Romance fiction
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
A Fire of Burning Ice, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_mcdermott_caleigh.pdf
Overview
"My novel A Fire Of Burning Ice is Romeo & Juliet reimagined as a sapphic enemies-to- lovers Romantasy in a world of dragons, magic, and dangerous truths. Told through dual Point of View chapters between the two main characters Raena Fyeur and Khestri Atwater, this story follows the two women's journey of self-discovery and a fight for freedom. Within the Fantasy and Romance genres, there is an extreme lack of lesbian representation, and that is why I chose to write this story. With...
Dates:
2024
A Withering Peach Flower, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_gao_ying.pdf
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"In these 105 pages of the beginning of A Withering Peach Flower, Tao Hua had been inspired by her first romance on her thirteenth birthday and had a crush on a boy. Due to the unfair admission policies, she missed her chance of being accepted by a teacher's training school and lost her dream of becoming a teacher. Under her teacher and best friend's persuasion, her mother agreed to let her repeat Grade Nine but refused to give her money. She had to work hard to collect money and got the...
Dates:
2024
About Us, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_shen_jing.pdf
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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
Dates:
2023
Below the Bloody Sea, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_wallen_jocelyn.pdf
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...
Dates:
2023
Between Devotion & the Dead, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_sholomicky_eileen.pdf
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""Between Devotion & the Dead" is the first 100 pages of an adult dark fantasy novel, the first in a planned trilogy. The novel follows formerly betrothed princes Declan and Valerian in their quest to stop the resurgence of a magical plague, which Valerian has accidentally triggered in his search for the legendary Gods' Well, before it kills their kingdoms' mages—including Declan's secret life partner, the healer Mylor. The novel explores themes of choices and those that are taken away...
Dates:
2024
Breaking the rule, 2014
Item — Item 0113503153083: [Barcode: 0113503153083]
Overview
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.
Dates:
2014
Celebrating naked, 2005
Item — Item 0113502746473: [Barcode: 0113502746473]
Overview
Celebrating Naked is an unconventional love story about an unconventional family. -- abstract.
Dates:
2005
Cheek to Cheek, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_bradley_christopher.pdf
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"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...
Dates:
2021
Clouds of Smoke and Whispers, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_lee_cassidy.pdf
Overview
"The following is the first 112 pages of Of Smoke and Whispers, a queer, supernatural fantasy romance about two young women, one human, and one fae, who fight to understand their part in a prophecy and their growing attraction for each other. Piper, who doesn't see the value in loving when you're destined to lose, must fight to return home while battling the feelings blossoming where her heart used to be. The armor that Evanora, Crown Princess of Lendor built around herself is tested when...
Dates:
2024
Crash, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_eldredge_charles.pdf
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"Thomas and Samantha were childhood best friends turned high school sweethearts. When Samantha moved away halfway through high school, their relationship faded and the two lost touch. Now, over ten years since the two last see each other, they crash into each other in their hometown on Thanksgiving weekend. Thomas has just lost his mother to a heart attack a few months after a career change and big break up. Samantha avoids her overbearing and pretentious family at Thanksgiving while...
Dates:
2024
Flora & Fauna, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_morgan_lexi.pdf
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"There is no peace without power. The caesar's assassination leaves a power vacuum every senator in Vis wants to exploit save Echo Dexius Valerius whose dream of a peaceful, prosperous state, house, and family shatters with his father's murder. Propelled into the heart of the conflict, he quickly learns neutrality is more dangerous than choosing a side. Xiomara Zapocteloma has long been powerless even as daughter to her city-state's king; her father may sit on the Sunflower Throne but his...
Dates:
2024
Honeymoon Alone, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_diebold_nicole.pdf
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....
Dates:
2019
Just let me catch my breath, 2010
Item — Item 0113503010135: [Barcode: 0113503010135]
Overview
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
Dates:
2010
Love Hunt, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_vazquez_torres_natalia.pdf
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...
Dates:
2023
Love is a little life-threatening, 2001
Item — Item 0113502549158: [Barcode: 0113502549158]
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...
Dates:
2001
Patrón, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_gonzalez_kompalic_luis.pdf
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"How important is the origin of a story? Patrón, a novel containing a novel, is the story of Alberto Saíd's construction of Samira Saéd, a fictional character inspired by Alberto's grandmother, Nayi. Alberto is a Venezuelan political journalist living under asylum in the United States who, after publishing the novel, receives a crushing review that sends him into a rage. The novel is constructed through a series of letters and novel chapters by the hand of Alberto. In the letters, he talks,...
Dates:
2024
Queen of Smoke and Mirrors, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_ferraro_isabella.pdf
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...
Dates:
2023
Samara, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_gomez_alexandra.pdf
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...
Dates:
2020
The Castle's, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_agee_carrie.pdf
Overview
""The Castles"a prequel to Dirty Dancing is a full-length screenplay that delves into the untold past of Johnny Castle, set in 1930's New York City. The story follows the tumultuous relationship between Arabella Armstrong, a New York aristocrat, and Isaac Castle, a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The screenplay opens with Arabella and Isaac's unlikely romance, which leads to an unplanned pregnancy and a hasty wedding. As their marriage progresses, cracks begin to show as Isaac...
Dates:
2024
The girl in the gilded cage, 2005
Item — Item 0113502746465: [Barcode: 0113502746465]
Overview
This book is my exploration of what love is... -- abstract.
Dates:
2005