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Professional rivalry turns personal when two journalists who cannot stand each other must pretend to be in love.
Cover Story
Romance · RomCom
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Professional rivalry turns personal when two journalists who cannot stand each other must pretend to be in love. In Cover Story, Bel’s pursuit of a career-defining investigation forces her to fake a relationship with Connor, an intern rebuilding his life after walking away from everything stable. As ambition, pride, and buried vulnerabilities collide, the line between performance and genuine connection grows increasingly fragile.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets The Hating Game in this heartfelt, witty, and utterly unputdownable enemies-to-lovers romance from international bestseller Mhairi McFarlane, about two journalists who must fake a relationship in order to land a huge story.
Bel has just landed a job at the Manchester office of a big national newspaper, coming off the success of her latest award-winning podcast. The team is small, consisting of Bel, her ambitious colleague Aaron, and the new intern. But when the internturns out to be a thirtysomething man called Connor, she’s not impressed. She’s patronizing, he’s hostile: it’s a terrible start.
Connor’s life is in a state of collapse. He’s left his seemingly perfect life in London—a well-paying job, great apartment, and beautiful girlfriend—for a chance to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a reporter. After a bad first impression with Bel, his internship begins to feel like another in a series of poor decisions. But if Connor were honest with himself, she’s the first bit of excitement he’s felt in a very long time.
When Bel suddenly finds herself at the heels of a huge story, she’s determined to see it through— even if it means involving the inscrutable and aloof Connor. Before they know it, they must convince people they’re not just a couple, but a couple madly in love. If they mess up, Bel’s cover is blown and the biggest story she’ll ever have landed will disappear, along with justice for its sources.
But as time goes on, Bel and Connor start to wonder if their cover story is just an act, or if their feelings are real…
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A hopeful proposal planner and a romance resistant professor enter a fake relationship that benefits them both, until feelings complicate the deal.
The Mr. Right Checklist
Romance · Contemporary Romance · RomCom
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A hopeful proposal planner and a romance resistant professor enter a fake relationship that benefits them both, until feelings complicate the deal. Forced proximity and opposites attract tension fuel this steamy romantic comedy. The Mr. Right Checklist holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and more than 4,000 Goodreads ratings from fans of heartfelt contemporary romance.
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A free-spirited proposal planner and a grumpy professor form a hilarious and unexpected situationship that just might lead to more in this steamy romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster.
Dog groomer and budding marriage-proposal planner Destiny Amor believes in true love and happily ever afters. Though it’s not in the stars for her yet—honestly, who can live up to the criteria on her Mr. Right Checklist?—she wants it for others. When Destiny’s first misguided attempt at romance concierge ends in disaster, she’s ready to call it quits, until the supposed groom-to-be steps in with a proposal of his own.
Ryan “Fletch” Fletcher, a divorced-and-never-going-there-again professor, needs to get his matchmaking family off his back, and the disorganized, too-in-love-with-love proposal planner is the perfect solution. He offers to help Destiny get her business on track, if she’ll play the part of his adoring girlfriend at his brother’s wedding.
A professional situationship with her grumpy dog-grooming client? Destiny adores his pup, and she could put up with him to get her business off the ground. With any luck, she might even get that chip about love off his shoulder.
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At a cliffside academy that forges students into weapons, a convicted killer searches for her sister’s murderer.
Shadebound
Romantasy · Dark Romance · Romantic Suspense
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At a cliffside academy that forges students into weapons, a convicted killer searches for her sister’s murderer. In Shadebound, Jinx Draconis serves her sentence at Mors Academy while guarding her magicless brother and hunting the shadow stalking the halls. As rivalries ignite and forbidden attraction simmers, this dark fantasy academy romance delivers enemies to lovers tension, brutal training, and vengeance sharpened by prophecy.
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Every killer needs a muse, and she happens to be his.
Jinx Draconis was sentenced to Mors Academy for a string of violent crimes she doesn’t regret.
Her only mistake? Not killing the right person.
Oh, and accidentally getting her magicless younger brother locked up with her.
Now she’s trapped in a brutal cliffside military prison disguised as a school.
Where magic is weaponized, students are wicked.
And each of them is being forged into a killer to fight the plague of monsters destroying their home world.
