He’s hot, a legendary F1 driver, the man who ended my racing career and my brother’s best friend… and now he’s my only hope for survival.
Senna Coulter’s dreams of becoming a race car driver ended after a crash; now, she’s the head of her family’s failing Formula One team.
She’s determined to succeed, even when it means battling the people who think a woman in her twenties can’t be the boss in a male-dominated sport.
Her team’s only chance of survival is her brother’s best friend and her teen crush, Connor Dane. He’s also her team’s new arrogant hotshot driver.
Connor has carried the guilt of causing Senna’s crash for years. Being around Senna is torture especially with the secrets he’s hiding, but he promised her brother he’d protect her at all costs.
They begin the season at each other’s throats, but the undeniable spark between them means they surrender to their wants and cross a dangerous line.
It starts as a secret, steamy relationship, but as their feelings for each other intensify, it becomes harder to hide. So much is at the team, their careers, their friendships, and their reputations.
But maybe it’s all worth it for love.
Fans of Tessa Bailey will enjoy this spicy romance novel that’s Drive to Survive meets Play Along by Liz Tomforde. It features workplace sports romance, enemies to lovers, brother’s best friend, secret relationship, forced proximity, and found family tropes with anxiety
Tropes: Brother’s Best Friend, Sports, Workplace, Found Family, Forced Proximity.
Trigger Warnings: Swearing, Sexual Content, Misogyny, Car Accident, Anxiety.
Sunshine Ruby is out of the frying pan and into the forearms of the cinnamon-smelling chef, Garett, in this grumpy sunshine workplace romance.
Ruby’s life couldn’t get any worse after catching her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend until she clashes with Chef Garett Kelsey, the man with the hottest forearms in England. Her first day in her family’s cookery school turns into a shouting match with blood everywhere and Garett demanding that Ruby leave or he quits.
Garett has lost his restaurant, livelihood, and, worst of all, his dog, Cookie. Unless Garett gives his former business partner and nemesis ten thousand pounds and the secret ingredients to his pasta dish, he’ll never get Cookie back. Garett must keep his head down and work at Cloud Cookery School to get the money he needs to move away with Cookie and start a new life. It’s doable if he doesn’t trust anyone or fall in love.
With Ruby and Garett working together, an irresistible attraction forms. Before he knows it, the grumpy chef is pretending to be her boyfriend to punish her ex, socialising with her family, and teaching her skills to win the baker competition, which risks everything he’s worked for. After weeks of flirting and a snowstorm, temptation overwhelms them.
But Ruby can’t let anyone come between her and her family like her ex did and Garett is keeping a huge secret from Ruby that could ruin everything between them. Can their forbidden connection endure it all, or are they destined to break each other’s hearts?
Fans of Meghan Quinn will enjoy this spicy romance novel that’s While You Were Sleeping meets Tessa Bailey’s The Sweetest Fix meets The Great British Bake Off. It features enemies to lovers, grumpy versus sunshine, one bed, found family tropes and a dash of Christmas.
Tropes: Grumpy Chef x Sunshine Baker, Toys, FWB, Snowed In, One Bed, Workplace, Found Family, Winter Romance.
Trigger Warnings: Profanity, Sexual Content, Pregnancy.
Liss is an average twenty-something woman with a regular job working in a bar…until the day she learns during a televised broadcast that her grandma had an affair with the king decades ago and she might be his granddaughter.
The dying king’s announcement throws Liss into a world of paparazzi, royal parties, and death threats. But it also gives her hope that she could finally be part of a family, something she’s wanted her whole life and especially after her mum died when Liss was nineteen. Now she has to decide if she’s ready to give up her privacy, safety, and independence to be a princess.
To protect Liss in all this danger and stress is her swoonworthy new bodyguard, Bear. He’s cheeky, grumpy, and has secret tattoos beneath his suits. He’s also stubborn and bossy and clashes with Liss constantly. But Bear has a soft side too. He sits with Liss when she sleeps to make sure she doesn’t have nightmares and buys her stunning ballgowns to make her happy.
It’s not long before all the bickering and tension morphs into sizzling hot chemistry. Both Liss and Bear know that giving into their attraction is a terrible idea…but it’s getting harder and harder to fight their feelings for each other.
Will Bear keep Liss alive long enough for her to decide her future? And what if the one person keeping her safe is the same person she can’t live without?
Fans of Tessa Bailey will enjoy this spicy romance novel that is The Princess Diaries meets The Bodyguard with a little Red, White and Royal Blue. It features forced proximity, enemies to lovers, forbidden love, and found family tropes with anxiety representation.
Tropes: Forced Proximity, Found Family, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden Love, Banter, He Falls Harder.
Trigger Warnings: Profanity, Sexual Content, Anxiety, Family Grief.
