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 4 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonEden Nairn has been hiding from her tyrannical grandfather since the birth of her son, the only male heir to an estate in the Northumbrian hills. When his henchman Brett Allard tracks her down, she assumes he has orders to take the child back. Instead Brett offers a solution: marry him, and he will make sure the old man cannot ride roughshod over her. Eden needs protection, but she cannot risk marrying the kind of man she could love.
Rating coming soonIn the small Mississippi town of Innocence, days are long, nights are fragrant and secrets do not stay kept. When a killer begins taking the lives of the town's most attractive women, neighbours have to ask whether the culprit is a stranger hiding in the bayou or someone living next door. Into that summer comes Caroline Waverly, a concert violinist who wants only a quiet stay in her late grandmother's house.
Rating coming soonWomen, in Adam Wild's view, are playmates rather than partners, and his affairs never last long. He is a talented photographer, exceptionally attractive and cynical to the core; his own summary of his position is that only freedom can give happiness. Katy is determined to resist him when circumstances leave her sharing a holiday in the Canadian Rockies with him, knowing that wanting him will only get her hurt.
Rating coming soonProfessional hockey player Scott Hunter is in a slump until a smoothie made by juice bar barista Kip Grady precedes a good game, and then he keeps coming back for the drink and for the man who makes it. What starts as a flirtation becomes something intense and frequent, but always on Scott's terms and always behind his closed apartment doors. With the playoffs approaching, Scott cannot afford anything that might derail his career, including telling the world who he is seeing.
Rating coming soonWhen Jeanie's aunt gives her the Pumpkin Spice Cafe in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie takes the chance to leave a dull desk job behind. Logan is a local farmer who avoids the town's gossip wherever possible, and the arrival of the relentlessly cheerful new owner disrupts everything about his routine. He wants nothing to do with her, except that he finds himself drawn to her anyway, lattes and all.
Rating coming soonNicholas Cooper needs a wife for a business deal, and Hallie Bennett is beautiful and intelligent enough to carry it off. She needs the money. He has laid down strict rules for the week they will spend together, beginning with the instruction that displays of affection are for public view only. Keeping their hands on each other in company turns out to be easy; keeping them apart in private is the problem.
Rating coming soonAs a mafia princess, the narrator of this book always understood that her future had been decided for her. She went ahead and wanted the wrong man anyway. Creighton King is trouble with a beautiful exterior, the kind of trouble that a woman with powerful relatives should know better than to approach. She calls the wanting a terrible mistake, and the book follows what the mistake costs her.
Rating coming soonWhen Sayre Baxendale summons Astra to his executive office, she knows before a word is spoken that her only option is to resign. He seems pleased to receive the resignation. What he has no intention of allowing is her disappearance from his life, and instead of accepting her departure he insists that she spend a weekend with him at his country house. Astra cannot tell whether the invitation is a business proposition or something more personal.
Rating coming soonPreston McQuinn likes his apartment the way he likes his life: dark, empty and exactly as he arranged it. Then Cybil Campbell moves in next door and brings her brightness into his carefully ordered gloom, and he cannot deny a grudging interest in the woman who barges in without being invited. When she tries to hire him as her date, he has to decide what he is prepared to open up.
Rating coming soonSeth Quinn is finally home. His boyhood with a drug-addicted mother ended when the Quinn family took him in, and he grew up with three older brothers who watched over him. Now he returns from Europe as a successful painter to settle on Maryland's Eastern Shore among Cam, Ethan and Phillip, their wives and children. Much has changed in St. Christopher, and the most intriguing change is Dru Whitcomb Banks, a city woman with a new florist shop.
Rating coming soonKate has decided that she is finished with love. Her new boss, the features editor Eliot Holman, may have devastating charm and an obvious interest in her, but she could not care less. Everyone, Eliot included, assumes she is grieving for her husband, Toby, and she lets them believe it, keeping a guarded secret about how cruelly Toby treated her and how frightened she now is of trusting any man. Eliot refuses to leave her alone.
