Contemporary romance gives readers more of a here-and-now experience of love, allowing them to imagine or draw correlations to their own experiences and real-world similarities. Despite being a fictional scenario, this unique timeline of present-day events is what leads contemporary romance books to be considered modern romance.
The Light We Lost
Jill Santopolo
Two people. One choice. What if? Every love story has a beginning... Lucy and Gabe meet in New York on a day that will change their lives - and the world - forever. As the city burns behind them, they kiss for the very first time. Over the next thirt
Read More View in CatalogWhere the Forest Meets the Stars
Glendy Vanderah
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child shows up
Read More View in CatalogOne Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle
When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daught
Read More View in CatalogThe Love of My Life
Rosie Walsh
I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she
Read More View in CatalogThe Sister Effect
SUSAN MALLERY
Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom and her grandfather abandoned her and her sister Sloane when they needed him most. Finle
Read More View in CatalogDreamland
Nicholas Sparks
Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break
Read More View in CatalogPeople We Meet On Vacation
Emily Henry
TWO FRIENDS TEN TRIPS THEIR LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE 12 YEARS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 YEARS AGO: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the e
Read More View in CatalogWorthy Opponents
Danielle Steel
Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather’s business—the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke’s has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn’t been an easy
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Christina Lauren
The story of the heart can never be unwritten. Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked
Read More View in CatalogThe Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren
Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion . . . she even managed to finance her entire wedding by win
Read More View in CatalogMe Before You Series, Book 1
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is sti
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