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Tell Me: Reign of Krovavy

by Layla Cornell

Tropes: forcedproximity, firstperson, darkromance

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She didn't choose him. The system did, claiming they were 90% compatible. In a world rebuilt from collapse, the AI doesn't ask what you want. Talia's file says she belongs to Timur Arsanov. No interviews. No consent. No way out. They call him Krovavy. Bloody. A warlord who didn't survive the war by being gentle, and who has no intention of being gentle with her either. He doesn't court her. He doesn't ask. He claims her the way he claims everything — like it was always his to take. Talia knows she should hate him. She knows the system that paired them is broken, that nothing about this is a choice. But surviving Timur means learning him — the discipline beneath the brutality, the control that isn't just cruelty, the moments he almost looks at her like she's more than property. She wasn't supposed to want to understand him. She definitely wasn't supposed to crave the way he looks at her like she's already his. This is not a soft love story. This is forced proximity with no escape hatch, a power imbalance that doesn't resolve itself in chapter three, and a hero who earns nothing — he simply takes. If you like your dark romance with dubious consent, a possessive warlord hero, and a heroine who finds her place in a world that is against her — Reign of Krovavy is for you. THIS IS THE FRIST BOOK IN THE TELL ME SERIES. 🖤 18+ only. Dark themes throughout. [Read More]

Bloodbound Moon

by Sicara J Weaver

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, paranormal

Some loves demand sacrifice. Winifred has already lost too much. Her coven, those who trusted her, and the man who almost stole her heart. She swears she’ll save them all. The only thing she has left is a fragment of a forbidden grimoire and the burning vow to bring back those she lost from the dead, no matter the cost. Her search leads her to Ireland, where every stone whispers of old magic and something lurks in every shadow. There she collides with Connor, a half-demon whose visions foretell only blood and ruin should she succeed. He offers his help—but his secrets are darker than the bargains he makes, and his heart is the one risk she never planned to take. As Winifred hunts for the final pieces of the ritual, the line between salvation and damnation blurs. To raise the dead, she must gamble with her own soul… and decide if love is worth binding herself to darkness forever. [Read More]

Floodlights

by Maria D'Angeles

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, smalltown

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"A sapphic love story set on the football fields of Brazil — a quiet, luminous story about being seen before you are ready." Marina had always understood the game before she understood herself. On the training fields of her Brazilian neighborhood, recognition happened quietly — through movement, through timing, through the way certain players began to see each other before anyone else did. When a place on the national team training list began to come into view, the field that had always been hers started to change. Dani read the game differently. Watched differently. Moved toward Marina in ways that were difficult to name and harder to ignore. As federation attention tightened and the neighborhood began to claim Marina as one of its own successes, the space between them became something neither of them could pretend not to feel. "Defenders moved differently when Dani played. Tighter. Closer together. Like birds adjusting their flight a moment before the storm arrives — because birds know what the sky is about to do long before the rain knows it is falling." Set in the streets, kitchens, and small stadiums of contemporary Brazil, Floodlights is a slow-burn literary romance about the women who raise us, the moments that ask everything of us, and the connections that begin long before either person knows what they are becoming together. For readers of Sarah Waters, Madeline Miller, and Bryan Washington — for anyone who loves literary sapphic fiction with restraint, atmosphere, and emotional weight. Set against the world of Brazilian women's football, Floodlights is a debut novel of family, ambition, and the quiet kind of love that arrives before either person knows what to call it. [Read More]

