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  • Marred: Kyle and Violet by Tess Thompson

    Marred: Kyle and Violet by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kyle Hicks started with nothing. Now he's a self-made man. And as luck would have it, his latest project as a real estate developer lands him in Cliffside Bay with his very best friends, The Dogs. At the end of his grueling work days, Kyle's got just enough time left for his buddies and not much else...
  • 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...
  • 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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    epic  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Sanibel Moonlight by Hope Holloway

    Sanibel Moonlight by Hope Holloway

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nearly a year has passed since Eliza arrived for a “few days” on Shellseeker Beach. She has overcome grief, forged lifelong relationships, and finally found a place where her heart can sing.Most of all, she’s found a second chance at romance…but must face one last and unexpected challenge or this new love will slip through her fingers like moonlight on the water...
  • Something Like Family by Heather Burch

    Something Like Family by Heather Burch

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Abandoned by his mother when he was young, twenty-two-year-old Rave Wayne knows all about loss. That doesn’t mean he’s used to it. After he’s dumped by the girlfriend he assumed he’d spend his life with, Rave is longing more than ever to connect.Then, as if by miracle, he receives an invitation from his grandfather, a man he thought was long gone, to come for a visit to rural Tennessee...
  • Cross My Heart: A Small Town Billionaire Single Dad Romance by Avery Maxwell

    Cross My Heart: A Small Town Billionaire Single Dad Romance by Avery Maxwell

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One chance encounter broke me; another could set me free.The moment I meet the incredibly sexy Dexter Cross, I know I'm in trouble. His intensity is electric, and I express a sass I thought was long extinguished. It's a shock to my system and seems to put Dexter on edge, which I like. Teasing him appears to be my new favorite pastime...
  • Sanibel Sunsets by Hope Holloway

    Sanibel Sunsets by Hope Holloway

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Eliza’s son arrives in Shellseeker Beach, he’s struggling. Dane deeply disapproves of his mother’s relationship with a new man, causing friction in Eliza’s happy life. In addition, he must navigate a whole new life and find a way to channel his emotions in to music. Support comes from the most unexpected corner, surprising everyone…including Dane...
  • The Canal Boat Café Christmas: Starboard Home by Cressida McLaughlin

    The Canal Boat Café Christmas: Starboard Home by Cressida McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Christmas special continuing the charming and heart-warming story of The Canal Boat Café, the runaway bestseller Summer and Mason take their upbeat and feelgood Canal Boat Café to London for Christmas, with unexpected results. Starboard Home – Summer and Mason find themselves unexpectedly spending the entire Christmas holiday in Little Venice when the canal freezes over...
  • One Hundred Goodbyes by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Goodbyes by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, the town where a stranger is simply a friend you haven’t met… Eden Webster has always been generous to a fault. The word no isn’t in her vocabulary. That’s how at twenty-eight she finds herself homeless, alone, and pregnant in Aspen Cove...
  • 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...
  • What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

    What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story—by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming—of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew.“The bravest book you’ll read all year.”—Jodi Picoult “What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it is my most autobiographical work to date. Eve’s story is my story...
  • Montana Homecoming by Kim Law

    Montana Homecoming by Kim Law

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With four Wilde babies already due in the coming weeks, the last thing Cord expects when he returns home is to discover one more is on the way . . . his.His hometown of Birch Bay isn’t the respite Cord Wilde envisions when forced to take a mandatory vacation...
  • Midnight Shores on Whisling Island by Julia Clemens

    Midnight Shores on Whisling Island by Julia Clemens

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Whisling Island is a beautifully enchanting place, one of healing and growth.Allen is coming home. And sweet Lily is beside herself in joyful, anxious anticipation. After preparing for his homecoming, ensuring that their reunion will be perfect, Lily is thrown a curveball. One she isn't sure how to recover from...
  • Can't Fight the Moonlight by Barbara Freethy

    Can't Fight the Moonlight by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Justin Blackwood can't remember a time when he believed in the magic of anything, least of all love. A cynical businessman, who grew up in a broken home, he guards his heart with every breath he takes. His job has taken him all over the world and roots are the last thing he wants...until he meets a beautiful innkeeper in Whisper Lake...
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    epic  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Finding My Way by Judith Keim

    Finding My Way by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Darcy Sullivan and her two sisters continue to work hard at the Salty Key Inn, the small, Florida hotel they unexpectedly inherited. In order to inherit the rest of Uncle Gavin’s sizeable estate, they must meet his challenge to open the neglected hotel by the end of the year...
  • The Bookshop of Hopes and Dreams: A charming tale of heartbreak and healing by Hannah Ellis

