Tess Everly spent forty-one years being good. Good wife. Good mother. Good at pretending she never wanted anything more. Then her husband's affair left her in a downtown apartment directly beneath a candlelit penthouse full of women who laugh without apology — and a silver-haired French gallery owner who says "I'm above you" like it's a fact and a promise.

She goes upstairs to complain about the music. She comes back down a different woman.

Chapter 1 of A Beginner's Guide to Bad Decisions by Aurora North. Sapphic age-gap romance. Bi awakening. Praise kink. Six lessons in desire. One rule that doesn't survive the semester.

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A college swimmer fifty thousand dollars in debt to people who break kneecaps. A quiet roommate who runs a six-figure cam platform and has been cataloguing his spiral for weeks. One contract that turns a golden retriever into an anonymous performer — caged, commanded, and slowly realizing he needs it. Chapters 1–3 of OWNERSHIP by Jace Wilder cover Leo's clinical surveillance, Jax's desperate contract signing, and the first inspection that turns a man into a product. Dark MM romance. Power exchange. Size difference. Roommates to lovers. Praise kink. Bi awakening. Cam work. Chastity. HEA earned through devastation. 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

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A broke artist. A controlling billionaire. An arrangement with terms — and an attraction that doesn't care about terms.

Chloe Bennett is drowning in debt and burning her hands on espresso machines. Vivienne Laurent is a hotel CEO who hasn't felt anticipation in years. When a three-line bio on an arrangement site brings them together, what starts as a transaction becomes something neither of them designed.

Three chapters. Zero touch. Maximum tension.

🏷️ Sapphic Romance · Sugar Mama · Age Gap · Praise Kink · Power Exchange · Forced Proximity · Touch Starved

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Claire Monroe just ended a fifteen-year marriage and moved into a duplex where the woman next door is twenty-six, tattooed, and fixing everything — including the ache Claire's been ignoring her whole life.

Dani Rivera has a rule about unavailable women. Claire is about to shatter it.

In this preview of GOOD GIRL NEXT DOOR by Aurora North, two chapters. Two points of view. The moment Dani says "good girl" for the first time and Claire's entire world catches fire.

Sapphic romance. Age gap (39/26). Praise kink. Neighbors to lovers. Bi awakening. Slow burn. Explicit.

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Two months post-breakup. One heavy bag. Zero chill.

Dani Reyes got dumped publicly by Natalie Hart, replaced in three days, and is now invited to the Hart family anniversary party — where Natalie is bringing her new girlfriend. Dani needs a plan. What she gets instead is a boxing gym, a best friend who sees through everything, and a Christmas photo she stares at too long.

Listen to Chapter One of Fake Dating My Ex's Sister by Aurora North, read from Dani's first-person perspective. One chapter. One woman telling herself she's fine. One photo where her eyes are on the wrong sister.

She's not fine. And the sister has been watching for four years.

FF sapphic romance · Fake dating · Ex's sibling · Forbidden romance · Slow burn · 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ heat

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A "straight" bridesmaid shares one bed with her queer best friend for seven nights during wedding week. What starts as a practical sleep arrangement turns into late-night confessions, accidental touching, and a pillow wall that doesn't survive the first night.

Listen to Chapters 1–3 of Straight Girl in My Bed by Aurora North. Three nights. Two women. One bed that keeps pulling them toward the center. By the time we cut you off, Harper's hand will be reaching across a collapsed pillow wall — and you'll need to know if Jules was watching.

FF sapphic romance · Bi-awakening · One bed · Friends to lovers · Forced proximity · 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ heat

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A rookie outfielder just got called up to the majors. His debut was a disaster — strikeouts, misplays, and a gruff veteran catcher watching from behind the plate with eyes that miss nothing. Then the catcher starts running private sessions. Hands on his hips. Voice in his ear. Good boy.

This is Chapters 1–5 of Bench Me, Praise Me by Chase Power — a scorching MM baseball romance built on praise kink, age gap (24/35), grumpy/sunshine, and the kind of focused attention a desperate rookie can't stop chasing. We leave Ty staring at a phone with a room number on it. What's behind that door is the rest of the book.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno heat. HEA guaranteed. 18+.

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A single mom books the wrong mountain cabin and finds a six-foot-four bearded woodworker already living in it. Booking error. Blizzard. One guest wing. And a four-year-old who decides the stranger's dog is her best friend before the adults have figured out the ground rules.

Listen to Chapters 1–5 of Wrong Cabin, Right Daddy by Isla Wilde — MF contemporary romance with single mom, grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, found family, and five-pepper heat.

We leave you at the end of the first kiss. The one on the porch. The one that changes everything. What happens next — you'll have to buy the book to find out.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — Explicit content. 18+ only.

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