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10 Most Anticipated Romance Books Coming Out in August 2026
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10 Most Anticipated Romance Books Coming Out in August 2026
You have been staring at your TBR pile for days, trying to figure out what to read next, and nothing is calling to you.
August 2026 is about to fix that.
This is one of the strongest months for romance releases the year has produced. It covers the full emotional spectrum: from a small-town cosy with a diner renovation and an autumn setting that will make you want to wrap yourself in a blanket, to a heartbreaking series conclusion about grief, IVF, and a love that has been buried under loyalty and loss for years. There is a fake-dating college sports romance on a coastal campus, a viral-scandal romcom about a woman rebuilding her life inside a struggling winery, a feel-good second-chance story set in a Palm Springs senior-living community, and a YA fantasy sequel packed with Arthurian legend, panic attacks, and queer romance.
In other words: whatever kind of romance reader you are, August has something that was written for you specifically.
This list covers the ten most anticipated romance books releasing in August 2026, ranked by a combination of author reputation, series readership, trope strength, publisher visibility, and reader anticipation across the book community. It runs in descending order — from a title worth knowing about all the way to the most emotionally anticipated romance release of the month.
Release dates noted are for the US and UK where available. Always verify with your local retailer, as some international editions differ.
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Release Date: August 2026 (US); some international editions list 10 November 2026 Publisher: Bloom Books Genre: Young adult sports romance Series: Frost Lake High, Book 3 Format: Paperback and ebook
What It Is About
Summer had her senior year mapped out at her old school. Then a transfer notice upends everything and drops her into Frost Lake High — rival territory, unfamiliar hallways, and a social landscape she has to navigate from scratch. Enter Rowan: Frost Lake's most popular soccer star, golden-boy hero of the school, and a young man whose parents have planned every corner of his future without consulting him.
When Summer and Rowan agree to a fake-dating arrangement — he helps her find her footing at Frost Lake, she helps him make his ex-girlfriend jealous — neither of them expects to find something real inside the pretence. But these things never go to plan.
The novel combines fake dating, rival schools, senior-year pressure, a transfer-student outsider arc, and a golden-boy hero quietly questioning everything his life has been built around. Penguin Books Australia lists the novel for 10 November 2026 in their market, while other catalogues confirm an August US release. Verify with your territory's retailer.
Why It Made the List
Rebecca Jenshak has built a loyal following through her new adult and sports romance titles, and the Frost Lake High series gives this book a ready-made audience before the first copy ships. Fake dating consistently outperforms almost any other romance trope in both algorithm and word-of-mouth, and the YA setting makes this a strong pick for teenage readers and adults who love nostalgic coming-of-age romance.
Who Should Read It
Younger romance readers and YA fans, anyone who loves fake-dating stories, and readers of the earlier Frost Lake High books.
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Release Date: 5 August 2026 Publisher: Digital-first / indie release Genre: Contemporary romance, small-town romance Format: Ebook and likely paperback
What It Is About
Junie Mercer did not choose to become a meme. She chose a career, a company, a life — and then an internet scandal turned her into one anyway. To escape the noise, Junie flees Boston and lands in a small coastal town with a job working for Cole Whittaker. The problem: Cole is her brother's best friend. The bigger problem: he is also the man who broke her heart six years ago. And the logistical problem sitting on top of both of those: she now lives above his garage.
Forced proximity, meddling neighbours, a found family community, and the slow, aching business of rebuilding trust between two people who already know exactly how badly things can go wrong — The Exit Strategy is a brother's-best-friend romance with a viral-scandal twist and a deeply cosy emotional core.
Romance catalogue data from Romance.io confirms the 5 August publication and identifies the key tropes: forced proximity, small-town romance, found family, and the brother's best friend dynamic.
Why It Made the List
The combination of internet-shame recovery and romantic second chances gives this premise immediate emotional hook in the current cultural moment. Readers connect strongly with protagonists who have been humiliated publicly and are quietly rebuilding — that arc of reclaiming your private life while navigating love creates exactly the kind of slow-burn tension that generates devoted readerships.
