Maine
This is a wonderful book. It deftly explores friendship, family, and love. Emily Henry deserves all the love for this heartfelt story--I had an extremely hard time putting it down.
Harriet, Sabrina and Cleo have been friends since they were college roommates their freshmen year. They have been co ...
A Dash of Salt and Pepper is a delightfully warm-hearted tale about two chefs who find love together in spite of their career doubts and family pressures. The romance is heady, the scenery beautifully described, and the food porn gorgeous.
Xavier Reynolds is stuck rebuilding his life from basic i ...
B+
Big Bad Wolf is a deliciously sexy take on Little Red Riding Hood that held up pretty well for me.
There’s a mansion overlooking the Maine woods and its owner, Wolf Trevelyan, is pretty much the local bogeyman. Rumor has it he killed his first wife on their wedding night, and he’s stayed s ...
A fantastic, touching, charming romance with a sweet core, The Secret Ingredient is a handsome and homespun contemporary about life in small-town Maine.
Adah Campbell and her nine-year-old son Peter have just moved to North Point, Maine. Adah grew up in the Ozarks and Peter was born and raised ...
Chelsea M. Cameron’s The Girl Next Door treats the reader to a small-town romance between lifelong acquaintances. It’s a simple, sweet, low-conflict romance that’s perfectly adorable.
Following a series of financial failures that resulted in her losing her business in Boston, Iris Turner ...
Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen takes a break from her popular Rizzoli and Isles mystery series with The Shape of Night, a standalone thriller about a girl, a house and a very alluring ghost.
Nearly incapacitated by guilt, stagnated cookbook author Ava Collette takes a summer rental in a remote ...
They say never judge a book by its cover, but the cover is why I picked out The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine. I love all things autumnal, and I can’t recall seeing another romance that focuses around Halloween. This collection of three novellas centers around Rose Cottage Bed and Breakfast and its ...
Even though in tone and setting this book starts like an ordinary contemporary romance, the “spell” in the title is no accident. In fact, the addition of fantasy into what could be considered a small town contemporary becomes absolutely charming the more one reads.
Widow Olivia Baldwin and he ...
Though I had actually read, and greatly enjoyed, Kristan Higgins before, it was my sister who handed me Catch of the Day. “I think you’ll really like this,” she said. “It’s kind of a romance between a woman and her dog.” While I’m not sure I’d entirely agree with that assessment, I l ...
Never heard of Janet Chapman? That’s about to change, right now. If her debut novel, Charming the Highlander, is any indication, her name is going to soar quickly to the top of the discerning reader’s list of must-buy authors.
Charming the Highlander is set in contemporary northwestern Maine, ...