Slow Burn

Slow burn refers to a slow build up to a pivotal moment where the pent-up feelings or explosive emotions are released all at once. The type of feelings can be of different kinds, for example anger, romantic emotions or sexual chemistry.

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Slow-Burn Romance
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Heather
Abby Offsides
Rumors & Whiskey (The Whiskey Women, #1)
Good at Being Alive
Chase Me If You Can
The Winged Game
Scandal of the Summer
The Summer Girlfriend (Heart Beach, #1)
Not Good Neighbors
The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones
Nobody's Quest (The Nobody Chronicles, #1)
In Every Possible Way
You Won't Forget Me
Witch Season (Broken Coven, #1)
The Love Hypothesis
Our Perfect Storm
The Night We Met (Say You'll Remember Me, #2)
People We Meet on Vacation
Fever Dream (Emerald Lake, #1)
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
Into the Fading Twilight (Starlight Grove, #2)
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)
Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin, #1)
Into the Blue
Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3)
In Her Own League
Love, Theoretically
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Kulti
From Lukov with Love
All Rhodes Lead Here
Wait for It
Luna and the Lie
Under Locke
The Love Hypothesis
The Spanish Love Deception (Love Deception, #1)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Dear Aaron
Marriage for One
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
Hands Down
Sandra Zor
He remembered his palm against Flora’s warm cheek. He remembered their breaths joining together in such closeness that had almost been intoxicating. The rush of it—the pomegranate that had swathed his mind for a fleeting moment before she shoved him away—the memory had replayed itself in all of his dreams.
Sandra Zor, Fire & Flower

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