Books like 'Ashes'

Readers who enjoyed Ashes by Chelle Bliss also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

contemporary  romance  small town  family  age-gap  alpha-mc  suspense

  • Framed Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Framed Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tinsley Faulkner loves art more than anything in the world. She’s a painter and owns an art gallery in the small town of Shadows Landing. But suddenly her life is changed when a man walks into the gallery looking to sell some art—art she knows is stolen. What she thinks is just a one-time thing quickly escalates into something so dangerous people have died for decades to protect it...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Forever Devoted by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Devoted by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Layne Davies needed a break—a break from the busy bodies in her small town of Keeneston, Kentucky and a break from dating men who turned into scared little boys upon meeting her father. That’s why she was so excited to have been invited to speak at a medical conference in Charleston, South Carolina. Never did she think her whole life would change the second she stepped on that stage...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Lark by Cee Bowerman

    Lark by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lark Forrester may have been born into the country club set, but she didn’t stay there. From infancy, she was raised around bikers, so it was inevitable that she’d become one herself. Her dream of joining an MC has now come to fruition, and she proudly serves as the Texas Queens MC president with her cousin Rain...
  • Making It Right by Catherine Bybee

    Making It Right by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. In the final book in Amazon Charts bestselling author Catherine Bybee’s Most Likely To trilogy, River Bend’s rebel follows in her father’s footsteps to become sheriff. But it might be time to forge her own path… Some kids inherit a family business; Jo Ward inherited a badge...
  • Rescue After Dark by Marie Force

    Rescue After Dark by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They've both been unlucky in love. Is their luck about to change? Reality TV star Jordan Stokes is taking time to figure out her next move—tucked away from prying eyes in her grandmother's home on Gansett Island with her identical twin sister, Nikki. Eastward Look is the perfect place to heal and regroup...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Menace by Laramie Briscoe

    Menace by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The sexy, single dad of the MTF finally gets his turn....... Mason “Menace” Harrison “Single and ready to mingle……” Those are the words above every picture of almost every female that strikes my interest on this dating app my son talked me into getting...
  • Her Shadows, His Secrets by C.C. Monroe

    Her Shadows, His Secrets by C.C. Monroe

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    HannaI hid in the shadows all my life. That was where I felt I belonged the most, because I was ridiculed by the ones I loved, by society’s view of women like me.But now I believe someone is out to hurt me, yet I don’t know who it could be. I didn’t think I had anyone to fear, except for in the shadows, the same ones that used to keep me safe...
  • Smolder by Helen Hardt

    Smolder by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s on the rebound, and he’s on the prowl. Aurora “Rory” Pike gave up her dream of becoming an opera superstar long ago. Now she’s content to teach music to the children of Snow Creek while helping her family recover from the wildfire that devastated them...
  • Bull by Penny Dee

    Bull by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She could be the end of me BULLI lost my wife on a rainy night almost two decades ago. Since then, my heart has been a barren wasteland. It only knows love for family and the club. And for revenge. Then I meet Taylor and I know I’m doomed. Because she’s everything I didn’t know I wanted. Everything I’ve denied myself for years...
  • A Little Bit Wicked by Melissa Foster

    A Little Bit Wicked by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When the Dark Knights at Bayside and the cast of Bayside Summers collide, sparks fly, and trouble—or maybe love—is not far behind. What do a cocky biker and a businesswoman who has sworn off dating bad boys have in common? According to Chloe Mallery, not much. Justin came into the Wicked family after a harsh upbringing by a thieving father...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  biker  billionaire  book
  • Racing Hearts by Lauren Landish

    Racing Hearts by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A tomboy tames the cocky cowboy next door in Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestselling author Lauren Landish’s forbidden romance. Luke is damn near invisible, or at least that’s how he usually feels. He takes care of things around the ranch before his boss-brother even knows there’s a problem, and no one even notices when he's done...
  • Watching Trin by Freya Barker

    Watching Trin by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Freelance journalist and single mom, Katrina (Trin) Paige, has recently returned to her hometown to help her sister care for their elderly father. They’ve barely settled back into Durango’s daily life when her rebellious teenage son gets himself in tumultuous waters...
  • Unexpected Bliss by Lexi Blake, Sophie Oak

    Unexpected Bliss by Lexi Blake, Sophie Oak

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Elisa Leal is looking for some joy in her life. Years of tragedy and struggle took their toll, and now she is searching for new connections to raise her spirits. When she discovers proof that her biological father is alive, she decides to find him and make contact. Her quest leads her to the small town of Bliss, Colorado, and the strangest man she’s ever met—Mel Hughes...
  • Bear's Beloved by Ciara St. James

