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Forced Proximity

Stuck together with no way out. A blizzard, a road trip, a fake marriage. All that unavoidable closeness.

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    Quicksilver

    Callie Hart · Fantasy

    Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets.

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · forced proximity · chosen one · quest

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Onyx Storm

    Rebecca Yarros · Fantasy

    After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons.

    slow burn · enemies to lovers · forced proximity · found family

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Daggermouth

    H. M. Wolfe · Fantasy

    He Is Her Ruin. She Is His Rebellion. The first thing you’ll learn in New Found Haven is mercy no longer exists. Showing mercy is a weakness, and…

    dark romance · enemies to lovers · grimdark · dystopian society · trauma recovery · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Dire Bound

    Sable Sorensen · Fantasy

    Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials.

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · fated mates · high stakes survival · forced proximity · werewolves shifters

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Beach Read

    Emily Henry · Romance

    A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything…

    enemies to lovers · romantic comedy · slow burn · forced proximity · grumpy sunshine

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Seven Year Slip

    Ashley Poston · Romance

    Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.

    romantic comedy · time travel · magical realism · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Bride

    Ali Hazelwood · Romance

    Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast - again.

    paranormal romance · dark romance · fated mates · forced proximity · vampires · werewolves shifters

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Binding 13

    Chloe Walsh · Romance

    He wants to save her. She wants to hide. She's damaged. He's determined. Fate brought them together. Love binds them. Johnny Kavanagh is the…

    dark romance · forced proximity · trauma recovery · redemption arc · he falls first

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Intruder

    Freida McFadden · Mystery & Thriller

    Who knows what the storm will blow in… Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane.

    psychological thriller · high stakes survival · forced proximity · twist ending · closed circle

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    It's Different This Time

    Joss Richard · Romance

    In this sweeping, second-chance romance, a twist of fate forces two former roommates back into their beloved New York City brownstone where they must…

    second chance romance · slow burn · friends to lovers · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Long Game

    Rachel Reid · Romance

    Ten years. That’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a…

    slow burn · sports romance · forced proximity · secret identity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Better Than the Movies

    Lynn Painter · Romance

    A USA TODAY and New York Times bestseller Perfect for fans of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, this “sweet and funny” (Kerry Winfrey, author of…

    enemies to lovers · grumpy sunshine · romantic comedy · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Wild Side

    Elsie Silver · Romance

    I’d always dreamed of my wedding day.

    enemies to lovers · marriage of convenience · forced proximity · small town · revenge plot

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    No Exit

    Lena Diaz · Romance

    Lena Diaz returns to the thrilling world of EXIT Inc., with two enemies who become unlikely allies—and discover that only through love can they save…

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · forced proximity · workplace romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Happy Place

    Emily Henry · Romance

    A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this…

    romantic comedy · second chance romance · forced proximity · friends to lovers · cozy vibes

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Someday Garden

    Ashley Poston · Romance

    The new head gardener at the enchanting Lilymoor House stumbles upon a secret garden .

    slow burn · forced proximity · paranormal romance · portal fantasy · magic academy

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Paladin's Grace

    T. Kingfisher · Fantasy

    Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year¿Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he…

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · forced proximity · paranormal romance · found family · quest

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Shippers

    Katherine Center · Romance

    'The wedding romance you need' People She thought she'd charted her course ...

    romantic comedy · forced proximity · second chance romance · brothers best friend

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    A River Enchanted

    Rebecca Ross · Fantasy

    THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A sparkling debut fantasy with Celtic tones set on the magical isle of Cadence where two childhood enemies must team…

    paranormal romance · enemies to lovers · slow burn · fae · forced proximity · quest

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Rebel Witch

    Kristen Ciccarelli · Fantasy

    **The stakes are even higher in this epic, romantic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crimson Moth duology.** A WITCH...

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · forced proximity · high stakes survival · witches · quest

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Stolen Tongues

    Felix Blackwell · Horror

    A romantic cabin getaway doesn’t go exactly as planned.

    forced proximity · ghosts · gothic atmosphere · paranormal romance · survival

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Swordheart

    T. Kingfisher · Fantasy

    Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of the wealthy distant uncle she's been caring for for the past decade.

    slow burn · forced proximity · enemies to lovers · paranormal romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

    Brigitte Knightley · Fantasy

    A slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a scholarly healer and a gentleman assassin, set in an exquisite fantasy world.

