Romance/Love Stories

By Nichole Bernier
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Inheriting her best friend’s diaries after a tragic accident, Kate learns unknown aspects of her late friend’s life, from her deeply troubled childhood to her feelings of powerlessness as a wife and parent (From the Publisher).”

By Christina Lauren

When her twin sister and new brother-in-law get food poisoning at their wedding, maid of honor Olive, accompanied by her nemesis, the best man Ethan, assumes the role of a newlywed on a Hawaii honeymoon before unexpectedly falling for her companion.

By Ninni Holmqvist

This novel, set in a dystopia in a near future, is about  people who don’t have any children or anyone else who loves them or needs them.

By Susan Mallery
Series Fool's Gold

When her feelings for her boss, former football hero Jack McGarry, are exposed, Larissa Owens tries to convince him to take a chance on love.

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Valentine Trilogy
Recommended By Ann Competello, Library Clerk

“Very Valentine is a sumptuous treat, a journey of dreams fulfilled, a celebration of love and loss filled with Trigiani's trademark heart and humor (From the Publisher).”

By Peter Pezzelli
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

“In his acclaimed novels of Italian-American life, Pezzelli explores themes of friendship, hope, and second chances. With Villa Mirabella, he invites readers into the lives of an unforgettable family - and into the warmth of one very special bed and breakfast... (From the Publisher).”

By Nora Roberts
Series Bride Quartet

First book in The Bride Quartet Series. Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot falls into the arms of safe, stable English teacher Carter Maguire as relief from the onslaught of bridezillas, but soon begins to wonder if what began as a casual fling could blossom into her own happy ending.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him.

By Eugenia Price

After an accident kills her husband, Abigail Banes Allyn becomes the sole proprietor of their Georgia rice plantation and its slaves in the antebellum South, sides with the abolitionists, and finds new love with the plantation's handsome overseer.

By Helen Bryan

With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal and five women forge an unlikely bond of friendship that will change their lives forever. 

By Sophie Kinsella
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Tiring of commitment-phobic boyfriends, Lottie readily accepts her ex’s offer of marriage in fulfillment of a safety pact made years earlier that they would marry if they were still single in their thirties, a rushed arrangement that prompts family disapproval and an unexpected renewal of passion (From the Publisher).”

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

 “In this massively entertaining romp, redemption is always possible, and even a fake Hollywood couple trapped in a pretend marriage might find true love (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Renee Rosen

Delia Spencer met retail tycoon Marshall Field on the night of the Great Fire of 1871 in Chicago and their relationship mirrors the transformation of the city, which rose after the devastation of the fire to become a thriving metropolis hosting the world fair of 1893.

By Camille Perri
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

A romantic comedy about gender and sexuality follows the experiences of a traditionally minded Midwesterner who, in the aftermath of an ended engagement, finds herself in a transformative relationship with a self-assured New York businesswoman.

By Evan Fallenberg

At eighty-five, Teo is ready to retire from the bombast and romance of life as one of the world’s most influential choreographers. But when he meets Vivi, a fortyish waitress at a Tel Aviv cafe, the fires of his youth flare back to life.

By Elizabeth Noble

Susannah’s world is rocked by her rekindled feelings for Rob, then totally turned upside down by a revelation from her best friend Amelia. Just when Susannah and Amelia need each other the most, they are facing a crisis that threatens to tear their friendship apart.

By Debbie Macomber
Series Angelic Intervention
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“Three angels with a penchant for trouble bring some much-needed Christmas magic into the lives of three people-an elderly man searching for peace of mind, a young woman afraid of commitment, and a little boy with a special holiday wish (From the Publisher).”

By Laura Moriarty
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Engrossed in a new relationship to the point that her studies begin to suffer, college junior Veronica is devastated when a plea for help goes unheeded, but a surprising request from her mother teaches her about family, love, and independence.

By Karen Kondazian

“The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man (From the Publisher).”

By Nora Roberts
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After suffering through an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiancée’s murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries–old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life–threatening mystery.

