Deliciously Twisty & Romantic Duologies

Atria Books

The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan

An epic emotion communicative that spans a decade, The Kingmaker not lone pulls connected heartstrings, but tangles them up successful knots. Lennix Hunter has been an activistic her full life, and erstwhile she meets a antheral named Maxim astatine a rally protesting a pipeline done her autochthonal lands, sparks alert immediately. Fast guardant 4 years: the 2 conscionable again successful Amsterdam and person a whirlwind week together, but Maxim hasn’t been wholly honorable with her, and she cannot beryllium with a antheral from a household whose institution violates each her values. What she doesn’t cognize is that portion she’s been warring for her household and Native radical her full life, Maxim has been warring against his household and their institution for each of his. Y’all. These 2 conifer aft each different for years. Years! And the cliffhanger? Be grateful Kennedy Ryan has already published The Rebel King because it volition beryllium the fastest click you’ve ever clicked aft finishing this one. 

Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

Modern time Seoul has nary thought what Gu Miyoung truly is and what she indispensable bash to survive. Miyoung is simply a gumiho,  a nine-tailed fox who indispensable devour the vigor of men successful bid to survive. With truthful galore evil men successful the large metropolis that nary 1 volition miss and truthful fewer radical believing successful the aged stories, Miyoung has nary occupation hunting and hiding. After feeding 1 afloat moon, she comes crossed Jihoon being attacked successful the wood by a goblin. Even though she knows better, she violates the rules of endurance to rescue the boy, losing her fox bead, her gumiho soul, successful the process. Jihoon knows Miyoung’s secret. He saw her 9 tails the nighttime she rescued him and remembers the tales his grandma told him increasing up. The 2 make a fragile friendship. But erstwhile a young shaman tries to reunite Miyoung and her bead, it goes wholly sideways. Now Miyoung has to take betwixt her ain immortal beingness and the beingness of Jihoon, a determination made adjacent harder by their processing feelings for each other.

Protecting the Heiress by Nana Malone

Tropes connected tropes connected tropes: royals, bodyguard, baby, undercover nanny, workplace. So swoony! Jax, a erstwhile royal guard, is hired by Neela arsenic a nanny for a babe she conscionable got custody of recently. Neela doesn’t cognize however to beryllium a mom, overmuch little a azygous ma of an heiress who needs to beryllium protected astatine each costs. Enter Jax, the cleanable nanny bodyguard combination. Jax has ever wanted a family, but this was perfectly not the mode helium thought it would happen, and it astir apt shouldn’t hap this way, due to the fact that having feelings for his boss, Neela, isn’t professional. But dang if these 2 don’t bargain his bosom from the precise opening contempt the circumstances and Neela’s obstinance. Huge cliffhanger here, truthful beryllium acceptable to get Tempting the Heiress immediately upon finishing.

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

Wyatt Croft, a trans witch successful a satellite ruled by faeries, mislaid power of his magic and had to permission everything helium loves, including fae prince fiancé Emyr North, to flight to the quality world. Emyr refuses to judge Wyatt’s betrayal due to the fact that their national was going to unite the witches and fae. So helium hunts Wyatt down successful the quality world. Now the prince is acold and distant and has a ngo to wed oregon hazard losing the throne. At the extremity of his rope, Wyatt makes a woody with his present enemy, hoping to yet flight Asalin, the faerie world, forever. As helium gets to cognize Emyr again, helium starts to recognize that the lad helium fell successful emotion with is inactive determination nether a gruff exterior. Back successful Asalin, witches are being treated worse than ever, and present he’s torn betwixt redeeming his radical oregon redeeming his ain freedom.

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Luc O’Donnell is successful a perchance sticky situation. Tangentially celebrated acknowledgment to his creator parents, Luc has yet settled into a mostly fame-free life, until his celebrated begetter starts to marque a comeback and each cameras absorption connected Luc again. That means that the compromising photograph could perchance ruin everything for him. He needs immoderate security earlier things spell viral. Oliver Blackwood is simply a stodgy ethical vegetarian barrister. In different words, the cleanable fake fellow material. They are implicit opposites with thing successful common. Oliver happens to beryllium successful request of a day to a wedding, truthful the 2 onslaught a deal: fake day to prevention Luc’s estimation and Oliver’s wedding day problem. When fake dating turns into existent feelings, things get much complicated.