Rating coming soonIn four days Rena will marry Ford Harlow, and the thought of the ceremony fills her with excitement and dread at once. It is not an ordinary wedding. Their union is a deal: Ford wants her property, and Rena will do anything to keep it. If she is expecting a marriage of convenience in which they share a life but never a bed, she is in for a surprise, because Ford has been intrigued by his shy bride for a long time.
Rating coming soonBrianne Martin first sees Pierce Hutton in Paris, tall, handsome and utterly dangerous, and she pulls him back from despair without intending to. He is grateful for the rest of his life, but he draws the line at seducing a woman half his age. She falls in love with him anyway, and refuses to consider giving her innocence to anyone else, least of all the corrupt associate of her stepfather, who is obsessed with her and would stop at nothing to have her.
Rating coming soonLuke Tanner's parting words on their first evening together sounded more like a threat than a promise to Amy Warren. Four years after tragedy ended her marriage she is still hurting, and still terrified of loving anyone again. As a partner in a tour company that organises trips through the South African countryside, she is forced to work with him.
Rating coming soonPersepha cannot believe it when her beloved guardian dies suddenly. Perhaps it is the numbness of grief that makes her listen to Don Diablo Ezreldo Ruy, her guardian's friend, when he announces that he intends to marry her. She protests that she does not love him, and he assures her that love will come. All too soon she understands that what he actually wants from her is a child.
Rating coming soonMeeting Torr Latime is the last thing Abby Lyndon expected from a Japanese flower-arranging class, and he is dynamic, good-looking and better at arrangements than she is. He is also the distraction she needs, because someone is stalking her. Once Torr understands her situation he offers to protect her, taking her to his secluded cabin, where the atmosphere is intimate and safe and, it turns out, conducive to seduction.
Rating coming soonEthan MacCarrick was a handsome rake until a powerful nobleman had him brutally beaten and his face scarred for a crime he did not commit. Ruining the man financially and forcing him into exile did little to satisfy the anger. Ten years later Ethan meets a haughty, mysterious beauty who turns out to be his enemy's daughter, and he sees his chance: promise her marriage, seduce her, then cast her aside. Madeleine van Rowen has other reasons to keep her guard up.
Rating coming soonOrphaned at five and taken in by wealthy cousins, Ellen Kellaway has been raised as a companion to their daughter and never once allowed to forget that every advantage she has was owed to somebody's charity. Her life of deference changes completely when the son of a powerful London family asks to marry her, opening a world of wealth and position.
Rating coming soonOn the face of it Grace Wilde has everything: youth, beauty, wealth and a title. Everything that makes up the life of a society queen is hers, and happiness is the one thing missing. The social round was never her choice; she was coerced into a loveless and meaningless marriage with an uncaring, unfaithful man. Then, on an expedition into the Persian desert, she falls into the hands of Kharim Khan, who is unlike anyone she has met.
Rating coming soonHaving left Egypt with the Hebrews during the Exodus, Shira is living in freedom at the foot of Mount Sinai. When the people build a golden idol in defiance of Yahweh, the chaos that follows gives her an unexpected chance to learn midwifery, and she discovers that her gifts show best when she is helping at a birth. Her mother wants her to keep to the family weaving trade, and Shira apprentices herself as a midwife anyway. Then a delivery goes badly wrong.
Rating coming soonEdwin Trequair professes to live by an Eastern saying: that a woman's mind is a jungle, and the one jungle in which a man should never lose himself. Yet he has asked Heron to marry him, and she has accepted, which neither of them can fully explain. He has money and the house that has meant everything to Heron all her life, the Glass Castle. What she feels for him is closer to fear and curiosity than affection.
Rating coming soonJeremy Adair North, Earl of Clume and known to his friends as Dare, is one of England's most notorious rakes, a pleasure-seeker whose habits are a way of burying the memory of the actress who broke his heart seven years earlier. When treachery threatens the Crown he decides to use his former beloved to help him expose a traitor.
