Characterdriven

Collateral

by Maryn McKinney

Tropes: forcedproximity, characterdriven, dualpov

When desperation meets obsession, survival becomes surrender. Caroline Darling has thirty days to save her sister from eviction, an ACS custody review, and a future she can’t afford to lose. Walking into Edmund Vane’s exclusive club is supposed to be a transaction: a few nights, ten thousand dollars, and a way out. She doesn’t expect Dominic. Dangerous, possessive, and utterly uncompromising, Dominic pulls her from Vane’s reach before she can become another piece of merchandise. What begins as a weekend arrangement becomes something far more consuming—something Caroline can’t afford and can’t escape. Then her sister is kidnapped. Dominic will burn the city down to bring her home. He’ll destroy anyone who threatens what he loves. And when Caroline discovers the secrets beneath his protection, she has to decide whether she’s his captive—or his choice. In a world where love and possession blur together, surrender may be the most dangerous decision of all. A dark romance for readers who crave morally gray heroes, high-stakes danger, obsessive devotion, and love that refuses to play by the rules. [Read More]

Tender Violence: An Irish Mafia Love Story

by Y.J. Waving

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, steamycontemporary

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She stitches up East London's worst nights. She has no idea one of its quietest men has been watching over her for a year. RORY She didn't remember me. A year before, she opened my brother's chest and held his heart till it went again, then came out to the corridor, told me I looked grey and sent me for a bacon roll. It was terrible. I ate all of it, because she told me to. Round here my name is a reason to cross the road. So I stayed on my side, and I made sure nothing on hers came near her. I should have stayed there. She read injuries for a living, and sooner or later she'd read one I'd left on somebody else. Then I got cut, and I asked for her by name anyway. IMOGEN Twenty-two stitches, and he doesn't look at the needle once. He looks at me. Then he asks if I've eaten tonight. I'm grey, apparently. I'm thirty-six. I was married to a man who always knew what to say, and I have three rules now. No past. No future. Nobody stays the night. He's twenty-eight, and he says yes to all three. Then he takes the biro out of my hair and goes red to the collarbones. I count pulses for a living. I lose count of his. Tender Violence is an open-door Irish mafia love story about a quiet man who fell first and a doctor who wasn't looking. It isn't a dark romance: the violence is rare, and it costs. Dual POV, older heroine, no cheating, HEA. Book 1 of the Callaghan Brothers. Reviews are welcome, never required. AI use: English is my second language. I conceived and outlined this story in Mandarin Chinese, used AI tools to help draft it in English, and then revised every chapter extensively myself. [Read More]

Dark Fire and Diamonds - A Dark Dragon Shifter Romance

by Kryssie Fortune

Tropes: firstperson, characterdriven, dualpov

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Hope Wigfield has billions in the bank, a genius-level IQ, and a stubborn streak a mile, wide. What she doesn’t have is a belief in magic. But when she’s abducted, stripped and caged at a dark coven’s slave auction, the monsters of her nightmares become terrifyingly real… Enter Flynn Hemsworth. Former military captain, survivor of horrific experiments, and host to a blood-hungry dragon demon. He buys Hope to save her, but his inner beast demands he claim her forever. Flynn is dangerous, dominant, and the sexiest man Hope has ever met. When they uncover the coven master's plot to use harvested demon blood to launch a nuclear strike, Hope and Flynn are thrust into a deadly race against time. The only way to survive is to unlock the dormant magic burning in Hope's blood—a power that can only be unleashed through absolute, breathless surrender to the dragon who calls her mate. [Read More]

