This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas is a contemporary adult fiction trilogy. It starts with a man, Jesse, and a girl named Ava. Ava is an interior designer who gets a call to work in this manner. When she gets there, she is blown away by the guy who owns it. She would fall in love with the rich man who owned the company. But she falls in love with Jesse, and it’s that touch that we expect out of our wonderful books.
Novels like This Man focus on multi-dimensional characters with secrets, desires, and personal growth arcs, making the journey emotionally resonant. Such novels feature the realm of passion, allowing you to experience whirlwind relationships filled with highs, lows, and everything in between.
5 Books Like This Man (Erotic Romance)
This Man is about Jesse, who is highly abusive like the alpha male. However, I find Jesse not to respect Ava at all. Ava describes him as having on his wafers like aviator sunglasses. In the end, she finds out she loves him. She finds out the man is a brothel and is all upset.
The author describes all the love elements throughout the book and some true stories in our society. I am going to discuss 5 hot romance books similar to This Man. These stories tackle mature and sometimes controversial subjects, pushing boundaries and offering a more in-depth exploration of relationships and human nature. Beyond just the romance, books of this genre come with intricate plots full of twists, turns, and unexpected moments that keep us hooked. Let’s go!
1. Beauty from Pain
Laurelyn and her best friend Addison go to Australia, where Addison’s brother lives morally and gets out of a bad breakup. She needs some space. So she goes there intending to relax for three months. Then there’s Jack Henry. He was on a search for a temporary relationship. He’s done the three to four-week relationships where there’s no connection afterward, and he doesn’t tell them his name. Also, he doesn’t want their name because he is quite wealthy. So he goes under false names.
One day, Jack sees Laurelyn in a bar. She sings and plays the guitar. So Jack figures out where she will be in the next few days. He stages a run in the bar, dances with her, and asks her out. We come together knowing what each other’s expectations are. It makes things easier and more relaxed, and our time together is more enjoyable because we only want to enjoy each other’s company. They don’t change for each other and stick to their agreement. If you love This Man, you must read it.
Author: Georgia Cates
Average Rating: 4.5/5
Category: Romance Literary Fiction
Available: Paperback | Kindle
2. The Professional (The Game Maker)
This is the first book in the Game Maker series. We’ll see mafia enforcer Alexandr Sevastyan. His loyalty to his boss is unwavering until he is ordered to protect the boss’s daughter because she haunts his mind.
To remove Natalie from an enemy’s reach, Alexander spirits her into hiding from an opulent palace in Russia to the decadent playgrounds of the mega-rich in Paris. Like This Man, the lovers tempt each other’s boundaries to discover whether their darkest and most forbidden fantasies can come true.
So, this book is very detailed, and there is a lot of backstory for the main character. There is an underground secret sex club. This was released in three parts. Kresley Cole released it in a novella, and you could get them only on Kindle or Nook. When she released all three parts, she released the book, which is four hundred pages.
Author: Kresley Cole
Average Rating: 4.4/5
Category: Romantic Erotica Suspense
Available: Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | Kindle
3. Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet)
This is a story about a girl, Olivia Ruiz, who was kidnapped and brought to Mexico and is trained to be a part of Caleb’s revenge plan. It is so scary and disturbing. We see it through Caleb’s eyes, and he is her captor. He watched her and chose her based on how she would adapt to the environment because he wanted to choose someone who would be submissive.
When you think submissive, you think, Don, and that’s not what this is. To him, a submissive is a survivor, and someone who survives bends to their master’s will. They’ll live through it. He doesn’t want her to die. He wants her to get close to this one guy, Vladeck. That was who took Caleb when he was a child, and that was the top guy.
So Caleb wants revenge. Also, he will use her to get to him, and he’s working with Rafiq. Moreover, they both want the same thing. The thing is, Caleb starts to grow attached to Olivia like This Man.
Author: CJ Roberts
Average Rating: 4.3/5
Category: BDSM Erotica
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle
4. Egomaniac
Egomaniac is about Emerie, who moved from some country states to New York. She is in her new office, which she got up for an awesome deal, and Drew comes back to work from vacation, so he lives in the top penthouse suite. He lives in the same building as his office, which is on the bottom floor of the building. Also, he walks in because he’s having renovation done for two weeks and finds someone in his office.
Emerie thinks he’s breaking it as best call 9-1-1 and shows him her excellent jujitsu skills. She was devastated because it was supposed to be set out for her new job. Drew takes her down to the police station. He’s a divorce attorney and has a negative outlook on romance. But he’s a divorce attorney, so he takes her to the police station. They were laugh-out-loud moments, and these guys started as friends first.
Drew is very much a man like a woman’s man. They were friends first, which was awesome because Emerie acknowledged his attractiveness. He acknowledged that she was attractive. They see each other. Then they’re automatically all on top of each other. They helped each other with their business. Emerie was a lifesaver for Drew.
So it was a much more fun friend-to-lovers romance similar to This Man. There’s a secret about his past and why he’s so anti-love. Aside from the fact that he’s a divorce attorney and sees marriages fall apart all the time. But he has something in his past that makes him distrust love.
Author: Vi Keeland
Average Rating: 4.6/5
Category: Contemporary Romance
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle
5. The Baller: A Down and Dirty Football Novel
In this book, football is included, including some details about the sport. But it wasn’t involved to the extent that this book involves the technical aspects of sports. That was a lot of rambling. So all that rambling was to point out that if you’re knowledgeable about sports and into sports romances, you’ll appreciate the level of detail.
The female protagonist, Delilah Maddox, is a sports newscaster, and she has been assigned to cover the year’s Super Bowl. She meets the male protagonist by way of interviewing him. His name is Brody Easton, and he is the New York Steel star quarterback.
So Brody certainly knows how to make a lasting impression on a girl. During the first meeting between Delilah and himself, the first thing he does is drop the towel that he’s wearing. It is the only thing he’s wearing while Delilah is interviewing him. She continues interviewing, although he’s standing there in his birthday suit.
So Brody is pretty much instantaneously intrigued by Delilah. He chases her right off the bat, and Delilah is on what she calls a three-month cleanse, meaning she’s not sleeping with anybody. She’s focused on her career and is not interested in what Brody has to offer, which is a no-strings-attached hookup. Is she going to change?
Author: Vi Keeland
Average Rating: 4.6/5
Category: Contemporary Sports Romance
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
These novels cover the intricacies of relationships, including the power dynamics, trust issues, and the challenges couples face, making the romance feel more real and relatable.
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