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14 books found
The Last Song
Nicholas Sparks
572 pagesyoung adult romance
(573k)Mild
An angry city girl spends the summer at the beach with her estranged father — and finds her first love.
Beneath the Wreckage
Catherine Cowles · Wrecked #5
326 pagesromantic suspense
(9k)Steamy
Returning to the island where tragedy struck, she finds healing in a scarred stranger — and danger in the shadows.
The Summer Swap
Sarah Morgan
336 pagescontemporary romance
(9k)Mild
A widow and a lost young artist share a Cape Cod cottage — and the grandson between them changes everything.
And Then She Kissed Me
Harper Bliss
304 pagescontemporary romance
(3k)Steamy
A teenage kiss ended their friendship — twenty years later, can two women get a second chance at love?
Eloise and the Grump Next Door
Emma St. Clair · Oakley Island #1
334 pagesromantic comedy
(9k)Mild
A bookish grad-school dropout renovates Gran's beach house — and butts heads with the tattooed grump next door.
The Summer We Started Over
Nancy Thayer
320 pagescontemporary romance
(9k)Warm
Two sisters rebuild their lives on Nantucket — and Eddie faces the past love she left behind.
Amethyst Dreams
Phyllis A. Whitney
304 pagesromantic suspense
(1k)Mild
A woman unravels dark family secrets on a North Carolina island while searching for her missing friend.
The Summer of Lost and Found
Mary Alice Monroe · Beach House #7
368 pagescontemporary romance
(11k)Warm
When Linnea's old flame quarantines next door, she must choose between past love and new — during a pandemic summer.
The Summer Girl
Elle Kennedy · Avalon Bay #3
400 pagescontemporary romance
(51k)Steamy
A summer fling turns complicated when Avalon Bay's golden boy falls hard for the girl he friend-zoned.
A Novel Summer
Jamie Brenner
320 pagescontemporary romance
(3k)Warm
A novelist returns to Cape Cod after her book burns bridges — and finds a second chance at love in a seaside bookshop.
The Infinity Between Us
N.S. Perkins
311 pagescontemporary romance
(29k)Warm
Five years after disaster tore them apart, Violet returns to their beach house — and finds Will still waiting.
The Sixth Wedding
Elin Hilderbrand · 28 Summers #1.5
76 pagescontemporary romance
(57k)Warm
Jake returns to Nantucket for Labor Day — this time, without Mallory.
The Summer Wives
Beatriz Williams
371 pageshistorical romance
(49k)Warm
Eighteen years after scandal tore them apart, Miranda returns to her island to free the man she never stopped loving.
Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune
336 pagescontemporary romance
(375k)Steamy
She waited for him ten years ago. Now he's back — but the man she loved may not exist anymore.