Love stories in the world as it is now: friends who finally say it, rivals stuck on the same project, small towns with one good cafe, and adults making a mess of a very good thing. 155 books carry this tag, across 22 series, plus 131 titles with no series listed.
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Rating coming soonLindsey's brother's wife has just given birth to twins, so she puts aside her memories of her father's death and gets on a plane to Germany. The man in the seat beside her, Cole Farrel, keeps her together during the flight, and he admires her for facing her fear of flying instead of avoiding it. What she cannot face is loving a man who, like her father, flies for a living.
Rating coming soonLucas is a playboy, a rebel and a rogue, and nobody denies him anything: women fall at his feet and into his bed at the click of his fingers, and his life is charmed, reckless and carefree. Grace Carter knows that working with a man as uncontrollable as Lucas could ruin her career, and she will not tolerate his behaviour, whatever the chemistry between them. Working with him, however, turns out to be thrilling.
Rating coming soonRosalind Harper is forty-five, a widow with three grown sons whose second marriage was a disaster, and she has built her nursery business from nothing. She thought love was behind her, and then romance takes her by surprise. Harper House, the centuries-old mansion outside Memphis where a Harper has always lived, has its own history: for as long as anyone can remember, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked its halls, singing lullabies at night.
Rating coming soonLara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, and suddenly it seems to be working overtime, because normal professional women in their twenties do not get visited by ghosts. The spirit of her great-aunt Sadie appears with one request: Lara has to find a necklace that was in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. The search leads to intrigue and to a new romance.
Rating coming soonLucy Savage's week begins with her husband failing to appear in divorce court and gets worse: a dye job leaves her hair green, somebody takes a shot at her, and she knocks down the policeman who comes to her rescue. Detective Zack Warren believes her husband is tangled up in an embezzlement scheme, and the attempts on her life decide the argument between them, so Zack moves into her house to keep her alive.
Rating coming soonRandall Kapplehoff goes back to Camp Outland every summer, and this year he has a plan. He has renamed himself Del, changed how he dresses and worked on his shoulders, all to get the attention of Hudson, the boy he has been in love with for years. The trouble with a summer of pretending is that it has to end.
Rating coming soonTiernan de Haas is the only child of a film producer and an actress, raised in boarding schools with money and no attention, and when her parents die she feels almost nothing. Her father's stepbrother, a man she has never met, becomes her guardian, and she goes to live with him and his two grown sons in a remote cabin in the mountains. Nobody there wanted her.
Rating coming soonTansy Adams runs the family bookshop she inherited from her father and has nothing to say when her stepfamily asks about her love life, so she invents a girlfriend based on the woman on a book jacket. The invention is harmless until the real Gemma van Dalen walks into the shop. Gemma needs a wife within the terms of an inheritance and offers to make the lie true.
Rating coming soonGeorgina is sacked from a restaurant and comes home early to find her boyfriend in bed with somebody else, both on the same day. She takes the first job she is offered, behind the bar of a newly opened pub, and then discovers that the man who owns it is the boy she fell in love with at school. He does not remember her.
Rating coming soonRosie and Dominic Vega have been together since high school, and somewhere in the years since his return from the army they stopped talking to each other. Rosie wants to open a restaurant and wants her husband back. What she proposes is a boot camp for their marriage, and to her surprise he agrees.
Rating coming soonLucy and Gabe meet in their final year at Columbia, on an afternoon that neither of them forgets, and they agree that the years ahead should count for something. A year later they meet again, and it looks as though they might find that purpose in each other. Then Gabe takes a job as a photojournalist in the Middle East and Lucy builds a career in New York, and the next thirteen years are spent in different countries, in other relationships, and in a conversation neither of them finishes.
Contemporary romance is a tag, not a genre. It marks the romance novels where the world around the relationship is the modern real one: no magic, no invented kingdoms and no court politics, but phones, jobs, rent, families and commutes doing their part as the obstacle course. Every book with this tag sits on the romance shelf.
Historical romance and romantasy do not fall under this tag, because their settings carry as much weight as the relationship does, and a book can be a romance here without the tag when it is set in the past or in a world that does not exist.
The tag covers romantic comedy, small town, sports, workplace, second chance and queer romance, from the established names to books published this decade.
Romance at the centre of the story, with a fantasy world carrying it.
70 booksPrimary genreThe love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.
155 of this tagPrimary genreGeneration ships, dying empires, robots with opinions and one very unlucky astronaut.
1 of this tagPrimary genreDetectives, spies, locked rooms and the people who lie to the police.
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