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 6 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonSix years ago Shelby Jacobs ended her engagement to Justin Ballenger and gave him no explanation he was willing to accept. Her family is now in financial trouble, she is living on her own in Jacobsville, and the person she finds herself relying on is the rancher she walked away from.
Rating coming soonTwo people who grew up near each other have spent years in a conflict that ended with one of them in prison. He is out now and has spent the time inside planning what to do about the family that put him there, while she expects him to come after her and is not prepared for what he actually does.
Rating coming soonJudd Dunn is a Texas Ranger who put his neighbour's father in prison, and five years later he married the man's daughter in name only to keep the ranch they both own out of bankruptcy. He is now thinking about ending the arrangement, and somebody has worked out that the way to hurt him is through her.
Rating coming soonSuzanne turned down Ross Beckett's plan to go abroad with him because her mother needed her at home, and he left angry and did not come back for six years. He is now in a relationship with somebody else, and Suzanne is engaged to be married to a man called Miles Harringdon.
Rating coming soonRyan Shay has just been made captain of a professional basketball team, and the man who appointed him has already told him he is an unapproachable loner with no life outside the game. When his sister's best friend moves into his apartment, pretending to be a couple looks like an answer to that.
Rating coming soonTroy Barrett has been traded to the worst team in his league in the middle of a scandal and a breakup, and what he wants is to be left alone to play. The team's social media manager, Harris Drover, is not the kind of person who leaves anybody alone, and the club has decided that Troy's reputation needs work.
Rating coming soonLissa and Jarret have agreed to a marriage that lasts five years and no longer. He pays off her father's debts, she looks after his daughter Emma, and both of them stay out of each other's way. Then Emma disappears, and the arrangement they have both been keeping to stops being workable.
Rating coming soonTella has escaped her father and saved her sister from a marriage she did not want, but she is not free: she owes a criminal something nobody has ever managed to deliver, which is the true name of Caraval's master. To pay the debt she enters the competition again. The book is the second of the series and the competition is the same one her sister survived.
Rating coming soonJuliette believed she had beaten the Reestablishment and taken charge of her own life, and the fifth book of the series begins with her finding out how much of what she knew was arranged for her. She is left with the same choice as before, between being used as a weapon and fighting back.
Rating coming soonJude Duarte is the exiled mortal queen of Faerie, without power and without a place, after being betrayed by the king she had put on the throne. Her twin sister's trouble gives her a reason to go back into the realm she was pushed out of. She is a mortal in a court of faeries, and her position there has to be taken back rather than granted.
Rating coming soonThe narrator has just moved into a house with her brother and two of his friends, one of whom is Colin Fitzgerald, a hockey-playing student who has decided that she is flighty and superficial. She is not interested in chasing anybody, but the two of them are living under the same roof with an attraction neither will admit to.
Rating coming soonTexas Ranger Marc Brannon is back on duty and the case he is given puts him opposite Josette Langley, the junior investigator he once loved. Their relationship ended years earlier when she accused him of something that broke them apart, and now the person threatening her is a political figure with a great deal to hide.
Rating coming soonOlivia Lockheart is a judge in the small town of Cedar Cove, and she has just refused a young couple's divorce on the grounds that they have not tried hard enough to stay married. While the town argues about it, her daughter Justine is deciding whether to stop waiting for love, and her friend Grace is watching her marriage come apart.
Rating coming soonJacob Cade once threw Kate Walker off his ranch for misbehaving, which did not stop him wanting her. He is back in her life now and ready to act on it, but Kate has been in love with him since they were children, and how seriously she takes it is something she has never told him.
Rating coming soonEric Bennett has spent his career in goal and is now working out what to do with the rest of his life, beginning with the fact that he has never dated men. Kyle Swift has moved to New York with a broken heart and a rule about not getting attached, and then meets a hockey player fifteen years older than he is.
Rating coming soonRobyn Holland's family runs a sled dog kennel in Alaska, and the business is in financial trouble at the same time as dogs start going missing. She asks a veterinarian, Rick Baker, to help her, and their search runs alongside her work organising the Fire and Ice race. The race is the reason the losses matter so much to the family.
