Get in the mood for Valentine's Day with these new romance novels from the paperback shelves at the Duke Street Library.

1 NEVER SEDUCE A SCOT, by Maya Banks. Eveline Armstrong, beautiful daughter of a powerful clan, doesn't speak and is considered daft. No one knows that she cannot hear. When she marries rival clan member, he learns her secret and will do anything to protect her.

2 SULTRY WITH A TWIST, by Macy Beckett. Completing a month of community service in her tiny Texas hometown, June Augustine would rather be opening a martini bar in Austin. But her plans may be permanently altered by her service supervisor, who is also her first love and ex-best friend.

3 COURTING CAROLINA, by Janet Chapman. After rescuing a woman from pursuers and agreeing to let her hide out with him, Alec McKeage finds she is harboring a secret that could bring danger to the town of Spellbound Falls.

4 CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH, by Victoria Dahl. After leaving her job as a Hollywood makeup artist to stay with her great aunt in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and figure out life, Grace Barrett is distracted by a rugged cowboy.

5 THE LADY RISKS ALL, by Stephanie Laurens. Respectable Miranda Clifford turns to the ruler of London's gambling underworld for help in finding her missing brother, only to find herself attracted to this disreputable man.