    Bear's Beloved by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bear has lived more than half his life for his club. He’ll gladly do it again. He has never regretted starting this club with Bull and a few others years ago. However, seeing his brothers finding love and settling down to have families when he knows he’ll never have that is taking its toll on him. He takes off to get his head straight...
  • Scheming Heart by Ivy Layne

    Scheming Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ScarlettI don’t want to lie to him. I really don’t.First of all, he's hot. Really hot. I know I swore off gorgeous men for the rest of eternity, but Tenn Sawyer has me questioning all of my choices. At least, any choices that mean I can’t have him.Second, he isn’t just hot, Tenn is bossy and domineering and patient and his smile makes my panties melt. And that was all before he kidnapped me.After...
  • Sweet Heart by Ivy Layne

    Sweet Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Royal has more trouble than he can handle.His father's been murdered, and the killer is trying to destroy the Sawyers any way they can.The last thing he needs is to complicate his life further. Like, say, with a woman.But Daisy Hutchins doesn't feel like a complication, she feels like the only thing that makes sense in a life turned upside down...
  • Always Someone's Monster by Lani Lynn Vale

    Always Someone's Monster by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A few years ago, when his sister went missing, Haggard Crow turned into something he never wanted to be. A killer.Even after his sister is rescued a year after she was kidnapped and sold, Haggard ‘Thief’ Crow doesn’t have any plans on changing. He sort of likes the zero fucks given guy that he is now...
  • Bull's Duchess by Ciara St. James

    Bull's Duchess by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jocelyn: Being a teenage mother, Jocelyn knew what it was to struggle for everything she had. Disowned and abandoned, she fought to make a life for herself and her daughter. Now, her daughter is on her way to fulfilling her dreams. Jocelyn has no time for men, that is, until the night a silver-fox biker roars into her driveway. He makes her body come to life, unlike it has ever done before...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  family  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • My Forever by Tiffany Patterson

    My Forever by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SavannahI was only eighteen years old when I thought I had found my happily ever after.After the tragic death of my mother, I married the love of my life, Ace Townsend.Yes, we were young and idealistic, but we had it all figured out. He was going to be a fighter pilot in the Air Force. I would go to medical school to become a doctor for people who couldn’t afford healthcare. People like my mother...
  • Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St. James

    Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things refuse to quiet down around Tenillo for Fang and his club, the Ares Infidels MC. No matter how many bad guys they bring to justice, they find there are more in need of their kind of vigilantism. For Fang, that’s alright by him. He joins the Ares Infidels to be part of a brotherhood that’s bigger than just him and his club brothers. He joins to have a bigger family...
  • Loving at 40 by L.B. Dunbar

    Loving at 40 by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sexy silver alpha hero returns to his family’s lakeside cottage where there’s a single mother in his bed and her presence just might be the second chance he needs at love and family.Archer McCaryn has been a mystery to his family. At forty-five, he isn’t certain himself who he is anymore. When he returns to the family’s lakeside cottage, he finds there is someone in his garage apartment...
  • Capone: Rebel Guardians MC by Liberty Parker, Tracie Douglas

    Capone: Rebel Guardians MC by Liberty Parker, Tracie Douglas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bridget Nelson is a broken, defeated woman. Used by her brother as his gang’s playtoy, she feels beyond less than, but when she found out what Charlie had planned for her and Hannah, she fled and landed in Corinth, Texas...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  family  suspense  adult  anti-hero  biker  book  contemporary
  • Letting You Go by Jordan Marie, Sarah Hansen

    Letting You Go by Jordan Marie, Sarah Hansen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I met Luna Marshall when I was seventeen. She was a force of nature that I wasn’t ready for. She was gravity and I was caught in her pull— Powerless while she held me in a world I was desperate to escape. They say you never forget your first love. I believe they’re right. I’ll always remember the sound of her laughter...
  • Every Promise You Made by J.E. Parker

    Every Promise You Made by J.E. Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was his best friend's little sister...He was the boy who'd always fought to protect her. —Hope—She was his best friend's little sister...He was the boy who'd always protected her.I've loved Evan Morgan ever since I was a little girl.Growing up, he was my best friend.I thought he always would be.Turns out, I was wrong.September 30th was the day my world shattered...
  • Fun House by Lani Lynn Vale

    Fun House by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to the Circus is a brand-new series that centers around a family that owns a circus, 6 sisters and one brother. This is book 1 featuring Coffey and Simi!Sometimes you need to crash a funeral to experience happiness.At least, Kissimmee Singh, aerial artist for Singh Circus, the most sought-after traveling circus of all time, keeps telling herself that’s why she crashes funerals...
  • The Fountain of Infinite Wishes by Ava Miles

