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Abundance of Obsession

by Violet Hale

Tropes: firstperson, darkromance, multipov

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Obsession. Vengeance. Trauma. Love. Fear made her survive. Obsession made him dangerous. Eli Montgomery was raised to become a weapon for the Pact—cold, controlled, and loyal only to the empire built on blood. As the organization’s feared General, he knows exactly how monsters are created. And he became one willingly. Then he meets Zoe Monroe. Beautiful. Broken. Secretive. A woman with darkness living behind her eyes and revenge stitched into her soul. She was never supposed to matter to him. But from the moment she walks into his world, Eli’s obsession turns vicious. Protecting her becomes instinct. Touching her becomes addiction. Loving her becomes the one weakness that could destroy everything. Because Zoe isn’t just hiding secrets. She’s hunting the men who ruined her life. And when her past catches up to her, Eli discovers there’s no line he won’t cross for her. No law he won’t break. No body he won’t burn. Not even if it starts a war. Now trapped between vengeance, trauma, and a love powerful enough to ruin them both, Zoe and Eli are about to learn the most dangerous truth of all: Sometimes the person who saves you… becomes the darkest part of your soul. Abundance of Obsession is a dark mafia romance featuring possessive love, trauma healing, morally gray characters, violent themes, and obsessive devotion. [Read More]

Shattered Edges

by Marion Thomas

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

A contemporary dark romance about forbidden love and ambition in elite competitive figure skating and what happens when survival leaves no safe choices. (warning: contains graphic, explicit language and mature themes) Richard Hale has spent his life on the ice, chasing precision, relevance, and a career that refuses to wait for anyone. When his skating partner walks away he’s left staring down the quiet, humiliating end of everything he’s built. His younger sister Holly faces the same erasure when her partner’s injury ends her season overnight, leaving her suddenly expendable. The solution is obvious, dangerous and unthinkable. Forced to skate together by circumstance and desperation, Richard and Holly form a partnership that some think shouldn’t exist. On the ice, their connection is undeniable. Off it, the pressure fractures restraint, blurring lines they were never meant to cross and leaving them scrutinized by a world eager to judge what it doesn’t understand. As Nationals loom, obsession threatens to eclipse reason, and desire threatens to destroy the very thing they’re fighting to save. [Read More]

Fate's Gift: The Complete Duology

by Melanie A. Smith

Tropes: paranormal, suspense, steamycontemporary

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Two steamy fated love psychic suspense romances, now together with bonus epilogue… Last Kiss Under the Mistletoe CJ Roberts has spent her life hiding her ability to See the future — a gift that's more curse than blessing. But when she falls for Drew Davies, a talented chef with no patience for mysteries, a horrifying vision forces her to choose: reveal her secret to save his life, or lose him forever. As danger closes in and the holidays approach, CJ discovers that changing fate comes with a price — and some futures are worth fighting for. Last Kiss Goodbye Matt Roberts has spent his life hiding his ability to See the past with a single touch—a gift he used to help put a killer away. But when he falls for Anna Martella, a woman who survived the impossible, the murders begin again. The killer he helped cage had an accomplice, and they're coming for Anna. As the police close in on him and danger stalks the woman he loves, Matt discovers that seeing the past means nothing if he can't change the future. [Read More]

In Every Other Way

by Clementine Hart

Tropes: slowburn, forbiddenlove, multipov

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Elsie Morgan has two problems, and she's fairly sure they're unrelated. The first is her boss. Joshua Larsen is meticulous, maddening, and impossibly self-contained — the one man Elsie has spent two years being scrupulously, exhaustingly normal about. The second is @plaintext: the anonymous true-crime obsessive she's been arguing with online for eight months, who somewhere along the way became the person she tells everything. Including, lately, far too much about the boss. They are the same man. Elsie has no idea. Joshua finds out by accident, and it stops him cold: the woman he stays up talking to every night is the colleague he's been so carefully keeping at arm's length. And now he's the only one who knows. So he says nothing — and has no idea how long he can keep it that way. A slow-burn, dual-POV workplace romance for readers of Emily Henry and Beth O'Leary. [Read More]

