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 5 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonA young war hero returns home to recover from serious injury and rediscovers a childhood friend. Their renewed friendship becomes love, and their common background and shared faith bind them together. The soldier then sets about returning to the fighting in order to help rescue the man who had encouraged his faith and saved his life.
Rating coming soonLiz never particularly wanted to marry, having a low opinion of men, and she certainly did not want to marry the half-Greek Nigel Shapani. Yet she finds herself settled in his house in Delphi. Under the terms of an eccentric will, two family fortunes would be lost if the two of them did not marry, and her elderly relatives needed the money. She is determined to keep it a business arrangement only.
Rating coming soonWhen Emma Hanson's young friend dies as a single mother and leaves baby Mandy in Emma's care, the town of Roswell takes sides. Most of the men say she cannot manage it, since she has a restaurant to run, but the townswomen rally to help. When a councilman plots to take the child away, Emma is forced to act, and she places an advertisement for a mail-order husband.
Rating coming soonIn Texas in 1891, the teacher Charlotte Atherton is on the run in order to keep a little girl entrusted to her care safe. The tracker Stone Hammond is in close pursuit, until he learns the truth of the situation, and then discovers that his heart may have found a new object to pursue. What began as a hunt becomes a shared obligation.
Rating coming soonBorn illegitimate, Jane Howard inherits nothing but her mother's red hair and the spirit of the Blake family. When Anne Blake dies, it is Jane who sets out to restore the debt-ridden house in London, and she does it with the profits of smuggling along the Kent coast. Then Charles Blake returns, fleeing the French Revolution, to claim his inheritance.
Rating coming soonFrom an abusive and alcoholic father, to townspeople who treat him as though he were cut from the same cloth, to his own insecurities, nothing Alec does is ever good enough. He cannot see how he could let himself love the boss's daughter, or why she would have declared her love for him. Then Clara's life is threatened by cattle rustlers and he has to answer for both.
Rating coming soonThe ability to manipulate time has come in useful for Caleb Edge in his career as a T-FLAC operative, and his current assignment is to get close to Heather Shaw in order to find her banker father and forty-eight billion dollars of missing terrorist funds. The difficulty is that Heather has been in hiding for a year and does not know where he is.
Rating coming soonEden Black walks among humans, protecting them from other-worlders who abduct and enslave. She looks human but is an alien of a kind distinguished by golden hair and skin and gifted with the ability to kill without remorse and with total accuracy, until the night she has one shot at a human slaver and misses. Failure is not in her vocabulary, and neither is partner, but she is assigned one.
Rating coming soonReturning to Segundo, Colorado, was the last thing Tori Sandoval planned to do. She had overcome the odds facing a girl from a small coal-mining town to become a high-school principal in the city, but now her grandparents need her help. She cannot understand why the widower Steve Remington would move to a place like this with his children, and then he turns out to be her employee.
Rating coming soonIt is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family's mountain home in Paradise, and her parents can see that she is not the woman who left. She has come back without her husband and without her son, and with a story of loss she cannot bring herself to tell. As she resumes work as a healer among the sick, she begins to heal herself, and then the war calls her away.
Rating coming soonEmma Woodhouse is handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home, and she is also spoiled, headstrong and satisfied with herself. She overestimates her own abilities as a matchmaker, is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives, and her imagination frequently leads her astray. The novel is set in the village of Highbury and the estates around it.
Rating coming soonAs a young man, Jacob Jankowski was thrown by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early years of the Great Depression, and the circus he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just short of his degree, he was put in charge of the menagerie, where he met Marlena and an untrainable elephant named Rosie.
Rating coming soonIn the gold country of California in 1850, Angel has been sold into prostitution as a child and expects nothing from men but betrayal. Michael Hosea, a farmer who believes he has been directed to marry her, does so and sets about loving her without conditions, and the novel follows her resistance and the flight that answers it.
Rating coming soonMemphis Ward arrives in the small town of Quincy, Montana, with her newborn daughter and very little else, on the worst week of her life. She takes a job as a housekeeper for Knox Eden, a chef who wants to be left alone in the house his family owns, and the two of them get in each other's way.
Rating coming soonMaya Killgore is twenty-three and has not worked out what she wants from her life when she meets Conor Harkness, a man twelve years older with a way of doing things that gets on her nerves. The novel follows the two of them through a summer in Italy and the problem of wanting something that looks like a mistake.
