When the wait is the entire point. Slow burn is the trope that lives or dies by tension, and the books on this list earn their ending across hundreds of pages of barely-touching, almost-said, and finally-yes.
Sarah J. Maas
Betty Neels
Janette Oke
T. J. Klune
Alice Oseman
L.A Witt
André Aciman
Rebecca Yarros
Sarah M. Eden
Everina Maxwell
Abby Craden, Radclyffe
Freya Marske
Becky Albertalli, Victoria Simó Perales
Haley Cass
Lauren Roberts
Sarina Bowen
Stephenie Meyer
Nora Roberts
Maialen Garagarza Urkia, Colleen Hoover