TOP 30 BEST KINDLE UNLIMITED ROMANCE BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE
TOP 30 BEST KINDLE UNLIMITED ROMANCEBOOKS NOW AVAILABLE
If you're new to Kindle Unlimited, now is your chance! Amazon offers new customers a free 2-month subscription, which gives you access to thousands of ebooks and audio books. Below is a 30-head list of some of the best Kindle Unlimited romance books I've read. I've broken them down into a romance sub-category and tried to highlight many brilliantly written, lesser-known books that deserve your attention. At the time of writing, they are all available on KU.
Book descriptions are from Amazon, but for some books that I particularly liked, I added additional notes. It's worth saying here that Amazon is very generous with their free KU plans. I got a whopping six months back in 2018, three months in 2019, and I just included them in a new month-long trial that they (inexplicably) offered me. Worth the effort!
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# 1. RED WINTER (RED WINTER # 1) BY ANNETTE MARIE
Emi is the kamigakari. In a few months, her mortal life will end, and her new existence as the human host of a goddess will begin. Carefully hidden from those who would destroy her, she prepared her mind, body and soul to unite with the goddess - and not once did she doubt her chosen fate.
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Shiro is a yokai, a spirit of the earth, an enemy of the goddess Emi will soon be host. Mystery envelops all his movements, and his ruby eyes shine with cunning that she cannot match and dare not trust. But she saved his life, and until his debt is paid, he's under her command - whether she wants him or not. The day they meet, everything Emi believes is undone, swept away like snow in the winter wind. For the first time, she wants to change her destiny - but how can she erase a fate already worked out in stone? Against the power of the gods, Shiro is her only hope ... and hope is all she has left.
[I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS SERIES ENOUGH. It's a beautifully rendered fantasy world based on Japanese mythology, with a breathtaking romance and an incredible plot. Technically yes, but don't let that put you off. I would also recommend Marie's Guild Codex: Demonized series, a new adult paranormal series available on KU.]
# 2. ZODIAC ACADEMY: THE AWAKENING (SUPERNATURAL BULLIES AND BEASTS # 1) CAROLINE PECKHAM & SUSANNE VALENTI
What happens to the students who anger the cold-blooded Dragon Shifter, the cruel vampire, the black-hearted werewolf and the cruel siren who run this school?
They pay in blood.
But what does that have to do with me?
Much more than I would like ...
I have just discovered that I am a Fae of unspeakable power, an heir to an entire kingdom and a threat to those four ruthless supernatural beings who are also eligible to rule this world. And I am a twin. So she is also doomed to the same fate.
They want to hurt us.
They want to break us.
And they will stop at nothing to make us bow to their feet.
My Gemini sign meant little to me until now, but the stars rule this world. They define my elemental magic, define my nature, and distort my will. But I've never bought daily horoscopes, so I'm not going to start now. I will determine my own destiny. And I'm here for one thing and one thing only: the legacy my royal parents left in their wake.
There is only one caveat ...
We have to graduate before it is given to us. So until then, the heirs will keep fighting to get rid of us. And I have this terrible feeling that they don't just want us gone, they want us dead.
[While not quite Harry Potter, this is an insanely fun New Adult romance between enemies and lovers with wonderfully assertive heroines and awesome world-building. Another trope it features is teacher-student romance - the student is 18 - if you're in that] 3 !.
# STOLEN (ALPHA'S CONTROL # 1) BY ADDISON CAIN
No one will take what's his ...
The Commodore stole her off the street in broad daylight - the first Omega female discovered in Bernard Dome in generations. He took her by force, with no one intervening. He broke her and swore he put her back together.
Brenya Perin was ordered to submit.
Bernard Dome is the pearl of Europe, a bastion of art and culture, fun and decadence. But city life depends on the profession chosen for you at birth. There is no subversion, there is no question of who rules. There is no freedom. And there is no interference from foreign domes ... until a new threat comes from a distant continent. The shepherd's right hand, Jules.
Peace comes at a price, a price that Bernard Dome's Commodore is willing to pay ... as long as the rare Omega remains his.
