Books like The Light We Lost
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.
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Something Borrowed
On the night of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel White, a dutiful Manhattan lawyer, ends up in bed with Dex, her best friend Darcy's fiancé, and spends the summer before their wedding in the Hamptons torn between the friendship and him.
It Ends with Us
Lily Bloom has left her small Maine town to open a flower shop in Boston, where she falls for Ryle Kincaid, a confident neurosurgeon, just as Atlas Corrigan, the first boy she ever loved, comes back into her life.
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Every summer Belly goes with her mother and brother to the beach house of her mother's best friend and her two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah, and the summer she turns sixteen, everything between them changes.
Seven Days in June
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.
Broken Country
In Dorset in 1968, Beth Johnson, still grieving the son she and her husband, Frank, lost two years before, meets again her first love, Gabriel, now a famous novelist, who has come back to his family's estate nearby with his young son.
Heart the Lover
Years later, a writer looks back at her final year of college, when she fell in with Sam and Yash, two brilliant best friends from her seventeenth-century literature class, and at the love triangle and the choices after graduation that changed all three lives.
Every Summer After
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.
Bared to You
Eva Tramell, newly moved to Manhattan for a job at an advertising agency, meets Gideon Cross, the billionaire who owns the building, and they begin an intense affair that forces each of them to face the damage in their pasts.
One Day in December
Laurie sees a man from the top deck of a London bus one December day and falls for him on sight, and a year later her best friend introduces him as her new boyfriend.
Happy Place
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.
Dear John
John Tyree, an aimless young soldier home on leave in Wilmington, North Carolina, meets Savannah Curtis, a college student building houses for the summer, and after two weeks together they promise to wait for each other through letters, until September 11 changes his plans.
The Front Runner
Harlan Brown, a former Marine who lost his coaching job at a big university over rumours that he was gay, takes on three runners thrown out of Oregon for the same reason, and falls for one of them, Billy Sive, an Olympic hopeful.