    The Fountain of Infinite Wishes by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Millions of readers have fallen in love with Ava’s bestselling books…come join the family.International Bestselling Author Ava Miles presents a gripping and emotional tale about believing in wishes coming true and searching for love—no matter where it leads.Shelby McGuiness hadn’t stopped believing in wishes.Vander Montgomery had...
  • Havoc by Laramie Briscoe, Kari Ayasha

    Havoc by Laramie Briscoe, Kari Ayasha

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a marriage of convenience turns into the passion of a lifetime… Holden “Havoc” Thompson My job as the leader of the Moonshine Task Force is my life. I eat, breathe, and sleep it. The men under my command mean the world to me. Knowing they count on my guidance has kept my demons at bay for longer than I care to admit...
  • Once in a Lifetime by Leeanna Morgan

    Once in a Lifetime by Leeanna Morgan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Samantha Jones works at Fletcher Security. She develops state-of-the-art surveillance drones, hacks computer networks, and makes life difficult for anyone on the wrong side of the law. When she's asked to help Caleb Andrews complete a top-secret project, her IT skills aren't the only thing that will be tested to the limit...
  • Make Me Your Villain by Lani Lynn Vale

    Make Me Your Villain by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book 2 of the Battle Crows MC with Shine and Iris.Flaws—he has them.Laws? He breaks them.Dues? He’s paid them.Scars? He bares them proudly.Lessons? He’s learned them.Problems? He has one.Her name is Iris, and she’s the one thing in his life that he can’t control...
  • Issued to the Bride: One Sniper by Cora Seton

    Issued to the Bride: One Sniper by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sniper Hunter Powell thought he lost everything when he took the rap for a crime he didn't commit in order to save a friend. Now he's got a chance to redeem himself. There's only one catch — he has to leave the military, settle down on a Montana ranch — and marry a woman he's never met before...
  • Triplets For The Mountain Man by K.C. Crowne

    Triplets For The Mountain Man by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ...
  • Zane by Nicole Edwards

    Zane by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Vanessa Carmichael will never forget that horrible day for as long as she lives. With Zane fully on the mend from the brutal attack he suffered right in her very own yard, she knows she should be grateful, which she is. She also knows that walking away from Zane might be the only way to keep him safe...
  • Beautifully Broken Control by Catherine Cowles

    Beautifully Broken Control by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A woman trying to rebuild her life.Kennedy is doing all she can to escape, to prove that she’s not the monster her father was. A simple life of peace and service is all she needs.A man haunted by a past he can’t forget.Cain has buried his demons under layers of control and success. The only thing he needs is his company and his solitude...
  • Only a Millionaire by J.S. Scott

    Only a Millionaire by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It has been a year since Brooke escaped to the lovely coastal community of Amesport, Maine, where no one knows her real name or what she’s been through. Now she’s finally heading back home to California. That means saying goodbye to Liam Sullivan, her millionaire blond god of a boss who’s fulfilled every one of Brooke’s fantasies...
  • Commanding the Curvy Girl by Nichole Rose

    Commanding the Curvy Girl by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To save a curvy dispatcher and win her heart, this detective will do whatever it takes. Even if it means answering every outrageous call in Silver Spoon Falls.EastonTaking a bullet was supposed to be as bad as things could get.And then I moved to Silver Spoon Falls.There is nothing easy about life in this crazy small town.Especially when a curvy little dispatcher decides she doesn't like me...
  • Mountain Guardian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Mountain Guardian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A mountain man with a tragic past + a curvy amnesiac + two deadly secrets = one explosive romance! His bear-shifter clanmates know him only as Gannon, a scarred loner concealing a dark past. The mountain man of the Pinerock Bears guards the Circle B Ranch from afar and shuns the company of others, until the day he comes back to his cabin and finds a beautiful, curvy woman sleeping in his bed ..
  • Beginning of Forever by Laramie Briscoe

    Beginning of Forever by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book Seven in the Heaven Hill Series Love Fear Hope Danger Tyler and Meredith Blackfoot have a long and complicated history. A relationship born out of the worst thing a woman can endure has blossomed into a greater love than either of them could have ever imagined. Now, with answered prayers and Addie a permanent part of their family, they are ready to move forward...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  family  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  epic
  • A Change Of View by Freya Barker

    A Change Of View by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What if one morning you look in the mirror and no longer recognize the person looking back? When Leelo can no longer identify herself by the roles that once defined her, it's both terrifying and liberating. Oh, she feels the loss, the grief, and then the anger, but when she inherits property up north, she jumps at the promise of freedom and independence...
  • Eleven Eleven by Micalea Smeltzer

