Foundfamily

Siren's Embrace

by Julie Ronnoc

Tropes: foundfamily, paranormal, romantasy

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Alex has built a life with Nerissa, a Nerida who left her underwater world seventeen years ago to keep their son, AJ, safe. But now the secrets of Nerissa’s past are resurfacing—and they’re coming for AJ. As he nears adulthood, AJ worries about college and an ordinary future. Yet his growing connection to the ocean draws him toward a hidden world filled with danger, power, and enemies determined to use him. Meanwhile, Naia is awakening to abilities she barely understands. With her mother lost to grief and her father’s identity shrouded in mystery, she must uncover the truth before it destroys what remains of her family. Caught between land and sea, love and loyalty, Alex, Nerissa, AJ, and Naia face a darkness that threatens to tear them apart. Can they stand together—or will fate pull them beneath the tide? [Read More]

The Heir

by Marie Nightwell

Tropes: dualpov, forbiddenlove, foundfamily

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Elowen already won the fight that was supposed to kill her. The throne is secure. The bond is legal. There's a child inside her that no court in the realm can take away. She should feel done fighting. She isn't. Levin spent twenty-four years being raised on one rule: the fae take everything, so trust nothing. He built a life around it, then broke it for her. He thought that closed the account. It didn't. The man who raised him never stopped grieving — and grief, given enough time and enough followers, stops staying quiet. Levin doesn't know yet how close that grief has grown to becoming something he can't walk back from. He only knows the peace he came home to build is standing on ground that was never as settled as it looked. And the thing growing inside Elowen isn't waiting for either of them to be ready. Dual POV. Explicit. For readers of Sarah J. Maas and Raven Kennedy. [Read More]

The Billionaire's Game Plan

by Chloe Horne

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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Four years, two months. Not that I’m counting. I built Reid Media on knowing when to push and when to walk away. With Avery Ellis, I walked away. I gave her brother my word the summer before she left for college, and I kept it. Then she comes home for Thanksgiving, knocks a pumpkin pie into my chest, and every reason I stayed away burns to ash. She needs a job. I need her talent. She’ll report to my VP. Clear lines. Best behavior. Logan has one condition: if this is ever more than work, he hears it from me first. I can close a deal before lunch. But winning her is the one play I can’t call alone, and the clock runs out at midnight on New Year’s Eve. This time, I’m not walking away. The Billionaire’s Game Plan is a slow-burn, brother’s best friend holiday romance with a billionaire boss who fell first, two meddling mothers, an office betting pool, and a steamy, guaranteed HEA. Standalone. [Read More]

Fallen Crowns

by Sapphire Rae

Tropes: firstperson, foundfamily, strongfmc

Leto: War gathers at my borders and my people look to me for protection. I will bargain, kneel, give whatever she demands. A future king does what is necessary to save his people. Ruen: I was forged in an eastern assassin academy where mercy was stripped away and discipline replaced it. When I heard of a goddess who answers violence with power, I arranged my own capture to reach her. I meant to test her strength. She shattered everything instead. Varo: They say I'm the most irresistible man in the kingdom, and she chose me, but not for the reasons I thought. She sees through laughter and demands truth. To stand at her side, I must face the past I buried beneath music and charm. Serina: I was promised to a prince at twelve and punished when he refused me. I have never wanted a man's touch. When I heard of a goddess who builds her court on choice instead of obligation, I chose her over a crown. Gaia: I became mortal to restore balance to a violent world. I did not expect devotion. I did not expect to need it. But the world is unraveling, and the people I claimed as my own are the only thing standing between this world and ruin. Some sacrifices are made on thrones. Others are made in silence, in the dark, by people who never learned how to ask for what they need. I am Gaia. I protect what is mine. And I decide who stands at my side when crowns begin to fall. Fallen Crowns is a high-spice reverse harem dark romantasy featuring a morally gray assassin undone by love, a prince willing to sacrifice everything, a charming bard with a broken past, and a sapphic princess choosing herself and the goddess who answers cruelty with lust and power. For mature readers. Every book in the World of Gaia delivers a complete story. No cliffhangers. Perfect for fans of Katee Robert's Neon Gods, K.A. Knight's Court of Nightmares, and Invi Wright's The Female. [Read More]

