These romance novels are touching, passionate and … funny! Humor adds a wonderful element to the traditional romance genre. Try these and laugh out loud!
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Description: Reluctantly agreeing to her husband’s request for a divorce after an unfortunate incident with a frying pan, Charlie Rhymer returns to her family home to find a less-than-serene atmosphere before encountering brooding actor Mace North.
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Description: When Jayne Ingleby causes the Duke of Tresham to be shot in a duel, he hires her as his nurse and then his mistress.
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Description: A restless New Yorker who enlists in the secret service and learns about truth and justice the hard way.
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Description: Lovely home, husband, family — apart from the envy of her less contented sister, everything in Dilys’s life is lovely, until the day she attends her best friend’s funeral and meets scruffy, blue-eyed, Matthew Todd.
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Description: In 1822 Baltimore, tomboy horsewoman Jessie and dashing horseman James race against each other, but he doesn’t love her. Jessie goes to England where aristocratic cousins turn her into a lady, James proposes and together they search for pirate treasure.
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Description: Mitch Peabody was learning pretty fast that the life of a private detective was nothing like the movies.…until SHE walked through the door.
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Description: Her life was pleasant, proper, and predictable– until he showed up and trouble moved in…
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Description: A hilarious year in the life of a thirty-something single woman.
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Description: Laura Horsley finds herself agreeing to help organize a literary festival deep in the heart of the English countryside. But she finds herself traveling to Ireland to persuade a notorious reclusive author to come out of hiding.
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Description: In 1860s New York, an abandoned baby girl is found by four boys and they adopt her. In time, the boys start a ranch in Montana and she grows up to be a beautiful woman. One day there arrives at the ranch a handsome Scottish lawyer, looking for an English lord’s daughter kidnapped two decades earlier.
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Description: Plus-sized Jemima Jones struggles with weight, dating, and work issues as she navigates a treacherous world dominated by thinner women.
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Description: A high-flying Irish-woman with a penchant for recreational drugs and men in tight leather crash lands in the Cloisters, Dublin’s version of the Betty Ford Clinic, where group therapy and middle-aged men in sweaters will drive her nearly out of her mind.
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Description: After the worst day of her life, a young woman spills her darkest secrets to a stranger on an airplane, but when he re-emerges in her life, she will have to face the things she said to him, and her growing feelings for him.
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Description: Aspiring journalist Rebecca Fine struggles to make ends meet by writing a beauty column, while dealing with a Jewish dating service, her widowed father’s engagement to an unpleasant classmate, and a sexy new coworker.
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Description: Charts the misadventures of Helen Bradshaw, who isn’t exactly living out her dreams. She’s a lowly assistant editor at GirlTime magazine, drives an ancient Toyota, and has a history of choosing men who fall several thousand feet below acceptable boyfriend standard.
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Description: Our heroine loses her money to an unscrupulous accountant, her fiance to a frumpy older woman, and her reputation to headlines denouncing her as a fraud. What next?
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Description: Madeline Deveridge is all too aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But Madeline has a far more pressing problem than being called the Wicked Widow. She fears that she and her beloved aunt are being haunted!
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Description: Cannie Shapiro is devastated when her ex-boyfriend writes an artilce about “loving a larger woman.”