Womensfiction

My Marriage Market

by Sukhi Kaur

Tropes: firstperson, characterdriven, humor

Instant download

At twenty-nine, Ria’s professional life is thriving, but family gatherings always circle back to one unrelenting question: When are you getting married? Determined to honor her family’s hopes while keeping her own heart intact, Ria reluctantly agrees to enter the traditional matchmaking process. But when an unexpected encounter introduces her to "Mr. Handsome," the sparks are instant and undeniable. As cultural expectations, suitors, and real connection collide, Ria must decide whether following the arranged path means compromising who she is—or if true love was in front of her all along. [Read More]

The Billionaire's Game Plan

by Chloe Horne

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

Instant download

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]

The Tale of the Clock-Heart

by Montrose Starling

Tropes: characterdriven, strongfmc, darkromance

Instant download

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]

Confessions of a Female Dominant. A mother. A mistress. A woman no one really sees

by Ana from Sweden

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, characterdriven

Instant download

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]

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

Instant download

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 Red Spring

by P M Fox

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, foundfamily

Instant download

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]

Lights On: A Spicy Married-Couple Romance

by Lana Wexler

Tropes: steamycontemporary, adult, womensfiction

Instant download

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]