British Literature: Romance

Tomboy Dani has decided that this is the summer to become more feminine in order to attract a boyfriend.

On a Caribbean cruise, eighteen-year-old Lindsay's to-do list includes having a one night stand, but when her wealthy new stepfather introduces his gorgeous godson as her traveling buddy, things become complicated.

Kate arrives at Snow Angel Valley with two friends for a vacation of fun, flirting, and skiing, only to find that they will have to share the condo with her brother Sam and his friends, but she is not too disappointed when she discovers Sam's cute friend Joe has a crush on her.

Dawn Delaney and her friends arrive in New Orleans to spend their summer vacation helping with the city's rebuilding efforts, but a psychic reading on their first night predicts big changes in the coming weeks, including a new man for broken-hearted Dawn, but Dawn is not sure if she is willing to open her heart and risk getting hurt again, even if it means passing on a chance at true love.

Ashleigh Sneaux moves to an island in the Great Lakes where her newly divorced mom has purchased a bed-and-breakfast, and must learn to adapt to the cold weather, a much smaller school, and a completely unfamiliar dating scene.

Alyssa is saddened that she will have to spend winter break alone while her boyfriend Rick travels in Australia on a "couch exchange," but when Alyssa meets Jude, the Australian bound for Rick's couch, she begins to reassess her feelings for Rick.

Megan lands a job at an amusement park near Lake Erie, leaving behind her boyfriend, older sister's wedding plans, and hectic family life, and finds herself falling for a cute co-worker and learning that no matter how far she travels, her past will always catch up with her.

Seventeen-year-old Brittany was born into a secret community of werewolves, but when she fails to transform at her apppointed time, she fears that she will never truly belong.

While working as a wilderness guide in the national forest where her parents were killed twelve years earlier, seventeen-year-old Kayla is powerfully drawn to Lucas, who she learns is her appointed guardian--and much more--as she discovers her true identity and destiny.

Jessica Kane is excited to attend the training program for counselors at Camp Lone Star with her friend Liz, but her excitement ends when she learns she and her arch nemesis Sean Reed have been paired together as trust partners.

A collection of three interconnected novels about three girls who find love while traveling abroad, including Robin in London, Dana in Paris, and Carrie in Italy.

Jen, Chelsea, and Amy head for Jen's grandparents' island house where they plan to spend the summer together before going off to college, but the perfect vacation they envisioned begins to go awry when boyfriends--old and new--arrive on the scene.

Edie and Dylan first see each other in photography class where an instant attraction draws them together, but their recent squabbles threaten to put a damper on their college trip to Paris.

A road trip across the U.S. threatens to end Edie and Dylan's relationship when Dylan begins keeping secrets from Edie and Edie spends more time writing in her diary than hanging out with Dylan.

"Jeane Smith's a blogger, a dreamer, a jumble sale queen, CEO of her own lifestyle brand, and has half a million followers on Twitter. Michael Lee's a star of school, stage, and playing field. A golden boy in a Jack Wills hoodie. They have nothing in common but a pair of cheating exes. So why can't they stop making out?

Holly, still struggling with her grief two months after the death of her beloved husband Gerry, begins taking steps to reclaim her life after receiving a packet of letters Gerry wrote before he died--one for each of the next ten months--in which he leaves instructions for her to perform a series of unexpected tasks.

Rosamund Stacey, a fiercely independent, intellectual young woman in 1960s London, becomes pregnant after her only sexual encounter, but is not at all displeased by the intrusion of her infant on her life.

Bridget Jones, having decided to give Mark Darcy a chance, finds herself wrestling with the realities of sharing bed and board with a man, and things become complicated even further with the arrival on the scene of the beautiful, man-hunting Rebecca.

Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of loss, single motherhood, tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering her sexuality in--Warning! Bad, outdated phrase approaching!--middle age

A charming, young English woman is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable.

A love story set at Lyme Regis, England in the 19th century. Charles Smithson, a young gentleman of traditional values, is engaged to a wealthy girl. His destiny is haunted by the independent and poor Sarah Woodruff.