    The Bookshop of Hopes and Dreams: A charming tale of heartbreak and healing by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Tara Fitzpatrick tells a string of lies during the world’s most informal job interview she has no idea of the path she’s set herself on. Renovating the rundown bookshop with her new boss, James, turns out to be more fulfilling than she could ever have imagined. Soon, she finds herself falling in love with the quaint little shop. And with James...
  • Flames of Love by Erin Wright

    Flames of Love by Erin Wright

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jaxson is the new fire chief of the Long Valley Fire Dept, but he quickly realizes that the idyllic life he’d imagined in Sawyer wasn’t so idyllic after all… Coming January 2018, Flames of Love is the first novel in the Firefighters of Long Valley world, although all books in the Long Valley world can be read as standalones. Flames of Love has some strong language, and oh my, sexy times...
  • The Bookstore on Amelia Island by Hope Holloway

    The Bookstore on Amelia Island by Hope Holloway

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A sisterhood saga full of family, faith, and friendship...Life for widowed Grace Wingate Jenkins has been simple enough these past few years on Amelia Island, running a bookstore and raising a painfully shy toddler girl. But when that simple life is turned upside down, Grace realizes she’s also been given a gift in the form of a friend who has an entirely different perspective...
  • Drawing Me In by Tracey Alvarez, Book Cover by Design

    Drawing Me In by Tracey Alvarez, Book Cover by Design

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Passion won’t hold them together when past fears threaten to tear them apart… She’s drawn by his wild spirit… Bree Findlow’s ordered world slides into chaos when the man who broke her heart arrives back in their small New Zealand home-town. But with years of avoidance tactics under her belt, she figures ignoring the sexy-as-sin artist whose touch colors her red hot, is a practical solution...
  • 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...
  • One Last Risk by Nancy Stopper

    One Last Risk by Nancy Stopper

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A guilt-driven firefighter, a widowed mother, neither is ready for love, but love has other plans. Firefighter Lucas Bennett had the carefree life he’d always wanted until a deadly blaze took the life of his company mate and best friend. Blaming himself was easy but pulling himself from the tailspin of guilt proved to be much harder...
  • Vineyard Winds by Katie Winters

    Vineyard Winds by Katie Winters

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The eighteenth book of the Vineyard Sunset Series is coming next. This vibrant cast of characters live out their dreams on Martha's Vineyard. This is the story of the Sheridan and Montgomery siblings, a heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love that will have you wanting the next book...
  • Easton Island: Easton Family Dynasty by Hope Callaghan

    Easton Island: Easton Family Dynasty by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Easton Island - Easton Family Dynasty is the continuing saga of one woman’s journey from incredible loss to finding a past she knew nothing about, including a family who both embraces and fears her and a charming island that draws her in.This inspirational women's fiction series is for lovers of family sagas, friendship, mysteries, and a touch of romance...
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    family  female-mc  epic  romance  fiction  cozy  contemporary  book
  • Tangle of Strings by Ashley Farley

    Tangle of Strings by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A nearly tragic accident leads to a discovery that rocks the Sweeney family’s world. Some families never resolve conflicts. Not so with the Sweeneys. Their sense of family, their love for one another, and their willingness to forgive have always triumphed and brought them back together. Until now...
  • Lowcountry Stranger by Ashley Farley

    Lowcountry Stranger by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Family Drama, Southern Style. There's a stranger in town. And it’s no coincidence when she shows up uninvited at a Sweeney family wedding. All eyes are drawn to this urchin who seems to have washed in with the tide. Before the night is over, the doe-eyed waif charms young and old with her street smarts and spunky personality. For better or worse, Annie Dawn is here to stay...
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    epic  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • A tablespoon of Temptation by Kelly Collins

    A tablespoon of Temptation by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a woman who values honesty. He’s a man telling a lie. Will the truth bring them together or tear them apart?Danielle Morgan doesn’t need a recipe for love, she needs one for life. Hounded by her best friend to find a man or a hobby, she chooses the latter. After all, a hobby won’t break her heart...
  • One Hundred Glances by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Glances by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, where seeing is believing …Artist Sosie Grant has always loved what Aspen Cove had to offer. It was a place to let her muse run wild. But when a bout with Lyme disease leaves her unable to paint, she comes back to Aspen Cove to say goodbye to the only life she’s ever known...
  • Rescue Me by Kelly Collins

