🏷️ Forced Proximity
37 entries tagged with this trope
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
Violet Sorrengail was supposed to be a scribe. Instead she's thrown into dragon rider training where the weak die and the ruthless thrive. Then there's Xaden Riorson — her enemy in every way that matters.
Twisted Love
Ana Huang · 2021
Alex Volkov feels nothing. No emotions, no warmth, no empathy — until Ava Chen crashes into his life. He's her brother's best friend. He's supposed to protect her. He's definitely not supposed to want her.
Beach Read
Emily Henry · 2020
Two writers with opposite genres swap styles for the summer while living next door. The banter is razor-sharp and the feelings sneak up on you.
The Hating Game
Sally Thorne · 2016
Josh and Lucy are executive assistants who HATE each other. They share an office, they compete for everything, and the sexual tension could cut glass. Then they play a game that changes everything.
Happy Place
Emily Henry · 2023
Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. Nobody knows. Now they're stuck at their annual friends' trip pretending to still be together. Every fake touch, every shared bed, every almost-confession is agony.
Funny Story
Emily Henry · 2024
Daphne's fiancé left her for his best friend. Miles's girlfriend left him for Daphne's ex. So they become roommates and pretend to date to make their exes jealous. What could possibly go wrong.
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata · 2016
Vanessa quit her job as an NFL player's assistant. Aiden crawls back and asks her to marry him — for a green card. The slowest of slow burns. 600 pages of tension before a single kiss. Worth every page.
From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata · 2018
Jasmine and Ivan have hated each other for years. Now they're forced to be figure skating partners. The insults. The slow thaw. The moment he calls her by her first name. PEAK Zapata.
Things We Never Got Over
Lucy Score · 2022
Naomi gets stranded in a small town after her twin sister steals her car and abandons a kid. Knox is the grumpy bearded bar owner who reluctantly helps. He's mean to everyone. Except her. EXCEPT HER.
The Simple Wild
K.A. Tucker · 2018
City girl Calla goes to Alaska to reconnect with her dying father. His pilot, Jonah, is gruff, lives off the grid, and thinks she's a spoiled princess. Alaska changes her. He changes her more.
The Flatshare
Beth O'Leary · 2019
Tiffy and Leon share an apartment but never meet — she has it at night, he has it during the day. They communicate through Post-it notes. The notes get flirtier. The yearning is UNREAL.
It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey · 2021
Socialite Piper gets exiled to a small fishing town. Brendan is the grumpy sea captain who thinks she's ridiculous. He's a WALL of restraint until he's not. Tessa Bailey writes the best 'he wants her so bad it's killing him' scenes in the game.
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Talia Hibbert · 2021
Eve accidentally hits Jacob with her car, then accidentally gets hired at his B&B. He's autistic, prickly, and furious. She's chaotic, warm, and exactly what he didn't know he needed.
Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle · 2021
Maybell inherits half a house from a dead woman she barely knew. Wesley inherits the other half. He's anxious and guarded. She's anxious and hopeful. Two anxious introverts learning to let someone in.
Icebreaker
Hannah Grace · 2022
Figure skater Anastasia has to share ice time with hockey captain Nate. He's golden retriever energy in a hockey player's body. She's focused and driven. He's so soft for her it's embarrassing and we love it.
Wildfire
Hannah Grace · 2024
Russ and Aurora are camp counselors who can't stand each other. Stuck in the woods all summer with no escape. The hate-to-love pipeline is STRONG in this one.
Final Offer
Lauren Asher · 2022
Cal and Lana have history — a painful one. Now he's back in her lake house trying to buy it, and she's not selling. Two broken people who never stopped loving each other fighting over a house and their feelings.
Bride
Ali Hazelwood · 2024
Vampires and werewolves are at war. Misery is a vampire bride married off to the werewolf Alpha for peace. He's massive, grumpy, and way too observant. She's hiding things. Supernatural enemies-to-lovers with BITE.
