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Boyfriend Material (2020)
8.3/10on Open Library
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Luc needs a respectable fake boyfriend to repair his public image; Oliver needs a date, and neither expects the arrangement to become emotionally useful. Hall makes the awkward social performance very funny while leaving room for insecurity and friends who keep showing up. A largely closed-door adult romance for readers who prefer dialogue and reassurance to explicit sex. Luc and Oliver’s lives continue in later London Calling books.
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The Charm Offensive (2021)
9.8/10on Open Library
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A reality dating show’s anxious leading man finds a stronger connection with his producer than with the women he is supposed to court. Charlie and Dev’s romance asks whose happiness the show is actually designed to deliver. The tenderness matters as much as the television satire, with mental health and sexuality explored alongside the attraction. This is an open-door adult romance that makes care and being understood part of the fantasy.
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Kiss Her Once for Me (2022)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Ellie agrees to a fake engagement for financial security, then discovers that her supposed fiancé’s sister is the woman she has never quite forgotten. The festive complications are knowingly elaborate; the warmer appeal is the possibility of a family Christmas that does not require pretending to be someone else. An adult sapphic holiday romance with sexual intimacy, financial strain and a difficult parent behind the comfort.
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Here We Go Again (2024)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Two former friends drive their terminally ill mentor across the country and begin to imagine different lives for themselves. Logan and Rosemary’s reunion is romantic and sexually explicit, but the book is also about accompanying someone towards death. Their hopeful future does not remove that grief. Pick it when a happy romantic resolution can sit beside an on-page death from cancer, rather than when you need an entirely carefree escape.
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Delilah Green Doesn't Care (2022)
8.8/10on Open Library
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A photographer returns to her hometown for her stepsister’s wedding and meets a bookseller whose life includes a daughter and an unreliable ex. Delilah and Claire have chemistry, but the fuller pleasure is seeing childhood impressions and family relationships become less fixed. A steamy adult starting point for the Bright Falls books, with a community that has room for people to change without losing their sharp edges.
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Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (2022)
8.0/10on Open Library
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An interior designer and a carpenter clash over renovating an inn for television. Astrid’s carefully planned idea of success comes under scrutiny along with her design choices. The romance is sexually explicit and closely tied to recognising her bisexuality and choosing a life she actually wants. Second Bright Falls book, with a different central couple and returning friends whose histories make reading in order rewarding.
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Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (2023)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A romance writer who avoids commitment and an actor with an awkward shared encounter end up performing a relationship as well as appearing in a queer Much Ado About Nothing. Iris and Stevie’s developing confidence gives the fake-dating premise a useful emotional centre. Expect explicit sex, friendship and theatre-world humour. This concludes the original Bright Falls trio and revisits its earlier couples.
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Written in the Stars (2020)
9.2/10on Open Library
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A disastrous blind date becomes a fake relationship between an astrologer and an actuary. Elle and Darcy’s differences make the comedy work, while family expectations give them reasons to value the alliance. A warm, sexually explicit sapphic romcom with a holiday setting and plenty of verbal sparring. Its happiness includes being taken seriously by someone whose way of understanding the world differs from your own.
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Count Your Lucky Stars (2022)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Wedding planner Olivia meets her first love, Margot, while arranging a wedding for Margot’s friends. Sharing a home makes their attraction difficult to dismiss and exposes how much both have changed. A steamy second-chance romance about making room for a first love in an adult life. It shares the Written in the Stars world but centres a new couple, so earlier books add context rather than provide required setup.
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One Last Stop (2021)
8.5/10on Open Library
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August’s subway crush turns out to be a woman displaced from the 1970s. The romance needs ingenuity and a group of queer friends as much as attraction, making chosen family part of the possibility of a future. This is a magical adult love story with sexual content, crowded-flat warmth and an interest in the queer past. The time-slip premise is central, rather than a purely realistic New York courtship.
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The Pairing (2024)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Two bisexual exes accidentally join the same European food-and-wine tour and turn proving they are over each other into a hookup competition. The result is exuberantly sexual and full of appetite, with a quieter question about who each has become since the breakup. Choose it for second-chance longing with plenty of other encounters along the way, rather than an exclusive courtship from the first chapter.
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (2022)
6.0/10on Open Library
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An artist begins dating again after bereavement and finds that desire does not arrive in a socially convenient form. Emezi’s two central lovers are Black and bisexual, including when the relationship is between a woman and a man. The voice is lush, profane and sexually frank, and the entanglement is deliberately messy. Its hopeful promise concerns wanting a future while still carrying love and grief from an earlier one.