Who Should Read It
Fans of small-town romance with emotional depth, readers who love the brother's-best-friend trope, and anyone who enjoys stories about rebuilding identity after public failure.
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Release Date: 18 August 2026 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (Penguin Random House) Genre: Contemporary romance, cosy seasonal romance Format: Paperback, ebook, and audiobook Length: 320 pages
What It Is About
Rebecca McIntosh returns to her hometown after inheriting her late grandmother's diner. It is not a straightforward inheritance — there is a 30-day window to repair and reopen the business before the local council steps in, and the only contractor available in town is Cort Adams. The school's former football star. The man she had a crush on all through high school. Now a single father, a respected local contractor, and unexpectedly available.
The novel is set in the fictional town of Bramley Hollow during autumn, with all the sensory richness that seasonal setting implies — fallen leaves, the smell of coffee and renovation dust, the particular warmth of small-town life closing in around two people with unfinished emotional business.
Penguin Random House confirms the 18 August publication and identifies Julia McKay as the romance pen name of New York Times bestselling author Marissa Stapley. Publishers Weekly praised the novel's autumnal atmosphere and small-town setting ahead of release.
Why It Made the List
Seasonal romance is one of the most durable performers in the category precisely because it sells feeling as much as story. The autumn setting, the inherited diner renovation, and the childhood-crush foundation give this novel three reliable emotional engines firing simultaneously. It is also the kind of book that works perfectly for late summer readers who want to ease gently into the cosier mood of autumn — a transitional romance for a transitional season.
Who Should Read It
Fans of cosy small-town romance, readers who love seasonal settings, and anyone who enjoyed Carley Fortune's atmospheric emotionally driven style.
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Release Date: 25 August 2026 Publisher: Headline Eternal (Hachette) Genre: Contemporary romance, college sports romance Format: Paperback, ebook, and audiobook Length: Approximately 464 pages
What It Is About
When Daniela Williams discovers that her boyfriend has been cheating on her, the injury is doubled by the fact that she still has to see him every day — he and his new girlfriend are on her swimming team. Daniela's solution is both reasonable and gloriously chaotic: she approaches Heath Belfort, a handsome local surfer and her ex's biggest rival, and proposes a fake-dating arrangement that will make her ex's life considerably more uncomfortable.
Heath agrees. His condition: Daniela has to tutor him through his history class so he can stay eligible. What begins as a mutually transactional arrangement develops, predictably and beautifully, into something neither of them planned for.
The novel features a Black-cat heroine paired with a golden-retriever hero, a coastal setting alive with summer energy, swimming and surfing as the athletic backdrop, a found family of supporting characters, and the specific satisfaction of a revenge plan that leaves the protagonist better off in every possible way.
Hachette confirms the paperback, ebook, and audiobook release for 25 August 2026.
Why It Made the List
Fake dating remains one of the strongest-performing romance tropes year after year, and this book builds an unusually strong foundation under it: the swimming/surfing setting is distinctive, the tutoring exchange gives the relationship a built-in reason to spend time together, and the ex-boyfriend's rival dynamic adds an extra layer of satisfying tension. The beach setting and summer sport atmosphere also make it a natural end-of-summer read.
Who Should Read It
Fans of college sports romance, readers who love fake-dating stories with coastal settings, and anyone who has ever wanted the satisfaction of moving on spectacularly.
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Release Date: 25 August 2026 Publisher: Entangled: Amara Genre: Contemporary romance, billionaire romance Series: Pembroke Hills, Book 4 Format: Paperback Length: 352 pages
What It Is About
She is a romance author who writes love stories for a living. He is the charming, dangerously handsome billionaire who has become her neighbour in the Hamptons — and her biggest distraction from a manuscript that is already in serious trouble with a deadline attached.
Tyson Bishop keeps showing up when he is not supposed to. He keeps being interesting when she cannot afford to be interested. He keeps being exactly the kind of man her heroines fall for, except she is not a heroine — she is the one writing the heroine, which is the problem, because she is increasingly unable to do that when she is too busy wondering what Tyson is doing.
