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Two people with a problem. The problem is each other. The promise of the genre is that the problem resolves.
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It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover at her most daring. A romance that refuses to be comfortable, and is more powerful for it.
Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 2023 review. Violet Sorrengail, a fragile scribe, is forced into the brutal dragon-riding war college. The first book of the Empyrean series and the romantasy novel that defined the 2023-2024 BookTok moment.
In Too Deep
by Cherry Adair
Cherry Adair doing T-FLAC romantic suspense. Globe-hopping, ridiculous, and exactly as fun as it knows it is.
The Last Time I Saw Paris
by Elizabeth Adler
The Last Time I Saw Paris by Elizabeth Adler 2001 review. A widow inherits a Paris apartment, a chateau, and a daughter she did not know about in this gentle expat romance.
The Fashionable P.I.
by Rida Allen
The Fashionable P.I. by Rida Allen 2002 review. A Boston PI series debut in which Mac Sullivan investigates a Newbury Street boutique murder that everyone wants to call accidental.
Hero at Large
by Steffie Hall
Hero at Large by Janet Evanovich writing as Steffie Hall 1987 review. A pre-Stephanie Plum romance where a Chicago insurance investigator gets stuck with a witness who refuses to behave.
A Kiss at Midnight
by Shana Abe
A Shana Abe medieval romance. The kind of careful chivalric pastiche that the form sometimes still produces well.
The Last Mermaid
by Shana Abe
Shana Abe writing a dual-timeline romance about a marine archaeologist and the medieval mermaid she may or may not be tracking. Pretty and slight.
Annie's Wild Ride
by Alina Adams
Annie's Wild Ride by Alina Adams 2002 review. A horse-racing romance from the figure-skating mystery author, transplanting her procedural eye from rinks to thoroughbreds.
Summer in Tuscany
by Elizabeth Adler
Elizabeth Adler doing what Elizabeth Adler does. Three generations of women, an Italian villa, and the kind of soft romance the form demands.
The Hotel Riviera
by Elizabeth Adler
The Hotel Riviera by Elizabeth Adler 2003 review. Lola Laforet runs a small hotel on the Cote d’Azur. Her husband has disappeared. So has a fortune in jewels.
Midnight Angel
by Julie Beard
Midnight Angel by Julie Beard 1997 review. A medieval historical romance about a hardened English nobleman and a French noblewoman whose lives intersect against a tournament backdrop in 1377.
Love Overboard
by Janet Evanovich
Love Overboard by Janet Evanovich review. A 1989 contemporary romance about a Vermont woodworker booked onto a schooner cruise with a captain who is not what she expected.
Thanksgiving
by Janet Evanovich
Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich 1988 review. An early Evanovich romance set in Colonial Williamsburg about a veterinarian, a single-dad pediatrician, a runaway rabbit, and one badly burned turkey.
Foul Play
by Steffie Hall
Foul Play by Janet Evanovich writing as Steffie Hall 1989 review. A Steffie Hall comic romance about a small-town newspaper editor and the New Jersey landscaper who keeps complicating her life.
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