3 1/2 chapters...OK. I'm not sure if I'm that far yet. I am having a hard time with it so far. I just got to the part where she shows up at her home w/ Ivan to meet her father. Should it get better soon?

Yes! It will definately start to pick up now! Keep with it! You will love it!

Someone on another thread recommended the Princess by Lori Wick (Christian, but not LDS author) to me. I read it and enjoyed it. I haven't found anything to compare to Twilight, but it was an uplifting and romantic read.

Thanks I will check it out.

YES - keep going!!

Jane Eyre
Pride & Prejudice
Sense & Sensibility

Also, Jan Karon's Mitford series is good, and has a G-rated romance theme through the series.

Ah, I see y'all have discovered Enchantment by Orson Scott Card.

Homebody & Treasure Box are also very good. He also wrote one of my very favorite books, Speaker for the Dead, but it's not a romance. Also while it stands on it's own, the story makes more sense if you read Ender's Game first.

I'd recommend These Is My Words by Nancy Turner. There's a line in there something about "a kiss that will knock your bonnet off" but nothing is described too graphically! It took me awhile to get into it, but once I did, it was worth it.

I just read A Measure of a Lady and thought it was excellent. There were 2 things about it the bothered me, but they were stricly plot related. But the romance was good...and very clean!

There was an author that I read years ago, and if I remember correctly she was rather fun and clean. the books were Utterly Charming, Simply Irresistible Completely Smitten, and some other titles I can't remember the name of. The author is Kristin Grayson.

They were fun stories, sort of a what if fairy tale characters were real people type of thing. I really enjoyed them.....I think I even own some if you are around and want to borrow them.

"Bookends," by Liz Curtis Higgs.
It's very, very clean. Not at all even remotely on Steph's level, but it is a nice, simple, lighthearted, clean romance. I enjoyed it. I just don't think any of us will find another book/series that appeals to us as much as the Twilight series...

I have to agree with you. There has not been much out there that compares. thanks for the suggestion I will give it a try.

I really loved a series of books called The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers. She's a Christian author who's written lots of other books, all good, but this trilogy was my favorite by far. The names of the three books are A Voice in the Wind, An Echo in the Darkness, and As Sure as the Dawn. They are historical fiction set in the Roman gladiator times, but have a love story at their heart. Love, love, loved these books.

I read The Mark of the Lion series several years ago, and really enjoyed them. Another book by Francine Rivers that I enjoyed was Redeeming Love.

Keep 'em coming, ladies! I've been jotting them down as you speak...