50 Books like The Return

Archer's Voice

by Mia Sheridan • 2016

A grieving woman falls for a mute loner whose silence shelters a small town's darkest sin.

4.16

704k+

🏡 Small-Town Romance 🤫 Mute Hero 🩹 Hurt/Comfort 🕯️ Slow Burn 💔 Emotional Scars

Archer's Voice 95%

A grieving woman falls for a mute loner whose silence shelters a small town's darkest sin.

by Mia Sheridan 2016

4.16

704k+ ratings

🏡 Small-Town Romance 🤫 Mute Hero 🩹 Hurt/Comfort 🕯️ Slow Burn 💔 Emotional Scars

When You Got a Good Thing

by Kait Nolan • 2017

A funeral brings her home to face the ex-boyfriend she left ten years ago without a word.

4.21

4k+

🏡 Small Town Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 🫂 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Sister Bonds 🩹 Emotional Healing

When You Got a Good Thing 95%

A funeral brings her home to face the ex-boyfriend she left ten years ago without a word.

by Kait Nolan 2017

4.21

4k+ ratings

🏡 Small Town Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 🫂 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Sister Bonds 🩹 Emotional Healing

The Best of Me

by Nicholas Sparks • 2010

At a hometown funeral, he sees his first love again. She's married; he's still hers.

3.99

195k+

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Romance 💔 Tragic Romance ↔️ Opposites Attract 🕊️ Heroic Sacrifice

The Best of Me 95%

At a hometown funeral, he sees his first love again. She's married; he's still hers.

by Nicholas Sparks 2010

3.99

195k+ ratings

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Romance 💔 Tragic Romance ↔️ Opposites Attract 🕊️ Heroic Sacrifice

Counting Miracles

by Nicholas Sparks • 2024

A veteran chasing his father's trail meets a divorced doctor who locked her heart for good.

4.15

89k+

🏡 Small Town Romance 👩‍👧‍👦 Single Mother Romance 🪖 Military Veteran Hero 🫂 Found Family 🔍 Family Secrets

Counting Miracles 95%

A veteran chasing his father's trail meets a divorced doctor who locked her heart for good.

by Nicholas Sparks 2024

4.15

89k+ ratings

🏡 Small Town Romance 👩‍👧‍👦 Single Mother Romance 🪖 Military Veteran Hero 🫂 Found Family 🔍 Family Secrets

Poker Face

by Maggie C. Gates • 2021

A pastry chef's anonymous gym crush is also the celebrity judge of her baking competition.

4.00

4k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💼 Workplace Romance 👨‍🍳 Celebrity Chef 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Poker Face 95%

A pastry chef's anonymous gym crush is also the celebrity judge of her baking competition.

by Maggie C. Gates 2021

4.00

4k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💼 Workplace Romance 👨‍🍳 Celebrity Chef 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

He Falls First

by Jill Shalvis • 2025

When a wary woman returns home to heal, the town's most guarded bachelor falls first.

4.10

7k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 💔 Wounded Hero ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🩹 Healing Romance

He Falls First 94%

When a wary woman returns home to heal, the town's most guarded bachelor falls first.

by Jill Shalvis 2025

4.10

7k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 💔 Wounded Hero ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🩹 Healing Romance

Only Love Can Hurt Like This

by Paige Toon • 2023

An architect flees her broken engagement for Indiana, where a farmer's secret makes love impossible.

3.96

45k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family 👯 Sisterly Bonding

Only Love Can Hurt Like This 94%

An architect flees her broken engagement for Indiana, where a farmer's secret makes love impossible.

by Paige Toon 2023

3.96

45k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family 👯 Sisterly Bonding

The Heartbreak Hotel

by Ellen O'Clover • 2025

Broke and betrayed, Lou opens a heartbreak retreat in her home, falling for her grieving landlord.

3.76

32k+

🏔️ Small Town Romance 🍂 Cozy Romance Energy 🩹 Healing Romance ☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine 🏠 Forced Proximity

The Heartbreak Hotel 94%

Broke and betrayed, Lou opens a heartbreak retreat in her home, falling for her grieving landlord.

by Ellen O'Clover 2025

3.76

32k+ ratings

🏔️ Small Town Romance 🍂 Cozy Romance Energy 🩹 Healing Romance ☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine 🏠 Forced Proximity

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood

by Ashley Jordan • 2025

A grieving playwright and a divorced single father collide as neighbors in the Smoky Mountains.

