i think up ciphers to trace unto your skin | because it doesn't feel safe to just say 'i love you.'

callmeonetrack recommended Cecelia Grant's romantic novels here, and I completely second that recommendation. I've read A Lady Awakened and A Gentleman Undone (each took me about a day and a half) and I greatly enjoyed both.

Read them if you like:

-determined ladies who drive the narrative
-heroines who are allowed to be broken and flawed and fucked up (especially the lead in A Gentleman Undone)
-actually hot, actually explicit, in-character sex scenes
-LADIES WHO KNOW ABOUT SEX, KNOW HOW TO GET THEMSELVES OFF/USE SEX TO KILL EMOTIONAL PAIN
-romantic leads who are actually romantic leads

I only have a couple quibbles,
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