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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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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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Secrets and Lies

Stories of lovers with something to hide.

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'Til Death Do Us Part

Eloisa James on four novels that illustrate why weddings in romances need to be more than just happy endings.

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Twice-Told Tales

Four new romances that twist old plots—from Cinderella to Cyrano, Pygmalion to Jane Eyre—to fit these times.

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Clueless: Teens in Love

Eloisa James on great love stories for younger readers.

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Presumed Innocent

Eloisa James is surprised—and delighted—by the winning innocence of the heroines of five new romance novels.

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She's No Rocket Scientist

This month in Reading Romance, Eloisa James celebrates less-than-perfect lovers.

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Breaking the Rules

Is it any surprise that bad behavior makes for the best stories?

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Back to the Future

Ever inventive, writers of romance alter old forms to map fresh approaches to the heart.

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Strange Bedfellows

Marriage to a virtual stranger may not work out well in most peoples lives. But it does make for a good story.

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Way, Way Out West

From the Old West to imagined new frontiers, lone rangers who fire the imagination

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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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