Category Archives: Romance

In the Blood by Hailey Turner

Captain Jamie Callahan is running out of time in his efforts to outsmart an enemy metahuman. His father’s presidential campaign is ramping up, and Jamie’s top secret identity as a metahuman himself is at risk of being revealed by the enemy, to say nothing of his secret relationship with Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan. As Alpha Team’s long-running mission gets derailed in the worst way possible, Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin discovers the enemy is playing for keeps, and neither he nor Agent Sean Delaney are in any… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Threats of rape
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
  • Graphic torture, including waterboarding, dental torture, skinning, and beating
  • Erotic asphyxia
  • Chemical bombing
  • Terrorism

Fire in the Heart by Hailey Turner

Alexei Dvorkin has come a long way since being turned into a metahuman, and all he wants to do is marry the man he loves. A wedding is easy, but it’s the honeymoon where his and Sean’s past unexpectedly catches up with them. All Sean Delaney wanted was a romantic honeymoon with his new husband. When he and Alexei stumble into a fellow operative’s mission on a luxury gambling resort island, they get more than they bargained for in their newly-minted civilian lives. Forced to choose between staying and joining the mission or leaving to stay safe and postpone their… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Torture
  • Fire
  • Electrocution
  • Hostage situation
  • Terrorism

A Veiled and Hallowed Eve by Hailey Turner

SOA Special Agent Patrick Collins has lived a life full of lies, and it has finally caught up with him. There’s no denying his past any longer, not after giving up the truth to save himself from a murder charge. But truth alone can’t set Patrick free, and time is running out to stop the Dominion Sect from turning his father into a god. Jonothon de Vere knows survival isn’t a guarantee, but he’s desperate to keep Patrick safe, even as hope slips through his fingers. With the future unknown, Jono will follow Patrick wherever he goes, even to Salem, where a family reunion reveals a bitter… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Domestic violence mentioned
  • Dismemberment mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Kidnapping
  • Loss of autonomy (demonic invasion)
  • War themes

Trial by Desire by Courtney Milan

Lady Kathleen Carhart knows all about imperfect marriages. For years, she has secretly helped women escape their violent husbands. She feels she owes it to womankind. After all, her husband is handsome, gentle, amusing…and best of all, he left the country three years ago. She isn’t even bitter about that anymore. Mostly. When Ned Carhart returns in the middle of her most delicate operation to date, her life is thrown into turmoil. She’ll do anything to preserve her secrets…even if it means risking her heart to the man who abandoned her once.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Domestic violence
  • Depression
  • Suicidal ideation recounted
  • Physical injury (broken leg)
  • Animal abuse

The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

Miss Frederica “Free” Marshall has put her heart and soul into her newspaper, known for its outspoken support of women’s rights. Naturally, her enemies are intent on destroying her business and silencing her for good. Free refuses to be at the end of her rope… but she needs more rope, and she needs it now. Edward Clark’s aristocratic family abandoned him to die in a war-torn land, so he survived the only way he could: by becoming a rogue and a first-class forger. When the same family that left him for dead vows to ruin Miss Marshall, he offers his help. So what if he… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Nightmares
  • Torture recounted, including the involuntary amputation of fingers
  • Fire
  • Blackmail
  • Whipping recounted

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

Jay na Thalang is a demanding, driven genius. He doesn’t know how to stop or even slow down. The instant he lays eyes on Maria Lopez, he knows that she is a sexy distraction he can’t afford. He’s done his best to keep her at arm’s length, and he’s succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Maria has always been cautious. Now that her once-tiny, apocalypse-centered blog is hitting the mainstream, she’s even more careful about preserving her online anonymity. She hasn’t sent so much as a picture to the commenter she’s interacted with for eighteen months—not even… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Transphobia
  • Parental abandonment
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Suicide
  • Death of a sibling

The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan

Miss Jane Fairfield can’t do anything right. When she’s in company, she always says the wrong thing—and rather too much of it. No matter how costly they are, her gowns fall on the unfortunate side of fashion. Even her immense dowry can’t save her from being an object of derision. And that’s precisely what she wants. She’ll do anything, even risk humiliation, if it means she can stay unmarried and keep her sister safe. Mr. Oliver Marshall has to do everything right. He’s the bastard son of a duke, raised in humble circumst… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Period-typical ableism, misogyny & racism
  • Inifdelity recounted
  • Seizures mentioned
  • Scars
  • Medical experimentation
  • Attempted kidnapping
  • Gun violence
  • Blackmail

The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan

Three months ago, governess Serena Barton was let go from her position. Unable to find new work, she’s demanding compensation from the man who got her sacked: a petty, selfish, swinish duke. But it’s not the duke she fears. It’s his merciless man of business—the man known as the Wolf of Clermont. The formidable former pugilist has a black reputation for handling all the duke’s dirty business, and when the duke turns her case over to him, she doesn’t stand a chance. But she can’t stop trying—not with her entire future at stake. Hugo Marshall is a man of ruthless ambiti… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse recounted
  • Pregnancy from rape (protagonist, on-page)
  • Nightmares
  • Death of a parent recounted

The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan

Miss Chloe Fong has plans for her life, lists for her days, and absolutely no time for nonsense. Three years ago, she told her childhood sweetheart that he could talk to her once he planned to be serious. He disappeared that very night. Except now he’s back. Jeremy Wentworth, the Duke of Lansing, has returned to the tiny village he once visited with the hope of wooing Chloe. In his defense, it took him years of attempting to be serious to realize that the endeavor was incompatible with his personality. All he has to do is convince… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Period-typical racism & ableism
  • Parent with rheumatoid arthritis
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Death of a father from typhus recounted
  • Death of relatives from cholera, pneumonia, & heart attack mentioned
  • Minor horseback incident, resulting in minor injury to the horse

The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan

Sebastian Malheur is the most dangerous sort of rake: an educated one. When he’s not scandalizing ladies in the bedchamber, he’s outraging proper society with his scientific theories. He’s desired, reviled, acclaimed, and despised—and he laughs through it all. Violet Waterfield, the widowed Countess of Cambury, on the other hand, is entirely respectable, and she’d like to stay that way. But Violet has a secret that is beyond ruinous, one that ties her irrevocably to England’s most infamous scoundrel: Sebastian’s theories aren’t his. They’re hers. So when Sebastian threatens to dissolve… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Domestic abuse recounted
  • Martial rape recounted*
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Miscarriages recounted*
  • Sibling with a heart condition
  • Murder of a husband by being pushed down a staircase
  • Death of a father from suicide recounted
  • Imprisonment

* Context : The heroine had nineteen miscarriages in her previous marriage in attempt to sire an heir for her husband. Her husband forced and coerced her to have sex with him despite medical advice. She almost dies from the toll it places on her body.