[This is technically a sequel to Cain's best-selling Born to Be Bound books, but I prefer it to that series and it can be read as a standalone series. It's a dark, searing Omega romance with total power exchange, disturbing but incredibly memorable. For more details on Cain's background and Omeg averse in general, click here.]
# 4. TRICKERY (CURSE OF THE GODS # 1) BY JAYMIN EVE & JANE WASHINGTON
Willa Knight: Dweller. Slave. Non-magical creature.
In Midnatsol, being a resident means that you are literally no better than dirt. In fact, dirt may be more useful than Willa. Her life will be one of service to the sols, the magically blessed beings who could one day be chosen to become gods.
At least her outer village is far from the towns of the sols, and she will never be forced to present herself to them ... Until a small mistake changes everything, and Willa gets a position to serve at Blesswood, the top sol academy in the world - a position she absolutely did not deserve.
Under the sudden, watchful eye of the gods, she will be tasked with serving the Abcurse brothers, five souls built of arrogance, perfection and strength. They are almost gods themselves, and under their service she will either be sentenced to death or else they will ruin her so badly that she will wish for it.
Either way, she's in trouble.
[An absolutely hilarious series; I love how it actively subverts many romantic clichés. Note: the heroine ends with more than one hero. Click here for a more detailed explanation. The series is located on the border between YA and NA and becomes more explicit in later books.]
# 5. AIR AND ASH (TIDES # 1) BY ALEX LIDELLvaart de
After a life of training seventeen-year-old Princess Nile Greysik, a lieutenant on the prestigious flagship of the Ashing Navy, battles one essential mission - and fails.
Hidden from the sea and facing a political marriage, Nile disguises herself as a regular sailor on the first ship she can find. With a cowardly captain, incompetent crew and a brutal, too-handsome first officer who plans to make her life hell, Nile must hide her identity as she tries to make the sad frigate strike. Worse, a terrifying and forbidden magic now tingles in the blood of the Nile. If someone is told who Nile is or what she can do, her life is over.
But when the ship is threatened by disaster, Nile may have no choice but to unleash the truth that will curse her future.
[Amazingly good world structure and a very satisfying romance. Reminiscent by Tamora Pierce. This one is YA.]
# 6. BAD UGLY BAD (A KINDA FAIRYTALE # 1) BY CASSANDRA GANNON
Scarlett Riding is NOT an ugly stepsister. Cinderella is the evil one in the family and Letty is determined to prove it. Unfortunately, that's a bit difficult to do from behind bars. After the debacle at the prom, Letty and her sister Dru were dragged to the Wicked, Ugly and Bad Mental Health Treatment Center and maximum security prison. As Cindy plans her dream wedding, her two stepsisters are forced to put up with life in the most bleak dungeon in the country.
Fortunately, Letty has a plan to change that unfortunate ending. If she can just go to Prince Charming and prove that the glass slipper doesn't fit in Cinderella's foot, she can reclaim her life. To do that, she must convince The Big Bad Wolf to lend a hand in organizing a jailbreak.
Marrok Wolf isn't sure what to think of the idealistic redhead during his group therapy sessions. With fifty counts of wickedness in his criminal record, Marrok used to be surrounded by crooks and bastards. Scarlett wants to lecture him about equal rights for trolls! However, when the little benefactor comes up with an elaborate plan to break their entire "sharing circle" out of prison, Marrok is certainly willing to go along with the plot. And not just because he wants to see her naked. The woman may not be bad, ugly, or bad, but she is absolutely the only one who can save him.
Along with an evil witch, timid bogeyman, evil prince and other villains straight out of a storybook, Scarlett and Marrok are about to help Baddies finally have a long and happy life.
[A wonderfully funny adult spin on Little Red Riding Hood, and one of the best novels anywhere - let alone KU. Gannon deserves far more attention than she gets.]
# 7. LAND OF THE BEAUTIFUL DEATH BY R. LEE SMITH
Years ago he rose from the darkness - Azrael the Eternal, Azrael the Immortal, Azrael the death - and brought the black rains, the fire, the acidification of the air and the Eaters. . Now he rules the walled city of Haven with his favorite children and his dead court, all that remains of the living struggle for survival in the ruins of a world that used to be theirs. But even in the face of extinction, humanity will never surrender to their monstrous conqueror.
