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VaughanPL: Reading Challenge 2024: Read a Steamy Romance

Get ready for some spice! Sure, an online search is ripe with recommendations for those who want to turn up the heat, but this list of steamy romance novels boldly straddles a truly diverse array of characters, settings and storylines, while delivering quality along with the quantity. Nothing vanilla here! Ready for more? Find all of our Reading Challenge 2024 topics at https://www.vaughanpl.info/blog/reading-challenge-2024/

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  • Buckle up for a passionate entwining of two tormented souls. A damaged heroine meets a gorgeous, brooding billionaire, and their desires ignite a fire that could consume them both, even as they find transformation in each other. This is the first…
    Unknown, 2012New York : Berkley Books, 2012. — FIC Day
  • The title says it all! This Reese's and TikTok Bookclub pick is a sweet-hot romcom about popular college radio host and love guru Kiki Banjo who departs her very own safely stringent romantic rulebook to form a fake relationship with the campus…
    Book, 2022New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — FIC Babal
  • Loved Bridgerton and want more, but looking for something a little different? Gothic scandal meets swashbuckling regency romance in this 2024 Lambda Award nominee, the first book of the Doomsday series. Also available as an eBook.
    Book, 2023Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks Casablanca, [2023] — FIC Charl
  • Fantasy meets fantasy in the first novel of the Kingmaker Chronicles series. Defiant and powerful Cat Fisa refuses to be anyone's pawn and joins a traveling circus to disguise the magic humming in her blood... and then she locks eyes with an…
    Book, 2016Naperville : Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2016. — PB Bouch
  • Humour, heat, sweetness, and depth are what this novel, the first of the Brown Sisters series, delivers. After almost - but not quite - dying, chronically ill computer geek Chloe Brown creates a checklist that will prove she has a life... including…
    Book, 2022New York : Avon, [2022] — FIC Hibbe
  • Paris, 1889. During a fated journey to expand her family's business, Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire, encounters the enigmatic Earl of Darnick, James Evanston Sinclair. Their tempestuous partnership sparks unexpected…
    Book, 2022Toronto, Ontario : HQN, [2022] — FIC Herre
  • "He was supposed to be a myth. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell...he was, quite simply, mine." This is a scorchingly hot modern retelling of the Hades and Persephone story, where forbidden desire collides…
    Book, 2021Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Casablanca, [2021] — FIC Rober
  • Slightly lower on the spice scale, this novel reads as a fictional memoir. Aging Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo selects journalist Monique Grant to tell her story, revealing a life of ambition, friendship, and forbidden love spanning from 1950's Los…
    Book, 2017New York : Atria Books, 2017. — FIC Reid
  • Big, horned, hot, blue barbarian aliens? Where do I sign up?? After being abducted by an alien species and dumped on an ice planet, Georgie warms up to her big blue bodyguard, who at first sight knows absolutely that she is his life-long mate and…
    Book, 2021New York : Jove, 2021. — FIC Dixon
  • Nerds unite! In this Reluctant Royals novella, a nerdy entrepreneur battling insomnia finds solace in the calming voice of puzzle enthusiast and live streamer Gustave Nguyen, until his archives vanish. When Regina offers her anime expertise in…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Avon Impulse, [2019] — FIC Cole
  • Theo and Kit, once childhood friends and later lovers, find themselves estranged after a dramatic breakup, only to be unexpectedly reunited on a European food and wine tour. Theo, now a confident bartender and aspiring sommelier, and Kit, a pastry…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2024. — FIC McQui
  • Violet, a celebrity stylist with a chaotic personal life, resolves to focus solely on her career after a very public breakup. Her plans are upended when she reunites with her high school sweetheart, Xavier Wright, during a Vegas trip, leading to an…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — FIC Fores
  • A sizzling paranormal romance you can sink your teeth into! Misery Lark, the outcast daughter of a powerful Vampyre councilman, reluctantly enters a peacekeeping alliance with Alpha werewolf Lowe Moreland. Forced into a marriage of convenience,…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley, [2024] — FIC Hazel
  • Are Reese and Oprah ever wrong? Single mom and bestselling erotica writer Eva Mercy crosses paths with reclusive novelist Shane Hall, rekindling a long-buried romance from their teenage years. Over seven steamy summer days in Brooklyn, their…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — FIC Willi
  • In this steamy queer 'second chance' rom-com, Margot Cooper, who swore off relationships, unexpectedly encounters her first love, Olivia Grant, while touring a wedding venue with friends. A decade after their painful split, sparks fly as Olivia, now…
    Book, 2022New York : Avon, 2022 — FIC Belle