And Then There Was You
by Sophie Cousens

At thirty-one, Chloe is stuck in a PA job for a boss who barely notices her and back home with her parents after a painful breakup. Desperate to make a splash at her college's ten-year reunion, she turns to a mysterious dating service. Enter Rob, her handsome, successful, and charming match, who quickly makes Chloe feel like she's finally finding her way. But as Chloe digs deeper into her past and reconnects with old friends, she begins to question if Rob is really all that he seems. And maybe, just maybe, revisiting her past is exactly what she needs to move forward.

Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance
by Eliza Dumais

Alice is bored—romantically, professionally, creatively. So when her boss, a prominent wine importer, suggests she work a grape harvest in France, she sees it as a welcome opportunity to course-correct her apathy. Though Alice is plenty skeptical of the drink-pray-love premise, she begins to let her guard down when she finds herself picking riesling and practicing her French alongside Henri, the vineyard owner's nephew, who's just as lost as she is.

Overdue
by Stephanie Perkins

Ingrid, a cheerful librarian in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, NC, has been happily dating her college boyfriend, Cory, for eleven years without ever discussing marriage. But when Ingrid's sister announces her engagement to her girlfriend, Ingrid and Cory feel pressured to consider their future. Neither has ever been with anybody else, so they make an unconventional decision: they'll take a one-month break to date other people, then they'll reunite and move toward marriage. Is now the right time to make a move on her charmingly grumpy coworker, Macon, on whom she's secretly crushed for years?

The Austen Affair
by Madeline Bell

Tess Bright just scored her dream role starring in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. It's not just the role of a lifetime, but it's also her last chance to prove herself as a serious actress, and honor her mom, who was the biggest fan of Jane Austen ever. But one thing is standing in Tess's way—well, one very tall, annoyingly handsome person, actually: Hugh Balfour. A serious British method actor who wants nothing to do with Tess. Sparks fly when an electrical accident sends the two feuding co-stars 200 years back in time to Jane Austen's era.

A Deal with the Devil
by Elizabeth O'Roark

Hayes Flynn is an arrogant jerk known best for his scotch habit and the way he spreads his British charm all over Hollywood, never with the same woman twice. He's the last person I want to work for, except he has a face I can't look away from, and the longer we're together, the harder he is to hate. Because under that smug exterior is a heart he doesn't want to show—one that was badly broken a decade earlier. A part of me wants to fix it for him before I leave...but can I do it without breaking my own in the process?

Female Fantasy
by Iman Hariri-Kia

Joonie has two great loves. Writing fanfic about her favorite fantasy romance series and swooning over its hero, Ryke, a broody, impossibly perfect merman. No real-life boyfriend has ever come close. Why settle for ordinary when your fictional crush is...well, an impossibly hot, impossibly wonderful Ryke? But then Joonie discovers a secret: Ryke was inspired by a real man. And she's determined to find him.

Ladies in Hating
by Alexandra Vasti

Rival authors and former acquaintances Lady Georgiana Cleeve and Catriona Lacey find themselves staying at the same haunted manor while researching their next books. When they discover a dead body in the garden, they must work together to solve the mystery -- and decide if it's time to act on their growing attraction to each other. This 3rd steamy Belvoir's Library Regency pairs sweet sapphic romance with supernatural elements.

Battle of the Bookstores
by Ali Brady

Despite managing bookstores on the same Boston street, Josie Klein and Ryan Lawson have never interacted much—Josie's store focuses on serious literature, and Ryan's sells romance only. But when the new owner of both stores decides to combine them, the two are thrust into direct competition that leads to more than just frustration. Their only solace during this chaos is the friendship they've each struck up with an anonymous friend in an online book forum, but little do they know they're actually chatting with each other...

I'll Get Back to You
by Becca Grischow

Murphy was supposed to be settling into her junior year at college. Instead, she's living with her parents, failing the same class that kept her from graduating the first time around, and making minimum wage at a coffee shop. It doesn't help that the dating pool for a lesbian in the tiny town of Geneva, IL, is anemic at best. When a reunion with her thriving best friend goes terribly, Murphy's resentment threatens to boil over. That is, until a former classmate appears who is way cuter and not nearly as straight as Murphy remembers.

A Ferry Merry Christmas
by Debbie Macomber

Facing their first Christmas without their beloved Grams, siblings Reed and Avery decide to spend the holiday together at Reed’s home. However, their plans take an unexpected turn when Avery’s Puget Sound ferry stalls, stranding its passengers. What is at first an inconvenience threatens to ruin the plans of a number of commuters, but Avery and Reed soon discover that this unforeseen delay might end up being be a perfectly timed blessing in disguise.

