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  • Sail Away by Ashley Farley

    Sail Away by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three women form a village to help a friend in need. Becca has embarked on the most important mission of her life. She trusts no one, and she’s running out of time. On a whim, she rents a beach cottage on Palmetto Island for the summer. She’s searching for a solution to her problem. Help comes in an unexpected friendship with the young woman next door...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction  romance
  • The Reunion At Sugar Sand Inn by Leigh Duncan

    The Reunion At Sugar Sand Inn by Leigh Duncan

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Escape to Sugar Sand Beach with Erin Bradshaw and her best friends for a second chance at all life has to offer.Forty-five year old Erin has grown restless with her life. Which is odd because she’s spent the past thirty years roaming the globe...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Sweet Tea & Wedding Rings by Rachel Hanna

    Sweet Tea & Wedding Rings by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In book 4 of this USA Today bestselling series. Mia and Kate are still working on building their new honey business while Travis and Cooper are keeping a big secret that could wreak havoc in both of their relationships.Meanwhile, a former guest of the B&B shows up in the dead of night, and she needs a place to hide...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Nantucket Homes by Pamela M. Kelley

    Nantucket Homes by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's Fall on Nantucket--and change is in the air! There's a new arrival to the island. Kay Johnson, a widow, was a friend of Lisa's mother and is like an aunt to Lisa. Kay is excited to relax and enjoy Nantucket—she’s already signed up for a Needlepoint class. She’s not at all looking for romance, but she is happy to make a new friend in neighbor Walter Sturgess, a widower...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction  friendship
  • Lowcountry on My Mind by Ashley Farley

    Lowcountry on My Mind by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Childhood friends reunite in an explosive tale of family dysfunction and romance gone wrong.Amelia has been plotting to escape her abusive husband for years. When her mama’s untimely death provides an unexpected opportunity, she hops on the next bus to the South Carolina Lowcountry. Her husband will eventually come for her. But she’s prepared...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • Making Waves by Meredith Summers

    Making Waves by Meredith Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Maxi’s life is about to change, but not in the way she expects... Maxi Stevens is at a crossroads. Things between her and James haven’t been the same since their kids left the nest. When she finds proof that indicates he may have strayed, she strikes out on her own. James’ infidelity has a silver lining, though...
  • The Summer Escape by Hannah Ellis

    The Summer Escape by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Could it be more than just a holiday romance?Single-mother Beth desperately needs a break.Grieving the loss of her mother, she sets off to the Isles of Scilly with her five-year-old daughter, Ellie.Their holiday cottage is utterly charming, but it’s meeting Trystan – the owner of the cottage – that makes Beth’s stay so perfect...
  • Animal Instincts by Emilia Finn

    Animal Instincts by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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  • Finding Love by Judith Keim

    Finding Love by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As Regan Sullivan continues to work with her sisters, Sheena and Darcy, to meet their Uncle Gavin’s challenge to make the Salty Key Inn a success, she wonders why she can never find the man of her dreams. Her sisters are happily settled with men they love...
  • Show Me the Way (Hope Springs) by Ashley Farley

    Show Me the Way (Hope Springs) by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When two lost souls meet by chance, their worlds collide in an explosive tale of romance and suspense.Presley Ingram has often wondered about her birth parents. Yet her 23andMe test kit remains unopened in her bedside table drawer...
  • Mackinac Sunsets by Katie Winters

    Mackinac Sunsets by Katie Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Elise’s life as she knows it is over. Her husband of twenty years had an affair; her children have left the nest; and she hasn’t managed to sell a screenplay in almost ten years. Now, one of the people she loved most in the world—her mother—is dead.“Heartbroken” doesn’t even cover it. She’s never been more lost in her life.Elise and her mother had always lived in Los Angeles...
  • Finding Family by Judith Keim

    Finding Family by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sheena Sullivan Morelli and her sisters, Darcy and Regan, work to complete their Uncle Gavin’s challenge of turning his rundown hotel into a profitable operation within one year. Winning means earning a share in their uncle’s sizable estate. More than that, it determines how they’ll spend the rest of their lives. Sheena wants to stay on at the hotel, overseeing the hotel operation...
  • Starfish Cottage by Meredith Summers

