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 8 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonAmanda Briars is a successful novelist who has reached her thirtieth birthday without ever having been kissed, and she decides to buy herself an improper present: one night with a stranger. The man who arrives at her house turns out to be Jack Devlin, a businessman of considerable reputation, and he is willing to keep the arrangement private only for a price.
Rating coming soonEvelinde has agreed to marry the most notorious laird in Scotland, known to everyone as the Devil of the Highlands. Her reason is simple: anything is preferable to remaining with her cruel stepmother, and although the stories about her new husband should give her pause, the man himself turns out to be harder to read than the rumours suggest.
Rating coming soonIliana Wildwood is being pressed into marriage by a baron who wants her lands, and her answer is to run for the Highlands and marry a Scottish laird instead. Duncan of Dunbar Castle is a warrior with a household and a reputation, and the wife who arrives with her own reasons for the marriage is not what he expected to be sent.
Rating coming soonChristina Wakefield is seventeen when the promise of adventure takes her to the Arabian desert, and she is captured soon after arriving there. The man holding her is a sheikh known as Abu, and she has met him before under another name in England, which complicates a situation in which she has no power at all and no way of getting home.
Rating coming soonVikings come from across the sea and take the Celtic noblewoman Brenna captive, and she swears that no barbarian will ever be her master. Garrick Haardrad, the son of the Viking chieftain, decides that he wants her for a wife, and he is a man who has never been refused anything he has asked for in his life.
Rating coming soonLady Kathryn Grayson has a privileged future ahead of her until her uncle decides that he wants her fortune, and the simplest way to take it is to have her committed to an asylum. Her escape is to hide in the carriage of a stranger, Lucien Montaine, the Marquess of Litchfield, who is travelling away from the city with no wish for company.
Rating coming soonJudith marries Gavin Montgomery at an altar decorated with flowers, and the ceremony is celebrated by everyone except the two people in it. She has decided that her husband will get nothing from her that he does not take, and Gavin, who has married her for reasons that have nothing to do with affection, is not prepared to be refused anything.
Rating coming soonEvangeline Jenner is the shyest of the group of young women known as the Wallflowers, and she stands to become extremely rich when her inheritance comes due. To get to it she has to escape the relatives who mean to take it from her, so she approaches Viscount St. Vincent, a notorious rake, with a proposal he has no respectable reason to accept.
Rating coming soonKatherine Mary O'Fallon is sixteen when she travels from Boston to Calgary in 1907 to visit her uncle and recover from pleurisy, and there she meets Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They marry and go north into the Canadian wilderness, where the two of them live among the hardships and the landscape of the early twentieth-century North. The novel is based on the stories of the real Katherine Mary O'Fallon Knox.
Rating coming soonRanulf is the English conqueror known as the Black Lyon, darkly handsome and rich beyond imagining, and a man no woman has been able to win. Then he meets Lyonene, a tawny-haired beauty whose temper matches his own, and the two of them are married after a whirlwind courtship. A web of lies spread by a jealous rival drives Lyonene away from her home and across the Irish Sea, and only Ranulf can undo the plot against their marriage.
Rating coming soonJace Montgomery comes to Chandler, Colorado, as a stranger: tall, proud and homesick for his family in Maine. He takes immediately to Nellie Grayson, the shy elder sister who has spent her life helping her beautiful younger sister Terel become the belle of the town, and gives Nellie her very first kiss. Nellie has no confidence that a man like Jace would choose her over Terel, and an unexpected new friend helps her see the situation differently.
Rating coming soonSara Fielding is a prim and proper gentlewoman who writes novels, and curiosity takes her out of her country cottage and into the London gambling world of Derek Craven, a man who rose from poverty to become the owner of the most exclusive gaming house in the city. He finds that the innocent woman he had dismissed as a mouse can be something quite different, and she finds that a cynical gambler can be shaken by what he feels.
Rating coming soonNeville Wyatt, Earl of Kilbourne, is waiting at the altar for his bride when a ragged woman runs down the aisle instead. He stares at her, and then announces to the assembled company that she is his wife: Lily, the woman he married, loved and lost on a battlefield in Portugal, whom he had believed to be dead. He says he will honour his commitment to her, and then Lily speaks, and what she asks for changes what he had planned.
Rating coming soonWulfric Bedwyn, the Duke of Bewcastle, is the eldest of the six Bedwyn brothers and sisters, and he is cool, arrogant and mysterious, the head of a family of passion and privilege. All of London is waiting for his arrival at the most glittering social event of the season, and the only woman in the room who is not trying to capture his attention is the one who interests him. Then he invites Christine Derrick to become his mistress.
Rating coming soonIn the twelfth century, with Scotland under siege, King David looks for warriors willing to fight for him with their blood and their hearts. Waryk de Graham, the greatest of them, is knighted Lord Lion, and the honoured position of Scottish chieftain comes with a price attached: a Viking bride who has sworn to resist him. Mellyora MacAdin rules her ancestral lands like a Valkyrie, and now she is an unwilling captive of his power.