3.71

9k+

🖤 Grief Romance 🏡 Neighbors To Lovers 👨‍👦 Single Father 🏘️ Small Town Romance 💚 Emotional Healing

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood 94%

A grieving playwright and a divorced single father collide as neighbors in the Smoky Mountains.

by Ashley Jordan 2025

3.71

9k+ ratings

🖤 Grief Romance 🏡 Neighbors To Lovers 👨‍👦 Single Father 🏘️ Small Town Romance 💚 Emotional Healing

Where the Forest Meets the Stars

by Glendy Vanderah • 2019

A grieving biologist finds a barefoot girl who claims she is an alien witnessing miracles.

4.13

238k+

🏠 Found Family 💕 Neighbors To Lovers 💔 Traumatized Child 🌌 Coping Through Fantasy 🔍 Small Town Mystery

Where the Forest Meets the Stars Summary

Where the Forest Meets the Stars 94%

A grieving biologist finds a barefoot girl who claims she is an alien witnessing miracles.

by Glendy Vanderah 2019

4.13

238k+ ratings

🏠 Found Family 💕 Neighbors To Lovers 💔 Traumatized Child 🌌 Coping Through Fantasy 🔍 Small Town Mystery

Bend Toward the Sun

by Jen Devon • 2022

A botanist afraid to stay falls for a grieving doctor while restoring his family's wild vineyard.

3.99

4k+

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🏡 Found Family 💔 Wounded Hero 🛡️ Guarded Heroine 🏘️ Small Town Romance

Bend Toward the Sun 94%

A botanist afraid to stay falls for a grieving doctor while restoring his family's wild vineyard.

by Jen Devon 2022

3.99

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🏡 Found Family 💔 Wounded Hero 🛡️ Guarded Heroine 🏘️ Small Town Romance

The Promise of Tomorrow

by Mary Ellen Taylor • 2024

She returned to Virginia for a divorce. A mysterious stone and an old flame changed everything.

4.29

18k+

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🖤 Grief And Healing ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Estranged Spouses

The Promise of Tomorrow 94%

She returned to Virginia for a divorce. A mysterious stone and an old flame changed everything.

by Mary Ellen Taylor 2024

4.29

18k+ ratings

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🖤 Grief And Healing ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Estranged Spouses

Evvie Drake Starts Over

by Linda Holmes • 2019

A widow who planned to leave takes in a broken pitcher. Their pact: never ask why.

3.82

158k+

🖤 Grief And Healing 🫂 Emotional Abuse Recovery 🌲 Small-Town Maine 🏠 Forced Proximity 💛 Friends To Lovers

Evvie Drake Starts Over 94%

A widow who planned to leave takes in a broken pitcher. Their pact: never ask why.

by Linda Holmes 2019

3.82

158k+ ratings

🖤 Grief And Healing 🫂 Emotional Abuse Recovery 🌲 Small-Town Maine 🏠 Forced Proximity 💛 Friends To Lovers

The Sweet Gum Tree

by Katherine Allred • 2005

Alix loves the town outcast, but violence exiles him and a secret traps her fifteen years.

4.25

31k+

💞 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Romance 🌱 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🛤️ Wrong Side Of The Tracks 💍 Marriage Of Convenience

The Sweet Gum Tree 94%

Alix loves the town outcast, but violence exiles him and a secret traps her fifteen years.

by Katherine Allred 2005

4.25

31k+ ratings

💞 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Romance 🌱 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🛤️ Wrong Side Of The Tracks 💍 Marriage Of Convenience

The Promise

by Emma Heatherington • 2021

After a bombing, a Catholic nurse and Protestant minister's son vow to find each other again.

3.97

449

🚫 Forbidden Love 🇮🇪 The Troubles 💔 Trauma Healing 💫 Second Chance Love 🩹 Survivor's Guilt

The Promise 94%

After a bombing, a Catholic nurse and Protestant minister's son vow to find each other again.

by Emma Heatherington 2021

3.97

449 ratings

🚫 Forbidden Love 🇮🇪 The Troubles 💔 Trauma Healing 💫 Second Chance Love 🩹 Survivor's Guilt

Overdue

by Stephanie Perkins • 2025

A librarian on a break from her boyfriend sets her sights on her gruff older coworker.