    Rescue Me by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her company is failing. His plan could save it. Will their partnership move from business to pleasure?Carla “Carl” Stevenson takes a special joy in running the local timber mill. But when the economy takes a downturn, selling the family business may be her only heartbreaking option...
  • Royally Tied by Melanie Summers

    Royally Tied by Melanie Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't miss the heartwarming, laugh-out-loud continuation of the Crazy Royal Love Romantic Comedy Series …After a whirlwind romance that has taken them all over the globe, rugged survival expert Will Banks and Princess Arabella of Avonia are getting ready to take a trip down the aisle...
  • The Inn by the Cove: A Sweet, Small Town Romance by Ellen Joy

    The Inn by the Cove: A Sweet, Small Town Romance by Ellen Joy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The handsome investor wants to sell her family’s seacoast inn. So, why can’t she just hate him?Previously published as "Inn with You."Zoe has dedicated her life to working at the family inn, where she lives with her son, but the business has fallen on hard times. She has ideas about how to turn things around; but, her father owns the place and he’s stuck in his ways...
  • Forbidden Love by Ashley Farley

    Forbidden Love by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A father’s lie tears his family apart in the thrilling continuation of the bestselling Virginia Vineyard series. Daniel Love has alienated his loved ones. And he’ll stop at nothing to have his daughter and long-time mistress back in his life. He resorts to drastic measures, devising a wicked scheme intended to elicit sympathy from his family. All hell breaks loose when his plan backfires...
  • The Stanislaski Series Collection Volume 1 by Nora Roberts

    The Stanislaski Series Collection Volume 1 by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    TAMING NATASHAComposer Spencer Kimball and his young daughter are new to town. It’s a small community, and in such close quarters beauty is hard to miss—and when he sets eyes on Natasha Stanislaski, he’s thunderstruck by the intensity of his attraction. The former ballet dancer turned toy shop owner has a fiery temperament, and it draws Spencer like a moth to a flame...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  adult  anthologies  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • A Place for Us by Olivia Miles

    A Place for Us by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the vein of the USA Today bestselling Oyster Bay series comes a new feel-good series about sisters navigating family life while finding love in a quaint, lakeside town. When Britt Conway was eighteen, she left Blue Harbor without a glance back, telling herself that she was closing the door to her painful past for good...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  small-town
  • Know Your Heart by Tracey Alvarez

    Know Your Heart by Tracey Alvarez

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He is the one she couldn’t remember. She is the one he couldn’t forget… After being unexpectedly kicked off a movie set, her part given to a younger actress, Savannah Payne flees to her holiday house in Bounty Bay. There, in her little hideaway managed for her by her older cousin, she’ll be able to lick her wounds privately, and prepare for an audition of a lifetime in L.A...
  • One Hundred Ways by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Ways by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, the tiny mountain town filled with fresh starts and happily ever afters… After the death of her father, sculptor Riley Black leaves Butte, Montana for Aspen Cove in search of the family she’s never known. There, she will bend steel to her artistic vision… and maybe, just maybe find a place to belong...
  • This Fragile Life by Kate Hewitt

    This Fragile Life by Kate Hewitt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Also published at The Other MotherYou love your best friend. You trust her with your life. But could you give her the most precious gift of all?Alex's life is a mess. She's barely holding down a job, only just affording her apartment, and can't remember when she was last in a relationship. An unexpected pregnancy is the last thing she needs.Martha's life is on track...
  • A Kind Wedding: Nathan & Sofia by Sandi Lynn

    A Kind Wedding: Nathan & Sofia by Sandi Lynn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wedding bells are ringing for Nathan & Sofia!Join Nathan and Sofia as they try to juggle their family life and careers all while trying to plan the perfect wedding.Enjoy bonfires, brotherly talks, weekly surf time, music, laughter, and more in this next installment of the Kind Brothers Series...
    Categorized as:
    family  epic  romance  fiction  contemporary  book  adult
  • Whispering Pines by Kimberly Diede

    Whispering Pines by Kimberly Diede

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A shocking job loss will force Renee to remember the beauty of new beginnings.Summers at Whispering Pines defined Renee's childhood. Days meant swimming and sun, nights meant ghost stories and campfires. Best of all, Whispering Pines meant time with Celia, her favorite aunt...
  • One Last Summer by Victoria Connelly

