Romance fiction
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Paid by Howling, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_digiacomo_caitlin.pdf
Overview
"Paid by Howling is a romantic fantasy novel by Caitlin DiGiacomo and is the first book in a series of reimagined Greek myths. It explores the end of the world from the perspective of mythological monsters. The story follows main character Dakota as she traverses a postapocolyptic United States, locating the other remaining survivors left alive. As each of them discovers they can change shape into ancient beasts, Dakota will be forced to examine her traumatic past as well as her uncertain...
Dates:
2024
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
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"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
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"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
The Manuscript, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_burton_sarah.pdf
Overview
"Thirteen witches must be ritually executed by the Basarab Priest-King to cure the Empire's plague. With the capture of the final witch, Rue, this deadly rite is hours away. But with the help of the twelve other imprisoned witches, Rue escapes, taking with her the first clue to a different, witchly, ritual--one that would cure the plague, strip the Basarabs of their power, and leave the witches alive. The Priest-King's nephews hunt Rue as she searches the Empire for further clues. Merrick,...
Dates:
2024
The pine tree state, 2007
Item — Item 0113502905012: [Barcode: 0113502905012]
Overview
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
Dates:
2007
The Princess and the Pauper, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_mcgill_isabelle.pdf
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...
Dates:
2022
The Promise in Ironhart Manor, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_nieves_jazmine.pdf
Overview
"When twenty-year-old Anne strikes a deal with a dragon named Bael, it doesn't end in the happily ever after like the fairy tales suggest. For the past 200 years, she has been trapped in Ironhart Manor, which sits at the center of the faeries' forest, inhabited by dangerous and deceitful creatures, including the dragon who imprisoned her. Anne must become a beast herself in order to finally escape her prison, and so another human is lured to Ironhart Manor. Anne strikes a deal with the...
Dates:
2024
The Romance Assist, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_brown_hannah.pdf
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...
Dates:
2023
Treasured, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_neal_lorri.pdf
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...
Dates:
2022
Ultramarinus, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_jackens_nolita.pdf
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...
Dates:
2023
When the waves reconsider, 2007
Item — Item 0113502910442: [Barcode: 0113502910442]
Overview
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.
Dates:
2007
Wit's end, 2002
Item — Item 0113502641641: [Barcode: 0113502641641]
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:
2002
World Breaker, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_green_marleigh.pdf
Overview
"World Breaker is an adult high fantasy multi-POV novel by Marleigh Green. It follows two central characters; Delphine, a woman with amnesia, as she navigates the Imani Empire and dodges violent enemies in an effort to regain her memories; and Alder, a soldier for the Imani Empire who feels an inexplicably powerful emotional connection to Delphine, as if he knew her in a past life. As they journey to Lilistadt, the capital of Imani, they are hunted by an enemy of Delphine's known as the...
Dates:
2024