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · forced proximity · forbidden romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Credence

    Penelope Douglas · Romance

    From New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Douglas, comes a new standalone!

    dark romance · forced proximity · obsessive love · possessive romance · morally grey character

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Explicit — very graphic sexual content throughout
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    The Lies of Lena

    Kylie Snow · Fantasy

    Passionate and Dark. Enemies to Lovers. Forced Proximity. Angst. Lena Daelyra has always lived in fear, as do most Mages in Tovagoth. Mages are…

    enemies to lovers · dark academia · forced proximity · slow burn · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    In the Veins of the Drowning

    Kalie Cassidy · Fantasy

    An "atmospheric and evocative" (Rachel Gillig) romantasy about a threatened Siren who forges a bond with a brooding, self-righteous king in order to…

    paranormal romance · slow burn · forced proximity · forbidden romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Bridge Kingdom

    Danielle L. Jensen · Fantasy

    A warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties.

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · political intrigue · forbidden romance · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Happy Ending

    Chloe Liese · Romance

    ‘Honest, vulnerable, and achingly romantic’ B.K.

    friends to lovers · slow burn · romantic comedy · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Sorcery and Small Magics

    Maiga Doocy · Fantasy

    From debut author Maiga Doocy comes the charming tale of an impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly rival as they venture deep into a magical forest…

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · opposites attract · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Red, White & Royal Blue

    Casey McQuiston · Romance

    First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz, with his sister and the Veep's genius granddaughter, are the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing…

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · romantic comedy · forced proximity · he falls first · she falls first

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Best Worst Thing

    Lauren Okie · Romance

    From a stunning new voice in romance, Lauren Okie’s The Best Worst Thing is an intimate story about starting over, second chances, and two people who…

    second chance romance · slow burn · romantic comedy · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Kindred

    Octavia Butler · Sci-Fi

    Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California…

    time travel · historical fiction · trauma recovery · survival · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Gild

    Raven Kennedy · Romance

    Gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of…

    dark romance · paranormal romance · forced proximity · possessive romance · gothic atmosphere

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Wedding

    Julie Garwood · Romance

    Lairds' Fiancées #2 Journeying from England to Scotland to wed a highlander, Lady Brenna had resigned herself to the arranged match.

    historical fiction · enemies to lovers · forced proximity · marriage of convenience

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Icebreaker

    Hannah Grace · Romance

    **A TikTok sensation! Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink.** Anastasia Allen has worked…

    sports romance · forced proximity · romantic comedy

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Fine Print

    Lauren Asher (Fiction writer) · Romance

    Rowan I’m in the business of creating fairy tales.

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · workplace romance · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Sweetside Motel

    E. L. Chen · Horror

    With the pandemic sweeping the globe, Sarah Ng makes a desperate escape from Toronto to start a new life.

    psychological thriller · forced proximity · cat and mouse · closed circle · survival

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    A Tongue so Sweet and Deadly

    Sophia St. Germain · Fantasy

    Half-Fae Elessia could have had everything.

    dark romance · fae · paranormal romance · forced proximity · forbidden romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Swift and Saddled

    Lyla Sage · Romance

    The last thing Ada Hart needs is a man to take care of her.

    forced proximity · opposites attract · small town · slow burn · romantic comedy

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Dial A for Aunties

    Jesse Q. Sutanto · Mystery & Thriller

    "What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then, toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant…

    romantic comedy · forced proximity · found family · heist

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Deathbringer

    Sonia Tagliareni · Fantasy

    For fans of Naomi Novik and Kerri Maniscalco, a dark academia romantasy steeped in necromancy, forbidden love and a twisty murder mystery set within…

    dark academia · forbidden romance · slow burn · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Hart Street Lane

    Samantha Young · Romance

    A steamy fake engagement romance from New York Times Bestselling Author Samantha Young.

    fake relationship · romantic comedy · workplace romance · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Trident and the Pearl

    Sarah K. L. Wilson · Fantasy

    Forced by the gods to be wed. Forced by their secrets to be enemies. A desperate queen and a lowly fisherman must join together to save her land in…

    slow burn · forced proximity · marriage of convenience · enemies to lovers · quest

