Strange Romances.

Romance novels that are a far cry from Harlequin.

Updated January 11, 2023
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The cowboy and the Cossack
Huffaker, Clair.
CD
Fifteen Montana cowboys sail into Vladivostok with a herd of five hundred longhorns, ready to cross a thousand miles of Siberian wilderness. When a band of Cossacks, Russia's elite horsemen and warriors, shows up to escort these rough and ready Americans to their destination, the clash of...
You Suck : a love story
Moore, Christopher 1957-
Paper Book
"You bitch, you killed me. You suck!" Being dead sucks. Make that being undead sucks. Literally. Just ask Thomas C. Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody--the woman of his dreams--is a vampire. And...
The cowboy and the vampire : a very unusual romance
Hays, Clark 1966-
Paper Book
Here is the world's first apocalyptic, comedic, vampire thriller! Filled with romance and set in the modern West, it's The Cowboy and the Vampire by Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall. New York City reporter Lizzie Vaughan doesn't know it, but she has 2,000 years of royal Vampiric...
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
Holton, India
Paper Book
Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by means far more interesting than purchase. Ned Lightbourne is a sometimes...
Pride and prejudice and zombies : the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!
Grahame-Smith, Seth
Paper Book
The New York Times best seller is now a major motion picture starring Lily James and Sam Riley, with Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena Headey.  Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride...
Ice planet barbarians
Dixon, Ruby 1976-
Paper Book
You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me - on an ice planet. We're not equipped for life in this desolate winter wasteland....
The crown of gilded bones
Armentrout, Jennifer L.
Paper Book
"Poppy never dreamed she would find the love shes found with Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. Its a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true...
Never let me go
Ishiguro, Kazuo 1954-
Paper Book
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes "a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist--a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times's 10...
Soulless
Carriger, Gail.
Paper Book
Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society. Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations....
Neon gods
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
He was supposed to be a myth. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell...he was, quite simply, mine. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that's as sinful as it is sweet.* Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the...

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