Frances and Henry hit it off immediately – she’s clever and witty, and very attuned to him, sensing that he’s having trouble adjusting to civilian life. To gain an edge courting a popular widow, he approaches the widow’s companion, Mrs Frances Whittier. Napoleonic War veteran Henry Middleton has lost the use of his right arm and his ability to paint. Christian uncovers the repressed sensuality hidden in Maddy’s nature, and she learns that in spite of the brave front he puts on, he’s vulnerable, petrified at the prospect of being returned to the asylum.īut if you’re well-versed in recent and canonic romance, and you are hankering for more slow burns, what are some other reads you might like? It has to do with looking beyond what others see and discovering the real person behind the public façade. This is much more than a simple story of opposites attracting. Maddy finds herself drawn into a world she was raised to reject, going against many of her basic principles yet she can’t abandon Christian, for that would mean turning away from the Inner Light. His family is trying to have him declared legally insane, but Christian enlists Maddy’s aid. Quaker Maddy Timms is the only person who realizes that Christian, Duke of Jervaulx, has not gone mad, but rather has suffered what modern medicine would recognize as a stroke. (A very similar, and for some, even better, book is Sarah Mayberry’s Her Favourite Rival) Lucy and Joshua are expected to apply and compete for it. The tension and their mutual dislike only escalates after their bosses announce the creation of a third executive position, chief operating officer. She knows the day of the week by the color of his shirt (Navy leads to Gorgeous Payday Black), and his husky, soft laugh raises the tiny hairs on her arms. In spite of that, Lucy finds herself preoccupied trying to figure him out and aware of everything he does. At least Lucy hates Joshua – and she’s pretty sure he hates her too. Lucy Hutton sits across the office from Joshua Templeton, and it’s hate at first sight between them. Hook Shot details their delicious slow burn love affair, and the relationship is sexy, sweet and lushly romantic. Lotus is fierce, beautiful, and she isn’t looking for love – with Kenan, or any other man – and she’s spent the last two books dodging Kenan despite the spark of attraction between them. Kenan, a veteran basketball player traded to August West’s losing NBA franchise team, meets Lotus DuPree, cousin and best friend to August’s wife, Iris. The last novel in the Hoops series stars Kenan Ross and Lotus DuPree. If Mariana Zapata is the Queen of the Slow Burn, Gregory Ashe is the King of it. We didn’t review all the books in his Hazard and Somerset series (although Em blogged about the series HERE, and Caz reviewed book three, Paternity Case) but the romance is a very slow burn. The works of Gregory Ashe: It’s pretty much a given in all his books that there will be lots of UST and angst before the MCs get together. Hibbert lovingly crafts these wonderful, small, intimate moments between the leads, and when they finally get around to taking off their clothes, well, it’s a wonderfully satisfying relief.” That’s the perfect definition of a slow burn! Of her Work For It, our reviewer says, “Ms. The works of Talia Hibbert: Her books often star characters with past relationship issue which make them move tantalizingly slowly towards their HEAs. The works of Penny Reid: A large number of her books, especially in the Winston Brothers series, fit this trope, and have been well reviewed here. The works of Mariana Zapata: Sometimes called “the queen of the slow burn,” because nearly all of her books use this trope, Zapata came to our attention when you voted the slow-burn The Wall of Winnipeg and Meinto our most recent Top 100 Romance Novels. The blurbs here come from our very own reviews (and every book I featured here is a DIK!)Ī lot of well-known favorites fall into this category, such as: How “slow” is slow enough and how much you want your “burn” to burn is a matter of taste, so not all of the books listed here will culminate at the same heat level. That’s why I love and developed our Slow burn tag, which I used to make this list of top slow burn romance novels. In romance, this is the slow burn phase, where the energy of characters’ attraction builds up and up before being released. As someone whose path to reading romance included a lengthy period reading X-Files fanfiction (oh, man, who else remembers The Gossamer Project?), I am clearly a huge fan of UST – Unresolved Sexual Tension.
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