Romance

In 'Everything We Keep' by Kerry Lonsdale, a young woman's wedding day becomes the funeral day for the fiancé she had planned to marry. As she picks up the pieces of her life and moves on, she finds that what she thinks she knows is not the truth, and that everything leading up to her new life has been a lie. Can she find out what has happened to her fiancé and if he is really alive?

Hoping you'll forgive our 'Hunger Games' pun, the odds are ever in your favor with these 31 new summer releases.

In 'Royally Roma,' Teri Wilson gives us an adventure and a tour, taking us into the beauties of Rome, and introducing the beginning buds of romance, created by the connection of two people trying to escape their lives.

'Alex & Eliza' by Melissa De La Cruz takes us back into history and gives us a take on how the romance of these two figures, Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler, helps to shape a nation.

In 'The Good Widow' by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, Jacks finds herself in trouble after hooking up with the fiancé of a woman who was killed along with her husband on a planned business trip that turned out to be a tryst in Hawaii. Together they look for clues, but danger and distrust finds them first.

Barb Caffrey on her new novel "Changing Faces."

A list of romance novels for the reader who doesn't like romance novels.

In a tale from childhood, 'Twisted' by Bonnie M Hennessy, takes you on an alternate journey to a dark and bleak tale of love and courage, filled with revenge and regret as well as a strength of spirit. Looking at the story of Rumpelstiltskin's rage and sadness, you follow The life of Aoife and a different path of how the lives of two such differing characters really came to being.

In 'Leaving Blythe River' by Catherine Ryan Hyde, we meet Ethan Underwood, a 17-year-old who has been unable to come to terms with his parents divorce. He is small for his age afraid of almost everything.

Michelle Pillow’s new novel, Forget Me Not, reflects that Gothic Romance is alive and well