Vince and Joy meet and fall in love as teenagers on summer vacation, and although their paths cross several years later, the timing is not right and it is not until nearly twenty years pass that they find their second chance at love.

Lucy Sullivan, a twenty-six-year-old Londoner enjoying single life with her roommates, does not believe a word when a psychic tells her she will be married within the year, but when her friends' fortunes come true in unexpected ways, Lucy begins to wonder which of the eligible bachelors in her life may be the one.

A red-headed vampire named Jody sets her sights on C. Thomas Flood, a night-clerking aspiring writer from San Francisco, and finds more than one way to satisfy her hunger.

The lives of Edward Lannion, his fiancee Marian Berran, and their friends are disrupted when Marian announces her intention to call off the wedding on the eve of the ceremony, and Jackson, a mysterious manservant, is left with the chore of guiding them all onto the correct paths of love.

When Martin's wife Antonia leaves him to run off with her psychoanalyst, Martin finds himself re-examining his emotional state.

Brian Jackson, on scholarship at a British university in 1985, struggles with issues of class, acne, and love in his quest to win a spot on the popular television quiz show "University Challenge" and to raise himself above his humble beginnings.

Stephen C. McQueen, frustrated understudy to the remarkably healthy Josh Harper, star of "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know," a play about Lord Byron, must make a choice between love or fame after meeting Josh's witty, restless wife, Nora.

Englishman Howard Belsey struggles to revive his love for his African-American wife as he works abroad at an American college, but when a disastrous affair is revealed, Howard learns his actions may have dire consequences on every member of his family.

Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.

Silver, taken in as an apprentice to the old, blind lighthouse keeper Pew in 1969, after her mother is blown into oblivion by a mighty wind off the coast of Scotland, is comforted by Pew's stories--especially those about Babel Dark, the son of the lighthouse's founder whose journey from lightness into dark mirrors Silver's own life.

A single, thirty-year-old British woman hires a handsome escort to pose as her fictitious perfect boyfriend for her mother's benefit, but trouble comes when she really begins to fall in love with him.

Aspiring jazz musician Stephanie Glassman's career has reached an all-time low, along with her love life, until a lover from the past is thrown back into her life, promising love, fidelity, and the perfect life, but Stephanie has to wonder if his motives are true and whether or not she is willing to settle for Mr. Right-Now.

Emma Corrigan must discover whether she has set herself on the road to ruin or romance when she arrives at work to find the handsome stranger she has confessed all her secrets to during a dangerously turbulent flight is the elusive CEO of Panther Cola, her place of employment.

Young Rebecca Bloomwood, a financial magazine writer whose perpetual shopping has dug her into a huge debt hole, tries to turn her life around when she meets the desirable Luke Brandon.

Lexi Smart wakes up after a car accident with no memory of the past three years, unaware of how she managed to land a gorgeous husband, the perfect job, and a fabulous house, and as she struggles to adjust to her unfamiliar life, she begins to wonder if she was ever really happy.

Shopaholic Becky Bloomwood is enjoying her pregnancy, especially buying baby clothes and accessories, until she begins to suspect that her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who also happens to be her obstetrician.

Personal shopper Becky Bloomwood's life reaches the peak of perfection when her entrepreneurial boyfriend Luke proposes, but the couple sees trouble looming on the horizon when both their mothers try to seize control of the wedding plans.

Becky Bloomwood, a television financial expert in Britain and an out-of-control shopaholic, finds a whole new world of stores open to her when she moves to New York with her boyfriend, but her inability to check her spending puts her job and relationship at risk.

Lara Lington fears her imagination has gone into overdrive when she begins seeing the ghost of her great-aunt Sadie, who demands Lara find her missing necklace and in the process teaches Lara a great deal about herself, her heritage, and the importance of leading a fulfilling life.

Ambitious young lawyer Samantha Sweeting stumbles into an entirely new way of life when a costly error at work has her fleeing to the countryside where she is mistakenly hired as a housekeepr--despite a complete lack of domestic skills--and finds love with the handsome gardener.

After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations.