Books like '28 Summers'

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  • Renewal After Dark by Marie Force

    Renewal After Dark by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The storm has passed, but the hard work is just beginning… Gansett Island has withstood the fury of Hurricane Ethel, and now the cleanup is underway for many islanders, including McKenzie Martin, who barely escaped the storm with her life and that of her son, Jax...
  • Here to Stay by Suanne Laqueur

    Here to Stay by Suanne Laqueur

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “You can’t sort of do this, Fish. Draw a line and get on one side or the other...”Love is never so sweet as when it receives a second chance. In the sequel to her award-winning novel The Man I Love, Suanne Laqueur continues the story of Erik Fiskare’s romance with Daisy Bianco. Though separated for twelve years, the extraordinary bond forged in their youth has endured...
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  • Seven Summers by Paige Toon

    Seven Summers by Paige Toon

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 32 ratings
    Six summers to fall in love. One summer to change everything. Liv and Finn meet six summers ago working in a bar on the rugged Cornish coastline, their futures full of promise. When a night of passion ends in devastating tragedy they are bound together inextricably. But Finn’s life is in LA with his band, and Liv’s is in Cornwall with her family—so they make a promise...
  • Oceans Apart  (Kingsbury, Karen) by Karen Kingsbury

    Oceans Apart (Kingsbury, Karen) by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A forgotten secret. A shocking discovery. A sacrifice of love that will bring Connor Evans to his knees. A story of hope and redemption from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury. Airline pilot Connor Evans and his wife, Michele, seem to be the perfect couple living what looks like a perfect life. Then a plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean...
  • The Moment of Truth by Shari Low

    The Moment of Truth by Shari Low

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Moment of Truth…Laney Cochrane loves her life.With her friends Millie and Tash, she runs a proposal agency, organising the perfect setting for their clients to pop the question. Finding that forever love is something Laney knows all about. Her marriage to Cameron is blissfully content and she has never doubted they’ll live happily ever after.Then Cara Deacon walks into their office...
  • Becoming Us by Allie Everhart

    Becoming Us by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jade and Garret thought the robbery in their neighborhood had nothing to do with them, but the pieces are finally starting to come together. Someone’s been working behind the scenes, pulling the strings to determine Garret’s fate. The timing couldn’t be worse. Jade and Garret are talking things out, becoming even closer, making plans for their future. Plans that might never happen...
  • One Day In Summer by Shari Low

    One Day In Summer by Shari Low

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    One day in summer, three lives are about to change forever.After two decades of looking after others, this is the day that Agnetha McMaster is reclaiming her life. It’s her turn, her time but will she have the courage to start again?Ten years ago, Mitchell McMaster divorced Agnetha and married her best friend, Celeste. Now he suspects his second wife is having an affair...
  • One Day With You by Shari Low

    One Day With You by Shari Low

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    One day, five lives, but whose hearts will be broken by nightfall?It started like any other day in the picturesque village of Weirbridge.Tress Walker waved her perfect husband Max off to work, with no idea that she was about to go into labour with their first child. And completely unaware that when she tried to track Max down, he wouldn’t be where he was supposed to be...
  • Craving Lucy by Terri Anne Browning

    Craving Lucy by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling Author Terri Anne Browning’s New Adult series. One kiss can change everything… I wished I’d known that before I’d kissed my best friend. Things are different now. We can’t go back. I’m not even sure I want to go back. I guess the question is…...
  • A Different Kind of December by Lesley Jones

    A Different Kind of December by Lesley Jones

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    December 1st... A time to reflect and remember for Georgia, and also, she's decided, this year will be a time for change. Starting with high emotion on the anniversary of the day that changed her life and ending on a loud, raucous and raunchy Christmas night, we get a little dip into the lives of some of the Carnage Series favourite characters. This is book 5 in a series. Carnage Book One...
  • Yakuza Fiance: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Vol. 6 by Asuka Konishi

    Yakuza Fiance: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Vol. 6 by Asuka Konishi

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ripples travel out from the battle in Osaka, and Renji is none too happy with Shouma and Kirishima for involving his granddaughter. When a fight breaks out, Yoshino grabs a bat and breaks it up. But corporal punishment is not her style, never mind that Kirishima would absolutely take it and beg for more...
  • Secrets of a Side Bitch by Jessica N. Watkins

    Secrets of a Side Bitch by Jessica N. Watkins

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Meet Omari a gorgeous, hard working, twenty-eight year old man from the Southside of Chicago. No matter how hard he works at his job at UPS, it is never enough to take care of himself and his long-term girlfriend. After continuous pressure from his older cousin, Ching, Omari finally traded in busting his ass for working under Ching hustling three major blocks on the Westside...
  • All That Glitters by Catrin Collier