3.67

9k+

🐌 Slow Burn Romance 📚 Bookish Romance 👥 Friends To Lovers ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌱 Starting Over

Overdue 94%

A librarian on a break from her boyfriend sets her sights on her gruff older coworker.

by Stephanie Perkins 2025

3.67

9k+ ratings

🐌 Slow Burn Romance 📚 Bookish Romance 👥 Friends To Lovers ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌱 Starting Over

Tough Love

by Melanie A. Smith • 2021

A jaded lawyer caring for her dying grandmother falls for the guarded doctor next door.

4.07

194

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Grief And Healing 🌱 Starting Over 🩹 Wounded Hero

Tough Love 94%

A jaded lawyer caring for her dying grandmother falls for the guarded doctor next door.

by Melanie A. Smith 2021

4.07

194 ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Grief And Healing 🌱 Starting Over 🩹 Wounded Hero

Travis

by Mia Sheridan • 2021

A reformed troublemaker falls for a plant rescuer in a town that remembers his every mistake.

3.86

45k+

💕 Friends To Lovers 🔄 Reformed Playboy 🏠 Found Family 🔍 Small Town Secrets 😢 Angsty Romance

Travis 94%

A reformed troublemaker falls for a plant rescuer in a town that remembers his every mistake.

by Mia Sheridan 2021

3.86

45k+ ratings

💕 Friends To Lovers 🔄 Reformed Playboy 🏠 Found Family 🔍 Small Town Secrets 😢 Angsty Romance

One True Loves

by Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2016

On their first anniversary, her husband vanished. Now she's engaged again. Then he comes back.

4.02

747k+

📖 Book Club Fiction 💔 Love Triangle 🎓 High School Sweethearts 🏡 Small Town Return 🍂 Bittersweet

One True Loves 94%

On their first anniversary, her husband vanished. Now she's engaged again. Then he comes back.

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2016

4.02

747k+ ratings

📖 Book Club Fiction 💔 Love Triangle 🎓 High School Sweethearts 🏡 Small Town Return 🍂 Bittersweet

Where the Wildflowers Grow

by Terah Shelton Harris • 2026

An Alabama flower farm gives a fugitive the one thing running cannot: a reason to stay.

4.18

16k+

🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Trauma Recovery 🌿 Southern Fiction 🏘️ Small Town

Where the Wildflowers Grow 94%

An Alabama flower farm gives a fugitive the one thing running cannot: a reason to stay.

by Terah Shelton Harris 2026

4.18

16k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Trauma Recovery 🌿 Southern Fiction 🏘️ Small Town

Until the Storm Breaks

by Nate Wilder • 2025

A bartender's secret tattoo meets its author when a funeral traps them side by side.

4.07

2k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤗 Found Family 🌊 Coastal Small Town

Until the Storm Breaks 94%

A bartender's secret tattoo meets its author when a funeral traps them side by side.

by Nate Wilder 2025

4.07

2k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤗 Found Family 🌊 Coastal Small Town

Disgrace

by Brittainy C. Cherry • 2018

A pastor's daughter returns home divorced and collides with the town outcast over a broken car.

4.31

33k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💔 Broken Hero 🐢 Slow Burn 😇😈 Good Girl X Bad Boy

Disgrace 94%

A pastor's daughter returns home divorced and collides with the town outcast over a broken car.

by Brittainy C. Cherry 2018

4.31

33k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💔 Broken Hero 🐢 Slow Burn 😇😈 Good Girl X Bad Boy

The Lucky One

by Nicholas Sparks • 2008

A Marine searches for the woman in a photograph and enters a single mother's dangerous orbit.

