Because who can resist a love story in a little town?
- It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Genre: Romance
Average Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Piper is rich, influential, and a known wild child. After her rooftop party gets out of control, her stepfather decides enough is enough and sends Piper and her sister to run their late father’s dive bar in Washington to teach them responsibility. When Piper sets foot in Westport and runs into gruff bearded Brendan, he declares she won’t last five minutes there. But she’s determined to prove him–and her stepfather–wrong.
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Average Goodreads Rating: 4.36
Nora agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina with her sister, Libby, for a sisters’ getaway. As a cuthroat literary agent, it’s awkward that while she’s there she keeps running into Charlie, a brooding editor from the city.
- Truth or Beard by Penny Reid
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Beau and Duane are identical twins, but Beau is outgoing and Duane is broody. Jessica has had an unhealthy infatuation with Beau for a long time. But she’s always been rivals with Duane and she’s sure he hates her, too. But after a case of mistaken identity, Jessica is even more confused. It doesn’t help that Duane has also gotten himself in trouble with the local bike gang.
- Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
Genre: New Adult Romance
Average Goodreads Rating: 4.36
After an unexpected death, Beyah has to spend a couple months on a Texan peninsula with a dad she hardly knows. She plans to keep her head down and get through it, but her new neighbor Samson is making that hard.
- The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.57
Graham meant it as a joke when he named his diner The Tourist Trap, but that seems to be what it’s become and he hates it. Zoey is excited to spend two weeks in Alaska. And when an act of kindness brings Zoey into Graham’s world, she thinks there might just be more to fall in love with the Alaskan wild.
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