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  • Finding Billie Romano by Jean Grainger

    Finding Billie Romano by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author wants to take you to Ireland for a story that will leave you wanting more long after you turn the last page... Twenty-five year old Billie Romano is struggling. She is grieving the death of her beloved dad and nothing in her life is going right...
  • Eternally Yours by Brenda Jackson

    Eternally Yours by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Friends… Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friends…the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm's length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever come close to keeping his interest for very long...
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    family  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  black-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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
  • 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...
  • Hlomu the Wife by Dudu Busani-Dube

    Hlomu the Wife by Dudu Busani-Dube

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hlomu the Wife is essentially a love story that takes its cues from life in a South African township. A young woman named Mahlomu meets Mqhele Zulu and they fall in love. Even though aspects of Mqhele's personality and past make her uncomfortable, Hlomu is happy. Their love is strong and they stand by each other through good and bad...
  • Fragile Hearts by the Loch by Hannah Ellis

    Fragile Hearts by the Loch by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How long does it take to mend a broken heart?Jess expects life on the Isle of Skye to be calm and peaceful. But when she falls for her colleague things quickly become complicated. Rory comes with a whole load of baggage, but she just can’t seem to stay away from him. When Elspeth is forced to take a break from work, she evaluates what her future holds...
  • Coming Home by Judith Keim, Angela Dawe

    Coming Home by Judith Keim, Angela Dawe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Length: 8 hrs 15 minCamilla “Cami” Chandler comes home from France to take over the Chandler Hill Inn and Winery for her recently-deceased grandmother, Lettie, as she’d always promised...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

    The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people...
  • Ruthless Rival by Crystal Kaswell

    Ruthless Rival by Crystal Kaswell

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Simon Pierce is the most powerful man in Manhattan. My rival since the ninth grade.And now, my enemy with benefits.Since the first day of high school, Simon and I have competed.Top grades?Simon wins.Better manners?Simon wins.Irresistible stare?Simon definitely wins.So when the bossy billionaire suggests an enemies with benefits arrangement--I dive in headfirst.No feelings. No strings...
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    female-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Home At Last by Judith Keim

    Home At Last by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Louise “Lulu” Kingsley is thrilled to discover after years of wishing for a sibling, Cami Chandler is her half-sister. When Cami invites her to live with her at Chandler Hill, Lulu jumps at the chance to leave behind all the heartache in her recent life...
  • 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...
  • Because by Mo Willems

    Because by Mo Willems

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mo Willems, a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, composes a powerful symphony of chance, discovery, persistence, and magic in this moving tale of a young girl's journey to center stage. Illustrator Amber Ren brings Willems' music to life, conducting a stunning picture-book debut...
  • 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...
  • 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
  • Always by Blue Saffire

    Always by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **Warning: This title is a re-release of Blue's website exclusive Never. It's been totally rewritten with over 116 pages of new content.***Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presentsAlwaysKingShe’s been wanting in my bed for a long, long time. I should’ve shut that shit all the way down, but I’ve been flirting with Misty for years...
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    family  poc-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...
  • I Know Who Holds Tomorrow by Francis Ray

    I Know Who Holds Tomorrow by Francis Ray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In her mind's eyes, she could see Wes, tall and elegant in his tailored tuxedo with a patterned vest, black tie, and snow white pocket square. Her red Valentino slip gown highlighted her honeyed complexion and chocolate brown eyes. The gown also picked up the red in Wes's vest and the red in the rose in his lapel. They were the perfect couple and it was show time. And she wanted to scream...
  • If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur

    If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Told in prose, poetry, and illustration, this heartrending story weaves Kiran’s and Sahaara’s timelines together, showing a teenage Kiran and, later, her high school–aged daughter, Sahaara.Kiran is a young Punjabi Sikh woman who becomes pregnant after being sexually assaulted by her fiancé’s brother...
  • 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...
  • Want, Need, Love by Niobia Bryant

    Want, Need, Love by Niobia Bryant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finding Mr. Right isn't easy, but in this sexy new novel from bestselling author Niobia Bryant, one woman knows exactly how to do it--for everyone but herself…Mona Ballinger has a talent for bringing the right people together--and keeping the wrong people apart. But when Anson Tyler's fiancée ends their engagement thanks to Mona's advice, he angrily confronts her...
  • Ignited by Passion: Stone Cold Surrender\Riding the Storm by Brenda Jackson

    Ignited by Passion: Stone Cold Surrender\Riding the Storm by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two classic Westmoreland novels from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Brenda Jackson Stone Cold Surrender Bestselling thriller writer Stone Westmoreland can think of plenty of ways to describe the stranger he meets on a flight to Montana. Tantalizing. Whip-smart. And completely unaware of how good it feels to give in to your wilder impulses...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Trust Me by Farrah Rochon

    Trust Me by Farrah Rochon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trust doesn't always come easy... As the maverick of the New Orleans City Council, Mackenna Arnold has spent the last four years dismantling the council’s “politics as usual” mentality. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Mack now has her sights set on an even bigger prize: the mayor’s office. But only when the time is right...
  • Unplanned: A 'Snowflake' Drop-in by Nia Forrester

    Unplanned: A 'Snowflake' Drop-in by Nia Forrester

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A brief drop-in on the couples from 'Snowflake' and 'Courtship' ...Ibrahim Carter has a plan; to learn from his family's mistakes and make for himself and his new wife, Jada, the perfect life he never had. But she has something else entirely in mind.Kal Carter is disciplined and focused and those things have served him well while training for the Olympics...
  • Moonlight and Promises by Michele Brouder