4.13

376k+

🏡 Small-Town Romance 👩‍👦 Single Parent Romance 🎖️ Military Romance ⏳ Slow Burn Romance ✨ Fated Love

The Lucky One 94%

A Marine searches for the woman in a photograph and enters a single mother's dangerous orbit.

by Nicholas Sparks 2008

4.13

376k+ ratings

🏡 Small-Town Romance 👩‍👦 Single Parent Romance 🎖️ Military Romance ⏳ Slow Burn Romance ✨ Fated Love

The Muse

by Jewel E. Ann • 2026

An ex-con muse to a grieving heiress falls for a bike guide hiding her cello fame.

4.26

2k+

💰 Class Difference 🏠 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 💘 He Falls First 🥀 Bittersweet

The Muse 94%

An ex-con muse to a grieving heiress falls for a bike guide hiding her cello fame.

by Jewel E. Ann 2026

4.26

2k+ ratings

💰 Class Difference 🏠 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 💘 He Falls First 🥀 Bittersweet

Part of Your World

by Abby Jimenez • 2022

To keep her family's approval, a surgeon hides the small-town carpenter she's fallen for.

4.25

893k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💕 Opposites Attract 🤫 Secret Relationship 🩹 Emotional Healing 🏛️ Family Expectations

Part of Your World 94%

To keep her family's approval, a surgeon hides the small-town carpenter she's fallen for.

by Abby Jimenez 2022

4.25

893k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💕 Opposites Attract 🤫 Secret Relationship 🩹 Emotional Healing 🏛️ Family Expectations

True Believer

by Nicholas Sparks • 2003

A skeptical journalist chases a ghost legend and falls for the librarian who guards its secret.

3.84

106k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💫 Opposites Attract 🔍 Skeptic And Believer 📚 Librarian Heroine 🌿 Southern Small Town

True Believer 93%

A skeptical journalist chases a ghost legend and falls for the librarian who guards its secret.

by Nicholas Sparks 2003

3.84

106k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💫 Opposites Attract 🔍 Skeptic And Believer 📚 Librarian Heroine 🌿 Southern Small Town

Colton Gentry's Third Act

by Jeff Zentner • 2024

One drunken rant ends his career. A Kentucky kitchen and an old love offer redemption.

4.12

7k+

🫶 Second Chance Romance 🌾 Small Town Southern 🎸 Musician Protagonist 🍳 Kitchen Redemption 🖤 Grief And Healing

Colton Gentry's Third Act 93%

One drunken rant ends his career. A Kentucky kitchen and an old love offer redemption.

by Jeff Zentner 2024

4.12

7k+ ratings

🫶 Second Chance Romance 🌾 Small Town Southern 🎸 Musician Protagonist 🍳 Kitchen Redemption 🖤 Grief And Healing

Bourbon & Lies

by Victoria Wilder • 2024

An ex-cop distrusts the witness hiding on his bourbon farm but can't stop wanting her.

4.04

66k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔍 Romantic Suspense ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🏠 Forced Proximity 💪 Protective Hero

Bourbon & Lies 93%

An ex-cop distrusts the witness hiding on his bourbon farm but can't stop wanting her.

by Victoria Wilder 2024

4.04

66k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔍 Romantic Suspense ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🏠 Forced Proximity 💪 Protective Hero

Unnatural

by Mia Sheridan • 2025

She was raised to die. He was raised to kill. A secret program made them. It never planned on love.

3.94

6k+

🖤 Romantic Suspense 💔 Shared Trauma 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn 😢 Angsty

Unnatural 93%

She was raised to die. He was raised to kill. A secret program made them. It never planned on love.

by Mia Sheridan 2025

3.94

6k+ ratings

🖤 Romantic Suspense 💔 Shared Trauma 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn 😢 Angsty

Pieces of the Night

by Jennifer Hartmann • 2026

Accidentally kidnapped in a blizzard, she helps her desperate captor, sparking an unlikely love.

4.17

8k+

🖤 Angsty Romance 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 🩹 Trauma Healing

Pieces of the Night 93%

Accidentally kidnapped in a blizzard, she helps her desperate captor, sparking an unlikely love.

by Jennifer Hartmann 2026

4.17

8k+ ratings

🖤 Angsty Romance 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 🩹 Trauma Healing

Things We Never Got Over

by Lucy Score • 2022

Stranded with an abandoned niece, a runaway bride clashes with a gruff local who hates drama.