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Secret Haven

    Catherine Cowles · Romance

    Get ready for your next reading obsession, the spicy small-town romance filled with mystery and suspense from the bestselling author, perfect for…

    small town · romantic comedy · psychological thriller · second chance romance · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    King of Wrath

    Ana Huang · Romance

    Ruthless. Meticulous. Arrogant. Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. The billionaire CEO never planned to marry…

    enemies to lovers · forced proximity · slow burn · workplace romance · possessive romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

    Mariana Zapata · Romance

    "Vanessa Mazur knows she's doing the right thing.

    grumpy sunshine · slow burn · sports romance · workplace romance · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Swept Away

    Beth O'Leary · Romance

    Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary.

    forced proximity · slow burn · second chance romance · high stakes survival · opposites attract

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Pestilence

    Laura Thalassa · Fantasy

    They came to earth—Pestilence, War, Famine, Death—four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world.

    dark romance · paranormal romance · enemies to lovers · forced proximity · demons

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Explicit — very graphic sexual content throughout
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    What Fury Brings

    Tricia Levenseller · Fantasy

    “Equally brutal, hot, and provocative.” —C.S.

    enemies to lovers · dark romance · forced proximity · marriage of convenience · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Sweet Prison

    Neva Altaj · Romance

    dark romance · forbidden romance · forced proximity · obsessive love

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Bright Side of Christmas

    Morgan Elizabeth · Romance

    From #1 Amazon best-selling author of Tis the Season for Revenge comes a new steamy, small-town grumpy sunshine romance!

    enemies to lovers · grumpy sunshine · forced proximity · romantic comedy · small town · holiday romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Willing Prey

    Allie Oleander · Romance

    An exhilarating, primal summer fling in the woods leads to an intensely sexy, edgy romance, where anything goes—just remember your safe word.

    dark romance · opposites attract · forced proximity · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Explicit — very graphic sexual content throughout
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    Death to Valentine's Day

    · Mystery & Thriller

    Maia's Valentine's Day goes from bad to worse when she kisses a masked stranger at a mountain lodge party—only to discover he's her cheating ex's…

    closed circle · locked room · high stakes survival · forced proximity

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    A Killing Cold

    Kate Alice Marshall · Mystery & Thriller

    **A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret—and that she’s been there before, by the…

    psychological thriller · unreliable narrator · amnesia · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Born For Silk

    Nicci Harris · Fantasy

    AN AMAZON TOP 100 BESTSELLER A spicy Beauty and the Beast meets The Handmaid's Tale.

    dark romance · forced proximity · dystopian society · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Ever King

    LJ Andrews · Fantasy

    The first in the TikTok sensation Ever Seas series, now with bonus material!

    dark romance · forced proximity · enemies to lovers · revenge plot · paranormal romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Kiss of the Basilisk

    Lindsay Straube · Fantasy

    Temperance Verus has never been kissed—not exactly ideal for a girl competing in the palace's most closely watched matchmaking ritual.

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · magic academy · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Entanglement of Rival Wizards

    Sara Raasch · Fantasy

    Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together…

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · dark academia · forced proximity · he falls first

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Glow of the Everflame

    Penn Cole · Fantasy

    A sequel in the "Kindred's Curse Saga" by Penn Cole, focusing on Diem Bellator as she navigates a world teetering on the edge of war and faces the…

    dark academia · forced proximity · enemies to lovers · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox

    Katrina Kwan · Fantasy

    Yue may be the last of her kind.

    slow burn · forced proximity · enemies to lovers · paranormal romance · fae

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Ruinous Creatures

    Jessi Cole Jackson · Fantasy

    For fans of One Dark Window and T.

    dark romance · slow burn · forced proximity · obsessive love · dragons

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Bone King and the Starling

    Elizabeth Stephens · Fantasy

    I expect the bone king will take no notice of me, a lowly thrall, but when he requires a willing female for the night and his selection falls to me,…

    dark romance · forced proximity · forbidden romance · paranormal romance · demons

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Paladin's Strength

    T. Kingfisher · Fantasy

    He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent.

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · forced proximity · paranormal romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus