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- The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Postonstandalone novel2023
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Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it. And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again. Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future. Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed. After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
- One Last Stop
Casey McQuistonstandalone novel2021
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One Last Stop is a 2021 LGBTQ romance novel written by American author Casey McQuiston. The novel is about a woman named August Landry, a cynical pseudo detective, who finds love in a woman named Jane Su she meets on a subway, a punk butch lesbian from the 1970s who has been misplaced in time and is trapped on the subway.
- How I Spent My Last Night on Earth
Todd Strasserstandalone novel2000
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When a rumor appears on the Internet that a giant asteroid is about to destroy Earth, Legs Hanover scrambles to meet the boy of her dreams, elusive Andros Bliss.
- The Welcoming
Nora Robertsstandalone novel2002
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Roman DeWinter came to the charming seaside inn with only the clothes on his back and a loaded .38 revolver. His orders: expose a criminal organization based at a quaint vacation hideaway, and all the evidence pointed to the innkeeper, Charity Ford. It was just another assignment for him. Routing, simple, uncomplicated. But he had never known the warmth of a home until he found his way to Charity. He didn't expect he would learn to care for his key suspect, and want something more with her. Charity knew Roman was different. His gaze smoldered with angry passion, arousing a dangerous fascination. His mere presence made her most forbidden desires come alive. Still, Charity knew so little about him, and it put her on edge. Was this stranger a threat to her happiness, or the man she'd been waiting a lifetime to welcome? They both have fallen in love. Has Roman made a mistake by not telling Charity the truth?
- Montgomery / Taggert
series10 books1988
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These Jude Deveraux romances are linked less by one continuing plot than by recurring family surnames — Montgomery and Taggert — that Deveraux threads through much of her historical and contemporary romance writing. A Knight in Shining Armor, her best-known novel, is a standalone time-travel romance whose heroine, Dougless Montgomery, falls for a sixteenth-century English lord pulled forward into her present; The Maiden instead belongs to her more tightly connected medieval Montgomery-brothers sequence. Readers should expect a loose family of stories connected by name and world rather than one continuous saga.
- House of Dreams
Brenda Joycestandalone novel2000
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Note- The deWarenne Dynasty is very vast and spans through multiple series, they can be read stand alone.* In chronological order, followed by the books that are distantly related The Conqueror (deWarenne Dynasty, #1) Promise of the Rose (deWarenne Dynasty, #2) The Game (deWarenne Dynasty, #3) Regency Era: The Prize (deWarenne Dynasty, #4) The Masquerade (deWarenne Dynasty, #5) The Stolen Bride (deWarenne Dynasty, #6) A Lady at Last (deWarenne Dynasty, #7) The Perfect Bride (deWarenne Dynasty, #8) Victorian Era: A Dangerous Love (deWarenne Dynasty, #9) An Impossible Attraction (deWarenne Dynasty, #10) The Promise (deWarenne Dynasty, #11) Contemporary Era: House of Dreams Related books: Scandalous Love (Bragg Saga, #6) After Innocence (Delanza, #2) The Awakening (a novella included in the anthology Heart of the Home)
- Mad Love
Suzanne Selforsstandalone novel2011
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When her famous romance-novelist mother is secretly hospitalized in an expensive mental facility, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to fulfill her mother's contract with her publisher by writing a love story--with the help of Cupid.
- Mind over Matter
Nora Robertsstandalone novel2000
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BATTLE LINES... Theatrical agent Aurora Fields kept her personal life strictly separate from her professional one, but lines were crossed the moment she met David Brady. He had asked her client to participate in his documentary on paranormal phenomena. Aurora agreed, but she stayed on hand to protect the woman from exploitation as fiercely as a mother tigress. Somehow David saw that Aurora's tough self-image was a little soft around the edges, and he was determined to discover what she was trying to hide. He'd always considered himself a good judge of people, so why did each moment he spent with Aurora leave her as enigmatic -- and enticing -- as before?
- Watership Down
series21 books1972
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Watership Down is Richard Adams's 1972 novel following a group of rabbits who flee the destruction of their warren and cross the English countryside of Hampshire in search of a new home, developing over the journey a full rabbit culture of language, proverbs, and mythology. Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.
- Friday Harbor
series4 books2010
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Friday Harbor is a series of contemporary romance novels written by best-selling author Lisa Kleypas. The series focuses on the lives of the Nolan family and is set in the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington.
- Landline
Rainbow Rowellstandalone novel2014
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Landline is a 2014 American sci-fi novel by Rainbow Rowell. It tells the story of 37-year-old Georgie McCool who discovers that she is able to call her husband's 22-year-old self through his landline. Rowell stated that aspects from the novel are loosely based on her own life such as the fact that Georgie is incredibly career-driven while her husband is a stay-at-home dad. The character of Georgie McCool was named after the song Georgy Girl and the village of McCool Junction.
- The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffeneggerstandalone novel2003
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The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003. It is a love story about Henry, a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about Clare, his wife, an artist who has to cope with his frequent absences. Niffenegger, who was frustrated with love when she began the novel, wrote the story as a metaphor for her failed relationships. The tale's central relationship came to Niffenegger suddenly and subsequently supplied the novel's title. The novel has been classified as both science fiction and romance.
- Exit to Eden
Anne Ricestandalone novel1985
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Exit to Eden is a 1985 novel by Anne Rice, initially published under the pen name Anne Rampling, but subsequently under Rice's own name. The novel explores the subject of BDSM in romance novel form. The novel also brought attention to Rice's published works that differed from the type of writing she was better known for, such as her Sleeping Beauty series under yet another pen name.
- The Dreaming Jewels
Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1950
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The Dreaming Jewels (1950), also known as The Synthetic Man, is a science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon. It was his first published novel.
