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From Lukov with Love (2018)
6.0/10on Open Library
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Jasmine has to decide whether one season with Ivan Lukov, a skater she can't stand, is worth a final shot at elite competition. Neither can compete in pairs without trusting the other's timing and balance. Their shared work gives this slow romance a reason to change even before either person has much patience for the other.
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She Drives Me Crazy (2021)
9.3/10on Open Library
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Irene once had Scottie's car towed. After a separate accident sends Irene's car for repairs and makes the two carpool, Scottie offers her a fake-dating deal to get back at an ex. The young adult story gives both girls a reason to reconsider what being seen together means at school.
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler (2022)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Chloe has worked for years to beat Shara Wheeler to valedictorian. Then Shara kisses her, disappears, and leaves clues that force Chloe to share credit and information with people she'd barely considered. The young adult mystery gives an academic rivalry a social life beyond the scoreboard.
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Today Tonight Tomorrow (2019)
7.3/10on Open Library
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Rowan and Neil have spent high school trying to beat each other for awards, newspaper authority, and class rank. Their city's graduation scavenger hunt gives them a reason to pool what they know. The single-day young adult romance makes cooperation feel like a skill the pair has never had to practice.
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I Hope This Doesn't Find You (2024)
8.5/10on Open Library
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Sadie writes private drafts about the people who frustrate her, especially her academic rival Julius. Sending them by accident turns an old competition into a public problem. This young adult romance watches a pair used to performing competence learn how to say something honest while other people are listening.
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The Henna Wars (2020)
6.0/10on Open Library
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Nishat and Flávia open rival henna businesses for a school competition. Nishat's frustration goes beyond who makes more sales because henna is part of her Bengali family's culture. This young adult romance gives the competition a serious question about listening, ownership, and what it means to apologize.
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North and South (1855)
7.9/10on Open Library
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Margaret Hale comes to the industrial town of Milton with little sympathy for mill owner John Thornton. Industrial conflict and Thornton's first impressions make it harder for either to understand the other. This Victorian novel gives their point of contact a real class argument and leaves room for people outside the couple.
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The Viscount Who Loved Me (2000)
8.8/10on Open Library
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Anthony Bridgerton chooses Edwina as a prospective wife. Her protective sister Kate knows his reputation and refuses to help him court her. Their grudge has a family loyalty at its center, and the comedy comes from two skilled opponents discovering that each is trying to look after someone else.
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Lord of Scoundrels (2006)
8.7/10on Open Library
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Jessica Trent goes to Paris to rescue her brother from the influence of the Marquess of Dain. Dain dislikes being managed, and Jessica already has reason to distrust his company. This Regency romance is for readers who want a pair equally skilled at turning a confrontation into a negotiation.
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Bringing down the duke (2019)
8.3/10on Open Library
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Oxford student Annabelle Archer's suffrage group wants support from powerful men. The politically influential Duke of Montgomery has every reason to protect his position from her campaign. Their sympathies develop across a real argument about who can wield power and how publicly a relationship can cross class lines.
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Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting (2022)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Kitty Talbot goes to London looking for a marriage that will save her family from debt. Lord Radcliffe sees what she wants and sets out to keep his brother from becoming her solution. She has practical reasons to resent interference, while he's entitled to ask what keeping secrets might cost his brother.
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When a Scot Ties the Knot (2015)
7.2/10on Open Library
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Maddie invented a soldier fiancé and wrote him letters to get out of society obligations. When the real Captain Logan MacKenzie appears with the letters, each wants control over what her lie can now get them. Their contest makes trust more important than any appearance of being an ideal couple.
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It takes two to tumble (2017)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A naval captain returns home expecting obedience and finds that the vicar looking after his children takes a different view of what they need. Learning how to parent with someone else's help gives this historical romance a solid reason for the captain to reconsider who has authority in his house.
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An Unnatural Vice (2017)
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Reporter Nathaniel Roy wants to expose Justin Lazarus, who makes his living as a spiritualist. An inheritance case puts their different kinds of skill on the same side of an investigation. The romance is sharpest where a man who earns money by telling stories needs a skeptical reporter to take him seriously.
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, The (2023)
9.5/10on Open Library
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Gareth and Joss meet as anonymous lovers. Once Gareth is a baronet and agrees to testify against Joss's sister for smuggling, the law divides them. Joss needs Gareth to understand whose livelihood is at stake, and Gareth has to decide what he owes the local people beyond the letter of the law.
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The Bridge Kingdom (2019)
7.0/10on Open Library
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Lara is sent into a marriage with King Aren to destroy a rival kingdom's control of a crucial trade bridge. Living there brings evidence she was never allowed to hear at home. The first fantasy romance takes that divided loyalty seriously, with the couple's main arc continuing in the sequel.
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A Court of Mist and Fury (2014)
8.1/10on Open Library
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A bargain requires Feyre to spend time with Rhysand, the High Lord of a court she’s learned to fear. The pull between her obligation to him and her life in the Spring Court gives her reasons to distrust what he wants. Start with A Court of Thorns and Roses, since this second book takes its emotional stakes from the first.
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Jasad Heir (2023)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Sylvia has kept her identity as Jasad’s heir hidden from the kingdom that hunts her people. When she exposes her magic, Nizahl’s heir Arin offers to spare her if she helps track Jasadi rebels. Read this slow-burn fantasy when you want the couple’s growing trust to carry a real political cost. It opens the Scorched Throne duology.
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The Cruel Prince (2018)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Jude wants a place at the Faerie court that treats her mortality as a weakness, and Prince Cardan is among the people who make her pay for trying. Their first young adult book is driven by political maneuvering and cruelty. The romance builds over the Folk of the Air series.
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These Violent Delights (2020)
7.8/10on Open Library
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Heirs to rival gangs in 1920s Shanghai, Juliette and Roma already know what happens when family loyalty outranks their feelings. A deadly threat pushes them to investigate together. This young adult first half of a duology uses their previous relationship to make the rivalry a question of whom they can afford to trust.
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The Wrath & the Dawn (1700)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Shahrzad volunteers to marry the caliph after her friend is killed under his rule. Looking for an explanation changes what she believes about him while leaving her with a duty to the people he hurt. This young adult duology begins with a revenge plot and makes forgiveness something Shahrzad has to examine.
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