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 13 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonJillian Davis has decided to divorce her husband Brad after years of anger and heartbreak, and she wants to get away from the weekend party where they are celebrating with friends. Taking a shortcut home in a snowstorm puts them in the path of a small avalanche, and she ends up trapped with the man she was about to leave.
Rating coming soonFang Kattalakis is a wolf, and the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion, the council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. When war breaks out among the lycanthropes he has to choose a side, and when Aimee, the woman he loves, is accused of betraying her people, saving her means breaking the law of his own.
Rating coming soonClaire Laurent has built French Silk, a successful lingerie company, out of nothing in New Orleans. When a television evangelist denounces her sleepwear as sinful and is then murdered, Claire becomes the prime suspect, and every answer she gives about the night of the killing makes the district attorney more certain of her guilt.
Rating coming soonCilla McGowan was a child star and now restores old houses, and she comes to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to save the farmhouse her grandmother, a legendary actress, left behind. The house brings back dreams of the grandmother, who died of a suspected overdose more than thirty years earlier.
Rating coming soonAfter her father dies unexpectedly, eighteen-year-old Layken has to hold her family together for her mother and younger brother, and she looks capable on the outside while losing hope on the inside. The family moves across the country, she meets a twenty-one-year-old neighbour with a passion for poetry slams, and what begins between them is complicated by a discovery.
Rating coming soonValerius was born the son of a Roman senator and has been bound to a goddess so that he can protect humanity from the vampires that haunt it; now he finds himself involved with one of the people he was bound to fight. Tabitha Devereaux is human, and has trained herself to fight vampires as capably as any immortal.
Rating coming soonHoyt Mac Cionaoith is a sorcerer who stands on a cliff above a raging sea and rails at the vampire who has taken his twin brother from the family. Her name is Lilith, she has existed for more than a thousand years, and she will not stop until she rules over everything, so Hoyt is enlisted into a battle for humanity.
Rating coming soonBrenna, a she-wolf, was abducted by a serial-killing Psy and came back changed into something she does not recognise. The only person who can help her is Judd Lauren, a telekinetic who defected from the Psy Council and whose dark abilities have made him the most deadly of assassins, and the passion between them could push them both over the edge of sanity.
Rating coming soonNevada Baylor is handed the most dangerous case of her career as a private investigator: bringing in a suspect who can set anyone and anything on fire. Before she can decide whether she is capable of it, she is kidnapped by Connor Rogan, a billionaire with powers as destructive as the target's, and the two of them have to work together.
Rating coming soonMiranda Ellis has been tormented since birth by a strange and powerful gift she has spent her whole life trying to control. One innocent but irreversible mistake has destroyed her family's fortune and forced her to marry London's most notorious nobleman, a man who hides his disfigured face behind masks and who stands accused of a series of gruesome murders.
Rating coming soonToni MacNally and her friends buy a run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist attraction, complete with a re-enactment and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall. Then the castle's actual owner arrives, a formidable Scot who shares the invented laird's name, and young women begin to be murdered nearby.
Rating coming soonAfter years of torture at the hands of a vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, the leader of the Lykae clan, finds that the mate he has waited millennia for is part vampire. Emmaline Troy is a small half-Valkyrie, half-vampire woman who has just set out to learn the truth about her dead parents when a Lykae claims her.
Rating coming soonEmmalynn inherits a dilapidated seaside mansion from Henrietta Stern and lapses into amnesia rather than remember the axe murder she witnessed there. The police closed the case when the accused man died in jail, but his brooding son wants his father's name cleared and is prepared to endanger Emmalynn to do it, while another man keeps pressing her for a kind of intimacy she does not want.
Rating coming soonGeillis Ramsey has had a lonely childhood, made lonelier by a mother's cousin who taught her to see the world in an unusual way. When she grows up she inherits her cousin's house, along with her reputation in the neighbourhood as a white witch and an herbalist, and finds both the house and the community stranger than she expected.
Rating coming soonRiley Jenson is a rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, and she works for Melbourne's Directorate of Other Races, which polices the supernatural and protects humans from it. Her twin brother Rhoan is a field guardian; she is an office worker, until he goes missing on a mission and she has to look for him herself.
Rating coming soonMacKayla Lane thought she and her sister were ordinary southern girls until she learned that they descend from a Celtic bloodline of sidhe-seers who can see the Fae. Her sister was found dead in a Dublin alley, and Mac has come to Ireland for answers and for revenge, which she now believes she has the power to take.
Rating coming soonUilleam MacRieve believed he had put the ghosts of his boyhood to rest, until a brutal torture revives them and destroys his Lykae instinct, leaving him craving death. Chloe Todd is a young human seized for an auction block and forced into a world of monsters, and when she is offered up to the immortals she becomes the person who pulls him back.
