…
“My Life with the Walter Boys” season two will not be based on the sequel book, My Return to the Walter Boys. The showrunner, Melanie Halsall, has stated that the series will diverge from the book’s plot to offer a unique storyline. Ali Novak, the author of the original novel and the sequel, confirmed that the show will not incorporate the sequel’s content.
Maxton Hall Season 2
Based on Save You
by Mona Kasten
Release Date: November 7, 2025 on Prime Video
Ruby Bell thought that she and James Beaufort had something special. Sheโs never had such strong feelings for someone. And after his betrayal, sheโs also never felt this much hurt. Ruby just wants her old life back before she knew anyone at Maxton Hall, before she knew James. She used to be able to rely on her studies to keep her focused, but school is no longer a refugeโnot when she sees James everywhere. But she has to stay on track, especially with university looming over them and the uncertainty of what the future holds.
Despite everything, Ruby wants to support James as he struggles with his fatherโs expectations of him taking over the family business. But she makes one thing very clear: she is not willing to forgive him or give him a second chance. As love and hate compete for Ruby’s heart, James will try everything he can to win her back.
Book to Movie News…
The TV series Maxton Hall returns exclusively to Prime Video with the first episodes dropping on November 7 and the finale releasing on November 28.
Heated Rivalry
by Rachel Reid
Release Date: November 28 on Crave in Canada and HBO Max on the US
Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollanderโs game.
Now that heโs captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he wonโt let anything jeopardize thatโdefinitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate.
Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shaneโs not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, heโs as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat himโexcept Shane. Publicly, theyโre enemies. Privately, they canโt stop touching each other.
The smart thing to do? Walk away, once a few secret hookups turn into a struggle to keep their relationship out of the press. The truth could ruin them both. But for Shane and Ilya, secrecy is soon no longer an optionโฆ
Book to Movie News…
Nothing will keep me from watching this HOT TV series adaptation of Heated Rivalry on HBO Max this November.
The Twelve Dates of Christmas
by Jenny Bayliss
Release Date: December 5, 2025 on Hallmark
When it comes to relationships, thirty-four-year-old Kate Turner is ready to say “Bah, humbug.” The sleepy town of Blexford, England, isn’t exactly brimming with prospects, and anyway, Kate’s found fulfillment in her career as a designer, and in her delicious side job baking for her old friend Matt’s neighborhood cafรฉ. But then her best friend signs her up for a dating agency that promises to help singles find love before the holidays. Twenty-three days until Christmas. Twelve dates with twelve different men. The odds must finally be in her favor . . . right?
Yet with each new date more disastrous than the one before–and the whole town keeping tabs on her misadventures–Kate must remind herself that sometimes love, like mistletoe, shows up where it’s least expected. And maybe, just maybe, it’s been right under her nose all along. . . .
Books to Movie News…
Your holiday season is about to be a bit brighter because Hallmark is developing a six-episode limited series based on The Twelve Dates of Christmas starring Mae Whitman, Mary McDonnell, Jane Seymour, and Julian Morris to release this December!
Romance Books to TV Series on Passionflix
Black Dagger Brotherhood Season 1
Dark Lover
by JR Ward
Release Date: June 5, 2025 on Passionflix
Summary: As the worldโs only purebred vampire and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago. But when his most trusted fighter is killedโorphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fateโWrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful woman into another world.
Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasnโt there before, Beth Randall is helpless against the dangerously sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His tales of the Brotherhood and blood frighten her. Yet his touch ignites a dawning new hungerโone that threatens to consume them both….
Book to Movie News…
JR and Tosca have been vocal on Instagram about the casting and filming for this series which has been underway. The release date is currently set for June 5, 2025.
It was pushed back to allow for additional production time to make changes to the pages and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dark Lover.
Beauty from Pain
by Georgia Cates
Release Date: December 18, 2025 on Passionflix
Summary: Jack McLachlan, a billionaire winemaker, believes love is a complication best avoided. To protect his heart, he treats relationships like business dealsโtemporary, controlled, and emotionally detached.
Then Laurelyn Prescott enters his life, a captivating American musician looking for a fresh start. What begins as a simple arrangement quickly spirals into something Jack never anticipated. As boundaries blur and rules are broken, Jack finds himself caught in a game he never intended to playโwith stakes higher than he ever imagined.
Will Jack and Laurelyn walk away at the end of their agreement, or will they risk everything for a chance at real love?
Book to Movie News…
Passionflix has said that they will be releasing the TV series, Beauty from Pain by Georgia Cates in 2025 though no mention of casting or movement for this steamy billionaire romance has been mentioned by streaming service yet.
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