For Lan, this brutal life is all she's ever known, but she still believes it can change. If the war can never really end until the Eaters are over, she will go to Heaven, to Azrael himself, and demand that he end it. To her surprise, she does not immediately die the death of the hero she expected. Instead, Azrael offers her a chance to convince him, and all she has to do is surrender to the cold embrace of the lord of the Land of the Beautiful Dead.
[This book is very difficult to describe. It's part psychological horror, part dystopian romance, part fantasy. I've never read such a hero. It's very long, and not a feel-good book, but so unforgettable that I compulsively come back. One of the best Kindle Unlimited romances.]
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# 8. THE BAKER'S GUIDE TO RISKY RITUALS ( SWEET PEA MYSTERIES # 1) BY KATHRYN MOON
Gourmet pastry chef and kitchen witch, Josie Benoit may not be a resident of Sweet Pea, but she has made the town her home and plans to keep it that way. When troubles come into town on the seats of gleaming motorcycles and the safety of her home and her own reputation are jeopardized, Josie unites with her coven to protect her world from a dark influence.
If only that dark influence weren't so wonderfully beautiful.
King Beleth is not a demon to mock.
Leader of the Hell's Bells MC and one of the great warlords of the Bowels, Beleth takes pride in his work and has the patience of a ... man who knows what's best is worth the wait. Known as Bell - to his friends, which isn't you - he has come to Sweet Pea to dismantle the core of the good in the heart of town. But upon arrival, he discovers three things that might be getting in the way of his job:
Sweet Pea is more disgustingly cute than they were warned.
The city has a witch covenant that protects it.
He develops a sweet tooth.
[A funny, not quite cozy paranormal romantic mystery. Featuring a heroine with Haitian roots who practices voodoo; great insight into non-European cultural systems!]
# 9. THE UNLIKEABLE DEMON HUNTER (NAVA KATZ # 1) BY DEBORAH WILDE
Nava Katz cares about two things: perfecting the art of being a hot mess and her hard-working twin brother . But she accidentally sets his lifelong dream on fire when she disrupts his introduction to a secret brotherhood on a demon hunt and steals his fate.
Shocked that she is now expected to take his place, Nava is confronted with something she never wanted: a goal.
Society isn't cool with a woman in their ranks and pairs her with a gruff but sweltering ex-rock star to keep her in line. Too bad he's exactly what Nava has always wanted: the perfect bad boy fling with no strings attached, because dating him is just as dangerous as the vengeful demon searching for blood - her brother's.
And Nava is the only one who can save him.
Survivability: meh.
Chances of having a good time before she bites in: much better.
[A sneaky, kickass heroine paired with an Indian hero, entangled in Jewish mythology. What else do you want? Granted, I have some issues with the way romance develops in later books, but this first episode is gold.]
# 10. A DEAD AND STORMY NIGHT (NEVER AGAIN BOOKSHOP MYSTERIES # 1) BY STEFFANIE HOLMES fashion stage
After she got fired From her in New York City, Mina Wilde decides it's time to reevaluate her life. She returns to the quaint English village where she grew up to take a job at the local bookstore, hoping she would recover from a devastating blow by being surrounded by great literature.
But Mina soon discovers that her life is stranger than fiction - a mysterious bookstore curse brings fictional characters to life in lust-worthy bodies. Mina finds herself looking after Poe's raven, making hot dogs for Heath cliff, and getting IT help from James Moriarty, while trying not to fall for the three broken men who should exist only in her imagination.
When Mina's ex-best friend turns up dead with a knife in her back, she's the prime suspect. She'll have to solve the murder if she wants to clear her name. Will her fictional boyfriends be able to keep her out of jail?
[Another reverse harem romance, this time where the heroes are characters from English literature. Holmes is doing impressively well - much better than I expected; it's funny, sexy and sweet. There's also a disabled heroine (she's going blind).]
