Forbidden Love
Romance between characters who shouldn't be together
7 items found (2 series, 5 stories)

A Crown of Ruin and Ruse
by Anie Ross
Ten years after escaping a life of servitude behind the Veil, Wren is dragged back into the shimmering, cruel world of the fae. Her captor is Fionn, a silver-tongued bastard prince from her past who remembers the magic in her blood better than she does herself. Fionn is crafting a masterpiece of manipulation to usurp the throne, and he needs Wren’s rare, touch-based mind-reading to harvest the secrets of his treacherous brothers. Forced into a secret coven of gifted women, Wren must master forgotten, ancient magic to survive a world where every smile is a snare. Caught between her hatred for the monsters who stole her life and a growing, dangerous desire for the prince who promises to change everything, Wren must decide if she is Fionn’s greatest weapon, his equal partner, or merely the latest sacrifice in his climb to the crown.

The Ballad of Cotton and Grace
by Marco Velos
Sportswriter Bish Weatherly writes the story of Harry "Cotton" Purcell, the most talented ball player who never made the majors, and Grace, the wife who followed him across Prohibition-era America. Spring 1922, Indianapolis. Bish has been in love with Grace since he before he introduced her to Harry years earlier. Now, with Harry at spring training and Grace pregnant and alone in a new city, Bish positions himself as the reliable friend—helping her find housing, buying gifts, being there when Harry isn't. Harry, son of ruined Alabama aristocracy, hits like Babe Ruth but can't control his "surly disposition." Each success fuels his conviction he deserves the major leagues; each setback confirms he's been cheated. As his career spirals through brilliant performances and self-destructive collapses, Bish documents it all on the pages of the newspaper while growing dangerously close to Grace. The crisis comes in Nashville, 1925. Harry is hitting .357 alongside Lou Gehrig. Gehrig goes to the Yankees. Harry doesn't. When Grace—exhausted and desperate—finally offers Bish the love he's claimed to want for years, he discovers things about himself that he didn't want to know. Decades later, Bish lives on, telling himself he did the right thing—until writing the story reveals he was never the man he pretended to be. *The Great Gatsby* meets *Remains of the Day*, set in 1920s minor league baseball.

The Sunkillers
by Alex Waldman
After centuries of searching, Chloe is certain she is the only person on Earth with magic. Working as a surgeon, she uses her hidden magic to save a critically injured child, but even so the girl dies. Chloe screams her loneliness and despair to the void of space. By answer, strangers appear and drag her through space and time, but their magic goes wrong and she is marooned on an uninhabited planet. As she tries to make her way to human civilization, she is rescued by a man wielding world-ending magic. She learns that she is a Ramarik, the magically powerful sub-species of humans that rule the galaxy. She is identified as a missing child that was conceived for a political purpose, but presumed dead after her kidnapping to the origin planet of Earth started a civil war. Her unexpected reappearance in the future was orchestrated by the fascist leaders of one of the ruling political parties. As she navigates a new language and unfamiliar customs, their intentions toward her seem increasingly nefarious. Her rescuer, the enigmatic leader of a rival party, seems to want to help her, but he is limited by law, customs, and belief in the effectiveness of the Ramarik’s democratic institutions. Caught between worsening panic attacks from her experiences and the emergence within her of a type of magic wrapped up in sex and mind control, Chloe must decide if she trusts herself enough to fulfill her magical potential and if she’s brave enough to open her heart.

The Resonance Series
by Anie Ross
*For fans of Harry Potter, dark academia, magical university, and rivals-to-lovers.* Gwen O'Dorchaidhe thought her life was going to plan as the perfect heir to a pureblood line of sorcerers. Until the ordinary, untaught, *American* Chosen One entered her life, challenging everything she was raised to believe about potential. Breaking curses and challenging the outdated rules of sorcerer society is just another year at Cairn-Gait Conservatory.

So The Flower Blooms
by Rose M Joy
"King of this, King of that, All I know is he'd better come claim his Child!" Aurora may be pregnant, but at the same time, she may not. All the palace knows is that she claims she is with child, King Ron's, to be precise. It doesn't sound possible. They have never seen the man with their own two eyes. The existence of a legend like Ron is even questioned: Is he even real? But Aurora will find him one way or another. And he will claim his child.

The Rise of Eden: A Dystopian Romantasy
by Christina Farley
***What was buried is awakening…*** Do not question the Paladins.\ Do not cross into the Wilds.\ Do not seek the Magic. Tara has spent her life following those rules. On an island where obedience is survival, she’s learned to swallow her doubts, hide her powers, and pretend Eden is the paradise everyone claims it to be. But a secret always has a pulse. And Eden’s secrets are starting to beat louder. When Tara is chosen to train as one of the isle’s revered Paladins, she believes she can make a difference. But the moment she steps inside the Paladin stronghold, her whole world turns upside-down. Tor, the man she confessed her love to, is haunted by secrets he refuses to share. Rune, another trainee, starts to awaken feelings in her that are both thrilling and terrifying. And there are whispers of rebellion and forbidden passageways that lead to dangerous secrets. So when Tara discovers something she wasn’t meant to find, it shatters the foundation of everything she believes. Now she’s trapped between loyalty and truth, two men with different agendas, and an island she swore to protect. Darkness is rising. Magic is awakening. But her people are dying. Tara must become the Paladin she was destined to be or lose everything she loves.

Renfield Academy
by Amelie Locke
The **Renfield Academy Series** is a gothic, dark academia paranormal romance that follows mind-reader Seraphina Gray as she is thrust into a world of vampires, witches, and shapeshifters. While she is initially horrified to learn she is a familiar destined to serve the very vampires who attacked her, she soon discovers she possesses unheard-of powers that make her unique in the supernatural realm. Caught between two worlds, Seraphina faces a devastating choice for her heart. She is inexplicably drawn to Henry, a darkly handsome vampire hell-bent on revenge, yet she remains tethered to Nicholas, her first love who it turns out, belongs to the legendary Van Helsing clan. As a century-old treaty between vampires and the Van Helsing hunter clan begins to fail, Seraphina Gray finds herself at the center of a brewing war. To stop it, she must navigate a dangerous world where no one is who they seem. Her journey will take her from Renfield Academy to the heart of Romania to uncover the truth behind her connection to the original Renfield, Dracula’s servant and the first vampire familiar. To survive, Seraphina must decide where she truly belongs and which of the two men she is destined to love will stand by her side when the final battle begins.