Category Archives: Romance

A Shadow Crown by Melissa Blair

To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on fire. Together, they plot to kill a tyrant king. In Myrelinth, the lush, secret city of trees, Fae, Elves, and Halflings like Keera live in harmony. But Keera cannot escape her past: her crimes against her own people have followed her all the way to the Faeland. There is a traitor in their midst, and Keera is the top suspect. Keera finds comfort in the allies that have become her family… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Slavery & sex slavery mentioned (secondary character)
  • Intimate partner abuse (on-page)
  • Suicidal ideation recounted
  • Self-injury & self-harm (cutting)
  • Alcoholism (recovery/sobriety) & alcohol consumption (secondary character)
  • Pregnancy & death during childbirth mentioned (secondary characters)
  • Death of an ex-partner recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder including patricide
  • Physical assault
  • Imprisonment

Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

After a year from hell, Haf is ready to blow off steam at a Christmas party: a kind stranger, a few too many drinks and suddenly she’s kissing Christopher under the mistletoe – in front of his ex-girlfriend. The next day the news is out that they’re apparently a couple, madly in love and coming to Oxlea to spend the festive season with Christopher’s family. But Haf doesn’t have better holiday plans and to save her new friend from embarrassment, she agrees to pretend to be Christopher’s girlfriend for Christmas. It has the makings of a hilarious anecdote they’ll be… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Infidelity*
  • Panic attack
  • Alcohol consumption & smoking

*Context : Dubious infidelity due to fake dating.

Under the Mistletoe with You by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

Ready to spend a quiet Christmas with his nearest and dearest, Christopher has closed up shop in his bakery, he’s wrapped up and packed up his presents, and he’s found someone to stay in his flat over the festive period. Everything is under control. That is until the mysterious person he’s rented his flat to turns out to be none other than… Nash Nadeau, an actor – and the star of all Christopher’s favourite Christmas movies. In fact, he’s the guy Christopher’s been crushing on for the whole past year. Since last Christmas… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Anxiety
  • Divorce mentioned (secondary character)
  • Diet culture mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption & mentions of past drug use (marijuana)
  • Seizure (on-page, protagonist)
  • Death of a spouse mentioned (secondary character)
  • Blizzard
  • Death of a pet cat mentioned (secondary character)

Wedding Dashers by Heather McBreen

Ada’s little sister is getting married. Which should be a happy thought, right? But the once close sisters have been in a year long fight, the wedding is all the way in Ireland, and Ada is so broke that she just barely managed to get a ticket on a budget airline. And as if things couldn’t get worse, said airline just cancelled her connection. Which means Ada is stuck in London with no way to make it to the wedding. Surely she’s hit rock bottom? So, there’s no reason for her not to spill her heart out about the over-the-top wedding, her sister’s worryingly quick engagement, and the womanizing best man she’s dreading meeting to a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Emotionally abusive relationship mentioned (off-page)
  • Divorce
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of a parent mentioned

The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore

Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town that’s too cute for its own good. Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor taking a break from his life in California. And most importantly, taking a break from his latest run of disastrous dates. After a run in with Kira in her fields, Ben has no intention of offering to help the grumpy owner set up her tree farm, despite the fact she’s clearly got no idea what she’s doing. Kira knows she should stop being so stubborn, but her farm is not all cute and cozy like people always show… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Toxic relationship recounted
  • Sexual harassment
  • Alcohol consumption

Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola

Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she’s made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of “situationships”, players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced as “The Wastemen of Whitewell,” in front of every Blackwellian on campus, she finds her show on the brink. They’re soon embroiled in… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial slurs including mentions of racial profiling and police harassment
  • Revenge pornography & blackmail
  • Dubious consent scene recounted*
  • Parental abandonment mentioned
  • Parental infidelity & infidelity mentioned
  • Depression (recovery)
  • Alcohol consumption & drug use (marijuana)
  • Emesis
  • Death of a grandfather mentioned
  • Physical assault

Context : The female protagonist’s ex-partner posts a intimate photo of her on social media without consent, and similarly blackmails other women. The protagonist’s best friend’s boyfriend coerced her to have sex while she was drunk.

Homestead by Claire Kent

After losing the last remaining member of my family, I’m left all alone in a dangerous, uncivilized world. A twenty-year-old woman with no skills, no resources, and no protection can’t make it on her own after Impact, so I’m forced to rely on the charity of strangers to survive. My one chance of safety and security comes from an unexpected offer. Jimmy Morgan needs a partner. He wants help in his house and a woman in his bed, and he’d like that partner to be me. In return I get a place to live, plenty of food, and the protection of a competent man and his larger community. It’s a good deal, so of course I accept. It means I have to live… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Minor physical injury & illness and emesis
  • Unplanned pregnancy mentioned (epilogue)
  • Accidental death of child from gun violence
  • Death of a wife & newborn in childbirth recounted (protagonist)
  • Murder of a grandfather & parents recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping

Context : The female protagonist is saved from her assaulter by the male protagonist.

Heavy Hitter by Katie Cotugno

With four chart-topping albums, Lacey Logan is a superstar whose life no longer feels like her own. Her every move is photographed, videoed, and dissected online, and her carefully curated Instagram feed studied by fans worldwide. To maintain her privacy, Lacey skilfully controls her narrative, showing fans and paparazzi what she wants them to see. But when Lacey discovers her boyfriend is hiding two devastating secrets—a bad cocaine habit and a pregnant girlfriend—she begins to lose confidence and control of her own story. Then big-shouldered baseball play… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity recounted
  • Parental divorce recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Chronic knee, back & shoulder pain (protagonist)
  • Panic attack
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Death of a brother from a heroin overdose recounted
  • Cyberstalking & stalking discussed
  • Car accident

Context : The protagonist receives minor injuries from paparazzi in a hit-and-run accident chasing her car. The protagonist’s ex-partner cheated and got his mistress pregnant.

Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur

When Everleigh Dangerfield’s baking disaster necessitates a call to 911, firefighter Griffin Brantley douses the flames in the kitchen, but the ones he stokes in Everleigh are an entirely different story. Unfortunately, Everleigh’s only visiting and doesn’t do casual hookups, no matter how smoldering the temptation. But Everleigh’s holiday mishaps have just begun. And Griffin is seemingly always on call. If Everleigh is game for a change of plans, he can give her the merriest Christmas of her life.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fire (on-page)
  • Near-drowning incident

The Ever Queen by LJ Andrews

The Songbird: Captive. Challenger. Queen. Enemies took her from the man who holds her heart. They might see her as weak, as a pawn in wicked games, but they’re no match for the first Ever Queen. Let them think they’ve won. Her heart belongs to a beautiful monster, and she will never stop fighting until she’s back in his arms. The Serpent: Captor. Villain. King. His enemies stole the woman who claimed his soul. They betrayed him out of greed and desire for the crown, but they won’t die for that betrayal. No. They’ll die for touching… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault (on-page, secondary character)
  • Graphic blood & gore depiction
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Torture & mutilation
  • Kidnapping