Sweet Romance
All heart, no heat. Our sweet romance shelf is full of clean, closed-door love stories (small-town, holiday, second-chance, and wholesome inspirational romance your grandmother could borrow). Find free and 99¢ sweet romance ebooks, with new titles added regularly.
My best friend is a spy. Apparently, that’s not even his biggest secret. Miles Lancaster is my person. My partner in people-watching, murder-mystery nights, spontaneous adventures, and five years of the kind of friendship most people spend their lives trying to find. Which is exactly why we ar ...
Paws for Healing Featured
She came back to settle an estate. She never expected to rediscover herself.
After surviving cancer, a painful divorce, and the loss of the career she once loved, Chantal Davies returns to Sunshine Bay to prepare her late grandmother's seaside cottage for sale. Once the renovations are fi ...
First Star Tonight Featured
Diane Brennan has managed her marriage the way she manages everything — with color-coded tabs, precise timing, and zero room for error. The divorce filing is scheduled for January 8. The paperwork is complete. The house is running on schedule.
Ray Brennan hasn't moved his turnout gear off ...
Slightly Sweaty Featured
A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from Wall Street Journal & USA TODAY Best-Selling Author, Amy Vansant---for fans of Bridget Jones, Jennifer Crusie and Sophie Kinsella.
Before Emily and Sebastian can celebrate their new relationship, th ...
Slightly Stalky Featured
From Wall Street Journal & USA TODAY Best-Selling Author, Amy Vansant - an all too real, hilarious romance.
Emily never expected to find love in a dart bar, but the moment she spots tall, sexy Sebastian, she’s determined to catch his eye.
Ex-girlfriends, perpetually shirtles ...
San Francisco, 1872. Susannah Carterton yearns to be accepted as a serious artist. But family comes first, and she accompanies her adored adopted niece back to the guardianship of an unsuitable biological uncle. But when an estranged friend is found murdered and she stands accused, the panicked pain ...
There are worse things in life than being in love with your best friend—like being his fake fiancee. Until then, I felt like I had a handle on things. Sure, I was a hot mess when it came to magic—but my wedding planning business was thriving, and I got to secretly admire Troy every day at work. ( ...
Kincaid Ranch’s lead cowboy, Ted Stirling, isn’t looking for romance or entanglements. He settled in Herd, Montana over a decade ago after a devastating loss. He’s seeking comfort and friendship. Nothing more. If he was going to try for love again, he would pick someone sweet and sunny, exactly l ...
A magical novel about destiny, family, food, intrigue, healing, men in kilts, and the sometimes twisted path to love from the award-winning author of Compulsion. "Delightful, charming, and heartwarming." --NYT bestselling author Wendy Higgins
Helping her aun ...
For years, Varinia Jewell yearned for Arnie to one day look her direction. When her parents invite him and his widower father to join them for Christmas dinner, she decides to bake him one of her favorite pies—lemon meringue. Only, when her mother and sister leave to deliver several figt sacks of ...
In the fall of 1995, Carmen Simpkins experienced both the best and worst moments of her life. After several years of infertility issues, Carmen miscarries and withdraws from everything and everyone. Out of sacrificial love for her husband, Spencer, she files for divorce and sets off on a journey of ...
Her faith in the Lord has been tried beyond all measure. Can this fearful believer rest secure in God’s protective care for her life? Anna Byler is paralyzed by fear and anxiety. While the young Amish woman is devastated after Simon Kauffman leaves the Amish community, she finds little comfort in he ...
Love blossoms between unlikely couples in this tender, heartfelt collection of ten small-town sweet romances! A single-dad cowboy ex-player enters a marriage of convenience; a spunky plus-size cowgirl reluctantly gets a makeover from a city slicker; a struggling single mother reunites with a man who ...
Ryan Tiggs, a scrawny high school sophomore, can’t wait for his growth spurt. Spencer Channing, his basketball coach and premed student, encourages him with the story of David and Goliath. “Focus on your God-given abilities, not what your opponents might have.” Ryan accepts this challenge, but ha ...
When the woman of my dreams finally becomes available, all bets are off. I lost a bet to my older brother. My evil, life-ruining older brother. (Okay, maybe that’s a little over-dramatic). Now I can’t go on a date for FOUR months. I can’t even touch a woman. No hand holding. Forget kissing. I’m walk ...
