pods.ee | 07.26: Romance Novels with a Ticking Clock

This one's for those of you who've been asking us to talk more about craft on the podcast! We're talking romances with ticking clocks and clear time frames, about how this impacts conflict and makes books more breathless, and of course about the books that deploy this strategy perfectly. Inside, you'll find road trips and adventures, vacation romances and romantic suspense, house parties and that classic romance chestnut: "I have 30 days to get pregnant." It's going to be fun.

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Next week, we're reading Julie Anne Long's What I Did For a Duke, available in print, ebook, and audio at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.

The Books

It Had to Be You and Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Hot Touch by Deborah Smith
Whiteout by Adriana Anders
Waking up with the Duke by Lorraine Heath
Perfect by Judith McNaught
Fiasco by Constance Fay
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean
Her Night with the Duke by Diana Quincy
Along Came Amor by Alexis Daria
Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen
Sexy in Stilettos by Nana Malone
Fan Service by Rosie Danan
Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas
One Last Night by Lauren Ford
Tycoon by Joanna Shupe
Into the Woods by Jenny Holiday
One Stormy Night by Jules Bennett
Sins of a Wicked Duke by Sophie Jordan