Undertow

By: Erin R Flynn

• Paranormal
• Shifter

I am Princess Sagan De la Rosa, heir to the Thovudin throne, daughter of King Rhys and Queen Amelia… And my life has been completely shattered. I thought it would be another boring graduation complete with fake smiles and giving a commencement speech. I hated all of it and being forced to study so much far from my home.
Now I wish that my future had dozens more of them ahead of me.
Instead, my parents are gone and the elders are trying to make me their puppet. I’m backed into a corner to mate men they will control and use against me to raise the next king, taking all my power and everything I’ve worked hard for—everything my parents had trained me for.
The only way out is to make the situation worse, but at least a path I control. If I make the Alphas fight to have their families mate into the royal bloodline, they are the barrier that protects me from what the elders want.
For now.
If that was the only struggle I faced, maybe I could have handled it better and managed to get out of the trap they sprung on me. But when your life falls apart… It’s never only one disaster that lies before you, trying to swallow you whole, is it?

The Prospects is a hot burning reverse harem, post university-age paranormal series with darker elements, influenced relationships, strong language, violence, and a heroine who struggles to live her life instead of as the royal she was trained to be… While trying to balance her duties and her heart when so many simply want her power.

TRUSTING TUSCANY

By: KRIS LUNDLEY

Who doesn’t want to fall in love in Italy?
Sophia Fairbourne—that’s who.
She’s arrived in Siena for one reason: to sell her inheritance and repay her employer for a costly mistake before it’s too late. No distractions. No detours.
But nothing about this trip is simple.
Enter Peter Belli—annoyingly handsome, co-owner of the property, and her family’s long-time rival. He’s also the one person standing in her way.
When a family trust pushes them to settle things once and for all, Sophia and Peter turn it into a competition to decide the future of the estate. But as rivalry turns into something far more complicated, ignoring their slow-burning chemistry becomes nearly impossible.
Set against the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany, this enemies-to-lovers, dual POV romance is filled with tension, charm, and the kind of sparks that are impossible to ignore.
They say all roads lead to Rome—but what if some hearts take a detour through Tuscany?

The Banker's Desire

By: Stacy-Deanne

She rescued him. He couldn’t let her go.

Charlotte, a young secretary for a famed Negro lawyer in 1887 Philly, has her world flipped upside down when she saves wealthy, widowed banker Spencer Rain from being robbed.

Spencer is instantly captivated by Charlotte’s beauty, wit and charming strength. In her presence, he finds the solace from the pain of his wife’s death and the strain of his suffocating, upper class life.

For Charlotte, Spencer opens her up to a lavish world and an unbreakable love she could only dream of.

Despite the laws of society telling them it’s wrong, Charlotte and Spencer fall in love, willing to fight whomever to be together.

But it won’t be easy because Spencer’s oldest friend, Dax O’Connor, sees Charlotte as a threat to everything Spencer’s built, and vows to keep them apart.

Quietly Yours

By: Ruo Riwo

Noah Vale was supposed to be anonymous.
Volunteer. Blend in. Breathe.

Then he met Dezi.

A single mom with guarded eyes and a laugh she gives only to people she trusts. She doesn’t want a hero, doesn’t believe in fairy tales, and definitely doesn’t have time for a man who looks at her like she’s already his.

But Noah keeps showing up.

In the small, ordinary spaces—school runs, late-night conversations, hands brushing in the quiet—desire grows into something neither of them planned. Touch turns to tension. Tension to need. And need to a connection that feels dangerously close to love.

There’s only one problem.

Dezi is falling for Noah Arden, not the billionaire hiding behind the name.

When the truth threatens to unravel everything, Noah must decide how much he’s willing to lose to keep her. And Dezi must face the hardest question of all:

Was any of it real… or just another beautiful lie?

Saving Sophie

By: Cate Beauman

• Contemporary
• Suspense

Jewelry designer Sophie Burke has fled Maine for the anonymity of the big city. She’s starting over with a job she tolerates and a grungy motel room she calls home on the wrong side of town, but anything is better than the nightmare she left behind.

Stone McCabe is Ethan Cooke Security’s brooding bad boy more interested in keeping to himself than anything else—until the gorgeous blond with haunted violet eyes catches his attention late one rainy night.

Stone reluctantly gives Sophie a hand only to quickly realize that the shy beauty with the soft voice and pretty smile has something to hide. Tangled up in her secrets, Stone offers Sophie a solution that has the potential to free her from her problems once and for all—or jeopardize both of their lives.