Rating coming soonSamantha Elliot's father controlled her life while he was alive, and his will goes on controlling it after his death: to inherit, she has to move to New York and find out what happened to the grandmother who vanished sixty years earlier. She has never made decisions for herself and now has to make a great many.
Rating coming soonSloane Hart is in her senior year of college in 2016 and has decided to keep things simple, which lasts until she meets Ethan Brady. The two of them settle into something that is not quite a relationship, and the novel follows the year that arrangement takes to fall apart and what Sloane does afterwards.
Rating coming soonAnne Marie Roche is thirty-eight, widowed and childless, and owns a bookshop on Blossom Street in Seattle that she took on after her husband died. On Valentine's Day she and three other women each write a list of twenty wishes, and the lists begin to change what all four of them do with the year ahead.
Rating coming soonThirty-five girls entered the competition to marry Prince Maxon, and four are left at the palace. America Singer never expected to be one of them, or to have come so close to the crown, but the competition is nearly over and the threats outside the palace walls are getting worse. One of the four will be chosen.
Rating coming soonCatherine is one of the most admired young women in Wonderland and the favourite of the unmarried King of Hearts, and neither of those is what she wants. She bakes, and her plan is to open a shop with her closest friend, though her mother has other ideas. Then she meets Jest, the court joker.
Rating coming soonKimberly Sawyer is a novelist living in the Napa Valley, and somebody has started leaving threats for her: a rose run through with a needle on her doorstep, and a hooded figure holding a dagger. She goes to Darius Cavenaugh's vineyard for protection, and then begins to wonder what her protector actually is.
Rating coming soonA man who describes himself as ruthless and without a conscience is handed a woman as part of a bargain. Olivia Bell was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now she belongs to him; the people who gave her up expected him to break her, and then they decide that they want her back.
Rating coming soonKate Logan proposed to Luke Rivers at somebody else's wedding, in the middle of being miserable about the man she thought she loved. Luke said yes, and now he refuses to take it back, even though Kate is certain he only agreed out of pity and that what she feels for him is friendship.
Rating coming soonLaura Vernon overhears Lady Margaret telling Bren Dewar that they do not want Laura falling in love with him, which is awkward, because she already has. Bren is a Border lord with a reputation, and Laura cannot work out why he pays her the attention he does or what Lady Margaret was warning him about.
Rating coming soonKatriane writes romance novels for a living and has never been in love herself. She spends a Christmas with Egan Winthrop, her roommate's brother, who ranches in Wyoming and has no interest in cities, and finds that the man she has been avoiding is harder to keep at a distance than she expected.
Rating coming soonColby Lane has left his years as a mercenary behind and taken a job running security for an oil company, and then a drug trafficker brings him back into the world he left. His ex-wife is part of the case, which he was not expecting, and so is the six-year-old daughter she has.
Rating coming soonGina Bennett has already survived one accident and does not want her publisher, Leo Sterne, going over the past with her. He believes she damaged his sister's marriage, which is bad enough, and what he actually wants is her help with his young deaf son, which is harder to refuse.
Rating coming soonSloan Fairchild runs an inn in a house that has been in her family, and she has decided that romance is not for her. Then her closest friend asks her to put up her fiance for a month, and Carter Madison walks into Fairchild House and changes what Sloan thinks she knows about herself.
Rating coming soonLynsey Thorpe asks, half as a joke at a friend's wedding party, who will be the prince to her Cinderella, and a stranger answers her seriously. It is only afterwards that she finds out he is Madoc Morgan, the brother of the bride and the man who has just taken over the company she works for.
Rating coming soonKate Svenson is a success at work and has been engaged three times without getting married, so she decides to approach the problem of finding a husband as a project. She goes to a resort full of exactly the kind of men she is looking for, and they keep going wrong in front of Jake Templeton.
Rating coming soonSerena MacGregor has been avoiding her family's expectations by working as a blackjack dealer on a cruise ship, and her father decides to do something about it. He arranges for Justin Blade, a gambler with Comanche ancestry, to be on the same ship and waits to see what happens. Neither of them knows that they were brought together on purpose.
Rating coming soonPhilippa Ingram is told that she may inherit a woollen mill in Cumbria, and takes the news calmly. What unsettles her is a Frenchman she meets while on holiday in Avignon, a man everyone describes as a heartbreaker, who turns out to have marriage on his mind. He is not the sort of man she imagined marrying, and the question of what he wants from her will not go away.
