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Destiny's Destruction

by Gina V. Badd

Tropes: firstperson, characterdriven, strongfmc

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This is the mean girl, Destiny's, story. She appears in the Rise of Phoenyxx trilogy and in Valley's Rise duet. It's set in The Rise Universe. Please note: it DOES NOT have an HEA. [Read More]

The Exit Strategy

by Ayla Foy

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, characterdriven

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She has spent nineteen years making decisions she can defend. He asks the one question nobody above her ever has. Greta Bauer built her career on control: every angle calculated, every risk priced, every decision made before anyone else sees the cost. Then outside counsel Anton Sterling arrives with no agenda, a closed briefcase, and eight days to examine the contract archive she controls. Before he says a word, he notices the chair she moved four inches to manage the room. Then one contract becomes a pattern. One memo changes the shape of the institution. And Greta asks for all nineteen years. Fourteen days remain before a board session she cannot move. Anton will not soften what the record says. Greta will not hide behind the version that is easiest to defend. And neither is prepared for what happens when two people trained to read everything accurately turn that attention on each other. For readers who love competent adults, later-in-life attraction, workplace tension, professional stakes, forced collaboration, and slow burns where being accurately seen is more intimate than being rescued. Standalone series finale. Dual first-person POV. Open-door heat written for feeling rather than anatomy. No cheating. No violence. No cliffhanger. [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]

Masks and Moonbeams

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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To be loved is to be known. Princess Lata moonlights as a vigilante and finds an ally worth dying for. But what does this man have to do with her good-for-nothing fiancé? Chakor captures the Moon God. Now she needs to let him go. Or watch him die. To keep her promise to her dying queen, General Ria lives her life under a mask. But an old friend returns, and now she has a choice – lose her heart or break her oath. Chitrani falls in love with a Snake prince as a child. Years later, why does her fiancé look so much like the boy she lost? And Kalindi – the village healer – tries to evict a long-healed warrior from her hut by making him do housework. She doesn’t know he is a prince. “... being truly seen beneath expectations, titles, and carefully guarded secrets.” – Amazon Reviewer, Canada “The romances are tender without being cheesy and the mix of mythology and folklore gives it personality.” – Amazon Reviewer, Spain In this collection of clean fantasy romance, five women find themselves seen — truly seen — by the last person they expected. Five stories. Five happy endings. No cliff-hangers. Masks and Moonbeams is the first book in the Of Queens and Rascals series — fantasy romance rooted in Indian mythology, folklore, and history — fierce heroines, heroes who earn their place, and love that sees through every mask. “... a shiny gate to escape from the reality of modern, fast-paced life.” – Amazon Reviewer, Germany [Read More]

Leveraged

by Maryn McKinney

Tropes: forcedproximity, characterdriven, dualpov

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LEVERAGED Adult Dark Mafia Romance | Book One of the Entangled Duet She was taken as leverage in a mafia war. He kept her as a hostage. Neither expected captivity to become an obsession neither could survive losing. Helena Savalenko is brilliant, composed, and entirely unprepared to become collateral in a war between two criminal empires. When she’s taken from her everyday life and delivered into the hands of the powerful Ulanov family, she expects violence, negotiation, and an eventual exchange. She doesn’t expect Vasili Ulanov. Cold, calculating, and determined to maintain control, Vasili sees Helena as a valuable bargaining piece—and a dangerous distraction. But Helena refuses to be intimidated, controlled, or reduced to someone else’s leverage. As their hostility ignites into something darker and far more intimate, the lines between captor and captive begin to blur. Then a rival makes a reckless move that puts Helena’s life in danger and threatens to reignite a bloody family war. To survive, Helena and Vasili will have to decide whether their connection is simply another weapon—or the foundation of an alliance powerful enough to change everything. Expect: Dark mafia romance Captor/captive tension Morally gray, possessive hero Fiercely intelligent heroine Forced proximity Enemies-to-lovers energy Power struggles and forbidden attraction Family feuds and criminal empires Explicit adult romance Guaranteed HEA Book One of a duet Content note: This novel contains kidnapping, violence, murder, trauma, possessive behavior, pregnancy, and explicit sexual content. It is intended for adult readers. [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]

