Did you think that Valentine’s Day was the only day of the year to celebrate love and romance? Think again, because the entire month of August is Romance Awareness Month. Enjoy this selection of recent romance novels available at Danville Public Library.
28 summers : a novel / Elin Hilderbrand.
When Mallory Blessing’s son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he’s not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It’s the late spring of 2020 and Jake’s wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Presidential election. How do Mallory and Jake know each other? Flash back to the sweet summer of 1993: Mallory has just inherited a beachfront cottage on Nantucket from her aunt, and she agrees to host her brother’s bachelor party. Cooper’s friend from college, Jake McCloud, attends, and Jake and Mallory form a bond that will persevere — through marriage, children, and Ursula’s stratospheric political rise — until Mallory learns she’s dying.
The business of lovers / Eric Jerome Dickey.
When Dwayne tries to reconnect with his teenage son, he finds himself fighting to separate his animosity from his attraction for his son’s mother, Frenchie. Brick’s latest source of income – chauffeur and bodyguard to three smart, independent women temporarily working as escorts in order to get back on their feet – opens a world of possibility in both love and money. Penny, Christiana, and Mocha Latte know plenty of female Johns who would pay top dollar for a few hours with a man like Brick if he can let go of his past, embrace his unconventional new family, and allow strangers to become lovers.
Girl gone viral : a novel / Alisha Rai.
One minute, Katrina King’s enjoying an innocent conversation with a random guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire encounter. Going viral isn’t easy for anyone, but Katrina has painstakingly built a private world for herself, far from her traumatic past. Jas Singh, a bodyguard, offers his family’s farm as a refuge. Alone with her unrequited crush feels like a recipe for hopeless longing, but Katrina craves the escape. She’s resigned to being just friends with Jas — until they share a single electrifying kiss. Now she can’t help but wonder if her crush may not be so unrequited after all.
The gravity of us / Phil Stamper.
As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus. Amidst the chaos, Cal meets sensitive and mysterious Leon, another “Astrokid,” and finds himself falling head over heels–fast. As the frenzy around the mission grows, so does their connection. But when secrets about the program are uncovered, Cal must find a way to reveal the truth without hurting the people who have become most important to him.
Hideaway /Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty. At nine, she was already a star―yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Cate was a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bloodied, exhausted girl huddled in his house―but when the teenager and his family heard her story they provided refuge. Cate’s ordeal, though, was far from over. First came the discovery of a shocking betrayal that would send someone she’d trusted to prison. Then there were years spent away in western Ireland, peaceful and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul. Finally, she would return to Los Angeles, gathering the courage to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life. What she didn’t yet know was that two seeds had been planted that long-ago night―one of a great love, and one of a terrible vengeance.
The lies that bind : a novel / Emily Giffin.
Forging an unlikely connection with a stranger at a bar who warns her against resuming a dysfunctional relationship, an aspiring reporter investigates when the man goes missing on September 11, 2001.
The Syn takes another hit job and crosses the path of the vampire race’s new enemy and a half-breed in danger of dying during her transition. Butch O’Neal is the Dhestroyer, supposedly fulfilling the prophecy that forces the end of the Omega.