Rating coming soonFlora is a young woman of mixed parentage who belongs fully to neither of the worlds she moves between. The story follows her from a remote village in western China to Shanghai and then to England, where her history is as much a problem as an opportunity. She grows up being told what she is by people who have decided in advance.
Rating coming soonJamie Canning and Ryan Wesley were roommates at hockey camp until Ryan cut him off without explanation four years ago, after something happened between them on the last night. Their college teams are now meeting at a national championship, which gives Ryan the chance to explain himself, and the championship turns out not to be the last time the two of them have to deal with each other.
Rating coming soonDylan Warren and Jenna Scott were best friends as children and then something went wrong between them. Their mothers, who have decided that the two families should spend Christmas together, pair them up on a project to give a Christmas to a family that has lost everything. Dylan and Jenna have been avoiding each other for years.
Rating coming soonMaureen Harris works as a secretary and has been given a job that requires her to get close to a new mechanic at the company, because somebody has been tampering with its aircraft designs. She is very shy, and the man she is investigating turns out to be more than she bargained for.
Rating coming soonKim Lyttleton decides that the only way to stop her foster sister ruining her life is to kidnap the married man the girl intends to run away with. She takes the wrong man, and the person she has abducted is a Greek called Damon Souris, who offers her a choice between the police and marriage.
Rating coming soonWinslow Covington has just become chief of police in the small Montana town of Quincy and is trying to prove she was not given the job because her grandfather is the mayor. On her first night there she slept with Griffin Eden, of the town's founding family, and then a woman is found dead on Eden land.
Rating coming soonGaron Grier is an FBI agent from San Antonio who has bought a ranch in Jacobsville hoping to repair his relationship with his family. Grace Carver has lived in the town all her life and never married. The case that brings them together is the hunt for an escaped child predator.
Rating coming soonOn the day her husband is buried, a woman receives a letter from a state penitentiary containing one sentence, signed by a man she has never met. She writes back to ask what he is waiting for, and the answer is her. The letters continue for months and then they stop.
Rating coming soonKennedy is the only woman on the medical staff of a professional baseball team and is trying to keep her reputation intact for one more season. A night in Las Vegas leaves her with a ring on her hand and a husband she barely knows, and the two of them have to pretend it was planned.
Rating coming soonStacy Thompson plans other people's weddings for a living and has seen enough of them to be wary of one of her own. When she meets Max Edwards the attraction is immediate, and both of them then have to deal with the fears and the things they have not said to each other.
Rating coming soonHazel finds a coded message hidden inside a book in the shop where she works, and then more of them. Following the trail of clues needs a second person, and the one who volunteers is Noah, a fisherman who has been coming into the bookstore for months for reasons he has not mentioned.
Rating coming soonDelia Rae Ivers left the small town of Serendipity ten years ago for medical school, ending her relationship with Zach Bowden and not telling him that she was pregnant. Her mother's illness brings her back to the town, and to the man she left behind. The son she has been raising knows very little about his father.
Rating coming soonDante Maroni is the heir to a criminal outfit and has been trained for the position since he was a child. While working undercover inside the syndicate responsible for a series of missing children, he finds something that changes what he thought he knew, and the game he sets in motion pulls in Amara.
Rating coming soonRandi McCafferty is keeping the identity of her son's father to herself, and she has her reasons. Her brothers, who are used to managing her life, hire an investigator named Kurt Striker to protect her, and Kurt concludes that the only way to deal with the danger is to bring the secret into the open.
Rating coming soonTristan Caine has spent his adult life keeping a promise, and he broke it on a rainy night for Morana Vitalio, whose safety he considers his own business. She is in enemy territory with both her freedom and her survival at stake, and the two of them join forces to find out what happened to a group of missing girls.
Rating coming soonTess Meredith and Raven Following grew up sharing the Montana plains, and the hardships that fell on the Sioux drove Raven away from his people and from her. He has rebuilt his life in Chicago as a different man, and then Tess arrives there, having become a suffragette. She is there to fight for the causes she believes in, not to find him.
Rating coming soonCarol has spent five years fighting alone for Teri, and the offer of marriage comes as a shock. The man making it is Rudolph Falcone, a barone used to being obeyed, and Carol cannot work out whether he wants a wife or a way of settling an old score with her. She has learned to distrust help that arrives without a reason.