# 11. RHAPSODIC (THE BARGAINER # 1) BY LAURA THALASSA
Calypso Lillis is a siren with a really big problem, one that stretches her arm far into her past. For the past seven years, she has been collecting a bracelet of black beads on her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she has received. Only death or reimbursement meet the obligations. Only then do the beads disappear.
Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He's a man who can give you anything you want ... at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.
But he never asked for a refund for any of his clients. Only now. When Callie finds the fairy king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. At first it's just a chaste kiss - worth a single bead - and a promise for more.
For the Bargainer, it's more than just reviving an old romance. Something is happening in the Other World. Fae warriors are missing one by one. Only the women are returned, each in a glass coffin, a child clutching their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that has been aroused.
If the Bargainer has any hope of saving his people, he needs the help of the siren he rejected long ago. Only, his enemy has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.
[While I felt this NA paranormal romance didn't quite live up to my expectations, it's still well written with an intriguing premise.]
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# 12. FEAR ME (BROKEN LOVE # 1) BB READ
I don't believe in fairytales and Prince Charming.
I believe in fear.
He taught me to be afraid.
We first met at a playground on a wonderful summer day. It was the first time he hurt me and it wouldn't be the last. He's been my tormentor for ten years and I've been banned from him. But then he left, and yet I was still scared.
Now he's back and wants more than just my tears. You see ... he thinks I sent him away, so now he wants revenge ... and he knows exactly how to get it.
[Warning: a dark romance between enemies and lovers. Although the writing is a bit stilted at times and there are a lot of grammatical mistakes, I found myself unconsciously sucked into the compelling plot.]
# 13. RUTHLESS KNIGHT (ROYAL HEARTS ACADEMY # 2) ASHLEY JADE
Cole Covington is the hottest heartthrob in school . Every man wants to be him and every girl wants to fuck him. Except for me. His devastatingly good looks, golden arm, and flirty smile don't do it for me anymore ... because I know what's lurking beneath the star quarterback's gorgeous armor.
At least I thought so.
Sometimes the most beautiful people hide ... the ugliest truths. And sometimes the only way to save someone ... is to walk through hell next to them.
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Sawyer Church is the Bible-pounding nerd Royal Hearts Academy. Girls bully her and boys don't notice her. Except for me. Sweet, curvy and sarcastic, she's impossible to ignore. It doesn't matter how much I try. Everyone at school has labeled her the chubby, Jesus-loving nerd, but unlike them - Sawyer is real and never pretends to be someone she isn't.
Until I ask her to be my fake girlfriend.
Sometimes the most beautiful souls hide ... the greatest pain. And sometimes the only way to save someone is to fight for them.
[I promise you this is much, much better than the blurb suggests. It features a heroine of stature who is confident in her beliefs and who does not let the hero (who is half-Indian by the way) walk all over her. I was really impressed with the way the author has addressed some of the serious issues in this book, namely drug abuse and body image issues. The prose is a little overworked at times and I hated the first part in the series, but this book is great.]
# 14. UNTOUCHABLE SAM MARIANO
The last year got off to a rough start: lube in my locker, panties on my porch, unimaginative swearing. Look, I suspended a player from the soccer team for bothering me, and in my small Texas town you don't mess with the soccer players - even if they mess with you first.
I didn't care if it wasn't a popular thing to do; I stood up for myself ... and opened Pandora's Box.
I never dreamed that I would attract the attention of the locally adored star quarterback, Carter Mahoney. Never thought his coveted attention would become such a nightmare. Underneath its carefully constructed façade lurks a monster, a predator looking for the perfect prey to play with. Since I'm the girl no one likes or believes, I think I'm the perfect target for his dark games and twisted desires.
After surviving my first encounter with his accidental depravity, all I really want is for Carter to leave me alone.
But all he seems to want is me.
[Warning: this is a very dark, but very emotional and well-written 'bully romance'.]
# 15. HEART THIEF (BLACK MARKET BILLIONS # 1) SKYLAR SWEENEY
Billionaire Rex Bennett broke my heart, and now I'm coming to get it - this time for real . My worst enemy stole a wonder heart from the maker, and I'm going undercover as his sexy secretary to take it back, at least if his offer to stroke his gun and spice up his coffee doesn't drive me to the wild side first.
