To Serve and Protect

Peace officers sometimes hide their hearts behind their badges.

 

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Creative Culture

There's an art to romance in these five new novels.

 

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All's Well That Ends Well

Love stories complete with hard-won happy endings. 

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The Rules of the Road

New historical love affairs built on classic Romance commandments.

 

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Fools of Fate

Is true love a matter of destiny? 

 

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Tough Love

These novels find romance even in the direst circumstances.

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Enchanted Refuge

Love stories that offer respites from trying times.

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You Made Me Love You

Love stories in which kisses are coerced.

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Love Is a Battlefield

Can love prevail against the furies of war?

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Believe It or Not

Why some of the most winning romances know how to laugh at themselves.

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Nickel and Dimed

Hardworking love stories for tough times.

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Everybody Knows

Sometimes the biggest -- and most entertaining -- obstacle to true love is the audience.

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My Hero!

Can the warrior's code of honor carry him safely through love's battlefield?

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Here Comes Trouble

Eloisa James on love stories in which indomitable women aren't ready to stop making waves.

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The Talk of the Town

Stories of love in which reputation means everything -- and nothing at all.

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The Peacock's Partner

Tales of love between plain Janes and their beautiful beaus.

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Baggage Claims

Eloisa James kicks off a new year of Reading Romance with stories of lovers encumbered by the past.

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Angst with a Bow on It

Tips for buying the perfect book for the young reader in your life.

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The Second Time Around

Re-reading a year's worth of favorites.

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Family Feuds

If their parents weren't at war, would Romeo and Juliet have noticed each another?

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Man Down

When alpha males have to take it down a notch.

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The Great Escape

A round-up of romances that offer a respite from the ordinary world -- and an important message from our columnist.

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I'm Too Hot for You

Can two people find love when one has been humiliated by the other?

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Like a Rolling Stone

There's no more enticing figure than a loner who won't settle down -- until he does.

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Secrets and Lies

Stories of lovers with something to hide.

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Odd Girls In

Misfits who find their hearts' desire.

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Ordinary Love

Love stories that don't involve titled gentry or immortal vampires.

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Hard Heads and Heartbreak

Stubborn lovers prove their own worst enemies in five new romances.

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Fallen from Grace

Human imperfections are central to these affecting tales of love.

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Compatibility Tests

The most unlikely romantic pairings can produce the most appealing tales of love.

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About the Columnist
Eloisa James is a New York Times–bestselling author of historical romances and professor of English literature teaching Shakespeare at Fordham University. Her latest book is With This Kiss; she is also the author of the memoir Paris in Love.

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Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Little Green

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a  LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.