Rating coming soonSusan Blackstone has been a widow for five years when she sees a stranger across a room and then learns his name. He is Cord Blackstone, the family's black sheep, and he has come back to the company that bears his name for one reason, which is revenge. The business is why he returned, and Susan is the complication he did not plan for.
Rating coming soonBrenna Llewellyn has gone to a mountain cabin to get away from a crisis in her working life, and the man who finds her there takes her for a trespasser until he changes his mind. Ryder Sterne is a writer who lives at speed, and the two of them begin something that asks more of Brenna than she planned to give.
Rating coming soonA man who trusts nobody and organises his life around control buys a month with a woman he sees on a stage at an auction. Dahlia has never done anything like this before, and she lies to him about something, which he intends to make her answer for. The arrangement is meant to last four weeks, and neither of them expects it to become anything more than that.
Rating coming soonSeveral months after the events of the previous book, Feyre, Rhysand and their companions are still rebuilding the Night Court and the world around it. Winter Solstice is approaching, and Feyre is preparing for her first one as High Lady, which turns out to mean a great deal more than a celebration.
Rating coming soonA widow runs an elegant boutique and has arranged her life so that nothing in it can surprise her. Then a man steps into the shop who is exactly what she has been imagining in private, and she has to decide whether to keep hold of her past or take a risk on loving somebody again.
Rating coming soonMolly's grandfather wants her to bring her sons home to the ranch, and she is considering it when a stranger named Sam Dakota tells her that the old man is ill. She drives to Sweetgrass, Montana, with the children and arrives to find Sam already running the place, with nobody willing to explain him.
Rating coming soonOlivia Marshall loses her job and discovers that her boyfriend has been unfaithful, and then sets her apartment building on fire while burning his letters. She moves into her brother's flat and finds that his oldest friend Colin Beck lives there too, and then a wrong-number message turns into the best relationship she has.
Rating coming soonRebecca Cullen is twenty-four, holds down a job, raises two teenage brothers and looks after her grandfather on their Georgia farm. When her brother Clay is arrested on a drug charge she knows is wrong, the case is given to a district attorney with a reputation for prosecuting dealers without mercy. Rebecca has no money for a lawyer and nobody to turn to.
Rating coming soonA collection made up of the novella Paris for One and eight other stories. In the title piece, Nell is twenty-six, has never been abroad on a romantic weekend and is waiting in Paris for a boyfriend who does not arrive, which leaves her with a city, a hotel room and nobody to share either with.
Rating coming soonFlynn Rammage pursued Heather Devany eight months ago, while he was angry and newly separated, and then left her. He is back now asking for a second chance, and he has just been given custody of his young son, which makes Heather wonder what he is actually looking for. What she wants to know is whether he came back for her or for somebody to help with the child.
Rating coming soonBrenna Sloan values her independence above most things and does not find it easy to ask anybody for anything. Michael Donovan has spent his life taking what he wants, and what he wants when they meet is her. He talks her past her objections into a sudden marriage, and the two of them then have to learn to live with it.
Rating coming soonAt a masquerade ball Olivia Jeffries meets a stranger and acts on an attraction she would not have allowed herself in daylight. When she finds out who he is, the problem is not his character but his name: Reginald Westmoreland is the man her father has spent years hating.
Rating coming soonShane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been together for ten years and have told nobody: not their families, not their friends and not the league they both play in. Shane believes the secrecy is what keeps his career intact, and Ilya has run out of patience with it. The two of them play for different teams and have spent a decade in each other's company on and off the ice.
Rating coming soonJosh January is a private investigator with a case behind him that nearly killed him, and what he wants from Maggie Gladstone's bed and breakfast is a quiet place to recover and, ideally, an undemanding flirtation with the woman who runs it. Maggie has read a great many detective novels and expects a different sort of man.
Rating coming soonLydia Hoffman has opened a yarn shop in Seattle, which is the new life she wanted after her illness, and she teaches beginners on the side. Three women sign up for the first class, which is called How To Make a Baby Blanket, and each of them has a different reason for being there.
Rating coming soonShannon Raine is drawn to Garth Sheridan from the moment she meets him, and he seems to feel the same pull. What he will not do is let her any further into his life than that, and the novel follows her attempts to find out what he is keeping back. He lives nearby and works in an industry he will not discuss with her.
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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