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Tia Williams · 2021 · US · romance
★ 3.97 Goodreads · 241,039 ratings

Eva Mercy, a single mother in Brooklyn who writes a bestselling erotic vampire series, runs into Shane Hall, a reclusive literary novelist, at a New York literary event, fifteen years after the one week they spent in love as teenagers.

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Happy Place

Emily Henry · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 1,561,714 ratings
shares: second chance, dual timeline, witty, romance · romance-driven, easy read

Harriet and Wyn broke off their engagement months ago and have not told their friends, so when the group gathers for its annual week at a cottage on the Maine coast, they pretend to still be a couple.

Love and Other Words

Christina Lauren · 2018 · US 97% match ★ 4.19 Goodreads · 874,688 ratings
shares: second chance, sensual, dual timeline · romance-driven, easy read

Macy Sorensen, a paediatrics resident in San Francisco engaged to an older man, runs into Elliot Petropoulos, the bookish boy she loved through her teens at her father's weekend house, eleven years after she stopped speaking to him.

Every Summer After

Carley Fortune · 2022 · Canada 96% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 1,095,432 ratings
shares: second chance, dual timeline, romantic, romance · romance-driven, easy read

Persephone Fraser spent six summers at a lake in Ontario falling for Sam Florek, the boy next door, until one mistake ended everything, and now, years later, a funeral brings her back for a single weekend.

A Princess in Theory

Alyssa Cole · 2018 · US 96% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 16,373 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Reluctant Royals
shares: African American, New York, witty, romance · romance-driven, easy read

Naledi Smith, an epidemiology graduate student in New York, keeps deleting emails claiming she is betrothed to an African prince, until Prince Thabiso of Thesolo comes looking for her and, mistaken for a new waiter, decides not to correct her.

Slow Dance

Rainbow Rowell · 2024 · US 96% match ★ 3.65 Goodreads · 77,889 ratings
shares: second chance, dual timeline, romantic · romance-driven, easy read

Shiloh and Cary were inseparable at their Omaha high school, then lost touch. Fourteen years later, she is a divorced mother of two and he is in the navy, and they meet again at a friend's wedding.

The Wedding Party

Jasmine Guillory · 2018 · US 96% match ★ 3.76 Goodreads · 57,873 ratings
Book 3 of 6 in The Wedding Date
shares: African American, sensual, witty, romance · romance-driven, easy read

Maddie and Theo, the two best friends of Alexa Monroe, have loathed each other for years, but one night together in the months before Alexa's wedding becomes a secret arrangement neither can admit is more.

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo · 2017 · US 96% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 207,519 ratings
shares: second chance, New York, romantic, romance · romance-driven, easy read

Lucy and Gabe meet as students at Columbia on the morning of September 11, 2001, and over the next thirteen years their lives keep pulling them together and apart.

Meet Me at the Lake

Carley Fortune · 2023 · Canada 96% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 429,109 ratings
shares: second chance, dual timeline, romantic · easy read, earnest

Fern Brookbanks, running her late mother's lakeside resort, finds Will Baxter, the stranger she spent one perfect day with in Toronto years ago, turning up at the resort.

The Matzah Ball

Jean Meltzer · 2021 · US 95% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 23,335 ratings
shares: second chance, writer, New York · easy read, earnest

Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish author secretly writing Christmas romances, has to get a ticket to the hottest Hanukkah party in New York to save her career, and it is run by her old summer-camp enemy.

The Kiss Quotient

Helen Hoang · 2018 · US 94% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 516,004 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Kiss Quotient
shares: sensual, romantic, romance · romance-driven, easy read

Stella Lane, an econometrician who is autistic and finds dating baffling, hires Michael Phan, an escort, to give her lessons in relationships, and the arrangement does not stay as businesslike as she planned.

Writers & Lovers

Lily King · 2020 · US 94% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 243,292 ratings
shares: writer, witty, romantic, romance · intimate, romance-driven

In the summer of 1997, Casey Peabody, thirty-one, grieving her mother, deep in debt and waiting tables in Massachusetts while she works on the novel she has been writing for six years, finds herself torn between two very different writers.

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.61 Goodreads · 255,305 ratings
shares: writer, witty, romantic, romance · romance-driven, easy read

Sally Milz writes sketches for a late-night comedy show and has watched ordinary male colleagues date glamorous stars, but when pop singer Noah Brewster hosts one week and they hit it off, she is sure it cannot be real.