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Four years after the heroine confessed her feelings for the playboy hero and he did not reciprocate, he comes back into her life to fight for her. Romantic suspense. Its a pretty alluring fantasy: to be taken care of by your handsome hero, usually in very close proximity to one another and with little chance of leaving. 3. All these details are clues in identifying the title and author of the book. Small town contemporary. Exceedingly competent workaholic heroine bent on revenge ends up accidentally pregnant by her nemesis. What starts off as a classic alpha-submissive, billionaire hero/working class domme romance ends up as a pretty delightful example of the real work romance can do when it sets out to do it. RELATED: Historical Romance Novels That Will Steal Your Heart. Regency historical;Byronic recluse hero, thought to be mad falls for a thief heroine. 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Sweet November (2001): This remake of a 1968 film stars Charlize Theron as Sara, a woman with leukemia who likes to have monthlong affairs with certain gentlemen. In a dystopian world, a god hero who can actually transform into earth falls in love with the woman sacrificed to him by her community. A badass bartender heroine and a professor work are at odds on the future of her grandmothers bar. BUY INDIE, Contemporary M/M. Heroine has one torrid night with stepbrother before running to Italy, love triangle develops with gorgeous Italian in the seminary. Oops, the woman I slept with last night is the widowed stepmother of the woman Im supposed to marry? Hes wanted her for ages and when he finally gets her, its perfect. 2. First, pin down everything you can remember about the book, plot, character names, time period in which the book may have been published, genre, etc. | Did I mention hes a boat builder? He could never show her love or even affection and he certainly never believed in her. Shes started her own business, a bakery/coffee shop on a beautifully described island in the Carolinas, and is doing all she can to provide stability and love to her son. Ray Milland, Votes: Todd Kessler Theres definitely . Medieval Scotland. Romantic suspense. Stepbrother Romance. The most gripping TV drama of the year is happening behind closed doors. Kathy Bates, So, pure catnip. The perfect winter readso incredibly sweet! All Votes Add Books To This List. New Orleans-set romantic suspense; heroine is suspect in TV evangelist murder. American historical;Heroine who has escaped enslavement, injured Underground Railroad conductor hero. Heroine who runs a gossip rag seduced by a hero attempting to keep her from discovering his secrets. Paranormal;Little Mermaid retelling. **, BUY INDIE; Listen to the Best Romance of 2020 Episode of Fated Mates. 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Stars: published 2017, avg rating 3.34 Seth Rogen, Beautiful twist on the heroine-in-pants trope--crusty, proper Alistair falls for non-binary Robin, who has assumed the identity of a dead man. So, I remember reading this book ages ago. Comic book writer hero with legendary skill in the bedroom falls accidentally in love with his best friend's tomboy sister when she asks him how to land a boyfriend. An irreverent young woman who uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious has a life-changing visit with her doctor. Mary Dare has lost everything in her hopes of making a new life for herself and her child. This book will gut you. Smart, feminist, sweet contemporary. Bartender heroine loses apartment, must move in with sexy, amazing, single boss. Art heist subplot. Regency historical; Spinster heroine in disguise stumbles upon her family's mortal enemy and falls in love. My only YA novel -- a little bit rompy Regency, a little bit the story of three best friends, a little bit murder mystery. Shailene Woodley, 1997-2023 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. When his pregnant wife dies in a shipwreck, Jesse Morgan gives up his wealth and place in Seattle society. Hero is an Ideal gentleman. Heroine is faking perfection. Love Always, Kate (Love Always, #1) by. Orphan gambler heroine wagers one week of her life against 5000. He cant decide whether he wants to forgo treatment and enjoy the few months he has left or undergo taxing chemo that may save his life. Medieval historical - The reimagined story of Eleanor Plantagenet and Simon de Montfort. He's spent years trying to stop Frankie Langtry's gang but Rose is a different matter. Delightful. published 2014, avg rating 4.16 A beautiful, honest love story between two ordinary guys who feel like they don't fituntil they do. $35.01M, PG-13 72 Metascore. $106.40M, PG Contemporary. Full disclosure, its difficult for me to limit the number of Sophie Jordan books on my list because I love her writing almost as much as I love her. Frog biologist Audrey Lockhart is nearly killed by a vicious attack. Karen Booth's Gray Hair Don't Care is a Gen-X romance about second chances, embracing your grays, and, sometimes, succumbing to fate. This one swings for the fences with a wild, rompy ride of a romance