    Starfish Cottage by Meredith Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maddie Montgomery has finally found her slice of heaven - a charming cottage on the sugar-sand beach of Shell Cove, Maine. There’s only one problem, the flow of tourists to Shell Cove dried up years ago and now it’s up to her to bring them back...
  • Sweet Tea Sunrise by Rachel Hanna

    Sweet Tea Sunrise by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In book 2 of the Sweet Tea B&B series...Mia's high school sweetheart breezes back into town, but will she let him stay at her B&B and risk her heart again?Kate tries to expand the business, but will she and Mia butt heads over the future of their mother's beloved bed and breakfast?As usual, Evie is up to no good...
  • One Hundred Whispers: An Aspen Cove Romance Book 18 by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Whispers: An Aspen Cove Romance Book 18 by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, where everything is safe, including your secrets…After being booted from her hit renovation show, Reno or Wreck It, for a mistake that wasn’t hers, Jewel Monroe moves to Aspen Cove to lick her wounds. No one seems to know who she is, and that’s a secret she wants to keep...
  • A Pinch of Passion by Kelly Collins

    A Pinch of Passion by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She leads a privileged life. He has a chip on his shoulder. Can the very thing that divides them be what draws them together? Allie Parks lives life in the fast lane—literally. As a partner in Luxe Resorts, she’s learned that if her money won’t open a door, her looks will...
  • Beyond Rosy Irish Twilight by Ava Miles

    Beyond Rosy Irish Twilight by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bets O’Hanlon is a late bloomer.It took way too long to come into her own. She raised her boys and buried her husband, and somewhere along the way she forgot about herself.Finally she has a second chance at being more than she’s been: by creating an arts center for her charming adopted Irish community. She wants to make a difference, and fostering creativity is right up her alley...
  • The Gin Sisters' Promise by Faith Hogan

    The Gin Sisters' Promise by Faith Hogan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together.When Georgie, Iris and Nola's mother died and their father disappeared into his grief, the sisters made a pact: they would always be there for one another, no matter what.Now, decades later, they haven't spoken for years and can barely stand to be in the same room...
  • Paradise Lane by Ruth Hamilton

    Paradise Lane by Ruth Hamilton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A novel, set in the north-west of England, by the author of Billy London's Girls and Spinning Jenny. Young Sally leads a ragged and lonely existence in the shadow of Paradise Mill, whose corrupt, evil and greedy owner destroys his own family and then turns his venom on Sally and her friends...
  • High Noon and Tribute by Nora Roberts

    High Noon and Tribute by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two full-length novels of drama, passion and suspense from number one bestseller Nora RobertsHigh NoonAs Savannah's chief hostage negotiator, Phoebe MacNamara is calm, courageous, and ready to risk her life to save others. But a chance meeting with businessman Duncan Swift will bring dramatic repercussions for them both. Someone is out to destroy Phoebe - professionally and personally...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  suspense
  • Because of You by Olivia Miles

    Because of You by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling master of small-town sagas comes the third book in the Blue Harbor series. Maddie Conway has always dreamed of opening her own bakery, but following in the footsteps of her three successful sisters is turning out to be a lot of pressure...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Whisling Island Miracles by Julia Clemens

    Whisling Island Miracles by Julia Clemens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes all we need is a bit of a miracle. Join the women of Whisling as they find theirs...
  • The Reunion by Roisin Meaney

    The Reunion by Roisin Meaney

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's their twenty-year school reunion but the Plunkett sisters have their own reasons for not wanting to attend ... Caroline, now a successful knitwear designer, spends her time flying between her business in England and her lover in Italy. As far as she's concerned, her school days, and what happened to her the year she left, should stay in the past...
  • After the Wedding by Roisin Meaney

    After the Wedding by Roisin Meaney

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's the beginning of May on the island of Roone and Nell Mulcahy, having called off her wedding to the handsome Tim Baker, has finally admitted her love for his brother James - a love everyone else on the island recognised long before she did. Now Nell is setting off for County Clare, to a church overlooking the sea, to say 'I do' to the Mr. Baker she was meant for all along...
  • Murder in the Family by Paula Bernstein

