The big romance shelf: courts and dragons, small towns and offices, and every kind of love story in between, from the established names to books published this year. 676 books so far, across 159 series, plus 428 titles with no series listed. This is page 11 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonIsla Crown has won the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that had blighted the six realms for centuries. Almost nobody knows where her own powers came from. After a betrayal she would rather be distracted than crowned, and the rulers she beat have not accepted the outcome quietly. Something capable of killing everyone on Lightlark is also on its way.
Rating coming soonPrince Oak is imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, and the betrayal that put him there was his own. High King Cardan and High Queen Jude would use any means to retrieve their stolen heir. Oak has to decide whether to try to win back the trust of the girl he has always loved, or to stay loyal to Elfhame and give up the one thing that would end her reign.
Rating coming soonIn Caldwell, New York, a long war is being fought at night between vampires and the slayers who hunt them. Six vampire warriors, the Black Dagger Brotherhood, exist to defend their race, and their leader Wrath is the last purebred vampire alive. When one of his most trusted fighters is killed, Wrath is left with the man's half-breed daughter, who knows nothing about what she is.
Rating coming soonAdam Black is immortal, arrogant and free to go wherever he likes, which has made him a great many enemies in the faerie courts. A curse strips him of his immortality and makes him invisible to everyone, which for a man like him is a sentence close to death. The only person who can see him is a law student called Gabrielle O'Callaghan, who has always been able to see both the mortal and the faery worlds.
Rating coming soonKeighly Barrow is seven when she looks into an antique mirror in her grandmother's ballroom in Redemption, Nevada, and sees a boy her own age looking back. He is standing in an old western saloon among women in gaudy dresses, and she learns that his name is Darby Elder and that he lived a hundred years earlier. Twenty years later she inherits the house, and she is engaged to somebody else.
Rating coming soonFitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet leave Pemberley to travel through England, visiting friends and relations, and this is the story of the first part of their marriage. The weddings are over and the story that Pride and Prejudice left unfinished has to be arranged: a great estate to run, a household to establish, and a family that includes the relations Elizabeth's husband has spent years avoiding.
Rating coming soonJacques Dubrinsky, the younger brother of the Carpathian leader, is tortured and buried alive by the same fanatics who attacked his family twenty-five years earlier. He survives with little memory of himself, of his people, or of anything except the faces of the men who hurt him. An American surgeon researching a rare blood disorder finds herself drawn towards the Carpathian mountains.
Rating coming soonNora Grey has survived an attempt on her life and gained a guardian angel, which she considers a fair exchange. Patch has been evasive ever since, and now he is spending time with Marcie Millar, who is the last person Nora would want near him. An old family friend has moved back to town, and Nora finds herself drawn to him even though she is sure he is hiding something.
Rating coming soonDougless Montgomery has been left on her own in England and is sitting in a church by a tombstone in tears when a man appears beside her in silver and gold. He says his name is Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck, and the stone she is sitting on records that he died in 1564. He is not a ghost who can be thanked and forgotten; he is looking for help.
Rating coming soonRaven Whitney is a telepathic hunter of serial killers, and the work has left her unable to be close to anybody and has worn out her body. She goes somewhere far away to rest. In the Carpathian mountains, the leader of an ancient nocturnal race is waiting for the woman whose mind he can hear, and he has been waiting a long time.
Rating coming soonRafael De La Cruz has hunted vampires with his brothers for centuries, and each year his capacity to feel has weakened, until only his will keeps him from becoming what he hunts. Colby Jansen has spent five years protecting her younger half-siblings and keeping their ranch going, and now the De La Cruz family claims the children belong with their father's people. Colby intends to fight them.
Rating coming soonIn the kingdom of Geall, the scholarly Moira has taken up the sword of her people and, as queen, has to prepare them for the greatest battle they will ever fight. Lilith, the most powerful vampire in the world, has followed the circle of six through time to Geall, and vampires killed Moira's mother, so she has a personal account to settle as well.
Rating coming soonManolito De La Cruz knows he is dangerously close to turning into a vampire when Prince Mikhail calls him back to the Carpathian homeland, and there he catches the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. MaryAnn is human, a counsellor for battered women, and she knows the aggressive instincts of Carpathian males well enough not to want one bound to her for life.
Rating coming soonAs a young girl, Destiny let a vampire into her home without understanding what he was; he slaughtered her family and kept her captive, forcing her to become like him. The vampire's blood still lives inside her and calls to others of his kind, which she uses as bait while she hunts vampires in Seattle, and all the while she believes herself to be evil in the same way her captor was.
Rating coming soonJaxon Montgomery has been hunted for almost her whole life. Trained by the Special Forces and hardened by a traumatic childhood, she is a policewoman with an established reputation, and she meets her match when an enemy arranges for her to be murdered. With nowhere else to turn she goes to a stranger who looks more dangerous than anyone she has met.
