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Slow Burn Adult Romance Book Recommendations 📚
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items Love a good slow burn romance! Anything from the 50% mark onwards in the book I classify as slow burn
“Sometimes, sad things serve as a gentle reminder that we still feel.” Lucy Hope, 22, is a ray of sunshine with a big heart. It’s been 13 years since she last saw her childhood friend, Cal, after his family moved away unexpectedly. Over the years, she has tried to find him with no luck. Now, upon returning to her homet... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak
“Remember to dance among the stars, baby.” This story follows Zoey and Noah, childhood best friends and soulmates. But over time, distance and grief have torn them apart. Now, Noah has lost his way after being kicked out of four schools. It’s been th... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Remember Us This Way eBook by Anne Sheridan
“Why waste your time on someone who doesn’t set your soul on fire?” Rebecca Briar is 18, comes from a very religious family, and is expected to stay in line, get good grades, and follow the rules. She is a very innocent, pure soul who is doing everyt... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
A Song of Sin and Salvation: Book 1 eBook
“He was a mistake, the most gorgeous one I would ever make” This follows the heiress Camilla whose family is well known with power in Lynchaven. They own the Iron Saint Railway which has been in the family a long time and they will do anything to mak... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
House of Bane and Blood (Order and Chaos #1)
“Sometimes I think that my heart forgot how to beat until you came into my life.” This follows Olivia and her daughter Kennedy who move away from their hometown in Evergreen to a small town in Delaware to start life again after a tragic incident in t... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Something Beautiful: A Small Town Romance
“She’s a spark in the dark. Dancing flames against a midnight sky.” This follows Cade and Willa. Cade is a single father who runs a ranch and looks after his 5-year-old boy Luke. Cade needs help while he works and needs to hire a nanny but everyone i... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Heartless: Small-town Romance (Chestnut Springs 2)
This follows Aurelia who has been kept a secret and treated like crap by her family since the discovery of her shifted court. She is on the run to get her freedom but her mates and the principal of the prison school are out to get her. Along the way,... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Scribd | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Her Feral Beasts: A Villains WhyChoose Romance
“Look how wild you drive me Sunshine.” This story follows Ariella, who, one night, is approached by a good-looking cowboy asking her to be his pretend date to deter his ex. Little did she know that taking on a new job as a strength and conditioning c... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Fable | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
High Sticking the Heart: Scoring Chance 1
“You’re all the best things to me, Sloane. No matter how many bruises are in your heart or on your skin.” Just read it. It's worth the hype. I loved this book. It's dark, thrilling, and funny with the chemistry and banter it was brilliant. Also felt ... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Butcher and Blackbird
“The days I’ve spent with you are my happiest, too.” This follows Ketahn who is the strongest alien/spider in the land of Takarahl. He lives off grid as a hunter to provide for Takarahl in the Tangle. He is the strongest Vrix known to the queen and h... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Scribd | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Ensnared: An Alien Romance (The Spider's Mate 1)
This follows Hattie and Connor. Hattie has been offered a job far away from Texas with the Seattle Vipers as a Media and Marketing manager. She is new in town and with the Southern accent that charms the people around her, in this case, the handsome ... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Puck the Holidays: A Vipers Sin Bin Novel
“It’s never too late. To change the future. It's not etched in stone like the past” This follows Tessa and Tre. Tessa recently lost her business in New York and after seeing a Psychic she was told to go chase love across the country and that’s exactl... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Claus and Effect
“I’m not perfect. I just like the way my broken pieces fit with yours.” This follows Layla, a flight nurse who moved to a small town for a change after a situationship with someone she fell for but he didn’t reciprocate. Starting fresh in a new town ... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
What Hurts Us: Small Town Fake Engagement
"I have been starved, Nyra. Until you.” This follows Nyra who is on the run from the wicked king and cruelty she was handed in the palace in Marmoris Kingdom. After managing to escape she is now in the firing line of the rebels who live in the Hidden... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
The Veiled Kingdom (Series Book 1)
“It was always us and you know it.” It’s 10 years in the future, and Emilia is living paycheck to paycheck trying to support her sister while working two jobs in New York. On a night shift waitressing she comes across a man that haunted her past. His... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Vicious (Sinners of Saint Book 1)
Sometimes the loneliest place on earth is in the midst of a crowd. But that’s okay. I’m here and that means something. This follows Ava who has a brother she needs to keep an eye on and care for. Abandoned by her mother at a young age and always felt... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Dear Ava: Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Romance
“You taste sweet like trouble and danger.” This follows Avery 20, thrown into Lilydale Foundation Centre a glorified asylum that is known as an Academic Rehabilitation Centre for the troubled. Not everything is as it seems and she has become a target... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Unhinged: A Dark Why-Choose Romance (Book 1)
“Sometimes life throws you a tricky hand and you make a choice that’s best at the time, but then it snowballs.” Isla met the love of her life at 10, they got together at 16 but then Cillian was drafted to the NHL at 19. Distance, time and one stupid ... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Rainfall (Seattle Blades Book 1)
“It turns out I don’t mind not being the centre of the party, as long as I can be the centre of her attention.” This story follows London, who recently got a P.O. Box but starts receiving surprise intimate fan mail meant for its previous owner, known... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Playbook (The Holland Brothers 2) eBook