    Murder in the Family by Paula Bernstein

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hannah Kline is a successful Los Angeles obstetrician and the recently widowed mother of a young daughter. She is barely managing to hold it all together, when her life is shattered once again by the brutal murder of her beautiful, bright, zany and recently divorced sister-in-law Beth. Hannah is determined to do whatever she can to assist the police in finding the murderer...
  • High Stakes by Danielle Steel

    High Stakes by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this captivating novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency. Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent agency...
  • One Last Thing Before I Go by Michele Brouder

    One Last Thing Before I Go by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The retired librarian from Hideaway Bay, Carol Rimmer, has been handed a terminal diagnosis. As she looks over the course of her life, she decides she must do one more thing before she goes. But she’s going to need help and who better to ask than Thelma Schumacher. Despite their history, she puts aside any dislike she has for the woman and asks for help in her last task...
  • Summer at the Country Practice by Sharon Booth

    Summer at the Country Practice by Sharon Booth

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sun is shining on Bramblewick, the little village on the North York Moors. At Bramblewick Primary School the teachers are preparing for their much-needed break, and Izzy and Ash are busy making wedding plans. But for their friend and colleague, Jackson Wade, the long summer holiday isn't so welcome...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • In Little Stars by Linda Green

    In Little Stars by Linda Green

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a divided northern England, love and hate are about to collide . . .Sylvie and Donna travel on the same train to work each day but have never spoken. Their families are on different sides of the bitter Brexit divide, although the tensions and arguments at home give them much in common...
  • Defend Me by Kelly Collins

    Defend Me by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s an extrovert. He’s an introvert. Can polar opposites find happiness together? As a teenager, Rose Rogers couldn’t wait to get out of Frazier Falls. She took the first chance she got and left for New York, where she made a name for herself at Flair Magazine. Until now, she’s never looked back...
  • All The Colours In Between by Eva Jordan

    All The Colours In Between by Eva Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eva Jordan's much-anticipated follow up to the bestselling 183 Times a Year  It's not a life, it's an adventure! Lizzie is fast approaching 50. Her once angst ridden teenage daughters, now grown and in their twenties, have flown the nest, Cassie to London and Maisy to Australia...
  • Return to Me by Olivia Miles

    Return to Me by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of Feels Like Home comes the next installment in the Blue Harbor series about finding everything you wanted, right where you left it. When Brooke Conway left Blue Harbor six years ago, she said goodbye to more than just her friends and family...
  • Summer's End by Olivia Miles

    Summer's End by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The USA Today bestselling author of the Oyster Bay series invites readers to return to Evening Island for a heartwarming, stand-alone story about three sisters at very different crossroads in their lives who reunite for one unforgettable summer at their family's lake house.The Taylor sisters spent every summer at their family’s lake house, but as they grew up, they also grew apart...
  • Kissing Carly (Kiss A Cowboy Series) by Deanna Lynn Sletten

    Kissing Carly (Kiss A Cowboy Series) by Deanna Lynn Sletten

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now available! She never expected to fall in love… Carly Stevens loves to have fun but her carefree lifestyle has finally caught up with her. Broke and in debt, she heads to Montana to spend the summer with her sister, Andi Brennan, at the Brennan ranch. Her sister agrees she can stay on two conditions—she works to pay down her debt and changes her wild-girl ways...
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    female-mc  family  romance  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Eleven of a Kind by Sandi Lynn

    Eleven of a Kind by Sandi Lynn

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The synopsis is coming...
  • Christmas At Pelican Beach by Michele Gilcrest

    Christmas At Pelican Beach by Michele Gilcrest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hosting Christmas at the cottage this year sounded like the perfect plan…At least that's what everyone thought.Helen couldn't be more pleased to see her daughters, their husbands, and the kids gathered together. The Matthews have always been big on family...
  • Christmas at the Cottage by Olivia Miles

    Christmas at the Cottage by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Californian Kelly Myers has been dreaming of a postcard perfect holiday in Oyster Bay with her newfound family, but no one ever prepared her for a blizzard, or warned her that the cottage she is renting doesn’t exactly have a reliable furnace...
  • Meet Me at Sunset  (Evening Island) by Olivia Miles

    Meet Me at Sunset (Evening Island) by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Morgan sisters spent many blissful summers at their family’s lake house growing up, but as they grew older, their lives took very different paths. Hope adores her twin girls, but she doesn’t love being a stay-at-home mom...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Killer in the Kiwis by Dale Mayer

