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Contemporary Romance Novels

Water Signs: A Story of Love and Renewal by Daria DiGiovanni

Madeline Rose, the sweet, sheltered and youngest child of a neurosurgeon has a chance encounter with Ken Lockheart a handsome, affable and ambitious ex-Navy man and initiate an unexpected relationship ...

Anthrax Scare by Christina Nelson

Not many romantic stories start with an Anthrax scare. Recovering from a failed romance, Agent Amanda Andrews...

Married To A Rock Star by Tami Parrington

This chance for romance starts out in the country, where Karen and her two teenage children have a new neighbor...

The Heart of Rachael - A Book Sample by Kathleen Norris

Warren Gregory discovers too late that he is in love with the beautiful Rachael. Ten years after their first meeting, he finds her married to a man she doesn't love. Rachael must search ...

Love Like This by Sylvia Hubbard

Angered that his wife would sleep with his brother, Ethan swore revenge. To his surprise, he becomes involved with the one person his wife never wanted him to get close to ...

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

A criminally-insane physically-deformed musician provides voice lession to a beautiful young singer and then abducts her away from her lover who ...

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

From an orphanage to college, Judy hopes to continue her education, but has no funds. When an anonymous benefactor offers to finance her studies, Judy accepts. Her witty letters to this generous man ...

Second Chance Romance by Asrai Devin

Two years ago Kip Turner let the girl of his dreams go to pursue his dream of playing hockey ...

Bandit Love by Juanita Savage

Savage's signature sultry style brings us a red-headed Irish horsewoman, her English gentleman lover, and a passionate, lawless Spaniard. Their adventures take ...

The Call of the Blood by Robert Smythe Hichens

The honeymoon period is brief for newlyweds Hermione and Maurice when the new bride is called to the bedside of a dying friend, leaving her young, handsome husband home alone ...

The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers

An American visiting London innocently checks the personal ads, known as the agony column, and soon finds himself entangles in a murder mystery and a love affair ...

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

An epic love story of a Russian prince who discovers that the prostitute on trial is the woman he had loved and abandoned many years before and ...

The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence

This is the story of a tragic love affair between a female friend of the author and her violin teacher. It is based on the diary of the author's female friend ...

How to Forget Your Life by Janet Trakin

Lesbian lovers and drug dealers combined with unemployment lead Penelope through this modern day romance novel...

Historical Romance Novels

Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse

Jeremy Garnet, author, takes his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge up on his offer of a holiday. He is astonished to find his vacation taking place on a chicken farm, and even more astonished to find himself falling in love with a girl living there ...

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

On tour in Italy, young Lucy is overwhelmed by her feelings for a stranger staying at her hotel. Lucy is supposed to marry her proper suitor, Cecil, but she is overcome with attraction to the witty George Emerson, who opens to her an unconventional and freethinking world ...

Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac

When two young women escape from their convent school to be wed, their lives change tremendously. Over the next seventeen years, they share the passions and betrayals of married life ...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Tess, beautiful but poor, finds she is related to the d'Urbervilles of Norman aristocracy. This news brings her to the relentless attentions of Alec d'Urberville, and the righteous affections of Angel Clare. She loves Angel, but fears ...

Alisa Paige - A Book Sample by Robert W. Chambers

Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, Chambers brings all of the fiery passion of wartime back to the homefront in this historical romance. We move between New York and Virginia ...

Ms. Austen by Randi M. Hull

If you love historical romance novels, enjoy this fictional account of the last years of the life of Jane Austen. Had she not died...

Flight of the Monarch by Aurora Michaels

Nineteenth century Hayley Lawrence lives with her father on Canada's Amhearst Island. His over-protectiveness and interference by others, threaten to keep her from the man she loves ...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Like heroines in many romantic stories, Jane Eyre was a penniless orphan who was an ugly duckling. She became a teacher and governess before ...

Emma by Jane Austen - A three-volume book

Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her friend and plunders through the challenges of her social world. She share her life with ...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Two sisters get sent to the country after they become impoverished. Their very different personalities lead them to very different love stories ...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

This is the love story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor. They long for each other but ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This love story is set in the 1920s - a period of jazz and decadence. Jay Gatsby, a poor army officer falls for Daisy who marries a rich man while Jay is overseas. After the war...

Lavender and Old Lace by Myrtle Reed

Wedding bells from the past peal in the present when Ruth Thorne discovers a mysterious letter that leads her to a family history of elopements and secret weddings. ...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This is a 19th century England romantic story of the rebellious Elizabeth Bennet, a strong-willed young woman and Mr. Darcy, a mysterious and arrogant wealthy man ...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - A six-part book

A sensuous, rebellious woman in a loveless marriage falls in love with a dashing officer in nineteenth-century Russia. The love story ....

Romantic Suspense Novels

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor-Marie Hugo

This classic love story pairs Quasimodo, a deformed bell ringer at the cathedral Notre-Dame, with Esmeralda, a kind and beautiful gypsy girl. Amidst death plots and conspiracies, each rescues the other from ruin time after time. Their bond is so strong it ...

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Fulfilling the wishes of her dying father, young Laura Fairlie agrees to marry Sir Percival Glyde, who brings villainy into her virtuous Victorian world. Sir Percival is not prepared for ...

Inspirational Romance Novels

Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Pamela Andrews is a pious young girl, a waiting-maid in Bedfordshire. When the master of the house makes advances on her, Pamela resists, and writes to ...

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

A shepherd falls in love with a vain young beauty who refuses to give up her independence to marry him. Years later he finds her again and ...

Fantasy and Paranormal Romance Novels

Phantastes, A Faerie Romance by George MacDonald

A young man ventures from the everyday earth into the world of youthful dreams, the land of the fairies. Anados falls in love with the beautiful White Lady, and his love songs free her from imprisonment ...

The Blue Lagoon - A Romance by Henry de Vere Stacpoole - A three-volume book

A naive young girl and her cousin discover sex, relationships and childbirth as the only two on a remote island where ...

Western Romance Novels

Ben Blair by William Otis Lillibridge

As a child of only eight, Ben Blair loses his mother to tragedy, and does not know his real father. When he later falls in love, he is determined not to ...

The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory

Nature has the power to transform in this tale of a man struggling against his savage side and a spoiled, beautiful girl learning to trust her own courage and strength. The California wilderness is ...

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

Jane Withersteen, Mormon-born Utah native, goes against her church when she befriends a young Gentile rider ...

An Outback Marriage: A Story of Australian Life by Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson

Welcome to the Australian bush in the late 1800s. It's not an easy place for man or woman alone. It's a place where survival and partnership can make a marriage ...