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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]

Little Wild Thing

by Freyja Dunkirk

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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Hiding had been the only way to stay free—until Wulf found me. Now I don’t know if I still want to run. I don't trust the Red Mountain Clan, least of all Wulf, an overgrown fleabag who won't leave me alone. I hate his voice. His calm. His presence. I do! The moment my bones are mended, I'm gone. I have to be. I need to leave before Cain gets here and forces a claim. No one has ever protected me. Why should Wulf be the first? An adult paranormal romance set in a gritty early medieval world. When a solitary wolf shifter is injured and forced into the care of a fiercely protective clan warrior, survival gives way to trust, healing, and an intense slow-burn romance. [Read More]

Marked in Blood

by Emmett Vance

Tropes: forcedproximity, dualpov, darkromance

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He cut his own hand instead of mine. It was the kindest thing he ever did to me. They sold me to the Sasso syndicate to seal ninety days of peace — a hostage, a clause in a contract, blood witnessed across two open palms while two armies watched. The new boss was supposed to be a monster. Kiril Sasso is worse than that, and better: a wreck of a man with shaking hands and a cruel mouth, so certain he ruins everything he touches that he'd rather bury me than risk keeping me. He locks the doors. He swears he'll end me when the ninety days run out. And when he reaches for me in the dark, he does it rough, like a man taking the one thing he's sure he isn't allowed. I was thrown away once, a long time ago. I learned the wrong lesson from it: I don't leave. Not when he's cruel. Not when he shoves me toward the door. Not when there's a debt in a ledger neither of us has seen, waiting a very long time to come due. So I'll do the one thing that terrifies a man who's never been kept. When the doors finally open — I'll stay. ═══════ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT ═══════ ✦ Dark M/M Mafia Romance — Enemies to Lovers, Blood Vow ✦ Self-destructive boss × hostage who won't break (he cuts his own hand instead of yours) ✦ Forced Proximity — ninety days, one locked house ✦ Hurt/Comfort, Dual POV (Kiril + Eli) — broken man held, not fixed ✦ Explicit, on-page, 18+ — rough turning tender ✦ HEA guaranteed — Book 1 of a trilogy ═══════ CONTENT NOTES ═══════ Explicit on-page M/M sex (18+ / rough turning tender) / self-harm at the blood vow (he cuts his own palm) + blood / captivity + hostage / organized-crime violence / past child abandonment / HEA — not a cliffhanger, but one open season-thread. ═══════ FOR ARC READERS ═══════ If you're here for the dark, welcome home. Marked in Blood is for readers who want the broken one held instead of fixed. Book 1 of three. The Tally trilogy. HEA guaranteed. — Emmett Vance [Read More]

Control of Silence

by Violet Hale

Tropes: forcedproximity, foundfamily, darkromance

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Silence. Control. Redemption. Love. Theo Banning is known as The Ghost — the most feared enforcer of the Pact. Cold. Unreadable. Deadly. The man who never hesitates to pull the trigger... and never lets anyone close enough to see what's hiding beneath the silence. Until her. Dolly Wilson has spent years surviving a man who called his obsession love. She knows what manipulation looks like. She knows what fear feels like. And the last thing she wants is to trust another dangerous man. Especially one like Theo. But behind his terrifying reputation lives a man who protects instead of controls... who listens instead of demands... and who quietly begins loving not only her, but the unborn child she carries. For the first time in both of their lives, home doesn't feel like a place. It feels like a person. But the past refuses to stay buried. As old enemies return, buried secrets surface, and a relentless obsession threatens everything they've built, Theo is forced to face the monster he has spent his entire life trying to keep locked away. Because some ghosts never disappear. And sometimes the greatest battle isn't against the enemy... It's against yourself. Control of Silence is a dark mafia romance featuring a possessive yet protective antihero, single mother romance, emotional healing, found family, touch-her-and-die, forced proximity, morally gray characters, obsession, and a guaranteed HEA. [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]

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 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]

Trending Desire

by Devyn Remi

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, paranormal

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Wyatt Stonewater is used to the glitz and glam. But he wants someone who will see what's beyond the camera lens. Then a massage therapist with the softest touch and sweetest smile holds his attention. Naya Jareth wants a mate and dating her type hasn't worked out. Maybe she needs to let go of her type and see what's out there. When her favorite influencer lands on her massage table, her hands and her heart ache for something she can't have. Can a stallion and a mare gallop over the differences between their worlds when everyone's watching? Admiration is trending. Desire is hotter than the desert heat. But shadows linger beyond the cliffs. Series note: This book is part of the Alluring Shifters series and can be read in any order; no prior books are required. [Read More]

Love Me Hard

by Stellan Blake

Tropes: dualpov, grumpysunshine, lgbt

Julian Hawthorne has built his life around control and discipline. As the youngest professor at Crestview University and the presumed heir to Hawthorne Investments, he has a pristine reputation and intends to keep it that way. Then Beckett Landry walks into his classroom. Twenty-one, confident, and impossible to ignore, Beckett unsettles Julian in ways no student ever should. To the world, Beckett is confident, self-assured, and completely unbothered. What no one sees is the searing loneliness he’s carried for most of his life. Determined to build something better for himself, he carries the pain quietly and presses on. Then Julian makes him feel seen in a way he never has before, offering him a glimpse of a life where loneliness isn’t inevitable. What begins as forbidden attraction soon becomes something neither of them is prepared to lose. But the closer they become, the more they stand to risk. Family pressure mounts, and the threat of exposure puts Julian’s career and Beckett’s future in jeopardy, forcing them to choose between the lives they’ve fought to build and what’s growing between them. Told in alternating dual POV, Love Me Hard is an angsty, forbidden M/M romance about desire, sacrifice, independence, and choosing a love worth fighting for, with a guaranteed happily ever after. [Read More]

Across The River

by Rook Rivers

Tropes: dualpov, newadult, banter

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"Something to remember me by, little painter." Elliot Meyer draws the people he's too scared to talk to. At twenty-three, he's a late-blooming art student in Hoboken with a sketchbook full of strangers he's never once said hello to. Then his roommates drag him across the river to Vesper, a Lower East Side nightclub built inside an old funeral parlor, and Elliot makes the mistake of sketching the man holding court on the marble staircase. Donovan Black wears leather, kohl, and silver on every finger. He hosts the city's most notorious goth night, treats flirting like a blood sport, and lives by exactly one rule: gone before sunrise. By morning, Elliot has a bite on his neck, a black card in his pocket, and a question he can't stop asking. What's your real name? Because Donovan Black is a performance. By day, the man underneath keeps his curtains shut, his phone face down, and his past locked away. He has spent years making sure no one ever sees him in the light. Especially not someone who paints. But Elliot is braver in daylight than he's ever been at night. And the closer he gets to the truth, the closer he comes to the one person Donovan has been running from. Across the River is a moody, funny, aching MM romance about two men learning to stand in each other's light, and what it costs to finally be seen. - Dual POV - Night-owl goth x shy sunshine artist - Opposites attract, hurt/comfort, found family - Standalone with a guaranteed HEA Content note: references to past emotional and sexual abuse, grief, and family estrangement. None of the abuse is depicted explicitly. [Read More]