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 12 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonSebastian Griffin, the Duke of Melbourne, has raised his younger siblings, arranged their matches and kept everyone in line, and he has a reputation for propriety and a life without scandal. Then Josefina Katarina Embry arrives, and she is beautiful and claims to be the princess of a faraway country. Her account of herself is the one thing in London he cannot verify.
Rating coming soonLady Arianna has the Welsh gift of sight, and in a golden bowl she sees a knight with eyes the grey of the English sea who is about to run his sword through her heart. She trembles, but not with fear: what she feels is a desire that engulfs her whole soul.
Rating coming soonKate C. Leever is an editor at Roundhouse Publishing, and her first letter to a new author is meant to impress on him how much demand there is for vampire romances. His reply about attending a convention is one word long, but he is an author waiting to be broken out, and Kate is determined that he will meet his fans.
Rating coming soonOne minute Leigh is walking home in the early hours of the morning and the next a vampire is sinking his teeth into her neck. He turns out to be a rogue who was marked for termination, which does her very little good: the damage is already done, and she has become one of them.
Rating coming soonSamantha Willan is a workaholic lawyer who has taken a break in cottage country, and after a recent breakup she wants to stay as far away from romance as possible. Then she meets her new neighbour and notices something strange and mysterious about his eyes, which seem to be fixed on her neck.
Rating coming soonElena Deveraux, a vampire hunter, wakes from a year-long coma to find that she has been changed into an angel with wings the colours of midnight and dawn, and that her fragile body needs time to heal before she can take flight. Her lover is the archangel Raphael, who is used to being in control of everything.
Rating coming soonToni Kenyon is young and pretty and passionately fond of everything life has to offer, and at this moment it seems to offer nothing but unhappiness. Her best friend Helena has become engaged to the most wonderful man Toni has ever met, and Toni knows that Helena is marrying him for his money.
Rating coming soonChristine reads the letter in disbelief, because she is being offered another chance: a return to the childhood home she left, to care for her brother's three orphaned children. Twenty years earlier she had run away with a married actor, and the village has not forgotten the scandal. She has been away all that time and has no idea what will be waiting for her.
Rating coming soonEver since an accident turned her into a knockout vampire, Elvi Black has been catching her sleep in a coffin, staying out of the sun and giving up garlic. She knows there is more to being undead than what she saw in Dracula, but she cannot ask her mortal friends about proper biting etiquette.
Rating coming soonEtienne Argeneau's three hundred years of bachelorhood are at an end, one way or another. He is allowed to turn only one human in his lifetime, and when the coroner Rachel Garrett saves his life he decides to save hers in return by making her immortal. Rachel had wanted nothing more than to get off the night shift in the morgue.
Rating coming soonGabrielle notices a sensual black-haired stranger watching her from across a crowded dance club, and nothing about that night or that man is what it seems. When she witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly, and she is thrust into a realm where vampires stalk the shadows.
Rating coming soonCaroline Thorpe was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy duke, and everyone knew it except her. She is summoned to the home of the Duke of Cley, where the household is a strange one and the house is not the happiest place to be, and her new sisters make their opinion of her plain.
Rating coming soonJim LaTour is not the marrying kind, and with a wild past behind him he plans to spend the rest of his days in peace, running his bar and enjoying the company of the local fancy ladies. He does not realise what he has been missing until a songbird threatens his independence and opens his heart.
Rating coming soonRaven's husband is a two-bit gambler, and when he orders her to entertain a handsome cowboy at dinner she does not dare refuse, even when she learns that he has promised the stranger a night in her bed for a thousand dollars. What follows changes what she is able to imagine for herself.
Rating coming soonAnnabelle Pace was Gregory Talbott's true love until she left him without any explanation. Now she is back in town, and he is determined to get answers out of her, if he can keep his hands off her long enough to ask the question. He has waited a long time for the chance to ask, and he does not intend to waste it.
Rating coming soonEleanor Transome finds her father's wealth a dubious blessing, because he is determined that she marry a nobleman. Lord Randolph Falloden is on the brink of ruin and cannot resist the lure of cash, so the match is made, with love not part of the bargain. Eleanor's father wants a title in the family, and Randolph needs the money that comes with her.
Rating coming soonInstead of the new life her family expected to forge out west, seventeen-year-old Angela is thrust into the role of caring for her three younger siblings after the death of their parents. With her older brother's help, and her trust in God, she is determined to raise the children as her mother would have wanted.
