Romance in One Page

A mother hunts for rich sons-in-law while her daughter enjoys hating the man she is destined to marry.

Two teenagers meet at a party, marry by dawn, and die by Thursday.

An idealistic young woman marries a dry clergyman, and the town collectively wonders why she bothered.

Two sisters navigate romance. One does it with logic, the other with a dramatic fainting spell.

An orphan girl takes a job, meets a brooding man, and discovers a problem in the attic.

A wife realizes her husband loves her position in his life more than her.

A foundling spends two generations dismantling two families to avenge a broken heart and a lost social standing.

An orphan gets a fortune from a secret source, only to find his new status is a very expensive trap.

Four runaways, a weaver with donkey ears, and the most chaotic gardening accident in history.

A girl gets invited to an old manor and promptly assumes everyone is a serial killer.

A celebrated monk breaks every vow for a demon in disguise, leading to a family reunion in the catacombs.

A marriage ends in scandal while a farmer finds meaning in his cabbage patch.

A sensitive young artist falls for a woman who is already engaged, then sends a lot of very long letters.

Two couples are tricked into love while a villain ruins a wedding with a lie.

A boy pulls a sword from a stone, founds an elite fellowship, and watches it crumble through betrayal and magic.

An orphan girl inherits a castle and a guardian who treats hospitality like a hostage negotiation.

Two princes crash-land in a pastoral utopia, adopt disguises, and accidentally make both the King and Queen fall in love with them.

Knights errant, runaway sparrow-hawks, and swords for bridges: the standard operating procedure for Arthur's table.

An American ambulance officer falls for a nurse while the world falls apart.

He abandons his life for a woman who loves luxury more than poverty, and she knows it.

A tutor and his aristocratic student exchange high-minded letters until a violent father and a rational husband intervene.

A rich woman plays matchmaker, ignores reality, and accidentally falls in love with the only person watching.

A shipwrecked pirate charms a remote island community, ruins a local boy's social life, and triggers an identity crisis.

She said no eight years ago. Now he is back, rich, and clearly not over it.

An archdeacon, a bellringer, and a poet obsess over a dancer while the cathedral watches a city outgrow its walls.

A woman leaves her wealthy husband to become a chorus girl, proving she is a person rather than just a luxury.

Two women, bored with London, rent an Italian castle and accidentally invite everyone they know.

A boy is born into immense wealth, but his body refuses to keep pace.

A water spirit marries a knight to gain an immortal soul, only to find that human love is terrifyingly fragile.

A scientist claims he can blow up the world. One man tries to save it, mostly by sabotaging the math.

A farmer with Herculean strength falls for an outlaw’s captive daughter amidst an Exmoor landscape of highwaymen and political rebellion.

A village girl loses her innocence to a liar and her reputation to everyone else.

A disguised King, a fiery cross, and an exiled lady collide in a mountain chase where honor outweighs every law.

A father mandates his younger daughter stays single until her older sister finds a husband.

A lawyer marries a woman his social circle approves of, then spends decades thinking about someone else.

A fan brings death, debt, and a very persistent ghost. Nobody should have opened the box.

A princess survives a murder plot, a trunk-based home invasion, and twenty years of family kidnapping in ancient Britain.

In a world where thinking alone is a crime, one man discovers the most forbidden word.

A Venetian gambler escapes a high-security prison, meets Voltaire, and spends a lifetime testing the hospitality of Europe’s elite.

A Parisian diamond merchant returns to a bleak English wasteland, marries the wrong woman, and loses his eyesight to books.

A disinherited son, a disguised king, and a healer accused of witchcraft collide in the dust of a 12th-century tournament.

An orphan goes to college on a stranger's dime, provided she writes him letters he never intends to answer.

A Cambridge professor and his handsome ward follow an ancient pottery shard to a murderous, immortal queen in a volcanic cave.

Three cities, one priest, and the agonizing question of whether modern logic can survive ancient ritual.

A man looks exactly like a king. The king is kidnapped. Things escalate.

She owns the land and rejects the steady shepherd, only to marry a man who keeps secrets.

A girl born in a debtors' prison finds a fortune, while a man seeking the truth finds himself in her cell.

