S07.26: 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
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