She gave them thirty years. They handed her a cardboard box.
At fifty-seven, Nora Whitfield thought she’d be running the company she devoted her life to. Instead, she’s been pushed out, politely dismissed as not a culture fit, and left wondering how everything she worked fo ...
Four sweet and clean Christian romances to warm your heart! Snuggle up with these faith-filled stories of hope and love, celebrating the true meaning of the holiday season. Visit London for a Scrooge accountant's fake Christmas dates with a Hollywood heart-throb. Experience New Year’s Eve in Edinbu ...
Where Bantry Bay in Ireland meets the wild Atlantic, three lost souls stumble together united by their inability to forgive themselves. A heart-pounding and magical tapestry of romance, history, legend, and complex themes of inequality that resonated as deeply centuries ago as they do today. Perf ...
An island castle in Cornwall, family secrets, a kilt-wearing chef, and a historical legend cook up a deliciously magical, heartwarming, and suspenseful new love story from the award-winning author of Compulsion and Lake of Destiny.
Emma Larsen's mother may have been a ...
It was only a silly dare. It wasn’t supposed to change everything… As the eldest sister, Meg Trudy feels the full weight of responsibility of running the family orchard after the death of her beloved father. To her utter dismay, she discovers the three-generation business isn’t doing as well as she ...
Naomi & Jason Sanders, move to Pacific Cove Ranch shortly after their wedding. Prior to her graduation from college, Naomi’s younger sister is killed in a hit and run accident. Naomi is having a hard time accepting her loss, and the isolation of her new surroundings bring a new type of terror; h ...
Eliza Sommer is thirty years old and still lives with her parents, Amos and Mary, helping them run the family farm shop. Eliza is resigned to a life helping her parents in their advancing years, but seeing her siblings marry and have families of their own, makes Eliza realize it is the one thing she ...
Patience Moving in with my aunt in remote Rye Creek, California was supposed to give me a chance to concentrate on starting my new business. Instead, I’m distracted by the gruff and growly mountain man just down the road. He’s broody and built and begging to be knocked down a few notches. Slate Eigh ...
SHE'S SUNSHINE IN SHORTS. HE'S STORM CLOUDS IN A UNIFORM.
Olivia:
Everyone in Seaside knows me as the bubbly waitress who's always ready with a joke and a listening ear. With another music festival in the town's rearview, the tourists are leaving and I shoul ...
He's a contrary diamond in the rough. She's sweet, with enough fire to warm his heart. Butch, a damaged loner with a mysterious past, rescues Joelle from a rowdy gang of drunken hoodlums. Joelle, the ‘new’ girl in town, is the daughter of the man who was once his best friend. She aims to repay th ...
Falling in love was not on her to-do list. Left in debt after the tragic death of her husband, Tricia Adams struggled to keep a roof over her family's heads. With the help of the Grandmothers Four, she’d finally gotten everything under control.She was happy and more comfortable than she’d been in ye ...
Dana has built a life that makes sense: a steady job, a long-term boyfriend, and a future that looks stable from the outside. Kaia has spent years moving in the opposite direction, avoiding anything that feels permanent or safe enough to hurt her. When the two meet on a freezing Manhattan rooftop ...
Sweet Romantic Comedy!
A Romantic Comedy Novella About Online Dating in the Face of Genital Pictures and Kinky Requests Legal investigator Nicole is great at her job—but unlucky in love. That is, until she meets Matt on an Internet dating site. The geeky app developer is ...
Jake Porter made a promise on a frigid Christmas Eve six years ago: he’d find them. He failed. Now his best friend’s sister, Carly, is back in town, and the guilt he’s carried since that tragic climb is heavier than ever.
She looks just as beautiful, bu ...
He’s about to marry the wrong woman until he meets the wedding planner, and now he has a decision to make. Always the wedding planner and never the bride. That’s what Daisy Ray is afraid her future holds. Things never seem to go well for her in the love department, but her mom says God must be sa ...
Small towns never forget. Neither do first loves.
Rose McAllister thought she had her life figured out—coaching her women’s softball team, running her business, and keeping her heart under lock and key. But when Acen Wheeler returns to Pickwick Bend after twenty years, the past comes rushing ...
