CONFLICT - Emotions

Conflict is all about the EMOTIONS. You need to use the way your characters are feeling about each other, about the problems that come between them, to build the emotional tension and so build the sense of conflict in the book - even at the time when your Hero and heroine are not really fighting each other but that worry, tension, conflict is still in their minds.

FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY

Even if a conflict is not one you are likely to face you can imagine what your H or h would feel and express that -
Emotions like
- fear
- anxiety
- anger
- guilt
- apprehension
- terror

Use them

If your conflicts don’t evoke strong emotions in your characters – and you – and so the reader then they’re probably not worth writing

Historical romances can obvioulsy have more dramatic events like
- war
- famine
- plague

Bit these aren't necessarily better or even more dramatic within your story that the way your charactres are feeling. And the most dramatic events in the world won't tug at your readers' heartstrings without the character empathy they should feel.

But you are writing ROMANTIC fiction so your Number One concern is how is the relationship developing in the fact of this conflict ?Is it being derailed or can they work through it?

Once again, it's not the size or the drama of the event but the way that it hits home to your character because of their personality, background, beliefs etc.

And don't pound the reader into numbness with dramatic event, or discovery or emotional
development one after another - they will just end up feeling punch drunk.

GIVE IT TIME - ALLOW EACH CHANGE/DEVELOPMENT TO SINK IN
SO IT HAS IT’S FULL EFFECT