8 Age Gap Romances You Don’t Want to Miss [BOOK RECS]
✨ 8 Age Gap Book Recs for Romance Readers ✨
Derek by DJ Krimmer
Derek by DJ Krimmer
Release Date: July 23, 2024
Pages: 370
Series: Hel’s Ink, Book 4
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What to Expect in Derek by DJ Krimmer
🖤 Age Gap
🖤 Banter
🖤 Contemporary Romance
🖤 Disability Rep
🖤 Fear of Commitment
🖤 Found Family
🖤 Grumpy/Sunshine
🖤 Praise
🖤 Shy MMC
🖤 Tattoo Artist
🖤 Trauma
Derek Book Description:
Being the founder of a non-profit and keeping it going is my only focus right now. I don’t have time for distraction–men, my health, my friends–all of it takes a back seat to me keeping this going. I’ve lived by other people’s rules for too long, I am ready to break out on my own, and I’ll prove to everyone I can do it. The Crown Project helps sick children and their families find some happiness during hard times, and I am committed to making it happen. If I can’t have my own, I’ll give someone else a fairytale. The only man I’d want is off-limits to me anyway. He’s the meanest, grumpiest, and, unfortunately, the sexiest man I know. He also works with my brother. So there’s that. I’ll always be a supporting character, never the princess. My life just won’t let me. It’s impossible.
DEREK
Without routine and order, the only thing left is chaos. Chaos leaves room for disorder and unhappiness. And that leads to betrayal. Never again will I allow that to happen. I am steady, focused, and at the top of my game as a tattoo artist at Hel’s Ink. I am established, successful, and there is nothing that happens in my life that I don’t allow. And then there is Indy. She is inescapable – a whirlwind of kindness and beauty and goodness. Everything about her is impossible. Left with no choice but to help her out of a challenging situation. I soon regret my decision and the insanity that comes with it. I let her in. Into my home and my life. But never– never- into my heart. There’s no such thing as fairytales, and love stories don’t really exist. But when everything changes, I wonder if maybe I’ve found a little piece of chaos I can live with.
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You’re It by Cleo White
You’re It by Cleo White
Release Date: April 18, 2024
Pages: 243
What to Expect in You’re It by Cleo White
🖤 Age Gap
🖤 Banter
🖤 Contemporary Romance
🖤 Dad’s Best Friend
🖤 Forbidden Romance
🖤 Laser Tag
🖤 Neurodivergent MMC
🖤 Opposites Attract
🖤 Taboo Romance
You’re It Book Description:
Sometimes it feels like every step I take leads to a mistake that is painful or embarrassing, or painful and embarrassing, and it’s pretty remarkable that natural selection hasn’t taken me out yet.
The point is, I have a lot of experience in cleaning up my own messes. Even with all that practice, though, inheriting my dad’s failing laser tag business might be a little much.
Saving Galactic Guild Arena won’t be easy. Especially when my new business partner is my dad’s best friend/famous author/grouchy recluse/my former crush.
Darwin Wilder knows better than anyone what a mess I am. The man hates me, and for good reason. I need to remember that, because in a life full of missteps, falling for my dad’s best friend is one mistake I know I’ll never recover from.
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Chasing the Wild by Elliott Rose
Chasing the Wild by Elliott Rose
Release Date: June 22, 2024
Pages: 460
Series: Crimson Ridge, Book 1
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What to Expect in Chasing the Wild by Elliott Rose
🖤 Age Gap
🖤 Animal Harm
🖤 Boss/Employee
🖤 Breeding
🖤 Cowboys
🖤 Cum Play
🖤 Death of Parents/Grandparent (off-page)
🖤 Dementia (off-page)
🖤 Drug Addiction (off-page)
🖤 Drugging/SA (off-page/alluded to on-page)
🖤 Ex’s Dad
🖤 Forbidden Romance
🖤 Forced Proximity
🖤 Grumpy/Sunshine
🖤 Guns
🖤 Hunting
🖤 Mental Health Rep
🖤 Negligent Parent (off-page)
🖤 Suicide (off-page)
🖤 Taboo Romance
🖤 Unwanted Pregnancy (off-page)
🖤 Workplace Romance
🎵Chasing the Wild Playlist 🎵:
Chasing the Wild Book Description:
What happens when you’re snowed in on a mountain ranch, with the one man you definitely should not be fantasizing about?