Rating coming soonIn colonial New England, the British are hunting a masked patriot whose raids frustrate them at every turn, and he is known only as the Raider. Jessica Taggert, proud and quick-tempered, is thrilled by the Raider's midnight embrace and despises Alexander Montgomery, the drunken town buffoon. The two men are the same person, and only his success against the Redcoats will let him tell her so.
Rating coming soonFreya is eighteen when she is taken captive in battle, and she is furious that her captor takes no account of her noble birth and treats her as he would any woman captured in a raid. Alaric, the prince who took her, has spent years planning to humiliate the daughter of a man he hates, and he intends to keep her as a slave in his own household. Neither of them plans for what develops between them.
Rating coming soonIn Wessex in 873, Kristen Haardrad is nineteen and defiant, and she has been made a prisoner by Royce, Thane of Wyndhurst. He intends to keep her as a slave, and she has no intention of being one, and the two of them recognise in each other a pride and a strength neither had expected. He also carries a hatred for a crime committed by her people, and it was not her crime.
Rating coming soonBrianna Munro escapes into Scotland at night to avoid the marriage her guardian has arranged for her, and travelling alone and fearing for her safety she takes shelter at Castle Glenloch. She intends to stay for a single night, and then she meets Hugh Christie, Laird Glenloch. She tells him she is a lady's maid running from a vengeful employer, and he can see that she is hiding something.
Rating coming soonRue has thought Hawke Masters the most insufferable man she has ever met from the moment she saw him: proud, arrogant and overbearing, and insultingly clear that although her grandfather's shotgun forced him to marry her, nothing would make him share a bed with a scrawny backwoods girl like her. Then he takes her home to his ranch to look after his orphaned niece and nephew.
Rating coming soonLady Averill Mortagne has spent years learning to control a fierce temper, and her father's habit of parading her in front of English lords who look sideways at her flame-coloured hair is testing it. Her only relief is the time she spends with Kade Stewart, a wounded Scot her brother brought home from the Crusades. He is grateful to her for helping save his life, and he does not think he could subject a gentle lady to the life of a laird's bride.
Rating coming soonCatherine Enderly is sixteen and on her way to boarding school when she is abducted and taken from England to the coast of Ireland, where she becomes the prisoner of Sean Culhane, a young and powerful man who has sworn vengeance against her family. She meets him with a defiance out of proportion to her size, and his determination to have his revenge becomes complicated by what he begins to feel for her.
Rating coming soonAdrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, has been warned that Lady Clarissa Crambray is dangerous: she steps on toes and sets things alight, and she has earned a nickname for the mayhem she causes. He is a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and considers one woman and her unfortunate past to be a challenge he can handle. Clarissa, meanwhile, wants a husband, though possibly not as much as her mother wants one for her.
Rating coming soonLady Emmalene Eberhart was eager to be a good wife, and when her husband died she was still a virgin. Her dowry and her hand then become part of a struggle over feudal power, and she is promised to Amaury de Aneford, a landless knight whose sword has preserved the King's crown. On the wedding day a rival knight is already riding towards the bridal chamber.
Rating coming soonAfter three London seasons looking for a husband, Daisy Bowman has been told by her father that she must find one now, and that if she cannot then she will marry the man he chooses: the ruthless and aloof Matthew Swift. Daisy is appalled, and being a Bowman she refuses to admit defeat, deciding to marry anyone rather than Matthew. What she does not expect is that Matthew has charms of his own.
Rating coming soonDanielle D'Aville is the ward of Edward III, and she is sworn to obey the King's order that she marry her enemy: Adrien MacLachlan, the Scottish knight who masterminded the fall of Aville, the home she loved. She becomes the reluctant wife of a man she has promised herself she will despise, and she is carried off to his castle in the Scottish Highlands.
Rating coming soonMarty Claridge's husband is killed in a horse accident, and she marries Clark Davis, a man who needs a mother for his daughter Missie. The arrangement is practical for both of them, and over the months that follow Marty becomes attached to the child and to her husband. When the wagon train returns in the spring, she has to decide whether to go home or stay.
Rating coming soonLinnet Berry Thrynne is a beauty, and she is betrothed to a beast. The man she is to marry is difficult and unlikely ever to love her in return, and she has no idea of the danger that presents to her own heart, or of what she will have to decide about the life she had planned for herself. The novel is a retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, set among the English nobility and in Wales.
Rating coming soonMadeline Deveridge is well aware of the whispers behind her back, and of the rumour that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed the crime. Being called the Wicked Widow is not, however, her most pressing problem: she has come to believe that she and her beloved aunt are being haunted, and there is nobody she can ask for help without inviting more of the gossip that already surrounds her.
Rating coming soonLady Sophia Bryant has no intention of ever marrying, but her parents have been estranged for fourteen years and her one wish is to bring them back together. Announcing a betrothal, even a false one, would force them both to attend to her. Lord Francis Sutton, a handsome and notorious rake, is perfect for the deception, being always ready for a game provided it costs him nothing.
