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- Three Sisters Island Trilogy
series3 books2001
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Dance Upon the Air opens Nora Roberts's Three Sisters Island trilogy with Nell Channing, who arrives on the island believing she's finally found refuge from an abusive marriage and the life she fled months earlier. She instead finds herself entangled in the island's own supernatural history and a curse tied to three founding sisters. Heaven and Earth and Face the Fire complete the trilogy, each centered on a different island woman.
- Montgomery / Taggert
series10 books1988
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These Jude Deveraux romances are linked less by one continuing plot than by recurring family surnames — Montgomery and Taggert — that Deveraux threads through much of her historical and contemporary romance writing. A Knight in Shining Armor, her best-known novel, is a standalone time-travel romance whose heroine, Dougless Montgomery, falls for a sixteenth-century English lord pulled forward into her present; The Maiden instead belongs to her more tightly connected medieval Montgomery-brothers sequence. Readers should expect a loose family of stories connected by name and world rather than one continuous saga.
- Lost Lake
Sarah Addison Allenstandalone novel2014
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Lost Lake is a light fantasy novel written in 2014 by Sarah Addison Allen. It was written during the author’s bout with advanced stage cancer.
- Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klunestandalone novel2021
similar bysecond chancehopefulcontemporaryfantasy
A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. **Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.** When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead. But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
- Friday Harbor
series4 books2010
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Friday Harbor is a series of contemporary romance novels written by best-selling author Lisa Kleypas. The series focuses on the lives of the Nolan family and is set in the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington.
- Carol for Another Christmas
Elizabeth Ann Scarboroughstandalone novel1996
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Awakened by the password "humbug," Ebenezer Scrooge is back—this time as a ghost in the computer of workaholic Monica Banks, in this wry and heartwarming modern take on the Dickens classic.
- Immortal Beloved
series3 books2010
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Cate Tiernan's Immortal Beloved follows Nastasya, an immortal who has restarted her life more times than she can count and is tired of her aimless party-girl existence. She retreats to River's Edge, a refuge for wayward immortals, where she begins to confront long-buried secrets about herself and those around her. The story continues across Darkness Falls and Eternally Yours.
- The Kendra Chronicles
series5 books2007
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Alex Flinn's Kendra Chronicles opens with Beastly, a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast in which a wealthy, shallow New York teenager is transformed into a monster by a witch's curse and has two years to break the spell by earning real love. Later books widen the cast to other characters from that story — Lindy, the witch Kendra herself — while staying inside the same fairy-tale-updated-to-Manhattan premise. It's YA fairy-tale retelling built around one curse and its ripple effects rather than a continuing plot across all volumes.
