Rival serial killers Sloane and Rowan bond over an annual game of blood and suffering, and the friendship slowly becomes something more. A friends-to-lovers dark rom-com with 4.7 stars from about 35,000 ratings on Audible.

In a seaside town with a suspicious number of bodies, local gardener Harper strikes a deal with a hunter of killers to protect her home. From the author of Butcher & Blackbird, performed in duet, with 4.7 stars from about 4,300 ratings.

One of the biggest stalker romances of 2025. Josie Hale has a masked watcher, Aiden Valentine, a hacker who decides she is his to protect. Dark, often funny and very spicy, with 4.8 stars from about 36,000 listeners.

Hudson needs a wife to get into a high-society club, and his business partner’s sister Sloane needs money for her childhood home, so she offers to marry him. Audible’s editors picked this as an example of duet narration done well. 4.7 stars from about 1,800 ratings.

An injured college diver and a Swedish star swimmer agree to a no-strings arrangement that quickly gets complicated. Ali Hazelwood’s steamiest book yet, performed in duet, with 4.5 stars from about 5,200 ratings.

Vanessa quits as personal assistant to a football star who never once said good morning, until he shows up asking her for something much bigger. The 2023 recording adds new content and is performed in duet. 4.6 stars from about 1,200 ratings.

Rival journalists Iris and Roman fall for each other through letters that pass magically between them, while a war among gods rages. Performed in duet, with 4.6 stars from about 3,800 ratings.

Abby Jimenez’s small-town romance is read by Julia Whelan and Zachary Webber and earns a full 5 stars from about 17,500 ratings on Audible.

Colleen Hoover’s emotional romance about two people who agree to a relationship with no strings attached. Deacon Lee and Grace Grant share the narration, and it rates 4.5 stars from nearly 33,000 ratings on Audible.

Hannah Grace’s college hockey romance, with a figure skater as the heroine, read by Elizabeth Louise and Tim Paige. It rates 4.5 stars from about 5,500 ratings on Audible.

Alex Volkov is a ruthless man with a heart of ice, until he is forced to look after his best friend’s sister. Cindy Kay and Aiden Snow, one of romance’s favorite narrator pairs, read Ana Huang’s Twisted series. It rates 4.2 stars from about 12,100 ratings on Audible.

Crown Prince Nicholas falls for New York waitress Olivia Hammond, and dating a prince comes with a disapproving queen and relentless paparazzi. Andi Arndt and Shane East read the whole Royally series. It rates 4.5 stars from about 5,000 ratings on Audible.

Four years after one drunken night at hockey camp, Jamie Canning and his old best friend Ryan Wesley meet again at the college championship, then spend a summer coaching side by side. 4.8 stars from about 7,500 listeners.

A dark, contemporary twist on Peter Pan. Wendy is Peter’s daughter, and James (yes, Hook) wants revenge until he meets her. Part of a series of fairy-tale retellings, but a complete standalone, with 4.4 stars from about 14,200 ratings on Audible.

A short, lyrical sci-fi romance in which two rival agents on opposite sides of a war across time begin trading letters and fall in love. Two narrators voice it in about 4 hours, and it rates 4.5 stars from about 5,000 ratings on Audible.

A ruthless billionaire CEO is blackmailed into an engagement with a jewelry heiress, and neither of them expects to fall. The first Kings of Sin book rates 4.6 stars from about 5,900 ratings on Audible.

A brilliantly funny, scorchingly sexy romance, available in audio first. The hero is ready to win back the love of his life with a boom box and a very big grand gesture. It rates 4.5 stars from about 10,000 ratings on Audible.

The first book in the Hot Jocks series, available in audio first. A hockey star takes his teammate’s sweet younger sister to bed after the championship, even though she should have been off-limits. It rates 4.5 stars from about 8,900 ratings on Audible.

Grad student Hanna Bergstrom asks her brother’s friend Will Sumner, a venture capitalist with a reputation, to teach her how to date. It is the third Beautiful book but has its own couple, so you can start here. 4.6 stars from about 3,200 listeners.

Andi Arndt, one of my favorite narrators, and Jacob Morgan trade off as a workaholic heroine, Wren, falls for her brooding hero, Lincoln. It rates 4.5 stars from about 1,900 ratings on Audible.

Book 2 in the Vancouver Agitators hockey series works as a standalone, with plenty of heat and humor. Eli gets Penny, his best friend’s little sister, pregnant, and then falls for her anyway. It runs about 14 hours.

Keylor Leigh’s adorable, relatable voice is perfect for shy bookworm Lily Greene, whose email “relationship” with a fantasy man evaporates, until he reappears as her neighbor Nick Brown. Lily doesn’t know his true identity yet. Malik Rashad shares the narration.

Summer never thought her Dear Sexy Ex letter would go viral, let alone that a British guy named Oliver would find out about it. This laugh-out-loud fake-fiancée story rates 4.5 stars from nearly 1,000 ratings on Audible.

Book 1 in the six-part Harris Brothers series about footballers and their heroines: a doctor and a playboy have a taboo fling, and the question is whether it becomes more. A good pick if you like Ted Lasso and sports romance. It rates 4.5 stars from about 2,100 ratings on Audible.

Erika’s boyfriend’s older brother, Michael Crist, is handsome, strong and completely terrifying. Then his brother leaves, and things change. Told from both points of view, it rates 4.2 stars from about 7,500 ratings on Audible.

When the heroine’s father runs up a debt with four crime lords and sells her to cover it, she belongs to them, but she has never been meek. It rates 4.2 stars from about 8,900 ratings on Audible.

Lara, a princess trained from childhood as a spy, marries the king of the Bridge Kingdom with one goal: to bring his kingdom to its knees. Then she falls for him. It rates 4.6 stars from about 15,600 ratings on Audible.

Abducted by aliens, a heroine is left with other human women on an ice planet, where the only native inhabitant she meets is big, horned, blue and very interested in her. It rates 4.5 stars from about 4,900 ratings on Audible.

A full-cast Audible production of Austen’s classic, with Marisa Abela, Harris Dickinson, Glenn Close and Bill Nighy among the cast. At about 4½ hours it is a quick, dramatized listen that earns a full 5 stars from about 7,300 ratings. For the unabridged recording, see my best romance audiobooks of all time.

The audiobook that opened my ears to full-cast narration, with Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn leading the cast. At about 2 hours it is short, and it rates 4.5 stars from about 8,300 ratings on Audible.

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s story of a reclusive Hollywood icon telling her life story is voiced by three narrators. It has nearly 100,000 ratings on Audible, with a 4.5-star average.

Florence Pugh leads a full cast in this Audible production of Austen’s last completed novel. It runs about 5½ hours and rates 4.5 stars from about 1,200 ratings on Audible.

A salty M/M romance starring a sarcastically witty British bartender and a cocky yet confident North American hockey player. The dialogue goes down like a perfect pint, and a so-called fling becomes an all-out love story, with a full cast backing up the two heroes.

Calling a famously tragic Shakespeare play a romance audiobook is a stretch, but this one is extraordinary. Michael Sheen and Kate Beckinsale were a couple in real life when it was recorded, more than two decades ago, and period background sounds make it much more than ear candy.

Henry VIII and his six wives are reimagined in separate points of view by seven authors, including M.T. Anderson, Candace Fleming and Jennifer Donnelly. It is an intimate, tragic, historical romantic saga that rates 4.5 stars from about 800 ratings on Audible.

One little black dress brings romance, renewed faith and unexpected turns to nine different women. Reviewers have called it the Love Actually of audiobooks, and it rates 4.5 stars from about 2,200 ratings on Audible.

Wesleigh Siobhan and Emmanuel Ingram are electric as Alexa and Soul, and the supporting cast gives it the drama and heart of a Tyler Perry movie. At about 3 hours it is a quick listen, and it earns 5 stars from about 1,200 ratings on Audible.

A sweet, Hallmark-style summer rom-com. Social media star Grace hides out bartending at her family’s inn and isn’t prepared for the local fisherman to flirt or the Brit next door to bother her. It rates 4 stars from about 1,900 ratings on Audible.