Category Archives: Romance

The Air He Breathes by Brittainy Cherry

The Air He Breathes by Brittainy C. Cherry

I was warned about Tristan Cole. It’s easy to judge a man because of his past. To look at Tristan and see a monster. But I couldn’t do that. I had to accept the wreckage that lived inside of him because it also lived inside of me. We were both empty. We were both looking for something else. Something more. We both wanted to put together the shattered pieces of our yesterdays. Then perhaps we could finally remember how to breathe.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a spouse & son in a car accident
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal injury (dog), sustained during a car accident

Swamp Blood by KA Merikan

Swamp Blood by K.A. Merikan

After months of recovering from his injuries, Seth struggles with who he has become. Afloat in a reality he never planned, he tries to find the lost pieces of himself again. Find the purpose, motivation, and strength to get back into shape. He is sick and tired of being a burden for Domenico, who seems to have it all together. When Domenico’s jealousy pushes them into the spotlight of a biker gang with connections to their former mafia family, Seth decides to step up, and make his own decisions, no matter what risks they might entail. Domenico Acerbi can’t trust anyone… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Human trafficking
  • Homomisia
  • Sexual assault
  • Sex work
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Depression
  • Torture
  • Organised crime (motorcycle gang)

Everything I Left Unsaid by Molly O’Keefe

Everything I Left Unsaid by Molly O’Keefe

I didn’t think answering someone else’s phone would change my life. But the stranger with the low, deep voice on the other end of the line tempted me, awakened my body, set me on fire. He was looking for someone else. Instead, he found me. And I found a hot, secret world where I felt alive for the first time. His name was Dylan, and, strangely, he made me feel safe. Desired. Compelled. Every dark thing he asked me to do, I did. Without question. I longed to meet him, but we were both keeping secrets. And mine were dangerous. If I took the first step, if I got closer to Dylan—emotionally, physically—then I wouldn’t be hiding any… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic abuse, on-page & discussed
  • Infidelity*

*Context : The heroine is technically still married to the abusive husband she escaped.

No Matter What by KA Merikan

No Matter What by K.A. Merikan

Ghost. Not a member of the Coffin Nails MC. Not a doctor anymore. Not gay. Luca. Bent, not broken. Will not let go of Ghost. No matter what. Ghost finds out the hard way that people you meet online aren’t always who they seem to be. When he met ‘Zara’ five years ago, they became inseparable. She’s been with him through the rough and the smooth. He’s been there for her when her abusive boyfriend had her in tears. She is The One, and despite all his friends considering him crazy, Ghost is about to propose. But ‘Zara’ turns out to be Luca, and Luca is most definitely a guy… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Statutory rape & rape
  • Abusive relationship
  • Panic attacks
  • Catfishing
  • Organised crime (mafia, motorcycle gang)

The Devil’s Ride by KA Merikan

The Devil’s Ride by K.A. Merikan

Tooth. Vice President of the Coffin Nails Motorcycle Club. On a neverending quest for vengeance. The last thing he needs is becoming a permanent babysitter for a male hooker. Lucifer. Fallen. Lost. Alone After a childhood filled with neglect and abuse, followed by his mother’s suicide, Lucifer set out into the world alone. There was nothing for him out there other than taking it one day at a time. As the bastard son of the Coffin Nails club president, Lucifer never got much fatherly love. So when the Nails show up at the strip joint Lucifer works in, the last thing he expects is to be put in… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Transmisia
  • Coming out
  • Sex work
  • Sexual assault of a child by a teacher
  • Child abuse & neglect recounted
  • Organ harvesting
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Murder of a partner recounted
  • Torture
  • Organised crime (motorcycle gang)
  • Blackmail
  • Attempted murder of a kitten mentioned

Heart by Garrett Leigh

Heart by Garrett Leigh

Cornish pastry chef Seb Wright dreads the summer tourist season. The cash injection to his artisan fudge pantry is more than welcome, the extra work, less so. Then one summer, a shadowy Good Samaritan catches his eye. Irish Traveller Dex is bewitching, a beautiful sullen enigma who turns Seb’s world upside down until he disappears in the night, vanishing like a mystical summer rain. Twelve months later Dex is in the midst of a dark storm. A slave to his master, ‘Uncle’ Braden, he spends his days cleaning caravans and his nights working in Braden’s other businesses… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child sex slavery recounted

The Viking Queen’s Men by Holley Trent

The Viking Queen’s Men by Holley Trent

Contessa Dahl has spent most of her life in a haze. A rudderless orphan, most decisions involved her fists and feet: should she fight or should she run? At twenty-eight, she’s ready to clean up her act, but Tess might be a bit premature because she’s destined to be a special kind of leader. Born into a group of desert-dwelling telepathic descendants of Vikings, Tess was meant to become a link for them all—their queen and conduit. Her kidnapping and the subsequent death of her parents meant her people, the Afótama, have had… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Drugging
  • Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned
  • Death of spouse mentioned
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Kidnapping of a child

Off Campus by Amy Jo Cousins

Off Campus by Amy Jo Cousins

With his father’s ponzi scheme assets frozen, Tom Worthington believes finishing college is impossible unless he can pay his own way. After months sleeping in his car, he’s ready to do just that. But his new, older-student housing comes with an unapologetically gay roommate. Tom doesn’t ask why Reese Anders has been separated from the rest of the student population. He’s just happy to be sleeping in a bed. Reese isn’t about to share his brutal story with his gruff new roommate. You’ve seen one homophobic jock, you’ve… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Antiziganism (g slur)
  • Sexual assault recounted
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Attempted suicide mentioned
  • Self-harm mentioned
  • Physical injury (steam burn)
  • Incarceration of a parent

Beyond Possession by Kit Rocha

Beyond Possession by Kit Rocha

Tatiana Stone has worked hard to establish herself as one of Sector Four’s most skilled crafters. All she wants is peace–but the sins of her father haunt her. He ruled the sector as a petty tyrant before the O’Kane takeover, and plenty of people harbour bitter memories of his cruelty. Especially now that Tatiana’s beloved baby sister has fallen in with a man who wants to start a revolution. Zan failed his boss once, and it won’t happen again. So when Dallas O’Kane asks him to defuse the rebellion brewing in the sector, he’ll do… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Child abuse & neglect mentioned
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Fire
  • Kidnapping

All Kinds of Tied Down by Mary Calmes

All Kinds of Tied Down by Mary Calmes

Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy who can start a fight in an empty room. In the past three years of their life-and-death job, they’ve gone from strangers to professional coworkers to devoted teammates and best friends. Miro’s cultivated blind faith in the man who has his back… faith and something more. As a marshal and a soldier, Ian’s expected to lead. But the power and control that brings Ian… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Murder, on-page
  • Military service