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Small Town, Big Love: Romance Reads You’ll Adore
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items There’s nothing like the charm of small-town romance—where cozy diners, nosy neighbors, and Friday night football games set the stage for unforgettable love stories. These books deliver all the heart-fluttering feels: from grumpy locals falling for s...
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✨ Opposites Attract | Reverse Age Gap | Small Town Vibes This book is everything. It’s hilarious, heartfelt, and healing. Alexis is a big-city ER doctor with a legacy to uphold, and Daniel is a cinnamon roll carpenter from a small town. Their chemist...
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
🍰 Grumpy x Sunshine | Small Town | Celebrity x Normal Person Pop star Amelia heads to a small town for a break and ends up on Noah’s front lawn — literally. He’s grumpy, she’s glitter, and somehow it works. Cozy, funny, and so full of heart. A Notti...
When in Rome - Sarah Adams
🌸 Good Girl x Bad Boy | Dating Lessons | Small Town Vibes Sweet, shy Annie wants to break out of her shell, and guarded, tattooed Will is the last guy anyone expects her to choose for dating lessons. But surprise: he’s secretly soft and absolutely o...
Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
📝 Rivals to Lovers | Teacher Romance | Secret Writer Emily and Jack are feuding second-grade teachers, next-door neighbors, and total opposites. She’s organized and secretly writing romance novels; he’s chaotic and hiding a bestselling mystery autho...
Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams
🚔 Brother's Friend | Neighbors to Lovers | Forced Proximity Nash, the town’s police chief, is recovering from trauma and avoiding emotions at all costs. Enter Lina — fearless, flirty, and hiding secrets of her own. Sparks fly, walls come down, and t...
Things We Hide from the Light by Lucy Score
📚 Enemies to Lovers | Longtime Tension | Forbidden Love Lucian and Sloane have been circling each other for years — bickering, burning, and pretending they don’t feel everything. Now the gloves are off and the past is catching up. This one is intens...
Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score
🛠️ Rivals to Lovers | Second Chance Vibes | Forced Proximity Julian and Dahlia have been childhood enemies forever — and neither wants to change that. But when they agree to renovate a historic house together (hello, tension), their buried chemistry...
Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher
🎶 Single Dad | Grumpy x Sunshine | Vacation Romance | Forbidden Feelings Rafael is a guarded billionaire and a devoted single dad. Ellie is his son’s nanny — and his high school crush he’s spent years avoiding. On a two-week vacation, old feelings r...
Love Unwritten by Lauren Asher
🤠 Small Town Romance | Brother’s Best Friend | Second Chance Vibes | Slow Burn After a career-ending accident, horse rider Emmy Ryder is back in Meadowlark, the hometown she swore off. The last person she expects to fall for? Luke Brooks—her brother...
Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
🌊 Small Town Romance | Secret Identity | Dating Coach & Kisses-Only | Slow Burn A clumsy meet-cute lands her in Finn Reynolds’ arms—and into a deal: she helps him win over the town, he teaches her how to date. As seaside trial dates and late-nig...
Seas the Dating Coach by Laura Langa
💼 Fake Dating | Enemies to Lovers | High Stakes Romance | Slow Burn Lorenzo and Lily have a complicated past, but when a fake relationship is the only way to save their futures, they agree to play along. What starts as a calculated arrangement soon ...
Love Arranged by Lauren Asher
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📸 Small Town | Second Chance Vibes | Quiet Longing | Found Connection Alice returns to the lakeside town that changed her life as a teenager — and finds Charlie Florek, the boy from her past, now all grown up and impossible to ignore. With soft tens...
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
🎾 Enemies to Lovers | Fake Dating | Sports Romance | Small-Town Vibes Bex is fighting to save her late mother’s racquet club, while Niko—the cocky ex-tennis star—needs a comeback after an injury. A pickleball tournament could change everything, but ...
All's Fair in Love and Pickleball by Kate Spencer
⛸️ Childhood Friends to Lovers | Fake Dating | Hockey Town Dani and Alec were childhood best friends — until life pulled them apart. Now they’re teenagers navigating fame, feelings, and faking a relationship in a hockey-obsessed town. She remembers t...
Fake Skating by Lynn Painter
📚 Opposites Attract | Rivals to Lovers | Writer’s Block | Summer Vibes January Andrews writes happily-ever-afters, Augustus Everett kills off his characters—so naturally, they swap genres for the summer. Neighbors, rivals, and total opposites, their...
Beach Read by Emily Henry