The Alpine Pitch

by Ayla Frost

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, enemiestolovers

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He was hired to fix her ending. He wasn't supposed to fall for the woman who wrote it. Maya doesn't trust charm. She's spent six years building a career on being right when it costs her everything, and she's not about to let a studio fixer rewrite the one ending she refuses to compromise. Julian doesn't do attachments. He gets sent in, smooths things over, and leaves before anyone notices what it costs him. That's the job. That's always been the job. Then a blizzard strands them both in a chalet in the Swiss Alps, with one notebook, one fire, and six feet of table between them that gets harder to ignore with every freezing hour. No signal. No way out. No more performing. What starts as a professional standoff becomes something neither of them has the language for, and the closer they get, the more they both have to lose when the snow finally clears. Book One in The Cold Open, a series of standalone slow-burn romances about people who say the least when they feel the most. [Read More]

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 Second Chance Summer

by Rose Graceling-Moore

Tropes: enemiestolovers, steamycontemporary, grumpysunshine

Anabel Newsome spent ten years on her dream career. It took one email to destroy it, and now she is willing to do anything to get it back. Even work with Luca, the grumpy-but-gorgeous painter who broke her heart ten years ago. The plan is simple: Agree to a three-month leave of absence for the “burnout” she swears she doesn’t have. Return to the sunshine-soaked coast of Italy, find her supposed bliss, and convince her boss she’s ready to come back to work. What isn’t in the plan is discovering that the hostel she loved in her twenties is falling apart. Maybe it’s because that’s something she and the building have in common, or maybe it’s just because she’s incapable of taking a break, but Ana is determined to save it. And Luca, as the hostel handyman, is going to help. Whether he likes it or not! Between renovations that go sideways, a new summer fling that complicates things, and a decade-old wound she never quite let heal, Ana’s carefully planned trip is quickly going off the rails. But the beach vacation she never wanted might just be her second chance to make the right choice. [Read More]

Vanilla (with Sprinkles)

by Rosemary Victus

Tropes: multipov, dualpov, steamycontemporary

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Sam is so comfortable around Kalie because there is no way she's into him… Sam is wrong. Kalie left the west coast a year ago after a viral video blew up her whole life. She’s done wallowing and trying to take baby steps towards rebuilding herself. Sam was dumped by his girlfriend of five years. He's now that guy you know who talks about his ex way too often. As a chubby retail clerk nearing 30, trying to meet someone romantically seems futile. Kalie meets Sam at a New Year's party and settles for friends after a failed hook up attempt. Kalie can’t tell her new friends about her past; she has to at least pretend to be a sane person. Sam does whatever he can think of to conceal his growing crush. However, unbeknownst to Sam, his new friend, Kalie, is still trying her level best to bang the chubby retail clerk. [Read More]

Gold

by Runa Saevik

Tropes: forcedproximity, adventure, adult

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Six weeks, a book about wine, no complications. That was the plan. Luca Casini's father left him one word before he died. Luca followed it across the border into Slovenia, telling everyone, including himself, that the trip was about research. Matej Kos makes cheese in a cave older than the border itself. He speaks rarely, builds walls that outlast empires, and has built a life in which no one can let him down, because no one is in it. Neither man came looking for company. Something fits almost at once, easy in a way neither trusts yet: coffee that goes cold while they talk, jokes pitched between insult and affection, whole days that fall into a rhythm before anyone decides they should. The wanting arrives, blunt and physical and impossible to talk their way around. But when a key hits the floor, everything quiet turns loud, and what the stone has been holding changes everything they thought they were building. Some places are inherited. Some are found. [Read More]

