Other favorites include Kate Clayborn, Kelly Harms, Josie Silver, Beth O’Leary (some others mentioned her already but she deserves another mention), and Lynn Painter. Lovelight Farms is a wholesome rom-com featuring a handsome, freckled data analyst, a messy, optimistic Christmas tree farm owner, and a small town with the best hazelnut lattes on the east coast. Harriet and Wyn’s friend group has spent languorous summer days at the same Maine house for a decade, so when it goes up for sale, they’re determined to soak up one last week of memories. Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, Lucinda Riley's spellbinding multi-generational romance novel is the perfect holiday read.

This novel is lacerating in style, long sentences weave their way across the page, an incessant parade of words, clauses and subclauses, a roiling of paragraphs that reflect to the content. Instantly charmed by her swoopy hair and soft smile, August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day. But then Robert, the Duke of Clermont, enters Minnie's life, and both of their secrets are at risk of being revealed. A sound that tells of political and economic vacuums felt by people in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia to this day. Our extremely opinionated list is stacked with can't-miss classics (If you haven't read Pride and Prejudice, are you even a romance fan?I’ve been an avid romance novel reader since my teens when I would literally steal the books from the public library because I was too embarrassed to check them out. When Franny and Hayes keep running into each other, it seems they may be meant to be, but can they get over their differences and give love a chance? I know it feels like I say this about every single author on this list, but there's a reason they're on here. The story of Reba and Devon is fun and full of joyful moments — imagine getting baking lessons from the person who constantly sends you cat memes.

The Schulyers, one of the country’s founding families, are preparing for their grand ball, and Eliza can barely hide her excitement when she hears of the arrival of General George Washington’s right-hand man.

In them, you'll meet Lily, a woman who finds herself in a bit of a love triangle as she grapples with her new relationship with Ryle, and re-meeting her ex lover, Atlas. He is cool, aloof , shameless , overconfident to other but he also has the side of warm, care, tactic understanding to FL only. If you haven't read her books yet, start with these two and then work your way through the back catalog.