Treaty Spouse - A Forced Marriage Fated Mates Wolf Shifter Romance

By: KIRA MOSS

• Paranormal
• Shifter

🐺 Fated mates. Replacement bride. An Alpha who won’t touch her until she asks. 🐺

Lori Taggart’s sister was supposed to be the treaty spouse. Her father sent Lori instead, like collateral. He picked the wrong daughter.

Alpha Colin Gordon’s wolf recognized her from a name on a page. Before she’d crossed the border. Before he’d seen her face.

She’s human. He’ll live for centuries. The pack elders have a word for what she is, and it isn’t kind.

Colin doesn’t claim her. He asks. Lori doesn’t fight with claws. She fights with evidence and the kind of stubborn precision that tears her own family’s conspiracy wide open.

Her father wants her retrieved. The Council wants her silenced. The pack hasn’t decided if she belongs. Colin has already chosen.

Now she has to decide if staying is a choice or a cage.

Dual POV. Slow burn. Forced proximity. He fell first. Fated mates. Replacement bride. Found family. Protective Alpha. Strong heroine. She earns her place. HEA guaranteed.

Marked

By: V.R. Vesper

• Contemporary
• Dark
• LGBT
• Suspense

Obsessive Love / Cat and Mouse / Mind Games / Who’s Really the Stalker? / Sapphic Awakening / Morally Grey FMC / Snarky Narrator (obviously) / Tease and Denial / First Person POV

Hi. My name is Lisa Salt. I have to warn you, only click on my story if you like the above. I’m a college freshman with exactly one friend, most days. I was chasing my mother’s dream of going into medicine, maintaining the empty social life she always envisioned for me. It was a calm, irrelevant existence, and I miss every second of it. Because when Sofia Rossi looked at me, my world fractured.

It was just a look. One look from the most untouchable girl on campus, and I lost every boundary I had.

In all fairness, most of this is probably my fault—but I barely tried to stalk her. I might have misread some signals when I ended up inside her house without her knowing. It was a matter of not being very experienced in dealing with… what’s it called? Ah, yeah. Other people.

I’ve contracted a rather pathological obsession that I’m not entirely sure is legal. And somewhere along the way, I stopped being the only one having it. Have you ever craved someone so much you’d do anything to see her every day? Ever been so intoxicated by her that you’d sacrifice your own sanity?

I did. And I don’t intend to stop.

Her Secret Husband

By: JS Kinglsey

• Adult
• Billionaire
• Contemporary
• Erotic

I tried to expose a stranger at my father’s casino. Instead, I married him. Now he’s taken me to a desert house, and the secrets he reveals shatter everything I knew. I should hate him. I should run. But I’m falling — and I’m carrying his child.

MC Biker Club Smut-Romance

By: Kzi Younger

• Action
• Bad Boy
• BDSM
• Biker (MC)
• Erotic

I’m VP of the Steel Riders MC. Ex-military. Never once submitted to anyone. Now I’m kneeling, crawling for her.
Prez sent me undercover into Boston’s most exclusive adult club. One target. One week. Get the intel and get out. Simple enough — but Anisa had other plans for me.
I restrained her in her bedroom on night one.
On night two, she collared and owned me completely.
I told myself I had to stay close to her for the mission.
It wasn’t her curves, her mouth, or the way she takes control
But when I find out her life is in danger, leaving isn’t an option.
Yet staying becomes more dangerous if she finds out who I am.
Walking away was always the plan.
Now it’s the one thing I must do — and can’t.

The Scottish Duke’s Substitute Bride

By: Daisy Rosewood

• Historical

Diana Thornbury has spent years protecting the quiet life she built for herself and her young son. Returning to her childhood home was meant to be temporary, until her sister vanishes on the eve of her forced marriage to an infamous Duke. With scandal threatening to destroy her family, Diana is offered in her sister’s place and steps into a future she could not foresee.

Lachlan MacLeod, Duke of Dunmore, has lived too long beneath the shadow of whispered accusations and the scars left by a devastating fire. He never planned for a bride with a child, a small boy who looks at his face and sees courage instead of darkness. Reshaped by the unexpected tenderness, Lachlan must face a question he has long avoided: can a man branded monstrous ever be worthy of love?

At Castle Dunmore, secrets press in from every shadow as questions about Diana’s sister refuse to fade. As unsettling truths begin to surface, the fragile trust between Diana and Lachlan is tested. With danger closing in and the truth threatening to change everything, they must decide if they can trust one another or risk losing the bond beginning to form between them.