Steamy romance runs hot without always crossing into full explicit territory. These stories spend as much time on the approach as the arrival — the charged glance across a table, the moment before the door closes, the partial scene that leaves the imagination doing productive work. High desire, real tension, and enough on the page to satisfy.
— Heat Level: Steamy —
All tension, some release.
Stories in this collection
5 storiesThe Breeches Role
Free historical romance short story — Georgian London, 1780s. Player Kit Aldous performs both Sebastian and his disguised sister at the Coronet, and lives between the two off-stage as well. The company's new swordmaster, Tomas Reyes, is the first person who never asks which they really are.
The Glass Garden
Master glassblower Senna is summoned to the Court Below to craft a window for the Dark Queen. The commission is for one week. The Queen is not what the stories say, and Senna stays three.
Between Forms
Marine biologist Dr. Petra Solberg has stopped expecting anything to be simple. The selkie on her Scottish research island moves between forms and hasn't decided yet if that's attractive or dangerous.
Renegotiated
Demon-binder Seren Vael has broken seven contracts with the same demon. Now Nyxara has come to collect — and the terms are hers.
Safehouse Between Factions
Two hunters from rival factions — one who tracks vampires, one who is half-vampire — are forced to share a safehouse during a city-wide lockdown. One night. One fire. One boundary neither of them expected to cross.