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78 books found
One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune · Barry’s Bay #2
401 pagescontemporary romance
(455k)Warm
A photographer returns to the lake cottage of her youth — and meets the boy from her favourite photo, all grown up.
The Sea of Tranquility
Katja Millay
448 pagesnew adult romance
(89k)Warm
A girl hiding a dark secret and a boy who only knows loss find each other in the wreckage.
Safe Haven
Nicholas Sparks
330 pagescontemporary romance
(403k)Warm
A woman fleeing her dark past finds love with a gentle widower in a quiet coastal town — but danger followed her.
The Stationery Shop
Marjan Kamali
320 pageshistorical romance
(129k)Mild
Sixty years after a coup tore them apart on the eve of their wedding, Roya finally gets to ask Bahman why.
Fake Skating
Lynn Painter
448 pagesyoung adult romance
(82k)Mild
Childhood best friends reunite years later — but the nerdy boy she remembered is now the town's hockey god.
All Rhodes Lead Here
Mariana Zapata
334 pagescontemporary romance
(169k)Warm
A heartbroken woman hides in a mountain town — and slowly melts her grumpy landlord's walls.
She's Up to No Good
Sara Goodman Confino
389 pagescontemporary romance
(44k)Mild
Freshly separated, Jenna road-trips with her grandmother—and stumbles into a new love story echoing her gran's tragic fi
Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)
Nora Roberts · Gallaghers of Ardmore #1
347 pagescontemporary romance
(69k)Steamy
A lost American woman finds herself — and love — in a cozy Irish village steeped in folklore and magic.
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
Mia Sheridan · Where Love Meets Destiny #1
332 pagescontemporary romance
(687k)Steamy
A trauma-haunted woman finds healing in a small Maine town — and in the beautiful, silent man no one else can reach.
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.
The Will
Kristen Ashley · Magdalene #1
375 pagescontemporary romance
(31k)Steamy
A guarded woman returns to her grandmother's small town — where a gruff ex-boxer is waiting to break down her walls.
Chasing Shelter
Catherine Cowles · Sparrow Falls #5
392 pagesromantic suspense
(28k)Steamy
A woman hiding from her past moves next door to her brother's broody best friend — a single dad who sees too much.
Holding On to Chaos
Lucy Score · Blue Moon #5
420 pagesromantic comedy
(30k)Steamy
A secret-keeping romance novelist moves to a small town where the hot sheriff can always tell when she's lying.
Black Hills
Nora Roberts
371 pagesromantic suspense
(47k)Steamy
Childhood sweethearts reunite in the Black Hills as a killer stalks the wildlife refuge she built without him.
Falling Away
Penelope Douglas · Fall Away #4
432 pagesnew adult romance
(49k)Steamy
A rule-follower exiled to her hometown for the summer can't avoid the bad boy next door who never forgot her.
Crazy Love
Willow Aster · The Single Dad Playbook #5
402 pagessports romance
(6k)Steamy
A fake marriage with the NFL playboy she kissed in the Bahamas — and never forgot.
Carolina Moon
Nora Roberts
449 pagesromantic suspense
(48k)Steamy
A psychic survivor returns to her small Southern hometown — where her childhood friend's killer still walks free.
Boarlander Bash Bear
T.S. Joyce · Boarlander Bears #2
143 pagesparanormal romance
(4k)Scorching
A fun-loving bear shifter knows she's his fated mate — but the shy editor he's fallen for isn't ready for love.
The Time in Between
Kristen Ashley · Magdalene #3
562 pagescontemporary romance
(11k)Steamy
After 18 years apart, the woman who broke his heart moves to his small town — and buys the lighthouse.
Broken
Kelly Elliott · Broken #1
291 pagescontemporary romance
(14k)Steamy
Two broken souls in a small Texas town must learn to trust again — a rancher who swore off love and a woman fleeing her
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
Ashley Herring Blake · Bright Falls #1
375 pagesromantic comedy
(126k)Steamy
A jaded photographer returns to her hometown and can't resist charming her stepsister's buttoned-up best friend.
Facing West
Lucy Lennox · Forever Wilde #1
286 pagescontemporary romance
(10k)Steamy
A tattooed runaway returns to his Texas hometown to claim his niece — and collides with the town doctor who despises him
Beauty and the Baller
Ilsa Madden-Mills · Strangers in Love #1
314 pagescontemporary romance
(39k)Steamy
A grieving NFL star proposes fake dating to his small-town neighbor — not knowing she's the one-night stand he never for
Galaxies and Oceans
N. R. Walker
318 pagescontemporary romance
(6k)Steamy
A man fleeing his violent past washes up in a lighthouse keeper's lonely life on a remote island.