{"id":20683,"date":"2024-02-27T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=20683"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:12:30","slug":"20683-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/20683-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicy book recs for the single and the curious couples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by: Jaylin Hardin | Sports Editor, Salyna Woods | Freelancer<\/span><\/p>\n

This selection of romance and smut books was created for those who may be lonely or for couples looking for new things to try in the bedroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fluff \u2014 plot oriented, light spice<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIce Breaker,\u201d \u201cMaple Hills Series\u201d Book One by Hannah Grace \u2014<\/b> When the hockey and figure skating teams at Maple Hills University are forced to share the same rink \u2014 and Anastasia Allen\u2019s skating partner gets hurt in the aftermath \u2014 hockey player Nathan Hills finds himself trading his stick for tights.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Deal,\u201d \u201cOff-Campus Series\u201d Book One by Elle Kennedy \u2014<\/b> Hannah Wells would do anything to get her crush\u2019s attention \u2014 even tutor the cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date. All Garret Graham wants to do is play professional hockey, but his dropping GPA is threatening everything. If fake dating a girl to help make some guy jealous will help him secure a position on the team, so be it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spicy \u2014 less plot oriented, medium spice<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cTwisted Love,\u201d \u201cTwisted Series\u201d Book One by Anna Huang \u2014<\/b> Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and a cursed past; Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can\u2019t remember. Their love is one that was never supposed to happen, but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both and everything they love.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThings I Wanted to Say But Never Did,\u201d \u201cThe Lancaster Prep Series\u201d Book One by Monica Murphy \u2014<\/b> Whit Lancaster is a menace on campus, but his primary target is Summer Savage. When she finds him one night, broken and bloody, she sneaks him to her room and cleans him up, then falls for his lies. When he leaves, he takes her journal and promises to let her secrets out. Summer strikes a deal with the Devil \u2014 and lets him ruin her behind closed doors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spicier \u2014 hardly any plot, heavy spice, mature audiences only<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cPriest,\u201d \u201cPriest Series\u201d Book One by Sierra Simone \u2014<\/b> There are many rules a priest can\u2019t break: he cannot marry, abandon his flock or forsake his God. Father Tyler Bell has always been good at following the rules set for him, but six months ago he broke his vow of celibacy on the altar of his own church. And God help him, he\u2019d do it again.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNeon Gods,\u201d \u201cDark Olympus Series\u2019\u201d Book One by Katee Robert \u2014<\/b> Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the glittering socialite life in the City of Olympus, but when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, she is forced to flee to the undercity. There, she makes a devil\u2019s bargain with a man she had originally thought was a myth. Hades never intended to step into the spotlight, but he finds that Persephone can offer the revenge he\u2019s been craving. Every night they spend together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he\u2019ll go to war to keep her close to him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at howlsports@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":20684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}