Control of Silence

by Violet Hale

Tropes: forcedproximity, foundfamily, darkromance

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Silence. Control. Redemption. Love. Theo Banning is known as The Ghost — the most feared enforcer of the Pact. Cold. Unreadable. Deadly. The man who never hesitates to pull the trigger... and never lets anyone close enough to see what's hiding beneath the silence. Until her. Dolly Wilson has spent years surviving a man who called his obsession love. She knows what manipulation looks like. She knows what fear feels like. And the last thing she wants is to trust another dangerous man. Especially one like Theo. But behind his terrifying reputation lives a man who protects instead of controls... who listens instead of demands... and who quietly begins loving not only her, but the unborn child she carries. For the first time in both of their lives, home doesn't feel like a place. It feels like a person. But the past refuses to stay buried. As old enemies return, buried secrets surface, and a relentless obsession threatens everything they've built, Theo is forced to face the monster he has spent his entire life trying to keep locked away. Because some ghosts never disappear. And sometimes the greatest battle isn't against the enemy... It's against yourself. Control of Silence is a dark mafia romance featuring a possessive yet protective antihero, single mother romance, emotional healing, found family, touch-her-and-die, forced proximity, morally gray characters, obsession, and a guaranteed HEA. [Read More]

Dashing Through Her Heart

by Bea Pearce

Tropes: forcedproximity, dualpov, foundfamily

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Her inn needed a Christmas miracle. It got Santa’s lead reindeer, crash-landed on her frozen lake. Holly Spruce is days from opening her family’s aging inn for Christmas, buried beneath a never-ending to-do list, and determined to handle every problem herself. Then a glowing, half-naked man falls out of the sky. His name is Dasher. Yes. That Dasher. Leader of Santa’s Eight. Immortal reindeer. Ridiculously large. Alarmingly helpful. In the North, Christmas magic is failing, and Dasher has been sent to Mistletoe Ridge to help restore it. Somehow, Holly is the key. His solution? Spend every spare hour before the holidays helping with everything she refuses to let anyone else carry. That would be easier if Holly hadn’t already learned what happens when you trust someone to stay. Dasher has spent centuries doing exactly what duty requires: arrive, serve, leave. Until Holly. Until her inn. Until leaving starts to feel less like duty…and more like losing the first home he has ever chosen. Dangerous creatures are slipping through the weakening barrier between worlds, and Christmas Eve is coming. When the North calls Dasher home, saving Christmas may require him to break the very heart he was sent to heal. Perfect for readers who love: forced proximity, acts of service, hyper-independent heroines, devoted protective heroes, small-town Christmas magic, supernatural danger, open-door romance, and guaranteed HEAs. Santa’s Eight, Book One [Read More]

A Duke in Her Lane

by Lucy Tallis

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, foundfamily

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She thought he worked for the Duke. She was half right. Clara Finch knows her place. Orphaned at eleven and raised on a viscount's charity, she is now a governess, and belongs to neither the drawing room nor the servants' hall. All she wants is a cottage of her own one day. Then a stranger on a bay horse runs her into a ditch in a Derbyshire lane, and keeps coming back. He lets her believe he is the Duke of Wenlock's man. By the time she learns he is the Duke, she has spent a night in his arms, lost her position, and refused him twice. Alexander Trevelyan has spent his life paying for his father's sins. Clara is the first thing he has ever wanted for himself. But someone wants the Duke of Wenlock dead. And the closer Clara comes to his heart, the closer she stands to the line of fire. She has never asked for anything. Will she fight for him? A steamy Regency romance with a secret identity, a forced marriage, a duke who falls first, and a governess who refuses to be rescued. For reviewers Tropes: duke in disguise · governess heroine · class divide · compromised into marriage · forced proximity · she saves him · he falls first · slow burn · HEA · Friends to lovers · found family · her childhood crush loses his shine Heat level: open door, with several explicit scenes. Content notes: attempted murder, gun violence and an on-page death (the villain); the deaths of several parents before the story begins, including a drink-related accident; gambling and alcoholism mentioned. A horse is injured and recovers fully. No animals die. Please note: Amazon requires reviews of free copies to say so. Please add a line such as “I received a free advance copy and am leaving this review voluntarily.” [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]

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]

Blind Date #2

by Jax Hart

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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**Two years ago, she stood him up on New Year’s Eve. He never got over it.** Matteo McKenzie could have any woman in Manhattan. He’s gorgeous, filthy rich, and New York’s most sought-after DJ—the kind of man Avery Clark swore she’d never fall for. Too charming. Too tempting. Too much like trouble. So when Matteo gave her his black card and asked her to spend New Year’s Eve with him… **Avery never showed.** Now, two Christmases later, she walks into a blind date and finds the one man she hoped she’d never have to face again sitting across the table. His verdict? **One star. Would not recommend.** Except Matteo isn’t looking for revenge. He’s looking at Avery like she’s still the only woman in New York. And this time, the man who falls first has no intention of letting the girl who got away disappear twice. **A swoony, steamy Christmas romance filled with Manhattan lights, wicked banter, handmade pasta, a meddling Rockette grandma, and one devastatingly devoted bad-boy DJ.** **He could have anyone. He’s been waiting for her.** *Book Two in the Christmas in Manhattan series of interconnected standalones.* [Read More]