Masks and Moonbeams

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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To be loved is to be known. Princess Lata moonlights as a vigilante and finds an ally worth dying for. But what does this man have to do with her good-for-nothing fiancé? Chakor captures the Moon God. Now she needs to let him go. Or watch him die. To keep her promise to her dying queen, General Ria lives her life under a mask. But an old friend returns, and now she has a choice – lose her heart or break her oath. Chitrani falls in love with a Snake prince as a child. Years later, why does her fiancé look so much like the boy she lost? And Kalindi – the village healer – tries to evict a long-healed warrior from her hut by making him do housework. She doesn’t know he is a prince. “... being truly seen beneath expectations, titles, and carefully guarded secrets.” – Amazon Reviewer, Canada “The romances are tender without being cheesy and the mix of mythology and folklore gives it personality.” – Amazon Reviewer, Spain In this collection of clean fantasy romance, five women find themselves seen — truly seen — by the last person they expected. Five stories. Five happy endings. No cliff-hangers. Masks and Moonbeams is the first book in the Of Queens and Rascals series — fantasy romance rooted in Indian mythology, folklore, and history — fierce heroines, heroes who earn their place, and love that sees through every mask. “... a shiny gate to escape from the reality of modern, fast-paced life.” – Amazon Reviewer, Germany [Read More]

Leveraged

by Maryn McKinney

Tropes: forcedproximity, characterdriven, dualpov

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LEVERAGED Adult Dark Mafia Romance | Book One of the Entangled Duet She was taken as leverage in a mafia war. He kept her as a hostage. Neither expected captivity to become an obsession neither could survive losing. Helena Savalenko is brilliant, composed, and entirely unprepared to become collateral in a war between two criminal empires. When she’s taken from her everyday life and delivered into the hands of the powerful Ulanov family, she expects violence, negotiation, and an eventual exchange. She doesn’t expect Vasili Ulanov. Cold, calculating, and determined to maintain control, Vasili sees Helena as a valuable bargaining piece—and a dangerous distraction. But Helena refuses to be intimidated, controlled, or reduced to someone else’s leverage. As their hostility ignites into something darker and far more intimate, the lines between captor and captive begin to blur. Then a rival makes a reckless move that puts Helena’s life in danger and threatens to reignite a bloody family war. To survive, Helena and Vasili will have to decide whether their connection is simply another weapon—or the foundation of an alliance powerful enough to change everything. Expect: Dark mafia romance Captor/captive tension Morally gray, possessive hero Fiercely intelligent heroine Forced proximity Enemies-to-lovers energy Power struggles and forbidden attraction Family feuds and criminal empires Explicit adult romance Guaranteed HEA Book One of a duet Content note: This novel contains kidnapping, violence, murder, trauma, possessive behavior, pregnancy, and explicit sexual content. It is intended for adult readers. [Read More]

Falling Grace

by Greta Marden

Tropes: firstperson, characterdriven, forbiddenlove

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A mother. A wife. Suddenly his lover. It took one week to unmake the life I'd spent fifteen years building. I wasn't unhappy. I had a husband I loved, two daughters who needed me and a business I was proud of. That's what made what I was doing feel insane. At thirty-eight I was finally dialed in. My marriage healed after he strayed, two girls I'd die for, and one very naughty cat. A good life. I loved it. So why did I put it in jeopardy? Why did I follow a stranger to dinner? Let him touch me? Then take me. By the end of that week I was living two lives. The wife and mother everyone counted on, and underneath her, a woman I had no name for. Explosive and alive with him, and for the first time in my life, feeling like the best version of me. I knew what I stood to lose. I told myself I would stop. I didn't. What happens when every scattered piece of you slides into place at once, in the bed of a man who isn't your husband? I kept waiting to feel ruined. What I felt was powerful. If you like page-turning domestic thrillers without the dead bodies, you're in the right place. For readers of Colleen Hoover's Verity and Jeneva Rose's The Perfect Marriage. Book one ends on a cliffhanger. Book two, Leaving Grace, releases April 10, 2027 and is available for pre-order. Contains explicit content, mature themes and infidelity. Previously published as Your Arrow by Greta Marden. [Read More]

