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- Content warnings: Sexual content, Cheating, Infidelity, Manipulation, Toxic relationships
Gilded Lily
by Staci Hart
Book 2 in Bennet Brothers
Kash is the steady gardener to Lila's controlled, cracking-perfect wedding planner, which gives this Bennet Brothers installment a softer ache than its premise suggests. It is workplace-adjacent, rebound-fling romance with enough emotional pressure to make the slow burn land.
goodreads 4.04/5 2,733 ratings
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Length318 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 3 books
Spice3/5 · Slow seduction
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Slow seduction
- Romantic fulfillment
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- Gentle giant
- Passionate / intense
- The swoon
- Caretaker
- Hurt/comfort
- Vanilla with emotion
- Earned hope
- Secretly soft
- Protective love interest
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Push and pull
- Longing glances
- Tension
- Body worship
- Touch starvation
Fantasy promise
- Contemporary romance
- Opposites attract
- Workplace / office
- Contemporary
- Humans only
- Workplace romance
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- Big city / metropolis
- Friends to lovers
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Heartwarming
- Warm
- Moderate
- Career woman
- Romantic
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- Emotional
- Ice queen
- Witty
- Ambitious schemer
- Swoony
- Character-driven
- Poetic
- Comfort read vibes
- Redemption
- Binge read
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Book details
- Length
- 318 pages
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book