Romantic Suspense

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History of Love
By Nicole Krauss
F KRAUSS
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

Forgotten Garden
By Kate Morton
F MORTON
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.

The Scarlet Pimpernel
By Baroness Orczy
F ORCZY
Sir Percy Blakeney leads titled Englishmen in assisting the escape of emigrés threatened during the terrors of the French Revolution.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
By Lauren Willig
F WILLIG Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.

Across the Nightingale Floor
By Lian Hearn
F HEARN
In a novel set in a land much like ancient Japan, a young boy named Takeo becomes a pawn in the ceaseless wars between rival warlord clans in a culture ruled by codes of honor and formal rituals.

Lady in Red
By Karen Hawkins
ROMANCE HAWKINS
Searching for a long-lost family heirloom, wealthy, powerful Marcus St. John, Marquis of Treymount, meets his match in the lovely but irritating Miss Honoria Baker-Sneed, especially when his actions land them both in the middle of a scandal, the only solution to which is marriage.

London’s Perfect Scoundrel
By Suzanne Enoch
ROMANCE ENOCH
The second title in Enoch’s popular Lessons in Love trilogy features a determined young lady who vows to give one of Regency London’s infamous rakes his comeuppance. But when the rogue turns the tables, who really learns a lesson in love?

Dead until Dark
By Charlaine Harris
F HARRIS
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next.

Graceling
By Kristin Cashore
YA F CASHORE
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Book of a Thousand Days
By Shannon Hale
YA F HALE
When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment. The arrival outside the tower of Saren’s two suitors—one welcome, and the other decidedly less so—brings both hope and great danger, and Dashti must figure out what it is about Saren’s refused suitor that terrifies Saren so much—and brings so much danger to any of his enemies.