Redemption's Fatal Grace

by Felipa Toglynd

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, characterdriven

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To bring a crumbling manor back to life, she had to wake a spectre... but the cost of his resurrection is a debt written in frost. Two centuries of silence. One final performance. A love that demands the ultimate price. When twenty-eight-year-old Sarah d’Entrecasteux arrives at the long-abandoned D’Seye Manor, she brings nothing but a suitcase, a fierce streak of Antipodean optimism, and a profound grief she cannot shake. Her plan to reclaim the dilapidated 18th-century estate and transform its grand hall into a vibrant community theatre is a beautiful distraction—but the manor is not empty... Gerard d’Seye is a cold, arrogant gentleman, a spectre bound to the house by the curse of a young housemaid dying in labour with his child. To him, vibrant, paint-stained Sarah is an unwelcome, disruptive intruder. Yet, as Sarah’s rehearsals echo through the halls, fragments of witty Restoration comedies and rebuilding and refurbishing running apace, her unwavering enthusiasm cracks his centuries-old aristocratic armour of disdain. What begins as a localized chill deepens into an intimate, breathless partnership. With a mismatched theatrical ensemble of local builders and eccentric performers gathered around them, Sarah’s drive achieves the impossible: drawing Gerard out of the shadows, making his physical form warm, solid, and pulsing with real human life. But every fairy tale has a hidden cost, and the housemaid's 200-year-old curse operates with a lethal mechanism. As opening night approaches and Sarah's and Gerard's heartbeats align under the glare of the stage lights, a strange, unnatural winter frost begins to take root inside the manor's walls. To protect Sarah and the fragile household she has built, Gerard must choose between the safe, frozen distance of his past isolation or stepping onto the stage to face a final, irreversible and tragic reckoning. Yet love's legacies remain, and love's work continues. [AI assisted, not AI generated] [Read More]

Carve Me Golden

by Mara J. Ova

Tropes: forcedproximity, firstperson, characterdriven

Trapped alone with your ultimate daydream crush while a storm rages around you… do you dare take the chance? Forced proximity · She’s also an athlete · Celebrity athlete and his fan · European alpine settings · High‑stakes sport · Overcoming traumatic past · Exotic settings and fresh sports After seven years with a toxic ex, Czech language teacher Zlata knows a new relationship is the last thing she needs. She’s finally thrown herself into ski racing, the real kind, with after-hours training and no rewards but the rush. But a girl is allowed to dream… and sometimes, dreams come true. A broken gondola. A violent storm. And Fabio Baier, her untouchable, world-famous ski racing crush, close enough to feel, to touch, to make her feel alive, if only for an hour. This was never supposed to be real. But when fantasy collides with reality, it doesn’t come softly. It burns. Because Fabio isn’t just every woman’s dream. He has demons of his own to outrun. And until they both face their pasts, all they have is craving. Carve Me Golden is a standalone in the Carve series, a high-heat sports romance filled with forced proximity, emotional scars, explosive chemistry, and a compelling couple who know that love must be earned. If you crave intense attraction, high-stakes passion, and a fantasy that refuses to stay just a fantasy, this book is for you. [Read More]

Little Wild Thing

by Freyja Dunkirk

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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Hiding had been the only way to stay free—until Wulf found me. Now I don’t know if I still want to run. I don't trust the Red Mountain Clan, least of all Wulf, an overgrown fleabag who won't leave me alone. I hate his voice. His calm. His presence. I do! The moment my bones are mended, I'm gone. I have to be. I need to leave before Cain gets here and forces a claim. No one has ever protected me. Why should Wulf be the first? An adult paranormal romance set in a gritty early medieval world. When a solitary wolf shifter is injured and forced into the care of a fiercely protective clan warrior, survival gives way to trust, healing, and an intense slow-burn romance. [Read More]

The Raven and the Wolf

by Dezmond Moon

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, characterdriven

Four years. Two boys. One promise. Aurelian doesn't know the boy hiding behind the hay is heir to the duchy. Cory doesn't care that Aurelian is a farmer's son. Together, they grow up through fire, loss, first love, and a kiss neither of them is ready to say goodbye after. Then the world catches up. A king's edict pressures "traditional" marriages on the nobles of the land. Aurelian seeks an unwanted marriage to secure his family's farm. Cory is pressured to find a marriage he doesn't care for. Years apart, neither knows if the other remembers, or if what they had as children has survived who they've become. Found behind masks at a duke's masquerade, they get a second chance. For three nights, they can be anyone they want. But loving each other now means defying a king, two duchies, and the rules neither of them ever agreed to in the first place. This is a Cinderella-inspired childhood-sweethearts-to-lovers queer romance for anyone who loves to watch two people grow up together, be torn apart, and still refuse to let go. [Read More]

