Adventurous Romances

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Adventure
• Romance
• Emphasis on plot

Keturah and the Lord Death
By Martine Leavitt
YA F Leavitt
All Keturah wants is to marry a kind peasant man, have a baby, and lead a simple peasant life. Instead, she becomes lost in the woods for days and upon encountering Lord Death makes a deal with him for her life. Keturah is given one more day to find her true love and if she does Lord Death will not take her. On her quest Keturah learns many new skills and inspires the townsfolk to make their small town better than it was before.

Daughter of the Forest
By Juliet Marillier
SCIFI Marillier
Sorah is spoiled, pampered, and protected by her six older brothers. When a sorceress turns her brothers into swans, it's up to Sorah to save them.

Book of a Thousand Days
By Shannon Hale
YA F Hale
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

Mr. Darcy’s Daughters
By Elizabeth Aston
F Aston
Picking up twenty years after Pride and Prejudice left off, Elizabeth and Darcy have gone to Constantinople, giving us an opportunity to get to know their five daughters, who have left Pemberley for a few months in London. While the eldest, Letitia, frets and the youngest, Alethea, practices her music, twins Georgina and Belle flirt and frolic their way through parties and balls and Camilla -- levelheaded and independent -- discovers what joys and sorrows the city has to offer an intelligent young woman.