Long Story Short is the fourth novel in the Pembroke Hills series and the instalment most likely to generate conversation among readers who love fiction that draws attention to its own genre conventions. The romance-author heroine framing is both self-referential and genuinely emotionally involving, and the Hamptons setting provides the kind of glamorous backdrop that makes summer reading feel aspirational.
Target confirms the 25 August street date, paperback format, and synopsis. Fresh Fiction also identifies it as Pembroke Hills Book 4.
Why It Made the List
The romance-author heroine is a particularly resonant figure for readers who already love the genre — there is something deeply satisfying about watching a woman who understands love stories from the inside find herself living one she did not see coming. Combined with the billionaire dynamic, the age-gap element, and the slow burn of a woman determined not to be distracted, this book has a very clear audience of devoted readers who will love it.
Who Should Read It
Series fans returning for Pembroke Hills, readers who love billionaire romance with a slow burn, and anyone who has ever read a romance novel and thought "this is exactly what I would do wrong."
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Release Date: 11 August 2026 Publisher: Bang Laugh Love LLC Genre: Contemporary romance, romantic comedy Series: Accidentally Infamous, Book 2 Format: Paperback, ebook, and audiobook Length: Approximately 384 pages
What It Is About
Four years ago, she became "the Wedding Wrecker" — a nickname attached to a viral scandal that torpedoed her life in full public view. Since then, she has been hiding at a struggling winery alongside a small community of other women who also know what it feels like to become a meme overnight. They have built something small, imperfect, and genuinely theirs.
When the winery's finances force them to agree to a documentary about reopening the business, the filmmaker who arrives is Declan Fox — the best friend of her ex-boyfriend. He once thought the worst of her. He does not think the worst of her anymore. He is, in fact, starting to think quite the opposite.
The novel builds its comedy and romance around a genuinely contemporary premise: the lasting psychological damage of internet viral fame, the female friendships that form among women who have been publicly humiliated, and the particular challenge of letting someone in when you have learned the hard way that vulnerability has consequences.
Google Books and Barnes & Noble both confirm the 11 August publication date.
Why It Made the List
Pippa Grant has a well-earned reputation for romantic comedy that makes you laugh out loud and then, without warning, hits you somewhere more tender. While You Were Trending earns its place on this list because it takes a culturally current premise — viral shame, internet identity, the way public scandals follow women in ways they do not follow men — and builds a full-hearted romance inside it. The female friendship at the heart of the winery community gives the book an emotional warmth that lifts it above the standard enemies-to-lovers template.
Who Should Read It
Fans of Pippa Grant's romantic comedies, readers who love ensemble female friendship alongside romance, and anyone drawn to stories about identity reclamation and unexpected second chances.
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Release Date: 11 August 2026 Publisher: MIRA Books (Harlequin) Genre: Contemporary romance, feel-good romantic comedy Format: Paperback and ebook
What It Is About
Jia Chung's summer plan was not to fall in love with the man who fired her. After losing her job, she travels to Palm Springs to stay with her grandmother at Sunset Hills Senior Living Community — a place that turns out to be considerably more eventful than it sounds. Henry Shin arrives at the same community to help his grandfather settle in. He is an overworked corporate lawyer with impeccable professional instincts and the significant personal complication of having once fired Jia from his company — after a one-night stand.
The situation is awkward. The setting is gorgeous. The grandparents are delightful. The chemistry between Jia and Henry refuses to observe professional boundaries.
See You at the Sunset builds its romance inside a multigenerational setting that gives it unusual warmth and depth. The senior-living community is not a background detail — it provides the emotional tone of the entire novel, a reminder that love at every age looks different and matters equally.
Harlequin lists the book as an August 11 release, confirmed in the Publishers Weekly August 2026 on-sale calendar.
Why It Made the List
Susan Lee has a growing romance readership and a talent for feel-good stories that earn their warmth through genuine character work rather than easy resolution. The Palm Springs setting, the multigenerational family dynamic, the enemies-to-lovers tension complicated by the one-night-stand history, and the Asian American protagonists give this novel a distinctive identity in a crowded release month. It is the kind of romance that makes you feel better after you read it.
