Beautifully written. Autistic heroine hires a male escort with an eye toward learning about sex and relationships. Check. It will be great. Heroine is unable to have children, and thinks that she's unable to have the hero because of it. Lela, a 47-year-old divorced makeup artist, wakes up after . I know the details are vague but has anyone come across books with similar story line? Nobody likes being hurt, but in the romance world, injuries often lead to the sexiest of moments. Extremely sexy second chance love story between a megastar rapper and his best friends sister, who hes wanted forever. Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: As part of your account, youll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. published 2011, avg rating 4.03 And sexy. Magnificent rep for mental illness. Regency Historical; Stuffy British ship's captain; young, scandalous American heroine in disguise as cabin boy. This post is sponsored by Open Road Media. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, And I've your at all paranormal inclined, Lover Eternal by J.R Ward has a heroine who's been through multiple cancer battles and is still fighting. Good news, romance readers: Weve gathered below the hottest and most popular new book titles of May. 1997-2023 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. Delightful. Want more romance? Publishing articles, notes, archival research, and First in a series of erotic contemporaries about Air Force fighter pilots and their fall into love. Old school romance.BUY INDIE. Cookie Notice Scandal & Scoundrel Book II - My sex tape romance, except it's 1835, so there's no sex tape. 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. BUY INDIE. The best romance novel ever written. (Yum.). Request Permissions. Sweet contemporary; when her best friend and boyfriend end up together, heroine green-card marries a boxing dreamboat. Nat Wolff, As Natalie can be uptight, Keith proves to be the opposite, even while hiding a secret. Puck Me Secretly (A Vancouver Wolves Hockey Romance Book 1) By Stone, Odette. 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. After she's injured by a horse, Noah and the Bar C family take care of Dair, allowing her to find peace and maybe a loving family for the first time in her life. In It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, winner of 1994 Best Romance Award, the first chapter is set at the funeral of the heroine's father, a ruthless businessman and owner of the Chicago Stars NFL team. Older heroine running for City Council canvasses the home of a younger, blind, dirty-talking, virgin, recluse billionaire. Hero plans to ruin heroine's charge. BUY INDIE, Delightful modern-day secret baby story -- a one-night stand turns into much more when the hero & heroine meet again 4 months later. Hero falls for his best friend's sister, who has read the book. We deserve nice things and this absolutely bananas sexy holiday novella between young, sexy Santa Claus and the niece of the King of the Magii iswell, bananas. 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. Karen Booth's Gray Hair Don't Care is a Gen-X romance about second chances, embracing your grays, and, sometimes, succumbing to fate. Is Audrey telling him the truth, or will betrayal destroy them both? Widely believed to be one of the best romcoms out there, Bet Me holds up. Heroine has mastectomy and pushes away from the hero. Peter Dinklage, Votes: Touch of Power (Healer, #1) by. 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. A blind naval hero and a courtesan looking to shore up her future meet in the wilds of England to chase down treasure. Spending a few weeks together in his brother's keep is proving to be a deeply alluring prospect, but surely they can't put their hearts before their carefully-laid plans? reviews, Tulsa Studies seeks path-breaking literary, historicist, and theoretical work by both established and emerging 18. Theres definitely . Stars: $49.20M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Old money billionaire Wall Street banker falls for his assistant, whos had a long time unrequited thing for him for years. P.S. Includes older maid finding her sexy self! CIA officer Patrick Killion has been tasked with apprehending an assassin, and Audrey is the number one suspect. Each based on a famous Christmas movie, set at Christmas, and tied together with my delicious (eventually) shortbread. Get the whole collection.