Contemporary romantic suspense

The subgenre of contemporary romantic suspense consists of literary works that features both elements of romance and suspense.^[8]

Christian romance

This subgenre is also referred to as inspirational romance, often including themes and characters dealing with the Christian faith.^[9]

Contemporary paranormal romance

The subgenre of contemporary paranormal romance consists of literary works that feature both elements of romance and the supernatural.^[10]

Baby love

This subgenre includes pregnancy, babies or children. One obstacle for making plots in this sense is to adapt to an ongoing increase in women who independently raise their children without any partner.^{[11][better source needed]}

Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips is an example of this subgenre.^{[citation needed]}

Medical romance

Medical romance novels may generally be regarded as a subcategory of contemporary romance, as well as of medical fiction, but has its own type of setting and characters, although it yet can be as multifarious as any other subgenre. The setting usually involves a medical workplace, often the emergency department, but also airborne medicine, family medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology.

Regarding characters, the central male protagonists (heroes) are almost always medical doctors, mostly emergency physicians, primary care physicians or surgeons, and sometimes obstetricians/neonatologists or pediatricians. The female protagonists (heroines) are mostly medical doctors but also often nurses, working in primary care, obstetrics/neonatology, training or residency programs, surgery, anesthesiology or emergency medicine. The doctors are almost always ingenious, the men usually tallish, husky and chiseled, while nurses are strong but caring.

Patients bring a lot of potential for subplots. They mostly get completely recovered, regardless of the severity of their injury or disease. Almost no plot, however, includes a doctor-patient or nurse-patient relationship,^{[citation needed]} since it is a code for professional health care workers to avoid intimate relationships with patients, as a part of a professional doctor-patient relationship.^[1]

The plot often includes pregnancy^[11] and children.

Lesbian romance

This subgenre^[12] is an important part of literature and has been prevalent since the mid 1700s ^{[citation needed]}. The lesbian romance genre is often a subgenre of broader genres such as BDSM romance, paranormal romance, coming-of-age romance, fantasy romance, and inspirational romance.