“Doesn’t take a lifetime to see a change in someone. Sometimes, it just takes one honest moment to reach them.” This follows Thea, who works at the local town bakery in Sparrow Falls and keeps her head and true identity on the down-low. Thea is on th... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Delicate Escape (Sparrow Falls Book 2) eBook
AdultThis story follows Sutton and Cope. Sutton and her son, Luca, are trying to start a new life in Sparrow Falls. No matter what Sutton does, her ex-husband always manages to get her number. She has always stood on her own two feet for her son, and... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Broken Harbor (Sparrow Falls Book 3) eBook
This follows Camilla 18, who’s a mafia princess. 19 years ago her father signed her life away to a monster of a man. On the day she was to be handed over, her dad told her to run and she did. But his men left her battered and bruised in an alley and ... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
In the Shadows: A Dark Why Choose Romance
“The best loves are the ones that are fiery and passionate.” This follows Caterina who has escaped her father’s clutches at 18 by living aboard in Italy at a place called Sacred Heart to protect herself and seek refuge in a local convent. Before taki... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Poison and Wine: Dark Mafia Romance (Book 1)
This follows Ethan Blackburn, 37, who over many years has rivalled with the Mardraggon family that caused an uproar in the town centuries ago and to this day never seen eye to eye. Now Ethan finds himself in a custody battle against them over a 9-yea... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
The Feud: A Blackburn Novel (Book 1)
Going in blind was the best decision as I had no idea what to expect, except for a few tropes. This is raw, deep and emotional with a grief and healing journey all these characters go on. I don’t want to give too much away but it was heartbreaking at... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Darling Venom: An Enemies-to-Lovers Romance
“I've waited to give my heart to someone too. But it’s yours now. It’s all yours.” This follows Weston a star athlete on the Colorado Mustangs, single and a target for the ladies that just got a call that has turned his world upside down. Then we hav... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Mad Love: Small Town Single Dad Romance
This follows Dax a research doctor who was thrown into the deep end after receiving a call that a one-night stand just gave birth to his baby. Trying to navigate this big unexpected change he needs a full-time nanny to help. That’s when Eira walks in... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Dr. Single Dad (The Doctors Series Book 5)
“I’ll always come back for you. I’ll never leave you.” This follows Piper, who is a Child Protective Services worker. She has always wanted to help children and protect them from monsters. After work one afternoon, while getting her bike to ride home... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Whiskey Poison (Viktorov Bratva Book 1)
Four years ago, Torren King changed my life. Now, I’m forced into a fake relationship to deter a potential threat by being in the public eye. The offer is too good to refuse, and it will help support my family. But will Torren remember what happened ...
Of Heartbreak and Harmony eBook
This follows Penelope, who moves to the small town of Ember Falls with her son, Kai. There, she catches the attention of the local principal and ice hockey coach, Miles. But Miles senses there’s more to her story—who is she hiding from? First off, th... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Fable | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Here and Now (Ember Falls Book 2)
This follows Celeste, a mother to a teenager, who lost her husband before her son, Damien, was born. Growing up, she had a best friend, Lucas, and they were inseparable. Jeremy, her future husband, was part of this group. Although Celeste and Lucas a... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Time For Us: Small Town Romance (Book 2)
This story follows Mai and Theo, two friends with a great relationship. Mai has big dreams of becoming a fashion designer, while Theo isn’t quite sure what he wants or where he fits in the world. So, when a reality TV show for couples in fashion is a... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Darn Knit All (All Access Series Book 3)
This story follows Violet, a 19-year-old attending a prestigious ballet school. Despite her focus on dance, Violet has family ties to the underworld, and her father and uncle have kept her in the dark—until now. When the family’s rivals target her du... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Marriage & Malice: Dark Mafia Romance eBook
This story follows Emerson, who is due to give birth any moment and has moved to a small town to escape the big city. After her dog eats some chocolate-filled cookies, she rushes to the vet. Dr. Wicked, the owner of the clinic, has international goal...
Talk Wicked to Me: Baz Wicked (Book 6)
“Haven’t you figured it out yet Chaos. You’ve had me breaking all the rules since the day I met you.” This story follows Ridley, a cold case podcaster with a highly popular community that contributes through online forums. Now, Ridley is chasing lead... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Fable | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
All the Missing Pieces
This story follows Laney, who is on the run and lying low in a small town under the protection of the Fox brothers, owners of a bourbon distillery. But one brother, Grant Foxx, doesn’t approve of this new arrangement. Still, Laney gets under his skin... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Fable | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Bourbon and Lies (The Bourbon Boys Series Book 1)
This story follows Blair, a city girl who, after catching her politician-of-a-husband cheating, sets off to find herself again in a small town called Bluestone Lakes. That’s where she moves in next door to a grumpy cowboy who looks like he wants to r... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Fable | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Finding Home (Bluestone Lakes Book 1)
This story follows Tuesday, whose life is falling apart back in the States. Her ex-fiancé ran off with a ballerina, and her workplace is on the brink of significant change. She’s been sent to London for a fast-track management program to hold and sec... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Fable | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
An American in London
This story follows Lily and Sebastian. Lily is a university student studying psychology and co-hosts a successful dating podcast with her friends. Then along comes Sebastian Thorn, who comes from a royal background but isn’t one for commitment. After... Sienasummerrreads 💕📚 TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Fable | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
A Royal Mile (Return to Dublin Street Book 2)