Rating coming soonSixteen-year-old Simon Spier is not openly gay and prefers to keep his drama for the school musical. When an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of becoming public, and he finds himself being blackmailed: if he does not act as wingman for the class clown, Martin, his identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the boy he has been emailing, would be compromised too.
Rating coming soonSt Vladimir's Academy is a boarding school like no other, a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teenagers train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, bodyguard to her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire princess. The two have been on the run, and now they are being taken back to the place where they are most at risk.
Rating coming soonBella Swan has been pulled between her passion for the vampire Edward Cullen and her connection to the werewolf Jacob Black, and she has reached the point where the choice has to be made. She can join the world of the immortals or keep a fully human life. Now that she has decided, a chain of events begins that threatens far more than her own future.
Rating coming soonVivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet and fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen she is beautiful and strong, and the young wolves are all after her, but she still grieves for her dead father, her pack is leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the Maryland suburbs. She longs for a normal life, and then falls in love with a human.
Rating coming soonShe is an aspiring interior designer who dreams of falling in love. He is an ex-football star who thinks love is a con. Blake and Farrah should not have fallen for each other the way they did, completely and irrevocably, because they are studying abroad in Shanghai and they have only one year, and because forces at home threaten to separate them before either is ready.
Rating coming soonJohnny Kavanagh has been living a different life since an injury sidelined him, and he has never known a life without his number 13 jersey. Shannon Lynch has always been good at keeping secrets, and after a traumatising trip to Dublin she is trying to protect her little brothers above all else. There is only one boy who can pull her out of the shadows she is retreating into, and secrets are about to be revealed.
Rating coming soonSpencer Atkins is certain that trapping, drinking and carousing leave him no time for settling down, and he changes his mind when he meets Gretchen Ames, a beautiful woman who has just come from the poorhouse. The novel sets his settled habits against the arrival of somebody with nothing and nobody, in a frontier setting where a woman on her own has very few options.
Rating coming soonA stranger comes to the veterinarian Tess Culver more dead than alive, a towering man in black riddled with bullets and losing blood fast. As she works to save him she does not know that the man calling himself Dante is not a man at all but one of the Breed, vampire warriors fighting a desperate war. In one charged moment she is pulled into his world, where bands of rogue vampires hunt at night.
Rating coming soonOlivia Devonshire's passionate nature and secretive past have made her one of the most notorious women in England, and Miles Warwick is a disreputable rogue and the black sheep of his family. He marries her for money, and does not expect to lose his heart to her. Their union begins with vows that mean nothing and develops into something no force can undo.
Rating coming soonHome on leave after destroying a Colombian drug cartel, the Navy SEAL Clint McIntire finds himself in serious trouble with Morganna Chavez, the younger sister of his best friend. She has been working secretly with the Drug Enforcement Administration to uncover a lucrative and deadly conspiracy involving a date-rape drug, and the operation has put her in danger that he is not prepared for.
Rating coming soonAfter her husband Afton, Lord of Langley, dies of plague, the Englishwoman Igrainia finds herself a captive in her own castle, held by the Scottish warrior Eric Graham, whose wife and son died as prisoners of Lord Langley. When the king refuses a trade, Graham forces Igrainia to marry him, though she would rather rot in her own dungeons than accept a kindness from her captor.
Rating coming soonDesperate to escape a loveless marriage and the constraints of society, the heiress Sophia Hathaway abandons her groom, packs her paints and sketchbook and takes on a new identity as a governess in order to secure passage on a ship called the Aphrodite. She wants a life of her own, but facing the libertine who would take both her virtue and her gold is another matter.
Rating coming soonRoman DeWinter arrives at a seaside inn with nothing but the clothes he is wearing and a loaded revolver. His orders are to expose a criminal organisation based at the holiday retreat, and the evidence points to the innkeeper, Charity Ford. It should be a routine assignment, and then he learns what it is to be welcomed into a home, and starts to care for his own suspect.
