It's Romance Week on Goodreads

Romance Week brought to you by the latest book in Helen Hardt's Steel Brothers Saga, Burn.
It's time for love stories, sweet 'meet cute' tales, steamy guilty-pleasure reads, and favorite heartfelt novels. Yes, it's time for the Goodreads Romance Week.

All week we will be bringing you the best in romance leading up to Valentine's Day, including top romance authors (we're talking J.R. Ward, Nalini Singh, Kristen Ashley, and many more) writing 14-word love stories! Check out their very short (and very clever) stories below.

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14-Word Love Stories From Goodreads Top Romance Authors

"'How can I not love you?' I said to Channing Tatum as he blushed."
—J.R. Ward

"Mistaken text. Not mistake, but fate. It was you. When we met I knew."
—Katy Evans

"Courtesan spy and celibate warrior priest save realm, fall in love. Oops, goodbye celibacy!"
—Jacqueline Carey


"She was a woman he couldn't claim. He was a man she couldn't tame."
—Brenda Jackson

"An altar-dumped groom tricks his best man and worst enemy into honeymooning together."
—Damon Suede

"Blind date to forever: Glances, smiles, holy-forearms, killer-legs, laughter, lips, hands, beds, walls…love."
—Emma Chase


"She rescued a wounded wolf…and woke to a man. He smiled. She fell."
—Nalini Singh

"See him. Laughter. Conversation. Butterflies. Kisses. Floating. Merging. Terror. Falling. Held. Courage. Forever lifemate."
—Christine Feehan



"They met at 17, fell in love. Married at 21, lived happily ever after."
—Karen Rose

"The heart drawn on the paper coffee cup that I held until it cooled."
—C.S. Pacat



"Black eye. He moved to her, cautious. She looked to him. He was lost."
—Kristen Ashley

"Violet shed her rights, Viggo shed his—for what use was freedom without love?"
—Bella Forrest

"Every day
Same train
Empty seat
He sits
We talk
We miss our stop."
—Kylie Scott

Tell us what you're reading in observance of Romance Week!