**. Terrific love letter to Scottish history. Thank you for supporting our partners, who make it possible for A Love So True to celebrate the romance stories you love. 90 ratings MMF Menage. And, of course, he comes to believe in her. The emergence of this subgenre both reflects and participates in a shift of what is acceptable to say about breast cancer and expands the range of romance novel topics, including, among other innovations, cancer narratives for lesbian and African American characters. 126 min Listen to the Fall episode of Fated Mates. At turns deeply romantic and wildly funny, this asks the question: what if "the perfect match" wasn't just a hopebut actual science? Gael Garca Bernal, This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Want to Read. Plus-sized heroine horribly bullied in high school falls for her bully in college. | New Orleans-set contemporary category; unrequited love/teenage crush/one night stand made good. (To say nothing of how well the book portrays the heros struggle with alcoholism.) Rat-catcher hero. RAT CATCHER. It's very touching, and is one of the few Ward books I still recommend. Take Carolina Dreamingby Virginia Kantra, the 2017 RITA winner in the Contemporary Mid-Length category. | He goes to Italy to recover but never makes it home. The Fault in Our Stars (2014): The elusive good teens dying of cancer movie! However, their stories are not about their traumas. In this heartfelt, incisive novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of the | He finally finds he can't resist her. For May-December lovers, the heroine of this one was rebuffed by her dads prized employee (15 years older) seven years ago. Ludzecky Sisters. Itsthe story of a divorced woman recovering from an abusive marriage. Second chance at love -- Heroine is a fence, hero is her first love, once accused of murder, now back to win her. A full five bananas on the bananas scale. Ansel Elgort, CLICK CLICK**. Cabaret owner heroine using her power to encourage men to give women the vote and an Indian hero disillusioned with the American Dream. Love is the best medicine in these hurt/comfort stories. I Love You (2007): A twist on the genre: Hollys (Hilary Swank) husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) dies from a brain tumor at the beginning of the film but he still manages to teach her a lesson via a series of posthumous letters (all ending with P.S. And if all else fails, talk to your local librarian! Regency historical. Sexy contemporary. Also, I recently read Barefoot in the Grass by Judith Arnold and loved itthe heroine is quite the fighter. There might be ghosts? The hero is a rich Minotaur in a world where humans and monsters coexist. Refresh and try again. Yes! Childhood friends to lovers. 213,750 Heroine is cat hunter. Hero doesnt realize she had the mastectomy done and heroine hides it from him. Criteria for this list: -Book ends in HEA. Revenge plot. Regency historical; Charlie & the Chocolate Factory meets the Bachelor. This sexy-contemporary is for pen-pal romance lovers out therehe's a grumpy old Special Forces dude. Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2) by. Gangster hero thought he lost the woman he loved years ago, so imagine his surprise when he finds her, alive and well and with his secret baby.**. Drama, Romance. Here on Earth (2000): Remember when Chris Klein, Josh Hartnett, and Leelee Sobieski were supposed to be the next generation of Hollywood royalty? Motorcycle gang member, widower and single dad hires a nanny who soon becomes irresistible. Part celebrity romance, part down on her luck heroine, part educational kissingall awesome. these films can verge on distasteful, exploiting real-life illnesses for cheap tears. In 2006, Keira Knightley earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Bennet . Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease. The films detractors are not wrong about how clumsily Wills decision to end his own life, rather than live in a wheelchair, is handled, and it mars what is otherwise a sweet film that has all of the genre clichs you could imagine. BUY INDIE. The reason I came to love this hero, who enters the story in a scene in which he drunkenly throws a bottle at the heroine, is that he recognizes that while hes been mired in self-pity and unable to leave the house, the heroine has been remaking her life, and taking steps to outflank her enemies. Regency historical;Duke hero, barmaid heroine. Chicago-set sexy contemporary; rough & tumble badass firefighter heroine, Mayor of Chicago hero. She's been hired to assist Noah, who says he doesn't need help. Sexual tension for days. 5. Yum. Georgian historical; widowed heroine agrees to be dark, wounded hero's secretaryand save him in the balance. 