She didn't mean to end up unconscious on a country road in the rain. She especially didn't mean to be carried inside by a stranger, nursed back to health in a North Oxford flat, and find herself — three weeks later — still there, sharing a kitchen with a man she knows only as Marcus, who makes ex ...
I said I’d never set foot on Oakley Island again. Not so long as HE lived there. But after my life implodes, I’m reconsidering EVERYTHING. Including my reasons for avoiding the first—and only—man I’ve ever loved. I’m a high achiever. Driven. Maybe a little TOO driven. So when my boyfriend confess ...
Ever since her husband was killed in a logging accident, Willow Morrow has been struggling to take care of her two-year-old daughter, Ila Mae, and survive. Left with limited funds and no family or friendship ties to the area, the lumber owner brought her to Sonora, California, the largest nearb ...
Three snowy Scottish romances about second chances, friendship, and finding home. When Melissa MacKenzie's husband asks for a divorce — and the house — she's left stunned. Then she learns she's inherited a home in the Scottish Highlands. Starting over in a small Highland town wasn't part of her p ...
A Heartwarming Irish Romance to Sweep You Off Your Feet
Eyre is a lost soul searching for a purpose when she impulsively books a trip to Ireland. The last thing she expects is to find love–until she meets Darby, a charming yet grumpy Irishman leading a tour of the Emerald ...
In sometimes perilous conditions, and in a wide range of circumstances, rugged western men have unexpected brides foisted upon them.
A letter which was supposed to be sent and never was, sets off a chain reaction which could destroy the lives of Annie and Reed.
Bounty hunter, Slade McEwan, ...
Sadie Harper isn’t just any wedding planner—she’s one with everything to prove. After a career setback that nearly destroyed her reputation, she’s determined to make the wedding of the year happen at Saddleback Ranch, a picturesque venue nestled in the heart of Texas. There’s just one ...
2015 WISHING SHELF INDEPENDENT BOOK AWARDS FINALIST At thirty years of age, Maggie Fields has had her fill of “bad” men. Unbeknownst to her, her investment counselor husband had paid for their luxurious Denver lifestyle by scamming his law-abiding clients and laundering money for his law-breaking on ...
Can she find love when she's healing from heartache? After a painful end to a long engagement, all Meg wants out of life is a fresh start. She can’t think of a better way to begin than by advancing her career in the hotel industry. When an opportunity comes along to accept a position at a five-st ...
Lisa's dreams used to predict the future, but lately she doesn't dream at all. The man she thought she would marry left her for someone else, and now she is trying to rebuild her life while she works as a barista at the Starlight Cafe. A few weeks before she is to move halfway across the country to ...
Jackson Aldridge has been deemed the second most eligible bachelor in Seattle, Washington three years running. He's an intelligent, handsome billionaire at the top of his game who lives by a strict set of rules. But when a high-risk investment goes South, Jackson will need to re-evaluate his lifesty ...
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Kitty, It’s Cold Outside is a romance with a serendipitous twist at the end. I’m betting you’ve never read a story like this before, past, present, or future.
A lost kitten travels through time to bring deliverance to Victo ...
Andrea Peterson gave her heart to Lance Foster. She knew him before he was famous. She started dating him when he was waiting tables for a living. She was there for him through one failed audition after another. Then, the minute he got a taste of acting success, Lance broke her heart. After that And ...
Though a country-girl at heart, MaryJo can't wait to have a life of adventure in Manhattan with Adam. But an old relationship haunts her, and she begins to wonder if she'll repeat past mistakes.
A trip home gets her more confused than ever. Meanwhile, Adam lands a dream job in the city. C ...
Ten sweet, clean, and heartwarming stories, each featuring a small-town Christmas. Hours of reading enjoyment -- real emotion, faith, humor, and a dash of danger! Reunions, cowboys, second chances, single dads, single moms, friends-to-love, enemies-to-love, finding home and family, plus humor, faith ...
When life gives you a second chance, sometimes it comes with claws.
Recently divorced and looking for a fresh start, Lance Reed swaps his business in the city for the cozy charm of his retiring aunt's bookstore in the heart of Sunshine Bay. What he doesn't expect is the s ...
