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 10 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonLady Morgan Bedwyn is young, independent and not looking for a husband. Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, has other ideas: he wants her as an instrument of revenge against her family, and marriage is not part of the plan. One scandalous night leaves them both with reputations to salvage and an attraction that neither of them wanted or expected.
Rating coming soonCameron MacKay, the last member of a broken Highland clan, has one aim: find Meredith Munro, last daughter of his sworn enemies, and force her to give him an heir. What he finds in the priory where she has taken refuge is a woman who bargains hard for her freedom instead of weeping, and a plan that becomes harder to carry out.
Rating coming soonJillian Whitney is well born, penniless and living under the roof of a wealthy nobleman old enough to be her father, which is scandal enough for the London ton. When her guardian is murdered and she becomes the only suspect, she flees and is taken in by Adam Hawthorne, the Earl of Blackwood, who offers shelter from the law.
Rating coming soonThe Griffins and the Gallos have fought over Chicago's underworld for generations. When Aida Gallo crashes a Griffin party and sets the library alight, her father arranges a marriage with Callum Griffin to prevent a war. Callum intends to tame his bride, Aida begins by poisoning him, and neither of them expects the arrangement to outlast the paperwork.
Rating coming soonLady Genevieve will do anything to save Edenby Castle, including sharing a name and a bed with the enemy who has taken it. Lord Tristan is a nobleman and knight leading an invading army through England, and the woman who gives herself up to him is secretly plotting his destruction. Surrender, in this book, is only ever the beginning of another campaign.
Rating coming soonMaxim Seymour, Marquess of Bradbury, has been stripped of his title and lands and branded a traitor, and he wants revenge on the men responsible. His plan to take a hostage goes wrong, and he carries off Elise Radborne instead, an innocent who proves to be his equal in an argument. The Elizabethan court makes a dangerous place for two people with so much to hide.
Rating coming soonSimon Dure is as cynical about love as Charity Emerson is innocent of it, and neither of them pretends that the engagement is anything other than a practical arrangement. Charity is confident she can meet his expectations of a wife, and he is amused enough to let her try. Then a murder makes their conspiracy far more dangerous.
Rating coming soonEvangeline Ames takes a country cottage to recover from a fright, and discovers that the garden attached to it is charged with paranormal energy. When an assassin comes for her, she is rescued by the garden's owner, Lucas Sebastian, who needs her professional skills as an investigator to establish what lies buried beneath his estate.
Rating coming soonLady Chastity Ware needs to get her widowed sister and her baby away from a deadly pursuer, so she dresses as a highwayman and stops the first coach on the road. The occupant is an arrogant aristocrat named Cyn Malloren, and instead of robbing him she orders him to drive her to a remote cottage.
Rating coming soonTwo men wounded in the same train robbery are left on Abigail McKenzie's doorstep in frontier Colorado, and she nurses both of them back to health. One is gentle David, who offers her a happiness she had given up expecting. The other is Jesse, rude and violent, who challenges every idea she has about herself and about the life she intended to lead.
Rating coming soonSigrid is a Viking widow, and the English army is raiding behind her. Out of desperation she throws herself on the mercy of a Saxon warrior, an enemy whose look seems to offer shelter from the carnage. She has never wanted a man in her life, and she and this one have good reason to hate each other.
Rating coming soonMary Jo Summerhill has always been in love with Evan, and three years ago the difference between his blue-blooded family and her blue-collar background sent her out of his life. It broke his heart as thoroughly as it broke hers, and she has not stopped thinking about him. Now she needs his help, and what she wants beyond that is another chance.
Rating coming soonBlandings Castle has acquired a valuable scarab, and Lord Emsworth is not entirely clear how it came into his pocket. The American collector who owns it wants it back, and sends his son to England to steal it. Two impostors are soon in residence, each with an eye on the same prize and no idea about the other.
Rating coming soonLiz Lighty has always believed she is too poor and too awkward to shine in her wealthy, prom-obsessed Midwestern town. Her plan to escape involves an elite college, an orchestra and medical school, and it collapses when the financial aid she was counting on falls through. The school's prom king and queen scholarship is her last option, and running for it means a season of public humiliation.
Rating coming soonSandra Foster studies fads and what they mean for the HiTek corporation, and Bennet O'Reilly studies monkey group behaviour and chaos theory for the same employer. A misdelivered package and a run of bad luck throw them together, and they end up with a joint project involving a flock of sheep whose movements neither of them can predict.