    One Last Summer by Victoria Connelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They have the whole summer ahead of them. Is it enough to rekindle the friendship they once shared? Harriet Greenleaf dreams of spending the summer in a beautiful ancient priory on the Somerset coast with her two best friends—but her dream is bittersweet...
  • Alaskan Dawn by Edie Claire

    Alaskan Dawn by Edie Claire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A brand new novel of romantic women’s fiction from the author of the award-winning Long Time Coming and Meant to Be! Haley knew that carrying her twin sister’s baby would be a sacrifice.She just didn’t know how great. Overachieving attorney Haley Olson has always done the responsible thing. So when her twin sister Micah needs a surrogate mother, Haley willingly volunteers...
  • Cánh Đồng Bất Tận by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư

    Cánh Đồng Bất Tận by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cánh đồng bất tận bao gồm những truyện hay và mới nhất của nhà văn Nguyễn Ngọc Tư. Đây là tác phẩm đang gây xôn xao trong đời sống văn học, bởi ở đó người ta tìm thấy sự dữ dội, khốc liệt của đời sống thôn dã qua cái nhìn của một cô gái. Bi kịch về nỗi mất mát, sự cô đơn được đẩy lên đến tận cùng, khiến người đọc có lúc cảm thấy nhói tim..
  • Shelter Me by Kelly Collins

    Shelter Me by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s a city slicker. He’s a man married to small-town living. They are totally wrong for each other … or are they? Emily Flanagan loves everything about the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles, especially her career. But when her mom suddenly takes ill, Emily has to put her life on hold and rush to Frazier Falls...
  • Nochebuena: A Miami Nights Novella by Marie Force

    Nochebuena: A Miami Nights Novella by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Join the Giordino family from Marie’s Miami Nights Series as they celebrate Christmas Eve in the tradition of Abuela’s Cuban family. Best read after How Much I Love, book 3 in the series...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • 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...
  • One Hundred Reflections by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Reflections by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never-married, retired librarian Elsa Buchanan isn’t known for subtlety; she’s known for getting her way. Aging and in questionable health, she’s worried her time for falling in love is overdue. Always up for a challenge, she sets her eyes on irascible Trenton Van der Veen, who is like a first-edition hardback book—quality through and through but showing a lifetime of wear and tear...
  • Tangled Love on Pelican Point by Karice Bolton

    Tangled Love on Pelican Point by Karice Bolton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *Can be read as a standalone* Sophie Bristol works two jobs--sometimes three--and is surrounded by people falling in love and that's great. Really, it's great. It's not like she ever thought she'd find that perfect someone. After all, she learned he probably only exists in some far away land with talking wildlife and glass slippers, and that works perfectly for her busy schedule...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Teach Your Heart by Tracey Alvarez

    Teach Your Heart by Tracey Alvarez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some lessons are harder to learn than others… Doctor O-for-Awesome Owen Bennett is all about fixing broken things. Then the arrival of his orphaned nieces and nephew for twelve weeks causes his workaholic life to plummet into chaos. Hiring the beautiful but unpredictable Gracie Cooper as a live-in nanny might just get him out of a tight spot…or it could seduce him into a reckless affair...
  • Shaken by Annie Dyer

    Shaken by Annie Dyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He can save her life, but can he save her heart as well...Abby Walker arrived in Severton searching for her sister. Two years later, she’s the one being hunted.Life as a cop in a small town shouldn’t include protecting tiny blonde bartenders from big city gangs, but Alex Maynard won’t ever let the bad guys win. The quietest of the Maynard family, he refuses to let anything blur his lines...
  • A Dollop of Delight by Kelly Collins

    A Dollop of Delight by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s tired of coming in second. He needs to be first. Will a baking competition chill the air or bring heat to the kitchen? Pastry chef Chloe Mason is always chosen last, so when she has to fill a space for a no-show contestant on the popular reality cooking show The Big Bake-off, she vows to settle for nothing less than first place...
  • Whisperwind by Cat Porter

    Whisperwind by Cat Porter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 2 in a highly addictive Friends-to-Lovers Rockstar Romance duet! Violet is mine. We’re meant for each other. So damn good together.She may be stubborn, but so am I, and I won’t let go. I’m determined to make her mine.I won’t let anything tear us apart.I’ve fallen in love for the first time, and I won’t let distance or secrets from the past get in my way, or fame or ex lovers come between us...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  epic  contemporary  steamy  fiction  new-adult  book
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