Love - it’s a timeless theme! Emotionally satisfying, and more often than not, optimistic in outlook – it’s a reading choice that can be immensely satisfying. Check out one of our romance fiction recommendations, pulled straight from staff and patron reading lists!
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Description: Three Montana sisters are shocked to learn that before they can inherit, they must live together on the ranch for one year, putting their bitterness aside and living like a family.
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Description: A 12th-century Scottish maiden falls for the leader of the clan that abducted her.
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Description: First book in the wildly popular series. Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another…1743.
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Description: Ruby is determined to have a better life when she leaves her difficult childhood behind for post-World War II Washington, D.C. A job as a Navy secretary soon blossoms into love and marriage.
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Description: What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she’ll be getting married within the year? Her roommates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful carefree existence?
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Description: An ugly duckling who can’t believe she’s turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?
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Description: Phoebe Somerville has masqueraded as a bimbo for years. Now, with her father’s death, she stands to inherit the Stars, if she can just win the championship. Unfortunately, she clashes early on with Dan Calebow, the coach. Each is everything the other despises–until they finally discover something in common: their very intense passion for each other.
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Description: Iphiginia Bright believes that the person blackmailing her aunt has killed a man, so she pretends to be the man’s mistress until the man returns, not dead, and she has to explain who she is.
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Description: Ash Turner becomes heir to the dukedom of Parford after uncovering evidence that the current duke’s children, Ash’s distant cousins, are illegitimate. Among the suddenly disinherited is the beautiful Lady Margaret Dalrymple, now shunned by society. Instantly attracted to kind and charismatic Ash, Margaret is torn between newfound love and loyalty to her boorish brothers.
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Description: A Saxon woman, Ailith attempts to take her own life after the Norman invasion, but Rolf de Brize saves her so she agrees to assume the position of chatelaine of his estate. She bears his child and spends years as his mistress, but realizes that the fundamental gulf that separates them is too wide to sufficiently bridge.
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Description: While vacationing with her lover, Robert and his daughter, Dougless Montgomery is abandoned by them in a remote churchyard near the tomb of Nicholas Stafford. Nicholas himself, reincarnated in the 20th century to clear his reputation, has been unjustly convicted of treason. Dougless agrees to help Nicholas learn his accuser’s identity and restore his good name.
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Description: After Rachel Yoder’s husband is murdered, she must raise her son alone. A handsome stranger dying from a gunshot wound walks into her ranch. She treats his injury and nurses him back to health. Soon Rachel finds herself drawn to this mysterious outsider with a violent past–and must put her future on the line for happiness.
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Description: Imogen Waterstone plans, with Earl of Colchester, to let it be known that she inherited her uncle’s collection of antiquities, and an ancient treasure map. She’s sure her enemy would risk financial ruin to attain it. Imogene never anticipates Colchester’s reaction to her request neither that a threat would emerge from the labyrinth of London.
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Description: Megan was transported to a different time and grows into a woman named Gloriana. She forgets her childhood but discovers she can return. She is warned that in order to find happiness with Dane they will have to suffer; if she returns to the twentieth century, she may not be able to find her way back to Dane.
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Description: A broken-down pickup truck strands Kincade Harris, a washed-up rodeo rider, in the small town of Friendly, Nevada. He rescues pretty Eden Rossiter, owner of the Spur Ranch, from a stampeding herd of cattle. Sparks fly, but Eden is skittish when it comes to me, Kincade helps Eden with her ranch troubles and her hard heart.
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Description: Twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours bound to his employer for life, Mack burns with an insatiable desire to escape. He finds Lizzie Hallim, a beautiful woman who yearns for independence in a male-dominated society. Mack’s hunger for freedom brings him into conflict again and again with the harsh rulers of eighteenth-century Britain.
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Description: Medieval England provides the background for Coulter’s latest spirited romance, a tale that pits willful young heiress Hastings of Trent against her new husband, doughty warrior Severin of Langthorne. The union has been decreed by Hastings’s dying father, the Earl of Oxborough, to save her and the castle and estate from the evil depredations of Richard de Luci.
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Description: On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, Caroline Derwent-Jones looks forward to being free of her oafish guardian, Mr. Ffalkes. But Mr. Ffalkes has other plans for Caroline and her inheritance; Caroline must escape. In her flight, Caroline encounters Lord Chilton of Mount Hawke, Frederic North Nightingale, and finds herself tangled in mystery and romance.