Abundance of Obsession

by Violet Hale

Tropes: firstperson, darkromance, multipov

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Obsession. Vengeance. Trauma. Love. Fear made her survive. Obsession made him dangerous. Eli Montgomery was raised to become a weapon for the Pact—cold, controlled, and loyal only to the empire built on blood. As the organization’s feared General, he knows exactly how monsters are created. And he became one willingly. Then he meets Zoe Monroe. Beautiful. Broken. Secretive. A woman with darkness living behind her eyes and revenge stitched into her soul. She was never supposed to matter to him. But from the moment she walks into his world, Eli’s obsession turns vicious. Protecting her becomes instinct. Touching her becomes addiction. Loving her becomes the one weakness that could destroy everything. Because Zoe isn’t just hiding secrets. She’s hunting the men who ruined her life. And when her past catches up to her, Eli discovers there’s no line he won’t cross for her. No law he won’t break. No body he won’t burn. Not even if it starts a war. Now trapped between vengeance, trauma, and a love powerful enough to ruin them both, Zoe and Eli are about to learn the most dangerous truth of all: Sometimes the person who saves you… becomes the darkest part of your soul. Abundance of Obsession is a dark mafia romance featuring possessive love, trauma healing, morally gray characters, violent themes, and obsessive devotion. [Read More]

Seasons of War

by Lindsay French

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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Dark Dystopian Romance Sergeant Zayne Riven was born to take his father's place as the emperor's right hand man, but he has plans of his own. Trapped inside the corrupt regime he wishes to dismantle, Zayne plays loyal war hero while secretly fighting both sides of the war. He is determined to rise to the top and destroy the emperor, even if it means destroying his soul along the way. That is until one political prisoner shatters all of his plans. The emperor has captured the rebel woman Zayne once secretly saved. The woman he could never stop thinking about. And now Zayne has been ordered to break her spirit and use her to crush the uprising. Kira Stiles is a true revolutionary. She papers alleyways with forbidden news and hijacks the emperor's magi-tech to write messages of rebellion across the sky. And she would die a thousand deaths before helping the emperor destroy the rebels. Captivity will not break her, not even at the hands of the grumpy and brooding Sergeant Riven. But as her imprisonment stretches on, Kira begins to suspect that the infamous war hero Zayne Riven may not the heartless loyalist he seems. He may secretly be as dangerous to the emperor as she is. Zayne faces an impossible choice. Her life or the fate of the entire rebellion. [Read More]

From Planet #817 With Love

by Chad Morris

Tropes: firstperson, newadult, suspense

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SHOULD HE FIGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY... OR FOR LOVE? That’s the question 23-year-old Jax Martin will eventually have to consider. You see, right now his life is rather idyllic. He’s an android technician with a good job, an exceptional family, and a charming fiancée. He couldn’t ask for more. But there’s just one problem: he lives on a tumultuous exoplanet. Orbiting a giant blue star, the world is home to oversized scorpions, defective AI, flying reptiles, and corporate monopolies. Unknown to Jax, an explosive war looms on the horizon—one that threatens to upend his tranquil life completely. Everything will be on the line, including his relationship with his fiancée. Can they survive the approaching calamity? From Planet #817 With Love is their incredible story. [Read More]

Justice Denied

by Marle Berry

Tropes: slowburn, adventure, suspense

A kidnapped criminal defense lawyer branded a fugitive by police and a rule-breaking, rogue detective who tries to help her must get over their past combative roles. A history of suspicion and underlying attraction, suppressed and never explored, makes their cooperation a challenge. Their fateful decisions expose them to unforeseen deadly threats and life changing consequences. [Read More]

Keeping a Nymph's Heart

by R.S. Rochelle

Tropes: forcedproximity, forbiddenlove, magic

Nymph. Hero. Murderer. Orla didn’t want to be anyone’s hero; she wanted to be left alone. For years, Orla created a life away from the elven army, where she could avoid her past sins. Prestige, fighting, friendships. She left it all behind when disaster struck because she couldn’t control her magic. But when her king sends for her, she’s forced to face the ghosts of her failures. Now a lord from a rival kingdom has arrived, shaking the foundation of what she thought she knew about herself. Orla must choose if loving him is worth facing her past or if she should run from it. Again. Bastard. Lord. Traitor. Owain has only ever wanted one thing: the respect of his people. But elves don’t respect bastards, even if they’re the son of a king. Now Owain has the chance to prove that he’s more than just an illegitimate son. His plan was working; until Orla, the nymph who brought ruin to his battalion and killed the heir to his kingdom. She was everything he had ever wanted and the one person he could never have. [Read More]