Jinx doesn’t want redemption. She doesn’t even care about surviving her sentence.
All she wants is revenge, and to protect the only sibling she has left.
And when students start turning up dead—murdered just like her twin sister—Jinx suspects the killer she meant to destroy might be trapped inside with her.
As if she didn’t have enough on her plate, some of the men haunting the halls come with baggage she swore she doesn't feel:
like her childhood sweetheart who told her he loved her, then disappeared without a word,
or the enemy born of a centuries-old blood feud who would rather bleed than smile,
and the masked man who watches her from the shadows and leaves her wanting more.
The prophecy says shadebounds always fall. That their power twists and breaks until there's nothing left.
But Jinx doesn’t care. If anything, she enjoys the prospect of being evil.
Because if she has to destroy herself to find her sister’s killer,
then she’ll happily drag this whole cursed place down with her.
Shadebound is the first book in a series following Jinx: a grumpy serial killer who has been sentenced to Mors Academy for her crimes. It follows her as she is trained, tortured, and turned into a soldier, so she can help fight against the magical plague that is ruining her homeland. Whilst at Mors, students start to get murdered by the same serial killer who slaughtered her twin. This story is gothic, hilarious, slow burn but then spicy, and thrilling. It follows Jinx as she seeks revenge, learns the secrets to her power, and deals with multiple emotionally damaged men who want to kill her, or love her (ew, feelings) that she will never have to choose between (groups builds over the story, this is a slow burn). Expect lots of fun tropes, in this Dark Academia, Enemies To Lovers, Slow Burn Romance, Fantasy Academy story.
For readers who love things like Ninth House, Zodiac Academy, Psycho Shifters, the brutal world of Dark Souls, a sprinkle of Helldivers monster slaying, and an FMC with the deadpan darkness of Wednesday Addams.
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In Devil's Deal, a mortal woman draws the attention of a demon during a solstice ritual and survives the night changed.
Devil’s Deal
Dark Romance · Romantasy
Our take
In Devil's Deal, a mortal woman draws the attention of a demon during a solstice ritual and survives the night changed. As his shadow follows her, blighting everything she touches, she refuses to surrender her soul. Desire, defiance, and dark magic collide as she fights a power determined to claim her in this adult dark fantasy romance by Layla Fae.
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The devil craves my soul. It calls to him like the scent of fresh blood.
I am not afraid.
The night of summer solstice, I do something stupid. Drawn to the fire of magic, I approach the gods in their sacred circle. I am just a mortal, one of many. I shouldn’t merit their attention.
But behind the royal figures of the gods a shadow looms, menacing yellow eyes burning in its gloom. He asks me to dance. His clawed hands circle my waist, turning me to the sound of hoofbeats while his demonic voice whispers seductive lies in my ear. For one night, and one night only, I let him touch me.
When it’s morning and gods return to their shrines, he stays. His bloodthirsty shadow follows me, a dark cloak hiding me from the sun and the light of hope. Where I walk, flowers wither and children sicken, touched by his suffocating darkness.
The harder I chase him away, the more he enshrouds me in his powerful presence, his claws trapping my body, his will reaching for my soul.
He takes away my tribe and poisons my life, trying to break me so I take his deal. But the devil is in for a surprise.
I may give him my body, but I’ll never break. With nothing to lose, I am ready to fight.
Devil's Deal is a dark fantasy romance containing adult themes.
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Sentenced to die, runewitch Thraga escapes the gallows with a necromancer she despises.
The Death-Made Prince
Dark Romance · Romantasy
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Sentenced to die, runewitch Thraga escapes the gallows with a necromancer she despises. To resurrect the man she loved, she must aid a sharp tongued rogue prince on a dangerous mission that exposes court intrigue and buried truths. Magic, mistrust, and attraction collide as Thraga learns the dead are not the only ones with secrets.
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A runewitch on the run has only one option left: join forces with the sarcastic, unpleasantly gorgeous necromancer she loathes
The man Thraga loved is dead, and her future is in shambles. When she's sentenced to the gallows for killing her lover's murderers, it's a relief more than anything… until, the night before her execution, a necromancer is thrown into her cell.
Escaping with him is her only chance to bring Lark back to life - and also the start of all her troubles.
