Spring is the perfect season for romance. The sticky heat of summer is still on the horizon, and the winter desire to hibernate passes with every bloom of a tulip.
Like any good crush, these sweet and spicy audiobooks will be on your mind and in your daydreams for many sunbeam naps and garden walks to come. Perhaps they’ll even inspire you to snag your own IRL spring fling. Enemies-to-lovers, here you come.
Lola Espinoza is cursed in love. Well, maybe not actually — magic isn’t real. When Lola goes to spend the summer in Mexico City and meets Rio, she discovers the truth: Magic is very real, and what she’d always written off as bad luck is actually, truly…a curse. In Viva Lola Espinoza, Lola works to break the curse while learning about herself, her heritage, and the magic around us all.
Bethany Greene is what they call a late-bloomer. She’s determined to change that, but after her crush turns her down cold for Homecoming, she agrees to go with her best friend’s boyfriend Jacob. Until Saylor breaks up with said boyfriend. In Her Good Side, Bethany and Jacob decide to fake date for practice, but what if their perfect match is right in front of them?
For Luna Roth, being bisexual is proving more difficult than she anticipated. She wouldn’t know how to flirt with a girl if one fell at her feet, and she has no sexual history to speak of. In Sizzle Reel, Luna meets Valeria Sullivan, and thinks she’s found her solution. She’ll use Valeria’s interest in her cinematography to get a PA job on the set of Valeria’s directorial debut—and if Valeria is as gay as Luna suspects, and if she happens to be Luna’s route to losing her virginity…that’s just an added bonus.
After Annie Walker overhears her latest date say she is “so unbelievably boring,” she starts to think the problem might be her. Enter: Will Griffin, sexy, tattooed bodyguard who has found himself tasked with helping Annie find love by becoming the next leading lady of Rome, Kentucky. In Practice Makes Perfect, amid steamy practice dates and strictly “educational” tutoring lessons, Annie reconsiders her real dream guy.
Sloane McKinney feels like a background character in her own life. But this summer will be different, because she’s spending it with her best friend Liam. But then Liam’s producer dad’s new teen reality dating show is one contestant short…and Sloane is the perfect last-minute addition. In Not Here to Stay Friends, it’s behind the scenes where the drama really picks up.
Liz Baker works at the Nether Fields, a queer magazine that’s on the verge of shutting down—until it’s bought by two wealthy lesbians, including one Daria Fitzgerald. When Liz overhears Daria scoffing at her listicles, she knows declares Daria her new enemy. But as Liz and Daria wind up having to spend more time together, Liz starts to see a softer side to Daria. It’s hard to keep hating Daria…and even harder to resist the chemistry between them.
Lady Ela Dalvi’s life was forever changed when her best friend betrayed her over a boy. Nearly three years, later her enemy is joining high society while Ela withers away in the English countryside. With an audacious plan to get even in Queen Bee, Ela disguises herself as a mysterious heiress and infiltrates London’s elite. But when Ela reunites with the only boy she’s ever loved, she begins to question whether vengeance is still her greatest desire.
Suddenly unemployed, Cassie Evans is left with two choices: get a new job or fire up her long-untouched OnlyFans account. Just when all hope seems lost, a live-in nanny position appears. It’s almost too perfect—until she meets her would-be employer. Cassie soon discovers that Aiden is not a stranger at all, but instead someone who is very familiar with her…or at least, her body. In The Nanny, will the truth come out when temperatures start to rise?
Max Moody has the best friend a gay guy could ask for: Paige. But then Paige suddenly announces she’s engaged and wants Max to be her man of honor. But it turns out there’s not just one new man in Paige’s life. The groom’s charming, fun and ridiculously handsome gay brother, Chasten, is the best man. As the wedding draws closer Max and Chasten realize they’re like oil and water. But can the spark between these two very different guys take them from supporting roles to leading men?
When Jasmine Randhawa finds herself tagging along on her parents’ vacation, she’s not sure her life can get any farther off course. Things only get worse once she realizes that the only other person under fifty on the boat is her childhood acquaintance Jake Dhillon. Jasmine and Jake clash right away, but they they soon recognize a surprising number of similarities. Find out if this relationship is strong enough to last on land in Jasmine and Jake Rock the Boat.