Smut Castle Trope Reading Challenge 2024 🏰 - hosted by finnickdeservedbetter

House Hale: Enemies to Lovers
Is this hostility or simmering sexual tension? …Maybe both? I mean, who cares if they killed your [insert dead relative]? They said they would burn the world down for you.
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Of Darkness and Ruination by Rachel Fallon

Of Darkness and Ruination

The Star Queen Chronicles #1

Rachel Fallon

709 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Deviant King by Rina Kent

Deviant King

Royal Elite #1

Rina Kent

360 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Open Ice Hit by E.M. Lindsey, Marina Vivancos

Open Ice Hit

The Sin Bin #2

E.M. Lindsey, Marina Vivancos

276 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional medium-paced
Exhale by Joel Abernathy

Exhale

Flesh and Bone #1

Joel Abernathy

254 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ romance dark emotional tense medium-paced
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury

A Court of Thorns and Roses #2

Sarah J. Maas

624 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Flame King's Captive by Chloe Chastaine

The Flame King's Captive

Fire and Desire #1

Chloe Chastaine

499 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Desire in His Blood by Zoey Draven

Desire in His Blood

Brides of the Kylorr #1

Zoey Draven

428 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction romance science fiction adventurous emotional medium-paced
Everyone Knows I'm a Good Person by 糖尾帅

Everyone Knows I'm a Good Person

糖尾帅

850 pages • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance science fiction
Daindreth's Assassin by Elisabeth Wheatley

Daindreth's Assassin

Daindreth’s Assassin #1

Elisabeth Wheatley

10 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional fast-paced
Savage Hate by Amanda Richardson

Savage Hate

Savage Hearts #1

Amanda Richardson

254 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction romance dark emotional tense fast-paced