With the support of others, an abused woman comes into her own in the revealing bildungsroman "Where Love Lies". A loving family, financial privilege, fashionable clothes, and academic success offer no protection against insecurity and a... Read More

The memoir-cum-novel "Letters to Evelyn" mixes personal anecdotes into its imaginative universe of love, aliens, and space travel. Combining memoir and fantasy elements, John Selman’s book "Letters to Evelyn" recounts the past... Read More

A local healer falls in love with a dashing nobleman in "A Kingdom to Claim", Sian Ann Bessey’s romantic epic set in medieval Wessex. Aisley, who helps out with her sick sister, is upended when she loses her father and finds out that... Read More

In Ann McMan’s romance novel "The Black Bird of Chernobyl", a misanthropic mortician meets her match in her new bubbly community outreach colleague. Lilah runs her family’s mortuary and prefers to stay in the morgue over interacting... Read More

Wordplay abounds in "Love, Literally", a pandemic-set romance novel in which a couple meets in luxurious isolation. In J. T. Tierney’s quirky romance novel "Love, Literally", two wordplay aficionados ride out the pandemic at a shared... Read More

"The Race Girl" is a complex saga about ambition, betrayal, and true love. Race cars, star-crossed lovers, and financial intrigue fuel James Herbert Harrison’s high-octane novel "The Race Girl". Beginning with a Las Vegas car crash and... Read More

A woman has another chance for love in Ann H. Gabhart’s nostalgic romance novel "The Song of Sourwood Mountain". In 1910, Mira is a schoolteacher. She was once in love with a classmate, but he died of tuberculosis. Resigned to being... Read More

A disaffected army veteran seeks happiness in the poignant graphic novel Petar & Liza. After serving a term in the former Yugoslavian army, Petar returns to civilian life but feels unmoored. He meets Liza, a dancer who sparks... Read More