Hex of All Hats

by Brian Keith Dye

Tropes: magic, multipov, foundfamily

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Janessa Miro has one rule: keep the wards intact and the drinks flowing. As The Spot’s resident wardwright and bartender, she keeps Chicago’s most notorious cross-dimensional speakeasy stitched together with duct tape, sarcasm, and sigilcraft. But when a ley line flickers and a Whisperbind blooms through the anchor wards, it isn’t sabotage—it’s personal. Someone has forged her magical style, infected the bar’s foundation, and tied the corruption to her blood. Now the Magus Arcanum is circling. The Faerie Courts are listening. And former mentor turned heretic Marlowe Finch is orchestrating something beneath the city in a cathedral called the Hollow Chord. As ancient runes begin surfacing across Chicago, Janessa discovers the attack against The Spot is only the first fracture in something far older than the Arcanum wants to admit. The magic inside her isn’t behaving like a curse. It’s remembering. With fellow wardwright Callum Shaw, Grimalkin thief Lysandra Vex, and dimension-folding barkeep Eddie Ramirez at her side, Janessa races to stop the Seal beneath The Spot from unraveling before Chicago becomes the center of a supernatural collapse. Because every lock has a cost. Every curse leaves a mark. And some curses don’t bind you—they build you. [Read More]

Assassins of Shadows and Steel

by B. A. Milsop

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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]

The Divide

by Marie Nightwell

Tropes: slowburn, forbiddenlove, darkromance

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Elowen is days from a crown she isn't ready for and a secret that will burn her court to the ground. She has no room for distractions; no room for a human man who shouldn't exist in her world at all. Levin has one rule about the fae; stay away from them. The fae killed his mother. He knows this. He's known it his whole life. He can't stay away from her. What grows between them is older than either of them — fated, ancient, unstoppable. In Thornhaven, there is only one law that matters more than all the others. A queen who bonds with a human doesn't lose her throne. She loses her life. Dual POV. Slow burn. Explicit. For readers of Sarah J. Maas. [Read More]

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]

Whispers of Shadows

by Royalty Sky

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, foundfamily

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Donna Monique has never missed a target. Not once. She moves through the dark like it belongs to her, precise and controlled, the kind of assassin who finishes the job and disappears before the body cools. Trained at St Raphael & Seraphim to turn gifted kids into weapons, she’s learned to lock every feeling down tight Until the contract arrives sealed in black wax and carrying her mother’s name as payment. Her mark is Alessandro Vieri, the young Don of the Shadow Realm. Half vampire, half werewolf, a beautiful, terrifying contradiction who rules part of an underworld already circling the edge of war. Vampire nobles want him gone. Wolf factions are restless. Human hunters are sharpening silver. And Alessandro? He knows she’s coming. What should have been a clean kill turns into something far more dangerous the second he catches her wrist instead of her throat. Now the assassin has to choose. Finish the job she was paid for, or protect the one man who makes her feel like she might finally be more than the weapon they turned her into. [Read More]

Shattered Edges

by Marion Thomas

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

A contemporary dark romance about forbidden love and ambition in elite competitive figure skating and what happens when survival leaves no safe choices. (warning: contains graphic, explicit language and mature themes) Richard Hale has spent his life on the ice, chasing precision, relevance, and a career that refuses to wait for anyone. When his skating partner walks away he’s left staring down the quiet, humiliating end of everything he’s built. His younger sister Holly faces the same erasure when her partner’s injury ends her season overnight, leaving her suddenly expendable. The solution is obvious, dangerous and unthinkable. Forced to skate together by circumstance and desperation, Richard and Holly form a partnership that some think shouldn’t exist. On the ice, their connection is undeniable. Off it, the pressure fractures restraint, blurring lines they were never meant to cross and leaving them scrutinized by a world eager to judge what it doesn’t understand. As Nationals loom, obsession threatens to eclipse reason, and desire threatens to destroy the very thing they’re fighting to save. [Read More]