Because her new almost-ally is not just any man returned from death. Fire mage, rogue prince, and son of the man who killed her mother, sharp-tongued Durlain Averre is everything Thraga hates. Worse, he won't revive her lover unless she joins him on a mission of his own first, using her forbidden rune magic to free his sister from the dungeons of an enemy king.
But their quest turns into a deadly chase when Thraga's violent past catches up with her. And as the net of court intrigue and old fears closes around them, she begins to find out Lark was not at all the man she thought he was…
And neither is Durlain.
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Forged for war, Guardian Rhea Ashwood refuses a forced marriage as monsters press against a failing shield.
A Helm of Darkness
Dark Romance · Romantasy
Our take
Forged for war, Guardian Rhea Ashwood refuses a forced marriage as monsters press against a failing shield. When her lost partner is found alive and the Angel of Death marks her, Rhea risks exile and desire to save him. War, fate, and slow burn romance collide in a high stakes romantasy debut from an uncompromising new voice.
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Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing, From Blood and Ash, and Throne of Glass, this romantasy debut delivers high-stakes adventure, slow-burn romance, and a heroine who refuses to be tamed.
She was forged for war—then sentenced to marriage.
Bound to a kingdom. Hunted by a prince. Marked by a monster.
For a thousand years, the Unseen Shield has protected Rhea Ashwood’s kingdom, trapping the Angel of Death and his demonic army beneath a shadowy dome. As a Guardian—one of the kingdom’s elite soldiers—Rhea has spent her life fighting the creatures that manage to break through. Among a male-dominated order, she serves in its rare all-female unit—disciplined, loyal, and bound to no one.
So when the King decrees that all eligible women, including her unit, must take part in the Ceremony—a forced marriage rite to “preserve the population”—Rhea is furious. Guardians have always been exempt. And she refuses to be bound to anyone, least of all the possessive Crown Prince.
In truth, Rhea has a far more pressing issue: Jove, her bonded partner and closest friend—long presumed dead inside the Shield—is alive. Worse still, the Angel of Death has marked her as the key to his escape. Crossing the Shield to save Jove could doom the very world she’s sworn to protect.
Desperate for answers, Rhea turns to Kol, a sharp-tongued exile from the Banished—descendants of those who once served the Angel himself. Kol is reckless, infuriating, and far too tempting to trust. And when the Crown Prince forces his way into their mission, Rhea’s carefully guarded heart begins to crack.
With war looming and her heart pulled in three directions, Rhea must make an impossible choice:
Rescue the boy who shares her soul…
Or risk everything for the one who threatens to claim it.
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Returning home to solve a toymaker’s murder, investigator Valentine Anzio is drawn back into old wounds and a dangerous attraction to the suspect’s son.
The Toymaker’s Son
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Dark Romance · Gay Romance
Our take
Returning home to solve a toymaker’s murder, investigator Valentine Anzio is drawn back into old wounds and a dangerous attraction to the suspect’s son. As secrets tighten and time runs out, truth and love hang in the balance. A dark, twisty fantasy mystery praised on Goodreads for its unsettling imagination.
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"Woven with dark fantasy and intricate twists and turns, this story was an absolute delight." ~ Zakiyya, Goodreads.
"Wow. This dark, twisty tale, loosely based on Pinocchio will, without a doubt, enthrall and entrap you." ~ Lara, Goodreads.
"This book was a complete and utter mind f*ck." ~ Jacqueleene, Goodreads.
Patience, little puppet. The night is long, and we have just begun.
After the suspicious death of Jacapo, the well-loved toymaker, criminal investigator Valentine Anzio returns to his hometown of Minerva to help solve the suspected murder.
He’d hoped never to go back. Perhaps things have changed and the nightmares won't plague him. Perhaps Devere, the aloof and alluring toymaker’s son, won’t remember the kiss Valentine gave him all those years ago, and perhaps Valentine will keep the pieces of his fractured heart intact…
But it soon becomes clear, little has changed in Minerva. The powerful, handsome lord who’s paying Valentine desires more than the truth, and the toymaker’s son isn’t as guilty as the whole town appears to believe.
