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  • Tainted: Lance and Mary by Tess Thompson

    Tainted: Lance and Mary by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One career-ending mistake sends Lance Mullen home to Cliffside Bay in search of a fresh start. And in no time at all, home begins to feel like the place he was always meant to be. With his beautiful new beach house, his friends and family close by, and a profitable business to grow, life really is good. That is until his heart tries to wreck everything... again...
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    family  female-mc  friendship  adult  book  contemporary  drama  epic
  • Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival

    Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A sensitive and reassuring story about what to do when a worry won't leave you alone. Meet Ruby—a happy, curious, imaginative girl. But one day, she finds something unexpected: a Worry. It's not such a big Worry, at first. But every day, it grows a little bigger... And a little bigger... Until eventually, the Worry is ENORMOUS and is all she can think about...
  • Blue Ink by Tess Thompson

    Blue Ink by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charlotte Wilde gives her heart to the wrong men. The last one left with her life savings and their nubile neighbor. Her first published cozy mystery is a flop. Her literary agent’s about to dump her. She has a serious case of writer’s block. And she’s dead broke. Which is how she finds herself in rural Idaho looking after her former boss's elderly mother-in-law. While Mrs...
  • Seabreeze Christmas by Jan Moran

    Seabreeze Christmas by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A season of joy. The spirit of family. **From a USA Today Bestselling author**When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay discover crates of vintage Christmas decorations at the Seabreeze Inn, they decide to open their historic beach house to the village of Summer Beach...
  • One Moment by Linda Green

    One Moment by Linda Green

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Finn and Kaz are about to meet for the first time. Ten-year-old Finn, a quirky, sensitive boy who talks a lot and only eats at cafes with a 5-star hygiene rating, is having a tough time at school and home. Outspoken Kaz, 59, who has an acerbic sense of humour and a heart of gold, is working at the café when Finn and his mum come in...
  • The Correspondent by Tess Thompson

    The Correspondent by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She can’t stand him. He loathes her. Fate has other plans.When a snowstorm strands these enemies in an abandoned cabin, will they begin to see each other in a whole new way?After fighting her way out of poverty, Stormi Collins is finally going places...
  • Montana Promises by Kim Law

    Montana Promises by Kim Law

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s falling for his brother’s ex—as if he needs another reason to go. Nate Wilde is ready to leave Birch Bay. He’s been home too long as it is and extending his visit means risking fantasies of staying for good. Wants and desires never work out for him, though. With good comes bad, and he’s had enough bad to last a lifetime. Unfortunately, his siblings need him...
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    family  female-mc  friendship  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Jaded: Zane and Honor by Tess Thompson

    Jaded: Zane and Honor by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zane Shaw isn't the type to cower in a corner, until he meets Honor Sullivan. She's the most phenomenal woman he's ever met, but he's been burned before and so he's doomed to fall for her from a distance. If only his past hadn't left him so weary, perhaps he could be the man he was raised to be. Honor Sullivan has too much at stake to get distracted by a man. But Zane Shaw isn't just any man...
  • The Desert Flowers - Lily by Judith Keim

    The Desert Flowers - Lily by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three talented women are brought together by a man they all love, becoming his Desert Flowers, who work together to save his hotel from being ruined by the company buying it…When Lily Weaver is asked to help Alec Thurston, the one man she’s ever truly loved, and to come to Palm Desert, California, she doesn’t hesitate...
  • No Place too Far by Kay Bratt

    No Place too Far by Kay Bratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Maggie Dalton was forced to uproot her entire life to protect herself and her son. Just when she thinks she’s outrun her past, she’ll have to face her fears in this emotional and suspenseful novel by the bestselling author of Wish Me Home.After a year on the move, single mom Maggie Dalton has found a safe haven with her son in Maui...
  • Seabreeze Book Club by Jan Moran

    Seabreeze Book Club by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A new bookshop on the beach. A sizzling summer ahead. Join a new book club at the Seabreeze Inn.**From a USA Today bestselling author.**When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay form a book club to help support a local bookshop on the beach, friends and guests of the inn are eager to join. Yet nothing is quite as it seems in the book club.Meanwhile, a discovery in the historic beach house inn causes a stir...
  • A Million Dreams by Dani Atkins