1,212 ratings A delightful, sexy book.BUY INDIE. Comedic chaos ensues. Beautiful. The twist is that Augustus is in remission, but he gets sick again and Hazel ends up surviving him. But soon he finds himself falling for the woman he's supposed to hand over to the authorities. Beautifully done. Journalist heroine, Arrogant hockey goalie hero. Laura Dern, Votes: Club owner and cancer survivor hero falls for a heroine before realizing that her father is his enemy. BUY INDIE, A broad, sweeping romance that harkens back to the epics of the 80s and 90s. This book will gut you. Listen to the Bet Me episode of Fated Mates, Regency historical; Wallflower heroine who is a rape survivor is stranded at an inn with the hero. Stars: BUY INDIE. Con artist heroine tries to game super broken Alpha billionaire hero who is instantly drawn to her. As a young girl, Rose was afraid of the infamous Morgan LeMasters, but she won't let him hurt her family. BUY INDIE, Sexy contemporary brainy heroine trades tutoring to a cocky hocky-playing hero for tips on landing the guy of her dreams, only to discover that he was right there all along. So charming. When a crusty British duke makes a deal with a beautiful Italian scandal, nothing can possibly go rightexcept for how fast and furiously they fall in love. The stories are about their recoveries. She loses (of course), but wins the hero's heart in the balance.BUY INDIE, Paranormal shifter romance. She needs to search the house to find incriminating letters that implicate the man trying to kill her, the plan being to blackmail him to back off. Four erotic historical novellas set in a Regency-Era Sex Club. BUY INDIE. Paranormal;Little Mermaid retelling. Witty banter, sexy hero, kissing over donuts and some of the most honest fat rep Ive read. This story of recovery even shows up in comedies. They see through each other's secrets. You've already combed through your Kindle, checked your bookshelf, and looked at your shelves on Goodreads, but you still can't figure out the name of a book. **, BUY INDIE; Listen to the Best Romance of 2020 Fated Mates podcast. 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. Contemporary. BDSM erotic contemporary. Our heroine hated her father with good reason. He's willing to give her what she wantsfor a price. Regency historical;Byronic recluse hero, thought to be mad falls for a thief heroine. Listen to the Fated Mates episode about The Player. The space for feeling that this genre opens has produced a new reading community and is at least one of the major ways that romance has been and continues to be rewritten. Hero (in love with another) agrees to marry her for her reputation. Mora Ogilvy is no wilting flower, but even she has to admit that attempting to flee her ruthless cousins on a stolen horse wasn't her smartest plan. The next time someone calls romance frilly fantasies, smack one of these books into their hands and make them eat their words. Problems ensue which cause her to fall apart but, of course, she rallies, and its not until she feels centered that shes able to even think about a relationship with the hero. All rights reserved. BUY INDIE, Contemporary M/M. In The Texans Reward by Jodi Thomas, which won the Short Historical RITA in 2016, the heroine is disabled, left without the use of her legs due to a gunshot wound. Not Sell My Personal Information. Drama, Romance. Get tissues. By: Mia Sheridan | 352 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, contemporary-romance, new-adult, read-in-2017 | Search "Most Of All You by Mia Sheridan". Richard LaGravenese London set erotic romance novella; Quick &rewarding -- Insecure heroine takes "sex lessons" from hot boss. Second-chance inspirational romance story in 1935 Georgia between a teacher and the boxer who left to make his fortune so he could return worthy of her. Old-school historical. Heroine leaves her cheating husband and finds herself in Paris, with the help of a dreamy painter. What's the Name of That Book??? Examples I can think of off the top of my head are Brighter than the Sun by Julia Quinn and Seduction of a Highland Lass by Maya Banks. Gerard Butler, When a small-town pastor and the owner of a sex-toy pavilion let sparks fly, they FLY. Jemma and Elijah's emotional reunion (I know I always cry, but I cried . Delicious and sexy and very very old school. The fourth (ignore the description here) in an unputdownable series, but you can start here and go back! She dies, he speaks at her funeral, and all youll be able to think about is how they have the exact same haircut. The last thing she needs is a total stranger