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 7 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonBryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar have saved their city and would now like a quiet life, but a rebellion is forming against the rulers who have left them alone so far. They are drawn into the rebels' plans, and the choice in front of them is whether to keep their heads down while other people are oppressed or to join in.
Rating coming soonRuby has been driven out of the Dumas mansion and is back in the bayou with her baby daughter Pearl, determined to make a decent home for the child. The family she left behind has other claims on her, and the secrets that shaped her mother's life and her own are still being kept by everyone who knows them.
Rating coming soonCynda is sixteen and unhappy about being left at the inn her father and stepmother run on the coast of Maine, where the season is over and there is nobody her age for miles. Then a guest arrives in the dead of winter, pale and charming and interested only in her, and Cynda is flattered enough not to ask what he is doing there.
Rating coming soonZafira is the Hunter, who dresses as a man to go into a cursed forest and bring back food for her people, and whose identity would be worth her life if it were known. Nasir is the Prince of Death, who kills for his father the sultan, and the sultan has now sent him to find the Hunter and finish her.
Rating coming soonSonia and Sunny see each other for the first time on an overnight train in India, and both of them are embarrassed, because their grandparents once tried to arrange a marriage between them and the attempt drove them apart before they ever met. Sonia has come home from studying in Vermont; Sunny is a journalist who has been living in New York.
Rating coming soonHank Mallone needs a bank loan for his business, and he has decided that the reason he keeps being turned down is his reputation as a rogue. His solution is to hire a wife to improve it, and the woman who answers his advertisement turns out to be nothing like the quiet, respectable figure he had in mind.
Rating coming soonLaura Hewitt travels out to India with the man she intends to marry and is drawn instead to his brother, Oliver Erskine, who is the hereditary ruler of a private kingdom and the commander of his own army. He answers both to the British Crown and to India, and the country around them is about to rise against the Company's rule.
Rating coming soonParis in 1871 is a city under siege and then a city in revolt, and Babette is an artist's model in the middle of it. Around her the people she knows have to decide what they believe and whom they will stand with at the barricades, and an affair none of them can control threatens everything that one of them values.
Rating coming soonTina and her sister Moira have been indulged by their stepfather for years, and neither of them has ever had to earn a living. When the two of them decide on a holiday in Menorca they assume he will pay for it as usual, and his son Charles takes a very different view of the arrangement.
Rating coming soonIn 1886 Agnes Foster is told to leave the orphanage in New York where she grew up and make her own way in the world. She takes a teaching post in Persimmon Hollow, a town in frontier Florida that she has never seen and knows only from a newspaper advertisement, and arrives with her Catholic faith and not much else.
Rating coming soonKarlee Merrick is trying to put her life back together after her husband's death, with two children to raise and a determination to manage without anyone else's help. Two men are willing to provide it: Randy, the high school sweetheart she never quite forgot, and David, whose faith is the centre of everything he does.
Rating coming soonMercy Hollings has never been sure she is entirely human, and the medical tests she has had over the years have shown nothing unusual. What she does have is the ability to make people do as she tells them, which is useful until she loses her temper, and then it is very dangerous for everyone nearby.
Rating coming soonHelen Decatur has spent her working life reaching goals, and she has met every one of them: college, law school, her own practice, financial security and a reputation as one of the most respected divorce lawyers in South Carolina. The one thing she has decided she wants now is the thing she has left latest, and it is harder than the rest.
Rating coming soonLilly Burkstrom's ex-husband told her that if he died it would not be an accident, and she did not believe him until he was killed in what was reported as a robbery at a convenience store. The police are not interested in her suspicions, and then someone breaks into her house and into the dead man's apartment as well.
Rating coming soonHolly has just finished nursing school and cannot afford to be distracted by anything, because she believes that a mistake on her part could cost a patient's life. When she meets Matthew Cook, a baker she knew in high school but never noticed at the time, she has to decide whether she can risk letting anyone get close to her again.
Rating coming soonFlooding has almost destroyed the town of Wildwood in North Dakota, and the youth minister Ric Jensen is determined to bring it back to life. He turns the spare rooms of his church into a daycare to help parents get back on their feet, and then meets Lily Chamberlain and her young son Todd at a church retreat.
Rating coming soonClaire Fraser has lived in the North Carolina backcountry with her husband Jamie for years, keeping the secret of where she came from. The colonies are moving towards a war that she knows the outcome of, and the family she has built in the eighteenth century is caught between the side it belongs to and what is coming.