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Description: Richard Storm is a Hollywood producer who has reached the top of his profession. Now, with his life beginning to unravel, he flees to England on a desperate quest but his search uncovers more than he bargained for. Storm is about to begin a journey through his deepest passions and his darkest fears.
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Description: Tate Beaumont, a student of marine archaeology–and Matthew Lassiter, a young man who shares her dream of finding Anguelique’s Curse, the jeweled amulet said to be lost at sea . Forced into a partnership with Matthew and his uncle, Tate soon learns that her arrogant but attractive fellow diver holds as many secrets as the sea itself.
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Description: Cameron Quinn, the eldest of three boys adopted by Ray and Stella Quinn, is an adventurer. After Ray is injured, Cam flies to his father’s deathbed promising to look after Seth, who is being adopted. Anna Spinelli, Seth’s social worker, is taken with both Cam’s body and his big heart. Anna brings along her own history of abuse to steamy encounters.
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Description: A young woman makes an effort to encourage her widowed father to get on with his life. She has in mind an older widow at the church and enlists the help of the woman’s grown son. Through scheming and friendly manipulation, they get the two “oldsters” together, but the results are hardly what they anticipated.
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Description: Eugenia Swift is the director of a world renowned glass museum; Cyrus Chandler Colfax is a private detective who is as rough hewn as Eugenia is slick. The sparks between the reluctant partners are immediate and antagonistic; but when a calculating killer leaves a body in the wine cellar, they reassess their relationship with dangerous and passionate results.
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Description: Sylvie has everything but what she wants most, passion and romance. Sylvie is sure her marriage will bloom again, until the day she notices those credit card receipts. She confronts Marla, the other woman and finds that Marla could be her twin. Sylvie hatches a scheme to make them both winners but will they end up brokenhearted?
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Description: Hetty has taken a job house-sitting because it’s good hideaway in which to mend her heart. The owner sends his nephew, Connor, to keep an eye on her. Hetty hatches a scheme to restore the house’s stateliness, but Connor prefers to tear it down. Later, the two discover an attraction to each other, in spite of their views.
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Description: Three English roses blossom when they strike out on their own and finally meet the right men. Housecleaning becomes a path to romance in modern London as the lives and futures of three floundering but well-bred young Englishwomen intersect at a sham cleaning agency.
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Description: Savannah Stephens has finally come home after years. Her return has set Sunbonnet’s queen bees buzzing. Why has she returned and where is the unknown father of daughter? Savannah isn’t talking; one person refuses to let her retreat into isolation. Clay’s love for Savannah never wavered while she was gone, and he’s not going to give up on her now.
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Description: All Anatole wants is a woman young enough to bear children. He sends a bride finder, Fitzleger, out to look for one. He finds Madeline Breton and knows that she is the perfect mate. He persuades her to accept, thus setting in motion a chain of events that will have the “perfect mates” at each other’s throats.
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Description: When a dashing mystery writer steps into Sloan Fairchild’s bed-and-breakfast, she finds herself acting out scenes from his latest novel–in his arms. Their attraction is more than make-believe, but so is the conflict separating them, forcing Sloan to choose between a lover’s embrace and a friend’s loyalty.
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Description: This “Beauty and the Beast” tale that tells of Erienne, whose father forces her to wed the richest suitor. She becomes wife to a man whose mysteriously shrouded form arouses both her fear and her pity. Yet even as she falls in love with her adoring husband, Erienne tries freeing her heart from a Yankee who can’t forget her.
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Description: Born to luxury and privilege, Emma Tremayne knows that it is her duty to marry well, maintain her social position, and avoid scandal. The death of a young boy in the mill belonging to her fiancé affects her life. Then an Irish activist, Shay McKenna, comes into her life and nothing is ever the same again.
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Description: Kate Herrick, a wealthy war widow, never knew who her father was. The mystery may be untangled by papers left in the safe her grandmother has instructed her to empty. Kathy opens it, but it’s empty. The question of Kathy’s parentage, the plundered safe, and her -broken heart, are all resolved in one long night in a cottage kitchen.
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Description: Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives, the perfect person to help her investigate the murder of one of her clients. She gave him a chance, never realizing that Baxter would soon conduct an exploration into the alchemy of desire, with Charlotte as his subject.
