Mutual Pining
Both characters are head-over-heels for each other but convinced their feelings are unrequited — leading to delicious tension as readers watch them dance around their obvious mutual attraction.
Discover 372 romance books featuring mutual pining.
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Heartstopper: Volume Four
Alice Oseman
Nick and Charlie are finally boyfriends — but saying 'I love you' is harder when real life keeps getting in the way.
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
Cassandra Clare
Two boys love the same girl — and one of them is dying — in this devastating Victorian Shadowhunter finale.
Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love
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An Auror forced to protect the witch he can't stand — slow burn, sharp banter, and denial for days.
Heartstopper: Volume Two
Alice Oseman
Nick is falling for his best friend Charlie — and discovering everything he thought he knew about himself was wrong.
In Memoriam
Alice Winn
Two boys fall silently in love at boarding school — then WWI pulls them to the front together.
Rewind It Back
Liz Tomforde
Six years after breaking each other's hearts, she's back next door — and renovating his house.
You & Me
Tal Bauer
A widowed dad volunteers for his son's football team — and falls hard for the other team dad, his first-ever crush on a
Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3)
Quinn Loftis
A girl with just a drop of wolf blood is forced into a mate-finding gathering — with her infuriating crush.
False Comeback
Lily Mayne
A prim fae prince and an uncouth ghoul wrestler hate each other — until their feud explodes into something much hotter.
Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
Cassandra Clare
Caught between brooding Will and gentle Jem, Tessa must choose while dark forces threaten the London Institute.
Heartstopper: Volume One
Alice Oseman
A gay over-thinker and a soft-hearted rugby player become friends — and maybe something more.
How to Say I Do
Tal Bauer
A Manhattan PR prince escapes a failed wedding in Cancun — and falls for a warm-hearted Texas rancher.
To Catch a Firefly
Emmy Sanders
A neurodivergent man has secretly loved his wild, free-spirited best friend for years — but how do you hold onto a firef
Restitution
Leigh Rivers
Kade wages war to reclaim his girl — but can Stacey break free from the monster who stole them both?
Lady Midnight
Cassandra Clare
A Shadowhunter and her parabatai hunt a killer across LA — but loving each other is the one thing forbidden.
The Snowball Effect
Haley Cass
Roommates who hate each other must fake-date for Emma's mum — and feelings get very real, very fast.
Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez
Two cursed daters agree to date and break up — until a summer in Minnesota makes fake feelings very real.
Sticks & Stones
Abigail Roux
Two rival FBI agents hike into the Appalachian wilderness — and straight into danger and each other.
Clean Finish
Lily Mayne
A young assistant asks his quietly pining werewolf bodyguard for 'practice' — Seb knows it's more, but Larkin doesn't. Y
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Poppy must work with the dark prince who kidnapped her — the only man she wants and the only one she can't trust.
The Gravity of Us (Elements, #4)
Brittainy C. Cherry
Two broken people who don't know how to love keep colliding — and falling anyway.
On the Same Page
Haley Cass
Ten years of best friendship, one holiday party, and Riley finally asks: what does Gianna actually mean to her?
The Darkness Outside Us
Eliot Schrefer
Two sworn enemy boys, alone in a spaceship with dark secrets — and love as their only way to survive.
The Casanova (The Miles High Club #3)
T.L. Swan
She hates her boss and loves her pen pal — but what if they're the same man?