If truth, justice, and a second chance at a lost love are to prevail, Valentine must discover who killed Jacapo the toymaker, or the lonely, brilliant, and enchanting Devere, will hang.
The clock is ticking, and this time, a broken heart is the least of what Valentine stands to lose.
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In Bend Her, a cursed beast mage must protect the princess fated to kill him.
Bend Her
Dark Romance · Romantasy
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In Bend Her, a cursed beast mage must protect the princess fated to kill him. As Lisane learns dangerous magic under Rhaim’s brutal guidance, captivity becomes connection and fate tightens its grip. Pain, power, and desire entwine in this dark Beauty and the Beast fantasy romance from Cassie Alexander.
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True Love Hurts the Most.
Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance is the story of Rhaim the All-Beast, a cruel beast mage doomed to die at the hands of the woman he must protect at all costs, and Lisane, the sheltered Princess of Tears, who has been given into his care and who needs him to teach her magic so she can be free—no matter how much it might hurt her.
The intro follows . . .
Lisane:
My whole life, I had been a creature used to candlelight.
But I wasn’t accustomed to my own breath hot against my face, or the rough feeling of fabric against my cheek—or knowing that my wrists were tied behind my back, painfully tight.
The last thing I could recall was being in a carriage…We’d been running away from the Deathless . . .
And now I was here.
Wherever here was.
Tied up, in the dark, on the ground, with a bag around my head.
The very thing my father had been afraid of for me for my whole life—and the reason I lived in a gilded cage, only getting to leave the palace when I had throne-sworn mages by my side—had apparently happened.
I had been kidnapped.
Rhaim the All-Beast:
Every mage gets one clear vision on the eve of their Ascension into their full powers, right before they get the brand of their mage-mark: you see the thing that will cause your absolute demise.
Some men see snowy peaks or waterfalls, others bucking horses, and some lucky few see themselves with old and wrinkled hands, passing peacefully in their sleep.
In all instances, we’re told, the reasoning behind the visions is the same: if you’re strong enough to be trusted with powers, then you must learn to accept the hand of fate, as surely as you’d earned it as your mage-mark.
You need to know, deep in your bones and now scarred on your skin, that while there are things in the world you can change with your powers, death comes for us all.
There is no amount of magic that can escape it.
And so, when a group of soldiers brought a bound and drugged woman to my doorstep, to bribe me to fight in their war, and pulled the bag off of her head and I saw her there—the woman from the vision at my Ascension, and who has haunted my dreams ever since—I knew it was the beginning of my end.
She had no idea who I was, or what we were to each other. She knew nothing about my fate or future with her, or how she was destined to kill me.
Which meant in the present . . . she was mine, to do with as I pleased.
And I wanted to see her crawling.
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Abducted into a moonlit realm, Luke is claimed as the Dark Companion of a dangerous elven prince bound by fate and shadows.
Taken by the Lord of the Nocturne Court
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Dark Romance · Erotica · Gay Romance
Our take
Abducted into a moonlit realm, Luke is claimed as the Dark Companion of a dangerous elven prince bound by fate and shadows. As a forced union approaches, captivity blurs into temptation and fear into desire. A dark gothic M/M romantasy filled with peril, obsession, and reluctant attraction from K.A. Merikan.
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“I am yours, and I can be your prince as well as your beast.”
Luke
I’m your typical small-town loser stuck in a dead-end job. Single, because dating is for well-adjusted human beings, not traumatized gay boys with trust issues. All I want is to leave my past behind and finally start living.
My wish comes true in the most bizarre way imaginable. One evening, a beautiful man with pointy ears and flowing dark locks appears out of nowhere. He proclaims I am to be his ‘Dark Companion’ based on some stupid deal I made in a dream. Oh, and apparently he’s an elven prince, the Lord of Shadows, Protector of the Nightmare Realm and Knight of Grief Ocean.
Which is a weird way to ask me out, but okay.
It’s a hard no from me, but this absolute psycho abducts me to his palace in a moonlit realm populated by vicious beasts and backstabbing courtiers.
If I am to ever get back home, I need to adapt, because our full moon wedding is approaching fast. I can’t allow myself to buy into his seductive kisses, poet shirts made of spider silk and bouquets of sapphire roses. They hide poison and deception. A gilded cage is still a prison.
