Slow Burn

Slow burn refers to a slow build up to a pivotal moment where the pent-up feelings or explosive emotions are released all at once. The type of feelings can be of different kinds, for example anger, romantic emotions or sexual chemistry.

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Slow-Burn Romance
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A Vow in Vengeance (Immortal Desires, #1)
Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
The Wolf and the Crown of Blood (The Broken Accords, #1)
Rings of Fate (Curses and Crowns, #1)
The Swan's Daughter
A Killer Kind of Romance
The Exception
Fruit of the Flesh
The Re-Do List
Hard Feelings (Serendipity & Shenanigans)
Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies
Darkrooms
King of Ravens (Upon a Broken Throne, #1)
Last First Kiss
The Lust Crusade (Raiders of the Lost Heart, #3)
People We Meet on Vacation
The Love Hypothesis
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
The Wild Card (Vancouver Storm, #5)
Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
Alchemised
The Wolf King (The Wolf King, #1)
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
The Night Prince (The Wolf King, #2)
Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)
Daggermouth
We Who Will Die (Empire of Blood, #1)
Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin, #1)
Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2)
Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3)
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Kulti
From Lukov with Love
All Rhodes Lead Here
Wait for It
Luna and the Lie
Under Locke
The Love Hypothesis
The Spanish Love Deception (Love Deception, #1)
Dear Aaron
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Marriage for One
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
Hands Down
The Hating Game
Behind every guarded heart is a story waiting to be understood. I write the ones that finally get their chance.
Lee Emery, Damaged Love

Eric      Brown
If you like the way Alfred Hitchcock built suspense— letting unease creep in quietly— THE DOOR might be your kind of read.
Eric Brown, THE DOOR: It's not locked. It's waiting.

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