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if your big 3 were romance books♋️✨ [zodiac signs as romance books📚❤️🔥]
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items your sun, moon & rising… but make it messy, flirty, and full of drama. romance books that match your vibes, your energy, and all the chaos you secretly love 😏✨
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♈️aries🐏
♉️taurus🐂
♊️gemini👯♀️
🦀cancer♋️
🦁leo♌️
♍️virgo🏺
♈️aries🐏
lover + hater + mess all in one💥
(🌞intrigued by danger 🌙 cutthroat 🌅plus size player)
tropes: kink, bdsm, millionaire, small town, single dad 🤭, poly
the best Danger brother imo
Intrigued by Danger by Endiya Carter
tropes: revenge, dark romance, betrayal
description: Eden thought marriage to her college sweetheart was perfect—until his secrets shattered everything she believed.
Cutthroat by Octavia Grant
tropes: romcom, forbidden, workplace, model/designer
description: nina ford never settles, keeping her career, interests & love life in steady rotation. when russell long starts to feel like the whole package, nina has to decide if one man is w...
Plus Size Player by Danielle Allen
♉️taurus🐂
lowkey stubborn, highkey fine😣
(🌞hear my heart🌙the kiss countdown 🌅something she can feel)
tropes: fiancé’s brother, forbidden, roommates, deaf FMC
description: Nakyra thought she had forever with her long term fiancé until a forbidden attraction forces her to choose between loyalty and desire
Hear My Heart by Tay Mo’Nae
tropes: insta love, fake dating, time limit, one bed
description: a down on her luck event planner & a handsome astronaut agree to fake date. he needs his mom off his back and she doesn’t want to burden her parents but when real feelings spark, ...
The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton
tropes: play club, dom/sub, erotica, deep connection
Something She Can Feel by Kimberly Brown
♊️gemini👯♀️
can’t pick a side… but picks you maybe⚔️
(🌞solo stan 🌙wrongfully yours 🌅honey & spice)
tropes: bi rep, banter, scavenger hunt, YA
description: kai feels lost after his friends move on without him while elias is stuck in a new town with no one to turn to. when a blackout cuts their concert short, one unexpected night in Raleigh brings ...
Solo Stan by Talia Tucker
tropes: kidnapping, opposites attracte
description: a proffessional assassin and a spoiled rich girl find their worlds colliding
Wrongfully Yours by Connie Easton
tropes: college, fake dating, dislike to love
description: a young woman who avoids love gets into a fake relationship with a playboy to save her reputation but finds herself drawn to him
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
🦀cancer♋️
heart on the table, claws ready💅
(🌞mama 🌙seven days in june 🌅shadowed obsession)
tropes: BDE MMC, single mom, quick read
description: a single mother, Weslynn meets Savage, a money making hustler, & their lives intertwine in a story of love, family & personal growth
Mama by K. Nicole
tropes: second chance, dual timeline, single mother, family drama, heavy topics, emotional romance
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
tropes: romcom dark romance, masked MMC, stalker, mafia princess, cat & mouse, plus size FMC
Shadowed Obsession by Evelyn Leigh
🦁leo♌️
ego big, love bigger💪
(🌞call me mrs.taylor 🌙relationship goals 🌅curvy girl summer )
tropes: revenge, unhinged FMC, stalker, short chapters, extra spicy
Call Me Mrs. Taylor by Shae Sanders; An Obsessive Dark Romance
tropes: virtual friends to lovers
description: nick & noah connect through social media, developing a deeper relationship beyond hashtags and selfies.