I’ve always done what was expected of me. Layla Birch, the good girl.
Forced to grow up too fast. To take care of everything myself. I had a plan.
Only, I didn’t count on him. Colton Wilder. The cowboy nearly twice my age.
He’s my dream man. One who takes care of me, gives me a job, and makes my pulse thud harder every time he comes near.
My ex-boyfriend’s father.
The nights are long and cold on top of this mountain. As the snow grows thicker and the tension builds between us, we’re both inching closer to a line we shouldn’t cross.
Each day, it grows harder to resist the man who looks at me with longing in his eyes.
It’s tempting to forget about being the good girl for once.
No one would find out. Would they?
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Drowning by K.M. Rogness
Drowning by K.M. Rogness
Release Date: June 22, 2024
Pages: 313
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What to Expect in Drowning by K.M. Rogness
🖤 Age Gap
🖤 Bisexual MMCs
🖤 Bikers
🖤 Breath Play
🖤 Broken FMC
🖤 Brother’s Best Friend
🖤 Choking
🖤 Crime
🖤 Cûm Play
🖤 Daddy Kînk
🖤 Dark Romance
🖤 Dîrty Talk
🖤 Dominant MMC
🖤 DV (not by MMCs)
🖤 Edgîng
🖤 Father’s Best Friend
🖤 Forbidden Romance
🖤 Forced Proximity
🖤 Group Scenes
🖤 Gûn Play
🖤 Hand Necklaces
🖤 Kîdnapping
🖤 MC Club
🖤 MFM
🖤 MM
🖤 MMFMM
🖤 Multi POV
🖤 Mûrder
🖤 Piercings
🖤 Popsicle Play
🖤 Possessive MMCs
🖤 Praise
🖤 Queer Romance
🖤 Râpe
🖤 Rêvengê
🖤 SA (not by MMCs)
🖤 Spîtting
🖤 Stâlking
🖤 Taboo Romance
🖤 Tattoos
🖤 Tôrtûre
🖤 Touch Her and Dîe
🖤 Trâumâ
🖤 Why Choose
Drowning Book Description:
Emerson has been through more trauma in her young life than anyone should ever have to. After enduring the horrors of domestic violence and dealing with a relentless stalker, she thought nothing could possibly be worse. That is until her own parents were tragically murdered, leaving her utterly alone in the world.
Feeling lost and broken, she agrees with her brother that she needs to get away from it all and takes a little vacation to try to heal. Little did she know that her trip would lead her to be locked away with the four most forbidden men she was always warned to stay away from.
But as she begins to fall for each of them, she realizes that they all come with their own dangerous secrets and pasts, something she finds them bonding over.
With her own trauma still fresh in her mind, Emerson must navigate the minefield of her own emotions and the forbidden love she feels for these men, each one bringing something new into her life that she can’t walk away from.
Can she find healing and love in the arms of the men who make her feel alive, or will her past continue to haunt her and tear her apart, drowning her in her own misery?
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If You Want Me by Helena Hunting
If You Want Me by Helena Hunting
Release Date: July 11, 2024
Pages: 462
Series: Toronto Terror, Book 2
What to Expect in If You Want Me by Helena Hunting
🖤 Age Gap
🖤 Athlete
🖤 Cat Daddy
🖤 Contemporary Romance
🖤 Dad’s Best Friend
🖤 Forbidden Romance
🖤 Forced Proximity
🖤 Friends to Lovers
🖤 Grumpy/Sunshine
🖤 Hockey Romance
🖤 Hurt/Comfort
🖤 Opposites Attract
🖤 Sports Romance
🖤 Tattooed MMC
If You Want Me Book Description:
There’s no one more off limits than my best friend’s daughter.
Peggy Aurora Hammerstein. The Toronto Terror’s unofficial team princess. I would never do anything to mess with our team dynamics this late into the hockey season, but seeing her work in the front office changed something for me.
I see her as she is now: a powerful woman with ambition for miles.
When I hold her against me, she fits perfectly.
Her little flirts and taunts push my buttons, if she doesn’t stop–my control just might break.
But I can never cross that line. I can never know what it could be to call her mine.
I’ve never wanted anyone more than Aurora and no one can ever know.
