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Find your next romance by trope, vibe, spice, and genre.

friends to lovers ×small town ×cinnamon roll hero ×yearning/pining ×hurt/comfort ×
friends to lovers ×small town ×cinnamon roll hero ×yearning/pining ×hurt/comfort ×

27 books found

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You & Me

Tal Bauer

contemporary romance
(27k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A widowed dad volunteers for his son's football team — and falls hard for the other team dad, his first-ever crush on a

friends to loverssmall town
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Taming 7

Chloe Walsh

young adult romanceBoys of Tommen #5
(212k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

The class clown hides a broken past — only his friend's sunshine sister truly sees him.

friends to loverssmall town
Cover of Wait for It

Wait for It

Mariana Zapata

contemporary romance
(116k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A woman raising her nephews after tragedy slowly falls for the quiet, steady man next door.

friends to loverssmall town
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Love and Other Words

Christina Lauren

contemporary romance
(834k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A decade of silence, one chance reunion, and the first love she never stopped carrying.

friends to loverssmall town
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Blood & Milk

N.R. Walker

contemporary romanceRed Dirt Heart
(809)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A broken Australian man walks into a Maasai tribe in Tanzania and finds healing — and love — under the African sky.

friends to lovers
Cover of Goodbye Paradise

Goodbye Paradise

Nealy Wagner

new adult romanceHello Goodbye #1
(12k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Raised in a cult, Josh has spent twenty years hiding his love for his best friend Caleb — until a desperate escape chang

friends to lovers
Cover of Pieces of Home

Pieces of Home

Becca Neil

contemporary romance
(1k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Two broken men — a trauma survivor and a disabled recluse — find each other on a California beach and slowly heal.

friends to lovers
Cover of Second Chance Pass (Virgin River, #5)

Second Chance Pass (Virgin River, #5)

Robyn Carr

contemporary romanceVirgin River #5
(29k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A marine secretly in love with his best friend's widow finally gets his chance — if he can escape another woman's claim.

small town
Cover of Keeping Promise Rock (Promises, #1)

Keeping Promise Rock (Promises, #1)

Amy Lane

contemporary romancePromises #1
(6k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A reckless boy and the quietly devoted man who raised him up must fight to find their way back to each other.

friends to lovers
Cover of Red Lily (In the Garden, #3)

Red Lily (In the Garden, #3)

Nora Roberts

paranormal romanceIn the Garden #3
(43k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A single mom at a haunted Memphis mansion fights her growing feelings for her cousin's son — and a restless ghost.

friends to loverssmall town
Cover of A Lifetime Kissing You

A Lifetime Kissing You

Riley Hart

contemporary romanceInevitable #3
(3k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A lonely city man and a small-town widower find each other — and themselves — one summer in North Carolina.

friends to loverssmall town
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Fool Hearts

Emmy Sanders

contemporary romancePlum Valley Cowboys #1
(11k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Two cowboy best friends, decades of pining, and one barn moment that changes everything.

friends to loverssmall town
Cover of I'll Meet You There

I'll Meet You There

Heather Demetrios

young adult romance
(15k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A girl dreaming of escape and a Marine who lost his leg find their way back to each other in a small town.

small townfriends to lovers
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The Rebuilding Year

Kaje Harper

contemporary romanceThe Rebuilding Year #1
(6k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A injured ex-firefighter rents a room from a lonely groundskeeper — and slowly falls for the man who gave him a home.

friends to loverssmall town
Cover of Powerless  (Chestnut Springs, #3)

Powerless (Chestnut Springs, #3)

Elsie Silver

contemporary romanceChestnut Springs #3
(464k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

She's loved her hockey best friend in secret for years — then he leaves her wedding and she finally gets her chance.

friends to lovers
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The Dysfunctional Test

Kelly Moran

contemporary romance
(2k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A jaded woman recruits her childhood foster-brother for a fake relationship to survive her sister's Serbian wedding.

friends to lovers
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Two Rogues Make a Right

Cat Sebastian

historical romanceSeducing the Sedgwicks #3
(5k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A man who's loved his best friend his whole life finally has him alone in the countryside — to nurse him back to health.

friends to lovers
Cover of Saving the Brother's Best Friend

Saving the Brother's Best Friend

Agnes Canestri

contemporary romanceGems of Love #4
(151)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

She's loved her brother's best friend for years — now she has to fake-date him without losing her heart.

friends to lovers
Cover of Ready or Not

Ready or Not

Cara Bastone

contemporary romance
(90k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

An unplanned pregnancy brings Eve closer to her best friend's steadfast older brother — one surprise at a time.

friends to lovers
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Over The Fence

Melanie Moreland

contemporary romance
(4k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Two guarded neighbors fall in love talking over a fence — but can they survive without it between them?

friends to lovers
Cover of Flying

Flying

Jordana Blake

contemporary romancePeacock Springs, New Jersey #1
(276)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A wellness influencer returns to her small town — and the anxious best friend who never stopped loving her.

friends to loverssmall town
Cover of Love is Blind

Love is Blind

Annabelle Costa

contemporary romance
(914)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A librarian with facial deformities falls for a blind veteran — but he's never seen her face.

friends to loverssmall town
Cover of The Friend Zone

The Friend Zone

Abby Jimenez

contemporary romanceThe Friend Zone #1
(454k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

She's falling for the best man — but her secret means he can never know the truth.

friends to loverssmall town
Cover of Sophie & Carter

Sophie & Carter

Chelsea Fine

young adult romance
(14k)🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Two burdened teens find solace in each other on a porch swing — until friendship turns into something more.

friends to loverssmall town