Spicy romance short stories
Want a spicy story for one sitting? Spicy Shorts are single-chapter romances. This shelf gathers the short stories in our published catalog, with each story's own heat rating and estimated reading time.
If you are looking for short smut or erotic romance stories, read the premise as well as the spice rating. Short describes the format; the rating describes the heat. Neither tells you every theme a story contains.
How to choose your next read
Compare the premise and minutes to read. The story page shows its individual heat rating, so you can choose the kind of short read you want.
Our spice-rating guide explains what the numbers tell you. Reading is through the app after early access is granted.
20 original stories to explore
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Sauna Rules
Heat 5/5Britt Hallqvist has wanted Wes Sadowski for four years, since her brother introduced his captain with a warning: not my sister. Wes said he wouldn't dream of it.
Brothers best friend · Forbidden · Hockey
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The Donor
Heat 5/5Forty-two thousand pledged against a two-hundred-thousand goal, and the board is ready to cut Hana Nakamura's emerging artists program. Julian Crewe isn't on the guest list.
Strangers to lovers · Billionaire
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Say It Twice
Heat 5/5For seven years Kilbride has guarded Orla Callaghan, called her Miss Callaghan and never touched her. She has tried everything. She is the boss's daughter, and he is her father's man.
Bodyguard · Forbidden · Age gap
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The Fitting Room
Heat 5/5Six years of bespoke tailoring have taught Nadia to take a man's measurements without a flicker on her face.
Strangers to lovers
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Countersigned
Heat 5/5For three years Margot Dunne has been Gavin Stroud's executive assistant, and she has said every instruction back to him.
Boss employee · Workplace · Age gap
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Play Until Dawn
Heat 5/5Every Wednesday since March, harpist Carys Pryce has ended her pub set with the same slow air, for the man in the corner who never drinks his pint.
Fae · Holiday · Age gap
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The Upper Pool
Heat 5/5The card by the kettle says never go to the upper pool on a full moon. I mean it. Six weeks alone as winter caretaker of a shut hot-springs lodge, Addie Laurent puts on lipstick and goes.
Fated mates · Shifter
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Practice Makes
Heat 5/5Truth or dare on Kira's floor, two glasses of good tequila each, and Daniel asks whether Kira and Maya have ever kissed. Once, at nineteen, for practice, and in eleven years the best friends have never spoken of it.
Friends to lovers · Ffm
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Grotesque
Heat 5/5Nine days into a Detroit heat wave, stone restorer Esme Novak works nights on a swing stage thirty-one floors up, cleaning a century of soot off the Ambrose Building's grotesques.
Monster · Age gap
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Night Ink
Heat 5/5Seventeen Thursdays running, at two in the morning, Pilar Solano has tattooed the same five words of old script over the same man's heart in her Baltimore shop. Ulrich pays too much, in cash.
Vampire · Age gap
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The Tell
Heat 5/5Laurel Pruitt's little brother Tommy owes a motorcycle club eleven thousand dollars. On a Friday night in a Nevada heat wave, she walks into the Kingsnakes' clubhouse with her savings in an envelope, and the president won't take it.
Morally gray · Motorcycle club
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House Lights
Heat 5/5Four thousand people have run from Josie. She plays the corpse in an Ohio haunted maze, and only one man never runs. For eleven nights Vaughn Burkett has stopped at her table, and every word proves he's been watching.
Stalker · Touch her and die · Morally gray
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Signal Fire
Heat 5/5The Marble Creek fire has closed Route 9, dispatch says shelter in place, and Jordyn hears boots on the stairs of Tower Fourteen. It's Maren Cole from Tower Eleven, the woman she has barely spoken to off the radio in three years.
Forced proximity · Friends to lovers · Second chance
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Four Stars
Heat 5/5One star. Three nights ago, critic Eloise Chen called Luca Varro's smoked duck technically flawless and emotionally vacant, and the internet lost its mind.
Enemies to lovers
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Developing Chemistry
Heat 5/5One sequencer, one six a.m. slot, and Sam Okafor has written his name on top of Noor Karim's in heavier pen. At 2 AM in Lab 412 they share an advisor, three years of arguments and one shot at the Whitfield's two years of funding.
Rivals to lovers · Academic · Workplace
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Called in the Sixth
Heat 5/5The game is called in the sixth, the power dies, and the stadium's service elevator stops between the press level and the clubhouse.
Forced proximity · Forbidden · Baseball
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The Safe Word
Heat 5/5Six years married, and Gemma and Ethan have planned this night on the back of the gas bill: his navy silk tie, her hands above her head, one edge and only one, and a safe word picked over breakfast. Pineapple.
Established relationship
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Last Lift
Heat 5/5Two towers short of the summit, the last gondola of the day jerks to a stop, and Ava Doran is left hanging sixty feet above the trees with a stranger. Oren Keller guides ice climbers for a living, and a dead cable doesn't rattle him.
Strangers to lovers · Forced proximity
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Red Eye
Heat 5/5The upgrade is a fluke. Three weeks ago Sophie walked out of eight careful years at a law firm, and now she is in first class on the red eye from JFK to LAX, holding her magazine upside down, and the man in 2B has noticed.
Strangers to lovers · One night
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The Understudy
Heat 5/5Camille can't stop counting through the stage kiss, and ten times now the director has noticed. So after the show, alone under the ghost light, she runs the love scene again, and her understudy walks down the aisle.
Workplace · Ff
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