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Description: Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life–she’s a teacher, he’s a computer executive, and together they are lovingly raising their own children and Margaret’s orphaned niece. Then one day the phone rings–and suddenly everything changes forever as a woman from Adam’s university days reappears in his life and an old affair re-ignites.
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Description: When Lynx de Warenne invaded, he took possession of Jane Leslie’s home. Desperate for an heir, he proposed a hand fasting: a custom where a man can lawfully take a woman into his bed, after a year and a day, the couple can either wed or part. Lynx was afraid to love but Jane slowly stole into his heart.
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Description: The second book in the Quinn Brothers trilogy, continues the story of the lives and loves of adopted brothers Ethan, Cameron, and Philip Quinn. Honoring their father’s dying wish that their other brother, Seth, be cared for, they settle with him. Ethan finds himself drawn to the boy. Time hasn’t extinguished Ethan’s pain, only buried it within his heart.
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Description: This first novel features Margo Sullivan, the daughter of a wealthy family’s housekeeper. She’s been offered the same privileges as the Templeton children, but Margo resents handouts. She feels she has much to prove. Margo dreams big but she doesn’t want anyone else’s help. She discovers that reaching out for help can be challenging and rewarding.
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Description: Brodick finds himself protecting Gillian, who is desperate to find her long-lost sister and a treasure. Gillian must return to England with a golden box or her uncle will be tortured to death. Brodick sees Gillian as a woman of courage and determination and realizes that he has met his match.
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Description: Charlotte Calverstill sneaks out with a friend to attend a masked ball, and there she meets a handsome stranger. Years later, when they meet again, he does not remember her. But she remembers him; she has since learned about his identity and some gossip about him. The web that Charlotte weaves ensures justice for some and great merriment for all.
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Description: When Jillian Gallagher’s fiance is killed in a car accident, the last name he utters is “Kate.” After bringing his body back to his family, Jill discovers that a woman, Kate Gallagher, disappeared mysteriously almost 100 years ago. Her search involves her with a secretive and hostile family, and plunges her into a mystery that quickly obsesses her.
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Description: The twin children of a priestess escape the destruction of Carn Merioneth. Fifteen years later, Ceridwen lands in the arms of Dain Lavrans, a handsome sorcerer with a dark and tortured past. Ceridwen and Dain becomes pawns in a deadly game involving creatures that reside in a maze of time centered and the deadly politics of this barbaric period.
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Description: Kate Powell treasured the family who raised her like one of their own. Although Kate lacked Margo’s beauty and Laura’s elegance, she knew she had something they would never possess. Kate measures her success with each promotion, but is forced to look deep within herself–only to find something missing in her life and in her heart.
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Description: Four-year-old Olivia’s testimony put her father behind bars for the murder of her mother. Twenty years later Sam Tanner wants to tell his story, and wants writer Noah Brady, the son of the cop who arrested him, to write it. Noah agrees to write it. Noah is everything Olivia had ever imagined, but he is probing deeply painful memories.
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Description: Two teenagers fall in love and spend one summer together. Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah returns from WWII and Allie is forced to marry Lon. When she reads a newspaper story involving Noah, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah?
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Description: When Elizabeth Bonner learns that her husband, Nathaniel, and his father are imprisoned in Montreal, she embarks on a voyage to save them and brings along company. Before returning home, she loses and regains her children; sees her husband shot; witnesses piracy, kidnapping, and murder; and sails to Scotland to save the land of a laird.
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Description: After her father’s suicide, Alex Hawthorne arrives at Whistledown Farm to fire manager Joe Welch. Joe swore off women when his wife abandoned him and their three children. He doesn’t anticipate finding a woman rich where it matters in character. Neither expects to find undercurrents of an evil that belies Paradise County its name.
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Description: When he burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia knew Tobias March was nothing but trouble. He said he was in pursuit of a killer and was trying to save her so Lavinia hopes for a way to repay him. Lavinia could never imagine how they would meet again, or that he’d become more deadly.
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Description: For Helen Stanley, survival means escaping from an abusive husband and creating a new life. She joins an organization that protects abused women but she is declared dead, given a new identity, and moved across the country. She starts her own business and meets a Sam Tolliver. Meanwhile her ex-husband begins to stalk her and longs for a murderous revenge.