Rating coming soonMikhail Dubrinsky, who has been Prince of the Carpathians for centuries, fears he cannot protect his people much longer from their greatest threat, which is extinction. Their enemies intend to bring it about by slaughtering Carpathian women, and with his own lifemate Raven and their daughter Savannah vulnerable, Mikhail's remaining hope is to bring his scattered people together.
Rating coming soonZev Hunter was an elite warrior, a dealer of death to rogue Lycans who preyed on human beings. He was a loner who never allowed himself personal attachments and was fierce at his work, and then he wakes in the darkness of the sacred cave of warriors to the voice of a woman who has haunted his fantasies for centuries and is soothing him back to consciousness.
Rating coming soonTatijana of the Dragonseekers spent centuries frozen in ice with her sister, trapped between life and death and speaking to nobody except the people who tormented her. She has now been freed by an unknown descendant and woken in human form, and she wants to see the modern world she has woken into. Fenris Dalka has come back to the Carpathian Mountains to be near his brother.
Rating coming soonAndre Boroi is a monk, a bounty hunter and a vampire slayer who has spent centuries holding out against the dark, and he is gravely wounded by the master vampire Costin Popescu. With his spilled blood marking a trail for Popescu and his hungry band of followers, his only chance is to disappear into the grey mist of the Carpathians, wait and hope.
Rating coming soonThe moment Charlotte Vintage walks into his club, Tariq Asenguard's blood is set on fire. The ancient Carpathian had given up hope of finding his lifemate, and now he will do anything to make her his own. What Tariq does not know is that Charlotte is using herself and her best friend as bait to draw out the killers who murdered her brother.
Rating coming soonJulian Savage is golden and powerful and tormented, a hunter who walks alone and has always kept himself far from his Carpathian kind, alien even to his twin. Then he hears Desari sing, and the emotions he had lost come back to him along with a hunger to possess her, which blinds him to the danger stalking him.
Rating coming soonSavannah Dubrinsky is a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions, and there is one man who holds her in thrall: Gregori, the Dark One, whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality send shivers of danger and desire down her spine. In New Orleans the hour arrives for him to claim her, and he has told her in her mind that she was born to save his immortal soul.
Rating coming soonByron, a Carpathian male and a hunter of vampires, follows the sound of compelling music to Italy, where he finds his lifemate: Antoinetta Scarletti, heiress to the Scarletti fortune and a concert pianist who holds her family together. Blinded in the explosion that killed her parents, she still expects to run the family shipping business, and she lives in the palazzo della morte, the palace of death, where somebody wants her dead.
Rating coming soonInez Urso is beginning to have her doubts about her business associate Thomas Argeneau, who reacts badly to sunlight, can see perfectly at night, has little appetite for food and has just tried to bite her neck. Inez is determined not to mix business with pleasure, but Thomas has other plans for the arrangement.
Rating coming soonAfter seven hundred years, Marguerite Argeneau finally has the start of a career: she is training to be a private investigator, and her first assignment is to find an immortal's mother. It seems straightforward until she wakes one evening to find herself at the wrong end of a sword, and it turns out that Julius Notte has decided to protect her.
Rating coming soonHawk is known throughout the kingdom as a predator of the battlefield and the boudoir, a laird no woman refuses and none of whom has ever stirred his heart. Then a vengeful fairy tumbles Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland, where she is too bold and too outspoken for the century she has landed in.
Rating coming soonGabrielle LaFarge had resigned herself to life as a nun in a French convent, but she is told that she is to marry Philippe St. Cyr, a wealthy plantation owner from the island of Martinique instead. She resents and fears this handsome, moody man whose icy surface hides depths of passion and violence, and although he awakens her to desire she is certain he is incapable of love.
Rating coming soonPhilippa de Beauchamp is as impulsive as she is beautiful, and when she hears that she is to be married to the repellent Baron de Bridgeport she flees her father's castle. Her daring escape in a wool wagon quickly becomes a misadventure, and it leaves her in the arms of Dienwald de Fortenberry, a rogue she has no intention of trusting.
Rating coming soonSir Arryn Graham has come to take revenge on Kinsey Darrow for his bloody deeds against the Highland rebels, and he intends to do it by claiming Darrow's bride, Kyra, as his own. In the tangle of her hair and the green of her eyes he finds a woman who is much more than a pawn.
Rating coming soonWolfe Lonetree is the bastard son of a viscount and a Cheyenne shaman's daughter, and he agrees to rescue the pampered Lady Jessica Charteris from an unwanted wedding on one condition: that she become his wife. Jessica tricked a handsome stranger into a marriage in name only in order to escape a union with a British lord.
Rating coming soonNewly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord, twenty-two-year-old Jocelyn Fleming still aches with the pain of unexplored desire, and her restless heart leads her away from London society to the American West. There she meets Colt Thunder, a loner whose Cheyenne blood is said to burn hotter than the Arizona sun.
Rating coming soonCatherine Crawfield is half vampire and spends her nights hunting the undead, hoping that one of them will turn out to be her father, the man responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she is captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and forced into a partnership with him. Her mother's life was ruined by a vampire, and Cat has been trying to settle that account ever since.