    Moonlight and Promises by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Read the generational saga about three sisters and their grandmother and her friends in the beachside town of Hideaway Bay.Always the rebel and the oldest of the Monroe sisters, Isabelle returns to Hideaway Bay at the request of one of her sisters. She’s never stayed long enough in any one place. The last thing Isabelle Monroe wants is to be tied down...
  • 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...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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
  • Heaven Adjacent by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Heaven Adjacent by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a bittersweet novel about healing old wounds and finding a new place to call home… Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return...
  • Daughters of Wild Rose Bay by Susanne O'Leary

    Daughters of Wild Rose Bay by Susanne O'Leary

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A heart-warming page-turner set on the Irish coast, where secrets hide, romance is waiting and there is every chance to make a new beginning… Jasmine Delon feels completely lost: having just broken up with the man she thought was the love of her life, all she knows is that she can’t face living alone in her empty apartment in Paris...
  • The Havoc of Choice by Wanjiru Koinange

    The Havoc of Choice by Wanjiru Koinange

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    2007, KenyaLong held captive by her father’s shadow of corruption, Kavata has spent her life suffocated by political machinations. When her husband decides to run in the next election, these shadows threaten to consume her home. Unable to bear this darkness,Kavata plots to escape. As her family falls apart, so too does her country...
  • A Planned Occasion by Angie Kim

    A Planned Occasion by Angie Kim

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A surprising gift brings closure for an elderly widow in a poignant story about grief, memory, and the persistence of love by the acclaimed, award-winning author of Miracle Creek.Korean immigrant Mina Pak Johnson is clearing out the last of her husband’s things when she finds a picnic basket in his closet—a long-forgotten wedding present from her mother...
  • 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...
  • 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
  • The Idea of You by Amanda Prowse

    The Idea of You by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With her fortieth birthday approaching, Lucy Carpenter dares to hope that she finally has it all: a wonderful new husband, Jonah, a successful career and the chance of a precious baby of her own. Life couldn’t be more perfect. But the reality of becoming parents proves much harder than Lucy and Jonah imagined...
  • Jaded by Monica McKayhan

    Jaded by Monica McKayhan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What Jade Morgan wants: for her parents to get back together. Instead her dad proposes to his new girlfriend, who has the nerve to ask Jade to be a bridesmaid. Like that'll ever happen. Her new boyfriend, Terrence, thinks she should give her future stepmom a chance, try to get to know her. Yet Jade barely knows Terrence—who is cute and cool, but is seriously hiding something...
  • Kisses Don't Lie by Tamika Newhouse

    Kisses Don't Lie by Tamika Newhouse

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Theres Dean her first love and then theres Keith Mr. Right Now. Kyla struggles with her desires and her past when she makes a rare trip back home to Fort Worth. After leaving ten years ago Kyla comes to terms with the one who got away; Dean and their short lived romance comes into full swing...
  • A Family Affair - A Free Preview of the First 7 Chapters by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    A Family Affair - A Free Preview of the First 7 Chapters by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction "tackles some of life’s toughest situations" ( The Florida Times-Union ), unravels the secrets in a mother’s past that turn her daughter’s life upside down—by revealing the family she never knew existed...
  • Baby Talk by Judith S. Keim

    Baby Talk by Judith S. Keim

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Readers of the Hartwell Women Series asked for more. I listened. Baby Talk is Book 4. When Marissa Crawford and her husband Brad decide to start a family, Marissa has serious doubts about her ability to be a good mother--she was raised by one of the worst...
  • Straight Talk by Judith Keim

    Straight Talk by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Straight Talk - Book Three in the Hartwell Women Trilogy Samantha Hartwell’s life changes completely when she’s attacked by a client’s boyfriend. She leaves Boston and Straight Talk, her consulting business, and escapes to California wine country to heal and to help her sister and brother-in-law with their vineyard’s growth...
  • Fighting for Tara: a novel by Sunanda J. Chatterjee

    Fighting for Tara: a novel by Sunanda J. Chatterjee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How far will a mother go to save her child? “I have no use for a baby girl. Get rid of her tonight!” He towered over her as she cringed in fear. But Hansa, a thirteen-year-old child-bride in rural India, refuses to remain a victim of the oppressive society where a female child is an unwanted burden. Instead of drowning her baby, Hansa escapes from her village with three-month-old Tara...
  • Tinsel and Terriers by Cressida McLaughlin

    Tinsel and Terriers by Cressida McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hilarious and touching, Primrose Terrace will appeal to fans of Game of Scones, Wickham Hall and The Grand Reopening of Dandelion Cafe. Christmas is coming to Primrose Terrace, Pooch Promenade is doing brilliantly and Cat has made lots of new friends in the street, both dogs and their owners. Life seems good. Things start to go badly when Cat learns something about Mark that she wishes she hadn’t...
  • The Ex Swap by Nia Arthurs

    The Ex Swap by Nia Arthurs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s the pawn in their sibling game.Latoya Brown is a big-hearted social worker with a secret K-pop obsession. Her world is normal and safe. Until two hot brothers crash into her life and change everything.One brother is her ex and a royal jerk.The other is Cole. Bossy, brooding and hotter than an open flame in the tropics...
    Categorized as:
    poc-mc  female-mc  family  contemporary  urban  fiction  black-mc  book
  • Claiming You by Tina Martin

    Claiming You by Tina Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Standalone Novella At 39, Remington (Remy) Lennox married Emory McNeil. They’ve been friends for two years – married for one of those years. He told her the marriage was strictly for business reasons and that they'd keep it between themselves while remaining friends. That the rest of the Lennox family doesn't have to know. What he doesn’t tell Emory is, he’s deeply in love with her...
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