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 9 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonBryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, and now that she has, all she wants is to get back to it: her family, her friends and her mate are all there. Stranded in a strange world, she needs every bit of her wit to find a way home, and she has no idea who she can trust. Meanwhile Hunt Athalar is back in the Asteri's dungeons, stripped of his freedom.
Rating coming soonEvery hundred years the island of Lightlark appears in order to host the Centennial, a deadly game that the rulers of the six realms are invited to play. It is their last chance to break the curses that have afflicted their realms for centuries, and each ruler has something to conceal: to destroy the curses, one ruler has to die. Isla Crown rules Wildling, a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with.
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 soonThe Weber family lives in a crowded house in Mannheim in 1777, where the father copies music and the four daughters sing and play well enough to be noticed. One of them, Aloysia, takes the attention of a young composer passing through, and the novel follows the sisters over the years in which he marries one of them.
Rating coming soonWren Southerland's reckless use of magic has cost her the place she had in the Queen's Guard and the company of the friend she loves. So when a letter arrives from a reclusive lord asking her to come to his estate to cure a patient, she takes the commission, and finds that the house and the man she is meant to heal are not what the letter described.
Rating coming soonA young woman born out of wedlock and shunned by the society she was raised in makes a bargain with a god, and the bargain is for revenge on the aristocratic family that turned its back on her. What the god wants in return, and what the house he keeps turns out to contain, is not explained to her in advance.
Rating coming soonJulianna Hawthorne goes to a London financier to clear a debt her brother owes him, and comes away having agreed to terms she did not expect: six months as Rafe Pendragon's mistress. He is known for being ruthless in business, and she has reasons of her own for not walking away from the arrangement.
Rating coming soonSir Alistair Munroe came home from the colonies scarred inside and out, and has lived shut up in a Scottish castle ever since. Helen Fitzwilliam arrives at his door to take a position as his housekeeper, running from mistakes that have taken her from the luxury of London society to the edge of the map, and neither of them wants company.
Rating coming soonEleanor Griffin has three older brothers with strong opinions about which men are suitable for her, and she has decided to enjoy herself before the arranged marriage she expects finally arrives. Her brother, the Duke of Melbourne, asks his closest friend to keep an eye on her, which is how the Marquis of Deverill becomes her chaperone.
Rating coming soonLillian Bowman is an American heiress whose blunt manners have not gone down well in London society, and Marcus, Lord Westcliff, is the most eligible and most disapproving aristocrat in it. The two of them are thrown together at a house party, where four friends who have agreed to help each other find husbands are also at work.
Rating coming soonTo avoid a marriage she does not want, Lily Bainbridge stages her own death and goes to London dressed as a boy. Her plan to live quietly as an independent widow is spoiled by a marquis who is interested in her, and Lily has to work out how much of her invented life she is prepared to give up.
Rating coming soonLucinda Bromley is a botanist whose talent is an unusual one: she can detect almost any poison, which is useful to the investigators who consult her and ruinous to her reputation. When a lord is murdered with a poison made from a rare fern stolen from her own conservatory, she needs help to keep her name out of it.
Rating coming soonPrudence Bosworth has supported herself as a seamstress and has always wanted to be loved, and then she inherits a fortune from a father she never met, on the condition that she marries within a year. Having decided that only one man will do, she has to find out whether the duke she has in mind wants her or the money.
Rating coming soonCampbell Sinclair intervenes when he sees a young lad set upon by bandits, and takes a wound for his trouble. While he recovers, the boy nurses him, and it is only later, when he comes upon the lad bathing in a river, that he discovers that Jo is Joan, and that she is carrying something her mother made her promise to deliver.
Rating coming soonAidan Bedwyn keeps his distance from marriage, its complications and its obligations, and he is the second of six remarkable brothers and sisters. What he is not prepared for is a promise made to a dying soldier, which obliges him to marry the man's sister and gives both of them an arrangement they did not ask for.
Rating coming soonLady Freyja Bedwyn has been raised with four unruly brothers and has no patience for the conventions that are supposed to govern a woman of her rank. In Bath a stranger bursts into her room and asks her to hide him, and the stranger turns out to be the Marquess of Hallmere, whose reputation is as bad as hers.