Credence
Penelope Douglas · 2020
Tiernan moves to a remote cabin in Colorado with her stepfather and his two sons. Snowed in. No rules. No civilization. Just tension and bad decisions. This is the book people whisper about.
Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas · 2018
Jordan moves in with her boyfriend's dad after getting kicked out. He's older, off-limits, and they both know the line they shouldn't cross. The tension in this house could power a city.
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
Everything Violet thought she knew was wrong. Xaden has been keeping secrets. The trust issues in this book are PAINFUL. But the dragons are cooler and the stakes are higher.
Onyx Storm
Rebecca Yarros · 2025
The war is here. Violet is pushed to her limits. The venin threat is worse than anyone imagined. Book 3 goes DARK.
Nightfall
Penelope Douglas · 2020
Will and Emmy. Trapped on an island. The final Devil's Night book brings everything full circle with the most survival-romance vibes of the series.
Love and Other Historical Accidents
PacificRimbaud · 2019
Draco and Hermione get thrown back to the 1910s. They have to work together to get home while navigating early 20th century society. The historical detail is staggering and the slow burn across centuries is magnificent.
Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin · 2019
A witch and a witch hunter are forced into marriage. She's hiding what she is. He thinks all witches should burn. The tension writes itself. French-inspired setting with great banter.
Love Her or Lose Her
Tessa Bailey · 2020
Rosie and Dominic's marriage is on the rocks. Their couples therapist gives them an ultimatum: fix it or end it. Tessa Bailey writes a married couple rediscovering each other with achingly real relationship dynamics.
Unfortunately Yours
Tessa Bailey · 2023
Natalie needs money for her winery. August needs a wife for his trust fund. A marriage of convenience in Napa Valley where they can barely stand each other. The bickering is elite.
Electric Idol
Katee Robert · 2022
Eros is ordered to kill Psyche. Instead, he marries her. A fake marriage to a man who was supposed to murder you — peak Dark Olympus chaos. Katee Robert makes Greek myth deliciously modern.
The American Roommate Experiment
Elena Armas · 2022
Rosie's apartment floods and she crashes at her friend's empty apartment. Except it's not empty — Lucas, a hot Spanish man, is staying there too. One bed energy but make it an entire apartment.
The Graham Effect
Elle Kennedy · 2023
Gigi Graham is hockey royalty. Luke Ryder is the brooding new player who wants nothing to do with her. Elle Kennedy returns to college hockey with a new generation and the same addictive formula.
The Dixon Rule
Elle Kennedy · 2024
Shane and Diana share a wall in their campus house. He's a hockey player. She's his opposite in every way. The bickering-through-the-wall-to-falling-in-love pipeline is real.
Mile High
Liz Tomforde · 2022
Zanders is Chicago's most hated hockey villain. Stevie is a flight attendant who doesn't care about his fame. Forced to share planes all season. He's secretly soft. She sees through him immediately.
The Right Move
Liz Tomforde · 2023
Ryan is a basketball player recovering from a public breakup. Indy needs a place to stay. He offers his spare room. Roommate romance with a hero who redefines green flag energy.
The Fallout
everythursday · 2010
Hermione learns about a failed Dumbledore-sanctioned scheme that aimed to create a secondary Order spy from Draco Malfoy. The aftermath of war forces them together in ways neither expected.
Isolation
Bex-chan · 2010
Hermione and Draco are forced to share a dorm during their 8th year. He's an outcast. She's broken from the war. Stuck together with nowhere to go, something shifts. THE classic Dramione fic.
The Auction
LovesBitca8 · 2018
In a dark AU where Voldemort won, Hermione is auctioned off. Draco buys her. Not out of cruelty — out of desperation to protect her. The 'touch her and die' energy in this fic is unmatched.
Meet Me In Dreamland
sinflower81 · 2023
A Dramione dreamsharing fic — Draco and Hermione are connected through shared dreams they can't control. What starts as hostile encounters in a surreal dreamscape becomes something neither of them expected. Sinflower81 at their best with gorgeous prose and achingly slow burn.