romanticsuspense

The Sniper and the Swan

by Halle Macpherson

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, characterdriven

Five years ago, the mysterious masked musician known as Il Cigno vanished. Her disappearance has haunted him ever since. Matteo Rossi has two equally challenging roles: mercenary assassin and guardian to his boisterous thirteen-year-old niece, Alessandra. He knows how to track a target, take down a threat, and disappear without a trace. What he doesn't know how to handle is a teenager who has started breaking the rules—or the feisty music teacher who is encouraging her to do so. When Mia Mills built her new life as a music teacher in the Italian lakeside town of Lacustria, she had one rule: keep her head down and stay out of trouble. But Mia has never been the type to walk away from someone who needs her help. When her talented student Alessandra secretly applies for a prestigious music summer camp, Mia is determined to help her chase her dreams—even if it means going head-to-head with her overprotective guardian. Mia knows getting close to people only puts them in danger. But as she is drawn deeper into the Rossi household, she finds herself wrapped in the warmth of a family she never expected to become part of. With each day she spends there, she indulges in the most dangerous ideal of all: hope for the future. As Matteo and Mia try to resist the magnetic pull between them, the truths they are both hiding threaten to destroy everything they've built. Because some truths can set you free. And some can get you killed. [Read More]

Scheherazade’s Infinity Linga Voyages: Books 1-5

by Virginia de Sade

Tropes: slowburn, steamycontemporary, romanticsuspense

A married marine scientist. A Navy officer. One forbidden frequency that answers only to her body. Dr. Sarah Vance has spent years being careful. Then a deep-water sample begins to glow in her hands—responding only when she holds it against her skin. Lieutenant Commander Tom Kessler is assigned to watch her. What starts as scientific anomaly and restrained desire quickly becomes something far more dangerous. This collection contains the first five books in the Scheherazade’s Infinity Linga Voyages series — a high-heat erotic romance that begins on a research vessel and steadily escalates into something stranger, hotter, and no longer fully human-scaled. Expect: mature heroine, forbidden affair, military hero, explicit heat, and a slow unraveling of a carefully constructed life. [Read More]

Obscura

by Taine

Tropes: slowburn, forbiddenlove, paranormal

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He heals fractured minds. She shatters them. But neither can resist the other. Psychologist Dr. Julian Cross is used to fixing broken people. But his newest patients share a terrifying pattern: shattered memories, hollow eyes, and a toxic obsession with a shadow they cannot name. Following the trail of ruined minds takes him straight into Obscura—a gothic nightclub ruled by a woman who defies every law of nature. Victoria Ashford is a centuries-old vampire. She is meticulous, lethal, and used to absolute control. To protect her kind's secret existence, mortals who cross her are swiftly erased. But Julian is a glitch in her world. He is the first human she cannot compel to forget. Instead of destroying him, she is drawn to him. Julian believes he's dealing with a normal human, but Victoria’s world is a dangerous, intoxicating unknown. As he dives deeper into her dark territory, a slow-burn tension ignites between them. Julian’s curiosity might get him killed. But Victoria’s choice to let him get close could destroy everything she has spent centuries protecting, especially as a dangerous figure from her past threatens to bring it all down. Obscura is an addictive, high-stakes vampire romance filled with intense yearning, forbidden love, danger and a powerful female lead. What to Expect: Forbidden Vampire Romance: Vampires must remain hidden from mortals Reverse Power Dynamic: Powerful Female Vampire & Mortal Male Doctor Slow Burn: Mutual restraint and yearning Gothic Aesthetics: A dark atmosphere with supernatural danger Dual POV: Get inside both of their heads **A note for ARC readers** Thank you so much for reading! My book is already live on Amazon and Goodreads, so you can post your honest review the exact moment you finish reading. Your support means the world to me. [Read More]

For Garnet Grove

by Nikki Theissen

Tropes: characterdriven, strongfmc, suspense

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Garnet Grove has a secret, and Abby Norton is determined to uncover it. ​ She's a tenacious investigative journalist with a keen eye for a story, and she's going to do whatever it takes to figure out exactly what a massive rocket manufacturer is hiding in a small town in northern California. Armed with a plot to cozy up to an insider and get the real scoop on Helios, she starts digging. But what she doesn't count on is meeting Noah, a shy but incredibly smart teacher, who works at the Garnet Grove elementary school and has ties to shady dealings done in the town decades ago. As they get closer, she realizes just how much they both stand to lose if she pursues this story. Standing at the precipice, she has one choice: protect Noah or expose the truth and risk everything for Garnet Grove. [Read More]

Pantheon

by Lacunae

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, multipov

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Vivienne Ho has run Praya Capital for five years: no press, two photographs on the fund's own site, both of the other founder. Vivienne Ho is a face Circe fixes by hand before seven each morning, and a life that became real to the woman wearing it. Circe has spent six years being nobody in particular. By the end of the season a house in Geneva has published half a billion dollars for her body. Damien Tang loses a container terminal to her on a Thursday and wants her by the weekend. His family opens a file, and he lets it run. The man who loves her has money, no training, and no idea what he is buying. Circe can wear any face in the world. What her craft cannot survive is being looked at properly, at close range, by somebody who is not going to stop. He is not going to stop. A romantic conspiracy thriller for readers of Red Sparrow, First Lie Wins and The Night Manager. Romance and conspiracy carry equal weight, and both are explicit on the page. Book one of a trilogy; it stands alone. Contains explicit sexual content and graphic violence. Intended for adult readers. [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]