Rating coming soonLori Loveland knows her faith will help her reach her goals, and when she finishes a six-month stint as nanny to Drew McCashlin's daughters she intends to begin her own adventure. Once she has met the single father she realises she is in trouble, and she begins to wish that the six months could last a lifetime. Drew, after a tragedy, sees her as a source of light.
Rating coming soonFive young Ayrtons grow up at Amberwell, playing in its gardens and preparing themselves to go out into the world. To each of the children the house means something different, but they share the belief that Amberwell is more than where they live. It drives one of them into a reckless marriage and heals another of his wounds, and one child stays at home and gives up her life to keep it running.
Rating coming soonLynette and Dana have loved each other since childhood. Scholarly and handsome, Dana believes he can shape Lynette, who has never challenged his authority or his commitment to what is right, into the perfect minister's wife. Then a sophisticated young woman from New York comes to visit his family, Dana grows critical of Lynette, and Lynette leaves on a family trip to Europe full of doubt.
Rating coming soonIn fourteenth-century Aquitaine, under King Edward and his son the Black Prince, the English domains expand and the stronghold of De la Noye is taken from the French. Among those seized by the conquering Sir Hyatt is Lady Aurelie, the young widow of Giles de Pourvre. Recognising her courage and discretion, Hyatt marries her in an attempt to draw the English and French of the province together.
Rating coming soonJustine Campbell would gladly rewind her life a few months, to the time before it crumbled around her. Billy Tucker would take the same option, going back to the day before his vehicle was blown up in Iraq, injuring him and killing two of his friends. His bitterness and her humiliation make them a prickly pair when they first meet, and both have to let go of the past.
Rating coming soonAdelaide Proctor longs for a storybook hero of her own, and when a husband-hunting episode leaves her humiliated she vows to abandon her romantic notions. She interviews for a governess position on a remote Texas sheep ranch, where Gideon Wescott is raising a daughter who has not spoken since her mother died. When the child's uncle comes to claim her and her inheritance, the two of them have to work together.
Rating coming soonElena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has been captured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are causing havoc in the town of Fell's Church. To find him she entrusts her life to Stefan's brother Damon, a deadly vampire who wants Elena body and soul, and the two of them set out for the slums of the Dark Dimension, where Stefan is being held.
Rating coming soonThe university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp and is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. A chance meeting by a river becomes an intense affair, and after their camp duties end the two spend a few weeks in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, before returning to a society that forbids what they are.
Rating coming soonMeg Jorgenson wants a fresh start after a failed relationship, so she takes a teaching position in the town of Miracle, Kentucky and vows to avoid smooth-talking men. There she meets eight-year-old Cammy, who uses a wheelchair and is certain that God will heal her, and Cammy's widowed father Vance, who has devoted his life to her care. Then an experimental procedure divides them.
Rating coming soonMarilla is a lieutenant's daughter, and the man she wants is the lieutenant's prisoner. The novel sets her against her family and her own circumstances as she follows the man the fort is holding, and it places her in the wilderness of Oklahoma, where she has to weigh love against disgrace. Her loyalty and her desire point in opposite directions for the length of the book.
Rating coming soonOne moment Lauri had been a ballet student living quietly with her aunt in Downhollow, and the next a tall, dark ballet master had walked into her life. Carried off by Maxim di Corte to his Venetian palace, she becomes a slave to the dance, and through him she begins to understand the feeling behind real balletic expression.
Rating coming soonWhen Rory O'Fallon finds a baby girl on his front porch, he is determined to find her mother, and that means calling his sons home to O'Fallon's Landing. Keefe O'Fallon is the newest face on a soap opera, but family comes first, and escaping the press to the backwaters of the Mississippi seems like a good answer until he meets the woman caring for the baby and discovers she is not the nanny at all.
Rating coming soonSimoni knows she will never get on with Kent Travers. He is a pilot and so holds authority over her, and he is tyrannical and unreasonable about it. Worse, competent as she generally is, every time she comes near Captain Travers she manages to make some particularly stupid mistake. She is relieved that they will both soon be leaving the airline, except that their paths keep crossing.
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.
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