Who Should Read It
Fans of romantic comedies with genuine heart, readers who enjoy Asian American lead characters, and anyone looking for a summer feel-good with real emotional texture.
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Release Date: 28 July 2026 (US listings); some international editions place it in early August Publisher: Sourcebooks Genre: Contemporary romance, small-town romantic comedy Series: Darling Springs, Book 2 Format: Ebook and paperback Length: Approximately 432–464 pages
What It Is About
Chloe is a dog trainer with ambitions for her own business and a birthday party that takes a genuinely catastrophic turn when she is accidentally pushed into a lake. Sawyer is the man who jumps in to rescue her — serious, guarded, with an expression that says he would rather not have been drawn into whatever this is. He is also, as Chloe discovers shortly afterward, connected to her new work contract. And her new landlord. And therefore inescapable.
The romance is built on one of the most reliable dynamics in the category: a warm, sunny, irrepressible woman steadily dismantling the defences of a grumpy, private man who did not ask to find her so impossible to ignore. Add dance lessons, a dog-adjacent business setting full of comic potential, and a small-town community that ensures the two of them cannot avoid each other no matter how much Sawyer would prefer to, and you have a romantic comedy that delivers exactly what its readers show up for.
Fresh Fiction lists the novel as Darling Springs Book 2 with a 2026 publication date and confirms the 28 July US on-sale date, meaning some readers may already have access — but all international editions reach readers through August.
Why It Made the List
Lauren Blakely is one of the most reliable producers of romantic comedy in the current market. Her books consistently deliver on their promises: the grumpy/sunshine dynamic is earned through character work rather than just stated, the comedy lands, and the emotional payoff is genuine. I've Got a Crush on You has all of that, plus a premise that is immediately loveable — the accidental lake rescue is exactly the kind of meet-cute that creates devoted readers before they have even finished the first chapter.
Who Should Read It
Fans of grumpy/sunshine romance, readers who love small-town romantic comedy, dog lovers, and anyone who needs a book that guarantees to make them smile.
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Release Date: 11 August 2026 (US); 13 August 2026 (UK) Publisher: Wednesday Books (US); Bloomsbury YA (UK) Genre: Young adult historical fantasy romance Series: The Camelot Disasters, Book 2 Format: Paperback, ebook, hardcover, and audiobook
What It Is About
Happily-ever-afters do not fix everything. Gwen and Art may have sorted themselves out in book one, but Camelot is still a chaotic place, and two of its most compelling inhabitants have not even begun to deal with theirs.
Gabriel is now king, which sounds impressive until you account for the panic attacks, the crushing weight of public expectation, and the distinct problem of being responsible for an entire kingdom while still not entirely understanding yourself. Bridget is his knight — or was, until she lost her confidence in the jousting lists and cannot find it again. When Bridget joins Gabriel's round table, the pair embark on a disastrous public-relations tour involving rumours of the Holy Grail, the Questing Beast, and the Green Knight.
This is a YA fantasy built around the emotional aftermath of success rather than the chase of it — the part of the story that most tales leave out. Lex Croucher uses the Arthurian framework to explore mental health, performance anxiety, found family, and the particular complexity of two people who want each other but cannot quite figure out how to say so without everything else collapsing. Bloomsbury confirms the UK release date and describes it as the highly anticipated sequel to the YA Book Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling Gwen and Art Are Not in Love.
Why It Made the List
The first book in this series won the YA Book Prize and reached the New York Times bestseller list — that is not a warm reception, that is a phenomenon. The audience returning for Bridget and Gabe is enormous, loyal, and already emotionally invested in these characters from book one. Croucher's writing is funny and sharp and genuinely moving, and the mental health elements in this instalment — Gabriel's panic attacks, Bridget's performance anxiety — are handled with the kind of specificity that makes readers feel genuinely seen. This is one of the most important YA releases of the summer.