Rating coming soonErienne Fleming's father, the mayor of a small town in the north of England, owes money to everyone he has ever met, and her brother has been maimed in a duel fought over the family's honour. The plan to repair both is to marry Erienne to a wealthy suitor, whether she agrees to the match or not.
Rating coming soonClaire Randall has kept her secrets for twenty years, and she is returning to Scotland with her grown daughter to tell the truth about them. What she has to explain involves the Jacobite rising, the Battle of Culloden and the husband she left behind in the eighteenth century, and her daughter has never been told any of it.
Rating coming soonDani Phillips loves her job as the city manager of Magnolia Bay, Mississippi, and she loves the community she works for. When the town council decides to spend money on a campaign to attract tourists and rescue the local economy, she keeps her reservations to herself, until she meets the man hired to sell her town to strangers.
Rating coming soonIpatia is an orphan living with her grandfather on the Greek island of Lipsi, and she intends to leave for Piraeus to study. The day before her trip she falls into the arms of Tony, the son of a wealthy shipowner, and the two of them have to work out whether anything can come of it.
Rating coming soonA party of wealthy and engaged English travellers sets out on a world voyage aboard an ocean liner, and after several weeks at sea the ship is wrecked in the Pacific. Two survivors reach an island whose inhabitants call it Nedra, and being alone together on it, far from the marriages waiting at home, is a problem of its own.
Rating coming soonLauren Carlyle is a schoolteacher who meets a tall stranger across a crowded ballroom and is swept into a dance, and then into an evening neither of them intends to repeat. Afterwards they go their separate ways, until she finds out that the man she danced with is going to be living under the same roof.
Rating coming soonLeonie de Conyers is an aristocratic young woman whose life is broken by the French Revolution and who lives afterwards in the shadow of the guillotine. Roger St. Eyre is an English nobleman who sets out to bring her to safety, without knowing what taking her out of France will cost either of them.
Rating coming soonJudy did not want to marry Chris Voulis, and she had wanted to marry somebody else entirely. She had been brought up on Cyprus, where the marriage was arranged for her in the traditional way, so the decision had already been made for her; what she has to decide now is how she is going to live inside it.
Rating coming soonMaggie West has wanted a family of her own for as long as she can remember, and her new neighbour, a single father named Kellen Ashby, is not the man she had in mind to provide one. His daughters are exactly the sort of children she used to imagine having, and he has just inherited the inn she manages.
Rating coming soonD. J. Holden is a private investigator who has lived by one rule since her boss and foster father taught it to her, which is never to go undercover. When she discovers that his agency is in trouble she breaks the rule and takes a job investigating Maxwell Lotorto, the heir to a grocery fortune and the despair of his formidable grandmother.
Rating coming soonOn Christmas Eve the fiddlers and singers of the Mellstock parish choir make their rounds of the village, and the youngest of them, Dick Dewy, catches sight of the new schoolmistress at her window. Fancy Day has other suitors and a gift for the organ, and an incoming vicar's plans for church music threaten the choir Dick was born into.
Rating coming soonAshton Wingate's bride Lierin is lost to the river only days after their wedding, leaving the Mississippi planter to mourn a marriage that had barely begun. Three years later his carriage collides with a cloaked rider on horseback, and the woman carried into his house, wearing Lierin's face, wakes up with no memory of who she is.
Rating coming soonChristy Mansel runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus, and because the two of them are young, rich and used to doing as they please, they decide to visit their eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet. The family has a rule against arriving unannounced at Dar Ibrahim, her crumbling palace in the Lebanese hills, and the cousins go anyway.
Rating coming soonThe bells are ringing for Elizabeth in the autumn of 1558, and the country she inherits is bankrupt and divided. Her adviser tells her she can only hold it by marrying a strong prince, but the man she wants is Robert Dudley, who is already married, and Amy, his wife, has no intention of setting him free. Around the queen, a court of ambitious men watches to see which way her favour will fall.
Rating coming soonKatherine de Roet is the daughter of a minor knight from Flanders with no prospects of her own apart from a sister who serves the queen and is to marry Geoffrey Chaucer. Through that connection she marries Sir Hugh Swynford, and through her husband's service she meets John of Gaunt, the duke whose notice changes the whole course of her life.