Rating coming soonLizzy Tucker has inherited a historic house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and taken a job as a pastry chef at a bakery in Salem, and she is looking forward to an ordinary life. Then two strangers appear in the shop, and both of them want the Stones of SALIGIA, seven stones that represent the seven deadly sins and grant enormous power.
Rating coming soonSummer is over and Raven is not looking forward to going back to Dullsville High, where the school day means Trevor Mitchell and her nights with her immortal boyfriend Alexander come to an end. Then a letter arrives at Alexander's mansion announcing that his parents are coming to town, and almost nobody sees them except Raven.
Rating coming soonWith Alexander's parents back in Romania, Raven and her vampire boyfriend settle into their secret romance again. Then Sebastian, Alexander's best friend, arrives to stay at the mansion, and Raven sees a chance to learn about Alexander's past, including whether he will ever bite her and make their love immortal.
Rating coming soonKate Drake, a bestselling novelist and one of seven sisters with unusual powers, comes home for her northern California town's Christmas pageant and decides to open a bookshop in a rundown historic mill. The former Army Ranger who is restoring the building is drawn to her, and then an earthquake cracks the mill's foundation and uncovers a burial crypt.
Rating coming soonThree sisters named Rowan, Kestrel and Jade move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter in Briar Creek, Oregon, and the town has never seen anything like their supernatural grace. Mark becomes obsessed with Jade, and when the two of them follow the sisters into the woods one night they find out what the girls are running from.
Rating coming soonLydia Smith is a licensed para-archaeologist in the Dead City of Old Cadence, working part-time in a cheap museum of ancient horrors after an incident in an alien tomb left her career in trouble. Then she finds a body in one of the sarcophagus exhibits, and her new client turns out to be one of the most dangerous men in the city.
Rating coming soonKathy Hunt travels to Castlemoor after her brother dies suddenly, intending to finish the book he was writing about the old rites once performed on the moors nearby. His manuscript has disappeared, and the people around her seem to be afraid of something. The man who says he loves her warns her that the danger is real.
Rating coming soonCale Valens is one of the oldest vampires in the Argeneau family, and he has given up on finding a life mate. His relatives have not given up on him, and the plan they settle on involves a small lie: Alexandra Willan's restaurant opens in two weeks and her chef has just walked out, and the man they send her as a replacement is handsome, convincing and quite unable to cook.
Rating coming soonJeanne Louise Argeneau leaves work one evening and wakes up tied to a bed by a mortal man. Paul Jones needs a vampire and has decided that only she will do, and while she is more interested than she is annoyed, the immortal world's version of law enforcement is looking for both of them, which leaves very little time.
Rating coming soonLou Crushek is a police detective who prefers his own company and does not like surprises, so he takes it badly when somebody starts killing the criminals he has been working to put away. The killer turns out to be a shape-shifting tiger named Marcella Malone, who is hunting the man responsible for endangering her whole species.
Rating coming soonRhys Trahaearn freed England from Horde control and became a national hero, and he has since built a trading empire on his name and on the fear of it. When a body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, the detective who comes to investigate is a woman he decides he wants, and the case she is working on threatens everyone in the country.
Rating coming soonThe slayers of the Lessening Society have more money, more weapons and more power than they have had in years, and the Brotherhood is preparing for a full attack. One of their number, Rhage, is fighting a battle inside himself: he cannot control the panic that has taken hold of him, and after a serious injury he has to work out what he actually wants.
Rating coming soonLuc Boudreau is a Green Beret who had planned to spend his leave doing something other than teaching wilderness survival to a congressman's daughter. Then he meets Claire Cook, and the assignment becomes considerably more interesting to him. He is supposed to be her instructor, and both of them are supposed to be sensible about it.
Rating coming soonElizabeth Thatcher is a young woman from the east who accepts a teaching post in a small western Canadian town, hoping for something more interesting than a quiet life at home. What she finds is a place with a great deal to learn and a population with its own opinions about a teacher, and among the people she meets is a member of the North-West Mounted Police.
Rating coming soonRipley Todd is a deputy on Three Sisters Island, content with her job and not much interested in changing anything, except that she has inherited powers she cannot control and will not talk about. Then a researcher arrives to investigate the island's reputation for witchcraft, and he takes an interest in her that she has no intention of encouraging.
Rating coming soonJohn Ridd is the son of a respectable farming family on Exmoor, and his father was murdered by the Doones, a clan of outlaws who were once noble and now rule a valley of their own. John grows up intending to be a farmer rather than a revenger, and then he meets Lorna Doone by accident and falls in love with her, which puts him on the wrong side of the clan that killed his father.