    A Million Dreams by Dani Atkins

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beth Brandon always dreamed of owning a florist, but today the bouquets of peonies and bright spring flowers are failing to calm her nerves. Because today, Beth has a life-changing decision to share with her husband.Izzy Vaughan thought she and her husband would stay together forever, but sometime last year, their love began to fade...
  • Nantucket Neighbors by Pamela M. Kelley

    Nantucket Neighbors by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    **An instant USA Today Bestseller! #11 on top 150 list, week of September 5, 2019 Book your visit to the Beach Plum Cove Inn today.....meet widow Lisa Hodges and her four adult children, friends, and visitors to the newly opened waterfront bed and breakfast...
  • First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg, Judy Love

    First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg, Judy Love

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Everyone knows the jumble of feelings as the first day of school approaches -- especially if it's the first day at a new school...
  • A Time to Forgive by Kay Correll

    A Time to Forgive by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes is very, very hard to forget or forgive… Bree Stuart wants nothing more than to pack up her parents’ cabin on Lone Elk Lake and get it ready to sell. One less reminder of her past. Jason Cassidy is thrilled to see his friend, Bree, back in Sweet River Falls after twenty years. He offers to help her get the cabin ready to put on the market...
  • The Beachside Inn by Fiona Baker

    The Beachside Inn by Fiona Baker

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Escape to Marigold Island, a charming New England town with a cast of characters who will come to feel like old friends!Lydia Walker and Angela Collins both need a fresh start.A year ago, Lydia became a widow at thirty-eight when she lost her beloved husband to cancer, and despite the support of her friends and her teenage daughter, Holly, she’s had a hard time moving on from the loss...
  • I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont

    I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    High on energy and imagination, this ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves--inside and out. Messy hair? Beaver breath? So what! Here's a little girl who knows what really matters.At once silly and serious, Karen Beaumont's joyous rhyming text and David Catrow's wild illustrations unite in a book that is sassy, soulful--and straight from the heart...
  • The Innkeeper by Tess Thompson

    The Innkeeper by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a night to forget. After a night of sizzling passion, they agreed to never contact each other again. Fate disagreed.Jamie Wattson has no use for men who leave and as far as she’s concerned, they all do. She’s focused on running her inn and spending time with girlfriends. Life is simple and she wants it that way...
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    family  female-mc  friendship  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Nantucket News by Pamela M. Kelley

    Nantucket News by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Charleston native, Taylor Abbott, has just relocated to Nantucket for her dream job as a junior news reporter at the local paper. Ten years ago she was Abby Hodges college roommate and is looking forward to living near her best friend again.Until her rental cottage is available, she's going to stay at the Beach Plum Cove Inn, Abby's mother's bed and breakfast...
  • Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller

    Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Escape to the Gulf Coast of Florida with Georgia Carpenter as she gets a second chance at life, love, and happiness. In the middle of an awful divorce, fifty-three-year-old Georgia Carpenter finds herself out of luck, time, and money. Then her phone rings with the news that her great aunt has died and left her a cottage in the Gulf Coast town of Blackbird Beach...
  • The Desert Flowers - Rose by Judith Keim

    The Desert Flowers - Rose by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three talented women brought together by a man’s love…When Rose Macklin is asked to help Alec Thurston, the one man she’s ever truly loved, by coming to Palm Desert, California, she doesn’t hesitate. He’s dying of cancer and needs her help overseeing the sale of his hotel, the Desert Sage Inn, to another hotel group...
  • Coral Weddings by Jan Moran

    Coral Weddings by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While Marina and Jack contemplate their future, her sister Kai and her new fiance Axe are planning their wedding. When disagreements threaten to derail the wedding, the sisters' grandmother, the indomitable Ginger Delavie, doles out unusual advice. Soon, an unforgettable event unfolds...
  • No Beach Like Nantucket by Grace Palmer

    No Beach Like Nantucket by Grace Palmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Benson family needs a fresh start. Can they find peace and happiness on the beaches of Nantucket?Last summer, a storm blew the Benson family’s lives to bits.It’s been almost a year since that fateful day.Since they learned that life at the beach isn’t all sunshine and rainbows.They’re doing their best to pick up the pieces.Mae is running the Sweet Island Inn...
  • Llama Llama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney

    Llama Llama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Llama has a sharing drama!Build a tower. Make a moat. Nelly's dolly sails a boat. What can Llama Llama add? Maybe sharing's not so bad. Llama Llama has new neighbors! Nelly Gnu and her mama stop by for a play date, but Llama's not so sure it's time to share all his toys. Maybe just his blocks? It could be fun to make a castle with Nelly . .
  • The Aftermath by Gail Schimmel

