''Your one-stop shopping list for RomanceNovel plots and complications!''

Although some existing tropes like MagnificentBastard may fit here as well.

[[index]]
* TheBet (a weird version of MeetCute)
* Long Lost Love ("Billy? Is that ''you?''")
** "NewOldFlame" connected to a "MeetCute"
* Handsome/Lovely Adversary [[SuchAPhony ("She's gorgeous, I hate her")]]
** AlphaBitch
** MillionairePlayboy
** ReformedRakes
** TemporaryLoveInterest
* The Billet-Doux
** LoveLetterLunacy
* The Angry Outburst
** TheMasochismTango which leads to an AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther.
* Pressure From Above
** ArrangedMarriage
*** AltarDiplomacy ("You will marry Princess Lucky, so you better get used to the idea!")
** ParentExMachina
** ParentalMarriageVeto
* StarCrossedLovers ("Never was a tale of such woe...")
** LoveHurts
* Ungentlemanly/Unladylike Behavior
** LoveAtFirstPunch
** MistakenForCheating
* Case of Nerves
** LoveMakesYouDumb
* The Big Decision
* Disaster!
* The Chase (oddly enough, a version of TheChase)
* On a Pedestal
** BeautifulAllAlong
* Dont Let Him/Her Get Away!
** RaceForYourLove
* Disapproving Authority Figure
** ParentExMachina
* Two of a Kind
** BirdsOfAFeather
* Sub Rosa
* [[OneTrueLove The One]]
* Furious Attraction
** BelligerentSexualTension
** SlapSlapKiss
* The Unknown Child
* Neutral Party with Words of Wisdom (a type of messenger)
* The Old One Who Knows But Aint Sayin (another messenger, possibly a SecretKeeper)
* Girl/Boy Next Door
** SheIsAllGrownUp
* Mistakenly Overheard Conversation
** ThreeIsCompany, romance novel style
** MistakenForCheating
* Sweet Nothings (Pillow Talk)
* Right Under Your Nose (Stop chasing the Duke; the stableboy has a nobler soul)
* MysteriousPast (Why ''did'' he leave London?)
** A Backstory version of ForbiddenFruit
* Forget It and Run!
* OppositesAttract
* The Perfect Gift (a romantic GoldenSnitch?)
* The Imperfect Gift
** RedundantRomanceAttempt: Acting out of character to impress a love interest who likes your true personality.
* The Ugly Duckling
** BeautifulAllAlong
** HollywoodHomely
** HotLibrarian
* The "Near Mrs."
** NewOldFlame (May I introduce you to my... good friend?)
** LikeBrotherAndSister
* LoveTriangle
** BettyAndVeronica
** BettyAndVeronicaSwitch
** FriendsTurnedRomanticRivals
** TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel
** MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle
** RichSuitorPoorSuitor
* His/Her "True Nature"
* Self-Conscious About Best Feature
** BeautifulAllAlong
** HollywoodHomely
* One Who Intercedes (a SecretKeeper who is more active, like the Nurse in Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet)
* MindlinkMates
* DecemberDecemberRomance (or alternatively GrowOldWithMe)
* MySecretPregnancy (category romances signal this trope with the phrase [[http://www.rtbookreviews.com/content/theme-secret-babies "secret baby"]] in the [[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/search/?searchfor=book&keywords=secret+baby title]])
* NoLovesIntersect
* LoveLetter
** ObsessiveLoveLetter
* MarriageOfConvenience as a plot device, will either be MarriageBeforeRomance or causing either party to want somebody else really badly.
* SummerRomance

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See also RomanceArc.
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