At Mills & Boon, we’re celebrating Pleasure Month the easiest way we all know how…with feel-good romance, tales that encourage, and characters you immediately root for.
Listed below are 5 must-read queer romances good to learn throughout Pleasure month (and all 12 months spherical!)
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All of the Painted Stars by Emma Denny
To win her coronary heart, she’ll must struggle…
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When Lily Barden discovers her finest good friend Johanna’s hand in marriage is being awarded as the primary prize at a match, she is set to cease it. Disguised as a knight, she infiltrates the competition, making ready to struggle for Jo’s hand. However her conduct ruffles feathers, and when a harmful incident escalates out of Lily’s management, Jo should assist her escape.
Discovering security with an area brewster, Lily and Jo quickly settle into their new freedom, and amongst blackberry bushes and lakeside walks an sudden relationship blossoms. However when Jo’s previous catches up together with her and Lily’s reckless behaviour threatens their newfound happiness, each ladies realise that selections should all the time come at a value. The query they should ask is that if the associated fee is definitely worth the value of affection…
Good for followers of:
💜 Mates-to-lovers
💜 Preventing for love
💜 Knight’s story vibes
💜 Secret identities
The (Pretend) Relationship Recreation by Timothy Janovsky
Prepared. Set. Fake.
Issues should not going nicely for Holden James. His probability to audition for his favorite sport present, Madcap Market, ought to have been nice – a tribute to his mum, who died six years in the past. As a substitute, he’s destroying the minibar in a grim resort room…just lately dumped and sliding into distress.
However not less than he has room service. It even comes with a horny (smart-ass) concierge who arrives with pizza, Monopoly, and slightly distracting forearms.
All Holden is aware of about Leo Min is that he’s stunning, unexpectedly sympathetic, and the chemistry between them is off the charts. Perhaps it’s even sufficient to persuade the present’s casting administrators that they’re an actual couple. And if they’ll win the competitors and the large money prize, all of Holden’s issues – his damaged coronary heart, buried grief, and full lack of cash and route – will likely be solved.
After all, nothing ever works out as deliberate. And love is a wholly completely different sport…
Good for followers of:
💙 Pretend courting
💙 Spice
💙 Off the charts chemistry
The 7-10 Cut up (Peach Blossom, E book 1) by Karmen Lee
It was by no means only a sport…
Ava Williams has each cause to hate Grace Jones.
They had been as soon as thick as thieves and bowling rivals who pushed one another.Then they shared a kiss…and after that, nothing was ever the identical.
However then Grace, bowling professional and native celeb, begins instructing on the similar small-town highschool as Ava. And Grace is handed the varsity’s new bowling staff that Ava’s been making an attempt to arrange for years!
Now they’re anticipated to work collectively and lead the staff to victory in six months. And with that, their rivalry is again…as is their plain attraction. So it’s only a matter of time earlier than it explodes – in some way.
Good for followers of:
💗 Enemies-to-lovers
💗 Compelled proximity
💗 Second probability romance
The Boyfriend Subscription by Steven Salvatore
A easy deal and complex emotions…
Teddy Hughes has misplaced his marriage, his enterprise, and now he can’t afford one other beer in his favorite dive bar. So he has no selection however to go away New York for good. However then a stunning stranger walks in with cheekbones that might reduce glass.
Just like the leather-based harness he wears beneath his go well with, Cole Vivien is a mass of contradictions. He’s a profitable entrepreneur whose app, VERSTL, permits shoppers and intercourse employees to type actual – if non permanent – connections. However Cole wants a pretend boyfriend so he can challenge a extra conventional picture for a possible investor. And Teddy – shy, good, and a lot hotter than he is aware of – is ideal for the half.
Cole has two circumstances: no kissing or falling in love. And in trade for one week collectively, Teddy will get sufficient cash to get again on his ft.
However breaking the foundations is rather more enjoyable…
Good for followers of:
💚 Pretend courting
💚 Spice
💚 Opposites appeal to
We Might Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Nick ought to have hated Andy…
When Andy Fleming turns up within the newsroom of the New York Chronicle to be taught the enterprise Nick Russo is set to dislike him. Nick has labored his method from a tough Brooklyn neighbourhood to reporter the exhausting method. Andy is inheritor to a publishing fortune: he can’t kind, he loses his keys and has by no means finished a day’s work in his life…and someday he’ll be Nick’s boss.
Besides, Nick retains rescuing Andy: displaying him the ropes, monitoring down his keys, liberating his tie when it will get caught within the submitting cupboards. Opposites in each method, an unlikely friendship quickly turns into emotions neither wish to deny. However a relationship that feels doable in secret, appears doomed within the mild of day. And now Nick and Andy should determine if, for the primary time, they’re prepared to struggle for what they actually need.
Good for followers of:
💛 Opposites appeal to
💛 Mates-to-lovers
💛 Healthful
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Completely happy Pleasure month and completely satisfied studying!