Perfect Filter

by KT Monroe

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, characterdriven

ARC READERS WANTED | PERFECT FILTER by KT Monroe Do you love romances that take their time, let you really get to know the characters, and make you care about whether they find their way back to each other? I’m looking for ARC readers for Perfect Filter, the first novel in my interconnected Perfect Hearts Series. About the book Millions of followers believe Soo-ah and Woo-jin have the perfect relationship. Behind the cameras, their love story is falling apart. When their carefully curated world unravels, they end up in the Korean countryside, where life moves at a different pace and there are no cameras to hide behind. Surrounded by unexpected friendships, meddling neighbors, and the complications of ordinary life, they have to decide whether the relationship they’ve spent years presenting to the world is one they still want for themselves. This book might be for you if you enjoy: * Second-chance romance featuring an established couple * Emotionally layered, imperfect adult characters * Slow-building intimacy and meaningful character growth * Small-town communities, friendships, and found connections * Humor and everyday moments alongside emotional conflict * Long, immersive novels where relationships have room to develop * Contemporary Korean settings and K-drama-style storytelling A few things to know before requesting an ARC: Perfect Filter is approximately 520 paperback pages. It’s a substantial, character-driven romance, not a short or fast-paced romantic comedy. The central couple is already in a relationship when the story begins. This is about rediscovering love within an existing relationship, not two strangers meeting and falling in love. The story balances romance with friendships, community life, personal growth, and the consequences of living for a public audience. It’s K-drama-inspired, but you don’t need to watch K-dramas or know anything about Korean television to enjoy it. ARC details * Genre: Adult contemporary romance / second-chance [Read More]

IronBlood

by A.J Valenti

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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Commander Devin Varish arrives at Senna Ardin's forge with armed riders and a summons from King Marekh. By sunset, she is leaving behind the village and the life she has fought so hard to build. No one will tell her when she can return. At the royal palace, Senna learns why Marekh wanted her: she possesses the rare ability to read the ancient script of the Lion-Rider, whose surviving texts hold secrets the king is desperate to uncover. Senna translates accounts of extraordinary powers that seem impossible to believe… until she herself begins experiencing things she cannot explain. When a deadly fire traps her with terrified children, something happens that defies everything she knows. The children escape, but for days afterward, Senna wakes gasping, convinced she is still surrounded by flames. Devin is the last man she should want, yet he becomes the one person she turns to as she searches for answers. Their early-morning combat lessons bring them dangerously close, and his infuriating self-control only makes her more determined to discover what lies beneath it. When their growing attraction finally gives way to stolen kisses and nights together, Senna finds herself wanting a future with the man who took her freedom. But Devin still serves the king. And he is keeping secrets. As Senna uncovers evidence that Marekh has deliberately cultivated the terror gripping Valum, she begins to understand how dangerous her discoveries have become. The king is watching her like a hawk, and if he realizes that the woman he brought into his palace is becoming something he cannot control, he will never let her leave alive. Devin may be the only man capable of protecting her, but doing so would mean betraying the king he has served for centuries. Senna has already trusted him with her heart. Soon, she may have to trust him with her life. [Read More]

An Improper Arrangement

by M.J. Fallon

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, characterdriven

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In 1849 England, widowed governess Rose Sutton comes to Godwin House for security and finds herself falling for its formidable mistress. Philippa Godwin has no use for convention, but loving Rose may cost them both. Philippa has built her life around work, duty, and the fierce protection of what is hers. A wealthy mill owner and mistress of a sprawling northern estate, she has little patience for society’s expectations and even less interest in surrendering her independence to a husband. Rose arrives seeking stability for herself and her daughter, expecting little more than respectable employment. Instead, she finds a household still carrying old wounds, a boy in need of patience, and a woman whose carefully ordered life leaves very little room for tenderness. What begins as a practical arrangement slowly becomes something far more intimate. Rose brings warmth into Godwin House, while Philippa offers Rose and her daughter the kind of safety neither has known in years. As affection deepens into desire, both women are forced to consider what it would mean to build a life together in a world that has no proper place for what they are becoming. Class, reputation, family, and Philippa’s public position all threaten the fragile happiness they have created. Loving one another may be the easiest part. Protecting that love, and choosing it openly within the limits of their world, will require something far more difficult. An Improper Arrangement is a full-length adult sapphic historical romance featuring a slow-burn butch/femme pairing, an age gap, employer/governess dynamics, found family, domestic intimacy, explicit open-door scenes, and a guaranteed happy ending. [Read More]

