#romance

After I left here on Saturday, I decided never to see you again.” He was sliding the frittata under the broiler, so she could only see his profile, but damn if he didn’t appear to be smirking. “I know that, darling. It wounds my pride you won’t go out with me, but I can console myself with the knowledge that when you do see me, you can’t keep your knickers on for ten minutes running.” She threw her cookie at him, feigning indignation. “You bastard! Are you calling me easy?” “I like you easy. Besides, you’re not to blame. Who’d want to wear wet knickers? ↗

— Ruthie Knox

#contemporary

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#mystery #romance #suspense #salvation

Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#heartbreak #lament #love #lovers-love-story #lovers-sadness

Sunny laughed. "It's okay. You're right, Emma. My name is unusual, but I like to think of it as... special also." Special? Sam cocked his head as he studied Sunny. Almost all of her hair had escaped out of her ponytail now. She wore a baggy pink sweatshirt and had on the kind of drawstring plaid pants that would've set Bozo the Clown's heart pitter-pattering with envy. Her yellow tennis shoes were covered with dog hair. Yeah, special was one word for her. ↗

— Jennifer Shirk

#romantic-comedy #romantic

If the worst you can say about an otherwise sweet-natured and pleasant romance novel is that the main characters are just too wholesome to suit you and your bitter, bitter, cat-infested, 7-years-friendless-and-romantically-barren life, you should probably just eat a fucking cupcake and settle in to wait for El Señor to take you away from this place on the wings of angels who all bear a marked resemblance to a young Rob Lowe. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#nature

He had always liked a good mess—God knows he had sure made a few. In typical form, he squared his shoulders, furrowed his brows and muttered, “bring it on. ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

#romance #romantic-suspense #suspense #romantic

Sphinx Resurrected by Christine Murphy gives a new romantic twist to the realm of the paranormal. The world building is extraordinary and pulls you in to the powerful domain of the Sphinx Warriors and won’t let you go. ↗

— Marti Ziegler

#romantic

You’re mad,” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance #romantic #romantic

They wanted so desperately to love each other more, to remove their clothes and submit their naked bodies to each other, but it was almost as if they were cursed since the first day that they met, and it was pure torture knowing that they could only get so close, but was unable to go the height that the both of them wanted so intimately to climb. ↗

— Keira D. Skye

#romance #romantic-love #romantic-novel #romantic-suspense #romanticism

His music was an outlet of that romantic energy and sensitivity. ↗

— Kailin Gow

#alpha-male #college #erotica #kailin-gow #music