    Eleven Eleven by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After my divorce, I decide to move across the country away from family and friends for a new start.What I don’t expect is him.He’s only supposed to be a one-night stand, but fate has other plans.The next time I see him it’s because I’m on a date with his dad...
  • Doctor of the Heart by Grace Maxwell

    Doctor of the Heart by Grace Maxwell

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s a billionaire doctor with a supportive family. I’m an artist who can’t keep a day-job while taking care of my little sister. We’re opposites in every way.My BFF and I are going out to meet men. Lots of men!I’ve been focused on other more important things, but when my best friend insists we do something fun, I give in. It’s been a long time...
  • Never Too Late by Chelle Bliss

    Never Too Late by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Have you ever had your mother try to fix you up?Mine has been relentless, butting into my dating life forever.Every single time has been a total disaster.But when Ma summons me to her local hangout, I’m not expecting her to do it again. There’s only so many women in our small town, and at my age, I’ve met them all...
  • Saving His Sunshine: A Firefighter Romance by Nichole Rose

    Saving His Sunshine: A Firefighter Romance by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can an adorable menace of a dog, a bakery under fire, and one irresistible firefighter change this curvy girl's life forever?Alessandro BangerI’m used to my dog causing trouble. It’s what he does.But breaking into my sassy neighbor’s house might be a new low even for him.Or else he’s a genius, because Jesus. I did not know we moved in next to an angel...
  • Wretched Love by Anne Malcom

    Wretched Love by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Don’t ask me how I got here, I don’t want to lie to you.I’m not a worldly woman.I’m not cultured, well-traveled or well educated.I’m just a housewife. A mother.I’m the woman with the handsome husband, beautiful daughter, the large house.If you saw it from the outside, you’d probably think I have the perfect life.You would most definitely be wrong.But I don’t blame you...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • Butterfly Bayou by Lexi Blake

    Butterfly Bayou by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake is back with an all-new heartwarming, small-town contemporary romance series set against the spicy southern backdrop of Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou. Life in Dallas took a tragic turn for nurse practitioner Lila Daley. In need of a fresh start, she retreats to Papillon, Louisiana, a tiny town on the bayou...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • Lift You Up by Jessica Gadziala

    Lift You Up by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Friends of the family were forbidden fruit. You didn't get to take a bite, no matter how tempting it might be...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • Terror's Temptress by Ciara St. James

    Terror's Temptress by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Terror:His name and person strike fear into the hearts of men.He’s the ultra-alpha leader of the Dublin Falls Archangel’s Warriors MC.He’s living the ultimate biker’s dream.He’s content until he sees her.All it took was one look, and he’ll do whatever it takes to have her.Even go up against her father.Or go to war with his club’s enemies and her secret one...
  • Don't Forget Me Tomorrow by A.L. Jackson

    Don't Forget Me Tomorrow by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When my best friend's little sister walks in on me moaning her name, it's all over. All restrains are shattered, and ever boundary demolished. Nothing will be the same. For years, I've tried to keep my distance from Dakota Cooper. She's everything I've ever wanted and the one thing I can't have...
  • Bound by Temptation (Ravage MC #19) by Ryan Michele

    Bound by Temptation (Ravage MC #19) by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author Ryan Michele brings the action packed, steamy next generation Ravage MC filled with angst and loyalty. Every day like clockwork I entered into Fallon’s Bakery. Coffee. That was what I told myself. I was just coming for coffee...
  • The Outsider Series: The Complete Collection by Lorhainne Eckhart

    The Outsider Series: The Complete Collection by Lorhainne Eckhart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Outsider Series The Complete Omnibus Collection is the ultimate sexy and emotionally charged western romance series. Over 350,000 words of love, passion, and deep family ties. Get it for yourself or for the western romance lover in your life. This collection includes all the books and short stories of the hot and sexy Friessen men and the strong and vulnerable women they love...
  • LuLLaY: Portland ME, a Christmas Novella by Freya Barker

    LuLLaY: Portland ME, a Christmas Novella by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Faith failed him. Ambition drove her. Serendipity brought them together. They’ve never met, but their paths run in the same direction—home for the holidays. Yet their reasons for leaving are as different as the reasons they return. Meeting by chance along a 1400 mile stretch of highway when a snowstorm grinds traffic to a halt, they have no choice but to jointly ride it out...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  family  suspense  adult  book  children  contemporary  fiction
Fantastic book recommendations by book lovers for book lovers.
Find out more about thebooknaut.com.



Looking for more inspiration? Enter another book title to get more suggestions on what to read next.


Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.