The Tale of the Clock-Heart

by Montrose Starling

Tropes: characterdriven, strongfmc, darkromance

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A brilliant clockmaker, a desperate ultimatum, and a husband built by her own hands. Deaf and non-verbal since childhood, Marguerite Rousseau is given three months to marry or lose her late father's clock shop to a distant, predatory cousin. Refusing to surrender her independence to a patriarchal legal code that demands her subjugation, she locks her doors, opens her father's cabinet, and engineers a masterpiece: a towering clockwork husband crafted from rosewood, brass, and porcelain. Aurel cannot speak, and Marguerite cannot hear. Together, they forge a profoundly intimate sanctuary built on private sign language and the deep, mechanical vibrations resonating from his clock-heart directly to her pulse. What begins as a desperate legal contrivance winds into a soul-stirring romance, measured out in quiet, deliberate devotion: the twenty-six daily turns of a brass key, shared hours at the workbench, playful arguments over a stray cat, and riotous garden coaxed from dead earth. But when Marguerite's cousin returns with the law in his valise, determined to take her shop by force and ruin her name, the violent world beyond their shutters threatens to shatter their fable. Marguerite built Aurel to be a gentle companion, but as the village is forced to decide its true loyalties, she is about to discover just how fiercely her creation will stand between her and the wolves at their door. The Tale of the Clock-Heart is a sweeping, folkloric love story about the boundaries of the soul, told in the small turns of a shared life. For Readers Of: The Golem and the Jinni, Frankenstein, and The Wicker Husband. [Read More]

Lightbreaker

by Tina Capricorn

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, characterdriven

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“What if your magic killed the ones you love?” Chloe Lemair, last Aeorian witch in existence, knows the answer. Abstaining from her innate power, Chloe buries herself in work—cutting hair as a barber, and keeping the peace as warden of the last sanctuary for the magicborn in a world devastated by the Climate Event. Late one summer night, the world’s oldest living vampire walks into her shop. Vladimir Lazarus Shadowglass wastes no time baring truths about Chloe’s bloodline, duty and a burning connection her magic recognizes. He awakens powers she didn’t know she possessed—and a desire she swore she’d buried. However Vlad was sent by the Corporate Republic, a techno-fascist empire powered by stolen magic. Their aim? The complete control of all magic wielders on Earth, especially Chloe. Her devotion to Vlad is exactly the leverage they’ve been waiting for. If Chloe cannot separate destiny from manipulation, she risks losing not just the vampire who is becoming everything but the sovereignty of the last free place on Earth. A slow burn fantasy romance for readers who want magic, blood, and destiny that was written before time even existed. LIGHTBREAKER is set in the SHADOWGLASS UNIVERSE and takes place after the events of THE ANCHOR OF TIME. Standalone read with series context. [Read More]

Confessions of a Female Dominant. A mother. A mistress. A woman no one really sees

by Ana from Sweden

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, characterdriven

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Ana has mastered the art of being useful — to everyone but herself. A perfect mother, a professional, a survivor of systems both domestic and corporate—she moves through life with precision, order, and quiet endurance. But beneath the structure lies a hunger she cannot name. When she meets Gabriel, a man who offers submission instead of love, Ana steps into a world that mirrors her own contradictions: power as refuge, desire as exposure, control as the last defense against grief. Their bond unravels the fictions she has lived by—about dominance, love, and the cost of being needed by everyone yet wanted by no one. Set between Stockholm’s sterile offices and the clandestine rooms of the Berlin BDSM underground, Confessions of a Female Dominant isn´t a story that heals; it is an unflinching chronicle of solitude, identity, and the architectures of power we build to survive intimacy. [Read More]

