Susan Elizabeth Phillips on Sports Romance, Alpha Heroes, Epic Grovels & the Evolution of Romance

Superfan Josephine Doyle becomes caddie to her fallen golf hero, the grumpy Wells Whitaker, as he tries to save his career.

In 1970s New York, three roommates become the vigilante Lady X. Decades later, Margot Cooper finds clippings about Lady X in her childhood home's attic.

Rising performers Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo are cast in a film about Andy Warhol and fall for each other as sudden fame takes over their lives.

Lottery winner PJ Halliday sets off across the country to win back his high school sweetheart, with two grandkids, his daughter and a cat who can predict death.

Prim schoolteacher Mary Potter moves to Wyoming and takes on the town's outcast, half-Comanche rancher Wolf Mackenzie, and his son.

Four friends' joking list of the qualities of the perfect man goes viral, and then someone starts killing them.

The college hockey romance series that starts with The Deal, in which Hannah Wells agrees to tutor star player Garrett Graham in exchange for a fake date.

Brilliant, dissolute Duke Christian Langland is struck down by a stroke and locked in an asylum. Only Quaker Maddy Timms believes he's still in there.

Georgina Anderson disguises herself as a cabin boy to sail home to America, on a ship whose first mate is the notorious rake James Malory.

To protect her home, Rowena Belleme must take a captive knight, Warrick de Chaville, as a husband against his will. He vows revenge, and then something more.

Set in Los Angeles and Paris after the collapse of the United States, Mandel's new novel brings back characters from The Glass Hotel and The Singer's Gun.

Tomboy Whitney Stone returns from Paris polished and sought after, unaware that her father has sold her hand to the arrogant Duke of Claymore.

Scottish noblewoman Jennifer Merrick is kidnapped by the fearsome warrior Royce Westmoreland, the Wolf, and later forced to marry him by order of the king.

Kind-hearted Elizabeth Cameron falls for the mysterious Ian Thornton, a scandal that ruins her reputation and leads to an unexpected marriage.

Department store heiress Meredith Bancroft and self-made tycoon Matt Farrell meet again eleven years after their brief, disastrous marriage was torn apart.

Small-town schoolteacher Julie Mathison is taken hostage by Zack Benedict, a movie star convicted of murdering his wife, and starts to believe he's innocent.

When a body turns up at an Italian villa alongside a threatening note, Amy, Rosie and Steve take on their first real case. It's the second We Solve Murders mystery.

Hockey superstars and bitter rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov carry on a years-long secret affair.

Headstrong Virginia Brandon travels to Mexico and is swept into a stormy, globe-trotting affair with the dangerous Steve Morgan. It was one of the first 'bodice rippers.'

Prim spinster Abigail McKenzie nurses a wounded train robber, Jesse DuFrayne, back to health in her own home in 1890s Colorado.

Widowed Elly Dinsmore, considered the town oddball, advertises for a husband and gets Will Parker, a drifter with a prison record, in 1940s Georgia.

In Depression-era Oxford, Mississippi, an orphaned girl, a struggling bookkeeper and a woman out of options hatch a daring plan to take control of their futures.

Heather Simmons flees a cruel aunt and a brutal attack, only to be mistaken for a lady of the evening by sea captain Brandon Birmingham. The novel launched the modern historical romance.

After catching her husband with a neighbor, 63-year-old Sylvia Fisher leaves Boca for Manhattan, revives her wedding planning business and wonders if romance is still possible.