    All That Glitters by Catrin Collier

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Cornish smuggler Devlin 'Devil' Varcoe braves winter weather and revenue men to fetch the contraband on which Porthinnis depends for survival. Drawn to Jenefer Trevanion, whose father finances the smuggling operation, Devlin is seduced by beautiful wild-child Tamara Gillis. When fire destroys her home, Jenefer is forced to work in the pilchard cellars...
  • Swansea Summer by Catrin Collier

    Swansea Summer by Catrin Collier

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Newly promoted DI Matt Pryor is disappointed when his first case seems to be a simple death from natural causes - that is, until the post-mortem shows something quite unexpected ... The elderly man who died on a Cardiff train was murdered - poisoned - by one of the other passengers...
  • A Whirlwind of Color by Ivy Smoak

    A Whirlwind of Color by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One great love. That’s what every heart craves. I was lucky enough to find mine when I was 19. But I wouldn’t describe myself as lucky now. My husband looks at me like I’m the light of his life. We live in a penthouse apartment that overlooks Central Park. My closet it filled with designer clothes and more pairs of shoes than I can count...
  • Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dr. Ivy Collins, founder and CEO of Hedera, Inc., is ready to begin clinical trials of her company's cutting-edge prosthetic. Her work has been heralded by government, medical, and advocacy groups and everyone hopes the device will be a success. Well, almost everyone...
  • When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair—and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred...
  • Stealing Chances by Molly McAdams

    Stealing Chances by Molly McAdams

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What would you do if you woke up to a different life?Because that’s what happened to me.Woke up in a hospital bed with my family and friends telling me everything I knew was nothing more than a coma-induced dream.The girl I love. The baby we’re having . . . all of it ripped away.In their place is a house I don’t recognize and a girl I’ve never seen before who’s claiming she’s my fiancée...
  • The Postman Always Dies Twice by Zara Keane

    The Postman Always Dies Twice by Zara Keane

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here Breathing hard, I gave a yelp and let the now-empty canister drop to the ground. “That wasn’t pepper spray.” I stared into the sparkly, green face of the corpse I’d discovered mere hours before. “And you’re not dead...
  • 6 Rainier Drive by Debbie Macomber

    6 Rainier Drive by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    6 RAINER DRIVECEDAR COVE, WASHINGTONDEAR READER,As you may have heard, we've recently had quite a shock. My husband, Seth, and I lost our business, The Lighthouse restaurant --- to arson. The investigation continues. The prime suspect is a young ex-employee named Anson Butler, who disappeared right after the fire.So Seth and I are trying to sort out our lives...
  • Xander: Part 2, The Present by Anne Mercier, Sara Eirew

    Xander: Part 2, The Present by Anne Mercier, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's eleven years later, and we're still living separate lives. While I know she isn't comfortable with my lifestyle after everything she’s been through, I can't be without her anymore. 
I need her.

 She's my wife. 
She's my heartbeat.
 She's my every breath.
 She's my everything. 

I want to know every detail of her life. I want to be part of it all...
  • Carson's Choice: A SEALs of Honor World Novel (SEALs of Honor) by Dale Mayer

    Carson's Choice: A SEALs of Honor World Novel (SEALs of Honor) by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Carson is pleasantly surprised by the job Levi assigns him, until Carson hears all the details. An elderly friend of Ice’s believes someone is out to kill her. But she has no proof, no suspects, no motives. The police think she’s imagining things and won’t look into the case any further. However, after meeting this lady … and her granddaughter, Carson has his own suspicions...
  • You're All I Want for Christmas by Karen Cimms

    You're All I Want for Christmas by Karen Cimms

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Billy crossed the hall into his bedroom where Kate was plugging in the last of the electric candles she’d set in each window.She flicked it on. “I guess that’s that.” His hand covered hers. “Do me a favor and don’t turn this one off. I want to know there’s a light burning in our bedroom window until I come home...
  • Their First Fall: Trucker and Keeka's story by M.J. Fields

    Their First Fall: Trucker and Keeka's story by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A new adult / college standalone sports romance novel from USA Today bestselling author, MJ Fields . Their First Fall Keeka Alone in the world, after her mother’s death, she tries to find the life she dreamed of as a child. Trucker Alone in the world the family he felt part of began to fall apart, as his dreams of being an NFL quarterback become his reality...
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  • Dark Edges by Kane Caldwell