Rating coming soonMeddelin Chan accidentally kills her blind date, and her mother calls in her even more meddlesome aunties to help dispose of the body. Disposing of a body turns out to be harder than expected, especially once it has been shipped in a cake cooler to a billionaire's wedding at an island resort, where the whole family is working. The wedding is the biggest job their business has ever had.
Rating coming soonLucian Rollins is a mogul built entirely out of revenge, working to erase his father's mark on the family name. Sloane Walton is a small-town librarian determined to finish her father's pursuit of justice. An old, dark secret binds them, and the dislike they share now does not stop them from arguing their way into something else.
Rating coming soonDiane Albret was rescued as a girl by Daniel St. John, and over the years she has come to see her guardian as the most dangerous and irresistible man she has ever met. She has grown from an orphaned schoolgirl into a determined young woman, and leaving the sheltered life he arranged for her brings the two of them into conflict.
Rating coming soonSebastian, Lord Somerton, runs a secret organisation called the Nexus and has been responsible for many deaths without ever being a traitor. Accused of treason after the mistreatment of his former ward, he is ordered to hand over the names of all his agents. The widow of one of his men has her own reasons to want him exposed.
Rating coming soonWill was the perfect summer fling, and then the holiday ended and he stopped answering Ollie's messages. A family emergency uproots Ollie and enrols him in a school on the other side of the country, which turns out to be Will's school. The Will who goes there is not the one from the summer, and Ollie has no intention of waiting for him to change back.
Rating coming soonDarcy Phillips runs an anonymous relationship advice service out of locker 89, charging a fee and mostly using her powers for good. When the new Australian jock at school catches her collecting the letters, he blackmails her into becoming his personal dating coach so that he can win his ex-girlfriend back. The arrangement has consequences for both of them, which Darcy did not plan for at all.
Rating coming soonRebecca Porter was never the sister who dreamed of being a princess; that was her twin. But it is Bex who goes to Oxford and meets a boy across the hall, and Bex who finds herself in love with the eventual heir to the British throne, along with everything that comes with him. The novel follows several years of courtship under public scrutiny.
Rating coming soonAveline Stoddard's father loses everything at the card table, and she agrees to submit to the winner for three nights in settlement of the debt. The three nights pass too quickly, and the man the town calls Lucifer vanishes. Five years later he returns to London looking for his enemy, and finds her instead.
Rating coming soonGrace Porter has just finished a PhD in astronomy and goes to Las Vegas with her friends to celebrate. She is not the sort of person who gets drunk and marries a woman whose name she does not know, until she does exactly that. Then she flees Portland for a summer in New York with her new wife, because finishing the degree has not made her feel the way she expected.
Rating coming soonEvelyn Amherst is compelled by her dying father, a spy in His Majesty's service, to finish his last mission. The trail takes her to London and to Lord Justin Barclay, an intelligence agent who suspects her father of supporting Napoleon and courts Evelyn in order to find out what she knows. The courtship is a professional deception, and it stops working rather quickly.
Rating coming soonSadie Montgomery is a struggling artist who has just been named a finalist in the portrait competition of her dreams, and then she develops a rare condition that makes human faces look like jumbled puzzle pieces. She has weeks to paint the best portrait of her life, and she can no longer read a face, so she has to judge everybody from what they say instead.
Rating coming soonNash Morgan was the good Morgan brother, with a smile and a wink for everybody, until he was shot in the line of duty. Now the chief of police is having panic attacks and nightmares, and he is hiding both from everyone he knows. His new next-door neighbour sees right through him, and she is keeping secrets of her own.
Rating coming soonAnya Hamilton takes Ravel Duralde prisoner to prevent a duel she is certain will kill her sister's fiance. In a small room on her Louisiana plantation the situation reverses and she becomes the one who cannot stay away from him, whatever her own mind tells her about the arrangement. The rest of the plot belongs to the men who wanted the duel.
Rating coming soonFaced with a forced marriage to a neighbour she cannot bear, Elizabeth Woolcot appeals to her guardian, Nicholas Warring. He is called the Wicked Earl with reason: convicted of murder, he barely escaped being hanged, and his reputation keeps respectable company well away. Elizabeth is drawn to him the moment they meet, and he is married already.