The City of the Gods: Silver

by Zach Erwin

Tropes: mystery, horror, urbanfantasy

Raymond Chandler meets early 1960s Marvel Comics. When a god is murdered in front of Private Investigator Skip Gibson, he finds himself at the heart of a storm brewing in Empire City, especially since the victim was Skip's best lead in the disappearance of a brilliant rocket scientist tied to the U.S. space program. Now, with the other gods turning vengeful and the city on the brink, Skip is pulled into Empire's shadowy depths. A secretive cult, mass graves hidden beneath the streets, and a conspiracy decades in the making threaten to consume everything in their path. With divine wrath tearing the city apart, Skip must rely on a patchwork crew of unlikely allies to uncover the truth, stop the chaos, and stay alive long enough to connect the cosmic dots. In a world where gods bleed and mortals dare to dig too deep, solving the case might be the only way to save what's left of Empire City. [Read More]

Beneath the Breakers

by Ava Shadow

Tropes: slowburn, suspense, enemiestolovers

Beneath the Breakers is a clean romantic suspense about buried secrets, dangerous truths, and a love that refuses to stay in the past. When Elena returns to Harbor Pine, the last person she expects to need is Calder Vance, her best friend’s older brother and the man she’s never quite forgotten. But when sabotage and long-buried secrets begin to surface, trusting him may be the only way to survive. [Read More]

DENIED: Her Private Lesson

by M. K. Hayes

Tropes: slowburn, forbiddenlove, dualpov

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She taught him how not to disappear. Now she wants to be the only place he feels real. Elliot Harper has spent years making himself small: back row, eyes down, hoodie pulled low, silence ready before anyone can laugh. Brooke Ellison was the first teacher who saw exactly what he was doing—and refused to let him keep doing it. After graduation, she is supposed to be helping him prepare for college: essays, orientation, confidence, ordinary rooms that still feel impossible to enter. But Brooke’s corrections become the only language Elliot trusts. Her praise becomes proof. Her denial becomes hunger. And the more she teaches him to stand on his own, the more she wants to be the woman he comes back to. He is eighteen, legal, no longer her student, and still too shaped by the room where she first saved him. She is twenty-five, controlled enough to know better, and lonely enough to mistake possession for care. When a girl his own age offers him something normal, Brooke has to face the truth she has been trying not to name: she did not only want to save him. She wanted him to stay hers. DENIED: Her Private Lesson is a forbidden age-gap romance about shame, praise, control, jealousy, healing, and the dangerous line between being seen and being possessed. Perfect for readers who like slow-burn taboo romance, emotionally intense power dynamics, older woman/younger man tension, and desire that feels wrong before it feels inevitable. This is a standalone romance with a HEA. Intended for readers 18+. [Read More]

The Unburied Sins

by Marion Thomas

Tropes: forcedproximity, forbiddenlove, darkromance

New Release! The Sequel to Flesh and Blood A Dark Historical Fiction Romance After the shocking events of Flesh and Blood, Jack and Abigail Dalton have built their new life of wealth and respectability in Pittsburgh where they are admired, adored and trusted until a watchful enemy begins uncovering their secrets and the truth of what binds them together; their marriage is a sin that would ruin them, their fortune is built on blood and their past is a story they have sworn never to tell. They must decide how ruthless they are willing to become to protect the only truth that survived the past... they thought the worst thing they had done was fall in love... they were wrong. For readers who love dark historical drama and forbidden romance and psychological tension, Marion Thomas’ sequel to Flesh and Blood The Unburied Sins is a gothic tale of erotic obsession, secrecy, and the price of protecting the life you stole from fate. (contains explicit graphic language and mature themes) [Read More]

