After hearing about the movie “Things We Lost In the Fire,” about a widow and her late husband’s troubled friend being drawn together by an unusual series of events, I started wondering about fate in romance books. You’d think that all romance-fiction pairings are just meant to be. But in the case of these 10 romances, it takes mystical happenings, a wrinkle in time, or the simple endurance of life’s challenges to turn true romance into love stories “written in the stars.” Get a gander at these page-turners.

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"Scent of Darkness" by Christina Dodd
Genre: Paranormal
Publisher: Penguin
Jasha Wilder is everything Ann Smith desires: handsome, bold — and a shape-shifting wolf demon. She wasn't counting on the last part, yet Ann finds she's drawn to him for a reason. The things that always made her feel different are gifts that could save Jasha's soul.