Steamycontemporary

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

The Last Cheesecake

by Cassidy Denever

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, steamycontemporary

Love created a home. When love ended, it call into question whether that home had ever existed. Living far from their countries of birth, Carsten and Lilian meet in a vast city in Southeast Asia. He is analytical, guarded, and accustomed to relying on himself. She is shy at first, then bright and playful once she feels safe. What begins with a morning at a board-game café grows through daily rituals, weekends together, late meals, rain-soaked malls, family crises, a toy spaceship, and desserts that becomes his name for her. For Carsten, their shared life becomes proof that he has finally found somewhere—and someone—to belong. But beneath the tenderness, they carry different ways of handling fear, distance, grief, and emotional strain. The things they cannot say begin to shape the relationship more than the things they can. When one withdraws, the other is left with the humiliation of being treated as though the bond had never existed. Inspired by real events, The Last Cheesecake is an intimate, psychologically observant novel about cross-cultural love, abandonment, memory, and the damage caused when one person seeks meaning from someone who can offer only distance. This is a literary romantic drama. It does not have a traditional happy-ever-after ending. It is intended for readers who value emotional realism, slow-building intimacy, flawed characters, and devastating heartbreak that makes one question what was real and what wasn't. [Read More]

Between Floors: A Spicy Forced Proximity Romance

by Lana Wexler

Tropes: forcedproximity, firstperson, steamycontemporary

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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: steamycontemporary, adult, 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]

Perfect Exception

by KT Monroe

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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Yoon Mi-ra has mastered the art of keeping things casual. Then she meets a man who makes walking away surprisingly difficult. Confident, outspoken, and unapologetically independent, Mi-ra knows exactly what she wants from men. A good time, great chemistry, and absolutely no complications. Love has never been part of the arrangement. Then Ryu Tae-yeong comes along. Attractive, successful, and frustratingly difficult to forget, Tae-yeong isn’t interested in becoming another man Mi-ra leaves behind. And for the first time, she’s not entirely sure she wants to leave. But falling for someone is one thing. Letting him into a life that’s becoming increasingly complicated is another. Between unexpected family revelations, professional ambitions, and the emotional risks of a real relationship, Mi-ra must confront something far more intimidating than heartbreak: the possibility of having something worth staying for. Perfect Exception is a passionate, funny, emotionally layered contemporary romance set in South Korea, featuring a fiercely independent heroine, a confident hero who knows what he wants, irresistible chemistry, complicated families, and two adults learning what it means to choose each other. Book Two of the Perfect Hearts series. No K-drama experience necessary. [Read More]