A
At Last Comes Love
Mary Balogh
Bantam Dell, 2009
When he is forced to marry or lose his inheritance, the notorious Duncan Pennethorne, Earl of Sheringford, tries to persuade the lovely and desperate Margaret Huxtable to be his bride, but she is put off by his reputation.

B
Brava, Valentine
Adriana Trigiani
Harper, 2010
In this follow-up to Very Valentine, a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli, who is happy her grandmother has found connubial happiness even if she has not, from the streets of Greenwich Village to Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried family secret.

C
Confessions of a Little Black Gown
Elizabeth Boyle
Avon, 2009
Longing for adventure and true love, Thalia Langley gets more than she bargains for when another woman’s trunk of clothes is mistakenly delivered in place of Tally’s luggage and she decides to wear a black dress she found in the trunk and catches the eye of a man who is not what he seems to be.

D
(A) Distant Melody
Sarah Sundin
Revel, 2010
Before being shipped to England during World War II, Lt. Walter Novak and heiress Allie Miller are drawn together by their love of music, prompting a correspondence that untangles secrets, commitments, and expectations between them both.

E
Everlasting
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Morrow, 2009
After Abrielle's beloved fiancé dies during the Crusades, she must find a husband who will help save her mother and step-father from ruin. She agrees to a union with the loathsome Desmond de Marle, despite her conflicted attraction to a Scotsman, Raven Seabern.

F
Forbidden Falls
Robyn Carr
Mira, 2010
When the Reverend Noah Kincaid, a young widower, arrives in Virgin River to reopen an abandoned church, he finds an unlikely ally--and a "pastor's assistant"--in Alicia Baldwin, a former exotic dancer who needs a respectable job so that she can regain custody of her children.

G
Golden Season
Connie Brockway
Onyx, 2010
Wealthy, orphaned Lady Lydia Eastlake reigns must face losing the only life she's ever known when her fortune suddenly disappears-and the only solution is to find a wealthy husband. She sets her sights on rich and dashing Capt. Ned Lockton, unaware that his own finances are more than a little shaky, and is himself seeking bride who will rescue his family from poverty.

H
Holiday Brides
Jewel Amethyst, Farrah Rochon & Stefanie Worth
Leisure, 2010
In these three novellas, single women who find their soulmates and get the holiday weddings of their dreams.

I
(The) Independence of Miss Mary Bennett
Colleen McCullogh
S&S, 2008
The best-selling author of The Thorn Birds imagines what became of middle sister Mary Bennett 20 years after the events of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.

J
Jenna's Cowboy
Sharon Gillenwater
Revel, 2010
Jenna Callahan is a mother of a young son and works on her father's West Texas ranch, but her happy world is about to be rocked when her former love, Nate Langley, reappears in town. After Jenna's father broke up their romance, Nate served two tours in the military and spent time in Iraq. Now he is home to heal from the horrors he experienced..

K
Kitchen Chinese
Anna Mah
Avon, 2010
When her love-life (she gets dumped) career (she's fired) are derailed, Chinese-American Isabelle Lee decides it's time for a change, so she goes to Beijing to stay with her older sister, Claire, whom she's never really known, and to connect with her "roots." It turns out to be a real culture shock for Isabelle, but also a personal journey to find out who she really is.

L
(The) Last Song
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central, 2009
17- year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry with parents, so she is less than thrilled when her mother decides she should spent the summer with her Dad.

M
Matters of the Heart
Danielle Steel
Delacorte, 2009
Top photographer Hope Dunne certainly isn't looking for love when she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph Finn O'Neill, one of the world's most celebrated writers, whose warmth and boyish charm who sweeps her off her feet, but whose darker side and bouts of jealousy and unnerve her.

N
Naughty: Two's Enough,
Three's a Crowd
Brenda Hampton
Urban Ren., 2010
Wealthy investment broker and notorious womanizer Jaylin Jerome Rogers, thinks he has found his soul mate in beautiful Scorpio Valentino. There's just one catch: she's about to marry someone else. Hot stuff.

O
O, Juliet
Robin Maxwell
NAL, 2010
In this new take on the story of the woman who inspired Shakespeare's tragic heroine, Juliet Capelletti must choose between a loveless marriage to her father's business partner and the fulfillment of her romantic dreams.

P
Plain Jayne
Hilary Manton Lodge
Harvest House, 2010
After losing out on a huge career opportunity, reporter Jane Tate escapes to Oregon Amish country, seeking solace and maybe inspiration for a big story, but Jayne finds life more complicated than she expected among these simple people, especially when she finds herself attracted to carpenter Levi Burkholder.

Q
Queen Takes King
Gigi Levangie Grazer
S&S, 2009
New York real estate titan Jack Powers triggers a media circus when he decides to divorce his ballerina wife so that he can marry his news anchorwoman mistress. So he launches a plan to find his wife a new boyfriend so that their marriage can end "amicably."

R
Roses
Leila Meacham
Grand Central, 2010
In the spirit of Gone With the Wind, this century-spanning epic of a small Texas town and two powerful families (descended respectively from the houses of Lancaster and York) is fill of romance, passion and revenge.

S
Savor the Moment
Nora Roberts
Berkley, 2010
In this third entry of the Bride Quartet series, pastry chef Laurel McBane deals with the mega- crush she's had on Ivy League lawyer, Del--her business partner's older brother--since childhood

T
Trouble in High Heels
Leanne Banks
Forever, 2009
Lori Granger is an overly generous gal who finds her philanthropic ways curtailed by handsome CPA Jackson James, who has been hired by her late dad's estate to control her spending. While he refuses to give her control of her trust fund, he does agrees to help her find a husband to fulfill a condition of her father's will.

U
Unseen
Nancy Bush
Zebra, 2009
In this suspenseful story, Gemma La Porte wakes up in a hospital room, bruised and confused, remembering only her name. Deputy Will Tanninger wants to know if she's responsible for a fatal hit-and-run. The search to uncover the truth gets more difficult as they find themselves growing closer.

V
Venus Guy Trap
Shannon McKelden
Tor, 2010, 2009
Bookstore owner Haydee Miller had planed to be married by her 33rd birthday but things are looking grim. It's a good thing that her new employee just happened to be Venus (yeah, that Venus), who decided to use some of romantic magic to make Haydee's dream comes true.

W
Wedding Season
Katie Fforde
St. Martin's, 2010
Sarah is a wedding planner who doesn't believe in love. Now she is trying to pull off two weddings in one day--one of them her pregnant, demanding sister. So she and her friends Elsa and Bron have their hands full and no time for romantic entanglements. But, hey, this is a romance after all!

X
Exes and Ohs
Beth Kendrick
Down Town, 2005
Okay, I'm stretching it with this title but so be it. After she is jilted the night before her wedding, Gwen, a child psychologist, is heartened when she meets Alex. But things get complicated when she discovers that her new young patient, 4-year-old Leo, is Alex's biological child.

Y
The Yellow House
Patricia Falvey
LB, 2010
As the war for Irish independence rages, Eileen O'Neill is torn between two men: a charismatic and passionate political activist determined to win independence from Great Britain at any cost, and a wealthy and handsome black sheep of the pacifist family who owns the mill where she works.  

Z
Zora and Nicky
Claudia Mair Burney
DCCook, 2008
Zora and Nicky, an interracial couple, prove that their love is strong enough to overcome the religious and social issues that surroound them.  

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