A brother and sister navigate adulthood in a town that never forgets a grudge.

Two Acadian lovers are separated by a mass deportation and spend a lifetime crossing a continent to find each other.

A man tries to study, gets married, and discovers the universe is actively working against him.

A lawyer-turned-actor taunts the aristocracy until the country literally explodes around him.

A carpenter proposes to a girl who loves ribbons more than him. It ends in disaster.

A man tries to outrun his own marriage, but Ann Whitefield is a very persistent guardian.

An English girl chooses between a man who treats her like a painting and one who throws her photographs into the Arno.

Valancy gets a death sentence, decides she has nothing left to lose, and takes a walk.

A drifter takes a job delivering memoirs and ends up accidentally inheriting a throne and a murder investigation at a country house.

A captain faces the sea, a hostile corporate takeover, and his own awkward, sudden impulses.

A man wakes up married to a stranger, only to discover he is actually an alien impersonator.

Two people drink a love potion, wreck their lives, and never once think of stopping.

A Fleet Street barber offers a very close shave while his neighbor sells the most popular, mysterious pies in London.

Two men fight over a woman as if she were a property title, until they lose her.

Five different writers tackle the messy business of affection in a collection where nobody stays calm.

A man searches for his lost beloved in a dreamscape of ancient ruins, architecture, and obsession.

A city woman trades culture for a shack, a rugged husband, and endless wheat fields.

A soldier falls for a local heiress, but his secret mountain of debt is harder to hide than the romance.

A man inherits a hat, a curse, and a family property disaster that refuses to die.

A suitor loses his mind in the Colosseum, a flower-girl causes a scandal, and a hidden doctor saves the day.

A girl runs from her grandmother, only to find a husband and a castle.

A romantic exile chases his lady across Spain in a car while dodging royal guards.

Two people tour England by car, argue about honor, and slowly realize they are the only ones not lying.

An engineer returns to New York, finds a dead man's license, and marries a Lady before his luggage is unpacked.

An American heiress hires a driver, only to get a viscount in disguise.

Helen heads to the Swiss Alps, only to find three men and a very quiet mountain.

A lieutenant visits a space station only to find the entire facility hijacked by impostors.

A wedding is planned, a murder is attempted, and the guests are unexpectedly alive.

An officer survives a Welsh social season and a Russian winter, only to lose a limb and his first love.

An engaged debutante, an army officer, and the crushing social theater of New York's elite.

A broke socialite keeps running into the same woman, who happens to be two different people.

A girl likes a pilot, a pilot likes his plane, and a war changes the flight plan.

The Passion Play is coming to Oberammergau, and the man playing Jesus is losing his grip on reality.

Two newlyweds take a gap year, except it is in space and they are fighting Martians.

A young woman runs away, a major chases her, and the town takes notes.

A sister prays for grace, a lover keeps a vigil, and the manor house continues its oblivious, heavy existence.

A broke girl from Kentucky arrives on Broadway, and a theater producer learns that some plays actually work.

Paris is burning, the King is keeping a locksmith, and everyone is suddenly an aristocrat.

A disciplined soldier ruins his life for a Romany pickpocket who values her absolute freedom more than her heartbeat.

Stenographers type love letters for two dollars and manicurists read hearts in the hotel lobby.

A clerk flaunts his youth, a woman vanishes into the mist, and a grandmother refuses to settle down for anyone.

An Englishman wanders into a Mexican blood feud, and a very capable American brings extra ammunition.

A locked library, a deadly telephoto lens, and a house hiding secrets in its very windows.

A green mummy goes missing, a man ends up in a packing crate, and everyone becomes a detective.

A knight searches for his missing lady while Robin Hood trades ballad heroics for high-stakes partisan warfare in the 1260s.

A mountain singer leaves her valley for the London stage, only to find the hardest act is marriage.

An airman finds his sight again, but his war is only just beginning.

A painter’s niece, a mysterious telegram, and a lord with a tawny mustache face a blackmailer’s desperate gambit.

A cavalry officer faces war, a secret engagement, and an unwelcome suitor named Lord Slubber de Gullion.

Torchy handles the office, the home front, and everyone's bad relationship decisions simultaneously.