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This list is for those super angsty, tear-jerker type of category romances. The ones that really put the heroine and/or the hero through the emotional wringer. Most of those are Harlequins/Mills and Boon books from their various lines, including the acquired Silhouette brand. However, any category romance is welcome here (ex. Candlelight Ecstasy).
Here's the definition of category romance if anyone is unsure: short, usually no more than 200 pages, or about 55,000 words. The books are published in clearly delineated lines, with a certain number of books published in each line every month. In many cases, the books are numbered sequentially within the line
Here's the definition of category romance if anyone is unsure: short, usually no more than 200 pages, or about 55,000 words. The books are published in clearly delineated lines, with a certain number of books published in each line every month. In many cases, the books are numbered sequentially within the line
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The Italian's Token Wife
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The Pregnancy Bond
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Temporary Wife
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The Asking Price
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3.30 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Lovers in the Afternoon
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Carole Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Portrait of Bethany
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The Black Sheep
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Mary Anne
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His Unlikely Lover (Unwanted, #3)
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Natasha Anders (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 7,119 ratings
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The Vineyard of Hopes and Dreams (Malone, #4)
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Kathleen O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 175,
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The Patient Nurse
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Ice Lady (Harlequin Romance Subscription, #93)
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Home for the Holidays
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Sarah Mayberry (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 598 ratings
score: 170,
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Rules of the Game
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2.83 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Dark Obsession
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3.45 avg rating — 146 ratings
score: 158,
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Gypsy in the Night
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3.33 avg rating — 46 ratings
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A Very Private Revenge
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3.38 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Wife in the Shadows
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3.24 avg rating — 848 ratings
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The Cowboy and the Angel (The Cowboy and the Angel, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 726 ratings
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The Marriage Contract
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3.12 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Once A Lover
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3.05 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Rainbow'S Promise
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3.52 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Tycoon's Secret Affair (The Anetakis Tycoons, #3)
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Maya Banks (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,643 ratings
score: 142,
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Lucifer's Angel
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3.41 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Eye of Heaven
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2.97 avg rating — 269 ratings
score: 137,
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The Failed Marriage
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3.44 avg rating — 564 ratings
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The Sanchez Tradition
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3.44 avg rating — 246 ratings
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The Judas Kiss (#480)
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3.69 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Apollo's Seed
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3.55 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Loving Slave
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2.83 avg rating — 126 ratings
score: 115,
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The Fire of Spring
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Elizabeth Lowell (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 362 ratings
score: 111,
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Where Fires Once Burned
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3.18 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Dance While You Can (Dance Duo, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
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One Last Dance (Dance Duo, #2)
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3.50 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Dark Dominion
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3.37 avg rating — 519 ratings
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Forced by the Greek Tycoon (Forced, #1)
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Julia Ban (Goodreads Author)
2.90 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Falcon's Prey (Harlequin Presents, 471)
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3.39 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Strange Bedfellows
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2.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Cruel World
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Hanna Bans (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 112 ratings
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All She Ever Needed
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Lora Logan (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings
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A Husband for the Taking
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3.49 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Morning After (Forbidden! #1)
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3.43 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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Jilted
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Eve Vaughn (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
score: 99,
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Stevie's Chase (Holt series, #1)
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Justine Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 116 ratings
score: 98,
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Emergency: Wife Lost and Found
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Carol Marinelli (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
score: 98,
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Sommersgate House (Ghosts and Reincarnation #1)
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Kristen Ashley (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 11,642 ratings
score: 98,
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Sensation
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3.29 avg rating — 400 ratings
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The Desert King (Throne of Judar #3)
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Olivia Gates (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 788 ratings
score: 98,
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Not His Kind of Woman
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3.42 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Except My Love
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3.36 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Noble Intentions (Noble, #1)
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Katie MacAlister (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 4,030 ratings
score: 96,
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The Big Bad Wolf's Ex
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Tonya Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.31 avg rating — 1,579 ratings
score: 96,
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Prince Hafiz's Only Vice
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3.04 avg rating — 207 ratings
score: 96,
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All I Ever Wanted
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Kristan Higgins (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 16,577 ratings
score: 95,
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Wanted by Her Lost Love (Pregnancy & Passion, #2)
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Maya Banks (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 8,073 ratings
score: 95,
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Maggie's Dad (Bighorn, Wyoming #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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Carides's Forgotten Wife
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Maisey Yates (Goodreads Author)
3.06 avg rating — 379 ratings
score: 94,
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Lost to the Desert Warrior (The Private Lives of Public Playboys #3)
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Sarah Morgan (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
score: 93,
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The Italian's Wife By Sunset
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3.37 avg rating — 70 ratings
score: 92,
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A Lost Love
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Carole Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 887 ratings
score: 92,
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The Future King's Love-Child (The Royal House of Karedes #6)
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3.50 avg rating — 406 ratings
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The Italian's Passionate Revenge
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3.51 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Fated Affair
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3.19 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Delinquent Daddy (Banks / Kincaid Family, #2)
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Linda Kage (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
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Tender Torment
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3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Element of Risk
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3.46 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Edge of Deception
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3.45 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Winds of Winter
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3.59 avg rating — 109 ratings
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A Durable Fire
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3.16 avg rating — 135 ratings
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An Island Loving
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2.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Undone by His Touch
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3.71 avg rating — 410 ratings
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More than a Convenient Marriage?
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Dani Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Taken: The Spaniard's Virgin (Mediterranean Brides, #2)
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Lucy Monroe (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 535 ratings
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Cole Cameron's Revenge
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Sandra Marton (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Darker Fire
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Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire (Quinn Siblings, #2)
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3.54 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Song Above the Clouds
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To Claim a Wife
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Unwrapping the Castelli Secret (The Castelli Brothers #1; Secret Heirs of Billionaires #1)
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Caitlin Crews (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 706 ratings
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A Deal with Di Capua
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A Facade to Shatter (Sicily's Corretti Dynasty #6)
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Lynn Raye Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 531 ratings
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The Burning Point (Circle of Friends #1)
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Sandstorm
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Autumn Conquest
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Proud Harvest
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The Long Surrender
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Captive Loving
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Carole Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Storm Centre
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Seen by Candlelight
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Who Rides the Tiger
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Season of Mists
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The Waterfalls of the Moon
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Relative Betrayal
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A Trial Marriage
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Jack Riordan's Baby
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A Haunting Compulsion (Harlequin Presents, #429)
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Alien Wife
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Edge of Temptation
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Hidden Love
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Carole Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 362 ratings
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To Mend a Marriage (Bachelor Sisters, #1)
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Carole Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
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Preeti wrote: "love your list Katie!these are my fav kind of books.. i love to roll in angst :p
i have added almost 50 i think...will add more soon. :)"
Yay! Thanks so much. Unfortunately I only recently created a shelf to track the angsty/tearjerker types and now I can't remember the titles.
Love the list - more angsty HPs to my TBR pile.
Yay! Thanks so much. Unfortunately I only ..."i knoww!! even i thought of some shelves recently n can kick myself for not doing so earlier :p
Great list,read quite a few of them.Love a good angsty hp read. :)
Katie,I love your list! I am using it to read the books. Thank you so very much!
The Unwanted Wife is not a Harlequin published book. It is written like one though. Kiss an Angel isn't either.
Was slightly confused if non-Harlequin/Mills&Boon/Silhouette books were allowed or not, so thought I'd mention these.
:-)
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these are my fav kind of books.. i love to roll in angst :p
i have added almost 50 i think...will add more soon. :)