Romance in One Page

She wants a passionate escape; he wants her to agree with his taste in poets.

A woman wants a life of her own; the social order files it under 'rebellion'.

A doctor attempts solitude in colonial India until his past decides to visit unannounced.

Two Oxford friends, Jehane and Nan, watch for husbands while feeling like castaways on a social raft.

A man wanders the road, clashes with a corrupt political machine, and accidentally becomes a hero.

Addie marries a man she barely knows. It is mostly a series of misunderstandings.

A Milanese tyrant steals a city and a wife, then learns that even his secretary has a breaking point.

A young woman falls for an architect, but a series of catastrophic deceptions keep them apart.

A young widow chooses a man indicted for shooting, and Kentucky society is remarkably unenthusiastic about it.

A priest demands a child sacrifice for a flower, and a woman flees a leper husband in these vivid, desperate lyrics.

A widow and an astronomer marry in secret, proving that gravity is the least of their problems.

An English traveler navigates a religious war, a girl in danger, and one very complicated family secret.

Two people fall in love, ignoring the fact that their social circle prefers order to happiness.

Bank clerks, failed actors, and aspiring composers navigate the perils of empty pockets and sudden romance in nineteen tales of London life.

A wealthy earl proposes to a mountain-girl on a whim, regrets it instantly, and spends his honeymoon at a boxing match.

A man builds a machine to force marriages, then watches his own business strategy fail.

Jane Seton is accused of witchcraft, while the King's Advocate treats the law like a blunt instrument.

A sea captain infiltrates Spanish occupied Flanders to steal the Duke of Alva's tax gold and his favorite daughter.

A merchant’s daughter navigates social ruin and the War of 1812 while her lover studies law under the disgraced Aaron Burr.

A girl moves into a house full of cousins and learns that staying quiet is a full-time job.

Society ladies trade secrets for gold while a handsome captain tries to dodge his own past.

A young knight vows to pluck German feathers, sparking a bloody cycle of kidnapping, revenge, and border skirmishes.

An inheritance of three million dollars turns a quiet town into a frantic hunt for a fortune.

A merchant's daughter marries an artist, only to discover that her dowry cannot buy his interest.

An aging actress, a frustrated writer, and a lake where everyone talks but nobody listens.

A social climber dumps a country girl for an Earl's daughter, only to find the high life is mostly debt.

A girl is hidden in a dark house by a shadow. It is going to get complicated.

A woman returns from a honeymoon she hated and discovers her house is full of boring people.

An Englishman wanders into a Norwegian fjord, finds a wife, and brings the storm back home.

A boy grows up in a shadow of secrets, chasing a treasure that promises only ruin.

A man returns to a rotting village to save his partner from a basement-dwelling horror.

A man loses his land to a crooked railroad scheme and decides that judges make excellent prisoners.