Slow Burn
Book Trope
Once the fire ignites between two characters, there’s no snuffing it out. But some fires take their time building up to the moment of combustion. The sexual tension between love interests simmers until it catches a spark that leads to a blaze of passion. These are love stories where the wait for romance is long, but the ache is so worth it. Just sit back and enjoy the heat.
A Broken Blade
Melissa Blair
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas
A Dawn of Onyx
Kate Golden
A Deal With the Devil
Elizabeth O'Roark
A Harvest of Hearts
Andrea Eames
A Kiss of Iron
Clare Sager
A Legend in the Baking
Jamie Wesley
A Love Letter to Whiskey
Kandi Steiner
A Merry Little Meet Cute
Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
A Novel Love Story
Ashley Poston
A Tether Through the Rift
Lindsey N. Rhoden
After
Anna Todd
All the Missing Pieces
Catherine Cowles
Among the Willows
Jennifer L. Strand
An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Apprentice to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Arsenic and Adobo
Mia. P. Manansala
Art of Scandal
Regina Black
Atmosphere: A Love Story
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Beautiful Broken Love
Shanora Williams
Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter
Bittersweet Memories
Catharina Maura
Blood of Hercules
Jasmine Mas
Blue Graffiti
Calahan Skogman
Bourbon and Lies
Victoria Wilder
Bride
Ali Hazelwood
Bride Special Edition
Ali Hazelwood
Carnal Urges
J.T. Geissinger
Carved in Stone
Sabrina Blackburry
Cat Fight
Gin Griffith
Caught Up
Liz Tomforde
Christmas at Fox Ridge
Bailey Hannah
Crown of Light and Shadows
G.K. DeRosa
Curvy Girl Summer
Danielle Allen
Daughter of No Worlds
Carissa Broadbent
Daughter of Tides
Kit Rocha
Daydream
Hannah Grace
Direbound
Sable Sorensen
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
Emma R. Alban
Dream Girl Drama
Tessa Bailey
Emma
Jane Austen
Enchantra
Kaylie Smith
Fall for Him
Andie Burke
Fight
Sloane St. James
Finding Home: A Marriage of Convenience
Savanna Golden
First-Time Caller
B.K. Borison
Flawless
Elsie Silver
For the Fans
Nyla K.
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
Give Me Butterflies
Jillian Meadows
Grave Matter
Karina Halle
Grin and Beard It
Penny Reid
Happiness for Beginners
Katherine Center
Heat of the Everflame
Penn Cole
Hexed
Emily McIntire
Him
Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy
His Girl Hollywood
Maureen Lee Lenker
Hook, Line, and Sinker
Tessa Bailey
How My Neighbor Stole Christmas
Meghan Quinn
How to Face Eternity: Part 1
SH Classen
How to Fake It in Hollywood
Ava Wilder
How to Help a Hungry Werewolf
Charlotte Stein
I Live To Serve The Witch
Jacque Aye
I'll Be Gone for Christmas
Georgia K. Boone
If the Ring Fits
Camilla Isley
If We Were Villains
M.L. Rio
In Memoriam
Alice Winn
Indigo Ridge
Devney Perry
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
La Vie De Guinevere
Paula Lafferty
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren
Love by a Landslide
K.L. Parsons
Love In Bloom
Lucy Eden
Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood
Metal Slinger
Rachel Schneider
Mine For a Moment
Catharina Maura
My Oxford Year
Julia Whelan
My Pucking Family
Izzy Elliott
Never Been Shipped
Alicia Thompson
Nicked
M.T. Anderson
Nocticadia
Keri Lake
North Is the Night
Emily Rath
Not Another Love Song
Julie Soto
Not For the Faint of Heart
Lex Croucher
Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter
On Wings of Blood
Briar Boleyn
One Dark Window
Rachel Gillig
One to Watch
Kate Stayman-London
Outdrawn
Deanna Grey
P.S. I Hate You
Lauren Connolly
Pacific Tails
Michelle Sauer
Pas de Don't
Chloe Angyl
Power
Victoria Woods
Promise Me Not
Meagan Brandy
Provoking the Lost
S.A. Claremont
Pucked
Helena Hunting
Quicksilver
Callie Hart
Reel
Kennedy Ryan
Reign & Ruin
J.D. Evans
Rivals
Jilly Cooper
Roomies
Christina Lauren
Ruthless Creatures
J.T. Geissinger
Secunda
Joanne Kwan
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Servant of Earth
Sarah Hawley
Set Piece
Lana Schwartz
Shield of Sparrows
Devney Perry
Silent Vows
Jill Ramsower
Silver Elite
Dani Francis
Smoke and Scar
Gretchen Powell Fox
Spark of the Everflame
Penn Cole
Sugar & Spicy, Naughty & Nice: A Portland Romance Writers' Winter Anthology
SH Clasen, Jenni Simonis, Katie Von Schuessler, Dana Shea, K Rose, Jennifer L Strand, Emerson Reign, Hypatia Rhodes
Summer Sons
Lee Mandelo
Sunshine
Michaela Jean Taylor
That Next Moment
Stefanie K. Steck
The Au Pair Affair
Tessa Bailey
The Beast Takes A Bride
Julie Anne Long
The Book of Azrael
Amber V. Nicole
The Broken and the Brave
EC Garrett
The Charmer
Ava Rani
The Christmas Crush
Noelle Douglas
The Christmas Tree Farm
Laurie Gilmore
The Co-Op
Tarah DeWitt
The Coven
Harper L. Woods
The Crow Lord
J.M. Failde
The Defiant and the Damned
EC Garrett
The Games Gods Play
Abigail Owen
The Gay Best Friend
Nicolas Didomizio
The Hating Game
Sally Thorne
The Infinity Between Us
N.S. Perkins
The Jewel of the Isle
Kerry Rea
The Knight and the Moth
Rachel Gillig
The Last Raven
Helen Glynn Jones
The Last Sunrise
Anna Todd
The Launch Date
Annabelle Slator
The Listeners
Maggie Stiefvater
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
The Love of My Afterlife
Kirsty Greenwood
The Love Simulation
Etta Easton
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren
The Perfect Marriage
Jeneva Rose
The Poisoner
I.V. Ophelia
The Second You're Single
Cara Tanamachi
The Shadows Between Us
Tricia Levenseller
The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas
The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst
The Starlight Heir
Amalie Howard
The Strawberry Patch Pancake House
Laurie Gilmore
The Trouble With Anna
Rachel Griffiths
The Truth According to Ember
Danica Nava
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna
The Viscount Who Loved Me
Julia Quinn
The Wedding Party
Jasmine Guillory
Thirteen Years
D. Raven
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
Trial of Fate
J.E. Larson
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
Under All the Lights
Maya Ameyaw
Until I Get You (Special Edition)
Claire Contreras
Venor
Halli Starling
Verity
Colleen Hoover
Virgin River
Robyn Carr
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
When the Moon Hatched
Sarah A. Parker
Where Time Stands Still
N.S. Perkins
Whet / Deep End (Special Edition)
Ali Hazelwood
Wild Eyes
Elsie Silver
Will They or Won't They
Ava Wilder
Work in Progress
Kat MacKenzie
Written by a Woman
Andrea Andersen
Wyatt
Jessica Peterson
You and Me
Lisa Shelby
You Between the Lines
Katie Naymon