Who Should Read It
Everyone who read Gwen and Art Are Not in Love and has been waiting, fans of YA fantasy with queer representation and Arthurian lore, and readers who appreciate romantic comedy that takes mental health seriously.
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Release Date: 4 August 2026 (UK); 11 August 2026 (some international paperback editions) Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (US); Piatkus (UK) Genre: Contemporary romance, emotional small-town romance Series: Spunes, Book 3 Format: Paperback, ebook, and audiobook ISBN: 9780349439044 (UK paperback)
What It Is About
Bea Marshall is grieving the death of her best friend, Merritt. Grief alone would be enough — but Merritt left behind something more than memory. Before she died, Merritt preserved her eggs and wanted Bea to use them, so she could still become a mother even after she was gone.
Bea is now navigating grief, fertility treatment, financial pressure, and the weight of carrying out the most intimate and complicated wish her best friend ever asked of her. She is doing this while also navigating Silas Byrd: a firefighter recovering from a traumatic accident, a man who has offered her a place to stay, and the person who has been impossible to love for the only reason she ever accepted — because Merritt loved him first.
With Merritt gone, that reason has changed shape. Everything has changed shape. And two people, both wounded in different ways, both carrying someone they cannot get back, are finding themselves in the same house, in the same grief, with feelings that have nowhere else to go.
Lost and Found concludes the Spunes series, and it earns its place at the top of this list not because it is the loudest or the most obviously commercial romance of August — but because it is the most emotionally ambitious. Kirkus Reviews highlights its themes of grief, PTSD, friendship, and emotional vulnerability. The UK publisher's catalogue confirms the 4 August 2026 paperback date.
Why It Is Number One
Tarah DeWitt built her reputation on contemporary romance that is not afraid of complexity — books that use the romantic framework to hold genuinely difficult human experiences rather than to avoid them. Lost and Found does this at the highest level she has reached yet. The grief element is not a backstory detail. It is the engine of every scene. The IVF and fertility elements are handled with care and specificity. The friends-to-lovers romance is built not just on chemistry but on loyalty, guilt, loss, and the extraordinarily difficult question of what it means to love someone your dead best friend loved first.
This is the romance book of August 2026 because it does the hardest thing romance can do: it makes you feel the full weight of loss alongside the full warmth of love found. That combination — grief and hope held in the same hands — is what the best romance novels have always been about.
Who Should Read It
Anyone who has loved and lost a close friend, readers who want emotional depth alongside their romance, fans of the Spunes series, and anyone whose heart can take it.
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What August 2026 Tells Us About Romance Right Now
Looking across this entire list, a few things stand out about where the romance genre is heading.
Emotional depth is the new standard. The books generating the most anticipation this month are not the lightest reads — they are the ones willing to hold grief, shame, anxiety, and complicated history inside their love stories. Lost and Found, Bridget and Gabe Are Not Okay, and The Exit Strategy all place real emotional weight at the centre of their romances, and readers are responding to that.
Tropes are being refreshed, not retired. Fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, brother's best friend, and second chance are all present in August's list — but each one is given a specific, distinctive setting that makes the execution feel fresh. A viral scandal at a winery. A swimming team and a rival surfer. A Palm Springs senior community. The tropes provide the familiar emotional architecture; the settings provide the surprise.
YA romance is having a serious moment. Two of August's strongest titles are aimed at younger readers, and both are refusing to be anything less than fully emotionally ambitious. The genre is not coasting on nostalgia or simplicity — it is doing the same complex work as adult romance, just with protagonists still in the thick of becoming.
Community matters. Almost every book on this list features found family, friendship groups, or tight community settings as central to the romance rather than peripheral to it. Love in August 2026 is not happening in isolation. It is happening inside relationships, inside histories, inside places where people already know each other and know themselves — and that makes the romance feel more real.
Conclusion
August 2026 has something for every kind of romance reader — from the laugh-out-loud lightness of a dog trainer rescued from a lake by her new grumpy landlord, to the devastating beauty of a woman carrying out her dead best friend's final wish while falling for the man they both loved.
Wherever you are on the emotional scale of what you need from a book right now, there is a title on this list that will meet you there. Pre-order one. Add five to your TBR. Clear a weekend.