    Dark Edges by Kane Caldwell

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m not your good ole boy or boy-next-door type of guy. If that’s what you’re looking for, I suggest you move on. I curse a lot, work too fucking much, and keep to myself. My edges are hard, rough, and even dark at times. I never thought I would wind up in the business I’m in. I may not always play by the rules, but I go where the money is, keep my nose clean, and my affairs organized...
  • Catch My Heart by Nora Roberts

    Catch My Heart by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The first time single-father Spence Kimball set eyes on Natasha Stanislaski, he was floored by her exotic beauty. But the former ballet dancer turned toy shop owner had a fiery temperament that kept men safely at bay. Sensing a hidden wound, Spence and his little girl joined forces to find a way into her closely guarded heart. For Spence realized he'd do anything to tame Natasha's fears..
  • Undeniably Yours by Pamela Ann

    Undeniably Yours by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 23 ratings
    “You’re passionate nature matches mine. Your promise reflects my own. If something was to happen, it’s comforting to know that your dead heart will be intertwined with my lifeless own.” I vowed with ferocity. “My heart for yours, Emma.” ~Blasphemous Falling. Losing. Risking. Everything. ALL for one woman...
  • Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Learn exactly why Eric Jerome Dickey was renowned for his novels starring “bold, smart women oozing sexuality and vulnerability” ( The Atlantic ) in this New York Times bestseller.Genevieve is brilliant and beautiful. Her husband has a thriving career. Together, they have a beautiful home in Los Angeles. Together, they're crazy in love...
  • Give Me Your Answer True by Suanne Laqueur

    Give Me Your Answer True by Suanne Laqueur

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    “What I feel has no name…” Suanne Laqueur’s award-winning debut novel The Man I Love thrilled readers with its memorable characters and depth of emotion. Erik Fiskare’s journey of love, recovery and forgiveness captivated hearts but also left questions unanswered. Now Daisy Bianco has a chance to tell her story...
  • Better Than I Know Myself: A Novel by Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant

    Better Than I Know Myself: A Novel by Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia University, they're pretty confident that a friendship among them isn't in the cards...
  • The Bend in Redwood Road by Danielle Stewart

    The Bend in Redwood Road by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Most days it's manageable. No more than a quiet wondering around the edges of her mind.   What has become of the baby she left behind?   Smiling through the pain and suffering in silence, Leslie Laudon marches forward. Embracing the life skillfully designed by her husband Paul. Living right could be penance for an impossible choice made with an uneasy heart...
  • 311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber

    311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Rosie Cox311 Pelican CourtCedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, One thing about Cedar Cove — people sure are interested in what other people are doing. Take me, for instance. Everybody in the town knows that my husband, Zach, and I recently got a divorce. Everybody also know that Judge Olivia Lockhard decreed a pretty unusual custody arrangement...
  • The Trouble With Before by Portia Moore

    The Trouble With Before by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Our history made things harder.We were associates out of convenience.We tolerated each other.I never saw her that way.She never saw me that way.She and I were never meant to be friends. You’re not supposed to fall for your best friend’s enemy, even if the enemy is YOUR ex-best friend. This isn’t the story of falling in love with your best friend.It’s about falling out of hate...
  • The Girl in the Painting by Max Monroe

    The Girl in the Painting by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ansel Bray, an artist known around the world for his tragic hiatus from the canvas. Ansel Bray, a broody, handsome man not known by me, at all. Long dark hair, blue eyes, and dimpled cheeks. I’ve never met her, but her image is imprinted in my mind. An angel muse who inspires me to paint again. There is something about him. Something that spurs a need to be as close to him as possible...
  • Deadly Ever After by Eva Gates

    Deadly Ever After by Eva Gates

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Librarian Lucy's wedding is at stake when a murder interrupts her engagement celebrations. To make it down the aisle, she'll have to find the killer to save the date in the 8th book in the Lighthouse Library mysteries.They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement...
  • Code Name: Cayman by Heather Slade

    Code Name: Cayman by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A man of strengthA man of danger.Cayman will destroy anyone threatening his world.I take my job seriously. I’m strong. Hard as nails. Nothing hurts me, and I refuse to let anyone hurt those I love.As the new commander of the UK Task Force on Human Trafficking, I have important work to do, and innocent lives to protect. There’s no time for mistakes or distractions...
  • The Touch of Her Voice by Sara Scott

    The Touch of Her Voice by Sara Scott

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ...Firebird Awards 2022 (Speak Up Talk Radio)First Place LGBTQ FictionFirst Place New Adult FictionFirst Place New Fiction (first time published)...2022 American Fiction Awards Finalist (LGBTQ+ Fiction)...Literary Titan Gold Book Award (September 2022)...Readers' Favorite 5 Star BookMy world turned to shades of grey as I squared my shoulders and turned around...
  • Sea Glass Cottage by Irene Hannon

