Category Archives: Romance

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Murder, on-page
  • Military service

Takeover by Anna Zabo

Takeover by Anna Zabo

Michael Sebastian thought Curacao would be the perfect place to have a little fun in the sun—and between the sheets. So far, no one has struck his interest, until Sam Anderson walks into the bar. With one look at his tense body and expensive suit, Michael knows that this is a man in need of release. And Michael is more than willing to lend a hand. Shattered by the most intense sex he’s ever had, Sam has to face the facts—one night with a handsome, dominating stranger is all he gets before returning to the closet he’s been suffocating in for years. But when Sam… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Threatened outing
  • Hate crime recounted

Make it Right by Megan Erickson

Make it Right by Megan Erickson

Max Payton lives by two rules: Size and strength win any fight, and never show weakness. When a rash of assaults sends Bowler University for a tail spin, Max volunteers to help teach a self-defense class. One of the other instructors is the beautiful pixie-faced girl he keeps butting heads with…and who challenges everything he thought he knew. Lea Travers avoids guys like Max – cocky jocks who assume she’s fragile because of a disability caused by a childhood accident. She likes to be in control, and something about being with Max makes her feel anything but. But during the moments he lets his guard down, Lea sees a soul as… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Chronic leg injury & scars sustained in a childhood car accident

Make it Count by Megan Erickson

Make it Count by Megan Erickson

Kat Caruso wishes her brain had a return policy or at least a complaint hotline. The defective organ is constantly distracted, terrible at statistics, and absolutely flooded with inappropriate thoughts about her boyfriend’s gorgeous best friend, Alec…who just so happens to be her brand new math tutor. Kat usually goes through tutors like she does boyfriends—both always seem to bail when they realize how hopeless she is. It’s safer for her heart to keep everyone at arm’s reach. But Alec is always stepping just a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Emotional cheating
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of a parent, off-page

Broken by Nicola Haken

Broken by Nicola Haken

When Theodore Davenport decides to switch his mundane job for a career, he walks into Holden House Publishing with enthusiasm and determination to succeed. As he settles into his new role, makes new friends, and dreams of making it to the top, everything is going to plan. Until he meets James Holden, CEO of Holden House. James Holden hasn’t been able to stop thinking about his encounter with the timid man he met in a club bathroom last week, and when he discovers the one haunting his dreams is an employee, he can’t seem to stop himself from pursuing him… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Queermisia
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Depression
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Self-harm