4.12

1.1M+

🏘️ Small Town Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 👧 Reluctant Guardian 👯 Mistaken Identity 💪 Protective Hero

Things We Never Got Over 93%

Stranded with an abandoned niece, a runaway bride clashes with a gruff local who hates drama.

by Lucy Score 2022

4.12

1.1M+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 👧 Reluctant Guardian 👯 Mistaken Identity 💪 Protective Hero

Show Me You Remember

by Hannah Cowan • 2026

Divorced, she returns to the cowboy who went to prison for her. He won't forgive her.

3.97

2k+

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏡 Small Town Romance 🤠 Cowboy Romance 👥 Brother's Best Friend 🏠 Forced Proximity

Show Me You Remember 93%

Divorced, she returns to the cowboy who went to prison for her. He won't forgive her.

by Hannah Cowan 2026

3.97

2k+ ratings

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏡 Small Town Romance 🤠 Cowboy Romance 👥 Brother's Best Friend 🏠 Forced Proximity

The Wrong Heart

by Jennifer Hartmann • 2021

Her husband's heart beats in a stranger. She writes him. The wrong man answers.

4.41

28k+

🖤 Widow Romance 📧 Anonymous Messages 🔗 Trauma Bonding 🩹 Scarred Hero 🎭 Mistaken Identity

The Wrong Heart 93%

Her husband's heart beats in a stranger. She writes him. The wrong man answers.

by Jennifer Hartmann 2021

4.41

28k+ ratings

🖤 Widow Romance 📧 Anonymous Messages 🔗 Trauma Bonding 🩹 Scarred Hero 🎭 Mistaken Identity

The Wreckage of Us

by Brittainy C. Cherry • 2020

A broke goth takes a ranch job. The town's womanizing rock star just met his undoing.

4.05

17k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤝 Found Family 🎸 Rock Star Romance

The Wreckage of Us 93%

A broke goth takes a ranch job. The town's womanizing rock star just met his undoing.

by Brittainy C. Cherry 2020

4.05

17k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤝 Found Family 🎸 Rock Star Romance

Rekindling the Flame

by Madison Myers • 2024

A lawyer returns to her dying mother, and the mechanic she left. No strings, no risk.

4.04

2k+

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Steamy Romance 💋 No Strings Attached 🕊️ Grief And Healing

Rekindling the Flame 93%

A lawyer returns to her dying mother, and the mechanic she left. No strings, no risk.

by Madison Myers 2024

4.04

2k+ ratings

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Steamy Romance 💋 No Strings Attached 🕊️ Grief And Healing

The Fine Print

by Lauren Asher • 2021

A billionaire falls for the theme park employee deciding his inheritance, while hiding his identity.

3.80

672k+

🏢 Workplace Romance 💰 Billionaire Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🎭 Secret Identity ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

The Fine Print 93%

A billionaire falls for the theme park employee deciding his inheritance, while hiding his identity.

by Lauren Asher 2021

3.80

672k+ ratings

🏢 Workplace Romance 💰 Billionaire Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🎭 Secret Identity ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

A Novel Love Story

by Ashley Poston • 2024

She finds the town from her favorite books, its characters real and their stories unresolved.

3.61

134k+

✨ Magical Realism Romance 📚 Bookstore Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🏡 Forced Proximity 💔 Heartbreak Healing

A Novel Love Story 93%

She finds the town from her favorite books, its characters real and their stories unresolved.

by Ashley Poston 2024

3.61

134k+ ratings

✨ Magical Realism Romance 📚 Bookstore Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🏡 Forced Proximity 💔 Heartbreak Healing

Loving Romeo

by Laura Pavlov • 2024

A former boxer's grudge collides with the heiress who opens a coffee shop beside his gym.

4.03

37k+

🏡 Small Town 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🥊 Boxing Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity ⚡ Wrong Side Of The Tracks

Loving Romeo 93%

A former boxer's grudge collides with the heiress who opens a coffee shop beside his gym.

by Laura Pavlov 2024

4.03

37k+ ratings

🏡 Small Town 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🥊 Boxing Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity ⚡ Wrong Side Of The Tracks

As the Tide Comes In

by Cindy Woodsmall • 2018

Grieving her brothers, a woman seeks her roots on a Georgia island and discovers new family.