    Killer in the Kiwis by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Riches to rags. ... Chaos again. ... Winning is important, ... at least for some!Doreen is overwhelmed with joy when she sees all the volunteers who show up to help get her deck addition built. Most of the men are cops, friends of Corporal Mack Moreau’s, and are happy to help Mack’s special friend and the lady who has helped solve so many crimes for them with a spot of home renovation...
  • Second Chance Summer by Olivia Miles

    Second Chance Summer by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling master of small-town sagas comes the second installment in the Blue Harbor series—a second-chance romance about finding love when you least expect it. Amelia Conway spent the past twelve years doting on her widowed father and playing mother hen to her younger sisters—and conveniently hiding her heart from love after her high school sweetheart moved away...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Then Comes Love by Olivia Miles

    Then Comes Love by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of Feels Like Home comes a fun, flirty, sweet summer romance...It’s wedding season in Blue Harbor, and that means warm lake breezes, starry nights, and the promise of a happy ending…for some. Florist Gabby Conway is a hopeless romantic, but lately, she’s starting to feel exactly that: hopeless...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Montana Hero by Debra Salonen

    Montana Hero by Debra Salonen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    During Flynn Bensen‘s last wildfire rescue, a woman died despite Flynn’s best efforts to save her. He can’t escape his sense of failure or recurring nightmares, but he can escape to Marietta, Montana, to a new job as the head of Crawford County Search and Rescue...
  • A Year and a Day by Inglath Cooper

    A Year and a Day by Inglath Cooper

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She has the life most women dream of. . .Too bad for Audrey Colby it's all a facade. Her seemingly devoted husband is really a monster. Their high-society "friends" protect his ugly secrets. The mansion they live in is just a gilded prison for her and her son, Sammy. Everything hinges on escape. One day, Audrey decides she and her son need to escape. She's had enough...
  • Something in Common by Roisin Meaney

    Something in Common by Roisin Meaney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Our lives are defined by other people. Some are with us from the start: parents, siblings, childhood friends. Others find us later: work colleagues, lovers. But occasionally there are people whose paths cross ours in unexpected ways - people who are destined to change our lives profoundly...
  • Sara's Promise by Deanna Lynn Sletten

    Sara's Promise by Deanna Lynn Sletten

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Do you believe in soul mates? William Grafton had the perfect life with his lovely wife, Sara, and two wonderful children. But one day his perfect forever was shattered when Sara died suddenly, leaving him alone to raise his children and wonder how he would ever get through life without his soul mate...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction  romance
  • The Stanislaskis: Rachel & Alex by Nora Roberts

    The Stanislaskis: Rachel & Alex by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Falling for Rachel Landlocked in Manhattan, rugged seaman Zack Muldoon needed a tough, no-nonsense lawyer to save his kid brother's delinquent hide. Public defender Rachel Stanislaski was not what he had in mind--until he discovered there was a lot more to the beautiful, coolheaded attorney than met the eye...and found himself falling for her, hook, line and sinker...
  • Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe

    Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The new novel from bestselling author Lesley Crewe! Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she’s lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d’Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher Parsons, a giant teddy bear who’s not even her husband...
  • A Life Without Flowers by Marci Bolden

    A Life Without Flowers by Marci Bolden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Twenty-four years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Carol Denman has finally made peace with Katie’s father. But releasing her ex-husband from blame and facing how deeply she held herself responsible were only the first steps in Carol’s journey toward peace.With the pain of her failed first marriage behind her, Carol is determined to mend her broken relationship with her mother...
  • When We Were Young by Michele Brouder

    When We Were Young by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teenage granddaughter she’s never met. Quick to send the girl back home, she reaches out to her estranged daughter. Days later, her daughter arrives, resulting in an inevitable showdown as old wounds and past secrets surface...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  family  fiction  small-town  contemporary  epic
  • Always A Bridesmaid by Rachel Hanna

    Always A Bridesmaid by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It seems like she’s always the bridesmaid……and she’s just trying to do her sister a favor.He’s trying to start over in a new town, and they don’t like each other one bit. But, when he steps in to save her unexpectedly, they both start to regret it.She’s used to being an in-charge attorney, and he’s a Southern guy through and through...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  family  romance  fiction  contemporary  book  adult
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