Item category 2: Newmarket - Romance

The relationship between Rosie and Alex evolves from childhood best friends into something more as separation, an unexpected pregnancy, and other romances turn their lives upside down.

Junchow, China, 1928. Lydia Ivanova has a fierce spirit. Nothing can dim it, not even the foul waters of the Peiho River. Into the river's grime bodies are tossed - those of thieves and Communists alike. So every time Lydia steals from someone to feed herself and her mother, she takes her life in...

As children, Callie, Brie, Bode, and Sela shared a rare closeness, the kind that seems destined to last forever. Though their backgrounds could hardly have been more different, none of that mattered when they played together in the grounds of Callie's lavish home. There, they learned about love, ...

Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text messages that promises to spare you the anguish of trying to stay composed while communicating with your crush. At a star-studded political fundraiser in a Los Angeles...

With his world unravelling around him, and pressure rising at home, Joey Lynch's life has never been in more turmoil. Desperate to prove himself worthy of the only person he's ever put his trust in, Joey fights to stay away from a world that threatens to destroy everything. But with the odds stac...

When her mother passes away from a long battle with cancer, Alice's life is tilted on its axis. After ending her flat-lined, disastrous relationship, she flees Boston for the lake house her mother left behind in Wilcox Grove, New Hampshire. The presence of so much nature all around her is jarring...

Cressida Collins is the queen of makeovers. With a well-placed stitch, button or seam, she can transform any frock in The Vintage Dress Shop and give customers their Cinderella moment. Like her beautifully organised workroom under the eaves, Cress's life away from the shop is just as orderly and ...

Gertie has always had her head in the clouds, wondering what her life might be like if she could only pluck up the courage to leave the remote Scottish island where she was born. It's the only place she knows, but you can't do anything there without everyone knowing, the glue of this close-knit c...

Kate Bergeron is the beautiful and mysterious former mistress of a cloth merchant... and the latest beauty to capture the interest of the Prince of Wales. Mired in a disastrous divorce, the Prince attempts to distract attention from his next amorous pursuit by ordering Grayson Christopher, the el...

Maiko Fox and Adrian Hightower were young, beautiful, in love... and famous. The latest model to grace the Valentina Posh runway show and the hottest new superhero actor were Hollywood's breakout couple. They were in every magazine, all over the most popular celebrity-blogs, and on countless E! N...

Daphne McFadden already knows that as a female author, the cards are stacked against her. Now she knows just how much. Because her sudden whim to pose as an 'outdoorsy hunk of masculinity' male author for her new book just resulted in the unthinkable: a bidding war, a huge book deal, and the kind...

Finlay and Vero need a girls' weekend away. Some peace and quiet to negotiate with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero's childhood crush Javi, and find a stolen car. But Finlay's mother and ex-husband Steven are dead set on catching a ride to Atlantic City. At their casino hotel, the trip takes a n...

Gaby Cane was always a bit afraid of her attraction to Bowie McCayde. Even when she was fifteen and Bowie's family took her in, she had sensed his simmering resentment. Now ten years later, she's an aspiring journalist who can hold her own with any man professionally, the dark shadows of years go...

One night with a rockstar could upend Shera's best-laid plans. This is the night Shera's been waiting for: She's finally getting a drink with the guy she's pined after for months. But while she waits for him at a bar in Silver Lake, she's approached by Max King, the darkly seductive, charismatic ...

Mildura, Northern Victoria, 1956. Isabel Hayward has ambitions of being a great chef. But cooking for the locals at the country pub she and her mother run doesn't really allow for experimenting with haute cuisine. When she meets local Italian farmer Matteo Sorrenti, their connection is instant an...

Allegra Dixon has never felt loved or wanted. Rejected by her mother ----- a cold, beautiful socialite - and her absentee military father, Allegra's only escape from her lonely existence is through books and her own rich fantasy world. When she finds love with childhood sweetheart Shepherd Willi...

The pretty little streets of Montmartre are abuzz with a rumour. Apparently a mystery matchmaker, known only as Paris Cupid, has somehow helped the city's most famous bachelor find love. But old-fashioned romantic Lilou is staying very quiet. Shed just wanted to set up her best friend, and to get...

When Bigambul woman Brynn Wallace leaves Brisbane to pursue her dreams in the Big Apple, she imagines herself landing a fabulous career at a New York City publishing house and acquiring shelves of Louboutin shoes, not working in a doggy daycare with a boss from hell and a wardrobe from her nightm...

In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of his problems; Kismet can't even imagine her future, let alone the kind of future Gary might offer. Du...

Princess in the outback: Isabella Martineau is tired of being a princess - it's time she broke free and lived by her own rules, not by royal decree. Freedom beckons in the Australian outback, where Isabella meets rugged stranger Jack Kingsley-Laird, who quickly discovers that her cool, regal exte...

Phoebe Hudson should be grieving her dead husband, but since the car crash that claimed his life, she can't remember him at all. The only person who can help her piece her past together is her old high-school best friend, Drew Kennedy. When snippets of her memory start falling into place, she won...

Meghna has tried everything when it comes to dating, blind dates, apps, attempting to drum up conversations with strangers at bars (ew). Everything except arranged marriage. But then Seth, her best friend and the one-who-got-away asks her to be his "best man" and suddenly her parent's taste doesn...

Dahlia de Beaumont is the CEO of a high-end perfume and cosmetics company based in Paris. Cruelly widowed at thirty, she brought her four children up alone. Now aged fifty, she guards her heart by burying herself in work, motherhood, and a long-term yet casual relationship with a married man. Tra...

Isabella Shay is usually a very honest person. But when she's running late for her first day at her dream job and the barista yells for "Amy" three times with no answer, she does the unthinkable. Izzy takes that PSL. It's the exact drink she ordered and paid for, only way further ahead in the que...

Buckle up for this sizzling grumpy/sunshine small-town romance that will throw a lasso around your heart and have you hooked. A city girl fleeing an abusive marriage suddenly finds herself working on a cattle ranch with a sexy but grumpy rancher as her boss. He's worried she won't stay. She's wor...

For as long as I can remember, Lachlan West has been my brother's best friend and the love of my life. Trouble is, he kissed me four years ago and then never spoke to me again. I was doing great pretending he doesn't exist until I was assigned to write an article about former college athletes and...

When Andie lands her dream job as a senior book publicist, she's ready to take the world of New York publishing by storm. Until her first day, when she discovers that her biggest author is Jack Carlson - the same Jack who ruined her life in university. Who she hasn't spoken to in five years. Who ...

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett. He's the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, which is why Emily was perfectly happy when Jack left Rome, Kentucky, mid-sch...

Vasalie Moran was once a dancer in King Illian's court – until he framed her for murder. Barely surviving her two years in the dungeons, she's suddenly called to face her King. He offers her a deal: become his spy at the month-long royal Gathering and he'll grant her freedom. As Illian's orders g...

Diana has her freedom - isn't that what she wanted? After years of watching her safe marriage go stale, Diana Wood separated from her husband, Oliver. But as his newly single life soars and she eats cereal for dinner, Diana begins to question her choices. When a client invites her to Paris, she j...