Rating coming soonWhen Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one was not what she had in mind. That was before she met Willow, who is gorgeous, glamorous and heartbroken, and who asks Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend in order to make her ex jealous. Nozomi has no intention of staying in the role of a stand-in.
Rating coming soonCade Armanelli is an infamous hacker with billionaire status who operates better alone, and the narrator has earned the right to work alongside him whether he likes it or not. That is why she is on the first plane out to an undisclosed location for the company's cybersecurity team retreat.
Rating coming soonIona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance, and from her maternal grandmother she learned where to find both: County Mayo in Ireland. She arrives with nothing but her grandmother's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude and an innate talent with horses. Her grandmother told her that County Mayo was where she would find what she had been craving all her life.
Rating coming soonWhen five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws the archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical. While she oversees the dig she must make sense of the cloud of death and misfortune hanging over the project, and cope with her ex-husband Jake.
Rating coming soonHighland laird Drustan MacKeltar is trapped between centuries, having slept for nearly five hundred years in a cave under a powerful spell until an unlikely saviour wakes him. The woman who dresses and speaks like nobody he has ever known is from his distant future, where crumbled ruins are all that remain of his vanished world.
Rating coming soonA charity dinner at a San Francisco hotel is broken apart by the strongest earthquake the city has felt since 1906, and four guests come out of the wreckage into lives they did not expect: Sarah Sloane, whose financier husband's fraud is exposed when the power fails, the singer Melanie Free, the photographer Everett Carson and a nun named Maggie Kent, who works with the city's homeless.
Rating coming soonZarek has been a Dark-Hunter, one of the soulless guardians who stand between humanity and what would destroy it, for nine hundred years, and long ago he was exiled for something he wants to understand. Astrid, a woman who sees straight to the truth, becomes a point of light in a dark existence he has made for himself, and the two of them are drawn together as he looks into what was done to him.
Rating coming soonPersephone was not carried off to the underworld: she jumped, refusing to be married to a god more in love with himself than with her. Now she has to talk the Underworld's arrogant ruler, Hades, into going along with a plan that will shake Mount Olympus, and to survive the politics of the gods who told the original lie about her.
Rating coming soonThree women come to a summerhouse in Maine where Madame Zoya grants her visitors their innermost wishes. Amy hides a loss behind a perfect marriage, Faith is a widow still grieving a man from long ago, and Zoe is an artist shunned by her town after a night she cannot remember. Zoya and her sister intend to send them back to eighteenth-century England, to alter Amy's ancestry.
Rating coming soonMerit is a graduate student in Chicago until a rogue vampire attacks her and only gets a sip before another vampire drives him off and saves her life by turning her. Her rescuer is the master of Cadogan House, and her new existence at a Hyde Park mansion full of vampires means serving a house whose lord expects her gratitude, while someone is still trying to kill her.
Rating coming soonLissianna Argeneau has spent centuries looking for the right man rather than a quick meal, and she has an awkward problem for a vampire: she faints at the sight of blood. Her family's solution is to leave an unconscious doctor named Gregory Hewitt tied to her bed as a present, and he comes round to find a stranger in the room with plans for the evening.
Rating coming soonStolen from her home as a child and tormented for centuries, Elisabeta Trigovise has been rescued and is safe inside the Carpathian compound, but she has lived in fear so long that she does not know how to live without it. Ferro Arany, an ancient warrior whose senses have come alive, wants to convince her that they are partners rather than master and prisoner, while the vampire who held her captive wants her back.
Rating coming soonAiriana Ridell can read the patterns in the air around her, a gift that put her in a secret government programme as a child and made her a target after her mother was murdered. Kidnapped and held on a ship bound for dangerous seas, her only hope of rescue is Maxim Prakenskii, whose reasons for helping her he is not willing to explain.
Rating coming soonMack McKinley and his team of GhostWalkers treat urban warfare as a craft, and on the streets of San Francisco he comes face to face with Jaimie Fielding, a woman he was involved with years ago before she disappeared. She has come back as a spy with too many secrets, and a common enemy has brought the two of them together again on ground neither of them controls.
Rating coming soonThe palazzo of the Scarletti family carries strange carvings and gargoyles, and a worse reputation: every bride who enters it is said to leave in a casket. Nicoletta has no fear of curses or of marriage until she looks into the eyes of Don Scarletti, who as head of the family has the right to choose a wife from among his people.
Rating coming soonZoe Luce is an interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who specialises in helping divorced clients start again. She can sense the history hidden inside a house, and when she suspects one of her clients is keeping a dangerous secret she hires the private investigator Ethan Truax, whose work puts her carefully arranged new identity at risk.
Rating coming soonOn a rescue mission in the Indonesian jungle, Dr Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team are extracting the wounded from an outbreak of a virus released by a terrorist cell. When Draden is infected he sends the others away, intending to hunt down those responsible, and the woman tracking the virus decides to save his life without knowing what that will cost her.
Rating coming soonTwo Texas families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, have been feuding for generations. Owen Blackthorne is a loner who wants nothing from anyone until Bayleigh Creed turns up at his door asking for help in finding her missing brother, and the two of them ride into the wilderness of west Texas together as mortal enemies obliged to cooperate.
Rating coming soonMiranda leaves a French convent for the New World and an arranged marriage to a prosperous Texas rancher. On the journey she meets Derek Bragg, the fiancé's friend, a Texas Ranger whose blunt manner and frank comments about her beauty infuriate the shy young woman, and the two of them cross the wilderness together.
Rating coming soonSavannah Grant is chief ranger of the Ripple Creek werewolf reservation and has buried her heartbreak in the job since the affair that ended badly years ago. Now humans are being murdered on her land in a pattern that matches killings she saw a decade earlier, and the investigator who arrives to catch the killer is the man she lost.
Rating coming soonAngela Todd is a London seamstress who inherits a country cottage called Dower House and finds herself independent for the first time. From the day she arrives somebody wants her gone: there are cruel pranks, strange accidents and shrill threats, and two men take an interest in her, the schoolmaster Greg Ingram and Roderick Mellory.
Rating coming soonStephanie McGill was attacked and turned as a teenager, and her abilities are unlike those of any other immortal. Thirteen years later she has built a quiet life with the Argeneau family who took her in, until a new neighbour arrives: Thorne, the product of a genetic experiment, neither immortal nor mortal, looking for somewhere to hide.
Rating coming soonRoxanne Sherwood flees a typhus epidemic in Boston and runs into a band of Indians, who take her captive. A white stranger claims her as his wife to protect her, and the band rules that she must live with him as a married couple, which leaves her torn between duty and desire and between the society she came from and the frontier that now holds her.
Rating coming soonGemma Grantham and Bette Dickens pool their savings for a luxurious holiday at the Hotel Splendide on the south coast of France. Gemma, escaping a dreary working life in the north of England, pretends to be an heiress, is taken up by Rudy Shore, a handsome fortune seeker, and the holiday brings a shipwreck off the Brittany coast before it brings true love.
Rating coming soonValerie Moyer does not believe in vampires until a fanged psychopath kidnaps her. She escapes her captor and wants nothing more to do with creatures of the night, and then finds herself under the protection of Anders, who expects her to accept two things at once: that he is immortal, and that she is the woman destined to be his life mate.
Rating coming soonA heart transplant gives television presenter Cat Delaney a second chance, and she leaves Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a show for children with special needs and meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer. Then other recipients of donor hearts begin dying in accidents, and a stalker starts following her.
Rating coming soonEvalle has two days to keep a promise that gives an entire race its freedom, and demonic Svart Trolls have just invaded Atlanta. To stop the gang wars they are leading she has to ask for help from Isak Nyght, a Black Ops specialist who recently had her in his sights, and in doing so she exposes a secret that endangers everything she cares about.
Rating coming soonThe Earl of Devenham returns after ten years to marry Mary Anstey as he promised, and finds that neither of them feels what they once did, though both keep up appearances for the family. Mary's younger sister Emily sees through the pretence and decides to prevent the wedding with a sleeping draught and a scheme to take her place.
Rating coming soonJuliet has devoted her life to the care of crippled and deprived children, and leaves London to work in the south of France. There she falls in love with Lucien de Maureville, a gentle man betrayed by a faithless wife, and has to weigh the promise she made never to love a married man against the love she now feels.
Rating coming soonSophie Chesterton knows the right people, goes to the right parties and wears the right clothes, and suspects that her friends are rather nasty and her life amounts to very little. After one shocking evening she falls from grace entirely, and has to work out whether a girl really needs diamonds to be happy.
Rating coming soonColin McDowell is the leader of the Trevelyans in Scotland and has no wish to inherit his aunt's mansion in the San Juan islands off Washington. The journey becomes more interesting when he meets Luna Reynaud, the secretary his aunt hired before she died, and then he learns that she is half human.
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.
536 booksPrimary genreHaunted houses, old vampires, cosmic dread and the odd very bad week.
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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