Blood of the Merrow

by Robyn J. Fitter

Tropes: firstperson, characterdriven, dualpov

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Mermaids have been living among us for thousands of years. One scientist is about to discover not only the truth of their existence, but that she was born to rule them. Marine biologist Sirène Desjardin has dedicated her life to studying the ocean. But while on assignment in Hawaii, she finally understands why she has always been drawn to its depths. As her 30th birthday approaches, strange things start to happen. It starts with a run-in with her real mother, the Queen of the Merrow, an underwater society of mermaids that have stayed hidden for centuries. Sirène is part of the royal bloodline, making her heir to the throne, if she chooses to accept it. But there are darker secrets hidden under the waves and everything is not what it seems. Is her mother being honest with her? Or will she be pulled under, left to drown in a watery grave. In her search for answers, Sirène meets Aigèan, one of the queen’s guards, who was sent to silence her before she could claim the throne. He is a powerful warrior, and has always been loyal to his queen, but will he follow orders blindly or follow his heart. Torn between the world she knows and the one that calls to her, Sirène must decide if she wants to remain human and walk away from her destiny or surrender to the depth and rise as queen. [Read More]

Let Me Count the Ways

by Laurel Osterkamp

Tropes: characterdriven, strongfmc, humor

It was impulsive of me, sleeping with Theo; he’s a rule-obsessed sheriff who’s SO not my type. Then again, Theo’s got this knack for making me feel seen, heard, and desired… I’m Emma Jacobs, owner of The Pretty Pinecone, a romance-only bookstore. I can sell you the perfect love story, but I can't seem to write my own happy ending. When a rival bookstore threatens my beloved shop’s survival, I decide to offer wine tastings and poetry nights. There’s just one problem—Theo Baird, Sugar Pine's infuriatingly handsome yet uptight new sheriff. He’s determined to shut me down over every minor infraction. Good thing that Theo’s good looking, because his personality is desperate need of a glow-up. And yet, no one challenges me the way Theo can. As my Valentine’s Day event approaches, featuring anonymous love confessions and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s passionate verses, our boundaries begin to blur, and I wonder if maybe I’ve misread Theo all along. But then disaster strikes, and I must decide if I’m brave enough to risk my heart on the most daring venture of all—falling in love. LET ME COUNT THE WAYS is a sparkling, small-town romance about finding courage in poetry, passion in the unexpected, and the one person who makes breaking the rules worthwhile. [Read More]

Total Jane Wreck

by Laurel Osterkamp

Tropes: characterdriven, foundfamily, strongfmc

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He swore off complications. She ran straight toward them. Jane Adkins (a.k.a Jane Wreck) has a talent for disaster, including an infamous puking incident that ended her jockey career before it even began. So when her engagement implodes, Jane does the only sensible thing: flees to Colorado, with no plan, no prospects, and a playlist heavy on The Chicks. She’s searching for wide open spaces. What she finds is Resilience Ranch, a sanctuary for retired horses tucked into the San Juan Mountains, and its infuriating, magnetic owner, Chet Edwards. Chet has traded Silicon Valley for solitude, and he’d like to keep it that way. He’s made that perfectly clear. Jane is trying very hard to listen. She’s failing. As stolen moments and rides at sunset blur the lines between them, Jane senses that Chet isn’t just brooding for the hell of it–he’s hiding something. Something that could shatter the fragile, reckless hope she’s only just begun to feel. Award-winning author Laurel Osterkamp returns to Sugar Pine Springs with a sweeping reimagining of Jane Eyre—a story about the wreckage we carry, the truth we owe each other, and a love that emboldens us to stay. [Read More]

Slowburn Setlist

by Alana Maple

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, dualpov

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Shelly Kowalski is a freelance graphic designer with a flexible schedule and just enough fun money to live her best life rocking out at concerts and collecting stamps in her passport. One fateful night, she meets a member of her favorite band, and electricity sparks, but the moment passes when reality cuts short Cupid’s arrow. A reattempt at romantic overtures becomes out of the question when they run afoul of social media, so they resolve to keep their attentions platonic. However, you can’t stop the music, and once their long-distance friendship threatens to develop into something more, they must overcome public perception and their own baggage. With so much going against them, Shelly and her wary musician must decide if what they feel is worth the scrutiny they’ll fall under and the self-reflection they must undergo. Book 1 of the Basslines of the Heart trilogy. [Read More]

