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14 editor’s picks matching College Romance
Best for readers who enjoy MM romance with opposites-attract chemistry, unconventional relationships, obsessive attraction, and morally questionable behavior.
Sem
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance
Our take
Maggie has noticed the intimidating, reckless man who keeps appearing wherever he goes, but Sem is nothing like the men he usually finds attractive. When Sem breaks into Maggie's apartment and challenges him to an unexpected encounter, the two begin a secret game that gradually becomes something more complicated. Best for readers who enjoy MM romance with opposites-attract chemistry, unconventional relationships, obsessive attraction, and morally questionable behavior.
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Sometimes your dream guy isn’t who you think he is.
Sem has been stalking me for months. He shows up everywhere I am and lurks in the background, his eyes always on me. I don’t understand his fascination with me, but he won’t leave me alone.
He’s definitely not my type. He’s too big, too reckless, and too feral.
But then one night he breaks into my apartment and dares me to do something crazy and I can’t say no.
Then I do it again. And again.
Now it seems we’re both addicted to this secret little game.
But when I begin to see the man beneath the brutish exterior, will falling in love prove to be the most reckless bet yet?
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Best for readers who like steamy MM college romance, athlete-and-tutor pairings, bisexual awakening, humor, and cuddly intimacy.
Until Him
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance
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College athlete Logan Lewis needs academic help from mysterious tutor Theo Reign, but their unusual arrangement develops into a relationship that challenges Logan’s previous assumptions about attraction, with a 4.0-star average from more than 10,300 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like steamy MM college romance, athlete-and-tutor pairings, bisexual awakening, humor, and cuddly intimacy.
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"A heartfelt MM romance with great chemistry, plenty of humor, and a relationship that felt genuinely earned. I loved watching Logan slowly break through Theo’s defenses." - Apropos Books
If there’s one thing I’ve learned this year at college, it’s that things aren’t always what they seem.
I’m Logan Lewis. I’m popular, charming, athletic, and all the girls love me. Yep, I’ve really got it made.
But when I find myself in danger of failing my chemistry class and losing my sports scholarship, I know the only person who can save me is the smartest science tutor on campus.
Theo Reign is brilliant. He’s also cold and antisocial, moody and mean. He looks at me like he hates me, but touches me like he wants me.
There’s something just beneath the surface that draws me in. His secret pain mirrors my own, and I suddenly find myself craving him. I can’t get enough of this mysterious and intriguing man, and though I know what we’re doing is weird and probably toxic, I just can’t seem to let him go.
I never thought I would want another man.
Until him.
Until Him is a steamy M/M college romance with heart, soul, lots of laughs, and of course, cuddling.
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Ideal for readers looking for college sports romance with instant connection, emotional vulnerability, patient pursuit, and hurt-comfort tension.
One-Touch Pass
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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Nate meets Marcos at a party, and seventeen minutes turn into something neither of them can ignore, even as Marcos’s anxiety, stress, and self-doubt make him believe Nate deserves someone else, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 2,300 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for college sports romance with instant connection, emotional vulnerability, patient pursuit, and hurt-comfort tension.
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"One-Touch Pass is a funny, heartfelt gay college romance with great chemistry, a sunny hero worth swooning over, and an emotional arc that lands beautifully." - Apropos Books
Nate meets a stranger at a party, and in the span of seventeen minutes, his life changes.
Marcos meets a stranger at a party and wonders if the universe is laughing at him. His life has become a seemingly endless stream of bad days. Everything is a struggle, from his friendship with Max, to the simple act of changing in the locker room after a baseball game. Stress and anxiety sit so heavy on his shoulders, he can barely function under the weight of it. Starting a relationship is the very last thing he wants or feels he deserves. Particularly when Nate— beautiful, gregarious, and kind Nate— could have anybody he wanted.
If there is one thing Marcos knows, it’s this: Nate deserves someone far better than him.