Rating coming soonMary is the daughter of the King of Scotland and a prisoner of the Norman invaders, and she refuses to tell them who she is, even when it would make her captivity easier. Stephen de Warenne is the soldier who holds her, and the war between the two of them turns into something neither of them planned.
Rating coming soonViolet Brantford has spent years in the shadow of her twin sister Jeannette and in love with the man Jeannette is going to marry, which is a situation she has learned to live with. Then, minutes before the wedding, Jeannette refuses to go through with it, and Violet finds herself walking down the aisle in her sister's place.
Rating coming soonEmmaline Dove is an authority on etiquette and works as the secretary to a viscount who runs a publishing house. She wants a book of her own, and the man who could give her that chance is the last person likely to take her advice about anything, since he has no idea that the person keeping his business in order is the woman whose manuscript he keeps putting aside.
Rating coming soonGrace Paget is kidnapped and taken to a remote country house, where she is told that she is to give the man holding her whatever he asks for, or die. She has no intention of agreeing to that and plans an escape, and while she is planning it she begins to suspect that the man in the house is not the one in charge of what is happening.
Rating coming soonCarrie Montgomery grew up with seven older brothers and is used to getting what she wants, and what she wants is the man in the photograph: a farmer who has advertised for a practical mail-order bride to keep house and help raise his children. She arranges to marry him by proxy and then presents herself as a fait accompli.
Rating coming soonReece Gilmore is the only survivor of a violent crime back east, and she has come to a small town in Wyoming to work in a diner and be somewhere nobody knows her. While hiking she sees a couple arguing on the bank of a river, and through her binoculars she watches the man put his hands around the woman's throat. By the time she brings help, there is nothing there.
Rating coming soonLaurel has not heard from her father since he left her mother when she was small, and she has kept the wound open by reading his novels and following his career. When a stranger comes into her bookshop on Long Island and picks up a copy of the latest one, she has a premonition, and what follows takes her into the family she has never met.
Rating coming soonAddie Moore and Louis Waters are neighbours in a small town on the Colorado plains, and both of them are widowed and living alone. Addie asks Louis whether he would come and sleep in her bed at night, for the company rather than anything else, and the arrangement they make changes the last part of both their lives.
Rating coming soonPenelope Keeling is in her sixties, has just come out of hospital and is recovering at the house in Cornwall where she grew up. She is the daughter of a painter and his much younger French wife, and the novel moves between her present and the years of her marriage, the war and the raising of her three children.
Rating coming soonElizabeth is handed to Miles Montgomery as a kind of gift, rolled up in a rug, and the two of them are already enemies before they meet. She is a Chatworth, he is a Montgomery, and the feud between the two families has produced murder and betrayal for generations, which does not stop either of them from wanting what they cannot admit.
Rating coming soonLord Alleyne Bedwyn is a diplomat who is thrown from his horse during a war and left for dead, and he wakes up in a bedroom of a house he does not recognise with no memory of who he is. The women who took him in have their own troubles, and the man without a past turns out to be useful to them.
Rating coming soonSamantha Prendregast arrives at a remote English estate to take charge of six badly behaved girls, and finds the master of the house a harder problem than the children. He is a widowed colonel who likes his life in order, and she is the opposite of orderly, which is what makes the arrangement work and what makes it dangerous.
Rating coming soonA woman known as the duchess of Magnus is wagered and lost in a card game, and the man who won her expects to marry her. What arrives instead is her quiet cousin Eleanor, who has agreed to exchange identities and now has to keep the pretence up with a man who is determined to go through with the marriage.
Rating coming soonChristiana's marriage was short and unpleasant, and when her husband dies she decides not to let the required period of mourning spoil her sisters' first season. She has him put on ice and carries on, which works until the man's twin brother turns up, having been robbed of his name by the husband she has just buried.
Rating coming soonLady Clarissa Pomeroy's grandfather has left her a fortune on condition that she marry, so she does the practical thing and proposes to Simon Sinclair, the Earl of Sheridan. He accepts, though he cannot work out why she chose him, and she has reasons she is not sharing, including a home for unmarried mothers that she has been paying for out of her own pocket.