By Philippa Gregory
Series Cousins' War

A tale inspired by the War of the Roses follows the conflict from the perspective of Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

By Rodrigo Garcia Y Robertson
Series Knight Errant series

Savoring her new life as Lady Robyn of Pontrefract after being sent through time to medieval England, Robyn anticipates her marriage to Edward Plantagenet but finds their home challenged by the rebellious Tudor army and an imminent French invasion.

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

“First meeting as children, a wealthy girl with a congenital heart defect and an underprivileged boy with athletic talents meet periodically over three decades before considering whether their affections will overcome their differences (From the Publisher).”

By Sarah Creech
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Country music artist Jo Lover, poised to become a big star, confronts her small-town past and her carefully cultivated public image when her label reunites her with Nashville heartthrob JD Gunn, her first love.

By Melissa Marr
Series Wicked Lovely

Seventeen–year–old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries–old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

By Jane Feather
Series Kiss trilogy

Hugh de Beauaire is sent to investigate Lady Guinevere Mallory, a beautiful young widow who, at age twenty-eight, has married and buried four wealthy husbands under suspicious circumstances, to determine whether or not she is guilty of murder, but he soon finds himself drawn, despite himself, to his quarry.

By Kristen Hannah
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

A family drama ignited by the death of a loving father whose two daughters have grown apart from each other and from their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother.

By Kate Mosse

Traveling through the French Pyrenees to process the horrors of World War I, Freddie meets a lovely young woman also in mourning with whom he exchanges stories that unravel a centuries-old mystery.

By Jennifer Donnolly
Series Tea Rose Trilogy

Idealistic new medical school graduate India Selwyn Jones goes to work at a clinic in the city's poorest neighborhood, much to the dismay of her aristocratic mother and ambitious fianc

By Daniel Mason
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

A young doctor and nurse fall in love while navigating the brutal realities of World War I at an underequipped and understaffed field hospital in the Carpathian Mountains.

By Nicholas Sparks
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Ann Competello, Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

With everything perfectly on track, Diana O’Toole finds things going off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in the Galapagos due to a virus, forcing her to reevaluate herself and her life when she makes a connection with a local.

By Barbara Delinsky
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“The lives of three couples are thrown into turmoil when their beautiful and much younger neighbor, who has been widowed for a year, announces that she is pregnant, forcing the wives to reevaluate their marriages and relationships (From the Publisher).”

By Barbara Taylor Bradford
Series Harte Family Saga

Emma Harte rises from impoverished, pregnant servant to the heights of wealth and power as she parlays a small shop into the world's finest department store, outwitting her enemies, seeking revenge on her betrayers, and realizing her greatest dreams.

By Barbara Delinsky
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page

“Delinsky has another winner: a woman's story of a marriage gone sour, seasoned with betrayal, disloyalty, unhappiness, and greed (Library Journal Review).”

By Kelley Armstrong

On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.

By Mia Sosa

The top wedding coordinator in Washington, D.C., Carolina Santos is offered an opportunity of a lifetime, but there is just one hitch—she has to collaborate with the best man from her own failed nuptials—and decides to dish out a little payback of her own until the unexpected happens.

By Lily King
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A follow-up to the award-winning Euphoria follows the story of a former child golf prodigy-turned-unemployed writer whose determination to live a creative life is complicated by her relationships with two very different men.

By Emily Brontë
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

“...Remains one of literature’s most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic passion. Heathcliff and Cathy believe they’re destined to love each other forever, but when cruelty and snobbery separate them, their untamed emotions literally consume them (From the Publisher).”

By Christopher Moore
Series Vampire Love Stories

Waking up after a fantastic night only to discover that his girlfriend is a vampire and has transformed him into one, Thomas C. Flood adapts to his new powers while dealing with a dangerous faction of bloodsuckers trying to kill off all other vampires.

By Colleen Oakley
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When she and her husband move to a small town in Pennsylvania, Mia Graydon encounters the stranger she has been dreaming about for years —who, it turns out, has been dreaming of her, too and together, determined to understand, they search for answers.

By Martin Amis

A portrait of life and unexpected love in a concentration camp explores the depths and contradictions of the human soul as well as the capacity of individuals who are tested to acknowledge their true selves.