Rating coming soonConstanta is dying when a stranger saves her, and the life he offers her turns out to be one of obedience inside his household. Over the centuries that follow she comes to understand what her rescuer is, and she begins to ask whether she and his other consorts have any way out of the house he has made.
Rating coming soonDouglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, needs an heir, and an heir means a wife, so he sets about acquiring one. Alexandra Chambers, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Beresford, has loved him since she was fifteen, but the sister everyone considers incomparable is the one he had in mind, and the two families have their own ideas about how it should end.
Rating coming soonFor years Grace has watched the wolves that live in the woods behind the house, and she has been drawn to one of them in particular: a yellow-eyed wolf who watches her back with an attention of his own. Then a local boy is killed by wolves and the town's hunters go into the woods after the pack.
Rating coming soonLara had been told that her husband was lost at sea, and the marriage he left behind was cold, formal and unloving, so she had made her peace with being a widow. Then a man walks into her life claiming to be Hunter, Earl of Hawksworth, and proving what he says with private details that only a husband could possibly have known.
Rating coming soonJuliette Ferrars thought the fighting was over. She has taken control of Sector 45, been named the new Supreme Commander of North America, and has Warner at her side, which is more than she had ever expected to have. Then a death in her circle forces her to deal with what she has become as well as what surrounds her.
Rating coming soonWhen Mr Dashwood dies, the estate passes to his son by his first marriage, and his second wife and three daughters are left with very little to live on. Taken in by a distant relative, Elinor and Marianne must each find their way in a world where a woman's marriage is the only security available, and where feeling and prudence pull the two sisters in opposite directions.
Rating coming soonRachel Chu, who teaches in New York and was raised by a single mother, agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend and meet his family. She is expecting a quiet visit with traditional relatives, and what she finds is an older and far wealthier world than she knew existed, with a grandmother who has strong opinions about who her grandson should marry.
Rating coming soonA young widow called Helen Graham arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion that has stood empty for years, with her small son and one servant. She keeps to herself, sells her paintings for money and refuses to explain her past, and the village decides that a woman living like that must be hiding something, until the man who falls in love with her learns the truth.
Rating coming soonIn the spring of 1984, two high school students in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina, fall in love. Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole come from opposite sides of the town and the difference between their families is not something either of them can ignore, and the years that follow take the two of them into separate lives far from where they began.
Rating coming soonSimon Basset, Duke of Hastings, comes back to London in 1813 with a reputation for arrogance and no intention of ever marrying. Daphne Bridgerton is the eldest daughter of a large and noisy family whose mother has pushed her into the marriage market, and the two of them agree to a pretence that will keep the matchmaking mothers of the ton away from both of them for the season.
Rating coming soonA correspondence that began as an exchange of letters has continued long enough for Sir Phillip Crane to feel that he knows Miss Bridgerton, although the two of them have never met. He writes to invite her to visit him, on the understanding that they may find they suit, and the visit is not what either of them had pictured from the letters.
Rating coming soonMichael Stirling is known in London as a rake, and the moment his life changed was the first time he saw Francesca Bridgerton. She married his cousin instead, and Michael spent years away from England, coming home when that marriage ended and finding that the woman he could never speak to honestly is now available, free and in need of a friend.
Rating coming soonAfter her mother dies, Whitney Stone's father cannot manage her high-spirited behaviour, so he sends her to France with her aunt and uncle to be educated. She leaves behind Paul Sevarin, the older man she has decided she is in love with, and returns several years later as a polished young woman expecting to win him, only to find that her father has already made an arrangement on her behalf.
Rating coming soonRowena Belleme has been ordered to produce an heir, and if she does not the stepbrother who controls her family's lands will destroy what is left of her inheritance. Her answer is to take a prisoner: Warrick deChaville, a knight, is seized and held so that he can father the child that will save her, and he is not the sort of man to accept such an arrangement for long.
Rating coming soonLady Aline Marsden has been raised for one purpose, which is to make an advantageous marriage to a man of her own class. Instead she gives herself to John McKenna, who works on her father's estate, and when the affair is discovered the consequences fall on the person with no family and no position to protect him. McKenna leaves England, and Aline stays behind to face what the household decides.
Rating coming soonAlexandra Lawrence is a country girl with no interest in the rules of fashionable society, and she marries Jordan Townsende, the Duke of Hawthorne, a man whose wealth and position have never obliged him to explain himself to anyone at all. Their marriage takes her into London society, where the two of them have to work out what they actually owe each other.
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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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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