Relationship Goals by Christina C Jones
tropes: slow burn, friends to lovers, rom com, online dating
Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1) by Danielle Allen
♍️virgo🏺
overthinking but make it cute🧐
(🌞10,000 hours with a rich menace 🌙 innocent intent 🌅man of few words)
tropes: unhinged MMC, neurodivergent MCs, multiple POVs, crime family, slow burn, marriage arrangement
10000 Hours With A Rich Menace by Jahquel J
tropes: suspect/detective, widow
description: a criminal psychologist becomes the prime suspect in her husbands murder & must clear her name while uncovering his secrets
Innocent Intent K.C. Mills
tropes: stalking, quiet MMC, urban romance
description: Nicolas keeps to the shadows, Ross blends into the crowd, but once they notice each other, their unpredictable pull turns into a bond neither of them can shake
Man of Few Words by Connie Easton
♎️libra⚖️
balancing love & chaos like a pro 😏
(🌞tempted by danger 🌙roomie, friend, lover
🌅audre & bash are just friends)
tropes: boss/assistant, grumpy/sunshine, kink, he falls first
description: Dymon Danger has no problem following the no fraternizing rule until Quinci Everly became his new assistant. now she’s testing his patience… & his restraint
Tempted by Danger by Endiya Carter
tropes: roommate, forced proximity, family drama, praise
description: Blair’s life is a mess and a roommate app is her last hope. Elijah wasn’t looking for company but Blair might be exactly what he didn’t know he needed
Roomie, Lover, Friend by Shon
tropes: YA, summer romance, friends to lovers, truth or dare
description: a sweet teen romance where class president Audre hires mysterious student Bash as her fun consultant to complete wild dares for her self help book
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
🦂scorpio♏️
loves hard, plots harder😈
(🌞wolfe & chosyn 🌙parachutes 🌅possessed)
tropes: multiple POV, crime family, family drama, found family, insta love, he fell first
description: Chosyn Ashland fights her attraction for the dangerous Wolfe Gravehart as past betrayals & powerful desires collide in their tumultuous relati...
Wolfe & Chosyn by Kellz Kimberly
tropes: urban, first love, coming of age, trilogy 🖤
description: a captivating tale about Dalvin & Tahli’s profound first love & navigating life’s turbulences together
Parachutes by Takerra Allen
tropes: obsession, paranormal, seggs addict, misfortune
description: Zonima’s life spirals through forbidden affairs & fatal secrets until she meets Dante, who has some deadly secrets of his own
Possessed by Joonie P
♐️sagittarius🏇
free spirit, messy heart ✨
(🌞highly suspicious & unfairly cute 🌙in the gray 🌅drunk on love)
tropes: rivals to lovers, survival course, YA
description: a survival course in the woods brings two high school rivals together, forcing them to confront their messy past & explore the possibility of a new kind of relationship
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute - Talia Hibbert
age gap, workplace, toxic, unhinged MMC, dual POV, twits
In the Gray by B.B. Reid
tropes: one night stand, workplace
description: a one night stand turns complicated when the charming stranger becomes the new employee at the Napa Valley winery, igniting and undeniable attraction between boss & subordinate
Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
♑️capricorn🐐
plans for everything… except love 😌
(🌞rugger 🌙unstoppable 🌅for his pleasure)
tropes: unhinged FMC, assassin FMC
description: a deadly assassin who burrows their heart long ago becomes the target of Psalms “Sonnie” Santoro, a ruthless hunter determined to claim what they left behind
Rugger by Grey Huffington
tropes: bodyguard romance, slow burn, thrilling
description: Devyn wasn’t chasing forever and Derrick wasn’t chasing trouble, but one night together sparks a connection neither expected.
Unstoppable by Shon
tropes: virgin MMC, novella
description: a woman falls in love with a virgin man. He reveals his secret & things get interesting & very pleasurable
For His Pleasure Kimberly Brown
♒️aquarius🌊
quirky, chaotic, unbothered🤷♀️
(🌞outdrawn 🌙captivated by danger 🌅the neighbor favor)
tropes: sapphic, rivals to lovers, artist FMCs, opposites attract, workplace, slow burn
description: two comic artists, Noah & Sage must work together on a relaunch of a cult classic comic while resisting their growing feelings for each other
Outdrawn by Deanna Grey
tropes: plus size FMC, kink, age gap, dom/sub
description: Diesel Danger always gets what he wants until Greysen McCree becomes the first woman to challenge him.
Captivated by Danger by Endiya Carter
tropes: online interactions, forced proximity, author & bookworm, heartwarming romance
description: a shy bookworm enlists
her charming neighbor to help score a date, not knowing he’s the obscure authors she’s been corresponding with.
The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
♓️pisces🐟
lost in feelings, found in you 🫶
(🌞Eboenia 🌙sleeping cutie 🌅a love song for rickie wilde)
tropes: dark romance, paranormal romance, kidnapping
description: a fairy named Eboenia is captured by War, a warlock, on her wedding day. she must choose between learning dark magic with him or returning to her fiancé
Eboenia by Natavia
tropes: sleeping beauty retelling
description: when Christian Logan rescues a narcoleptic woman sleeping in Central Park, this anti chivalrous prince finds himself questioning his life choices & discovering similarities with his brother
Sleeping Cutie by Tanzania Glover
tropes: soulmates, friends to lovers, magical, dual timelines, florist & pianist, historical (Harlem renaissance)/ modern day
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams