The Best Enemies-to-Lovers Romance Books

Lincoln is enthralled by his intern but knows he can’t do anything about it because of power dynamics, and Elizabeth grows more annoyed with her closed-off boss by the day. Both of them vent about their office enemies to their online best friend. They just don’t realize they’re actually venting to each other. And when that revelation comes out, you’re in for a treat.

I enjoyed this book so much that I stopped halfway through to encourage everyone I knew to pick up a copy immediately. The audiobook was immersive and made me feel so many different emotions throughout. I was literally kicking my feet and squealing when Lincoln and Elizabeth found out they had been online best friends all along (and it took them long enough because these two couldn’t be more different in real life than they were online).

Jonathan doesn’t want to get sued, so naturally he invites Sam to stay with him while he recovers. Now Sam has to continue faking amnesia while living with his sworn enemy, while Jonathan tries to figure out how to handle his professional and personal lives colliding after years of keeping them far apart.

This is a unique enemies-to-lovers situation because they both still hate each other, but Sam has to pretend he doesn’t even know who Jonathan is (much less that he recently fired him), and Jonathan can’t openly hate an employee who was injured on company property. The mental gymnastics of that? I’m tired just explaining it! Add in the…unique individuals who work for Sam, and this story is one wild ride.

Cue conflict as Malcolm tries to drive away Ruby and her friends before they discover the counterfeit gloves…and rugs…and booze. What starts off as funny pranks, like serving the worst food and releasing bugs into one of the bedrooms, quickly turns to unwanted feelings as the two become close. Oh, and then the Princess arrives and is subsequently kidnapped along with one of Ruby’s best friends, and now our enemies must traverse the country to try and locate them. Talk about drama!

I was on the edge of my seat throughout this entire book and kept audibly laughing at the situations these characters found themselves in. The banter between Malcolm and Ruby was also exquisite, and it reeled me right back to Regency England.

Now Sienna is pregnant and trapped in Chicago, surrounded by a staff that supposedly doesn’t understand any English (which isn’t true) and married to a man who can’t stand her. Dimitri does everything he can to ignore the spark between him and Sienna while tracking down a dark figure from his past he thought had died long ago.

Little does he know that Sienna is considered the world’s top hacker and is also after the same man, just mostly virtually. With both of their lives at risk and a baby on the way, will they overcome their individual trauma and collective hatred before it’s too late?

I truly can’t recommend this grumpy x sunshine enemies-to-lovers novel enough. If you aren’t a dark romance or mafia reader, but are intrigued, I highly recommend starting with this one as an introduction to the sub-genres.

Arturo decides to blackmail her into marrying him without a fuss, and Tara decides she’s going to do everything she can to make having her around more annoying than it’s worth.

Arturo and Tara had me screaming at my Kindle from the beginning because who starts a marriage off by threatening to frame your fiancé for murder? Truly a wild move from Arturo.

A bit of context if you decide to dive into the dark romance series starting with this book: these two met when their siblings were getting married, and Tara poured an entire bowl of punch onto Arturo in the middle of an argument. Iconic behavior, if you ask me. Now that they’ve been forced together, I knew it would be fireworks from the beginning, and I wasn’t wrong. These two truly hate each other and hate how much they want to kiss the other even more.

Sierra and Xavier have traded pranks and winning sales pitches for years. Sierra has broken into his office, Xavier has secretly attended her brothers’ poker nights, and they’ve both been pining from afar.

Xavier knows that Sierra will soon be engaged to someone of her grandmother’s choosing, but he wants her for himself, so he offers Grandma Windsor a massive deal: he’ll merge his company into Windsor Real Estate if Sienna marries him. Of course she accepts, though she reminds Xavier that they must abide by her marriage rules: they have to stay married for three years, they can’t spend more than three consecutive days apart, they have to give the marriage an honest try, and they have to share a bed.

Now that the pranks and shenanigans can happen inside the house, what could possibly go wrong?

This all takes place before the meat of the plot, which happens a bit after the wedding that got away. Now Bobbi and Bunty have to actually work together because their best friends are getting married to each other.

Now we have enemies in forced proximity, working on a wedding; what else could go wrong? Well, just about everything, because this wedding might be cursed by a shaadi saboteur, and Bobbi and Bunty need to figure out why everything is going wrong before it impacts the happy couple. Even I’m stressed!

Like every other book I’ve read by Nisha Sharma, this one is laugh-out-loud funny and full of heart. The banter between Bobbi and Bunty is top-notch, the quest to discover the shaadi saboteur had me in tears of laughter, and the food descriptions were so enticing I had to stop and order takeout multiple times.

After this rather unfortunate-to-the-tenth-degree incident, Banner cuts Jared off, and they go their separate ways. Since they’re both successful sports agents, it’s only a matter of time before they’re spinning in the same orbit again, and despite Jared’s “no emotion” view of work, he still can’t help wanting her.

Banner, on the other hand, doesn’t give Jared even an inch, and I have to admit, it’s incredibly gratifying to watch. I mean, Jared’s reaction to Banner being in a loving and committed relationship? There’s nothing better than a love triangle to bring a stubborn, possessive man to his knees.

Jared and Banner are enemies professionally and personally, and the slow-burn-to-lovers is chef’s kiss perfection, which is unsurprising, considering Kennedy Ryan has never let me down and her books never miss.

Stella represents everything Tyler hates: privileged, entitled, and free of any consequences for her actions (or so he thinks), and he relishes controlling her. Not only does he want to destroy her parents’ company and the lives of their friends, but he also wants to take away everything Stella holds dear.

Stella, on the other hand, just wants to keep her brother safe and stay away from her former best friend who left her to deal with the consequences of her drunk driving mistake.

Y'all, things are messy in this dark romance. The hate between Stella and Tyler is visceral and, at least on Tyler’s side, years in the making. At times, I truly wondered how Navessa Allen would get them to the point of being a happy couple, though I shouldn’t have doubted her prowess.