đ Our June book picks are here
The stars certainly had a hand in our fate-themed June book box picks!
The dark romantasy debut is filled with tension and twists that will have you bound until the last page. When her world falls apart, the fighter in her is determined to get it back, and that means first surviving the vicious Bonding Trials. Getting on with a feral direwolf is hard enough, but her fate is made even riskier by the other trainees who want to see her gone and the even deadlier pack Alpha out for her blood. And if the trials weren't enough to handle, shimmering yet sinister court politics, a forbidden tryst, and castle-bound secrets seem to await her around every corner. đĄď¸đŠˇđş
â¨Special box: The books in our June Fantasy Romance Book Box come with signed bookplates and the playlist includes author-selected songs!
The soon-to-be-released sapphic second-chance contemporary romance will have you swooning from the start. Reeling from a failed engagement, she's ready to throw herself into a new work project sure to take her mind off it (even if it is an article about modern love...). But a cruel twist of fate pairs her with her college ex, a world-renowned photographer who she hasn't seen in nearly a decade, for her piece. Maybe this is the chance for closure, but for both women, working together on this project about romance in the modern world may just reignite the spark in their own love story. đˇđđď¸
â¨Special box: The books in our June Contemporary Romance Book Box come with signed bookplates and the playlist includes author-selected songs!
Hereâs what fate has in store for your TBR!Â
Our June Fantasy Romance pick:
Direbound by Sable Sorensen
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Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. Sheâll risk her life to be one of them.
Meryn Cooper has never dreamed of being one of the Bonded, the Kingâs elite warriors who form mental links with massive, vicious direwolves. Sheâs made peace with her life scraping by in poverty in the shadows of the castle. But then her younger sister Saela is kidnapped, stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting.
And Merynâs world falls apart.
Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the armyâonly to discover that there are Bonding Trials this year, where all soldiers are forced to risk their lives in an attempt to connect with a direwolf. Itâs too late to turn back; Meryn is thrown into the deadly competition against her will.
Now, sheâll need to survive the next four months of training at the castle if she wants a chance of finding Saela. Everything here is a test, from the brutal classes where one mistake means death, to the glittering court parties where every smile hides a knife.
To make things worse, Meryn is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her gorgeous instructor, Stark Therion, is as malicious as the wolves himself.
Everyone is out to get herâeveryone but the dangerously handsome crown prince, Killian Valtiere. But if she loses her heart to him, she may also lose her life.
And the castle is hiding dark secretsâŚ
You can expect:
- deadly trials
- magical bonds
- "You're my good girl"
Content warnings:
- gruesome, explicit on-page violence
- self harm
- mental health issues including anxiety, depression and psychosis
- domestic abuse
- parental death
- explicit sexual content including elements of dubcon
- If there is a particular content theme that is triggering for you, we suggest doing additional research on the title to ensure your mental health.Â
Our June Contemporary Romance pick:
Love in Focus by Lyla Lee
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When her boyfriend of seven years suddenly breaks up with her, relationship advice columnist Gemma Cho is convinced that real love doesnât exist. As a bisexual woman whoâs had zero luck with both men and women, sheâs ready to give up on her own romantic prospects. That is, until she's paired up with world-renowned photographer Celeste Min on a potentially career-saving piece on modern love. Â Â
Celeste is extremely talented and sexy, and would be the perfect collaborator and rebound for Gemmaâif it werenât for the fact that sheâs Gemmaâs ex, the one that broke her heart in college and moved to a whole other country before Gemma could even make sense of what went wrong between them. Heightened by the unmistakable sparks that still fly between them, Gemma and Celeste struggle to keep their relationship strictly professional. For the sake of her career, Gemma needs this piece to do well. And for the sake of whatâs left of her beaten up hopeless romantic heart, she wants to fall head over heels for Celeste again.Â
But can she trust Celeste to feel the same this time around?
You can expect:
- yearning
- sweet & spicy rom-com
- "It's better than I imagined"
Content warnings:
- breakups
- cheating (not between FMCs)
- illness of a parent (cancer)
- abandonment by a parent
- biphobia, homophobia, lesbophobia
- explicit sexual content
- If there is a particular content theme that is triggering for you, we suggest doing additional research on the title to ensure your mental health