Books like The Witness
At sixteen, one night of rebellion made Elizabeth Fitch a witness to a Russian mob murder in Chicago; twelve years later, living alone in the Ozarks as Abigail Lowery behind alarms, a dog and her guns, she draws the curiosity of the town's new police chief.
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Things We Hide from the Light
The second Knockemout novel: Nash Morgan, police chief of the small Virginia town, is hiding the panic attacks that followed a shooting, until a sharp, guarded new neighbour named Lina, who has her own reasons for being in town, notices.
Where the Red Fern Grows
A Depression-era Ozarks boy saves two years to buy a pair of coonhound pups and trains them into the best hunting team in the hills, in a children's book that ends the way American dog books do.
Vision in White
Mac Elliot photographs weddings for Vows, the Connecticut business she runs with her three childhood friends, and keeps love at arm's length after her mother's string of marriages, until Carter Maguire, an English teacher who has carried a torch for her since high school, walks into a planning session.
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
Delilah Green, a photographer in New York, goes home to Bright Falls to shoot her stepsister's wedding for the money, and falls for Claire, one of her stepsister's oldest friends.
A Princess in Theory
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.
It Happened One Summer
After one wild night too many, Los Angeles socialite Piper Bellinger is cut off and sent with her sister to Westport, a fishing town in Washington, to run the dive bar their late father left them, where a gruff sea captain bets she will not last.
Say You'll Remember Me
Veterinarian Xavier Rush and social media manager Samantha Diaz fall hard for each other in Minneapolis, but Samantha is about to move two thousand miles away to California to care for her mother, who has early-onset dementia.
Kulti
Sal Casillas, a defender in the women's professional soccer league, is dismayed when her childhood hero, the German football legend Reiner Kulti, joins her team as assistant coach and turns out to be a grump.
Hooked
A dark retelling of Peter Pan: James, a crime boss known as Hook who wants to destroy his enemy Peter Michaels, sees his chance when Peter's sheltered twenty-year-old daughter Wendy walks into his bar, and sets out to seduce her.
Evvie Drake Starts Over
Eveleth Drake, a young widow in a small Maine town, rents the apartment behind her house to Dean Tenney, a Major League pitcher who has lost the ability to throw, on condition that neither asks about the other's past.
Part of Your World
Alexis Montgomery, an emergency room doctor from a family of famous surgeons, is stranded in a small Minnesota town and rescued by Daniel Grant, a younger carpenter who is also its mayor, and their worlds could hardly be further apart.
Archer's Voice
Bree Prescott runs from her grief and the memory of one terrible night to the lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, where she is drawn to Archer Hale, a silent, scarred young man the town has written off.