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Your Arrow (Grace & Jake, book 1)

by Greta Marden

Tropes: forbiddenlove, characterdriven, steamycontemporary

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Grace isn't unhappy. She has a husband she loves, two daughters who need her, and a business she's growing. That's what makes what she's doing feel insane. She also has one empty week — and a chance meeting with a stranger changes the course of her life. One dinner leads to a motel room where she has the best sex of her life. In the dark of that motel room, he learns her faster than her husband ever has — and she lets him. This slip turns into a double life Grace cannot and doesn't want to give up. As their affair pushes into Grace's home, work, and family, she wants to end it — but she finds herself going deeper, and feeling closer. Behind the expensive gifts, private drivers, and locked motel door is a world of money, influence, and obsession. She's never felt so alive. And she's never had more to lose. She must choose between the man who completes her and the family she loves and would do anything to protect. Book one of The Grace & Jake Series [Read More]

The Track of The Eyelids

by Samar Khalefa

Tropes: slowburn, forbiddenlove, newadult

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"I didn't choose to have this feeling... I loved him madly, but he didn't even know I existed... or so I thought. When one-sided love turns into obsession, where does the mind end and madness begin?" Based on a true story: Maria and Ahmed, two neurodivergent Egyptian-American teens, share an unspoken bond built on fleeting glances and misunderstood emotions. What starts as a quiet admiration becomes an overwhelming obsession, distorting their perception of love, reality, and each other. As Ahmed battles emotional outbursts, nightmares, and impulsive decisions, Maria is left to question whether their connection is ever real or just a projection of her longing. They struggle to understand: is their love a delusion or a truth? The Track of The Eyelids has been produced as a short feature film with AI and has been selected for: 1) Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions Film Festival 2024. 2) Lift-Off First Time Filmmaker Sessions Film Festival 2025. Theme songs have been produced for the story which can be found online. [Read More]

The Sicilian Trap: A Grumpy Coach World Cup Spicy Soccer Rom-Com

by Mara J. Ova

Tropes: forcedproximity, firstperson, forbiddenlove

He demands absolute control to win the World Cup. She is the sunshine that refuses to bend. Grumpy Meets Sunshine • Forced Proximity • Steamy Soccer Romance • Opposites Attract • Workplace Romance • Protective Hero • World Cup Stakes • Slow-burn With Sparkling Chemistry • Hilarious Banter • Found Family • Italian Vibes Vincenzo Messina is a tactical genius who demands absolute control to win the World Cup, but his new PR director is a walking distraction. Armed with weaponized sunshine, Sofia Hofer threatens his sacred locker room, igniting a fiery clash of wills and sizzling chemistry they both refuse to acknowledge. Arriving at the secluded Base Camp, Sofia's relentless optimism immediately collides with Vincenzo’s dictatorial temper. She treats football as a passionless branding puzzle to protect, while the volcanic coach fiercely shields his squad from the media. Bound by a lucrative Armani sponsorship, they are forced into thirty days of inescapable proximity within a secure compound and high emotion during the matches. As the grueling tournament progresses, their battle lines blur. Sofia discovers the devout heart beneath his melodramatic touchline theatrics, while Vincenzo realizes her efficiency actually protects his players, shattering his defenses. He engineered the perfect tactical trap on the pitch, but her weaponized sunshine cornered his heart. With the championship final looming, they must choose between maintaining their rigid professional boundaries or risking a catastrophic public scandal for a passion they cannot control. The Sicilian Trap is a standalone, fast-paced, steamy soccer romantic comedy by Mara J. Ova featuring grumpy-meets-sunshine and forced proximity tropes. It is a perfect read during the US-hosted World Cup, and the Italian vibes make it an ideal summer escape. Scroll up and look inside to experience the explosive chemistry and high-stakes tension. [Read More]

Whispers of Stone and Silver

by Augusta Grey

Tropes: forcedproximity, forbiddenlove, darkromance

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He thinks she’s his prize; but she will be his reckoning. Lady Sybil Gilbert is a changeling; half human half fae trapped in a touchless marriage and a ruthless family of courtiers. She thought that she would give anything to be free of the suffocating constraints of her position but Sybil never asked to be widowed and taken as a captive by a ruthless vampire conqueror. Now her only chance at escaping the shadow of Terra Noxa is to seduce Bressal O’Brien Darkov, the commander of the force that took her husband, and her freedom. Bressal has risen far from his humble mortal beginnings in Munster and now he has returned to his homeland of Ireland to take revenge on the English who occupy his ancestral land. He doesn’t expect to find an English woman who upends everything he thought he knew about his precious hatred. His fated may be half fae but she is all English and he does not know what will win out; his heart or his thirst for revenge. [Read More]