caring for her, yet Jesse finds new strength through Mary and a way to confront his past demons. A love story set against the backdrop of family responsibility and expectation.BUY INDIE. Emery has been living with a chronic but invisible illness for a long time. So, pure catnip. First in a delicious, catnippy series. Smart, feminist, sweet contemporary. Shes already on the road to recovery, already making strides, and making plans for the rest of her life. -It doesn't turn out that the heroine was never sick to begin with (so no Everything, Everything or The Blue Castle) -Cancer is only okay IF it meets the above criteria (so no The . Georgian historical. Stepbrother Romance. A duke with five younger sisters has no choice but to marry for moneyexcept hes falling for their music instructorand thats not great. Contradictory movements have accompanied greater freedoms in discussing breast cancer, and this essay argues that feminists can find in romance novels a powerful site, supplementary to feminist theory and activism, for elaborating a productive and critical public breast cancer discourse. She's beautiful, caring, and doesn't have a bad bone in her body. An honest, magnificent book that gave me all the romance feels. 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. Director: He's the only man who has ever made her feel loved and worth loving, not a broken shell of a person to be pitied. Terrifically romantic & bananas sexy.BUY INDIE, Listen to the Serving Pleasure Fated Mates episode, Regency historical; hero responsible for cousin's infertility, agrees to impregnate cousin's wife and falls in love. Flynn Bradshaw's sister-in-law, Sunday, is finally home after the accident that killed her husband and left her profoundly injured. An absolutely perfect Paris-set historical featuring a Dominican rum heiress who takes the Worlds Fair by stormand brings a hot Scot to his knees in the process. She is stronger than he is and he knows it. Sometimes that yields the results you're looking for, but other times you end up hitting a brick wall. She disagrees.BUY INDIE, First in a contemporary duology. (Hes eventually accepted.) Exactly the kind of secret baby story I want. 95,329 Me Before You (2016): Will (Sam Claflin) is paralyzed in a motorcycle accident and decides to commit assisted suicide. Delicious, emotional erotic contemporary. 2. Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam. Bright Star (2009): The most artful and delicate film on this list, Jane Campions gorgeous meditation on doomed love follows Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) as she and poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) tumble into romance just in time for him to contract tuberculosis. Hero and heroine were childhood sweethearts before he had to escape the orphanage where they lived. Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2), Barbarian Mine (Ice Planet Barbarians, #4), Ninja at First Sight (Knitting in the City, #4.75), Maybe Matt's Miracle (The Reed Brothers, #4), Tall, Tatted and Tempting (The Reed Brothers, #1), Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0), Just Not Mine (Escape to New Zealand, #6), How a Cowboy Stole Her Heart (Larch Valley, #4), Cruise Control (It's All About Attitude #3), The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3), The Single Undead Moms Club (Half-Moon Hollow, #4), The Bottom Line (The Ladies Who Lunch, #1), The Player's Club: Finn (The Player's Club, #3), Anything for You: A Coming Home Short Story (Coming Home #2.5), Wedding Date With The Army Doc (Summer Brides #2), Bundle of Trouble (Gold Coast Angels, #3), A Little Night Music (Heroes and Half-Notes), A Bramble House Christmas (Carrigans of the Circle C, #6), The Man Who Saw Her Beauty: The Man Who Saw Her Beauty\The Loner's Guarded Heart, Root Beer & Roadblocks (Orchard Hill, #4), The Army Ranger's Return: A Single Dad Romance (Heroes Come Home Book 3), Can't Fight the Feeling (Nashville Dreams, #3), Be Mine Tonight (Brotherhood of Blood, #1), Love on the Line (Great Expectations Love Stories: The Graykens #2), 10 Highly Anticipated New Romances to Heat Up May. An unrequited love story set in the NBA, heroine is in an abusive relationship with a basketball player, loved from afar by one of his rivals. BUY INDIE, Erotic contemporary; 1st person hero POV. It killed her sister and left her mother broken-hearted beyond repair. | In contrast to the others Ive described, it is a dark book, but it begins as the heroine believes shes found a way to function in the world.
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