But despite his best efforts to keep him away, Nate persists. He knows what he wants. He wants Marcos. He wants to coax him out of his shell, take him horseback riding, and treat him right. Seventeen minutes isn’t enough for Nate and Marcos.
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Best for readers who like college hockey romance with forced proximity, enemies-to-friends tension, mistrust, and emotional pining.
On the Edge
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
Our take
Henri Vasel is used to people pleasing, but being partnered with Atlas Kaiser turns classroom animosity into tentative friendship and something more, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like college hockey romance with forced proximity, enemies-to-friends tension, mistrust, and emotional pining.
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"On the Edge is a warm, emotional gay college romance with a lovable sweetheart of a hero, believable chemistry, and a pricklier love interest who takes a little longer to win you over." - Apropos Books
Henri Vasel has perfected the art of people pleasing. He’s a good student, a fair hockey player, and he has a group of friends he’d do anything for. He’s happy. Or, rather, as happy as he can be when he has a class with the one person he can’t seem to please at South Carolina University.
Atlas Kaiser hates a lot of things, but right now he hates Henri Vasel the most. He doesn’t want to have to stare at his perfect face, or listen to his adorable German accent. He wants to be left alone. Unfortunately, they’re partnered together for the semester so he’ll have to grit his teeth and try to make it work.
Animosity morphs into a tentative friendship, which eventually leads to more. But while Atlas doesn’t trust their budding relationship, Henri wants more.
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Best for readers who like college hockey romance, roommates-to-friends tension, pining, and slow-burn emotional stakes.
Shots on Net
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
Our take
Carter Morgan III lives for hockey, but his final stretch at South Carolina University gets complicated when Zeke Cassidy becomes his roommate, his friend, and the person Carter cannot stop wanting, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 5,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like college hockey romance, roommates-to-friends tension, pining, and slow-burn emotional stakes.
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"Shots on Net is a sweet, low-angst gay college romance with great chemistry, believable miscommunication, and a grumpy hockey player worth falling for." - Apropos Books
Carter Morgan III hates everything about South Carolina University except for one thing: hockey. As the starting netminder for the team, he lives for those moments when he can step onto the ice and between the pipes. Unfortunately, his time at school and on the team is slowly coming to an end; although he’d love nothing more than to pursue a career in the NHL, he knows better than to get his hopes up.
Zeke Cassidy needs a place to live. When he answers an advertisement for a roommate, he’s not sure what he is expecting except that it isn’t Carter Morgan III. Carter is unfriendly, aloof, and they have nothing in common; even so, the pair hit it off immediately and become friends.
Carter knows Zeke isn’t interested in being anything beyond friends and roommates. Unfortunately, knowing this doesn’t stop him from hoping for more, no matter how much he tries to convince himself it’s impossible.
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Playing Dirty turns a college rivalry into forbidden attraction when two baseball enemies become stepbrothers under the same roof.
Playing Dirty
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Playing Dirty turns a college rivalry into forbidden attraction when two baseball enemies become stepbrothers under the same roof. Madden Hastings has always been his nemesis, but their blended family forces old hostility into close quarters, where resentment starts to look dangerously like chemistry. This MM sports romance leans into rivalry, loyalty, and the messy line between hating someone and wanting them.
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"Playing Dirty was a fun, satisfying, and entertaining four-star read with great forbidden stepbrother tension, playful enemies-to-lovers banter, and chemistry that felt natural instead of forced. The rivalry felt more like flirting foreplay than overblown drama, and that worked so well." - Apropos Books
Our rivalry formed long before we became siblings.
Madden Hastings has been my nemesis since the day we met.
A divide was born from the age-old rivalry between our universities,
but this year, another layer developed. It became personal.
Because the captain of Blackmore’s baseball team?
He’s also my new step brother.
My disdain for the sudden blending of our families leads to more conflict,
and despite their efforts to force us together, coexisting proves impossible.
But something else starts burning beneath my bitterness and resentment;
an attraction as unexpected as it is potent.
