Frost and fire, forbidden contact, heroines who refuse to be classified. Yearning that builds for three hundred pages before it breaks.
Heat 4 · Enemies to lovers
A condemned fire mage. The frost commander sent to contain her. The only two people alive who can touch without burning.
Sera Brandt burns everything she loves. Shipped to a frozen frontier bastion and handed to the Commander of Frost, she expects a cage. What she finds is the one hand that does not turn to ash under hers, and a hope more dangerous than fire.
A florist who can hear what plants want signs away her freedom to grow an impossible bloom for a cursed lord — under a single rule, never ask what the flower is for — never guessing the bloom feeds on what she feels in the soil, and that the only thing that…
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A disgraced sports journalist turned crisis-PR fixer is hired to rehabilitate the enforcer who detonated her career on camera — and discovers the suspension that finished him was a fall he took for someone else.
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Every Fourth of July for eighteen years, June and Caleb have met at the same lake on the one day a year their lives cross — and the summer she finally leaves for good is the summer he's a weekend from proposing to someone else.
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On a dying generation ship that recycles its own people for fuel, two laborers — a heat-sink engineer and an oxygen-scrubber technician — discover a forbidden fragment of blue sky, and a love the all-seeing Mandate has outlawed.
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A by-the-book Crown auditor sent to inventory a reclusive dragon-shifter's hoard discovers the four centuries of objects she must catalog conceal the story of the stranger who once sheltered her from the rain — and a love she never filed away.
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For forty years, books have gone missing from the Hollow Pine Library on the dark of every new moon — and come back a fortnight later in flawless condition, annotated in an elegant hand no one can place.
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A sunshine wedding planner inherits half a failing Montana hot-springs resort; the other half belongs to the town's most reclusive man, and a will chains them to save it — or lose everything — by season's end.
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A failing Napa heiress must be married by her 30th birthday or lose the family vineyard to a conglomerate; the cold private-equity shark sent to take it offers to be the husband — while secretly making the marriage his firm's mechanism to acquire it.
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A four-hundred-year-old reaper who lingers too long over every death arrives to collect a funeral florist who can see him — and can't. Every failed collection buys her time; every stolen hour he wants another.
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A ruthless prenuptial attorney drafts the ironclad contract for a billionaire perfumer's fake marriage, then becomes the bride herself, and cannot bring herself to invoke the exit clause she wrote into every marriage she ever touched.
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The town veterinarian who survives by triage — fix the broken thing, rehome it, keep the door shut — has her wall breached when the boy who broke her heart comes home to sell the shuttered family boatyard her clinic sits on, and the only creature more…
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> The crown sent him to execute the poisoner. His warrant already has her name on it. ---
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Nadia Cole spent two years building the forensic ledger that would end New York's oldest crime family. The night before she hands it over, the Marchettis take her — not to kill her, but to marry her to their heir, because a wife can't testify.
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Elias Rourke is the best goalie in the league and the loneliest man in it. When the Meridian Sentinels hire Dr.
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Juniper Larkin watches for fire so she never has to fight one again. When the district sends fire-behavior analyst Isaac Mercer up her tower to model the megafire building in Dry Fork — carrying a hidden second assignment to write the report that…
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Wren Adler, a paper conservator weeks from removal from the only country that ever held still for her, marries Julian Ostrander — a grieving contracts attorney fighting for custody of his orphaned niece — one year, on paper, with an exit clause in ink.
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Thea Sorrel, a concert pianist turned piano tuner who has spent nine years keeping herself a half-step out of tune with everyone so nothing can ever be taken, is hired to bring a dead woman's piano back to life — and turns out to be the only pianist alive who…
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Sylvie Ashby prescribes stories for a living but has never read toward her own grief. When her mentor's will leaves her the Reading Room only if she completes, in one year, the twelve-book list Iris built for her — and names Iris's estranged actuary grandson…
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Nine years after she fled the lake town that bears his family's name, photographer Elodie Brannock comes home to bury her great-aunt and discovers the old woman quietly bought the bank note strangling Hawley Boatworks — leaving Elodie the reluctant creditor…
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Three years after his wife died on black ice, a widower who has not thrown away a single thing is given ninety days by the county to empty his farmhouse or lose it — and the woman the court sends to clear it out is a professional at leaving houses behind.
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She can taste a lie. The county just fed her one.
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Sixty days of air. One working bunk. Neither of them will ask first.
Read on Amazon →Dark, atmospheric love stories where the magic has rules that bite and the wanting is the whole plot. If you read for the slow burn, the touch that finally lands, and the heroine who refuses to be anyone's weapon, you are in the right place.
The wall comes down slowly, brick by earned brick.
No one's weapon. No one's prize.
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