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Wednesday is romance, and this week the lane leans into a single delicious problem: what happens when the person across from you is the one thing you cannot afford to trust, and you fall anyway. Three books, three very different heat levels, one shared ache.
High heat, deception on both sides: The Second Family, by Kira Deveraux
The Rowe Capital Series. She came to burn her family down. She did not plan on the man they sent to stop her. Sloane Marchetti is three months from walking a file into the FBI that ends her father, when the family sends Elias Reyne to consult on her security. His real job is to prove she is the leak and hand her over. He knows within four days that she is exactly who they think she is. He does not tell them, because Elias is hiding a secret one layer deeper than hers. Two people who survive by reading rooms, locked in a house that is watching them both.
"She can't tell him what she has, because he's the threat. He can't tell her who he is, because she's the target."
Slow-burn, mutual-deception dark romance with a morally grey heroine and an eyes-open happily ever after. Reads as a standalone.
Open door, found family, sapphic fantasy: The Broken Script of the Stars, by Jennie Wren Foster
The Chronicles of the Celestial Fold. Three months after they broke a god and remade the Last Library into a place that keeps instead of consumes, a student's name goes missing from every mouth in the school, and only the three who love her most still remember the girl existed. Something older than the buried god is unwriting people again, something patient and grieving, and to stop it the five of them must go down into the archive that eats memory.
"Some cages are built of iron. The cruelest ones are built of tender words."
Sapphic-centered polyamory, open door, and the kind of dark that keeps. A standalone-arc sequel to The Last Library of the Gods.
Closed door, grown-up, second-chance: Hidden Truths at Mercy General, by Clara Langford
The Mercy General Series. Dr. Rachel Kim moved a thousand miles to disappear. Then a hard January throws her against Ethan Cole, the county paramedic who reads everyone and is read by no one, and a private-equity firm comes for Mercy the way one came for the hospital she lost. She is the only person in town who has seen how a place like this dies. Saving it means standing up in front of everyone and becoming, forever, the woman she drove all that way to stop being.
Small-town love stories for grown-ups who know better and fall anyway.
Find them here, and keep an eye out, a couple of these are just landing: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books
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Happy reading,
Kira, Jennie and Clara
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