Rating coming soonThronos, prince of Skye Hall, loved Lanthe when they were children, before their families' war caught the two of them in the middle of it and left them enemies. Centuries later he is a warlord carrying a blood vendetta against her, and she is a sorceress trying to recover powers she has lost, and he is hunting her without knowing what reaching her will cost him.
Rating coming soonMurhder is the only male ever expelled from the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and he has spent decades haunted by visions of a woman he could not save. He comes back to Caldwell to put right the wrong that ruined him. Dr Sarah Watkins, a researcher at a biomedical firm, is trying to understand the death of the man she was going to marry, and the answers are worse than she expected.
Rating coming soonAllie Chambers promised a dying friend that she would look after the woman's infant son, which turns out to involve more than ordinary childcare, because the baby is a vampire and he is growing hungrier. When an attempt to get blood from a bank goes badly wrong, Allie wakes up surrounded by police, doctors and a man named Magnus who is very hard to refuse.
Rating coming soonIris Scanlon runs the only daytime concierge service for vampires in Half-Moon Hollow, which means letting in plumbers and picking up chilled blood for clients who cannot go out in daylight. Her rules are strict and businesslike until she finds her newest client poisoned on his kitchen floor and has to decide how much of her ordinary life she is willing to disturb for him.
Rating coming soonKane was convicted of murdering his mate and sent to a prison camp, without ever being told the truth about the arrangement his family made for him. Centuries later he is badly burned while trying to save other prisoners, and the nurse who tends him, Nadya, has reasons of her own to understand what he is going through.
Rating coming soonMaggie Graham is the alpha of a werewolf pack living in a hidden valley near the small town of Grundy, Alaska. When a researcher arrives to investigate reports of lycanthropy in the area, her plan is to frighten him off, and the plan runs into difficulty because Nick Thatcher turns out to be considerably more attractive than she had allowed for.
Rating coming soonBalthazar is possessed by a demon and has been given the job of finding the Book of Spells, which he is pursuing in the middle of a city where a homicide detective is trying to account for a series of mutilated bodies. Detective Erika Saunders knows that something outside her experience is at work in Caldwell, and she has been dreaming about a man she cannot place.
Rating coming soonSyn has kept his work as a mercenary hidden from the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and his latest assignment puts him in the path of an enemy of the vampire race and of a woman who does not know what she is. Jo Early is in danger of dying during a transition she was not expecting and cannot explain, and the man who appears out of the dark to help her is not reassuring.
Rating coming soonMatt Ewing's business is failing and he would try almost anything to save it, including collecting lucky pennies, so when a beautiful woman appears out of the bottle he has been carrying around he assumes his luck has turned. Eden has been inside that bottle for two thousand years and is pleased to help, which is a problem, because her magic has gone rusty.
Rating coming soonTwo young actors are murdered on a remote island film set, and their bodies are arranged in an imitation of a massacre that took place there in the nineteenth century. Two years later the survivor of that night, Vanessa Loren, is drawn back to the Bahamas by a documentary about the region's stories, and the man making it has some experience of ghosts.
Rating coming soonEdge is the last of a band of immortals who have been hunted and killed one by one by Frank Stiles, a man determined to extract their secrets. Edge intends to make him pay, and to do it he needs to find the young woman said to be the Golden Child, whose existence he has only heard described in rumours.
Rating coming soonEvadne Gray is a fencer with no interest in society and no knowledge of diabolism when she is sent to London to chaperone her younger sister, who wants to be an art critic. Within a short time her sister falls in with the charismatic Lady Henrietta Wotton, and Evadne enrols in a fencing school whose master turns out to be engaged in a war with demons.
Rating coming soonAmi does not trust strangers and finds it hard to trust anyone at all, but she is neither a coward nor a liability in a fight. When she comes across a lone warrior taking on eight deranged vampires at once, she steps in and saves him, which turns out to have consequences she had not considered.
Rating coming soonValerian is an immortal enforcer who has just finished an assignment he would rather not think about, and what he wants is to play golf and be left alone. The owner of the course, Natalie, notices that her new customer always tees off at sunset, and she has a small daughter and no interest in complications.
Rating coming soonEmma Gavin writes bestselling novels about werewolves, and she does not believe in them. Then her books attract the attention of a wealthy and well-established pack in Manhattan, which has kept its existence secret for centuries and now wants to know how a writer with no connection to it has got so many of the details right.
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.
685 booksPrimary genreGeneration ships, dying empires, robots with opinions and one very unlucky astronaut.
536 booksPrimary genreHaunted houses, old vampires, cosmic dread and the odd very bad week.
381 booksPrimary genreDetectives, spies, locked rooms and the people who lie to the police.
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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