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Talk to Me at Midnight

by Stephanie Harina

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

The voice that once saved her nights is now her trainer at work. Forced out of Bangkok by her dad, Yannie finds comfort in one thing: a mysterious voice who calls her every midnight. He doesn’t know her. She doesn’t know him. And that’s exactly why it works. Until she moves to Manila. And the voice gets a face. Now a teaching intern navigating office politics and Manila slang, Yannie is assigned to Ash Anderson, her serious, exacting English curriculum trainer—who is nothing like the man she talks to every midnight. Except he is that man. To protect her secret, Yannie makes one rule: Ash must never recognize her. Not when he texts her under the table with that ridiculous grin. Not when he stands far too close while demonstrating materials. And definitely not when he singles her out to present in front of everyone… where she’s now a walking disaster in heels. But when her fake deep voice slips, his smirks sharpen, and Ash starts calling her at work, Yannie realizes midnight secrets don’t survive daylight... especially when trouble wears a suit and knows all her confessions. [Read More]

Weddings Coordinated

by Lisa S. Gayle

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, dualpov

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Twin sisters. Two men. One wedding? Danielle and Mallory are as different as can be! And they’re about to get themselves tangled into an unexpected, sticky web of drama. What the twins anticipated being a simple, brilliant plan quickly becomes a complicated mess with both sisters hiding secrets and fighting strong feelings for some incredibly tempting, off-limits men. Mallory needs Danielle to impersonate her at work so she can sneak off to her best friend’s wedding. But how can you pretend to be your twin sister when you’re nothing alike? Danielle finds herself trying to save Mallory’s career while her sister’s demanding, perceptive boss, Ethan, watches her every move. It doesn’t help that she is inexplicably attracted to him when she vows to hate his guts. Meanwhile, Mallory begins to have conflicting feelings for her engaged best friend, Jesse, a sweet, rough-and-tough auto-mechanic who’s been her rock since childhood. Will the twins get caught in their silly plot to hide the truth? Or will they get more than they bargained for? Weddings Coordinated is a standalone, open-door romantic comedy. It features two emotionally charged romances roped together in one hilarious, fast-moving plot! [Read More]

Illumination

by Jane Arro

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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He was never leaving his mountain. She was never staying. FBI Special Agent Mason Quade has spent eleven years learning to read the North Carolina high country he calls home. He knows every trail, every hollow, and every quiet person who lives there. He does not know what to do when Washington sends him Dr. Kyla West. A forensic entomologist with a fortress built out of nine years and one careful rule, Kyla has come to figure out why a hundred thousand synchronous fireflies have vanished from a cove that had been full of them a year before. Neither the case nor the woman is what Mason expects, and neither of them is prepared for what happens when their reserved professionalism gives way, night by night, in a two-cot yurt above a dying cove. But something darker than a missing insect population is moving in the mountains around them. And when the case turns from ecology to a foreign operation with reach into their own ground, the careful line Mason and Kyla have been holding will not be enough to keep either of them safe. A literary romantic suspense set in the ancient forests of the southern Appalachians, Illumination is a slow-burn love story about being seen for the first time, and about what a person will risk to keep someone whole. [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]

Mooncrush

by Thain Newborne

Tropes: forbiddenlove, paranormal, suspense

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Step into a world where fate howls, love burns, and freedom is worth fighting for. Kapri Stroud came to Fenris Hollow to escape the noise of her old life. But in the haunted Appalachian Mountains, silence has teeth, the woods remember ancient secrets, and the one thing she never meant to find is the one thing she cannot resist. Jack. Wounded, as dangerous as he is attractive, and bound to the Ashguard Clan by blood, ancient Norse magic, and the Wolf Spirit, Jack should terrify her. Instead, every look from his golden eyes pulls Kapri closer to a truth no fear can bury: some hearts choose long before the mind can stop them. As ancient clans rise and enemies close in, the Wolf Spirits awaken—not as monsters, but as sacred gifts of strength, courage, sacrifice, and love. Together, Kapri and Jack must decide whether to trust the bond growing between them... or let a world determined to control love tear them apart. If you love stories that make your heart race, your soul ache, and your spirit soar, Mooncrush will leave you believing that the strongest force in the world has never been magic or war. It has always been love. Inside these pages you'll feel: The pull of a love that defies destiny. The strength that comes from choosing each other. The wonder of ancient forests where myth still breathes. The hope that even in the darkest night, love refuses to surrender. Open these pages. Let the magic find you. Let love set you free. [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 Control Room - Part 1 - Speculative romantic thriller