    The Aftermath by Gail Schimmel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Three women: a mother, a daughter, a friend. Can they save each other from the past?It’s been twenty-six years since the accident, but Helen still lives on autopilot, going through the motions of work and motherhood. Her one wish is for her daughter Julia to settle down with her own family—so Helen can let go...
  • All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

    All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Tell Me Your Secret and The Brighton Mermaid comes the breath-taking sequel to the iconic Sunday Times bestseller The Ice Cream Girls.Verity is telling lies...And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.Serena has been lying for years. . .And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable..
  • Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Scott Magoon

    Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Scott Magoon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Meet Spoon. He's always been a happy little utensil. But lately, he feels like life as a spoon just isn't cutting it. He thinks Fork, Knife, and The Chopsticks all have it so much better than him. But do they? And what do they think about Spoon? A book for all ages, Spoon serves as a gentle reminder to celebrate what makes us each special...
  • Identity by Nora Roberts

    Identity by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life.Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender...
  • Wish You Were Here by Cressida McLaughlin

    Wish You Were Here by Cressida McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warm welcome awaits…the charming new arrival from the No.1 bestselling author of The Canal Boat Cafe.Robin decides that a grand gesture is what’s needed to prove her feelings to Will and, with the help of her guests, hatches a plan that he won’t be able to ignore. But when two of her guests go missing, the only thing that matters is their safe return...
  • Do Not Disturb (The Once in a Blue Moon Guesthouse) by Cressida McLaughlin

    Do Not Disturb (The Once in a Blue Moon Guesthouse) by Cressida McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warm welcome awaits…the charming new arrival from the No.1 bestselling author of The Canal Boat Cafe. Robin is devastated that a rift has come between her and her neighbour Will. To add to her anxiety, the other residents of Campion Bay are relying on Robin to halt a property developer’s assault on the Bay’s unique charm...
  • Snow Way Out by Wendy Meadows

    Snow Way Out by Wendy Meadows

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sarah is finally pregnant and excited to start a new family with her husband Detective Conrad Spencer in Snow Falls, Alaska. So when Sarah is invited to be a guest on a pregnancy game show in Los Angeles, she leaves her home in Snow Falls, Alaska with her husband and best friend Amanda expecting to enjoy a nice, fun vacation...
  • Riversnow by Tess Thompson

    Riversnow by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A famous actress goes head-to-head with a powerful politician when she dares to name her abuser publicly in this small-town romance ripped from the headlines by USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson. Genevieve Banks is one of Hollywood's most successful actresses. While on set in the small Oregon town of River Valley, she forms a deep friendship with her handsome male co-star...
  • A Song to Remember by Kay Correll

    A Song to Remember by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes a song brings back a memory... Sophie Brooks runs the small art gallery in Sweet River Falls. She’s thrown herself into keeping the gallery open. She owes her parents that much. But when Chase Green arrives in town, long-buried memories of the dreams Sophie had for her life bubble to the surface. Chase is hiding from his own haunted past and keeping long-held secrets...
  • A Place to Call Home by Carole Matthews

    A Place to Call Home by Carole Matthews

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ayesha knows that she must escape from her marriage for the sake of her daughter, Sabina. Slipping away in the dead of the night, they head for London to start a new life. Hayden, a reclusive pop star, hides himself away in the mansion which he shares with two more damaged souls - Crystal, a professional dancer with a kind heart and Joy, an ill-tempered retiree...
  • What She Saw by Wendy Clarke

    What She Saw by Wendy Clarke

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She lied to her daughter to save her family. Everyone knows Leona would do anything for her daughter Beth: she moved to Church Langdon to send Beth to the best school, worked hard to build a successful business to support them and found them the perfect little cottage to call home. Leona and Beth hike together, shop together, share their hopes and fears with one another...
  • Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are by Maria Dismondy

    Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are by Maria Dismondy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lucy is teased by a boy at school because she is different. She has the courage to be true to herself and to make the right choice when that same boy needs her help...
  • Her Last Hope by Louise Guy

    Her Last Hope by Louise Guy

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Will new friends almost ruined by their husbands find the strength to fight for each other?Abi’s life has been turned upside down by her husband’s death—in more ways than she could ever have imagined. With his dodgy business dealings now exposed, gone is her glamorous lifestyle and the trust of her family and friends...
  • All Her Fault by Andrea Mara

