Item category 1: Romance

This is a beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D'Or in a small French town in the mid 1930s.

In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband Malcolm and their little bow Teddy, in an elegant brownstone on New York's upper east side. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she ...

"On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. The time is the 1950s, when life was simple...

Subject: Unable to win the hand of the headstrong beauty Emma Stokehurst, bitter exile Nikolas is transported back in time where he meets a woman who looks remarkably like the Emma of his dreams.

Love stories. A Promise of Danger Delia Carson was only sixteen when she fled her hometown running thousands of miles away from the deadly Texas tempest of lies and shadows that tore apart her family and her aching love for smalltown bad boy Marsh North. But she never could escape. A Promise of D...

Single mother Amy cannot date David because she has no one to look after her child. So to free her, David has his gay brother, Jason, move into her house, only to see Jason fall in love with Amy as well.

Anne Symons is content living with her widowed father in a sleepy Dorset town. She has a good job in a solicitor's office and a kind, reliable and good-looking boyfriend, Joe. But when enigmatic, sophisticated Michael Conrad appears on the scene, she suddenly feels something is missing from her l...

Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit; ever since her father's death she has had to be a survivor. She makes an ill-advised marriage in order to escape her harsh home life. However, she quickly discovers that she has married a selfish and violent man. His beatings are ceaseless and she finds he...

Cathie leaves her family in the Australian bush, and heads for England. When attacked at Liverpool docks Cathie takes refuge with the man who saved her, and as she regains her memory and meets her Lancashire relatives she must confront the legacy of her mother's past.

EROTIC FICTION. The women were in various states of undress. Mostly they lounged on silken cushions and combed each other's hair. In the Arabian harem of the Sultan, two European concubines were dreaming of release. Janet McKinnon has been incarcerated in the Sultan's harem for two years. Rosemar...

Caught in a passionate liaison with John McKenna, a servant on her father's estate, Lady Aline Marsden is exiled from London while her lover is banished, until John returns, having made his fortune, determined to seek revenge on her.

"He would sell his warrior soul to possess her. . . . An alluring laird... He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart--until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone ou...

Scottish noblewoman Aubrey Montford masquerades as a widowed housekeeper and uses her talents to transform desolate Castle Cardow into a profitable estate, but her pretense is threatened by the return of her employer, Lord Walrafen and an accusation of murder.

Offers a collection of romantic stories narrated by the fictional Lady Whistledown, including the tale of Charlotte Birling, who finds herself being courted in secrecy by the notorious Lord Matson.

The Lockhart brothers' quest for an ancient family heirloom has proved fruitless...and an unpaid loan has left them indebted to their rival, Payton Douglas. With no recourse, the Lockharts offer Payton their most valuable commodity: their sister Mared's hand in marriage. Raised to despise the Dou...

War brides.

Narrated by Kathy, now 31, "Never Let Me Go" hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, "Never Le...

Maura Carmody's off on the trip of a lifetime. A talented chef, she's travelling around Ireland for a month to promote Australian food and wine. Maura's expecting a straightforward business trip. But what she gets is a whirlwind of mishaps, misunderstandings, rivals and revelations - and Dominic ...

Review: An Aussie saga of family trials and tribulations, success and sheepdogs, love and luck.

ROMANTIC FICTION. Wartime Paris, 1943. Michel Roth is a softly spoken young man who suddenly finds himself leading a double life. He spends his days at Gestapo headquarters, working as an interpreter during shocking interrogation sessions. Desperate to escape this world, by night he throws off hi...

General Adult. Fleeing scandal, Elissa Cross seeks refuge in a remote cabin, never expecting the arrival of her old college crush, the freewheeling Maxim Cox, during a raging snowstorm, and finds herself battling her own passionate desires as the two play a seductive game of Hide and Seek. Origi...

Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a stray dog, an ill-treated horse or a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue. And with neglected wives the rescue invariably led to ecstatic bonking, which didn't please their erring husbands one...

When Samantha Rainford - newly wed to Douglas Cosmo Rainford III - returns home from her honeymoon to find divorce papers waiting, she's shocked and heartbroken. Then she discovers that she's not the first to be abandoned - she's one of four (or maybe more) ex-Mrs. Rainfords - and decides it's ti...

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wo...

General Adult. As her family breaks away from their church district, Nellie is torn between her family and her beloved Caleb, who is staunch in his Old Order beliefs, but if Nellie waits too long to choose, she surely lose him to another.

Ricky France-Lynch is moody, macho, and magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod. Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school a...