On-page sex scenes, a handful of them, with some detail. Spice supports the plot. 67 books, including A Court of Thorns and Roses, After and Beach Read.
Sarah J. Maas · Book 1 of 6 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA huntress, a cursed fae lord and a Beauty and the Beast retelling that is secretly the opening act for book two.
Anna Todd · Book 1 of 5 in After
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA good girl, a tattooed college bad boy and the toxic love story that started on Wattpad.
Emily Henry
Spice 3/5 · SteamyTwo blocked writers, side-by-side lake houses and a genre-swap bet. Grief, banter and a slow-burn payoff.
Emily Henry
Spice 3/5 · SteamyThe cutthroat literary agent is not the heroine who gets the small-town hottie. Except this time she is.
Lyla Sage · Book 1 in Rebel Blue Ranch
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA rodeo queen comes home after an accident to her brother's best friend, the cowboy she swore she would never touch.
Rebecca Yarros · Book 1 of 5 in The Empyrean
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA deadly dragon-rider war college and Xaden Riorson. The book that made half of BookTok shop for dragon jewellery.
Jennifer L. Armentrout · Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA sheltered Maiden, her very flirty guard and one of the most talked-about twists in romantasy.
Emily Henry
Spice 3/5 · SteamyHer fiancé left her for his best friend, so she moves in with the best friend's ex. Revenge fake-dating at its finest.
Sarah J. Maas · Book 1 of 3 in Crescent City
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA party girl, a fallen angel and a murder investigation in a modern magic city. The last 200 pages are a ride.
Sarah J. Maas · Book 3 of 3 in Crescent City
Spice 3/5 · SteamyThe Crescent City finale, with plenty of Prythian cameos for ACOTAR fans.
Rebecca Yarros · Book 2 of 5 in The Empyrean
Spice 3/5 · SteamyViolet and Xaden, now together and somehow still fighting about secrets. Bigger war, bigger dragons, bigger cliffhanger.
Colleen Hoover · Book 1 of 2 in It Ends with Us
Spice 3/5 · SteamyNot really a romance, and it will wreck you. A story about love, abuse and leaving. Read the warnings.
Chloe Walsh · Book 2 of 6 in Boys of Tommen
Spice 3/5 · SteamyJohnny and Shannon continue. More healing, more heartbreak, a little more heat.
Rebecca Yarros · Book 3 of 5 in The Empyrean
Spice 3/5 · SteamyAn island-hopping quest for allies while the world burns. Yes, it ends on another cliffhanger.
Emily Henry
Spice 3/5 · SteamyBest friends, ten summer trips and the one that went wrong. Peak friends-to-lovers yearning.
Casey McQuiston
Spice 3/5 · SteamyThe First Son and a British prince fake a friendship after a cake disaster. The emails alone.
Julia Quinn · Book 1 of 8 in Bridgertons
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA duke who never wants to marry and a Bridgerton who needs suitors. Fake courtship, very real feelings.
Sally Thorne
Spice 3/5 · SteamyTwo executive assistants who hate each other compete for the same promotion. The office enemies-to-lovers blueprint.
Ali Hazelwood
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA grad student fake-dates the scariest professor in the department. STEM rom-com that started a Hazelwood obsession.
Julia Quinn · Book 2 of 8 in Bridgertons
Spice 3/5 · SteamyAnthony Bridgerton and Kate Sheffield: enemies to lovers, a bee and the fan-favourite season.
Sarah J. Maas · Book 4 of 6 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA short Solstice bridge novella between the war and Nesta's book. Read it before A Court of Silver Flames.
Mia Sheridan
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA grieving woman and the mute, isolated man next door. Tender, heartbreaking, very swoony.
Jamie McGuire · Book 1 in Beautiful
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA good girl makes a bet with an underground fighter. If she loses, she has to live with him for a month.
Raven Kennedy · Book 1 of 5 in The Plated Prisoner
Spice 3/5 · SteamyKing Midas's golden favourite in a golden cage. It starts slow, then turns into the revenge-and-rot fantasy of your dreams.
Emily Henry
Spice 3/5 · SteamyExes pretending they are still engaged for one last friends' trip. Sweet, sad, very swoony.
Abby Jimenez · Book 3 of 3 in Part of Your World
Spice 3/5 · SteamyHe has a curse: every woman he dates finds her soulmate right after. So does she. Logical solution: date each other.
Lyla Sage · Book 3 in Rebel Blue Ranch
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA single-dad cowboy needs a nanny; the town free spirit needs a job. Wholesome with heat.
Ali Hazelwood
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA neuroscientist at NASA has to co-lead a project with her grad-school nemesis. He is suspiciously helpful.
Colleen Hoover
Spice 3/5 · SteamyThey meet once a year, on the same date, for five years. Then a big twist.
Casey McQuiston
Spice 3/5 · SteamyShe falls for the girl on her subway train, who turns out to be stuck there from the 1970s.
Abby Jimenez · Book 1 of 3 in Part of Your World
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA big-city doctor falls for a younger small-town carpenter-mayor who treats her right. Green flags everywhere.
Colleen Hoover
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA woman out of prison tries to reunite with the daughter she has never met and falls for one of the few people still on her side.
Julia Quinn · Book 4 of 8 in Bridgertons
Spice 3/5 · SteamyPenelope and Colin: years of unrequited love and a big gossip-column secret.
Lyla Sage · Book 2 in Rebel Blue Ranch
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA grumpy ranch owner and the architect redesigning his family's lodge. Sunshine meets saddle.
Carissa Broadbent · Book 1 in Crowns of Nyaxia
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA human girl raised by the vampire king enters a deadly tournament and forms an alliance with her most dangerous rival.
Elena Armas · Book 1 of 2 in The Spanish Love Deception
Spice 3/5 · SteamyShe needs a date to her sister's wedding in Spain. Her irritating coworker volunteers.
TJ Klune · Book 1 of 4 in Green Creek
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA lonely boy, a family of werewolves and a love that takes years to arrive. Emotional damage, wolf edition.
Kate Golden · Book 1 of 3 in The Sacred Stones
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA healer is conscripted into the enemy king's army and becomes part of his inner circle. Romantasy comfort food.
Elise Kova
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA village herbalist is chosen as the elf king's bride. Cozy-ish standalone with a satisfying burn.
Danielle L. Jensen · Book 1 of 3 in Saga of the Unfated
Spice 3/5 · SteamyViking-flavoured romantasy: a shield maiden with a prophecy and a jarl's son who should be her enemy.
Alexis Hall
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA trans woman who let the world think she died at Waterloo, and the best friend who never stopped grieving her.
Talia Hibbert · Book 3 of 3 in The Brown Sisters
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA chaotic heiress hits a grumpy B&B owner with her car, then becomes his chef. Two autistic leads, lots of heart.
Cora Reilly · Book 1 in Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles
Spice 3/5 · SteamyPromised to the future boss of the New York mob at fifteen, married at eighteen. Classic mafia arranged marriage.
Evie Dunmore · Book 1 in A League of Extraordinary Women
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA suffragist at Oxford and the duke she is trying to recruit to her cause. Smart and slow.
Penelope Douglas · Book 1 in Fall Away
Spice 3/5 · SteamyHer childhood best friend turned on her overnight. Now she is back and fighting back.
C.S. Pacat · Book 1 of 3 in Captive Prince
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA prince sold as a slave to his enemy's court. Vicious politics and a slow, savage enemies-to-lovers.
Christina Lauren
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA Christmas time loop that keeps sending her back to the cabin with her secret crush. Holiday comfort food.
Ali Hazelwood
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA theoretical physicist with a side gig as a fake girlfriend runs into the man who ruined her mentor.
B.K. Borison · Book 1 of 3 in Lovelight
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA Christmas tree farm owner fake-dates her best friend for a contest. Holiday cozy with real heat.
Lynn Painter
Spice 3/5 · SteamyShe texts the wrong number for months. It is her brother's best friend. Who she is now living with.
Kaylie Smith · Book 1 in Phantasma
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA necromancer enters a deadly carnival-esque game run by the devil's own manor. Gothic, creepy and sharp.
Tessa Dare · Book 1 of 4 in Castles Ever After
Spice 3/5 · SteamyShe inherits a castle that comes with a grumpy, blind duke who refuses to leave. Delightful.
Tia Williams
Spice 3/5 · SteamyTwo famous Black writers who had a week-long teenage romance meet again, fifteen years later.
Carissa Broadbent · Book 1.5 (novella) in Crowns of Nyaxia
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA novella: a desperate scientist strikes a deal with a reclusive vampire. Gothic, sweet and very bitey.
Penn Cole · Book 1 in Kindred's Curse
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA healer princess discovers she is far more than mortal. Two love interests, rising stakes.
Olivia Dade · Book 1 of 3 in Spoiler Alert
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA TV star and a fanfic writer are internet friends who do not know each other's identities. Then they meet.
Elena Armas · Book 2 of 2 in The Spanish Love Deception
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA ceiling collapse leaves her sharing an apartment with her cousin's charming best friend. Many fake dates.
Carissa Broadbent · Book 2 in Crowns of Nyaxia
Spice 3/5 · SteamyBetrayal, a forced marriage and a vampire king who would very much like to be forgiven. The payoff is enormous.
Helen Hoang · Book 2 of 3 in The Kiss Quotient
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA Vietnamese woman comes to California for a summer to convince an autistic man to marry her. Tender and funny.
Erin Sterling
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA witch drunkenly curses her ex. He comes back to town nine years later. Halloween rom-com.
Abby Jimenez · Book 1 of 3 in The Friend Zone
Spice 3/5 · SteamyShe cannot have kids. He wants a big family. Very funny, very sad, very good.
Thea Guanzon · Book 1 of 3 in The Hurricane Wars
Spice 3/5 · SteamyTwo enemy weather mages trapped together in the desert. Reylo-coded and proud of it.
Christina Lauren
Spice 3/5 · SteamyA DNA matchmaking app says her soulmate is the arrogant scientist who founded it. Data does not lie.
Jasmine Guillory
Spice 3/5 · SteamyStuck in a hotel elevator with a stranger who then needs a date to his ex's wedding.
Abby Jimenez · Book 2 of 3 in Part of Your World
Spice 3/5 · SteamyTwo doctors fall in love through handwritten letters. Anxiety rep and huge heart.
Ashley Herring Blake · Book 2 of 3 in Bright Falls
Spice 3/5 · SteamyAn uptight designer and a chaotic carpenter renovating an inn on TV. Bisexual awakening.
Lana Harper
Spice 3/5 · SteamyThree women dumped by the same player team up for magical revenge. Sapphic and spooky.
Reader favourites include A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas; After by Anna Todd; Beach Read by Emily Henry; Book Lovers by Emily Henry; Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage. Use the spice filter above to narrow it to your heat level.
If you do not want to commit to a series, try Beach Read by Emily Henry; Book Lovers by Emily Henry; Funny Story by Emily Henry; People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry.
