Romance

According to the Romance Writers of America, "Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending." Both the conflict and the climax of the novel should be directly related to that core theme of developing a romantic relationship, although the novel can also contain subplots that do not specifically relate to the main characters' romantic love. Other definitions of a romance novel may be broader, including other plots and endings or more than two people, or narrower, restricting the types of romances or conflicts. ...more

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The Primal of Blood and Bone (Blood and Ash, #6)
If It Makes You Happy
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
People Watching
Soul Searching (Sweetwater Peak, #1)
Heart the Lover
What Fury Brings (Wrath and Fury, #1)
Fake Skating
The Heartbreak Hotel
Burning Daylight (Defying the Stars, #1)
The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)
Every Spiral of Fate (This Woven Kingdom, #4)
Falling Like Leaves (Bramble Falls, #1)
It's Different This Time
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    Hope & Harmony: A Music Romance Anthology
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    Broken Country
    It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
    Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
    People We Meet on Vacation
    Funny Story
    Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
    Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
    Beach Read
    The Academy
    Lessons in Chemistry
    Reminders of Him
    Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
    House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
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    Pride and Prejudice
    It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
    Red, White & Royal Blue
    People We Meet on Vacation
    The Fault in Our Stars
    The Hating Game
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
    A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
    The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
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    The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
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