The Traitor’s Game

by Vanessa Jayde

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, dualpov

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Camila The night I bonded with my Alpha should have been the happiest night of my life. Instead, it was the night I was accused of betraying the pack. I didn’t run because I wanted to. I ran because staying meant death. For a year, I’ve lived in the shadows, hiding from the man the blood bond ties me to. Every step away from him feels like a lie the bond refuses to believe. But I know he’s coming. And when he finds me, he won’t be looking for forgiveness. Thaddeus My Omega ran. For a year the blood bond has burned beneath my skin, demanding I find her. Demanding I drag the truth from her lips. She thinks she escaped me. She’s wrong. The pack answers to me now. The world bends to my will. And when I finally find the woman who betrayed me, I’ll take back everything she stole. Her secrets, her lies… and the heart that still belongs to me. [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]

Sunshine's Caress

by Julie Ronnoc

Tropes: forcedproximity, foundfamily, paranormal

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Shin, a spirited Nerida longing for connection, has always felt drawn to the human world. Amelia, a marine biologist haunted by betrayal, has devoted her life to uncovering the ocean’s secrets. When their paths collide, attraction comes easily—but trust is far more dangerous. Together, they seek the lost powers of the Cetus, hoping to unite humans and Nerida before darkness tears them apart. Meanwhile, Alex Roth and his fiercely protective Nerida wife, Nerissa, struggle to shield their extraordinary children from government agents determined to expose their secrets. As alliances fracture and old forces rise, love, loyalty, and family are tested against the approaching tide of war. From mystical ocean depths to human shores, their intertwined destinies reveal a world where courage—not bloodline or magic—may be the ultimate weapon. Can two species overcome fear and betrayal to fight side by side, or will the darkness claim them all? [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]

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]

The Abyss

by Sapphire Rae

Tropes: firstperson, foundfamily, strongfmc

I thought I had ended it. The darkness I drove from the North has risen again, this time wearing flesh, hiding in a volcano that blankets everything in darkness. Its haze dulls my power until I am little more than mortal. Its army marches beneath a spiral drawn in blood. And at last, my enemy has a name. I sail west with the four men who have given decades of their lives to keep me whole. Together we awaken the elements within them and fight through a fortress of obsidian. We meet the horsewomen of an apocalypse, each one a twisted gift from the master we are hunting. Every victory costs us something we cannot get back. Then I reach the abyss and the man who rose from it. He tells me we are the same. The longer I stare into him, the harder it becomes to prove him wrong. To stop him, I may have to surrender the one thing I swore I never would. The Abyss is Book 9 in the World of Gaia series, a dark fantasy romance featuring reverse harem devotion, elemental awakening, high heat intimacy, blood and pain play, and themes of sacrifice, captivity, and survival. Intended for mature readers. Every book in the World of Gaia delivers a complete story. No cliffhangers. Perfect for fans of Katee Robert's Neon Gods, K.A. Knight's Court of Nightmares, and Invi Wright's The Female. [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]

Emerald

by Runa Saevik

Tropes: firstperson, characterdriven, dualpov

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Lev knows exactly who Bjarke is. Bjarke has no idea who Lev is. Ten years ago in Vienna, a twenty-five-year-old violinist played his heart out for Sonda, the band half the world can hum. Someone in the hall clapped. Then a voice came down the aisle and turned him into a joke. He shut his violin case that day and never opened it again. Lev Kuhar was the one who clapped. And he said nothing. For twenty years Lev was the half of Sonda nobody saw. He wrote the music. Someone else took the stage and the credit. A year ago Lev walked away without a word and went home to the Soča valley, to his bees, his sister's boats and a music room he hasn't opened since. Then a Danish folk singer who hides his face behind a stag skull walks across a festival courtyard in Ljubljana, and Lev would know that walk anywhere. He follows him into a cellar. He doesn't give his name. Afterwards, still breathing hard, Bjarke tells him exactly what he thinks of Sonda. Lev runs. Then he comes back and holds out his hand. What follows is one summer. A valley, a river the colour of its name, a two-week list that keeps getting longer. Bjarke picks up a violin for the first time in ten years, and Lev plays beside him. The man Bjarke is falling for belongs to the band he has hated for a decade, and every day Lev keeps quiet, the truth costs more. Then the past calls. The man who owned Lev's silence for twenty years wants his signature, and the leverage is Bjarke. Some names stay off the record. Some get said out loud. MM · hidden identity · enemies without knowing it · hurt/comfort · found family · high heat · HEA · standalone, Book Two of The Four Corners of Slovenia [Read More]