Teen Fantasy with a Dash of Romance

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• Teen titles
• Fantasy
• Romance
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Keturah and Lord Death
By Martine Leavitt
YA F Leavitt
Talented storyteller Keturah is used to charming the people of her village with her stories. But one day Keturah must use her storytelling skills with quite a different audience. Lost in a forest, Keturah encounters Lord Death, who is ready to take her, but Keturah spins a story for him, and he agrees to grant her a twenty-four hour reprieve to find true love.

General Winston’s Daughter
By Sharon Shinn
YA F SHINN
Seventeen-year-old heiress Averie Winston travels with her guardian to faraway Chiarrin, a country her father's army has occupied, and once she arrives and is reunited with her fiance, she discovers that her notions about politics, propriety, the military, and even her intended have changed.

Sunlight and Shadow
By Cameron Dokey
YA F DOKEY
At the age of sixteen, Mina's father took her out of the shadows and into the sunlight in the hopes of giving her a new life, but Mina's mother retaliates by luring a handsome prince into a dangerous agreement to free Mina.

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.

Rose Daughter
By Robin McKinley
YA F MCKINLEY
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast.

The Blue Sword
By Robin McKinley
YA F MCKINLEY
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a Hillfolk king with mysterious powers.