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

Every 10 years, the Sun’s powerfulness indispensable beryllium replenished truthful that Sol tin support traveling on the entity and support the evil gods astatine bay. Ten semidióses betwixt the ages of 13 and 18 are chosen to vie successful the Sunbearer Trials, wherever the victor carries airy and beingness to the temples of Reino del Sol and the loser volition beryllium sacrificed to Sol, their assemblage utilized to powerfulness the Sun Stones that support the radical for the adjacent decade. Teo, a 17 twelvemonth aged Jade semidiós and the trans lad of Quetzal, goddess of birds, isn’t disquieted astir the trials due to the fact that helium knows helium won’t beryllium chosen. There are excessively galore different bully candidates, similar his champion person Niya, girl of Tierra, the deity of Earth, who is 1 of the strongest heroes of their procreation — oregon Aurelio, a almighty Gold semidiós and Teo’s friend-turned-rival. But then, for the archetypal clip successful implicit a century, Sol chooses a semidiós who isn’t a Gold. Sol chooses Teo and Xio, the 13 twelvemonth aged kid of Mala Suerte, deity of atrocious luck. Now they person to vie against opponents who are stronger and amended trained successful 5 trials. If they don’t succeed, they volition suffer much than conscionable honor: they volition suffer their lives.

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

Hazel Sinnett wants to beryllium a surgeon much than anything. Being a woman successful Edinburg successful 1817 makes her imagination adjacent to impossible. She inactive goes to renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s lectures, adjacent though she gets kicked retired for being the incorrect gender. A accidental gathering with Jack Currer, a resurrection man, has Hazel reasoning she tin alteration her future. Dr. Beecham has made a woody with her: if she tin walk the aesculapian exam connected her own, she — and each women aft her — tin enroll successful studies astatine the university. Since she has to survey connected her own, textbooks unsocial won’t bash it. She needs corpses to dissect and survey arsenic well. It’s fortunate that she knows idiosyncratic who digs them up for a living, then. But Jack is preoccupied with trying to enactment live successful a metropolis wherever sedate robbers support coming up missing and mediocre radical support ending up mysteriously dead. Together, they enactment to uncover much than conscionable dormant bodies, but secrets the metropolis is hiding successful the graveyard.

Blood similar Magic by Liselle Sambury

Voya Thomas has been waiting and grooming for years for her Calling, a proceedings each witch indispensable walk successful bid to travel into their powers. But the unthinkable happens: she fails. When Voya’s ancestor gives her an unprecedented 2nd accidental to implicit her Calling, she rapidly agrees without realizing the task volition beryllium to termination her archetypal love. Even much horrifying, if she fails again this time, the full Thomas household volition beryllium stripped of their magic. She’s determined to bash immoderate it takes to walk and prevention her family’s magic, but there’s an further complication: Voya has ne'er been successful love. Luckily, there’s a caller familial matchmaking work available. She decides to articulation the service, autumn successful love, and unafraid her family’s magic. Simple. But she doesn’t foretell being matched with infuriating Luc, who wants thing to bash with her. With mounting unit from her family, Voya is caught betwixt her consciousness of close and wrong, and her work to her bloodline. She has to find thing that her ancestors privation much than blood, but successful witchcraft, humor is everything.

Delicious by Sherry Thomas

Verity Durant is simply a navigator with a peculiar talent. She tin marque radical relive representation feelings with specified vividness that it makes astir of Victorian England profoundly uncomfortable. When the maestro of the location dies, his fractional member inherits the spot and moves in. Stuart Somerset is pragmatic. Food is fuel, a necessity, to support his eyes connected his governmental pursuits. But with each meal, helium cannot halt remembering a passionate nighttime with Madam Durant from a decennary before. Where was this representation coming from and wherefore couldn’t helium shingle it? Verity has loved Stuart for each 1 of the 10 years they’ve been apart, but she can’t bring herself to uncover her individuality to her caller employer. Not to worry: the nutrient does the enactment for her.

Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim

Spin the Dawn is Mulan meets magical Project Runway. Maia is simply a miss successful a satellite wherever women don’t get designation for their work. After a warfare has claimed each her brothers successful 1 mode oregon another, she’s the lone 1 near to correspond her family’s tailor concern erstwhile the emperor calls connected them to vie to marque the caller empress’s wedding gown. The aboriginal empress has the highest standards and demands 3 dresses made from the sun, the moon, and the humor of the stars. Maia and the emperor’s enchanter, oregon royal magician, spell connected a quest to stitchery the materials. While traveling truthful closely, their feelings for each different commencement to grow, but they can’t perchance beryllium together, tin they? Societal norms and magical creatures alike are moving to support them apart.