Her farm. His hideout. Their second chance.
Annie Schultz returns to Point Perry with a fresh start and an impulsive property purchase—Pining for Point Perry Christmas Tree Farm. She’s ready to rebuild on her own terms.
Then she finds him.
JJ Nash ...
After escaping a horrifying relationship, all Nelly wants to concentrate on is raising her boys and rebuilding her career and self-esteem, even if she’s attracted to her new boss, Constanzo. When Constanzo suggests a fake engagement to keep her abusive ex away, she reluctantly agrees for the sake of ...
If you had a second chance with your childhood crush, would you throw caution to the wind and try again…or take a step back and forget about your brother’s best friend? Ari: When your good friend asks you to be the ambassador for her new food truck, what do you do? You say yes! At least that’s what ...
From Book 1: Beth is in love with Jonah, a love that would seem could never be broken, but when Jonah informs her he has to leave their community because of a duty to his Englisher friend, Beth's world is thrown into turmoil
Beth Fisher is living the dream. Strong and happy in her fa ...
After a disastrous 26th birthday party, Olivia Donaldson flees her wealthy but overbearing parents and her controlling soon-to-be ex-husband and makes for Shady Piers, the former hometown of her now-deceased grandfather, in Maine.
Desperate for even the most b ...
Will the grandeur of the Teton Mountain Range and the discovery of a lost dog help two people wary of love open their hearts once more? Two months after her divorce finalizes, Rachel Baker escapes to the GBarN Ranch and Resort in western Wyoming. A winter vacation of outdoor activities and qualit ...
It wasn’t the Christmas she wanted or expected—but it might just be the one she needed.
Lucy thought this holiday season would be everything she ever dreamed of—a sparkling ring, a future full of promise, and joy wrapped in tinsel and twinkling lights.
But w ...
A heartsick loner, a damsel in distress, and a storm that changes everything. My little brother moved to the middle of nowhere for a fresh start. While I’m visiting his newfound home, a fierce storm rips through wreaking havoc on his house. In rides Trey, my brother’s best friend, to save the day ...
Nothing can ruin the magic of Christmas. Enter the U.S. House of Representatives.
Award-winning political fiction author Mikael Carlson spins an uplifting tale of romance, adventure, and political maneuvering that is part Hallmark Christmas movie, part House of Cards.
Banning Sa ...
Southlea Bay's favorite sweethearts, Flora and Dan, are getting married and the members of the Rejected Writers' Book Club are excited to help. Especially the group's head honcho, Doris Newberry, who, much to Flora’s frustration, wants to control every detail, attempting to strong-arm Flora into ...
When Laurel Stone's garden center is targeted by vandals, she comes face-to-face with the man who once broke her heart: Aiden Gallagher. Aiden's now one of Darling's Finest, but the memory of how he hurt Laurel back in high school has stuck to his conscience. Helping her get back on her feet is the ...
An uplifting Christmas anthology to take your heart on a romantic holiday ride. These sweet, clean holiday romances from Olivia Hardin and Eliza Boyd will fill you with the Christmas spirit of love, hope, and faith. Celebrate the holidays with stories that will warm your heart this season. All proce ...
Free-Spirited… Clarissa Sullivan dreams for more from life than sipping tepid tea in stifling parlors in Victorian Boston. She defies her family’s wishes, continuing to teach poor immigrant children in Boston’s West End, finding a much-needed purpose to her life. Radical… A ...
Matchmaker Rule #1: Never fall in love with the client. After working my way to the top, I’m in the running to become the CEO of Southern California’s premier matchmaking service. All I have to do is outmatch my conniving co-worker. Maintaining my perfect track record should be no problem, especiall ...
“I am yours, and you are mine...” It has always been that way between them, from the very first moment of love. Bestselling author, Kyle Howard still hasn’t come to terms with how his wife, Faye, moved out with little to no explanation a year ago. She was it; his true love, his world—his everything. ...
Manderley Jessup is having enough trouble squeezing into last summer's dresses, and now her mother expects her to save the family honor. A film crew has invaded her Tennessee hometown to research a duel, and the duelists' descendants, who are still feuding after 200 years. Manderley is one of tho ...
He’s always been her knight in armor.