The Tale of the Clock-Heart

by Montrose Starling

Tropes: characterdriven, strongfmc, darkromance

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A brilliant clockmaker, a desperate ultimatum, and a husband built by her own hands. Deaf and non-verbal since childhood, Marguerite Rousseau is given three months to marry or lose her late father's clock shop to a distant, predatory cousin. Refusing to surrender her independence to a patriarchal legal code that demands her subjugation, she locks her doors, opens her father's cabinet, and engineers a masterpiece: a towering clockwork husband crafted from rosewood, brass, and porcelain. Aurel cannot speak, and Marguerite cannot hear. Together, they forge a profoundly intimate sanctuary built on private sign language and the deep, mechanical vibrations resonating from his clock-heart directly to her pulse. What begins as a desperate legal contrivance winds into a soul-stirring romance, measured out in quiet, deliberate devotion: the twenty-six daily turns of a brass key, shared hours at the workbench, playful arguments over a stray cat, and riotous garden coaxed from dead earth. But when Marguerite's cousin returns with the law in his valise, determined to take her shop by force and ruin her name, the violent world beyond their shutters threatens to shatter their fable. Marguerite built Aurel to be a gentle companion, but as the village is forced to decide its true loyalties, she is about to discover just how fiercely her creation will stand between her and the wolves at their door. The Tale of the Clock-Heart is a sweeping, folkloric love story about the boundaries of the soul, told in the small turns of a shared life. For Readers Of: The Golem and the Jinni, Frankenstein, and The Wicker Husband. [Read More]

His Captive Luna

by Sophi Liddell

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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When the Alpha King pins me to the ground, declaring that I will be his new bride, I know I must obey. But if this brutal King ever discovers my secret life, he’ll kill me instantly. Which means my only choice is to run, and unfortunately, the King’s son, Auden, is hot on my trail. But Auden and I? Yeah. We know each other. Auden doesn’t remember the Midwinter night we spent together, and I’ve spent years making sure the secrets I carried away from that evening stay hidden. Now the Prince I’ve avoided ever since is the one chasing me down, intent on dragging me back to a marriage I cannot survive. Will I be able to keep my secrets safe? Or will the forbidden chemistry between us make Auden crave the one thing he can never have: his father’s bride? ★★★★★ For readers who love: Wolf Shifters Forbidden Royal Romance Forced Proximity One-Night Stand Secret Children ★★★★★ Full Disclosure: SLOW BURN book 1 within a series -- NO SPICE until later books!! (But worth it when it comes!) [Read More]

Let Me Count the Ways

by Laurel Osterkamp

Tropes: characterdriven, strongfmc, humor

It was impulsive of me, sleeping with Theo; he’s a rule-obsessed sheriff who’s SO not my type. Then again, Theo’s got this knack for making me feel seen, heard, and desired… I’m Emma Jacobs, owner of The Pretty Pinecone, a romance-only bookstore. I can sell you the perfect love story, but I can't seem to write my own happy ending. When a rival bookstore threatens my beloved shop’s survival, I decide to offer wine tastings and poetry nights. There’s just one problem—Theo Baird, Sugar Pine's infuriatingly handsome yet uptight new sheriff. He’s determined to shut me down over every minor infraction. Good thing that Theo’s good looking, because his personality is desperate need of a glow-up. And yet, no one challenges me the way Theo can. As my Valentine’s Day event approaches, featuring anonymous love confessions and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s passionate verses, our boundaries begin to blur, and I wonder if maybe I’ve misread Theo all along. But then disaster strikes, and I must decide if I’m brave enough to risk my heart on the most daring venture of all—falling in love. LET ME COUNT THE WAYS is a sparkling, small-town romance about finding courage in poetry, passion in the unexpected, and the one person who makes breaking the rules worthwhile. [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]

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]

Year of Anything

by Madison Hawkins

Tropes: strongfmc, humor, newadult

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A spicy, cozy, second chance romcom where finding love is easy, but keeping it means rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. “Let’s try to end it on a good note.” “Agreed. We’ll end it on a good note, in fifty-five years when we both drop dead.” Audrey is determined to move on after a messy breakup with her charming but flaky ex, Nate. When he shows up with a wild offer in the name of making amends, she agrees if only to prove once and for all that there’s no hope for their relationship. For the first time, she’s honest with him about what she wants, and he’s following through on his promises. They’re in completely uncharted territory, and it’s up to Audrey to figure out where they’re headed next. [Read More]

Ribbons and Royals

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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What is divine without the devotee? Even the most powerful beings yearn to be truly seen. Five new stories from the world of gods, tyrants, princesses and rascals — and the one person in the world they cannot hide from. The princess of Mithila names her imaginary friend Vish, and tells him to come marry her. The princess who has decided the kindest thing she can do for the man she loves is make him hate her. The woman who lets a snake with an attitude into her house, and now he won’t leave. The princess of Chandanpur who recognises her childhood friend behind his disguise — and decides to have some fun with him. The tyrant who loses his entire reputation for tyranny because of one woman. Five stories. Five happy endings. No cliff-hangers. No exceptions. Gods and mortals, curses and kingdoms, love that outlasts every disguise. Ribbons and Royals is the third book in the Of Queens and Rascals series — fantasy romance rooted in Indian mythology, folklore, and history — fierce hearts, worthy loves, and the impossible relief of being truly known. [Read More]