Romance is always worth it. August especially.
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10 FAQs: Most Anticipated Romance Books, August 2026
1. What is the most emotional romance book releasing in August 2026? Lost and Found by Tarah DeWitt (Spunes, Book 3) is the most emotionally ambitious romance of the month. It follows a woman carrying out her deceased best friend's wish to have a child using preserved eggs, while navigating grief, IVF, financial pressure, and a long-buried romance with a firefighter hero. Kirkus Reviews praised its handling of grief, PTSD, and emotional vulnerability.
2. Which August 2026 romance books are part of existing series? Several August titles continue established series: Lost and Found concludes the Spunes trilogy. Bridget and Gabe Are Not Okay is the sequel to the YA Book Prize-winning Gwen and Art Are Not in Love. While You Were Trending is Book 2 in the Accidentally Infamous series. I've Got a Crush on You is Book 2 in Darling Springs. Long Story Short is Book 4 in Pembroke Hills. Faking for Now is Book 3 in Frost Lake High.
3. Which August 2026 romance releases are best for young adult readers? Bridget and Gabe Are Not Okay by Lex Croucher (YA historical fantasy romance, 11 August) and Faking for Now by Rebecca Jenshak (YA sports romance) are the strongest YA picks of the month. Both feature teenage protagonists and age-appropriate romance with genuine emotional depth.
4. What are the best August 2026 romance reads for fans of fake dating? Better Than Revenge by E.J. Blaise and Faking for Now by Rebecca Jenshak are both built around fake-dating arrangements. Better Than Revenge leans toward adult college sports romance with a coastal setting; Faking for Now targets younger readers with a rival schools and soccer backdrop. Both deliver on the fake-to-real romance arc.
5. Which August 2026 romance has the most feel-good energy? See You at the Sunset by Susan Lee and I've Got a Crush on You by Lauren Blakely are the most feel-good picks of the month. Both use light romantic comedy frameworks and sunlit summer settings — Palm Springs and small-town lakeside respectively — and neither asks the reader to sit with extended emotional difficulty before delivering the warmth.
6. Is Lost and Found by Tarah DeWitt suitable for readers who have experienced grief? Lost and Found deals directly with grief, friendship loss, PTSD, and fertility treatment. It is a deeply compassionate novel, but readers who are currently in acute grief may want to approach it at the right time. It is ultimately a hopeful and healing book, but it does not shy away from how hard those experiences are.
7. Where can I pre-order August 2026 romance novels in the UK? All major titles are available to pre-order through Amazon UK, Waterstones, Foyles, and independent bookshops via Bookshop.org. Note that some titles have differing UK and US release dates — Lost and Found releases 4 August in the UK through Piatkus, which may be ahead of some other territory editions.
8. Which August 2026 romance books have the most social media and BookTok potential? While You Were Trending by Pippa Grant is the book most directly about social media culture and therefore most likely to resonate on those platforms. Better Than Revenge and Bridget and Gabe Are Not Okay both have the trope clarity and emotional accessibility that generates strong reader sharing. Tarah DeWitt has a devoted community that tends to drive strong word-of-mouth for her releases.
9. What romance tropes are most represented in August 2026 releases? Fake dating appears in two titles (Better Than Revenge, Faking for Now). Second chance romance features in several (See You at the Sunset, The Exit Strategy, Something About September). Small-town romance is the dominant setting across multiple books. Grumpy/sunshine, friends-to-lovers, forced proximity, and brother's best friend all make appearances. Found family and female friendship are secondary threads in several titles.
10. What does August 2026's romance release slate reveal about broader genre trends? August confirms that romance readers in 2026 want emotional complexity alongside their comfort — grief, shame, anxiety, and complicated history are showing up as central story elements rather than obstacles quickly cleared. Multigenerational settings, found-family communities, and diverse protagonists are appearing across the full range of sub-genres. And established authors with loyal readerships continue to outrank pure newcomers in anticipation, though debut potential — particularly with strong trope execution — remains high.
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