BookTok trending data shows the dominant romance appetite in mid-2026 is firmly behind high-chemistry enemies-to-lovers, workplace rivals, and academically or professionally credentialed heroines — signals from Hazelwood, Armas, and Hoang dominate. Pure alpha-billionaire wish-fulfillment with no character grounding is cooling fast; readers punish thin plots in reviews. Small-town billionaire hybrids (Lucy Score's Knockemout pattern) are holding steady. The gap in the billionaire lane specifically is a modern, witty, character-forward take that borrows the trad billionaire power asymmetry but wraps it in a heroine with genuine professional stakes.
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