But…
What if I just never realized that what I need is a man with a cruel smile and a sword dipped in midnight? A man with secrets, and scars, and smoky eyes, and a past filled with darkness, and… have I mentioned he has a big d—
“Taken by the Lord of the Nocturne Court” is a standalone, scorching hot, dark gothic M/M romantasy filled with snark and dark humor, but also violence, peril, jealousy, and angst.
The book is a darkly romantic escape into the shadows where love and destiny collide. Dive into the pages to discover if a gilded cage can become a home when shared with a seductive elven prince devoted to his Dark Companion’s every wish.
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Best for readers who like dark romantasy with prisoner-guard tension, forced proximity, morally gray desire, and graphic violence.
Betrayals of the Broken
Dark Romance · Romantasy
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Ever and her only friend are abducted into a magical realm and imprisoned by a brutal ruler determined to extract stolen magic from them. When brooding guard Elivander removes her from one cell only to place her in another kind of captivity, attraction grows alongside fear and distrust. Best for readers who like dark romantasy with prisoner-guard tension, forced proximity, morally gray desire, and graphic violence.
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A broken soul. A possessive stranger. The chance to be found…or ruined
When Ever and her only friend are abducted to a magical realm, her worst nightmares once again rise like a dark wave in her mind. And Ever has seen enough to know that nightmares can easily become reality. Quickly proven right, the pair are imprisoned by the realm’s brutal leader, who is determined to tear stolen magic from them—alive or dead.
Still reeling from a violent extraction attempt, Ever is snuck from her cell by Elivander—the brooding guard she is both drawn to and unsettled by. But her hopes of freedom, and the chance to save her friend, are shattered when she merely trades one prison for another.
Despite her growing curiosity toward Elivander, Ever remains uncertain of how much she can really trust him. The more time they spend together, the more she craves his touch…but what hides in the shadows of his heart?
Betrayals of the Broken is the first in a new dark fantasy dark romance trilogy from Jaime L. Tlax.
If you do not like the dark and twisted side of the mind, and possessive, morally gray men, kindly pass this on to your quietest, most uncorrupted-appearing friend. They will probably secretly love it.
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Riley spies on billionaire heir Kyle Townsend to save herself from prison, but attraction and trust complicate everything.
Trust Me
Romance · Contemporary Romance
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Riley spies on billionaire heir Kyle Townsend to save herself from prison, but attraction and trust complicate everything. When Kyle learns the truth, he traps her in a marriage built on revenge and strategy. What begins as manipulation turns dangerous when real feelings refuse to stay buried. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings, this romance blends power, deception, and emotional stakes.
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After her life unravels, Alice Liddell follows a mysterious, antlered stranger into Winterland, where holiday legends have turned cruel and seductive.
Descending Into Madness
Dark Romance · Romantasy
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After her life unravels, Alice Liddell follows a mysterious, antlered stranger into Winterland, where holiday legends have turned cruel and seductive. As she navigates dark magic, twisted fairytales, and dangerous desire, survival means embracing madness itself. A provocative, adult reimagining of Alice mythology from paranormal romance author Stacey Marie Brown, where even villains wear familiar faces.
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What if Alice Liddell’s story didn’t happen the way you think? What if it wasn’t Wonderland she fell into, but Winterland.
This mad tale is dark, twisted, sexy, and nothing like the legend you know.
After losing her job and finding her boyfriend/boss cheating on her with her replacement, twenty-five-year-old Alice Liddell has moved back home to save money and regroup.
She doesn’t think things can get worse until her younger, more responsible sister, Dinah, gets her a job—as a Christmas elf.
Dressed in a slutty costume with fathers peeking down her top and kids vomiting on her, she wants nothing more than to escape the reality of her life.
When she sees a sexy, shirtless man, carrying a glowing red light, and bearing antlers, her curiosity gets the better of her. But following him might be the biggest mistake she ever made.
Falling into another realm, Alice finds herself in the world of holiday legends and fairytales. But she is not prepared her for the dark madness of this place. Nothing is what is seems and no one is what they are in the fairytales.
Even the mysterious, sexy Scrooge.
Welcome to Winterland, where the good guys from the North Pole have gone bad, and the only way to survive is to descend into its madness.
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