Fate's Gift: The Complete Duology

by Melanie A. Smith

Tropes: paranormal, suspense, steamycontemporary

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Two steamy fated love psychic suspense romances, now together with bonus epilogue… Last Kiss Under the Mistletoe CJ Roberts has spent her life hiding her ability to See the future — a gift that's more curse than blessing. But when she falls for Drew Davies, a talented chef with no patience for mysteries, a horrifying vision forces her to choose: reveal her secret to save his life, or lose him forever. As danger closes in and the holidays approach, CJ discovers that changing fate comes with a price — and some futures are worth fighting for. Last Kiss Goodbye Matt Roberts has spent his life hiding his ability to See the past with a single touch—a gift he used to help put a killer away. But when he falls for Anna Martella, a woman who survived the impossible, the murders begin again. The killer he helped cage had an accomplice, and they're coming for Anna. As the police close in on him and danger stalks the woman he loves, Matt discovers that seeing the past means nothing if he can't change the future. [Read More]

Song of the Chintāmaṇi: A Steamy Ancient India Historical Romance

by M. P. Gupta

Tropes: forcedproximity, adventure, foundfamily

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She can read the manuscript men are killing to possess. He has been ordered to keep her alive. To survive the road, they must call their lie a marriage. Gupta-era ancient India, 400 CE. Vachana Devagupta is the only scholar alive who can read the scattered fragments her mother died protecting. When the imperial court sends her after the sacred relic hidden within them, she is placed under the protection of Commander Aryaman — disciplined, watchful, and dangerous to anyone who threatens her. Across river roads, temple archives, gilded courts, and deadly ambushes, they hunt a secret powerful men would kill to control. To move unseen, they must travel as husband and wife. One story. One room. One bed. The marriage is a lie. What it awakens is not. Song of the Chintāmaṇi is a steamy, open-door historical romance with fake marriage, forced proximity, only one bed, a brilliant scholar heroine, a protective warrior hero, sacred mystery, political danger, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Book One of The Nāda Codex. [Read More]

April When They Wed

by Pamela Sherwood

Tropes: dualpov, humor, historical

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The best laid plans… At twenty-three, Lady Madeline Lyons is considered almost “on the shelf,” so her family is delighted when she falls in love with Hugo Lowell, Viscount Saxby. But with only days left before their wedding, a series of mishaps threaten to derail the carefully planned event. It’s a test of love, nerves, and patience as Madeline and Hugo grapple with inclement weather, last-minute venue changes, malfunctioning appliances, and an attendant “in the family way.” Meanwhile, the often-contentious Lyons Pride must pull together to help overcome these obstacles and give the bride and groom a day to remember.   A direct sequel to The Advent of Lady Madeline, April When They Wed is the first entry in The Lyons Brides, a mini-series set within the family saga, The Lyons Pride. [Read More]

The Carpenter's Second Chance

by Dan Leonard

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, foundfamily

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When Ellie Marsh returns to Laurel Ridge to renovate and sell her late grandmother's cottage, falling in love is not part of the plan. Single dad Nate Calloway has spent years keeping his world small: his daughter, his work, and the town he's always called home. But as they work side by side to restore the cottage, Ellie finds herself falling for more than the town she left behind. She finds herself caring about a guarded carpenter and the thoughtful little girl who's spent years wishing for someone to braid her hair. Now, with summer drawing to a close, and difficult choices ahead, Nate and Ellie must decide whether protecting their hearts is worth losing the home, family, and future they've unexpectedly found. A heartwarming small-town romance filled with second chances, found family, slow-burn romance, and a happily-ever-after. [Read More]

I Already Planned My Retirement: A Vampire Romance Series

by Shanna Lee

Tropes: slowburn, paranormal, youngadult

Colette Briars has had her retirement perfectly planned since she was a kid, every detail neat, quiet, and under control… or so she thought. One fateful run in with a charming teenage vampire, Theo Dragos, sends her plans spiraling into chaos. Now she’s stuck choosing between the life she carefully organized and a romance she never saw coming. [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]