Rex shattered my heart years ago, and I was sure it would never be the same again ... until a single kiss from the man I despise put it back together. Do I stay true to my vengeance and steal the heart it needs to survive or do I give in to passion and let the maker of the heart die?
[This debut novel is a little rough around the edges, but there's an original premise + hilarious between the protagonists!]
# 16. MORE THAN ENOUGH chit-chat(POST GRAD # 1) BY BRIA FELICIEN All
Jamila wants to do this 'maturity' figuring out things. Step 1: Find a new job.
With his second career about to start, TJ is ready to settle down. Step 1: Start dating again.
When TJ and Jamila meet, they don't know what to do with each other.
Except it complicates everything.
# 17. THE WALL OF WINNIPEG AND I BY MARIANA ZAPATA
Vanessa Mazur knows she's doing the right thing. She shouldn't feel bad for quitting. Being an assistant / housekeeper / fairy mother of the highest defensive goal in the National Football Organization always had to be temporary. She has plans, and none of these include washing oversized underwear for longer than necessary.
But when Aiden Graves shows up at her door and wants her to return, she is no longer shocked.
For two years, the man known as The Wall of Winnipeg couldn't find it in him to say good morning or congratulate her on her birthday. Now? He asks for the unthinkable.
What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants?
[Zapata's books are known for being emotionally intense, slow romances. While my personal favorite is Under Locke, this is also worth reading.]
# 18. THE KINGMAKER (ALL MEN OF THE KING # 1) BY KENNEDY RYAN
Power. Passion. Betrayal.
Raised to rule, bred to lead, and weaned on a diet of relentless ambition.
In a world of haves and have nots, my family has it all, and I don't want anything to do with it.
My path takes me far from home and paints me like the black sheep. Contrary to my father, I am determined to build my own empire. I have rules, but Lennix Hunter is the exception to all of them. From the moment we meet, something sparks between us. But my family stole hers and my dad is the man they hate the most. I lied to have her, and will do anything to keep her. Although she tries to hate me too, the inexorable attraction between us will not be denied.
And me neither.
[Great diversity here - the heroine is a member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, and culture is a big element of the book.]
# 19. GIVE CHASE (HAVEN WOOD # 1) RILEY HART
KELLAN in love
I wasn't meant to be my older brother's best friend. Unfortunately, that ship sailed when I was a teenager, even though Chase Hawthorne always treated me like nothing more than a younger sibling. It got worse after my parents died. Chase was sweet and supportive, which only added to my feelings for him. But then he acted like I couldn't take care of myself, and it wasn't going well for me. Yes, I was in the habit of screwing it up. I had always been the weird kid in our small town, but like my big brother, he took over protectiveness to a new level. Until one night when I was eighteen and Chase and I hooked up. It was one thing for the ego that he left town immediately afterward. Ridiculously, I'm still not over him.
CHASE
I betrayed my best friend Griffin the night I messed around with Kellan. So I ran - first to the Marines, then to the police. Ten years later I am back home, this time as a patrol officer instead of the son of a troublemaker. Oh, and I can't take my hands off Kellan Caine. There has always been something about him ... the way he is strong in who he is, even when he is alone. I'm trapped between someone I want more than anything and Griff, the man who is like family to me. But the more time I spend with Kellan, the harder it gets to deny there's anything real between us.
Now that my dad was causing trouble and I'm going behind my best friend's back, everything is a mess. The more the web gets confused, the more I realize I need Kellan. And that there may be something in Hawthorne's family history that will make me lose both Kellan and Griffin forever.
# 20. PERMANENT INK (ART & SOUL # 1) BY PIPER VAUGHN & AVON GALE
At twenty-three, graffiti artist Poe Montgomery is not going anywhere anytime soon. His second chance comes in the form of a job offer from his dad's best friend, Jericho McAslan, who owns a popular tattoo parlor, Permanent Ink.
Between their age difference, tension with Poe's dad, Poe's difficulty concentrating, and Jericho's determination to keep their relationship strictly professional, their chance for love seems as fleeting as a tattoo stencil.
