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Sea of Lost Love

Sea of Lost Love
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Southern Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1950s

An idyllic Cornish holiday in the summer of 1958. A happy aristocratic family blessed with wealth and promise. But unbeknown to all of them, death stalks paradise. When catastrophe strikes in the most unexpected way, the tragedy first breaks...

Summer at Castle Stone

Summer at Castle Stone
  • Author(s): Lynn Marie Hulsman
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This summer, lose your heart in Ireland… Shayla Sheridan’s a New York native born into big city luxury, but she’s never really fitted in with the “it” crowd. Desperate to make it as a writer and to finally step...

The Atlas of Us

The Atlas of Us
  • Author(s): Tracey Buchanan
  • Location(s): Exmoor, Finland, Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Serbia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1900s through 2004 to 2014

How far would you go for the one you love the most? A stormy love affair. A secret. A discovery that changes everything … Louise Fenton flies to a devastated Thailand to search for her mother, missing following the...

The Christmas Cafe

The Christmas Cafe
  • Author(s): Amanda Prowse
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Bea does not believe in second chances. A widow at fifty-three, Bea knows she must accept that she will be alone forever. She buries her grief in hard work, and soon the deli she runs in Surry Hills has...

The Glassblower of Murano

The Glassblower of Murano
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern, 1600s

Wonderful combination of mystery, historical intrigue and love, written by an English/Venetian author, which tells a story of passion, genius and betrayal linking the present and the past. Nora Manin decides to leave her fractured life in London to...

The Italian Girl

The Italian Girl
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring...

The Paradise Guest House

The Paradise Guest House
  • Author(s): Ellen Sussman
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A riveting and poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home-perfect for readers of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Alex Garland’s The Beach. It starts as a...

The Tapestry of Love

The Tapestry of Love
  • Author(s): Rosy Thornton
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to...

The Venetian Contract

The Venetian Contract
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1500s

1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He...

Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here
  • Author(s): Victoria Connelly
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Sun, sea and secrets… A week on the sunny Greek island of Kethos is just what Alice Archer needs, even if she has to put up with her difficult sister. Stella’s tantrums and diva-like demands are a fair price...

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