romance

Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 debut: a love story between Henry DeTamble - a Chicago librarian with a genetic disorder she calls Chrono-Displacement that pulls him involuntarily through his own timeline and other people's, naked and out of clothes he cannot take with him - and Clare Abshire, the artist he meets in person at twenty-eight at the Newberry Library, who has known him since she was six because he has been visiting her in the meadow behind her family's South Haven house from a future version of himself for fourteen years already by the time she finally meets him in his own present.

Susan Wiggs' 2001 contemporary romance about Michelle Turner, who at seventeen was sent to her Hollywood-icon father's Montana ranch, fell for the ranch hand Sam McPhee, got him fired and his family destroyed when her father found out, and fled to Seattle pregnant - and who returns to Montana seventeen years later to donate a kidney to her dying father, with the rebellious teenage son Sam doesn't know about in the passenger seat.