This is the hot end of the Fabled shelf: every story here is rated four or five chillies, which means the intimate scenes are explicit, unhurried and written to be heard rather than skimmed. Nothing is faded to black.

Heat ratings sit on every card so you always know what you are pressing play on, and content warnings are listed on each story page. Everything is for listeners aged 18 and over.

Because these are performances, the narrator matters as much as the prose — pacing, breath and restraint do the work a page cannot. Writer and narrator are credited separately on every title, so you can follow whichever voice keeps you coming back.