Rating coming soonJenny Sullivan left Cole Randall at the altar, unsure whether she was marrying a man or uniting two cattle ranches, and went east for two years. Her father's death brings her back to the Lazy S for good, where Cole is running the ranch as executor of the estate. She intends to restore the family's spread, and her feelings have not stayed as businesslike as she intended.
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 soonJessi St. James is studying archaeology and gets more than she bargained for when she finds a mirror with an imprisoned Celtic warrior inside it. Freeing him puts her in the way of a group of men who want the mirror and of an immortal who has spent thirteen hundred years waiting for his freedom. The two of them have to stay alive and work out what they are to each other.
Rating coming soonAnne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried, and her father is renting out the family estate to reduce his debts. When she was nineteen she was engaged to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, and her friends and family persuaded her to break it off because he had no fortune. The new tenants are his sister and her husband, so he will be visiting, and nobody in the family has thought about what that will mean for Anne.
Rating coming soonOn 22 June 1941 Tatiana Metanova turns seventeen the next day, and the morning begins with her older sister Dasha announcing that she is in love and with the radio reporting that Germany has invaded the Soviet Union. Later that day, waiting for a bus in Leningrad, Tatiana is watched by a Red Army officer. His name is Alexander Belov, and he is Dasha's new love.
Rating coming soonHolly and Gerry are a married couple in Dublin who fight about ordinary things and are entirely at ease together, and then Gerry dies of a brain tumour. Holly stops leaving the house. Her mother telephones to say that a package has arrived addressed to her, and inside it is a letter from her husband, with nine more to come.
Rating coming soonOn a snowy morning in upstate New York, two girls take their horses out and a truck comes round the bend. One girl and one horse are killed, and Grace Maclean is left with a partly amputated leg and a horse called Pilgrim that will not be handled. Her mother Annie, who has built a career as a magazine editor, decides that both of them are going to be saved.
Rating coming soonDenise Holton has moved to Edenton, North Carolina, with her four-year-old son Kyle, who has severe learning disabilities and cannot yet speak. On a wet night her car leaves the road, and in the search that follows her son is found by Taylor McAden, a volunteer firefighter who works as a carpenter. Taylor is brave in an emergency and unable to stay in a relationship afterwards.
Rating coming soonPip Mackenzie is eleven and has already lost most of the people she had, and her mother Ophélie has retreated into a grief she cannot climb out of. Left to herself on the beach below their house, Pip begins talking to a man walking his dog. Matt Bowles is an artist, divorced, and he has his own reason to notice a lonely child. Her mother does not approve at first.
Rating coming soonEdward Cullen has been seventeen for most of a century and has learned to keep away from human beings, whose blood he can smell. Then Bella Swan arrives at his school and he cannot decide whether he wants to save her or kill her. This is the story of Twilight told from his side, including what he can hear inside the heads of everybody in the room except hers.
Rating coming soonMiles Ryan is a deputy sheriff in New Bern, North Carolina, where he grew up, and he has been grieving for two years: his wife Missy was killed by a driver who did not stop. He is raising their son Jonah alone and has never stopped trying to find the person responsible. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher, who has moved to the town after a divorce.
Rating coming soonEmmy Harlow is a witch of modest power who left the magical town of Thistle Grove years ago and has avoided going back. The spellcasting tournament her family has always arbitrated is approaching, and tradition, or her parents, brings her home. On her first night in town she runs into Talia Avramov, and the two of them discover a shared grievance against the heir of the most powerful family in Thistle Grove.
Rating coming soonWilson Lewis has been married to Jane for thirty years and has spent most of them at the office, leaving the raising of their children to her. Their daughter is about to be married, and Jane has begun to think about leaving him, which he recognises as his own fault. His wife's parents, Noah and Allie Calhoun, had a marriage the whole family measured itself against.
Rating coming soonConnor O'Dwyer is a falconer in County Mayo who takes visitors on hawk walks across the countryside, and Meara Quinn, his sister's best friend, guides the same visitors on horseback. They have known each other their whole lives, and Connor has never thought about her any differently until a brush with death changes the arrangement. Meara does not want to lose the friendship, or herself, to something more.
Rating coming soonMaud Blyth volunteers to serve as a companion to an elderly woman on an ocean liner so that she can help her brother with an investigation into a magical conspiracy. What she does not expect is for the old lady to be dead on the first day of the voyage. She is left with a body, a disrespectful parrot and Violet Debenham, an actress and magician returning to England.
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.
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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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