Anna DeWinter hasn’t always had the best of luck with men. From early on, she learned hard lessons to never trust them, and it’s why she keeps her relationships purely superficial. The only man she trusts–othe ...
He’s no normal person—but that’s what intrigues her the most. And he likes the fact that he can’t deduce everything about her at first glance. She does things that aren’t recognizable—simply because these things are original. There’s something about these two that makes the other curious—and that cu ...
Candace Parks lives a passionless life in Richmond, Virginia. The computer programmer returns to the empty family home in the Blue Ridge Mountains to evaluate her job, faith, and boyfriend. Her high school crush, star football player and prom king Trigg Alderman, is in Twisty Creek visiting his gran ...
He's an international spy. She accidentally becomes his asset.
Every Tuesday, my best friend and I get together to watch spy movies, and I dream of a secret agent sweeping me off my feet.
Imagine my surprise when a) one actually does, b) I don't realize he's a spy ...
The best things come in pairs. Summertime in Nicolet has always been idyllic, but for Heidi and Shelly Lakanen, the summer of 1994 brings just a little more than they’ve bargained for. When Steven Davis comes to town, the Lakanen girls know their lives will never be the same, but they have no idea j ...
One prestigious job opportunity, two main contenders. She’s trapped under a glass ceiling. His career is all he cares about. Ambitious divorcee Verity Parker is determined to break new ground for professional women in the male-dominated Australian mining industry, by shattering the company’s gla ...
Can her online dating disasters turn into true love? Or will she lose the perfect guy in 10 Dates?
”Lacy’s books are just so darn cozy and wholesome, without being cloying.” WendyTheSuperLibrarian book blog
Lacy Williams is the USA Today bestselling author of the ...
Every so often, first love lasts a lifetime—and what seems impossible is made possible with God. Mattie Beller is confident God’s plan for her life does not include marriage—ever. Her poor health has kept her an outsider, even in her close-knit Amish community. But when a visitor comes to the New ...
A terrible evil lurks in the mountain… Lizzie is not your average tourist. She may have just arrived on the idyllic Greek island of Corfu, but her mind is not on having a good time. Far from it, Lizzie has a daunting task to undertake: to claim back her twin brother who was kidnapped twenty years ea ...
Building a new life for himself and his preteen daughter brings Joe Messina home to Harmony Valley. That and showing his town that the onetime bad boy is now a responsible single father. His first move is to get his grandfather's defunct garage up and running. Except now he's got the FBI poking arou ...
Macie Grammerly’s mother delivers an ultimatum—come home and work for the family business, or forfeit further financial support. Booted from her privileged jet-set life, Macie leaves sun-soaked Hawaii for Idaho. On her unglamorous bus ride to and from work, she pours her heart into her journal, w ...
From the “holiday publishing darling” (Entertainment Weekly) who wrote Netflix’s A Christmas Prince comes this charming holiday romance. Riley must choose between her three ex-boyfriends at Christmas Lake Lodge — where each has planned epic dates to win her heart! “Wonderful” (Publishers Weekly). In ...
When Sara Andersen inherits a weathered farmhouse in rural Oregon, she sees more than peeling paint and broken beams—she sees a chance to rebuild her future. But she doesn’t expect Brian Farris, the skilled builder hired to restore the property, to be the man from her past who once broke her trus ...
Colorado, 1877. Who’s the perfect match for a flame-haired Welsh tomboy who loves driving wagons?
Raised by three free-spirited older brothers, Robyn Llewellyn has learned to fight for what she wants—and now she wants to transform her boss and best friend, Max Peregrine, into a l ...
A wounded rodeo champion and his horse trainer make a friendship pact to protect each other from rebound relationships. The ground rules are simple: 1. Need a plus one at a holiday get-together? Ask each other. 2. Feeling bored or lonely? Call or text each other. 3. Accidentally step beneath ...
What if you had a second chance for a first romance?
After surviving a broken engagement, Cassie Ward decides going home to Dragonfly Lake for the summer is exactly the change of scenery that she needs. A relationship of any kind is the last thing on her mind. Yet, when she wakes up in b ...
Two best friends. Two fresh starts. Will old regrets sabotage their second chance? Janna’s heart is heavy with grief and broken by betrayal. But as she leaves the big city for a quaint midwestern town, the future feels less frightening with her best friend, Shelby, by her side. After landing a jo ...