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Heist by Tate James
Heist by Tate James
Release Date: November 8, 2022
Pages: 315
Series: Valenshek Legacy, Book 1
What to Expect in Heist by Tate James
🖤 Age Gap
🖤 Banter
🖤 College Romance
🖤 Contemporary Romance
🖤 Dark Romance
🖤 Forbidden Romance
🖤 Student/Teacher
🖤 Suspense
🖤 Taboo Romance
🖤 Thieves
🖤 Thriller
🖤 Scavenger Hunt
🎵Heist Playlist 🎵:
Heist Book Description:
Every four years, the criminal underworld engages in a game. The Game. The challenges range from the impossible to the deadly to the truly insane. Things that only a crazy person would tackle.
I’ve won the game 5 times. This time will be no different.
I’m at the top of my field now, the best of the world’s thieves. There’s nothing I can’t steal, and this time, the game is all about theft, subterfuge, and sleight of hand. Starting with a legendary painting of poppy flowers.
It’s a painting that disappeared into the black market decades ago, but I know where to find it. The only person standing in my way is her.
Nothing will stop me winning the game, not even the sultry, quick witted brunette who lures me into her painting studio with the most irresistible bait.
I have no option to fail at The Game. It’s my legacy.
The Valenshek Legacy.
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Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone
Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone
Release Date: September 12, 2023
Pages: 352
Series: Lyonesse, Book 1
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What to Expect in Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone
🖤 Angsty
🖤 Arranged Marriage
🖤 BDSM
🖤 Billionaire
🖤 Bisexual MMC
🖤 Bodyguard/Boss
🖤 Breeding
🖤 Cheating
🖤 Contemporary Romance
🖤 Dom/sub
🖤 LGBTQ+ Romance
🖤 Marriage of Convienece
🖤 Military
🖤 MM
🖤 Queer Romance
🖤 Workplace Romance
🎵Salt Kiss Playlist 🎵:
Salt Kiss Book Description:
Tristan Thomas is lost.
After leaving the Army, the young former soldier is in limbo. Until, that is, he’s hired by Mark Trevena, the owner of Lyonesse—DC’s ultra-secret club—to be Mark’s new bodyguard. He’s drawn into Mark’s dark, seductive world of power and desire, and slowly drawn to Mark himself, even though Mark is everything Tristan knows he shouldn’t want: cruel and wicked and shamelessly amoral.
But protecting Mark isn’t Tristan’s only duty: soon, Mark asks him to guard his soon-to-be bride as she travels home from Ireland on Mark’s yacht. Tristan is jealous—and hurt to learn that the object of his obsession is engaged—but the soldier in him is made to obey orders, and he goes to fetch Mark’s bride for him.
Isolde Laurence is nothing like Tristan expected, however. Young, quiet, and sharp, she’s being pushed into this marriage by her family, and as the two travel back to America, Tristan finds himself fascinated with Isolde and the glimpses he gets of the lonely but determined woman behind her reserve. And the fascination is mutual: one night, while sailing under the cold stars, they share a searing kiss.
From there, it’s a fast fall into the forbidden.
But in Mark Trevena’s world, the fall is only the beginning…
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Learn My Lesson by Katee Robert
Learn My Lesson by Katee Robert
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Pages: 268
Series: Wicked Villains, Book 2
⚠️Content Warning⚠️
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What to Expect in Learn My Lesson by Katee Robert
🖤 Age Gap
🖤 BDSM
🖤 Dom/sub
🖤 Group Scenes
🖤 LGBTQ+ Rep
🖤 MFM
🖤 MMF
🖤 Pegging
🖤 Polyamory
🖤 Queer Romance
🖤 Retelling
🖤 Sex Club
🖤 Sharing
🖤 Why Choose
Learn My Lesson Book Description:
A single night with Meg and I’m willing to do anything to save her from Hades, the man holding her captive, victim to his every whim.
A bargain with the devil himself seems a small price to pay in order for Meg to go free… Until I learn that she’s exactly where she wants to be.
She’s Queen to Hades’s King.
And I’m the fool that walked right into their trap.
The same fool who desires them both as much as I hate them. I can’t resist Meg’s touch—or stop from being drawn to Hades’s dark desires. By the time I realize just how deep a game he’s playing, it may be too late…
For all of us.
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