The Alpha's Healer: Rebirth and Revelation

by Marina Belle

Tropes: forcedproximity, forbiddenlove, paranormal

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Lucia survived the Wilds. Now she has to survive the beast who bled for her—and the truth of what she is. Separated from the Blackwood Pack, and from Kaelen, the Alpha who swore to protect her but kept her in a gilded cage, Lucia is stranded on the edge of the human world. Her only protector is Ragnar. The pack’s Enforcer is brutal, possessive, and dangerously intoxicating—and he has no intention of coddling a fragile human. He wants to teach her how to bite back. But as care turns into something darker, something territorial, Lucia is pulled into a war she doesn’t understand. The Wilds are waking. The creatures are calling her my lady. Her power is changing. And so is she. Because the truth of Lucia’s bloodline won’t just change her… it will tear the shifter world apart. Caught between the Alpha who holds her heart and the beast who demands her soul, Lucia must decide who she is willing to become. Because to survive what’s coming, the healer must die— and something far more dangerous must rise in her place. ------------------------------------- Series: Book II of III (continues into final installment/ cliffhanger) Genre: Dark Paranormal Shifter Romance / Dark Fantasy Tropes: Dark psychological love triangle • Fated mates (twist) • “Who did this to you?” Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (light–medium, high-heat moments, intense intimacy) Darkness: Medium — this is a dark PNR Content Warnings: Attempted SA • Graphic violence • Blood/gore • Injury detail (animal/shifter attacks) • Pregnancy struggles/infant loss POV: Alternating third person (Lucia, Kaelen, Ragnar) Vibe: Dark, gothic, wintery For readers who love monster heroes and heroines who embrace their darkness [Read More]

How To Ruin A Princess: A Steamy Short Prequel Sports Romance Novella

by Mara J. Ova

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, forbiddenlove

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She is ice and scandal. He is speed and sin. When they meet, their Olympic night turns heat into a weapon they cannot stop using. Nico Reiner is Austria’s new golden boy, hurtling toward an Olympic silver that could cement his place in ski-racing history. The world sees swagger and shine, but behind the grin and glory, every gate is a dare not to choke, not to prove his doubters right when it matters most. Élise Moreau is the exiled heiress of a disgraced French empire, trained to smile, obey, and weaponize her beauty for her father’s ambitions. Slipping into the Olympic Village under a stolen press badge, she wants one anonymous night where no one knows her name, no one owns her choices, and no one can turn her into a pawn. When Nico recognizes the mystery girl who once scorched him with a single look, their collision in a quiet athletes’ lounge detonates into flirting as combat, touch as challenge, and sex as the only language reckless enough to match them both. Silver Course is a steamy forbidden prequel to Carve Me Free, a high-stakes sports romance where a reckless speed king chases an uptown ice queen across the World Cup circuit. If you like scorching chemistry, messy rich-girl rebellion, and dangerous men who race as they love, you’ll devour this Maraverse novella. [Read More]

Crosswind

by Gabi Prevot

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

Senior flight attendant Sloane Reyes had one rule about hookups on the job. Then she flew to Reykjavík, broke a different rule with an Icelandic textile artist at one in the morning, and boarded the return leg to Boston with the captain's card in her breast pocket and the captain himself in the left seat for another eight hours. Nobody tells you what to do with the return leg. Nobody tells you that Mr. Westbrook from Boston Back Bay — who watched her work the outbound and did not touch the call button once — is going to be a passenger again with a folded piece of paper in his hand and a job pitch that is actually a job pitch. That the woman in row 4A is going to be a retired oncologist who has decided, twenty-two years into hearing other people's real stories, to be told one more. That the weather over Boston is going to close, hard, and put the whole crew down in a Halifax airport hotel for a night that is not on any schedule. And that Captain Marek Reeves is going to knock on her hotel room door at seven-eleven p.m. local, and say the sentence Sloane has been waiting one hundred and fifty flights for someone to finally say to her. The captain was for later. Later is tonight. Crosswind is Book 2 of the Cabin Crew series — the return flight, the weather divert, the hotel-room payoff of the slow burn Book 1 promised. Spicy contemporary romance (18+). Bi FMC; the F/F thread continues on-page. Publishes October 13, 2026. Free ARC in exchange for an honest review on launch day. Read Book 1 first: Cabin Pressure. [Read More]

His Little Witness

by Kindra Cress

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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He was sent to make me disappear. He wasn't supposed to want me for himself. I recorded a murder. One shake video, one VIP room I should never have served, one man who looked straight into my phone and smiled, and now the most powerful men in the city want me erased before sunrise. Then he found me first. Silas doesn't ask. He doesn't comfort. He shows up like a blade in a tailored shirt and tells me I have ten seconds to choose: walk away and die, or come with him and lose every piece of the life I used to have. Cold-blooded, ruthlessly efficient, and absolutely not allowed to touch me, he's the man Blackwater sends when there's nothing left to save. But he touches me anyway.. Every safehouse gets burned. Every alias gets cracked. Someone inside his own organization is feeding me to the wolves, and Silas just promised he'd torch Blackwater to the ground before he let them take me. God help me, because I want to watch him do it. A dark, possessive, slow-burn romantic suspense for readers who like their heroes lethal, their heroines sharp-tongued, and their tension thick enough to cut. Forced proximity. One bed (eventually). A man who was supposed to be untouchable until he met her. HIS LITTLE WITNESS is Book 1 in the Blackwater series. Reader note:Steamy, explicit, and intense. Contains on-page violence, themes of stalking and surveillance, and a hero whose protective instincts run very, very dark. [Read More]