This yoga teacher has a secret… and it’s not just that her studio is one missed payment away from collapse.
If anyone knows how to survive, it’s Lizzy Taylor. After escaping a chaotic childhood, she’s built a life centered on peace and "om." But behind the essential oils and gentle flows, ...
What’s a girl to do when the one person she’s been forewarned about is the only one that her heart desires? Leah Valdez is a sassy, intelligent, hard-working woman whose beauty shines from both inside and out. Friends and family have always come first, but it's time for her to start thinking about h ...
When Charlotte Olson becomes legal guardian of her young sister, it's tough to survive, even in the friendly setting of Shady Piers. Now, after a disastrous fire, she loses everything, and Charlotte must protect her sister from a much more serious threat to the life they have built together. After a ...
Georgette Fortune has loved the same man for over two years now, but he does not even know she exists.
When the handsome Marquis of Onslow appears at a house party in her home, the crumbling Castle Fortune, he does not recognise her at all.
With six unmarried daughters to provide for, and ...
A time for love in nineteenth century America, a time to be thankful. Shortly before she prepares to start her third year courses at the University of Iowa, Lila Cleod is called home. She leaves the Sewell family where she also works as a nanny and boards the train for Denver, Colorado. Her father h ...
After Alejandro Alvarez’s best friend dies of kidney disease while in high school, Alejandro vows to change his life. Determined to help others suffering from his friend’s illness, he rejects joining his father’s pediatrics practice and instead trains as a nephrologist and a transplant surgeon. Four ...
With their world destroyed and their space ship malfunctioning, the royal dogizens of Planet Canid have little choice but to crash land on Earth--in the midst of Aunt Maddie's eccentric family planning a Christmas wedding for former playboy, Ryan Madison, and elfenchaun, Dori. After rescuing the Roy ...
She’s been hiding her pain her entire life. If she doesn’t come clean, it could jeopardize the future she’s always wanted… Cologne, Missouri. Kalie hasn’t been completely honest with her family. Telling no one she was bullied since childhood by a classmate, she’s finally taken control of her destiny ...
Colorado, 1876. Many years have passed since Bernadette Bellamy fled the Cariboo Gold Rush and her reputation as the sister of a French-Canadian gang of thieves. Armed with only an honest talent for sewing and a willingness to lead a solitary life on the run, she stays one step ahead of everyone see ...
Librarian Janet Johnson is puzzled when she is invited—and practically dragged—to her first meeting of the Rejected Writers’ Book Club. This quirky group of women would much rather celebrate one another’s rejected manuscripts over cups of tea and slices of lemon cake than actually publish a book. Bu ...
We weren’t supposed to kiss...again. Is it still a second chance when our first one was a secret? Rewind: In high school, I was Little Miss Brainy Rebel Girl to my twin’s athletic Mr. Popularity. That also meant I avoided wading into the dating pool. Like a shark, it didn’t help that my protectiv ...
One dream bled out in the desert. God breathed life into a new one.
Arizona Territory — July 1863
Hannah Anderson clutches her husband's hand as their wagon creaks toward the wild promise of the frontier. Every ...
When Alex O’Donnell’s world falls apart, she finds it hard to imagine that a door to a new world will open. Leaving everything she knows behind, Alex moves from her Baltimore apartment to a villa in Italy where she discovers the inherited vineyard she never knew existed and a life of possibilitie ...
On a hot, dusty day in August 1886, Violet St. James arrives in the budding town of Dearborn, Colorado, to accept a teaching position. She wants to look to her future, but Mr. William Montgomery’s discerning eyes threaten to dredge up the secrets from her past.
William Montgomery ha ...
The Holiday Cottages are magical places, where those who come to Sprucewood, Colorado to “get away” find themselves, and their hopes renewed, relationships kindled and dreams coming true. Fed up with corporate life in Denver and the ‘boys club’ attitude where she works, Renae Caldwell resigns her jo ...
A feel-good romance with no sex, no swearing--just an honest love that develops between two people. If you believe in fate, redemption, and finding hope in the darkest of times, you will adore this newest book in the Cupid's Bow series! Luke Ward was New York City’s best and brightest young physicia ...