Rating coming soonDayan is the lead guitarist of the Dark Troubadors, and his playing stills crowds, beckons them and tempts them, but the call he keeps making is to the woman he is meant to be with. Corrinne Wentworth is standing at the centre of a gathering storm, pursued by the same fanatics who have been hunting her for a long time.
Rating coming soonFor a long time the vampire world has repeated a rumour about a dark slayer, a woman who travels with a pack of wolves and destroys any vampire who crosses her path. She is mysterious, elusive and apparently impossible to kill, and she is the one hunter who strikes terror into the undead. Her name is Ivory Malinov.
Rating coming soonDominic of the Dragonseekers, one of the most powerful of the Carpathian lines, is desperate to reach the heart of the enemy camp and learn what they are planning. The only way in is to ingest the parasitic blood of a vampire, a mission from which he does not expect to return alive. What he learns is meant to be passed on to the leader of his people.
Rating coming soonGabriel wakes deep within the ground, and the first sensation he feels is hunger, an overwhelming appetite for blood that demands to be satisfied. As he hunts the dark streets of Paris for prey, a voice reaches him and soothes him, calming him and giving him the strength to control the craving.
Rating coming soonAlexandria Houton would sacrifice anything, including her own life, to protect her orphaned younger brother. When the two of them encounter unspeakable evil in the swirling mists of San Francisco, her only recourse is to call for help, and out of the darkness comes Aidan Savage, a golden being more powerful and more mysterious than any other creature of the night.
Rating coming soonDarius warns Tempest that there is always a price to pay when she accepts a position with his travelling troupe, and looking at the merciless line of his mouth and the emptiness in his black eyes she is afraid to ask what it is. She has always been different from other people.
Rating coming soonThe last thing Lev Prakenskii remembers is being lost in the currents of the ocean and pulled deeper into a freezing black eddy off the coastal town of Sea Haven, and then being saved by a stranger. He has no memory of who he is, or of why he seems to have the violent instincts of a trained killer.
Rating coming soonBeing trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing, but being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years is not, and being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin a Spartan warrior's day. That is the situation Julian is in when he is summoned to fulfil Grace Alexander's fantasies.
Rating coming soonThe vampire warriors of the Black Dagger Brotherhood defend their race against the people who hunt them, and one member's loyalty is about to be tested while his dangerous mixed blood is revealed. Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood, even though his sister is married to one of its members.
Rating coming soonButch O'Neal is a fighter by nature and a hard-living former homicide detective, and he is the only human ever to have been allowed into the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. He wants to go further still, into the vampire world and the turf war with the lessers, and he believes he has nothing left to lose.
Rating coming soonPhury has been fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and he has sacrificed himself for the good of the race by becoming the male responsible for keeping its bloodlines alive. As Primale of the Chosen he is obliged to father the sons and daughters who will keep the traditions of the race alive.
Rating coming soonJamie and Siri are estranged sisters, both in the middle of a quarter-life crisis, and both watching the careers they had planned for drift out of reach. After thirteen years apart and on opposite coasts, they run into each other at a nature retreat, and they decide to swap lives and go home in each other's place.
Rating coming soonWhen Vivian Forest gets the chance to go along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a member of the royal family, she cannot refuse. She is looking forward to the holidays and the British sights, and what she does not expect is to be instantly attracted to a private secretary with a charming accent and an unyielding formality.
Rating coming soonBlaire Calloway has planned every part of her cupcake and cocktails shop launch down to the smallest detail. What she did not plan for is Ronan Knight and his old-school sports bar next door opening on the very same day, and she has not spent years working on buttercream and bourbon in order to have him ruin her chances.
Rating coming soonThe demon did not only want her body; he wanted her soul. That is the voice of the hunter telling the story, a magician and killer with an unblemished reputation whose rule is that one wrong move ends in death. Then he meets the one woman he was supposed to take, and does not take her.
Rating coming soonAfter years on the run, Juniper makes a bargain with a demon who has wanted all of her for a long time: she gives him her soul and he helps her claim the revenge she is owed. Blood will be spilled, and the monsters she has been running from will soon be the ones running.
Romance is a genre here, not a mood. A book belongs on this shelf when the relationship is the spine of the story rather than a subplot, and the reader is meant to care about whether it works out. Everything else, the setting and the era and the magic, sits underneath that.
That makes this the widest shelf in the library, because romance is written into every kind of world. Two flavours get their own tag rather than their own genre: romantasy, where the romance and a fantasy world carry the book together, and contemporary romance, where the love story happens in the modern real world. Fantasy romance without the world-building weight, historical romance and romantic comedy all belong here as well; the tag is a way to narrow the shelf, not a separate shelf.
Tags are cross-cutting markers, not genres. They have their own landing pages.
Epic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.
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599 booksPrimary genreCathedrals, courts, trenches and revolutions, all of it set in a past that is doing the work.
580 booksPrimary genreNovels where the prose carries the book: families, cities, memory and the modern self.
575 booksPrimary genreShipwrecks, expeditions, chases, frontiers and people who should have turned back.
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