And when the chemistry becomes too powerful to deny,
our already complicated relationship gets even messier.
Because a forbidden fling is one thing, but falling for the enemy?
It forces me into a choice I never wanted to make.
One between loyalty to my team, or the love of my life.
*Playing Dirty is the fourth in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two rivalry-fueled step brothers, a cut-throat game of capture the flag, and sexual tension that oozes off the page. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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Irritation starts to feel dangerous when it gives way to something harder to deny.
Fair Catch
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
Our take
Irritation starts to feel dangerous when it gives way to something harder to deny. In Fair Catch, a guarded college student takes in an infuriating football player as a roommate, expecting chaos and counting the days until he can reclaim his space. Instead, their uneasy truce deepens into closeness, forcing him to choose between the future he planned and a connection that could change everything. This new adult sports romance blends class tension, reluctant intimacy, and emotional risk.
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Catching feelings was never part of the plan.
Taking in Kason Fuller as roommate is meant to be a favor; one I regret immediately.
The bumbling, virgin football player drives me to the brink of sanity, stealing my food, my sleep, my peace and solitude.
My solution? Call a ceasefire.
Get him out on dates and out of my hair.
Yet as our truce shifts, I realize there’s a depth to this connection unlike any I’ve felt before.
It turns out, I don’t mind his presence.
I crave it, along with every morsel I learn about him.
But falling for the guy from the wrong side of the tracks wasn’t in the cards.
And I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Now, I’m at a crossroads between the life I thought I’d have, or risking everything to catch him.
*Fair Catch is the third in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring one extremely *frustrated* virgin, flirtatious roomie dates, and a not-so-sanitary use of butter that will have you clutching your pearls. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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Jealousy is easy to dismiss until it starts looking too much like the truth.
Caught Stealing
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
Our take
Jealousy is easy to dismiss until it starts looking too much like the truth. In Caught Stealing, a fiercely protective friend tries to keep a notorious campus playboy away, only to get pulled into a charged game of pranks, rivalry, and attraction that keeps turning personal. This new adult sports romance builds on buried feelings, loyalty, and slow-burning tension with a playful but emotionally risky edge.
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It's not stealing if he's meant to be mine.
Let me tell you how Holden Sykes operates.
As the campus playboy and one-and-done king, he doesn’t do strings.
Or repeats.
Or names, for that matter.
So when he tries making my best friend the next notch on his bedpost, I react poorly.
Some would call it jealousy or an unrequited crush, but friends protect each other from making mistakes.
The same ones I’ve already made.
Which is why driving Holden away seems like my only option.
Too bad he’s not giving up without a fight.
Each prank leads to another until he turns this into a game far more precarious than intended.
One filled with stolen moments and heated glances, drawing me into his orbit.
But the undeniable attraction simmering between us leaves me caught in the crosshairs of an impossible decision.
Loyalty...or love.
*Caught Stealing is the second in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring a road-tripping rubber ducky, two guys fighting for the upper hand, and enough cock-blocking shenanigans to make your cheeks flush. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age*
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Hatred gets complicated when winning starts to depend on the person you can’t stand.
Iced Out
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
Our take
Hatred gets complicated when winning starts to depend on the person you can’t stand. In Iced Out, two college hockey rivals become reluctant teammates, and their fierce competition takes an unexpected turn when secret hookups seem tied to the team’s success. This new adult sports romance delivers enemies-to-lovers tension, sexual awakening, and emotional friction with a fast, charged edge.
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All's fair in hate and hockey.
My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas.
Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass.
We’re as completely opposite as two people can be; the golden boy and the black sheep.
Constantly at odds or at each other’s throats.
The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top.
I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.
But athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop.
Besides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right?
*Iced Out is the first in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two misunderstood rival teammates, pages of snarky banter, and more secret spicy times than any book should be filled with. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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Never Will I Ever turns a bitter grudge into dangerous attraction when two former teammates are forced into close quarters at summer camp.