Rating coming soonRyan Price plays professional hockey as an enforcer and struggles with anxiety when he is off the ice. He has just been traded to Toronto and is starting over in the city's LGBTQ Village, where he runs into a man he knew in high school and has not forgotten. Fabian loathes the sport Ryan plays for a living.
Rating coming soonA nurse has married a violent man and is living with the consequences of it. She also develops feelings for an inmate at the prison where she works, who is the only person who notices the marks on her, and when she finds out what he is in prison for and tries to get away, he comes after her. What she knows about him is not the whole of it.
Rating coming soonCaryn married a man she had barely met because an inheritance required it, and then did not see him again until she had no home and no job left. She goes to Australia to the cattle station that made the marriage necessary, and finds that her husband has told nobody he is married. His reasons for keeping it quiet are his own, and he does not share them with her.
Rating coming soonKemp Irvine blames an unknown woman for the death of his cousin Philip, which is also the event that brought him an inheritance he never wanted. The woman he is looking for is Valentine, who knows exactly who he is, and who wants a little more time with him before he finds out. She was involved in what happened to Philip, and she has been carrying it since.
Rating coming soonLacey Seldon has left her job as a librarian and gone to an island in Puget Sound to start a different kind of life. Holt Randolph is not the sort of man she has known before, and he tells her that he is not willing to be given only half of her attention. He wants all of it, and he says so before she has decided anything.
Rating coming soonLogan Warren has taken over his mother's wedding cake business to keep it going, which requires him to deal with brides, icing and customers, none of which he has any talent for. Caroline Scott, a family friend, offers to help, and the two of them have almost nothing in common except a refusal to marry. The shop will close if he does not learn the trade quickly.
Rating coming soonHadassah is a young Jewish believer whose family is killed when Jerusalem falls to the Romans in AD 70, and who is then taken to Rome and sold. She is bought by a wealthy family to serve their daughter Julia, a wilful girl with no interest in restraint, and has to keep her own faith hidden in order to survive.
Rating coming soonAugust Landry moves to New York expecting to be proved right about the world, and instead falls for a woman she keeps meeting on the subway. Jane is a punk from the 1970s who has been displaced in time and cannot leave the train, and August decides to find out why.
Rating coming soonGillian lost her sister as a child and watched her father killed by a baron who wanted a jewelled box belonging to King John. Years later, while she is searching the border country for her sister, she is taken by a Scottish laird who has his own reasons for holding on to her and for keeping her alive.
Rating coming soonHeather Simmons is an orphan in London, put into service and then forced onto a ship bound for America. Brandon Birmingham, a wealthy planter, comes across her at the docks and takes her with him, and the marriage that follows is not one that either of them chose or wanted at that moment.
Rating coming soonSir Waldo Hawkridge is thirty-five, unmarried and famous in society for his athletic skill, which is why everyone calls him the Nonesuch. When a cousin he has never met leaves him a ramshackle property in the West Riding, he travels north to look at what he has inherited, and his arrival turns the neighbourhood upside down.
Rating coming soonElizabeth Woodville is a young widow with two sons when she puts herself in the path of King Edward IV to ask for her late husband's estate back. The two of them marry in secret, and the match makes enemies of the men who had believed they controlled the king, since the family she brings with her becomes a political problem for the crown.
Rating coming soonHelen Irvine is eighteen and has just married Lord Giles Cardross, a man some years older than she is. She is also convinced that he married her out of duty rather than affection, and her attempts to manage the situation without asking him anything produce a series of disasters for both of them, made worse by a brother whose gambling keeps emptying her purse.
Rating coming soonZoya Konstantinovna Ossupov is a Russian countess and a young cousin of Tsar Nicholas II when the revolution arrives and takes her world apart. She escapes with her grandmother and a servant, arrives in Paris with nothing, and has to build a life out of what she can do rather than who she was.
Rating coming soonWarner is recovering from the bullet Juliette put in his shoulder, and he is still in charge of a sector that is beginning to talk about rebellion. His superiors want the girl found and the two traitors who helped her escape dealt with, and his own obsession with Juliette is not something he can explain to the men he commands.
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.
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