{"id":4010,"date":"2022-09-29T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4010"},"modified":"2022-12-02T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T17:51:39","slug":"romance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/my-favorite-clean-fiction\/romance-relationships\/romance\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Clean Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><em><em>Books that meet high moral standards and contain limited foul language, sexual content, and descriptions of violence.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Before using this list, please read my <a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/disclaimer\/\">disclaimer<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Every book on this list meets \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/my-clean-reading-criteria\/\">My Clean Reading Criteria<\/a>\u201d and is one that I finished, liked, and felt was worth my time to read. To learn more about the purpose of this list please see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/about-novaun-novels\/\">About Novaun Novels<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> For information on how I classify religious fiction, please see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/is-fiction-marketed-to-latter-day-saints-christian-fiction\">Is Fiction Marketed to Latter-day Saints &#8216;Christian Fiction&#8217;?<\/a>\u201d For how I evaluate religious content in the books I read, please see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/what-about-doctrinal-differences\">What About Doctrinal Differences?<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All descriptions in quotation marks come from the book jackets or other descriptions from the publishers. Follow the author links to the corresponding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>\u00a0pages. Follow the title links to the page, post, or Goodreads review that contains my commentary on the book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/author\/68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Austen, Jane<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/delicious-literature-to-nourish-the-soul\/\">Emma<\/a><\/em> (English classic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeautiful, clever, rich\u2014and single\u2014Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mansfield Park<\/em> (English classic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTaken from the poverty of her parents\u2019 home, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with only her cousin Edmund as an ally. When Fanny\u2019s uncle is absent in Antigua, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive in the neighbourhood, bringing with them London glamour and a reckless taste for flirtation. As her female cousins vie for Henry\u2019s attention, and even Edmund falls for Mary\u2019s dazzling charms, only Fanny remains doubtful about the Crawfords\u2019 influence and finds herself more isolated than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Northanger Abby<\/em> (English classic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe story\u2019s unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeenyear-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/persuasion\">Persuasion<\/a> <\/em>(English classic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen\u2019s most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne\u2019s family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> (English classic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJane Austen\u2019s witty comedy of manners\u2014one of the most popular novels of all time\u2014 that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sense and Sensibility<\/em> (English classic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor\u2019s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barrett, Julia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jane Austen\u2019s Charlotte <\/em>(historical romance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delightful finishing of Jane Austen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Sanditon<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/author\/975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Forster, E.M.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Room with a View<\/em>&nbsp;(English classic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson\u2014who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist\u2014Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kilpack, Josi S.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Lady of the Lakes: The True Love Story of Sir Walter Scott<\/em>&nbsp;(historical romance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPassion and promises collide as Walter, Mina, and Charlotte must each decide the course for their futures. What are they each willing to risk to find love and be loved in return?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/author\/36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Montgomery, L.M.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/old-mysteries-and-romances\"><em>The Blue Castle<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(Canadian classic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-nine-year-old Valancy Stirling, considered an \u201cold maid\u201d by her family and the community, is used to obeying her mother and the other domineering members of the Stirling clan. She receives a letter from her doctor telling her that she has no more than a year to live. Having nothing to lose, she begins saying what she thinks and living her life the way she chooses, finally finding purpose and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nunes, Rachel Ann<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where I Belong<\/em>&nbsp;(Christian fiction, Latter-day Saint)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHeather . . . desperately wants to allow herself to love her best friend and become a mother to their children, yet how can she forget her lifelong dream of succeeding in the art world?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pella, Judith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Beloved Stranger&nbsp;<\/em>(Christian romance, Evangelical)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheir love-at-first-sight relationship was more than she had dared to dream. Why did she now feel so lost?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Politano, Joanna Davidson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Love Note<\/em> (Christian historical romance, Evangelical)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFocused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1865 when she discovers a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/author\/183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rinehart, Mary Roberts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/old-mysteries-and-romances\">K<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(historical romance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mysterious man who calls himself \u201cK\u201d moves into the neighborhood and is befriended by Sidney Page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tennant, Emma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pemberley or Pride and Prejudice Continued&nbsp;<\/em>(historical fiction)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preparing for a Christmas celebration at Pemberley that will include her mother, Miss Bingley, and Lady Catherine DeBourgh, Elizabeth Darcy worries she will be unable to bear her husband an heir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>An Unequal Marriage or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later<\/em>&nbsp;(historical fiction)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While hosting a lavish wedding at Pemberley for their dear friend Colonel Fitzwilliam, the Darcys painfully confront the possibility that their son may be an unsuitable heir to the estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/my-favorite-clean-fiction\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Launch-Page.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Go to My Favorite Clean Fiction Launch Page&quot; over a space photo picturing a galaxy of blue, purple, and yellow stars\" class=\"wp-image-4054\" width=\"338\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Launch-Page.jpg 676w, https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Launch-Page-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Launch-Page-150x55.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The featured image &#8220;Field of Tulips&#8221; is Copyright&nbsp;\u00a9&nbsp;2022 by <strong>Katherine Padilla<\/strong>. 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