Rating coming soonLady Edwina Bollash is a linguist who has been set a challenge: turn a rough, incorrigible man from outside society into a gentleman in six weeks. Mick Tremore is the man, and he has no intention of being turned into anything, though the two of them have more in common than either wants to admit.
Rating coming soonRafe Bowman comes from America for a meeting with Natalie Blandford, the daughter of a well-connected family, and the match is being arranged around him rather than by him. His manners and his reputation are against him, and the four friends who have already married into this world decide to take a hand in the courtship.
Rating coming soonLisa Madison has decided that she wants a husband, and she has picked Robert Langley for the position. He insists on thinking of her as the child she used to be, even though the rest of London has noticed her, and when her looks put her in danger it is Robert who has to rescue her, which he does while insisting that his interest is not romantic.
Rating coming soonLaura Morgan is the daughter of two people whose story the earlier books told, and she has grown up beautiful, confident and used to the effect she has on the men around her. The one she wants is Trent Challenger, a man with no interest in being managed, and the two of them are tied together by a promise made in the past.
Rating coming soonLady Saura of Roget has spent years in servitude with her fortune in the hands of a stepfather who does as he likes with it, and she is sent for by Sir William of Miraval, a knight who swore to live by his sword until an injury took his sight. The two of them come together in a castle where the danger is not only outside its walls.
Rating coming soonPrince Olaf of Norway comes to Ireland with a fleet and a plan to build himself a kingdom, and Princess Erin, the daughter of the Irish high king, has every reason to hate him for what his men have done to her country. The alliance that both sides need is sealed by marrying her to him, and neither of them is willing to accept it.
Rating coming soonTo keep her barony from being ruined, Madeleine de la Haute Vironge has to marry one of three lords chosen for her by the king, and the man she ends up with is the most dangerous of the three: a stranger she wants and is afraid of in equal measure. He has a secret that would destroy him if it were known.
Rating coming soonRhiannon is King Alfred's favourite niece, and she is furious when he seals an alliance by promising her to Eric, a Norse prince with a cold manner and an army behind him. She fights the marriage and everything it stands for, and the fight itself is what draws the two of them together, in a country where the politics that made the match keep changing.
Rating coming soonFlint Mahone comes home from the Civil War with one feeling left in him, which is for the children of his dead brother, and when the three of them turn up on his doorstep with a Wyoming winter coming he sets about making them a home. Lauren Hart was raised among outlaws and wants a respectable life, and the two of them are thrown together by the arrangements a frontier town makes.
Rating coming soonSarah MacKenzie has always believed she was the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Ross, and when he tells her that the local sheriff was in fact her father she leaves for Edinburgh to open an orphanage and put the disappointment somewhere useful. The Elliot family, who had plans for her and for her dowry, have other ideas.
Rating coming soonLaurel Burke comes back to her father's Texas ranch after two years at a boarding school in the east, and the first person she sees at the station is the young rancher she has been thinking about for as long as she has been away. The two families have been feuding for years, and her father has no intention of allowing a match.
Rating coming soonCarolina Lightfoot is a colonial beauty who sets her heart on Lord Thomas Angevine, the most notorious rake in London, and the scandal that follows sends her back to Virginia. From there she is taken at sea by buccaneers and carried to Tortuga, where she becomes the prisoner of a man with a mysterious past.
Rating coming soonChase Donlin receives a letter from his dying stepsister asking him to take care of her daughter, and he agrees without knowing that the child has grown into a young woman. Raegan arrives expecting a guardian and finds a trapper living in the thinly settled hills of Oregon, and the arrangement they make has to be worked out from the beginning.
Rating coming soonWade Magallen lived as a bachelor with no intention of settling down until Storm Roemer changed his mind, and then something he would not explain made him send her away. Years later she comes back to Laramie with no interest in being sent anywhere again, and the two of them have to decide what to do with the reason he gave her up.
Rating coming soonSloan Reynolds is a cop who has spent thirty years not needing the father who walked away. When Carter Reynolds invites her to Palm Beach to attempt a reconciliation she refuses, until an FBI agent explains that her father is under suspicion of financial crime and asks her to accept the invitation and report what she sees inside the family.
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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