Jennifer Heath’s fabulistic short story collection "The Jewel and the Ember" celebrates love as it’s found in ancient texts. Inspired by Golden Age cinema, including Samson and Delilah, and by the idea of love itself, Heath retells... Read More

A Chinese photographer in colonial Singapore and a museum archivist forge a connection through their yearning, time-crossing correspondence in Elaine Chiew’s mesmerizing speculative novel "The Light Between Us". In 1920, Tian Wei runs... Read More

A high school crush-turned-romance faces adult complications in the exciting contemporary novel "The Side Project". In Laurel Osterkamp’s romance novel "The Side Project", two reserved writers have complicated family lives that act as... Read More

With the support of others, an abused woman comes into her own in the revealing bildungsroman "Where Love Lies". A loving family, financial privilege, fashionable clothes, and academic success offer no protection against insecurity and a... Read More

The memoir-cum-novel "Letters to Evelyn" mixes personal anecdotes into its imaginative universe of love, aliens, and space travel. Combining memoir and fantasy elements, John Selman’s book "Letters to Evelyn" recounts the past... Read More

A local healer falls in love with a dashing nobleman in "A Kingdom to Claim", Sian Ann Bessey’s romantic epic set in medieval Wessex. Aisley, who helps out with her sick sister, is upended when she loses her father and finds out that... Read More

In Ann McMan’s romance novel "The Black Bird of Chernobyl", a misanthropic mortician meets her match in her new bubbly community outreach colleague. Lilah runs her family’s mortuary and prefers to stay in the morgue over interacting... Read More

Wordplay abounds in "Love, Literally", a pandemic-set romance novel in which a couple meets in luxurious isolation. In J. T. Tierney’s quirky romance novel "Love, Literally", two wordplay aficionados ride out the pandemic at a shared... Read More