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When Fate Gets in the Way

by Alex CompLicated

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

A cosy, slow-burn MM romantasy. Michael had a regular job at a restaurant and a simple existence, but one day, instead of walking through a door, he appeared in a forest. Now, a world filled with magic and "elves" required him to defeat the great evil that held it in its grasp. When Fate says you are The Hero, how can you refuse? Besides Michael's journey to fulfil his obligations as a saviour, there's something else: the gorgeous queen of the kingdom is foretold to marry him at the end of his quest. It seems Michael's life in this world is predetermined. Yet there's this butler... They were rivals at first, both despising the obligations that chained them to each other every day. However, as the months passed, something blossomed between them, turning friendship into a craving Michael couldn't quell. The battle and the marriage seemed inescapable, yet how could the desire so intoxicatingly sweet be wrong? "When Fate Gets in the Way" is a cosy fantasy, slow-burn mm romance, slice-of-life adventure where you don't have to worry about whether your favourite character will die, because a happy ending is guaranteed. As the first novel in a planned series, this book aims to bring you comfort and relaxation after a stressful day, or simply to keep you company in this complicated life. Content note: Content note: the book is sweet and cosy overall, but it has an explicit scene and a descriptive battle towards the end. [Read More]

An Improper Arrangement

by M.J. Fallon

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

17 readers reading

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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]

His Little Witness

by Kindra Cress

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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He was sent to make me disappear. He wasn't supposed to want me for himself. I recorded a murder. One shake video, one VIP room I should never have served, one man who looked straight into my phone and smiled, and now the most powerful men in the city want me erased before sunrise. Then he found me first. Silas doesn't ask. He doesn't comfort. He shows up like a blade in a tailored shirt and tells me I have ten seconds to choose: walk away and die, or come with him and lose every piece of the life I used to have. Cold-blooded, ruthlessly efficient, and absolutely not allowed to touch me, he's the man Blackwater sends when there's nothing left to save. But he touches me anyway.. Every safehouse gets burned. Every alias gets cracked. Someone inside his own organization is feeding me to the wolves, and Silas just promised he'd torch Blackwater to the ground before he let them take me. God help me, because I want to watch him do it. A dark, possessive, slow-burn romantic suspense for readers who like their heroes lethal, their heroines sharp-tongued, and their tension thick enough to cut. Forced proximity. One bed (eventually). A man who was supposed to be untouchable until he met her. HIS LITTLE WITNESS is Book 1 in the Blackwater series. Reader note:Steamy, explicit, and intense. Contains on-page violence, themes of stalking and surveillance, and a hero whose protective instincts run very, very dark. [Read More]

Just Her Holiday Type

by Brisa Carleton

Tropes: forcedproximity, firstperson, dualpov

“Funny, romantic, and magical. I wanted to curl up inside this story until Christmas.” - Abby Jimenez, #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Every December Plum Hayes writes the kind of cozy Christmas romance movies her readers watch and love. Too bad she stopped believing in holiday magic the night her own happily-ever-after fell apart. Two weeks from deadline and out of holiday spirit, she's been packed off to Pine Tree, a snow-globe town with all the charm but surprisingly few of the Christmas traditions for which it used to be known. There she finds the typewriter. And the typewriter magically manifests her leading man, named, dressed, and behaving to her exact specifications. Zach is perfect. The problem is Ethan. Ethan, the no-nonsense, flannel-wearing owner of the antique shop downstairs, who is holding things together with his own two hands, says inconvenient true things, and looks at her in a way no script could ever quite capture. With Christmas Eve closing in and her deadline looming, Plum is going to have to choose between the perfect man and the right one. Just Her Holiday Type is a sweet, swoony, laugh-out-loud Christmas romcom about deadlines, do-overs, and what happens when you stop writing the script and start living it. For anyone who's ever wanted to believe in holiday magic again. [Read More]

Sparks in Iceland

by Mandi Lynn Bell

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

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When you find out your best friend has feelings for you, do you confront him, or do you pretend nothing happened and set him up on a date with someone else? Harper’s dream trip to Iceland is officially falling apart. First, her roommate cancels at the last minute. Then her childhood best friend, Luke, volunteers to take the extra ticket. It seemed like the perfect solution until Harper realized they’d be sharing hotel rooms, which only have one bed. The real disaster happens when Harper accidentally reads a text on Luke’s phone, revealing that he’s been in love with her for years and plans to confess his feelings on the trip. Harper is left in a downward spiral, wondering how she can stop the confession before it happens. In an effort to gently turn him down, Harper sets Luke up on a date while they’re in Iceland. However, her plan backfires when jealousy emerges right as Luke begins to move on. Has Harper fallen for Luke too late, or is there still a chance for this lifelong friendship to turn into something more? Filled with witty banter, slow-burn tension, travel adventure, and plenty of “just kiss already” moments, Sparks in Iceland is a sweet romantic comedy perfect for readers who love friends-to-lovers romances, forced proximity, and emotionally chaotic characters who can’t admit they’re in love. [Read More]

