Big adaptation news has arrived for romance readers, Colleen Hoover’s edgiest book announces its main cast, The Housemaid announces the film’s release date and more book news is rushing in for an exciting 2025.

Anna Huang’s Hit Book Series Twisted Love Netflix Adaptation

With the success of Netflix romance series like Virgin River and Bridgerton, the Twisted Love series by Anna Huang will make a perfect addition to the streamer’s romance collection. While no cast has been announced yet, we can expect this steamy new adult adaptation to be a must watch TV series in the coming years. Twisted Love is the first in the series and follows the blooming and objectionable romance between vengeful Alex, with a past so dark he can barely make it out anymore, and Ava, his best friend’s sister and the only one to see through his icy and gruff exterior to the heart within. They are both covered in scars from their past, making them question is they will survive the complicated and dangerous relationship neither of them should want? 

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Jenna Bush Hager Kicking Off Publishing Imprint With Conform

In collaboration with Random House Publishing Group and Thousand Voices Media, Jenna Bush Hager is expanding her involvement with the book community by creating a publishing imprint, Thousand Voices x RHPG. Jenna will be directly involved in collaborating with authors and the entire publishing team to find emerging voices in fiction and create entertaining and enlightening books.

I’ve worked with authors and agents, with readers, with indie bookstore owners. I’ve made all these relationships as we’ve tried to build the book club that I think would be amazing to utilize to help with these writers that I’m publishing,” Jenna says in an interview with TODAY.

The book club picks will continue monthly and feature authors from a variety of genres and categories, so it’s safe to say Jenna will be sharing some great reads with us this year, the first from the new imprint will be the dystopian romance, Conform by Ariel Sullivan, releasing this October. 

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Verity Cast Includes Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett 

Colleen Hoover had a huge hit with the It Ends With Us movie, so it is no surprise that another one of her novels is already in the works to become the next blockbuster movie. Verity, a gothic thriller meets romance, will star Anne Hathaway, from The Idea of You and The Devil Wears Prada, as Verity Crawford, Dakota Johnson, from Madame Web and the Fifty Shades of Grey series, as Lowen Ashleigh, and Josh Hartnett, from Oppenheimer, as Jeremy Crawford. Lowen is a writer on the edge of disaster and is sent a lifeline when she lands a writing job. Lowen is hired to review writings and complete a manuscript on behalf of Verity, who has stopped writing after a strange accident. As she works on the book, Lowen and Jeremy begin to grow closer, but Lowen uncovers some writings from Verity that could be the active mind of a writer, or the deranged warning of a woman on the brink of a psychotic break.  

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The Housemaid Movie Release Date

The new film based on Freida McFadden’s novel, The Housemaid, will be releasing in theaters Christmas 2025. Starring Amanada Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney, this thriller will have audiences on the edge of their seats to add a little mystery to the holiday season. Millie was hired by the Winchesters to be a live-in maid in their lavish home. Every day she handles the cooking, cleaning, and errands of the household, and at the end of each day, she retreats to her room on the top floor of their house. One day, imagining what it must be like to be Mrs. Winchester, married to the handsome and tortured Mr. Winchester, Millie tries on one of Mrs. Winchesters dresses, a mistake she will never make again. Mrs. Winchester will make sure of it. Locked away in her room, she begins to uncover more about the strange behaviors of Mrs. Winchester, who does not know all Millie is capable of.  

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Netflix’s You Final Season

Audiences have been obsessed with You since its first season dropped in 2018 and the raving fanbase has only grown since then. But now, this dark and thrilling series is coming to an end, its final season is set to be released in 2025. While this is sad news for fans, Netflix just released some amazing teaser posters, featuring the star, Joe Goldberg, looking back at the audience with his trademark darkly charming and dangerous gaze, surrounded by mysterious newspaper clippings. Based on the books, You and Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes, when Joe Goldberg falls in love with Beck, he falls in entirely. But his love often leads to obsession and danger for those who have caught his eye. Orchestrating every aspect of her life so he can slip into the role as her boyfriend, he will do anything to make their life together perfect, even if that means holding back deadly secrets. 

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Wish You Were Here Theater Debut 

The novel Wish You Were Here by Renée Carlino has been in film production for some time now, and it is finally coming to viewers everywhere. Directed by Julia Stiles and starring Isabelle Fuhrman as Charlotte and Jimmie Fails as Adam, Wish You Were Here tells the story of two young people, lost in the world, who meet and instantly fall for one another. But their one magical night together is all they have. Months later, Charlotte is with Seth, but she can’t forget Adam no matter how hard she tries. She sets off on a mission to find him, but what she uncovers about him could change her life forever. This love story will be released in theaters January 17, 2025.

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The Good DaughterThe Good Daughter Leads Announced

Meghann Fahy, from White Lotus and Rose Byrne, of Insidious: The Red Door, are cast as sisters in the upcoming limited series, The Good Daughter, based on the book by the same name. Fahy is also set to produce the Peacock series since former lead actress and producer Jessica Biel left the project. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter tells the dark story of two sisters trying to repair their relationship after an attack from almost thirty years before. Charlie has done everything possible to be the best daughter to her widowed father since that horrible night. Now, as the first witness to the crime and town attorney, she is forced to face memories she has been trying to bury for three decades to protect her home and family.

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Colleen Hoover’s Next Movie Reminders of Him

Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover will be adapted for film and is set to be released February 13, 2026. The movie will be directed by Vannessa Caswill, the director behind other successful romances like Netflix’s Love At First Sight. Like much of Hoover’s work, Reminders of Him is a gritty, emotional story about complex relationships and their survival on unstable grounds. All Kenna wants is to get back to her daughter after being in prison for the past five years. But when she returns, no one wants anything to do with her, except for Ledger, the owner of the local bar. He is the only available way for her to get to her daughter, but their forbidden romance grows, threatening the way back to the life she had before. 

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Emily in Paris Creator Developing Climbing in Heels Movie 

Darren Star, creator of the hit Netflix show, Emily in Paris, is set to produce this new adaptation alongside author Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas. Star describes the novel, Climbing in Heels, as the “love child of Mad Men and Sex and the City, and audiences are anxiously awaiting. The Climbing in Heels book will release April 29, 2025, with the movie coming a few months afterwards, following a story of three strong-willed women, determined to make a name for themselves in the boy’s club that was Hollywood in the 1980s. Each woman has a unique background that fuels her, propelling her to success, and ultimately becoming mere reflections of the very ideas and people that kept them from the top. 

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