Best Childhood Sweethearts / All Grown Up Books

Proven Guilty

The Dresden Files • Book 8

by Jim Butcher

Newly drafted as a Warden despite his rocky relationship with the White Council, Harry Dresden must investigate black magic while his girlfriend's daughter faces supernatural horror.

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Newly drafted as a Warden despite his rocky relationship with the White Council, Harry Dresden must investigate black magic while his girlfriend's daughter faces supernatural horror.

A Walk to Remember

by Nicholas Sparks

Hero Forever

Linear Tactical • Book 14

by Janie Crouch

Oak Creek's ultimate love story follows Jess and Ethan, soulmates since childhood whose carefully laid plans get derailed by fate—Crouch delivers the town's emotional finale.

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Oak Creek's ultimate love story follows Jess and Ethan, soulmates since childhood whose carefully laid plans get derailed by fate—Crouch delivers the town's emotional finale.

Final Offer

Dreamland Billionaires • Book 3

by Lauren Asher

Losing Hope

Hopeless • Book 2

by Colleen Hoover

Vision in White

Bride Quartet • Book 1

by Nora Roberts

The Inmate

by Freida McFadden

Taking a job at a men's maximum-security prison, nurse Brooke Sullivan must hide her intimate past connection to inmate Shane Nelson while following strict professional boundaries.

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Taking a job at a men's maximum-security prison, nurse Brooke Sullivan must hide her intimate past connection to inmate Shane Nelson while following strict professional boundaries.

The Pact

by Jodi Picoult

Best friends since childhood, Chris and Emily are found in what appears to be a suicide pact, but when only Chris survives, he's charged with murder. Picoult dissects how well we really know the people closest to us through two families torn apart by tragedy.

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Best friends since childhood, Chris and Emily are found in what appears to be a suicide pact, but when only Chris survives, he's charged with murder. Picoult dissects how well we really know the people closest to us through two families torn apart by tragedy.

Blind Love

Cowboys & Angels • Book 5

by Kelly Elliott

Sometimes the love of your life walks back into your world when you least expect it — and most need second chances. Elliott crafts believable small-town drama around characters whose shared history feels both painful and inevitable.

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Sometimes the love of your life walks back into your world when you least expect it — and most need second chances. Elliott crafts believable small-town drama around characters whose shared history feels both painful and inevitable.

The Hop

by Diana Clarke

Kate Burns leverages her sexuality for attention and money in rural New Zealand, evolving from childhood kissing lessons to becoming the face of a movement while navigating motherhood.

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Kate Burns leverages her sexuality for attention and money in rural New Zealand, evolving from childhood kissing lessons to becoming the face of a movement while navigating motherhood.

Cloverleigh Farms: The Collection

Cloverleigh Farms • Book 1

by Melanie Harlow

Wrecked Beginnings: Reckless Memories / Perfect Wreckage / Wrecked Palace

Wrecked #1-3 • Book 1

by Catherine Cowles

Three interconnected small-town romances explore childhood friendships, protective heroes, and the suspenseful secrets that threaten to destroy new relationships.

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Three interconnected small-town romances explore childhood friendships, protective heroes, and the suspenseful secrets that threaten to destroy new relationships.

Pas de deux

by E.J. Noyes

The 2016 Rio Olympics loom as dressage rider Caitlyn's childhood nemesis reappears, threatening her perfectly balanced life and medal chances. Noyes captures the precision of elite equestrian sport alongside messy human emotions.

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The 2016 Rio Olympics loom as dressage rider Caitlyn's childhood nemesis reappears, threatening her perfectly balanced life and medal chances. Noyes captures the precision of elite equestrian sport alongside messy human emotions.

Forever Never

by Lucy Score

A Rogue's Proposal

Cynster • Book 4

by Stephanie Laurens

Coming Full Circle

Pembrooke • Book 2

by Jessica Prince

Childhood rejection taught Eliza to protect her heart, but when her first crush returns as a man, she must choose between safety and the love that could heal old wounds.

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Childhood rejection taught Eliza to protect her heart, but when her first crush returns as a man, she must choose between safety and the love that could heal old wounds.

Dangerous Girls

Dangerous Girls • Book 1

by Eric Vall

Memory gaps and mysterious basement sounds disrupt a quiet gaming shop owner's life just as his high school crush returns to town. Vall builds tension through unexplained phenomena and dangerous romantic complications.

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Memory gaps and mysterious basement sounds disrupt a quiet gaming shop owner's life just as his high school crush returns to town. Vall builds tension through unexplained phenomena and dangerous romantic complications.

Leo

Sign of Love • Book 1

by Mia Sheridan

Two foster kids promise to build a life together at eighteen, but unexpected adoption tears them apart, leaving scars that complicate their adult reunion in this emotional romance.

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Two foster kids promise to build a life together at eighteen, but unexpected adoption tears them apart, leaving scars that complicate their adult reunion in this emotional romance.

Hands Down

by Mariana Zapata

Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Louis Untermeyer

Despite being opposites in temperament, Elizabeth and Robert Browning created poetry that celebrates their extraordinary devotion — the union of two great souls in verse.

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Despite being opposites in temperament, Elizabeth and Robert Browning created poetry that celebrates their extraordinary devotion — the union of two great souls in verse.

And Then She Kissed Me

by Harper Bliss

Caught Up in a Cowboy

Cowboys of Creedence • Book 1

by Jennie Marts

Hockey star's career-threatening injury sends him home to Colorado where his first love still lives. Marts combines professional sports drama with cowboy romance in this small-town second-chance story.

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Hockey star's career-threatening injury sends him home to Colorado where his first love still lives. Marts combines professional sports drama with cowboy romance in this small-town second-chance story.

Black Hills / Chasing Fire

by Nora Roberts, Nick Podehl, Rebecca Lowman

Childhood summers at a South Dakota ranch forge the bond between Cooper and Lil that deepens into adult romance. Roberts pairs small-town roots with dangerous professions across two interconnected tales.

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Childhood summers at a South Dakota ranch forge the bond between Cooper and Lil that deepens into adult romance. Roberts pairs small-town roots with dangerous professions across two interconnected tales.

The Codex of Her Scars (Sorcerers' Isle, Book 1)

The Shadow Cycle • Book 1

by Derek Prior

On the mysteriously abandoned Isle of Branikdür, warrior clans fight at their sorcerers' bidding until one Festival of Proving changes everything. Political intrigue meets magical warfare in a richly detailed setting.

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On the mysteriously abandoned Isle of Branikdür, warrior clans fight at their sorcerers' bidding until one Festival of Proving changes everything. Political intrigue meets magical warfare in a richly detailed setting.

Love, Ally

Brooks University • Book 1

by Hannah Gray

Enlightenment

by Sarah Perry

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay's three-decade age gap dissolves through shared passion for astronomy and skepticism about their religious upbringing. Perry follows their evolving bond through two transformative decades in rural Essex.

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Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay's three-decade age gap dissolves through shared passion for astronomy and skepticism about their religious upbringing. Perry follows their evolving bond through two transformative decades in rural Essex.