Sophia is a good girl who’s never taken a risk, had a passionate relationship or done anything to upset those around her; including her ineffective boss, and perfect mother. Everything changes the night she trips and falls into the arms of Aidan. Aidan is a playboy rugby star and painter. He lives his life to the fullest and avoids commitment, knowing he might be carrying a hereditary disease that killed his dad. He’s cocky, charming and used to getting what he wants. After one meeting he’s certain he wants Sophia. Sophia is torn between keeping Aidan at bay and fulfilling her new desires, while Aidan is faced with a decision; does he hold tight to his secrets or to the woman who could destroy all his rules. As the passion grows so does the risk, after all, Aidan isn’t the only one with a secret.
Tropes: Sports, Enemies to Lovers, Opposites Attract, Virgin vs Bad Boy, Toys, Bet with Her, Health Secret, Angsty Romance.
Trigger Warnings: Profanity, Sexual Content, Anxiety, Health Condition, Pregnancy, Descriptions of Past Emotional Abuse.
Evie is the woman your parents warned you about; dangerous, rebellious, and unable to keep her mouth shut. She hides a kind heart, her passion for dancing, and a past she’s desperate to forget. But the past won’t stop feeding her insecurities, and to make it worse, she has another secret; she’s in love with her best friend, Josh, and he’s her ex-boyfriend’s teammate too.
Josh is sexy, bearded and a mess. He has a painful secret and a lifetime of pressure. His dad demands he toes the line while excelling as a rugby star, but his heart directs him to Evie, the only woman who makes him happy and the one who risks it all. His rugby career is failing, he’s getting into fights, and his life is falling apart, but is it because of his dad or the woman he can’t resist?
The last time Evie and Josh were alone, they ended up with passionate regrets on his bedroom floor. Faced with each other again, their lives unravel as they keep their desires at bay. But destiny is coming for them, and they can only fight their scorching chemistry for so long. Their secrets are getting harder to hide, and their reputations are in tatters. Does the complicated friendship stand a chance of love, or will passion consume them before they can find out?
Tropes: Sports, Opposites Attract, Black Cat FMC, Ex’s Best Friend, Angsty Romance.
Trigger Warnings: Profanity, Sexual Content, Anxiety, Parental Emotional Abuse, Descriptions of Past Grooming, Death of a Grandparent.
Fake dating and intimacy lessons with the town’s hottest, baddest rugby player to overcome my health issues? Bad idea. Catching feelings for him? A mistake that will shatter my heart.
Lucas Knight is the bad boy rugby star with perfect thighs and a love of trouble. But behind his cocky grin lies a secret that would shock his many haters.
Gabi Draper has a secret a medical condition she’s ashamed of. She’s sworn off dating and relationships because she’s terrified of anyone discovering it and of men getting close before she can overcome it.
A chance encounter leads to a two-month, no-strings, fake dating intimacy Lucas will give her steamy lessons in the bedroom to help her conquer her medical side-effects, and she’ll help him fix his reputation.
The closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell what’s real and what’s pretend. Their passion and feelings for each other are growing stronger with each passing day….
But their future has the potential to cause the greatest heartbreak either of them has ever known.
The Fake Out meets The Kiss Quotient in this fake dating rugby sports romance.
Tropes: Sports, Virgin vs Bad Boy, Forced Proximity, Angsty Romance, Fake Dating, Disability Rep.
Trigger Warnings: Profanity, Sexual Content, Anxiety, Infertility, Gynecological Medical Condition.
Lucie is an anxious seventeen-year-old struggling with anxiety attacks, painfully low self-esteem and loneliness while trying to live up to the expectations of her controlling dad, who has mapped out her entire future. But it’s not the future she wants. One weekend, she meets Chris “with the beautiful green eyes and dimples when he smiles”. He’s a charming high school graduate with a bad reputation who couldn’t possibly be interested in someone like her. Chris makes Lucie feel alive like she never has before, and the two become inseparable. Lucie starts to fall for Chris and wonders if he feels the same way about her. But they’re torn apart before confessing their feelings for one another. Eight years later, they bump into each other by total coincidence. As the story flips between past and present, Lucie and Chris relive the memories of their weekend and hash out what exactly went wrong between them. They both feel the romantic connection from that weekend years ago. Will they have a chance at a future together? Or are their feelings better left in the past? Fans of Jenny Han, and of One Day by David Nicholls will enjoy this dual-timeline sweet coming-of-age romance featuring second chance, first love, and forbidden love tropes and anxiety representation.
Tropes: Dual Timeline, Closed Door Coming of Age Romance, Second Chance, First Love, Forbidden Love, Mental Health Rep.
Trigger Warnings: Profanity, Anxiety, Parental Emotional Abuse.