10 Swoon-Worthy Military Romance Books
Where Bravery Meets the Heart
Get ready to stand up and salute this list! We’ve compiled a great selection of military romances that will charm and delight any active-duty reader. You’ll find alpha characters (not always the hero!), enjoy protective lovers, and experience the long-distance misunderstandings that are sure to ensue during a deployment.
Get ready to fall for heroes in uniform with these unforgettable military romance reads.
The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, a War Story, a Love Story (a Novel)
by Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, presents a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love.
A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral.
Dear John
by Nicholas Sparks
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook, a soldier must face an impossible choice when a national tragedy threatens his relationship with the girl of his dreams. Now a motion picture starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried.
Rebellious John drops out of school and enlists in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life-until he meets Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart.
But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. While he's away, Savannah falls in love with someone else. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love-and face the hardest decision of his life.
Nerdelicious
by Mary Frame
"This refreshing standalone companion novel to Frame's Dorky Duet series charms with unforgettable characters and an expert balance of wry humor and tender moments... Combining sparkling wit and sensitivity, this is sure to sweep readers away." --Publishers Weekly Starred Review
The plan is simple: stay in Blue Falls, Texas, for a few months to lick my wounds, search for work, and save up money to move back to New York. Then breeze back into town with a great job and a new plan for my life, and show my ex and everyone else what I'm made of. Like the Punisher, but you know, without all the violence and eternal vengeance.
The Poppy War
by R F Kuang
One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, the brilliantly imaginative debut of R.F. Kuang: an epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu's Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy.
When Rin aced the Keju--the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies--it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians, who believed they'd finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard--the most elite military school in Nikan--was even more surprising.
But surprises aren't always good.
Dear Aaron
by Mariana Zapata
Some days, all you need is a message from a stranger.Ruby Santos knew exactly what she was getting herself into when she signed up to write a soldier overseas.The guidelines were simple: one letter or email a week for the length of his or her deployment. Care packages were optional.Been there, done that. She thought she knew what to expect.What she didn't count on was falling in love with the guy.
The Last Letter
by Rebecca Yarros
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, comes a sweeping romance.
"The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story."--InTouch Weekly
Beckett,
If you're reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn't. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.
I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride.
My little sister Ella's raising the twins alone. She's too independent and won't accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It's too much for anyone to endure. It's not fair.
And here's the kicker: there's something else you don't know that's tearing her family apart. She's going to need help.
So if I'm gone, that means I can't be there for Ella. I can't help them through this. But you can. So I'm begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family.
Please don't make her go through it alone.
Ryan
As the Storm Clouds Gather
by M B Henry
In a world full of darkness, can love prevail? An emotionally gripping and heartbreaking WW1 novel.
May, 1915. Nineteen-year-old Ilse Marie Stahl experiences tragedy travelling on board the RMS Lusitania with her parents from New York to a new life in England, when the ship is sunk by a German U-boat. Ilse survives, but is all alone. She distracts herself from the pain by becoming a nurse tending to the casualties of war on the front line at Ypres.
Meanwhile, young Roland Hawkins is nursing his own grief when his father is caught up in the Black Tom explosion in New York Harbour. Full of anger, he quietly sets off for England and straight to a recruiting station. Soon, he is on the front line himself, determined to get his revenge.
Where Destiny Commands: 1939 - 1945: A Time of Love and War
by Leila Sen
Based on true events and discovered letters, Where Destiny Commands is a love story set against the devastating backdrop of war.
1940: As WWII engulfs the world, the British Raj faces its final years in India. A young Indian doctor embarks on the journey of a lifetime when he joins the Medical Service in the British Indian Army. The war takes him to the Middle East, and eventually to Cairo, a tumultuous city of political intrigue and espionage, teeming with Allied Forces and those displaced from war ravaged nations. There, he meets a young woman, haunted by the Armenian genocide that she fled for safe haven in Egypt. Fate, however, intervenes when his Battalion, the 2/4 Gurkha Rifles, is swept into battle against Rommel's Afrika Korps, and he is captured in the Battle of Gazala. Faced with separation & surrounded by global turmoil, will their destiny be denied, or will their love transcend the tragedies of war, & the barriers of time & fate...
Tame the Heart
by Ava Hunter
Keeping my heart guarded all my life has never been an issue. Until he saves me in a bar fight.
Charlie Montgomery is one grumpy rancher. Calloused hands, stubborn heart, the definition of a true cowboy. He dislikes me from the second we meet. Warns me away from his tiny town of Resurrection, Montana. Well, what he doesn't know is I'm armed with a bucket list and a secret. There's no way I'm leaving. I'll just keep my distance. Only in a small town that distance doesn't last for long. Because I owe him a favor: Work for him for three months and help him save his home. Runaway Ranch.
Where Love Lies
by Raz Tal Schenirer
When Ella Davidson's world is turned upside down, and she is forced to transition from her picture-perfect all-American life to two years of mandatory military service abroad, the last thing on her mind is finding love. Then she meets the officer in charge of her unit, Liam Levine. Mysterious, confident on the verge of cocky, and unbearably gorgeous, Liam is everything Ella never knew she needed. And the spark between them? Magnetic. Undeniable. Dangerous. But as she and Liam navigate their secret love affair, Ella finds out that Liam is hiding a secret of his own--one that could ruin them both.
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