Romance fiction

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"About Us is a short romantic drama that follows a married woman who falls into a turbulent emotional struggle after discovering her best friend's secret love for her after his death. Confronted with the harm caused to both relationships, she must face up to her heart and who she really is." -- Abstract

Overview "This thesis is Act 1 of a queer fantasy romance novel with an estimated ending word count of 90-100 thousand words. It is a dual point of view work that follows Jarryn Hadeon, the captain of a cursed, mermaid-hunting vessel, and Trig Kaicero, a trans man on a journey to deliver his late mother's ashes to their ancestral homeland. The work aims to lovingly investigate queer love, the ways in which our lineage changes and challenges us, and the depth of experience of queer identities through...

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Touches on values of love, family, and identity. Inside these chapters, characters strive to discover true love and experience challenges while withholding their pursuit from society, including some of their family.--Abstract.

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Celebrating Naked is an unconventional love story about an unconventional family. -- abstract.

Overview "Cheek to Cheek is a romantic comedy thriller which tells a story of finding love while outrunning that which threatens to destroy it – in this case, a vengeful soon to be husband of the protagonist's former lover. The story is a dramatization of the corporate existence and the quest for self-satisfaction and liberation through preternatural machinations of fortune and luck, where characters dream to the heights of casino towers and sums of magazine sweepstakes. This project adds to the...

Overview "Honeymoon Alone is a women's fiction manuscript told in the first person and present tense, through the lens of Lucy Gray. Lucy is a twenty-six-year-old school teacher who lives a comfortable and routine life. After a public humiliation – and some insight from a psychic – Lucy throws caution to the wind and decides to see what life could be like if she shook things up a little. She takes off for London on her sister's throwaway honeymoon and is inspired to take chances for the first time....

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When Bob moved to Kathmandu with the love of his life, he expected that they would get married in the shadow of the largest fertility totem on Earth. The country is embroiled in a civil war, however, and the local language newspapers declare his future sp

Overview "In this speculative romance novel, Henry makes a deal with Hades, who prefers to go by the name of Gustav, and becomes a vampire in order to find his dead wife's reincarnation. He becomes a souls' collector for Hades, befriends a prostitute and loses his vampire best friend on the journey. When Henry finally finds his reincarnated wife, he learns she is very different from who he thought she was. He finds himself needing to decide whether he will accept her for who she is, or whether...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...

Overview "Narcissa of the Rift has grown up wanting only one thing—to become the Advisor to her brother's royal crown. She has spent her entire life proving herself to be the most qualified for the role. The problem? Her brother isn't convinced. When a group of rebels that call themselves The Crux begin to threaten the very crown meant for her brother's head, Narcissa commits herself to the task of defeating them, certain it will prove her worthiness. But when the magical Mirror of Fates goes...

Overview "This project is an excerpt of 'Samara,' a romantic Fantasy Adventure with the soul and sensibilities of the Victorian era. In a city ruled by strict class hierarchy and a militant Lord Protector, magic is outlawed as a dangerous an unpredictible curse. Here a young seamstress makes an unsavory deal to save her younger brother, discovering she has illicit magic of her own. After a literal tumble down a magic well with a lawyer-turned-criminal, they must find their way home in an unfamiliar...

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This book is my exploration of what love is... -- abstract.

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This novel is about a boy who realizes halfway through his first semester at the University of Virginia that he is in love with his former next-door neighbor. He leaves the engineering program that his father had pressured him into joining and returns to

Overview "Aisling, crown princess of the small European country Vyctorya, tries her best to live up to her parents' expectations but internally struggles with her sexuality. With her marriage to the Duke of Belare a week away, she has resigned herself to a loveless fate. Chava, a girl from America, is reeling from her father's death a year ago which resulted in a move back to her mother's home country of Vyctorya. With the anniversary approaching, Chava feels more lost than ever with no support from...

Overview "The Romance Assist is a sapphic romantic fiction novel centered around Maria and Emily. The first one hundred pages of this novel can be found here within the Master's Project. Maria is an aspiring vet-med student who is stuck with Emily (the University of Virginia women's soccer team's star player) as her lab partner. After an incident in the lab leads to Emily offering to be Maria's sex coach, the two women pursue a sexual relationship. Over time, this relationship develops into something...

Overview "Treasured is a contemporary romantic thriller in which two former lovers are reunited in a desperate bid to track down a rare artifact needed to save their lives. This second chance romantic story line features African American characters who initially met at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee nearly 20 years prior. After meeting up again over a dead body they must work together by unraveling the mystery surrounding an antique book believed to contain a map that leads to a fortune in...

Overview "A young captain is mutinied for crimes she didn't commit on an island teeming with untamable magic. She soon realizes she's far from alone in this new land and seems to be the only traveler who retained her memory prior to arriving, something that ties her to eccentric Marcel who's been in the same predicament for many years. As our Captain Crostaff navigates the bonds of trust and companionship within a fluid reality she has to learn the value of them both if she ever wants to set sail...

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A young man struggles to define success and failure, while navigating an often perilous world of privilege, poverty, love, and addiction. He must learn to comprehend the role of fate in his own life. -- abstract.

Scope and Content Note From the Series: The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...