by Miriam Khan

Tropes: firstperson, dualpov, trauma

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A little Romeo and Juliet a little Total Recall/Matrix, completely hooked. Aria and Caine come from feuding failes that are fighting for control could they really love each other with so much between them? Part one ends on a clif hanger guess I'll have to read part 2 to find out. April - Amazon reviewer. FIVE STARS. He had planned the perfect revenge—until she came and changed the rules. An encounter with an intriguing stranger on the train leaves nurse Aria Travinni with blood on her hands and in a world she never knew existed. Her wealthy Italian family has always kept dark secrets, but could murder be one of them? As unsettling events begin to unfold, she is forced to question everything she's ever known. Caine Savino has been tracking the Travinni family for years, driven by a single purpose: to avenge the brutal deaths of his parents. Careful, patient, and relentless, he has studied their every move. Their daughter Aria navigates the world without security or suspicion. She should be the perfect target. Boarding the night train, he takes his chance. Only she isn't what he expected. The tables turn, and the hunter becomes the hunted. Because someone—or something—has been watching all along, and has sinister plans for the both of them. The Control Room is a speculative romantic thriller that will pull readers into a world where revenge turns to obsession and destiny refuses to be ignored. [Read More]

Assassins of Shadows and Steel

by B. A. Milsop

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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Bexley and Rosalie were never meant to kneel—they were forged to kill. Once prisoners. Now assassins. The two women have carved their freedom from the throats of the men who tried to own them. Ruthless, feared, and bound by bloodshed, they survive by trusting no one but steel and each other. They are given an impossible mission: steal two ancient relics from the Dark Fae Kingdom before the Dark Lord claims one and unleashes hell upon the realm. But in the lands of the Dark Fae, nothing comes without a price. Every bargain tastes of temptation. Every shadow hides a blade. And the deeper Bexley is pulled into the deadly court of monsters and magic, the more she begins to unravel a prophecy tied to her blood—a prophecy that names her as either the realm’s salvation… or its ruin. As loyalties fracture and desire turns lethal, Bexley must decide how far she is willing to go to survive. Because some flames are meant to consume worlds. And others were born to burn within them. [Read More]

My Hot New Problem

by Devyn Remi

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, paranormal

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When a fox shifter chief has a Skulk to run and a business to get off the ground, he doesn't need a sexy she-wolf distraction in heels to make him lose his senses. Love has burned Elle Lafleur too many times for her to let a silver fox turn her world upside down. The shadows of her past still lurk, threatening to consume everything she's rebuilt. Étienne Renardeau doesn't scare easily. The shadow is dark, and persistent. [Read More]

The Alien Jungle Warlord's Bride

by A.V. Wilcott

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

I crashed on his planet. He found me in the wreckage. Claimed me as his bride. Now the most dangerous warlord in the jungle says I'm his. And his jungle agrees. I'm Elena Parks. Trauma nurse. Engineer. I flew twenty survivors off a dying planet and kept us alive through a crash-landing on an alien world. Twenty women. Twenty different biomes. Twenty alien rulers who claimed us after we arrived. Coincidence? I don't think so. I've survived worse than an alien claiming ceremony. But I wasn't prepared for Rythar. Seven feet of genetically engineered alpha male. Warlord of the Green Reach, where every vine, every predator, every living thing obeys his command. He wanted me before fate ever paired us. Now a mate bond I didn't ask for burns through my skin every time he touches me. His jungle wraps around me like it's trying to keep me. And when an enemy warlord steals me from his fortress, Rythar tears through an army to get me back. I should be focused on finding my friends. Instead, I'm falling in love with an alien who claimed me as his bride. But Rythar knows more than he's telling. And the more I learn about Xytheos, the more our crash feels less like an accident and more like an alien abduction. The Alien Jungle Warlord's Bride is a steamy alien romance with a possessive alpha alien warlord, fated mates, captive-bride dynamic, forced proximity, crash-landing survival, and a dangerous alien whose jungle kills for him but kneels for her. Perfect for fans of Ruby Dixon, Zoey Draven, and Tana Stone. Each book in the Starfallen Brides of Xytheos series is a complete romance, but the Starfallen Brides' story is just beginning—and the conspiracy runs deeper than any of them know. Intended for adults age 18+. Contains on-page violence, captivity, and possessive themes. [Read More]