    All Her Fault by Andrea Mara

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ONE MISSING BOY.Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.FOUR GUILTY WOMEN...
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    family  female-mc  friendship  adult  audiobook  book  crime  drama
  • Where The Story Starts by Imogen Clark

    Where The Story Starts by Imogen Clark

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A strange encounter. An unlikely friendship. But will it survive when they both know the truth?As single mother Leah struggles to get her children ready one morning, the doorbell rings. Standing on the doorstep of their terraced house in Whitley Bay is a well-dressed stranger, Clio, who feels an emotional tie to the house that she can’t explain...
  • Good as Dead by Susan Walter

    Good as Dead by Susan Walter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It all starts with a promise from a stranger: We’ll take care of everything.Holly Kendrick’s husband is dead. Holly saw it all. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly’s life upside down. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse...
  • Fully Booked (The Once in a Blue Moon Guesthouse) by Cressida McLaughlin

    Fully Booked (The Once in a Blue Moon Guesthouse) by Cressida McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warm welcome awaits…the charming new arrival from the No.1 bestselling author of The Canal Boat Cafe. Robin’s reinvention of her parent’s guesthouse is a hit. Bookings are up and the carefully themed rooms are hugely popular with the guests. Life in Campion Bay is turning out to be much more eventful than she ever imagined – it’s far from the sleepy seaside town that Robin remembers...
  • The Last Goodbye by Kay Lyons

    The Last Goodbye by Kay Lyons

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    SOMETIMES THE PAIN OF LIFE BRINGS A NEW BEGINNING...Widower Dominic Dunn isn’t sure what to think of his wife’s pre-planned trip for him a year after her death. It’s her effort to force him from his work desk to the coast and the peacefulness she’d found at the Carolina Cove Inn...
  • His Uptown Girl by Liz Talley

    His Uptown Girl by Liz Talley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life doesn't follow rules... Jazz pianist Dez Batiste knows this all too well. It's taken him years to return to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina swept away what mattered most. His musician's soul is still lost in the wreckage, but he's after a brand-new future by opening an Uptown jazz club. Too bad the distractingly sexy Eleanor Theriot is getting in his way...
  • Prove Me Right by Anna Brooks

    Prove Me Right by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One weakness can change everything. Meara and Liam were friends before they could talk, in love since they could drive, and planning their future before they graduated high school. In order to start the life they’ve always dreamed of, Liam just has to finish his tour with the band. He doesn't want anyone else. Liam's only ever had eyes for Meara, and he can't wait to finally get home to her...
  • Change of Heart by Judith Keim

    Change of Heart by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emerson “Em” Jordan always wanted a Valentine’s Day wedding. But after being dumped by her boyfriend, she spends the holiday at Seashell Cottage on the Gulf Coast of Florida with Devin Gerard, a family friend who has no interest in her or any other woman and is instead concentrating on his pediatric medical practice and continuing medical missions in Costa Rica...
  • The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

    The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library...
  • His Secret Baby  (A McKnight Family Romance) by Lucy McConnell, Anne-Marie Meyer

    His Secret Baby (A McKnight Family Romance) by Lucy McConnell, Anne-Marie Meyer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I came back to town for closure... And found a daughter I never knew I had...Return to the McKnight family series where the one person Penny never wanted to come back has just walked into her life: Katie's dad...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  friendship  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Meesha Makes Friends by Tom Percival

    Meesha Makes Friends by Tom Percival

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meesha loves making things . . . but there's one thing she finds difficult to make – friends. She doesn't know quite what to do, what to say or when to say it. But one day she discovers that she has a special talent that might just help her navigate social situations - and maybe even make new friends...
  • The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They hired an assistant to help them. But she has other plans.High-flying duo Goldie and Braun Delucci run a major film production company. But recently their gilded lives were touched by tragedy when one of their leading actors, Ally, died in a car crash.What the Deluccis don’t realise is that their newly hired private assistant is actually Ally’s sister...
  • The Shadow Between Us by Carol Mason

    The Shadow Between Us by Carol Mason

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What is it about the coast that attracts people running from their past? Maybe there’s something in a sea breeze that blows away your problems. Maybe when you look out at the ocean you can see the future; forget the secrets and pain holding you back. Or at least you can forget them for a time. When Olivia moves to Port Townsend, her marriage is floundering, and her life is in pieces...
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