Rating coming soonGlory Parsons dreads going home for the holidays. Her brother was killed in a war, and Jesse Bainbridge was lost to her through her own weakness: she left him abruptly ten years earlier after promising to love him forever, and she never told him why. Jesse is now the sheriff of Pearl Lake and responsible for his orphaned niece, and he has no intention of getting involved with her again.
Rating coming soonPoppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though what she longs for herself is an ordinary life. Then she meets Harry Rutledge, the enigmatic owner of a hotel and an inventor with wealth, power and a dangerous hidden side to the way he lives. When their flirtation compromises her reputation and the season's gossip starts, Poppy surprises everybody by accepting his proposal of marriage, and finds that she has married a man who will share his passion but not his trust.
Rating coming soonEdie was a ruined American heiress until the devil-may-care Duke of Margrave agreed to her proposal of a marriage of convenience. Five years later she is delighted with the arrangement, particularly because her husband is living on another continent. Then a brush with death brings him home, and he proposes a new bargain: ten days to win a willing kiss from his wife.
Rating coming soonJonty Rand was raised in a bawdy house and has posed as a boy all her life to keep the cowboys who use the place from noticing her. The most notorious of them, in her view, is Cord McBain. When her grandmother's dying wish makes Cord her guardian, Jonty is sure she will never be able to tell him who she is.
Rating coming soonCatherine Tremyne was stolen from her father's Cornish estate as an infant and raised by Gypsies, and she has grown into a beautiful young woman without knowing where she came from. Her life is turned upside down when she is carried off to Paris by Jason Savage, which begins a long passage through danger and captivity at the hands of a man she cannot escape.
Rating coming soonCorinne is the scandalous darling of Boston society, and she sails halfway around the world to Hawaii to ruin the man who ruined her: Jared Burkett, who took her, humiliated her, and left her with feelings she did not want to have. She hates him as much as she wants him, and he wants to possess her as well, whatever the cost to both of them.
Rating coming soonAlethea is desperate to leave home, where her mother, her sister and three young nieces are driving her to distraction, so the arrival of Trent de Havilland in her life is a relief. Then he suggests that she move in with him, which is more than she bargained for. She hardly knows him, and she is wary of a man who makes her feel the way he does. The arrangement is part of the deal if he is to help her sister.
Rating coming soonCharlotte Pringle would rather run her bookshop than look for a husband, but her parents are pressing her to agree to an advantageous match, and what she fears is being trapped in a marriage without affection. Richard Baxton has taken on the family business and the care of his niece Grace, who cannot walk. When Grace's love of books brings them to Charlotte's shop, Richard is drawn to her.
Rating coming soonRuth Kauffman is shy, and she is delighted when Charles Polk asks her out: he is handsome, hard-working and genuinely interested in her. There is one complication, which is that Charles and his parents are not Mennonite, though they are seriously considering joining her church in Sarasota and taking up a simple life. Some members of the congregation refuse to accept them, and then disaster strikes Charles's family.
Rating coming soonMaggie Turner takes her child to her godmother's ranch near Abilene, hoping to get away from her ex-husband's threats for a while. The plan would have worked if Gabe Coleman were not there: ten years on, he is as blunt, as rude and as unsettling as he was when she knew him before. She had thought her marriage cured her of wanting anybody, and Gabe's presence tests that.
Rating coming soonWhen Brent Akerman announces that he intends to close down his chain of fashion accessory shops, somebody has to ask him to reconsider, and Crystal is elected to do it. He is open to suggestions and does not soften his answers, and it becomes clear that he likes her, respects her work and wants to hire her for other projects. It is also clear that he would not mind mixing business with pleasure.
Rating coming soonAfter her husband's death, Kate Long moves with her young daughter to the Australian mountain town of Ferntree Heights and sets out to build a new life for the two of them. She is unsettled by Aaron Frazer, a successful entrepreneur and a man of faith, who takes a romantic interest in her. Kate wants the warmth he offers, and tells herself she does not deserve it.
Rating coming soonFourteen years ago a fire injured Shelby Beck and burned down Goose Harbor's only church, and she is now planning to rebuild both the building and her life. Her wounds have always kept her at a distance from men. When Joel Palermo returns to town as a fireman and is assigned to help her raise money for the new building, she is surprised by how easy it is to get close to her brother's old friend.
Rating coming soonTanner Bohlman works for the Forest Service and knows the dangers of Idaho's land and rivers, and he does not think it is any place for a woman like Zoe Lawton, even if she is a capable marine biologist. Zoe is new in town and could use a guide. When Tanner finds that her young son has never been fishing, he steps into the role of a father figure, and finds himself rethinking a vow never to love again.
Rating coming soonArianna Kent's last spoken words were heard by a 911 operator telling them that her parents were dead. She and her brother Simon are now in hiding, grieving and afraid of the killer who is still at large, and since her discovery of the murder Ari has been unable to speak. Mitch Ellis, a psychiatrist, is intrigued by her condition, and he has secrets of his own.
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 soonShe is beautiful, exasperating and, in the words of the story, a little hellcat with barnyard manners. Marshal Travis Kincaid has decided that if anybody is going to make a lady of her, it will be him, and he takes on the project even with outlaws overrunning his town. The novel is a western romance.
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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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.
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