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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWhite Picket Fences
Susan Meissner
When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands-- in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm--and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and
Finding Me
Kathryn Cushman · 362 pages
"After her father's death, Kelli Huddleston discovers the entire life she's known has been a lie, but as she seeks to know more about her past and finds family she's never known, ugly secrets threaten to stifle the truth and restoration she seeks"--
Reunion
Lauraine Snelling
Keira Johnston, a 50-year-old mother of two grown sons, believes she lives a good Christian life without secrets--until she discovers a life-jarring fact her late mother kept hidden all her life. Kiera was born out of wedlock, and the man she had always known as her father had adopted her as an infant. Meanwhile, Keira's beloved 17-year-old niece, Kirsten, has just discovered an unwanted pregna
A Sweethaven Summer
Courtney Walsh · 316 pages
The Amish Midwife
Mindy Starns Clark, Leslie Gould
The Wednesday Letters
Jason F. Wright · 280 pages
After the death of their parents, three siblings return home and find a box of letters written by their father to their mother that uncovers the shocking truth about the past.
The Things We Never Said
Susan Elliot Wright · 384 pages
She Always Wore Red
Angela Elwell Hunt · 382 pages
Jennifer Graham--mother, student, and embalmer's apprentice--could use a friend. She finds one in McLane Larson, a newcomer to Mt. Dora, and is delighted to learn that the young woman is expecting a baby. While McLane's soldier-husband serves overseas, Jen promises to support McLane and then learns that her tie to this woman goes far deeper than friendship. When a difference of opinion threatens t
Prodigal Son
Danielle Steel · 396 pages
Fraternal twin brothers Peter and Michael McDowell have spent a lifetime competing for success and affection before that competition turned into an all-out war and made the brothers mortal enemies. While both Peter and Michael have grown into successful adults, they never managed to leave behind the animosity that took root in their childhood. With the collapse of his career and his marriage, Pete
His Other Life
Beth Thomas · 391 pages
The story of a couple with seemingly perfect lives ... and the secrets they hide behind closed doors. He was hiding a terrible secret ... Grace's new husband Adam seems like the perfect package. Good looking, great job, completely charming - almost too good to be true ... So when Adam suddenly disappears from Grace's life, she is left bewildered and heartbroken. And with a lot of unanswered questi
The Oak Leaves
Maureen Lang
Two time periods--Regency England and contemporary Chicago--are woven together when Talie Ingram finds an old journal belonging to her great-great-great grandmother, Cosima Escott. Through Cosima’s entries, Talie learns that her family was once considered cursed with feebleminded offspring, the result of a genetic disorder (Fragile-X) that may have been passed down to Talie and her sister. Unwilli
The Peach Keeper
Sarah Addison Allen · 273 pages
Willa Jackson of Walls of Water, North Carolina, has lately learned that an old classmate--socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood--of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored her family's Blue Ridge Madam home to its former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. But when a skeleton, found buried beneath the lone peach tree on the property is found, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerou
Watch Me Disappear
Janelle Brown · 411 pages
"A beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past vanishes while hiking, leaving her family to piece together her secrets, in this keenly observed novel for readers of Emma Straub and Maria Semple--from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything"-- "Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environme
The Olive Tree
Lucinda Riley · 599 pages
It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, 'Pandora', is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family. Yet Helena knows that the idyllic beauty of Pandora masks a web of secrets she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son. At the d
Winter in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand · 328 pages
You And Me, Always
Jill Mansell · 404 pages
On the morning of her twenty-fifth birthday, Lily Harper opens the very last letter written to her by her beloved mother, who died when she was eight. Learning about the first and only real love of her mom's life is a revelation. The same momentous day, Lily meets Eddie Tessler, an actor fleeing fame who could change her world in unimaginable ways. But her childhood friend Dan has his own reasons
The Truth About Delilah Blue
Tish Cohen · 412 pages
Delilah, an aspiring artist and nude model, starts to question her life and father, who has begun to show signs of Alzheimer's disease, after her mother suddenly returns with a young daughter and reveals a shocking family secret.
Postcards from a Stranger
Imogen Clark · 352 pages
Don't Want No Sugar
J.D. Mason · 315 pages
"Everyone knew that Eula May had lost her mind over loving a married man. It was what drove her to kill herself and leave her only daughter, Roberta, in the care of the local midwife. So it was no wonder that Roberta became obsessed with Charles Harris the very first time she laid eyes on him. And she was willing to do whatever it took to make sure she was the only woman in his life. When he is fo
The Summer House
Marcia Willett · 299 pages
Matt comes across photos of him as a child yet they seem unfamiliar; is it really him? He can't remember the clothes or the toys, and his sister Imogen is nowhere in the pictures. Since her childhood Imogen has loved the Summer House, a charming folly in the grounds of an ancient house on Exmoor and now she and her veterinary husband have the chance of buying. But her marriage is threatened when h