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Description: Bent on revenge, Vincent Everett will stop at nothing to destroy the man who destroyed his brother. He evicts his enemy’s ill son and daughter just before the holidays. Upon seeing Larissa Ascot, his victim, Everett decides to take her virtue as another way to get back at her father but finds himself drawn to her.
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Description: Princess Giana May is forced to flee her country after her parents’ murder. Giana poses as a chambermaid and hides out in a lodge. Adam McKendrick wins the lodge and plans to transform it but he finds himself drawn to her. After uncovering her secret, they realize that they must overcome obstacles in order to follow their hearts.
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Description: Three friends start new lives in London. Now in their early thirties, Katherine is still recovering from a break up and has sworn off men. Tara struggles with her weight while living with a horrible man. Fintan, seems to be having luck until an illness afflicts him causing them to re-examine their lives and make changes.
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Description: Like his FBI-agent brother Nick, Theo Buchanan is devoted to his crime-fighting career but he works as a Justice Department attorney. He is suddenly struck ill and is rushed to a hospital where a beautiful surgeon, Dr. Michelle Renard, saves his life. He also is about to uncover a ring of criminals bent on preserving their secrecy.
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Description: In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, her new husband, and their infant son, as well as members of their clan.
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Description: Perdita has remained single since her divorce with her husband Lucas. It turns out that Lucas is to be the star of a new cooking show, and its producers commandeer Perdita’s kitchen and Perdita herself, too, as co-host thus throwing the fractured couple together again. Sparks start to fly before filming even begins.
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Description: Quinn McKenzie leads a dull existence until a stray mutt crosses her path. Suddenly, her relationship with Bill Hilliard takes a downturn. Meanwhile Darla, Quinn’s friend, tries to ignite her marriage to Max. Quinn decides to go after Max’s brother, who is also her sister’s ex-husband but is it possible to keep romance in a lasting relationship?
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Description: Sophie Dempsey wants to help her sister film a video and then get out of Temptation, Ohio, meanwhile Phin Tucker wants to play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. Sophie and Phin meet, giving them more than they want. All hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper in trouble and in love.
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Description: Jenna Stern Hailey Ashton projects an image that she’s on top of everything, but no one realizes that she lives a life of emptiness. She’s not ready to have a relationship. Hailey opted to be the “good girl.” But when she meets Tyler Scott — her rich, attractive new boss — she longs to be anything but good.
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Description: Tory Bodeen grew up in a house where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. But she had Hope whose friendship allowed Tory to be a child. After Hope’s brutal murder, Tory’s life began to fall apart. She returns to the town to find peace and free herself from the visions of that terrible night.
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Description: Miranda finally finds love and, perhaps more important, success and validation in her career. Miranda’s Institute houses some of the most valuable and renowned art pieces in the world. Ryan, who is a thief, a totally charming and captivating one, plans to steal a particularly special item with which Miranda is having her own problems.
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Description: It isn’t easy making a living as a lady’s companion when one possesses a sharp tongue and an original mind. That’s why Emma Greyson has gone through three such positions in six months. But penning her own reference and hiding her spirited nature behind a pair of spectacles won’t keep her out of trouble for long.
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Description: Elizabeth Cabot knows how to maximize her investments and cut her losses – in both her career and her personal life. So when she discovers that Jack Fairfax has deceived her, she’s determined to end their relationship. Putting a stop to their budding romance is easy, but breaking up their business deal will be more difficult.
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Description: Jaine Bright and her three girlfriends talk about the requirements for Mr. Perfect. They write down a tongue-in-cheek checklist that’s both funny and racy. The next thing they know, the List spreads like wildfire throughout their company and it doesn’t stop there. The joke turns serious when one of the four women is murdered.
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Description: John Medina, the CIA’s Black Ops specialist, works on the government’s deadliest missions. He is a man with many enemies. And no one knows the dangers better than Niema Burdock. A communications expert, Niema and her husband, Dallas, worked side by side with Medina on an explosive mission that went tragically wrong.
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Description: She grew up on the reed-lined banks of the Upper Nile but she was not like the other villagers of Aswat. Intelligent and ambitious, Thu is convinced that her destiny is greater than to marry a peasant, tend crops and breed sons. She wants more.