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You Should Be So Lucky (2024)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A reporter grieving his partner is assigned to cover a struggling baseball player in 1960 New York. Mark and Eddie’s growing attachment has to coexist with the risks of visibility and the daily work of keeping a career going. Sebastian gives ordinary companionship real romantic weight. A tender, sexually explicit period romance in the same world as We Could Be So Good, with a different central couple.
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The Queer Principles of Kit Webb (2021)
6.7/10on Open Library
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A retired highwayman trying to run a coffeehouse is approached by an aristocrat who wants help with a robbery. The attraction creates an entertaining clash of class loyalties as well as opportunities for criminal cooperation. Choose it for an adult, open-door historical romance that lets queer happiness involve questioning the life a title is supposed to provide. The connected Marian Hayes novel continues other characters’ stories.
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The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (2022)
10.0/10on Open Library
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A duchess fleeing a violent marriage and the man who tried to blackmail her become improbable travelling companions. Both are bisexual; the woman-man pairing does not cancel that history or identity. The caper is lively, but the discussions of bodily boundaries give its explicit intimacy particular warmth. Read The Queer Principles of Kit Webb first for the intertwined events. Dangerous past pregnancy and abuse are part of the background.
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Lady for a Duke (2022)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Viola reconnects with the closest friend she lost when she began living as herself after Waterloo. The romance gives both people time to acknowledge grief and desire without treating Viola’s identity as something to negotiate away. A long, open-door historical love story with a trans heroine and substantial war trauma. Its appeal is the possibility of being fully recognised while retaining the life you have fought to build.
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Shore Thing (2024)
10.0/10on Open Library
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A trans artist rebuilding his life in Cornwall meets a botanist who needs illustrations, and a cycling challenge gives them reasons to keep working together. Kit and Muriel’s pleasure in one another comes with questions about creative community and future plans. A sensual Victorian romance with a breezy seaside setting, alongside some darker social attitudes. Their happiness makes room for work and freedom as well as companionship.
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The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (2019)
8.0/10on Open Library
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An aspiring astronomer undertakes a translation for a widowed countess and discovers an intellectual partner as well as a lover. Lucy and Catherine’s growing confidence makes the scientific and artistic work part of the romance. A sensual historical choice about claiming credit, recognising talent and resisting the limits other people impose. Start of Feminine Pursuits, whose later books centre different couples.
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The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (2020)
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A printer asks a beekeeper for help with an unwelcome colony, beginning a correspondence that becomes increasingly personal. Agatha and Penelope are middle-aged women with businesses, loyalties and experience already shaping their lives. Their passionate attachment grows alongside political disputes and local relationships. Choose this for an adult historical romance where a new future does not require pretending that either woman starts without a past.
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The Perks of Loving a Wallflower (2021)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A woman seeking help with a manuscript finds that the charming baron assisting her is a disguise worn by an accomplished grifter. Tommy and Philippa’s attraction develops within the Wynchester family’s energetic schemes. A playful, sensual Regency choice for readers who like a resourceful found family around the romance. This is the second Wild Wynchesters novel, with a new central couple rather than a continuation of the first couple’s courtship.
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A Marvellous Light (2021)
9.2/10on Open Library
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An administrative mistake makes Robin the liaison to a hidden magical society, with prickly Edwin his reluctant guide. Their growing trust is tied to solving a dangerous mystery, giving the attraction something substantial to work through. Sexually explicit Edwardian fantasy with sinister magic alongside the comedy of manners. Their relationship reaches a satisfying stage here; the larger conspiracy continues through the rest of the Last Binding trilogy.
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Romantic Agenda (2022)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Joy joins a getaway hoping her best friend will finally notice her, then discovers what it feels like to receive attention from someone else. Her asexuality shapes the romance without being presented as a problem the right partner must solve. A contemporary choice about separating longstanding longing from a relationship that actually offers room to thrive. The discussion of attraction and boundaries is as useful as the fake-dating comedy.
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A Lady for All Seasons (2026)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Verbena’s marriage scheme becomes more complicated when she is attracted to a poet and to a young man who are different expressions of the same genderfluid person. Alexander plays the Regency misunderstandings as screwball comedy while keeping the lovers’ wish for recognition in view. Choose this for a lively adult historical romance where society’s approved arrangement is not necessarily the shape of happiness the characters need.
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Swordcrossed (2024)
9.3/10on Open Library
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A financially stretched merchant hires a swordsman to defend an arranged marriage, then finds the hired man occupying far more of his attention than planned. Matti and Luca’s chemistry is matched by questions about duty, money and the secrets behind their working lives. This is a sexually explicit fantasy romance with commercial intrigue rather than an epic battle for the world. A standalone route into Marske’s writing.
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