But when Poe makes his deepest desires abundantly clear, Jericho can no longer resist its burning pull or the idea that his own fantasies become reality. If they can find a way to rewrite their rocky start, they may have a chance to transform their temporary arrangement into something that lasts forever.
[An adorable May-December romance featuring a bisexual hero and a daddy kink.]
# 21 THE SERGEANT (CUFFS, NECKLACES AND LOVE # 1) CHRISTA TOM LINSON
Sergeant Logan Pierce: He leads his team with cool efficiency, using raw shoot criminals while keeping his team safe. But behind closed doors, he releases a darker part of himself. As Dom, he checked many submissive persons, but he never had one of his own. That's because there's only one guy he wants: Agent Clay Foster.
Agent Clay Foster: Over the years, he's noticed his sergeant's secretly admiring looks and suspected his appeal. One night, with one kiss, he was proved right. Clay dives headlong into the raw passion of BDSM that Logan proposes to him. He submits to Logan's control and accepts the sweet chains that bind him to his sergeant. But secrets, both his and Logan's, force him to abandon the newfound security of his Dom's arms.
Logan refuses to let go of what he has wanted for so long, Clay like his, proudly on his collar. Can he safely guide Clay through the obstacles that separate them until he can reclaim his submissive?
# 22.CALL CORONER (STANIEL # 1) BY AVRIL ASHTON
A clash of will between predators ...
He has lived underground for a long time, but the one thing that is guaranteed to bring Daniel Nieto back to the surface is the identity of the killer of his wife. With the whisper of one name, he risks everything for revenge. He has plans for Stavros Konstantinou.
The title of monster fits too well for Stavros to want to be anything other than he is. Time spent in Daniel Nieto's dungeon, chained and tortured, will never change that. Starved by food, sunlight and freedom, he waits for an opening to turn the tables on the only man who has ever come close enough to scare him.
Somewhere between the sliding of a knife against the skin and the dripping of blood on cold concrete, things change. Sadness and hate collide with lust and obsession, and this time Daniel and Stavros are on the same side. This time they fight a losing battle against a connection forged by much more than a love of violence and bloodshed.
What do you do in a war so bloody when the bodies hit the floor?
[Warning: a very dark M / M romance.]
# 23. NOTHING SPECIAL BY AE VIA
Detective Cashel "Cash" Godfrey is tall, tattooed, and angry, so people usually keep their distance. Fresh out of police academy, no one wants to team up with the six-foot beast with a huge chip on his shoulder and an inability to trust. When Cash scans the orientation room, he doesn't expect sexy brown eyes to be on him. Eyes of the handsome detective Leonidis 'Leo' Day.
Leo is charming, witty, hilariously sarcastic, and the only one who can make Cash smile. He's proud, out and a bad detective.
Cash and Leo together become the most respected and successful narcotics detectives Atlanta has ever seen. Able to communicate and understand each other without even having to express it, they quickly climb up the promotional ranks.
When Cash saves Leo's life from a deadly raid, Leo begins to see something in the big man that no one else is doing ... something special. But Leo fears he will never break through the impenetrable wall that protects Cash's heart.
# 24. VICIOUS (SINNERS OF SAINT # 1) LJ SHEN
Emilia
They say love and hate are the same feelings experienced under different circumstances, and it is true.
The man who comes to me in my dreams also haunts me in my nightmares.
He's a brilliant lawyer.
A capable criminal.
A beautiful liar.
A bully and a rescuer, a monster and a lover.
Ten years ago he forced me to run from the town where we lived. Now he came to get me in New York, and he won't leave until he takes me.
Vicious
She is a starving artist.
Beautiful and elusive like a cherry blossom.
Ten years ago, she entered my life unannounced and turned everything upside down.
She paid the price.
Emilia LeBlanc is completely off limits, my best friend's ex-girlfriend. The woman who knows my darkest secret, and the daughter of the cheap Help we hired to look after our estate.
That should keep me from chasing her, but it isn't.
So she hates me. Great deal.
She better get used to me.