Never Will I Ever
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
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Never Will I Ever turns a bitter grudge into dangerous attraction when two former teammates are forced into close quarters at summer camp. After betrayal, banishment, and secrets leave his life in pieces, the last person he wants beside him is Kaleb LaMothe. This new adult MM college romance fits readers looking for earned tension, forced proximity, emotional resistance, and chemistry that grows from real conflict.
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"Never Will I Ever surprised me with a hot, nostalgic summer camp setting that made the enemies-to-lovers romance feel tense, physical, and emotionally earned. The chemistry worked, the spice served the story, and by the end, I immediately wanted the rest of the series." - Apropos Books
He's the one I swore I'd never ever fall for.
A teammate’s betrayal. A banishment. A secret revealed.
That’s all it took to unravel my life at the seams.
The punishment for my past mistakes goes further than expulsion, and penance can only come from the worst hell imaginable:
Summer camp.
Ten weeks spent wrangling a bunch of kids is bad enough, only to get worse when I meet my new co-counselor.
The back-stabber himself.
Kaleb LaMothe.
Being forced to coexist adds more tension to our already shaky foundation, but it also pushes us to uncover deeper parts of each other.
Until animosity becomes a feeling far more dangerous.
An attraction so potent, I lose sight of why I’m stuck in the wilderness to begin with.
And if I’m not careful, I might lose something else entirely.
Like my heart.
*Never Will I Ever is a new adult college romance featuring two quarreling camp counselors, grudges the size of Mount Hood, secretive outdoor rendezvous, and a group of meddling tweens sure to send you into hysterics. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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One impulsive kiss turns certainty into something far more dangerous.
Don’t You Dare
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
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One impulsive kiss turns certainty into something far more dangerous. In Don’t You Dare, a college student starts pushing the boundaries of friendship after a party dare leaves him wanting more from his best friend than either of them expected. This new adult romance leans into bi-curious awakening, emotional risk, and escalating tension as desire starts to threaten everything they already are.
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It was never meant to be more than a dare.
A party game. A dare. A single kiss.
That’s all it took to flip my world upside down.
I’ve always classified myself as straight, and as far as I can tell, so has he.
I didn’t think one kiss would change that, but I was so wrong.
Now, I can’t stop thinking about him. In all the ways I shouldn’t.
My best friend.
Aspen.
His taste is branded in my memory, his touch seared in my skin.
And I want more.
This simmering attraction I feel only grows with passing time.
Which is why I start tossing out new dares.
Riskier ones that toe lines we never thought we’d cross.
I’m gambling with our friendship, knowing it could ruin us.
But there’s so much more at stake here.
Like my heart.
*Don't You Dare is a new adult college romance featuring two best friends, too many baseball puns, scorching dirty talk, and a whole lot of bi-curious exploration. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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Morgan Bridges concludes The Obsidian Order duet with Vicious Society, a 4.3 out of 5 stars dark stalker romance filled with betrayal, rebellion, and scorching obsession.
Vicious Society
Romance · College Romance · Gothic Romance · New Adult
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Morgan Bridges concludes The Obsidian Order duet with Vicious Society, a 4.3 out of 5 stars dark stalker romance filled with betrayal, rebellion, and scorching obsession. The stabby heroine and her touch-her-and-die hero must defy the Order itself to survive. Dark, addictive, and dangerously romantic, this is the epic finale readers have been waiting for.
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The Obsidian Order was never meant to be defied. Xavier has spent his life surviving its brutal Trials, rising through a world where loyalty is conditional and power demands blood. But rebellion burns in his chest—and its name is Delilah. She’s his obsession, his bride, his little raptor. For her, he would destroy everything.
Delilah wanted freedom. Instead, she uncovered secrets darker than she imagined and bound herself to the man she once tried to kill. Now Xavier is both her cage and her protector, the only one standing between her and a society that wants them silenced.
The Bride Hunt was only the beginning. To win their love, and their lives, they’ll have to fight an empire of shadows.
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