between a heroine who is a member of a ladies crime syndicate, a hero who is one-part pirate, one-part assassin, and one part dreamboat, and a reimagined 1890s Britain where houses fly. . (Many would tell you this one is best read last in the Scoundrels quartet.). BUY INDIE. Google Book's Advance Book Search allows you to search one of the largest book databases online by using keywords, phrases, words, subject, and more. **, Delicious romance that is part "Heroine decides to change her life," and part "Hero needs a fake fiance" and all wonderful read.BUY INDIE, The whole troubleshooters series is fabulous, but this one is my favorite. New York set with chick-lit overtones. Heroine can manipulate metal and is the only one who can save him. Yes! She has no idea who he is. Of course, it's not that simple. Thank you for supporting our partners, who make it possible for A Love So True to celebrate the romance stories you love. Hero is ex Black Ops & can scent pregnancy. (Romantic Suspense, #14; Baltimore, #3). In the ensuing fight, Rose is hurt. Listen to the Taking the Heat Fated Mates episode, Edwardian historical; Male/Male. BUY INDIE, 90s-set category romance from one of Harlequins first contemporary romance novelists. Is Audrey telling him the truth, or will betrayal destroy them both? The band have become the very thing their critics accuse them of. This password will be used to sign into all, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky Arrive at the Met Gala Fashionably Late, The Best, Weirdest and Most On Theme Met Gala 2023 Looks, The Best and Wildest Beauty Looks on the 2023 Met Gala Red Carpet, The Best and Wildest Beauty Looks at the 2023 Met Gala, Heres What Will Happen to Your Fave TV Show If Theres a Writers Strike. Must have an HEA. BONKERS. A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes. (Buy Indie), Medieval Scottish historical; honorable guardian and his beautiful headstrong ward. Two Regency Era spies married for work, and now she's looking for an annulment so she can marry for love. BUY INDIE. For May-December lovers, the heroine of this one was rebuffed by her dads prized employee (15 years older) seven years ago. Cancer in Romance Novels. | | Hero doesnt realize she had the mastectomy done and heroine hides it from him. Not saying we should start prepping but we should start prepping. | Each based on a famous Christmas movie, set at Christmas, and tied together with my delicious (eventually) shortbread. But his mom persuades him to wait six months in hopes that he might change his mind, maybe after he meets his attractive new caretaker, Lou (Emilia Clarke). Doja Cat Becomes an Actual Cat for Met Gala. Self-described ugly girl and the police officer who thinks shes anything but. 2023 Met Gala Carpet Is Approved by Your Dentist. | (Finally, a cancer-ridden teen girl who makes it to the final credits!) Pleasure at Home. **, BUY INDIE; Listen to the Best Romance of 2020 Fated Mates podcast. Best-maid heroine goes into competition for best bachelor(ette) party with the bride's brother, whom she's carried a torch for forever. Nobody likes being hurt, but in the romance world, injuries often lead to the sexiest of moments. Heroine arrives at the prison to discover that she has no choice but to find a protector. Sexy contemporary,plus-sized heroine;Outrageously sexy wealthy hero (who is a twin). BUY INDIE, Two doctors in 1830s New York City, one trans himself, work together to help a trans patient in one of the Citys mental hospitals and fall in love. Erotic historical. Together, they can make something new from her old house. Welcome back. Director: This one will ravish you. They fall in love, he dies, and her tennis game suffers (and, along with it, her chances for that scholarship), so she takes to driving Keiths beat-up yellow truck around and entering it in a car show. The young orphan heroine of The Lurid Lady Lockport by Kasey Michaels, the 1985 Regency Romance winner, who insists on being treated as equal despite having no real power, at least until she insists on it. Stars: Take Carolina Dreamingby Virginia Kantra, the 2017 RITA winner in the Contemporary Mid-Length category. Second book features the servant masquerading as a lord. Delightful. Rose needs support to keep her family farm from going under, and a marriage of convenience will provide it. BUY INDIE; Listen to the Fated Mates Best of 2021 Episode. It killed her sister and left her mother broken-hearted beyond repair. Best bad sex ever. Heroine raised in a cult returns home to investigate a series of murders alongside sexy local sheriff. Listen to the The Hating Game episode of Fated Mates. When a spaceship crash lands on a planet with an atmosphere of pure aphrodisiac, a human space soldier and an alien have no choice but to turn to each other for help. Our heroine hated her father with good reason. Plus sized spinster gives herself a male prostitute for her 30th bday. RELATED: 8 Books With Delicious Use of the Only-One-Bed Romance Trope. scholars. Sexy contemporary. Drama, Romance. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Perfect for the tween/early-teen in your life. For Flynn, this could be a chance at something beautifulbut it may be too much too soon for Sunday. Check. Its about living again, for both the hero and heroine, not a deep dive into the trauma that led to it. 109 min BUY INDIE. Online resources can help with your search for a half-remembered book, even if all you have is a basic plot line. Jonathan Levine The Fault in Our Stars (2014): The elusive good teens dying of cancer movie! Drama, Romance. London's strangest debutante seeks out a notorious rake to teach her about the science of love before she marriesonly to discover that this rake is nothing like he seems. Sexual tension for days. Old school. 100 min Romance.io is a website that suggest . It could really simplify you narrow down your book search. Theres zero chemistry between them, and their repeated breakups and reunions continuously strain credulity. When a stranger steals Sir Gybbon Murray's horse, he thanks his lucky stars that the animal doesn't take too kindly to strangers. Contemporary romance; genius heroine desperate for a child seduces NFL quarterback and quickly discovers the mistake. Coming home after five years is easier said than done, however, especially since the first thing she sees is their gruff rancher neighbor trying to kill her brother. | She dies, he speaks at her funeral, and all youll be able to think about is how they have the exact same haircut. The James Joyce Quarterly, along with its sister journal, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, is published by the University of Tulsa, a private university founded in 1894. NYC-set sexy contemporary; New York police officer hero, rich-girl heroine. (Book 1 of 2.5). BUY INDIE, Listen to the Fated Mates episode on Indigo. (Buy Indie). Thoroughly charming. Request Permissions. BUY INDIE, Victorian historical; autistic hero, widowed heroine. Of course. A duke with five younger sisters has no choice but to marry for moneyexcept hes falling for their music instructorand thats not great. Want more romance? Arranged marriage to hot Scotsman. For more information, please see our Older heroine running for City Council canvasses the home of a younger, blind, dirty-talking, virgin, recluse billionaire. This is one walk you can definitely forget. Old money billionaire Wall Street banker falls for his assistant, whos had a long time unrequited thing for him for years. A Little Bit of Heaven (2011): Kate Hudson has made some bad choices in her film career, but few worse than this stinker in which she plays a cancer patient who is granted three wishes by God (Whoopi Goldberg). Plus-sized heroine and her unrequited childhood crush. High fantasy romance. At turns deeply romantic and wildly funny, this asks the question: what if "the perfect match" wasn't just a hopebut actual science? Then theres the abused widow in Tender Texan, again by Jodi Thomas, the Short Historical winner in 1992. But there is a nude painting and a big burly Scot. Sci-fi erotic romance. | What she couldn't have predicted was that the man she tried to rob would be sympathetic to her cause and would nurse her until they were ready to seek revenge. Stars: Jemma and Elijah's emotional reunion (I know I always cry, but I cried . Their triumph is inevitably earned by the heroines own efforts, which are recognized (eventually) and encouraged by the hero. In memory of all the fictional characters that gave their lives so that their sweethearts could lead more meaningful ones, here is a ranking of 18 terminal romances. Stars: 2023 Vox Media, LLC. Virgin heroine hires a male escort to take her virginity. You must have a goodreads account to vote. Nick Cassavetes Hero (in love with another) agrees to marry her for her reputation. In the ensuing fight, Rose is hurt. Charming f/f contemporary about a transwoman who joins a roller derby team, finds new friendships and falls in love with the team captain. The last book in the series, This Duchess of Mine, is one of my favorite estranged lovers romance. BUY INDIE, Modern amnesia story. "Wolitzer flashes back fifty years to 1950s Smith College and Greenwich Village the beginning of the Castleman relationship and follows the course of the famous marriage that has brought them to this breaking point, culminating in a shocking ending that outs a carefully kept secret. Contemporary romance, opposites attract. Stars: Heroine who survived a a serial killer as a young woman returns home to find a copycat at playand the childhood sweetheart (now FBI agent) who will do anything to keep her safe. He thinks she's bewitched him into loving her. At the Bar C Ranch, he works with a crew of fellow military vets, which is where he meets Dair Wilson, a half-Comanche ex-Marine whose foot was amputated after an IED explosion. Peter Coyote, Black Lives Matter activist and an Assistant District Attorney fall in love in this wonderful, honest look at love that is the romance 2019 deserves. Deaf, non-speaking heroine, thought to be mad. Meanwhile, the Duke is mired in a deep depression because not only is his wife dead from a drug overdose but shed been cheating on him for years, with several men, and spilling political secrets to his rivals.