# 25. SIX OF HEARTS (HEARTS # 1) LH COS WAY
When Jay Fields, the world-renowned illusionist, enters her father's law firm, Matilda is speechless. Not only is he one of the most attractive and charismatic men she's ever met, he's also a mystery to be solved.
Jay wants to sue a newspaper for defamation, but everything is not what it seems. Matilda is determined to discover the true story behind Jay, but when he becomes an unexpected roommate, she's not ready for him to invade her affection and steal her heart.
The man is a mystery wrapped in a riddle, and while she can't yet grasp the bigger picture, Matilda can't help but join the thrilling and heartbreaking ride.
[Kind of a feverish dream of a book, full of tricks and illusions.]
# 26. TITANIUM (BREATHLESS # 1) ANNA KATMORE fell apart
My world when I met my match.
I pride myself on keeping everything under control. Always. My only weakness: reckless challenges. After losing my car to the new street racer in town, Sebastian gives me the opportunity to get it back. His condition: two hours in my playroom. No stop words allowed. Although I only do girls there, I accept it. And when he kisses me, I reach my fucking limits.
Once in your life you will meet a unicorn.
Raffael is pure Nordic ice. Checked. Determined. And breathtakingly beautiful. Winning his car was a stroke of luck. Winning his heart when he's so afraid of the truth turns out to be the most difficult challenge I've ever had to complete.
[While this is a grown-up M / M romance, Catmore really excels in YA's contemporary rom-com. Her Grover Beach High series is also on KU and I highly recommend it!
# 27. THE PAPER SWAN BY LEYLAH ATTAR
They say it takes twenty-one days to form a habit. They lie.
She persisted for twenty-one days. But on day twenty-two she would have given anything for the sweet sleep of death.
Because on day twenty-two she realizes that her only way out is certain death for one of the two men she loves.
# 28. MELT FOR YOU (SLOW BURN # 2) JT GEISSINGER
Socially awkward Joellen Bixby has a date every Saturday - with her cat, a pint of ice cream, and fantasies about the over-handsome Michael Maddox. She would give anything to win over the unattainable CEO of her company, but how can she do that when she blends in so well? The answer may be closer than she thinks.
Cameron McGregor is a cocky, tattooed Scottish rugby captain who has just moved in next door. He's not Jo's type -at all -but the infamous playboy offers to teach the wallflower everything he knows about inspirational desire. While many women have crumpled Cam's kilt, Jo is special. Far from the ugly duckling she thinks she is, in Cam's eyes she's sharp, funny, and effortlessly sexy. Now, thanks to him, Jo is blooming with confidence and has the man of her dreams within reach.
Unfortunately for Cam, he's just helped to push the woman of his dreams into the arms of another man — and now he's in the fight of his life to keep this beauty from getting away.
[SUCH a great book, with sizzling UST between the characters. Also one of my favorite tropes! Can be read as a standalone.]
# 29. THE V GIRL BY MYA ROBARTS
In post-apocalyptic North America two emerging nations are at war and sexual slavery is legal. Lila Velez desperately wants to lose her virginity before the troops visit her town and take it away by force. She makes plans to seduce her only friend. Lila does not love him, but he is the only man who has shown her true affection, an affection she is willing to take as a substitute for love.
Lila hides a secret that will bring her closer to Aleksey Fürst, a foreign, broody man who she distrusts because of his links to the troops and his rough, yet irresistible appearance. He offers Lila an alternative to her plans, a possibility that terrifies her… and tempts her in spite of herself.
With threats looming at every turn and no way to escape, Lila fears that falling in love will only lead to more heartache. The consequences of laying down her arms for Aleksey and welcoming hope might destroy more than her heart. They might force her to face the worst of her nightmares becoming a reality. Is love possible in a world that has forgotten what the human touch is?
# 30. FALLING FOR A KNIGHT (THE WILD KNIGHTS # 1) BY TÉ RUSS
While vacationing in Trinidad, world-renowned photographer Roman Knight unexpectedly acquires a new muse, Cynthia Tremaine. Their chemistry is off the charts and they can't resist giving into a night of passion together.
Neither of them expected to see each other again after they parted ways… but fate seemed to have other plans.
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