His Little Witness

by Kindra Cress

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

34 readers reading

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He was sent to make me disappear. He wasn't supposed to want me for himself. I recorded a murder. One shake video, one VIP room I should never have served, one man who looked straight into my phone and smiled, and now the most powerful men in the city want me erased before sunrise. Then he found me first. Silas doesn't ask. He doesn't comfort. He shows up like a blade in a tailored shirt and tells me I have ten seconds to choose: walk away and die, or come with him and lose every piece of the life I used to have. Cold-blooded, ruthlessly efficient, and absolutely not allowed to touch me, he's the man Blackwater sends when there's nothing left to save. But he touches me anyway.. Every safehouse gets burned. Every alias gets cracked. Someone inside his own organization is feeding me to the wolves, and Silas just promised he'd torch Blackwater to the ground before he let them take me. God help me, because I want to watch him do it. A dark, possessive, slow-burn romantic suspense for readers who like their heroes lethal, their heroines sharp-tongued, and their tension thick enough to cut. Forced proximity. One bed (eventually). A man who was supposed to be untouchable until he met her. HIS LITTLE WITNESS is Book 1 in the Blackwater series. Reader note:Steamy, explicit, and intense. Contains on-page violence, themes of stalking and surveillance, and a hero whose protective instincts run very, very dark. [Read More]

Crosswind

by Gabi Prevot

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

Senior flight attendant Sloane Reyes had one rule about hookups on the job. Then she flew to Reykjavík, broke a different rule with an Icelandic textile artist at one in the morning, and boarded the return leg to Boston with the captain's card in her breast pocket and the captain himself in the left seat for another eight hours. Nobody tells you what to do with the return leg. Nobody tells you that Mr. Westbrook from Boston Back Bay — who watched her work the outbound and did not touch the call button once — is going to be a passenger again with a folded piece of paper in his hand and a job pitch that is actually a job pitch. That the woman in row 4A is going to be a retired oncologist who has decided, twenty-two years into hearing other people's real stories, to be told one more. That the weather over Boston is going to close, hard, and put the whole crew down in a Halifax airport hotel for a night that is not on any schedule. And that Captain Marek Reeves is going to knock on her hotel room door at seven-eleven p.m. local, and say the sentence Sloane has been waiting one hundred and fifty flights for someone to finally say to her. The captain was for later. Later is tonight. Crosswind is Book 2 of the Cabin Crew series — the return flight, the weather divert, the hotel-room payoff of the slow burn Book 1 promised. Spicy contemporary romance (18+). Bi FMC; the F/F thread continues on-page. Publishes October 13, 2026. Free ARC in exchange for an honest review on launch day. Read Book 1 first: Cabin Pressure. [Read More]

When Fate Gets in the Way

by Alex CompLicated

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

A cosy, slow-burn MM romantasy. Michael had a regular job at a restaurant and a simple existence, but one day, instead of walking through a door, he appeared in a forest. Now, a world filled with magic and "elves" required him to defeat the great evil that held it in its grasp. When Fate says you are The Hero, how can you refuse? Besides Michael's journey to fulfil his obligations as a saviour, there's something else: the gorgeous queen of the kingdom is foretold to marry him at the end of his quest. It seems Michael's life in this world is predetermined. Yet there's this butler... They were rivals at first, both despising the obligations that chained them to each other every day. However, as the months passed, something blossomed between them, turning friendship into a craving Michael couldn't quell. The battle and the marriage seemed inescapable, yet how could the desire so intoxicatingly sweet be wrong? "When Fate Gets in the Way" is a cosy fantasy, slow-burn mm romance, slice-of-life adventure where you don't have to worry about whether your favourite character will die, because a happy ending is guaranteed. As the first novel in a planned series, this book aims to bring you comfort and relaxation after a stressful day, or simply to keep you company in this complicated life. Content note: Content note: the book is sweet and cosy overall, but it has an explicit scene and a descriptive battle towards the end. [Read More]

The Mist of Desire

by Devyn Remi

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, dualpov

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Rami has tried to leave his past in the Mist. Love taught him a lesson he doesn't intend to repeat. He's poured his heart into his tech empire and helping his family. But when a heated encounter with a she-wolf dismantles everything, he thought was closed off, he wonders if this is just another beautiful way to get hurt again. August knows her chances at forever are over. All she wants is a mate to do life with. Life has taught her better. When a mysterious phoenix shifter walks into her world, she knows the Mist will leave her changed forever. "All I want is to run my businesses and forget how cruel love has been. I'll never get my forever, but this phoenix shifter has other plans. Letting him in is dangerous. So why do I want him anyway?" — August "Binary is easy, one plus one is two, but love isn't. I could code in my sleep, so why does love keep getting in like a Trojan I installed myself? I'd pay the ransom and I don't know why." — Rami [Read More]

An Improper Arrangement

by M.J. Fallon

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

17 readers reading

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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]