Slow Burn Romances to Read Now

When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. And she’ll discover that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.

Maybell has always been a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. So when she inherits a charming house in the Smokies from her Great-Aunt Violet, she seizes the opportunity to live out her dreams. Yet when she arrives, it seems her troubles have only just begun. Not only is the house falling apart around her, but she isn’t the only inheritor: she has the share everything with Wesley, the groundskeeper who’s as grouchy as he is gorgeous. But together they’ll learn that sometimes the smallest steps outside one’s comfort zone can lead to the greatest rewards.

Stella thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position… The Kiss Quotient is a heartwarming and refreshing novel that proves one thing: there’s not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Poppy and Alex have nothing in common, but are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart, but every summer they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything and haven’t spoken since. So when out of the blue Poppy reaches out to try and convince Alex to take one more vacation together, she is shocked when he agrees. Now she has one week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

Never look up your roommate online. When Clara finds herself sharing a lease with Josh, a charming stranger, she makes the mistake of looking him up on the internet…Once she learns how Josh has made a name for himself, his professional prowess inspires Clara to take tackling the stigma against female desire into her own hands. They may not agree on much, but Josh and Clara both believe women deserve better sex. What they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they’re lucky, they’ll help everyone else get lucky too.

On the eve of his ex’s wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend… Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa wouldn’t normally do. But there’s something about Drew that’s too hard to resist…

For fans of “You’ve Got Mail,” a young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last.

After her life falls apart, Layla Patel returns home to her family in San Francisco. With the best intentions in mind, her dad offers her the office above his restaurant to start her new business. CEO Sam Mehta finds the perfect office space above an Indian restaurant that smells like home. But when communication goes awry, he’s forced to share his space with the owner’s beautiful yet infuriating daughter. As they face off in close quarters, the sarcasm and sparks fly. But when the battle for the office becomes a battle of the heart, Sam and Layla have to decide if this is love or just a game.

When the struggling radio station needs a new concept, Shay proposes a show that her boss green-lights with excitement, On The Ex Talk, two exes will deliver relationship advice live, on air. Their boss decides Shay and Dominic are the perfect co-hosts, given how much they already despise each other. As the show gets bigger, so does their deception, especially when Shay and Dominic start to fall for each other. In an industry that values truth, getting caught could mean the end of more than just their careers.