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Travel with a romance book!

Welcome to Romanceopoly, the yearly reading challenge. You’ve landed at the Post Office where your challenge is to read a book set in a different country to where you live. Alternatively, if you want to take it easy, read any romantic suspense book of your choosing.

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Lets explore the world through romance books! Whatever country you live in, you need to find a book set elsewhere. This is going to be a little bit more difficult if you’re in the US, but there are plenty of books set around the world.

This makes giving you recommendations a little tricky, as we aren’t creepy enough to spy on where you live. But, we have come up with some recommendations where the books are set outside of the US.

Genre only challenge

If you’re doing the genre only version of the challenge, pick any romantic suspense book of your choosing! For more romantic suspense book recommendations take a look at our Romantic Suspense page on Under the Covers book blog.

The recommendations

Most of historical romance is set in the UK, if you want to see our all time favourites and the books we recommend over (and over!) again, check out these lists we made over on our blog Under the Covers book blog:

Here are some more contemporary romance books set outside of America

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Don’t You Forget About Me
by Mhairi McFarlane

Set in Yorkshire, England

Brief synopsis

Georgina isn’t having a great day. She’s been fired from the worst Italian restaurant in Sheffield only to walk in on her boyfriend having sex with his assistant. Puzzled by her lack of heart break and in need of cash, she quickly snatches up the next job she is offered. Only to realise that her new role as bar maid is in a pub owned by the her long lost, and secret, love Lucas. But, her love for Lucas isn’t the only secret she is keeping and seeing him again brings old feelings and memories to the surface.


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Blindsided
by Amy Daws

Available on Kindle Unlimited

Set in London, England

Publisher’s synopsis

What happens when an almost thirty-year-old virgin agrees to let her Scottish footballer best friend give her some lessons in seduction?

Lots of banter, awkwardness, jealousy, and heat.

Midfielder Maclay “Mac” Logan is a loud-mouthed, tattooed ginger content with focusing on football. But when an adorably-freckled seamstress comes barreling into his life, he finds Netflix-And-Bickering with her to be his new favorite pastime.

Freya Cook is used to being the invisible woman with a needle and thread, offering cheeky punchlines as she helps dress London’s finest. She’s plus-sized in body and spirit, and other than her friendship with Mac, talking to the opposite sex is one skill she never mastered.

However, after one innocent game of Never Have I Ever, Mac offers to play Love Coach for Freya.

What neither of them see coming are the feelings that develop when the clothes come off.

Now they’re both about to learn the biggest lesson of all: Don’t fall in love with your best friend.


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Moti on the Water
by Leylah Attar

Set in Greece

Publisher’s synopsis

Meet Moti Ferreira—spectacularly jinxed from the day she’s born.

Saddled with an eccentric mother, she stumbles upon the one man who holds the key to her freedom—the best man at her cousin’s upcoming wedding.

All Moti has to do is overcome her fear of water, board a yacht to the Greek Isles, seduce the dreamy Nikos Manolas, and survive two weeks at sea with her oddball family.

The only obstacle Moti doesn’t see coming is Alexandros Veronis, the onboard chef and star witness to her awkward mishaps. He transforms onions into chocolate and aroma into nostalgia. Day by day, his alchemy works its magic on Moti. But she’s not the only one falling under his spell. Everyone has a secret, growing round and ripe at Chef Alex’s table. When the masks fall off, they spill out one by one, and everything blows up in their faces.

Now Moti’s truth is exposed, and worse, she’s hooked on more than Alex’s midnight snacks. But this time, screwing up could be the best thing she’s ever done…


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City of the Lost
by Kelley Armstrong

Set in Canada

Publisher’s synopsis

Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey’s best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana’s husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it’s time for the two of them to disappear again.

Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you’re accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, no computers, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. As a murderer, Casey isn’t a good candidate, but she has something they want: She’s a homicide detective, and Rockton has just had its first real murder. She and Diana are in. However, soon after arriving, Casey realizes that the identity of a murderer isn’t the only secret Rockton is hiding—in fact, she starts to wonder if she and Diana might be in even more danger in Rockton than they were in their old lives.


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Off the Air
by L.H. Cosway

Set in South Africa

Brief synopsis

Sparks have been flying between Callum and Leanne from the beginning. Their relationship has been fiery and passionate and characterised by dizzying highs and soul crushing lows. Which, as TV reality stars in a show about parkour, has been captured on camera. But, after a scandal that took things too far, they’ve been told to cool any romantic relationship or they will be booted off the show. But can they resist one another?


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Shadow of the Fox
by Julie Kagawa

Set in Japan

Publisher’s synopsis

Every millennium, whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers has the power to call the great Kami Dragon from the sea and ask for one wish. The time is near…and the missing pieces of the scroll will be sought throughout the land of Iwagoto.

When demons kill half-kitsune Yumeko’s adoptive family, she’s forced to flee her home with one part of the ancient scroll. Fate thrusts her into the path of mysterious samurai Kage Tatsumi, who is Yumeko’s best hope for survival. But he’s under orders to retrieve the scroll. An uneasy alliance forms, and Yumeko begins the deception of a lifetime, knowing her secrets are more than a matter of life or death—they’re the key to the fate of the world.


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Marcus
by Anna Hackett

Available on Kindle Unlimited

Set in Australia

Brief synopsis


This is the first book in Anna Hackett’s action packed Hell Squad series. In Marcus we are introduced to a brand new Earth, where aliens have invaded and humans are barely surviving. But humanity still has some fight left and a rebel force has formed. Hell Squad is one of the teams that go out on missions to destroy the enemy and save as many survivors as they can. Each member of the team fight their own demons as well as the dinosaur like aliens who are trying to destroy Earth.

Marcus is Hell Squad’s leader, he’s a scarred and battle hardened. Completely wrong for former socialite turned comms officer Elle. Elle know’s she doesn’t deserve Marcus. He’s a brave warrior who fights for humanity. She’s a former party girl trying to make up for her previously shallow life by being the best comms officer she can.

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Doctor’s Delight
by Angela Verdenius

Set in Australia

Publisher’s synopsis

What does a 35 year old, plus-sized virgin do when she decides to lose her virginity and experience just one night of being desirable? She lets herself get talked into hiring a male escort. Unfortunately, mistaken identity lands her in the bed of a hunky doctor, and now things are spiralling out of control!


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