
Northern Lights
Nora Roberts
A haunted Baltimore cop finds unexpected warmth — and a murder — in a tiny Alaskan town.
Description
Lunacy, Alaska - population 506 - is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he had watched his partner die - and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote town, where darkness falls by mid-afternoon and temperatures fall to below zero, will bring some kind of solace. It isn't as if he has anywhere else to go. Aside from sorting out a run-in between a couple of motor vehicles and a moose and pulling apart two brothers fighting overJohn Wayne's best movie Nate's first weeks on the job are relatively quiet. But as he wonders whether this was all a big mistake, an unexpected kiss from feisty bush pilot Meg Galloway under the brilliant Northern Lights of the Alaska sky lifts his spirit - and convinces him to stay just a little longer. Born and raised in Lunacy, Meg has learned to be independent. But there's something about Nate's sad eyes that gets under her skin, and warms her frozen heart. However, when two climbers find a corpse on the mountain, Nate discovers that Lunacy isn't quite the sleepy little backwater he imagined.
Books like this

The Obsession
Nora Roberts
A woman hiding from her serial killer father's shadow falls for the local mechanic — until the past closes in.
9 tropes in common

Manhunting
Jennifer Crusie
A Type-A businesswoman's manhunting checklist keeps leading her back to the one man who checks none of her boxes.
8 tropes in common

Hidden Riches
Nora Roberts
An antique dealer unknowingly buys stolen treasure — and her new tenant, a burned-out cop, is the only one standing betw
5 tropes in common

All the Missing Pieces
Catherine Cowles
A cold-case podcaster and the broody small-town sheriff blocking her path must work together when the case turns deadly.
7 tropes in common

Carnal Innocence
Nora Roberts
A burned-out violinist retreats to a Mississippi bayou town — and falls for the man suspected of being its serial killer
6 tropes in common

Ravished
Amanda Quick
A bluestocking fossil hunter hires the scarred, reclusive 'Beast' to guard her caves — and steals his heart.
7 tropes in common

Across the Vanishing Sky
Catherine Cowles
A woman digging up a small town's secrets finds protection — and love — in her brooding mountain man neighbor.
7 tropes in common

Bourbon & Lies (The Bourbon Boys #1)
Victoria Wilder
A grumpy ex-cop and the lying stranger hiding at his Kentucky distillery can't stay away from each other.
7 tropes in common

The Witness
Nora Roberts
A woman hiding from the mafia for 15 years catches the eye of the one cop who won't leave her alone.
7 tropes in common

Frederica
Georgette Heyer
A selfish, jaded Marquis is charmed out of his indifference by a refreshingly capable woman and her chaotic siblings.
6 tropes in common

Mount Mercy
Helena Newbury
A cocky war-zone doctor pursues a guarded surgeon as a criminal gang turns their small-town hospital into a battlefield.
7 tropes in common

The Duke Who Hates Christmas
Bianca Blythe
A Christmas-hating duke and a runaway bride forced to share a crumbling castle for the holidays.
6 tropes in common

Whiskey Beach
Nora Roberts
A wrongly suspected widower finds healing — and danger — at a seaside estate and the woman who tends it.
8 tropes in common

The Way of the Brave
Susan May Warren
A haunted rescuer and the CIA profiler who nearly got him killed must trust each other to survive Denali.
6 tropes in common

Sea Swept (Chesapeake Bay Saga, #1)
Nora Roberts
A globe-trotting playboy comes home to raise a troubled boy — and falls for the woman trying to take him away.
6 tropes in common

Romancing the Scot
May McGoldrick
A grieving Scottish lord discovers a half-dead mystery woman in a crate — and she's hiding more than her identity.
7 tropes in common

Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
Ellen O'Connell
Found alone together in 1885 Colorado, an outcast rancher and a spinster must decide if a forced marriage can become rea
7 tropes in common

Love Uncovered: A Spicy Summer Holiday Rom-Com, Your Next Unputdownable Beach Read
Sadie Aubry
A accidentally-nudist-resort mix-up, one bare charming Frenchman, and a lie that keeps getting bigger.
8 tropes in common

Beautiful Dreamer
Melissa Brayden
A driven city broker returns to her small hometown and falls for the warm, sweet woman she once overlooked.
8 tropes in common

Late Bloomer
Mazey Eddings
A lottery winner buys a flower farm for solitude — but the furious woman who claims she owns it won't leave.
9 tropes in common