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 Readers’ Arcades’ Editorial Review of The Violets of Serapis: A Forbidden Love on the Nile by Patricia Torrisi

Pack your bags for Ptolemaic Egypt, because The Violets of Serapis: A Forbidden Love on the Nile by Patricia Torrisi is about to transport you straight to the sun-scorched temples and glittering royal courts of ancient Memphis. Published by Hasalynx Press, this historical romance delivers not one but two forbidden love stories that will…

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Readers' Arcades' Editorial Review of The Road to Kunlun by Chen Qiuling

If you've been scrolling endlessly looking for that perfect storm of epic Chinese fantasy, spine-tingling cultivation magic, and a forbidden romance that will absolutely wreck your heart in the most beautiful way, then The Road to Kunlun by Chen Qiuling needs to be at the very top of your TBR pile.

This is the second volume in The Tales of King…

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Readers' Arcades Editorial Review of The Last Ivory Tablet by Shaina Rhodian

A guarded archaeologist. A prickly scout who knows more than he does. A jungle that wants them both dead. The student/teacher dynamic in The Last Ivory Tablet by Shaina Rhodian (published by Polish house Hasalynx Press) is everything we crave in a rivals-to-lovers romance — and the setting makes it feel entirely fresh.

Preston Thorne is the kind of hero…

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Readers' Arcades' Editorial Review of The Cobra Seal's Curse by Shaina Rhodian

Archaeological adventure? Check. Forbidden age-gap romance? Double check. Father's best friend who has been fighting his feelings for years because he met her as a fully grown, brilliant woman and respects her father too much to act on it? Oh, it's all here, and it is delicious. At Readers' Arcades, we live for stories that make us cancel plans…

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Readers’ Arcades’ Editorial Review of Fugitives by Arabella Ricci

That moment when you realize you're rooting for the villain. Not because he's secretly good, but because he's so desperately, beautifully human in his brokenness that you can't help yourself. That's the grip Fugitives by Arabella Ricci has from page one. Paloma walks into Sebastian Shaw's Panama City high-rise expecting to find a monster—she's done her research, memorized the headlines about…

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Readers' Arcades' Editorial Review of My Incubus Policeman by Varenne Schwarz

There's something about a foggy coastal town that just screams secrets, and My Incubus Policeman delivers them in spades. This is the kind of read that hooks you from the first page and refuses to let go—a paranormal romance that understands exactly what the genre does best and then cranks up the tension until you're practically sweating through the pages. Published…

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Readers' Arcades' Editorial Review of Wild Life by Arabella Ricci

Okay, romance readers, gather around because we have found something unhinged in the best possible way. Wild Life by Arabella Ricci—published by Polish indie house Hasalynx Press—is a dark billionaire romance that takes place inside a private zoo, and before you raise an eyebrow, let us reassure you: the animals are safe, well-cared-for, and never involved in the human drama. Got it? Good. Now let's get…

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Readers' Arcades' Editorial Review of Cheaters by D. Leere

Can we talk about the absolute stranglehold a good angsty romance has on us? The kind where you're literally holding your breath through entire chapters, where the tension is so thick you could cut it with a butter knife, and where the hero is such a beautiful disaster that you want to shake him and hug him at the same time?…

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Readers’ Arcades’ Editorial Review of Enkidu's Embrace by Patricia Torrisi

Okay, let's be real for a second. If you've ever read the Epic of Gilgamesh and thought, "These two are definitely more than just besties," then Patricia Torrisi's Enkidu's Embrace is the book your history-loving, romance-craving heart has been waiting for. Here at Readers' Arcades, we live for the kind of stories that make you stay up way too late, clutching your Kindle and…

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Readers’ Arcades’ Editorial Review of The Portrait of Repressed Desire by Anabel Riddle

You've always wished Dorian Gray were actually gay, haven't you? Like, properly, messily, beautifully gay. Not just "aesthetic admiration" and "intense friendship" that history tried to pass off as platonic. You read The Picture of Dorian Gray and you felt it—the tension between Dorian and Basil, the longing in every brushstroke, the way Basil looked…