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

And Now, Back to You (Heartstrings, #2)
Where the Wildflowers Grow
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Wicked Onyx (The Veritas Legacy, #1)
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
The Red Winter
The Sun and the Starmaker
The Lies that Summon the Night (Songs for the Sinless, #1)
One & Only
Laws of Love and Logic
Crown of War and Shadow (Kingdoms of the Compass, #1)
Racing Hearts
Quiet Ones (Hellbent, #3)
Love and Other Brain Experiments
Weavingshaw (Weavingshaw, #1)
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    Reminders of Him
    People We Meet on Vacation
    Heart the Lover
    The Love Hypothesis
    Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
    Half His Age
    Woman Down
    Great Big Beautiful Life
    It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
    Funny Story
    Across the Vanishing Sky (Starlight Grove, #1)
    Law Maker (Aristocrats of London, #1)
    Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
    Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
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    The Fault in Our Stars
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
    A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
    The Hating Game
    Happy Place
    The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
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