    Sea Glass Cottage by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Christi Reece is desperate. The one-time golden girl's life has tarnished, and a cascade of setbacks has left her reeling. She needs help, and she's certain Jack Colby is in a position to provide it.When she shows up in Hope Harbor, however, Jack wants nothing to do with the woman who betrayed him...
  • Made for You by Kelly Elliott

    Made for You by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One decision. Two lives ripped apart. For Holden Warner and Emylie Sanchez, the road back to each other has been long and jagged. Each of them hiding from the truth, but unwilling to move on from the love they share. When life no longer allows them to run from their past, they soon realize they’re two souls who will never fit anywhere except … with each other...
  • Cruel Dynasty by Geneva Lee

    Cruel Dynasty by Geneva Lee

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I made a deal. One year of my life pretending to be a rich aristocrat in exchange for ten million pounds. Enough money to start over somewhere new. Enough money to disappear forever. It sounded simple, but being Kerrigan Belmond is more dangerous than I expected. Her world isn’t as perfect behind closed doors as it is on paper...
  • The Parting Glass by Josh Lanyon

    The Parting Glass by Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Two and a half years ago, travel writer Timothy McShay let NYPD Detective Luke O'Brien talk him into hiking into the New Jersey Pine Barrens to face down a monster. Now Tim and Luke meet again under very different circumstances. The old attraction is still there -- but so are some of Tim's monsters...
  • Restored Dreams by L.B. Dunbar

    Restored Dreams by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    More romance for the over forty. Brut Paige needs a life break. As caretaker to his brother, his business, and his son, he's used to being the man to get things done. Yet, along the way, he's forgotten how to have fun. Lily Warren deserves a vacation. She's worked hard to establish her bakery, a lifelong dream. She's proud of her accomplishments. But, she knows there's something missing...
  • The Buried Hours: A Novel by R.S. Grant

    The Buried Hours: A Novel by R.S. Grant

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Is she following a path of redemption or an enemy’s revenge? A crime reporter’s traumatic past comes back to haunt her in a twisting novel of lies, betrayals, and killer secrets.Investigative crime journalist Signe Gates’s life became a nightmare the day she was kidnapped and drugged...
  • Blur by N.A. Alcorn

    Blur by N.A. Alcorn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Dylan’s band is offered a deal they can’t refuse, within a month they’re in LA, signing with Wallace & Wright Records. Then Brooke walks in and changes everything. Not only does she work for the record label, but she’s also producing their debut album. Like someone else pressed play on Brooke's future, she knew there was no rewinding, no take two...
  • Tap & Gown by Diana Peterfreund

    Tap & Gown by Diana Peterfreund

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fans of Cora Carmack (Losing It) and Tammara Weber (Easy) will devour the original New Adult novels: Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown. At an elite university, Amy Haskel has been initiated into the country's most notorious secret society...
  • Sampler: If You Only Knew by Kristan Higgins

    Sampler: If You Only Knew by Kristan Higgins

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The drama, hilarity and tears of sisterhood are at the heart of the thoroughly captivating new novel by New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins—a funny, frank and bittersweet look at marriage, forgiveness and moving onLetting go of her ex-husband is harder than wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate expected…especially since his new wife wants to be Jenny's new best friend...
  • Break Me by Tiffany Snow

    Break Me by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Just a few weeks ago, computer prodigy China Mack’s typical night in involved Endor Star Wars pajamas and a sensible bedtime. Now she’s dating gorgeous tech guru Jackson Cooper—one of Forbes’s Top Ten Eligible Billionaires—much to the Twitterverse’s delight. Turns out, going from socially inept hermit to poster girl for geek chic has its challenges...
  • Save Me by Heidi McLaughlin

    Save Me by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Tucker McCoy thought the hardest mission of his life was over. After being deployed for six years, all he wanted to do was return home to his wife and daughter. But when he arrives home with roses in his hand, the last thing he expects is to be welcomed by a stranger. Being presumed dead for six years doesn’t help his cause as no one is giving him the answers he needs...
  • The Widow by Sanne van Ooijen

    The Widow by Sanne van Ooijen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Joan komt voor de grootste uitdaging van haar leven te staan als haar man plotseling komt te overlijden. Ze wordt weduwe en die rol brengt haar vele nieuwe inzichten...
  • A Family Affair by Robyn Carr

    A Family Affair by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Life’s biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards.Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she’s worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn’t. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in "till death do us part"...
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