Hearts and Hairpins

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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We all hide. And we all deserve to be seen. Princess Sindhu enters enemy territory to save a man she has long been in love with. Except, he doesn’t know her. Veena finally has the undivided attention of Sardar Vindhya. So what if he is the most ruthless teacher in the military academy, and she is his only student? Archer Ratna and Mage-Prince Shyamak are the best in their fields. Unless they are around each other. The Queen of Malinivan offers her husband the mercy of forgetting, and quietly refuses it for herself. Tarini has disguised herself as a man for years. Then she is ordered to take a diva prince through the Himalayas. Five new stories from the world of queens, princes, rascals, and divas — and the inconvenient people who see right through them. Five stories. Five happy endings. No cliff-hangers. No exceptions. Just love, in all its stubborn, spectacular inconvenience. Hearts and Hairpins is the second book in the Of Queens and Rascals series — fantasy romance rooted in Indian mythology, folklore, and history — fierce hearts, worthy loves, and the impossible relief of being truly known. [Read More]

The Runaway Prince

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, dualpov

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She broke up to save him. He ran to find her. Yaksha prince Samar is trapped – by his own curiosity – in the mortal world after his engagement with Jansthan’s princess Chandra ended. Anywhere else would have been acceptable, but he is stuck by the cruel princess’ side. As her maid. Princess Chandra doesn’t know that the new maid she hired is none other than the fiancé she left behind. So when she expects the maid to wait on her… Well, Prince Samar’s ego has never taken such a battering. Neither has his self-control. Worse, the princess seems to have taken a liking to her new maid. Samar gets treated like a Sakhi – Chandra’s dearest woman friend. He’d better not let the Yakshas find out about his humiliation. And yet, he can’t bring himself to leave. The Jansthan kingdom is starving under a spell that blinds its people to the truth. The queen they trust isn't who she pretends to be, and every day she rules, she drains more of the land's magic for herself. Chandra must break the spell before there's no kingdom left to save. She manipulated Samar into breaking their engagement. All to protect him from the queen's greed. No one can know, least of all Prince Samar, that Princess Chandra hides a secret – she is in love with her ex. Myths and Mortals: Book 1. A clean fantasy romance. No cliffhangers. HEA guaranteed. [Read More]

Ribbons and Royals

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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What is divine without the devotee? Even the most powerful beings yearn to be truly seen. Five new stories from the world of gods, tyrants, princesses and rascals — and the one person in the world they cannot hide from. The princess of Mithila names her imaginary friend Vish, and tells him to come marry her. The princess who has decided the kindest thing she can do for the man she loves is make him hate her. The woman who lets a snake with an attitude into her house, and now he won’t leave. The princess of Chandanpur who recognises her childhood friend behind his disguise — and decides to have some fun with him. The tyrant who loses his entire reputation for tyranny because of one woman. Five stories. Five happy endings. No cliff-hangers. No exceptions. Gods and mortals, curses and kingdoms, love that outlasts every disguise. Ribbons and Royals is the third book in the Of Queens and Rascals series — fantasy romance rooted in Indian mythology, folklore, and history — fierce hearts, worthy loves, and the impossible relief of being truly known. [Read More]

The Red Spring

by P M Fox

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, foundfamily

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Lizzy Stone loves her little Cornish island. She rises with the sun and she dances with the moon. She dives with the gannets and bathes with the seals. Her worship is hot and red. The Devil covets Lizzy’s island. He wants nothing more than its consumption, its integration into His calculating, mechanical designs. His desire is synthetic and bottomless. When the Devil comes a storm always comes with Him. Sort of a tradition. Only this time it will be different. THIS time His covetousness will be satiated. This time He’ll take the island for His own. Lizzy, new initiate into the order of sacred whores who protect the island, isn’t going to let Him. She’s fallen in love with Percy, a fellow apprentice. No one gets to threaten Percy’s first real home. And no one’s taking Lizzy's little sister away either, hopelessly dazzled by the glittering mainland lights as she may be. A storm will rage. Telephone poles will fall and bridges will be washed away. Say good night to the electrics and the moon and the stars. Lizzy and Percy were born in darkness, but even they’re not prepared for what’s coming. [Read More]