Midlife (and Older!) Romance

Most romance books (and other books with romantic subplots) seem to think that no one past the ripe old age of 25 gets to fall in love. Once a reader is (way, way) past that age it can get pretty boring. Here are some books where love comes for older people.

Jo is a Hollywood producer at the height of her career when she is photographed making her younger assistant laugh on a red carpet. The tabloids label them a couple immediately. Maybe they are onto something?

This is part of a series surrounding a royal romance and wedding. In this book the mother of the woman who is dressing the bride comes to England on her daughter’s work trip. She meets a member of the royal entourage.

Three sisters find out that they are witches after they drink something brewed in their aunt’s greenhouse. One sister is happily married but the other two find partners in the series.

Jessie is recently divorced when she gets a job as a caretaker of a house that turns out to be magical. She builds a new life that includes a new relationship and new powers.

A space captain is hired to rescue a member of a reclusive alien species. Her only knowledge of the species comes from the specific subgenre of romance novel she likes to read that features them.

Sophie is a newly qualified matchmaker who no one wants to hire. She decides to prove her skills by setting up matches for the seven elderly men in her apartment building.

Mrs. Martin is 73 and has a Terrible Nephew. She finds out that he is making trouble for a lovely lady. She decides to sort out the nephew and impress the lady.

Jenny Casey is a war veteran who is part cyborg and her body is starting to break down. This is a sci-fi thriller with a polyamorous romantic subplot.