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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Perfect Stranger
Danielle Steel · 389 pages
The only daughter of a European banking dynasty, Raphaella had always been sheltered from the world. Married to a much older American, she was kept in the privacy of great luxury, tended to by servants, watched over by bodyguards. She was the beautiful dark-eyed woman the young lawyer from San Francisco, Alexander Hale, saw sitting alone one misty evening. Before he could approach her, she rushed
Sheer Abandon
Penny Vincenzi · 640 pages
A number-one bestseller from one of Britain's most popular novelists, Sheer Abandon is an all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate act . . . Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide to spend the first few days of their trips together in Thailand. When they go their
Father Unknown
Lesley Pearse · 416 pages
One young woman in search of a past - and a future ...Sweet-natured but dappy Daisy Buchan drifts from job to job and takes her policeman boyfriend Joel for granted. She's happy, but she doesn't know what she wants from life.But when her adoptive mother dies and leaves her twenty-five-year-old daughter a scrapbook of memories, Daisy finally discovers who she is and where she came from. Her real mo
Me and You
Claudia Carroll · 439 pages
Heartbreaking and uplifting, Me and You is a story about how hard it is to leave our old selves behind, the tough choices we sometimes have to make and how love and friendship can heal the most damaged of hearts. I'm fine. I'm sorry. Please take care of him for me. And maybe one day I'll get to explain. Angie knows a lot about her best friend Kitty. She knows Kitty is mad and wild and loves to wea
Cracks in the Sidewalk
Bette Lee Crosby · 324 pages
"Claire McDermott is an old lady when the letter arrives and brings news of the grandchildren lost some twenty years ago. It also brings sorrowful memories of her daughter's death and the thousands of letters written over those years. Not one of them ever reached its destination. But what if one of those letters actually made it through? Could a single letter change the lives of four people? Clair
Home Before Dark
Susan Wiggs · 420 pages
In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering crisis, she's decided to fix the broken pieces of her heart and seek out Lila, even if it means she has to upset
The Beekeeper's Secret
Josephine Moon · 362 pages
Maria knew about guilt. It was a stubborn, pervasive and toxic emotion, and incredibly difficult to shake. Especially if really, deep down, you didn't think you deserved to let it go...Maria spends her days tending to the bees of Honeybee Haven and creating artisan honey products to fund children in need. A former nun, Maria's life has long been shaped by a shadowy secret and her own self- imposed
The Legacy of Lucy Harte: A poignant, life-affirming novel that will make you laugh and cry
Emma Heatherington
The Summer We Came to Life
Deborah Cloyed · 380 pages
Every summer, Samantha joins her childhood friends-- Isabel, Kendra and Mina-- on a vacation, somewhere exotic and fabulous. This year it's a beach house in Honduras. But for the first time, their clan is not complete. Mina lost her battle against cancer six months ago, and the friends she left behind are still struggling to find their way forward without her.
The Language of Sand
Ellen Block · 276 pages
"After she seeks refuge from the death of her husband and son by taking a position as the caretaker of a lighthouse on a secluded North Carolina island, Abigail Harker soon discovers that the lighthouse may be as haunted as she is with memories of her family."--NoveList.
One Week In December
Holly Chamberlin · 323 pages
Becca Rowan has driven home to Maine the week before Christmas with one idea in mind: to reclaim the daughter she gave up when she was a frightened teenager. Raised by Becca's older brother and his wife, Rain Rowan has no idea she was adopted. But while Becca expects shock at her announcement, she's unprepared for the depth of her family's adverse reaction. And as her parent's neighbor, Alex, draw
Beneath the Night Tree
Nicole Baart · 382 pages
After Julia DeSmit's boyfriend, Parker, left her in a college parking lot six years ago, she made a new life with her son, younger brother, grandmother, and new boyfriend. She works hard at a grocery store to bring in a meager income and takes classes toward her associate's degree. Overall, Julia is happy. But when she receives an email from Parker, her son's father, wanting to know if he has a ch
The After Wife
Gigi Levangie Grazer · 298 pages
As she pours out her grief and questions to a tree in her backyard after her husband's death, reality show producer Hannah is astonished when the tree appears to respond, prompting Hannah's discovery that she can communicate with the dead.
The Other Woman
Jane Green · 438 pages
Thrilled to be Linda's 'adopted' daughter, Ellie begins to have doubts about marrying Dan after she gets to know his mother better.
Silver Girl
Elin Hilderbrand · 408 pages
Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island ca
Always Something There to Remind Me
Beth Harbison · 376 pages
Two decades ago, Erin Edwards was sure she’d already found the love of her life: Nate Lawson. Her first love. The one with whom she shared everything—dreams of the future, of children, plans for forever. The one she thought she would spend the rest of her life with. Until one terrible night when Erin made a mistake Nate could not forgive and left her to mourn the relationship she could never forge
Covet
Tracey Garvis-Graves · 323 pages
What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else?
The Butterfly Box
Santa Montefiore · 571 pages
"Federica Campione adores her father. No matter that Ramon, a distinguished traveller and writer, spends months away from their home on the exotic Chilean coast; as soon as he's back, his daughter has eyes for no one but him. When he gives her a magical box from Peru she believes he will always be there for her." "Devastated when her parents' marriage falls apart, Federica is forced to set up home
The Last Will of Moira Leahy
Therese Walsh · 304 pages
"An original, intriguing tale about the ways that love can break us or bind us."--Therese Fowler, author of Souvenir and ReunionThis haunting debut novel explores the intense bond of sisterhood as a grieving twin searches for her own identity in the ruins of her sister's past. A LOST SHADOWMoira Leahy struggled growing up in her prodigious twin's shadow; Maeve was always more talented, more daring
The Mourning After
Rochelle B. Weinstein · 299 pages