The Rival Hearts

by Anne Nikolaiken

Tropes: forcedproximity, firstperson, newadult

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A steamy Married in Vegas Formula One romance featuring Rivals to Lovers. The race weekend plan didn’t include waking up married to the rival rookie driver. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right? Ethan Ethan St-Pierre is used to living in his brother’s shadow, but now he has no other option but to shine on the racetrack...and keep the St-Pierre legacy alive. Sharing his rookie season with his biggest rival shouldn’t be that difficult. They only have to interact on racetracks–and that’s plenty, thank you very much–but now sponsors are suggesting joint photoshoots with Maggie. Their rivalry is fuelling sales, sparks are flying, and Ethan wonders if there’s something more behind their shared, sizzling glances captured in photographs. Maggie Maggie Hoffsommer is the first female race car driver with a chance to win the Drivers’ Championship and prove her critics wrong. Her surprise debut at Kestrel Racing caused a media frenzy; her repeated pole positions and podium finishes created turmoil in the paddock, but the greatest shock is the one Maggie experiences when she wakes up married to Ethan St-Pierre in Vegas… and he suggests they give it a go? He’s the steamy distraction on track, putting everything she’s worked for in jeopardy. How can she consider staying married to him? This season, they have nothing left to lose but their hearts. Will Maggie and Ethan’s competitiveness put what they desire most at risk? This is a high-octane contemporary sports romance filled with open-door spice, swoon-worthy moments, and a guaranteed happily ever after. The Rival Hearts is book #2 in The Racing Line series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone, and do not need to be read in order to be enjoyed. [Read More]

Her Heart's Wish

by Dawn Baca

Tropes: slowburn, multipov, adult

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Can a woman who built her life around everyone else finally choose love? Leila Durand has spent years being exactly who her family needed: a devoted mother, a doting grandmother, and the steady heart of the farm that saved her after loss. But when Yuri Petrova asks her to come to Saint Petersburg, the quiet life she has carefully built begins to feel less like safety and more like a beautiful cage. Yuri has always been a man of stars, students, and solitude—until one unforgettable Frenchwoman makes his orderly world feel suddenly incomplete. From their first meeting at a family wedding, Leila’s warmth, strength, and laughter unsettled him in ways no equation ever could. After three years of calls, letters, and longing, he is ready to stop loving her from a distance. Leila is falling for Yuri, but loving him means facing the grief, guilt, and fear she has buried beneath decades of devotion. Yuri is falling just as hard, but winning Leila’s heart may mean leaving behind the life, career, and country that have defined him. When distance, family ties, and old wounds threaten to keep them apart, Leila must decide whether being wanted is worth the risk of finally being seen. Will she cling to the life that made her feel necessary—or open her heart to the man who makes her feel chosen? Her Heart’s Wish is an emotional later-in-life romance about second chances, found family, healing after grief, and the brave, terrifying joy of beginning again. Perfect for readers who love mature heroines, patient heroes, slow-burn longing, complicated families, European settings, and love stories where the biggest battle is learning to believe happiness is still allowed. Read Her Heart’s Wish today and fall in love with a romance that proves it’s never too late to choose your own happily ever after. [Read More]

Crosswind

by Gabi Prevot

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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]

Between Floors: A Spicy Forced Proximity Romance

by Lana Wexler

Tropes: forcedproximity, firstperson, adult

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Harlow Bennett has sat six feet from Desmond Kane for eleven months and never said one word about it. Then their elevator dies between the eighth and ninth floors on a Friday night, the emergency light goes blue, and the two of them are stuck in a four-by-five box with nothing left to do but finally look at each other. What neither of them says out loud, for most of a very long ninety minutes, is that the car did not stop on its own. Harlow reached over and pressed the STOP button somewhere around the fourteenth floor, lost her nerve, and pretended she was reaching for the rail. Dez pressed it himself, five floors later, for the exact same reason. Two people, one crush eleven months deep, two secret hands on the same brass button, and not one confession between them until the dark makes lying impossible. By the time building services pries the doors open, they have admitted to a great deal more than the button. Two coworkers, one dead elevator, and a stop nobody meant to press but both of them did. [Read More]

Lights On: A Spicy Married-Couple Romance

by Lana Wexler

Tropes: adult, steamycontemporary, womensfiction

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Fifteen years married. One lit window across the courtyard. And tonight, Margot does not want to watch anymore. She wants to be watched. For months she has caught herself looking at the man who reads by lamplight across the way. Then one ordinary Tuesday she tells the one person who matters, her husband, and Theo does not laugh, does not flinch. He reaches over and opens the blinds. What starts as a confession becomes the most honest night of a very good marriage: lamps on, curtains up, fifteen years of shorthand turned all the way up. Nobody strays. Nobody is touched but each other. A marriage catching fire from the inside, with the lights on. [Read More]