The Girl Raised to Believe Half of Her Was the Enemy: Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Paranormal romance built its reputation in the 2000s on a particular promise: the supernatural man who has been waiting centuries for exactly you.
The Goalie Whose Routine Was Holding Him Together: Behind the Net by Stephanie Archer
Hockey romance has a structural problem that most of its practitioners quietly ignore: the sport is a job, the season is ten months long, and the person you fall in love with is on a plane roughly half the time.
The Man Everyone Relies On and Nobody Worries About: Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage
Small towns in romance novels tend to be either idylls or prisons, and both readings are a little bit of a cheat. Lyla Sage writes them as neither.
The Woman Who Spent Twelve Years Being No One: The Witness by Nora Roberts
Looking for more romantic suspense books? Browse the whole shelf → There is a particular kind of heroine who arrives on the page already fluent in every language except the one everyone else is speaking.
The Reading Nook and the Decade Between Then and Now: Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
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The Boss Who Was Wrong About What the Place Was Worth: The Fine Print by Lauren Asher
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The Woman Who Processes the World in Facts: Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid
Looking for more contemporary romance books? Browse the whole shelf → Romance heroines are rarely allowed to be eccentric. They are allowed to be bookish, occasionally clumsy, professionally competent in nonthreatening ways — but genuinely, specifically odd, in ways that make other people in the narrative slightly puzzled by them?
The Mountain Man Who Decided She Was Staying: The Gamble by Kristen Ashley
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The Fake Boyfriend Who Turned Out to Have Everything in Common: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
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The Letters Neither of Them Were Supposed to Write: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
Looking for more contemporary romance books? Browse the whole shelf → Abby Jimenez occupies a specific corner of contemporary romance: she writes emotional, sometimes very funny novels about people who are competent adults managing difficult lives, and her great skill is making the warmth and the depth coexist without either undermining the other.