Kissing Kosher
by Jean Meltzer

Chronic pelvic pain has forced Avital to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It's all she can do to manage her family's kosher bakery without collapsing. Distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect hire to help. Except Ethan is there at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather to steal recipes for Lippmann's mass-produced kosher baked goods company. But as they bake side by side, Ethan soon finds himself more interested in Avital than in stealing family secrets.

Love, Holly
by Emily Stone

Ever since an accident three years ago, Holly has been part of a lonely-hearts letter writing club for the holidays. But this year, the letter Holly receives is different: not only is the letter full of a grief she knows all too well, but its writer, Emma, mentions a place that Holly has visited. When she realizes she might actually be able to find the letter's author, Holly becomes determined to reunite Emma with the estranged grandson that she's desperate to reconnect with.

Three Holidays and a Wedding
by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley

Set in 2000, when Christmas, Hanukkah, and Ramadan overlapped, this feel-good novel co-written by Uzma Jalaluddin (Much Ado About Nada) and Marissa Stapley (The Lightning Bottles) stars snowbound strangers who take refuge in picturesque small-town Snow Falls, Ontario, where they find love, friendship, and plenty of holiday spirit. Try this next: The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman. 

The Merriest Misters
by Timothy Janovsky

Patrick Hargrave and Quinn Muller have been married for less than a year, but their passionate romance is cracking under the pressures of domestic life and a cumbersome mortgage. That's until Christmas Eve when Patrick knocks out a suspected burglar—actually Mr. Claus himself. Instructed by a harried elf to don the red suit, Quinn and Patrick work together to save Christmas. But why does the sleigh later bring them back to the North Pole instead of New Jersey?

The Christmas You Found Me
by Sarah Morgenthaler

Sienna Naples's family has taken care of their wild Idaho land for generations and Sienna can't imagine any other life. But at Christmastime, with her parents gone and her painful marriage finally over, it's full of memories...and incredibly lonely. Until a tall, handsome stranger and a little girl walk into her life and suddenly the holidays are alive again. When single father Guy Maple shows up as the result of an ad meant to be a joke, the handsome Montana construction worker isn't joking.

Someone to Trust
by Mary Balogh

After her husband's passing, Elizabeth Overfield decides that she must enter into another suitable marriage. That, however, is the last thing on her mind when she meets Colin Handrich, Lord Hodges, at the Westcott Christmas house party. They know there is no question of any relationship between them, for she is nine years older than he. They return to London the following Season, both committed to finding other, more suitable matches. Still they agree to share one waltz at each ball they attend.

The Merry Matchmaker
by Sheila Roberts

In this heartfelt contemporary romance inspired by Jane Austen's Emma, 50-year-old widow and gift shop owner Frankie Lane plans a Christmas event and plays matchmaker for everyone in her small town -- including hardware store owner Mitch, who clearly has a crush on her. Try these next: A Season for Love by Ally Sinclair; The Emma Project by Sonali Dev.

Our next discussion:
Wednesday, December 17, 6:30 pm
Takara Japanese Restaurant, 1 Green St, Medfield, MA
Join us on the third Wednesday of every month to discuss a different contemporary romance novel over drinks and sushi! Please email Bri at bozanne@minlib.net to get on the mailing list as RSVPs will be required each month so we can reserve enough seats. This month's book is on reserve at the Circulation Desk.

Any Trope But You
by Victoria Lavine

Beloved romance author Margot Bradley has a dark secret: she doesn't believe in Happily Ever Afters. Following a disastrous hacking incident that leaves her cancelled by fans and dropped by her publisher, she is desperate to find a way to continue supporting her chronically ill sister and lands on writing murder mysteries. But when her sister books her a six-week stay in a remote Alaskan resort to start writing, Margot finds herself running from a moose and leaping into the arms of the handsome proprietor, making her fear she's just landed in a romance novel instead.

Our next discussion:
Tuesday, January 6, 6:30 pm
Library Meeting Room on Lower Level
Looking to read more Romantasy and meet other readers? Stop by for our Romantasy Book Club! The club usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30, but we do recommend confirming details on our events calendar in case of changes. Copies of our next book are on reserve at the Circulation Desk.

Quicksilver
by Callie Hart

Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing for as long as she can remember. But when Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. There she learns that the Fae are real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.