4.08

606

🫂 Found Family 🍑 Southern Hospitality 🖤 Grief And Healing 🌳 Hidden Family Roots 🌊 Coastal Island Life

As the Tide Comes In 93%

Grieving her brothers, a woman seeks her roots on a Georgia island and discovers new family.

by Cindy Woodsmall 2018

4.08

606 ratings

🫂 Found Family 🍑 Southern Hospitality 🖤 Grief And Healing 🌳 Hidden Family Roots 🌊 Coastal Island Life

Butterfly Bayou

by Lexi Blake • 2020

A nurse fleeing violence crashes into a bayou sheriff whose scarred heart and daughter need her.

4.20

3k+

🏘️ Small-Town Romance 🩺 Medical Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👧 Single Dad 👪 Found Family

Butterfly Bayou 93%

A nurse fleeing violence crashes into a bayou sheriff whose scarred heart and daughter need her.

by Lexi Blake 2020

4.20

3k+ ratings

🏘️ Small-Town Romance 🩺 Medical Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👧 Single Dad 👪 Found Family

The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

by Courtney Walsh • 2023

A lonely researcher tests a magazine's happiness tips on herself, expecting every one to fail.

4.16

24k+

🎓 Academic Setting ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Healing From Betrayal

The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley Summary

The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley 93%

A lonely researcher tests a magazine's happiness tips on herself, expecting every one to fail.

by Courtney Walsh 2023

4.16

24k+ ratings

🎓 Academic Setting ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Healing From Betrayal

Safe Haven

by Nicholas Sparks • 2010

Fleeing abuse, she hides in a coastal town where a widower's kindness makes invisibility impossible.

4.22

403k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🛡️ Abuse Survivor Heroine 💔 Widowed Hero 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔪 Domestic Suspense

Safe Haven 93%

Fleeing abuse, she hides in a coastal town where a widower's kindness makes invisibility impossible.

by Nicholas Sparks 2010

4.22

403k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🛡️ Abuse Survivor Heroine 💔 Widowed Hero 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔪 Domestic Suspense

Don't Kiss the Bride

by Carian Cole • 2021

Trapped by her mother's hoard, a sick teen marries a gruff older man for health insurance.

4.03

35k+

💍 Marriage Of Convenience ⏳ Age Gap Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 💕 Friends To Lovers 🩹 Trauma Healing

Don't Kiss the Bride 93%

Trapped by her mother's hoard, a sick teen marries a gruff older man for health insurance.

by Carian Cole 2021

4.03

35k+ ratings

💍 Marriage Of Convenience ⏳ Age Gap Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 💕 Friends To Lovers 🩹 Trauma Healing

The Air He Breathes

by Brittainy C. Cherry • 2015

A widow and a grieving recluse use each other as stand-ins for their dead spouses.

4.12

75k+

🏘️ Small-Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👧 Single Parent Romance 🏠 Neighbors To Lovers 😢 Tearjerker Romance

The Air He Breathes 93%

A widow and a grieving recluse use each other as stand-ins for their dead spouses.

by Brittainy C. Cherry 2015

4.12

75k+ ratings

🏘️ Small-Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👧 Single Parent Romance 🏠 Neighbors To Lovers 😢 Tearjerker Romance

Stray

by D.J. Krimmer • 2023

A traumatized nurse lands at a remote ranch, challenging the stoic cowboy determined to save her.

4.60

1k+

🩹 Trauma Healing 🐴 Ranch Life 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chosen Family 🤠 Stoic Cowboy 🔥 Scarred Heroine

Stray 93%

A traumatized nurse lands at a remote ranch, challenging the stoic cowboy determined to save her.

by D.J. Krimmer 2023

4.60

1k+ ratings

🩹 Trauma Healing 🐴 Ranch Life 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chosen Family 🤠 Stoic Cowboy 🔥 Scarred Heroine

Whispered Prayers of a Girl

by Alex Grayson • 2017

A widowed mother and her mute daughter, snowbound with a scarred recluse who knows their grief.

4.35

2k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 👩‍👧‍👦 Single Parent Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 🔥 Scarred Hero 💔 Widowed Protagonists

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4.13

52k+ ratings

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4.33

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South of the Buttonwood Tree 93%

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