I am looking for romance novels where both the MMC and FMC are normal average people with normal average income.
Romance is not my genre but I am exploring it. My first book was “One Day In December” by Josie Silver where the girl initially goes for a banker and marries him.
I have just started reading my second romance novel ever, “It ends with us” by Colleen Hooever, and here the girl initially goes for the tall attractive man who just happens to be a neurosurgeon.
Sure neither MMC in these books has the last laugh, but they earn (no pun intended) second place which itself is an achievement.
It seems to me that even in fiction authors cannot dare imagine an FMC choosing the normal average Joe on average income and being the first choice of FMC.
Please prove me wrong me folks – help me out with some recs.
Thanks in advance!
by DefinitionOk2485
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Nora Roberts often has at least one person with a very average job, often one that doesn’t require a college degree. She clearly researches the job itself since it seems so overt.
Role Playing by Cathy Yardley features two middle class introverts who meet playing video games.
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall. She’s a single mom working at a stationary shop, he’s a plumber, they’re both bakers on what is for legal reasons not the great British bake off. (she does get involved with a wealthy snob first, fair warning).
Emily Henry – I can’t remember any rich main characters in any of her books but my memory is terrible.
I’m sure though that her most recent one, “Funny Story”, is definitely people with ordinary incomes.
The Lovelight Farms series by B.K. Borison is about a group of employees working at a farm/tourist attraction in a small town. They all have modest incomes, and their being at work is a major point in each story.
With Love From Cold World by Alicia Thompson is also about two people working at a tourist attraction, and there are some scenes where they are working in normal customer service positions. One is content to stay at a job he’s loved for a long time; the other sees the job as a stepping stone. One lives with roommates, and the other is working to pay for her master’s degree.
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell is about an IT guy who develops a crush after reading a journalist’s emails during his work shifts. (Some people think this book is creepy, but I thought it was cute). MMC is well paid, but not RICH and he’s just a normal guy.
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen is low fantasy, but it’s about a woman who works at her family-owned undertaking business as a field marshal. Hart technically does have a lot of money….but only because he camps outside every night and doesn’t actually have a home lol. Even though this is a “fantasy” novel, the main characters have pretty normal jobs and life stressors.