8 Romance Novels to Get You in the Valentine's Day Mood

After Lizzy Chung, high-powered lawyer, suffers major burnout at work, she decides the best place to rest and recharge is her small hometown, Weldon, CA. Jack Park didn't expect to see Lizzy back in Weldon, but now he's got three weeks to spend with the girl of his dreams. Except she doesn't know of his decades-long crush on her and he intends to keep it that way. She's an attorney who lives in L.A. and he's a bookkeeper at his family's brewery who never left his hometown. He can't risk their friendship on a long shot. Can he...? Check it out!

After things get a little out of hand for LA party girl Piper Bellinger and she ends up in jail, her stepfather has had enough. Along with her sister and her collection of designer shoes, Piper and her sister are sent to their late father's hometown to run his old bar and learn about responsibility. While Piper plans to slack off and find any way to return home sooner, she didn't plan to meet gruff fisherman, Brendan Taggart, who doubts she can last five minutes in town, let alone five weeks. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart. Check it out!

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince in the United States, including important international duties. This proves difficult when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. As his mother, President Claremont, kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? Check it out!

Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. While the world knows him as Aeneas, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, he's known to fanfiction readers as AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous and popular poster who writes alternative stories for Aeneas and his lover, Lavinia. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona, he’d be fired. Immediately. When April Whittier decides to post her latest Lavinia cosplay on Twitter, her photo goes viral and Marcus decides to ask her on a date. And when he discovers she’s actually UnapologeticLaviniaStan, his closest fandom friend, he has one more huge secret to hide from her. With love and Marcus’s career on the line, can the two of them stop hiding once and for all? Check it out!

After ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and she's got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell. Then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone, the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she's held a secret grudge against for years, is on her flight. But when their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop at the Belize airport suddenly becomes a weekend layover. Getting stuck on a three-hour flight with her nemesis was bad enough. Being stranded with him at a luxury resort in paradise? Yet the more time Ava spends with him under the hot Caribbean sun, the more she begins to second-guess everything she thought she knew about him... Check it out!

Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing book deals, she's in the trenches writing puff pieces. Then she's hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker. The Gabe Parker aka her forever celebrity crush.  Ten years later, after a brutal divorce, Chani is back in Los Angeles, focused on one thing: her work. But she's still spent the better part of the last decade getting asked about her deeply personal Gabe Parker profile at every turn. So when his PR team requests that they reunite for a second interview, she wants to say no. But the truth is that those seventy-two hours are still crystal clear, etched in her memory. And so... she says yes. Check it out!

After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again so she lies and tells him the latest one was a success. Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account, Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy... a no-nonsense stick-in-the-mud, who is way too analytical, punctual and skeptical for someone as free-spirited as Elle. When Darcy begs Elle to play along, she agrees to pretend they’re dating to save face. But with a few conditions: Darcy must help Elle navigate her own overbearing family over the holidays and their arrangement expires on New Year’s Eve. But maybe opposites can attract when true love is written in the stars? Check it out!

Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire? Or that the irritating and sour teacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she finds it impossible to stop thinking about him? The faire is Simon's family legacy and from the start he makes clear he doesn't have time for Emily's lighthearted approach to life, her oddball Shakespeare conspiracy theories or her endless suggestions for new acts to shake things up. This summer was only supposed to be stop on the way to somewhere else for Emily, but soon she can't seem to shake the fantasy of establishing something more with Simon, or a permanent home of her own in Willow Creek. Check it out!