Recommendations based on "If This Is Love"

There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling. After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing. Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded. Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right-now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls. When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself.

Ten Years. Ten Endless Years I've Waited To Destroy The Man Who Tore My Family Apart. But I Never Thought I'd Get The Chance... Until His Daughter Walked Into My Tattoo Parlour, Looked Me In The Eye - And Had No Damned Clue Who I Was. I Never Planned On Falling For Cassandra Deighton. She's Silk Scarves And Manicures. I'm Scars And Rage. Yet I Can't Resist When She Begs For More, My Ice Queen Who Burns With Enough Heat To Sear The Soul. I Need To End This. Before She Finds Out Who I Am. Before She Gets Hurt. But I'm Not The Only One With Secrets. We Both Have Our Scars, And If The Truth Comes Out, We Could Lose Everything...--page 3.

The next book in the New Haven series, interconnected standalones featuring second chances, fiery passion, and Black heroines who get their happily ever afters. This is part three of a trilogy. Mallory Hope is a dangerous thing. It holds you close like a lover, whispering promises it never intends to keep, and just as soon as you relax into its arms, it lets you go. Sending you spinning into an abyss of nothingness. When I sent him away four years ago, he promised he would come back to me, and even as I asked him not to, I hoped that he would. Hope. I tucked it deep inside of me, underneath the scars of our before, beside the dreams of our after. Hidden like contraband. Guarded like a treasure. Broken like every promise that ever fell from his lips and hit my ears. Eventually, I got tired of hoping, of waiting for him, and I plunged my hands inside my own heart, ripping past scar tissue and muscle, veins and arteries to root it out. Hope. He conspired with it to make a fool of me, and when I freed myself from it, exorcised that pointless dream, I promised myself that no one would get the chance to do that to me again. Then, and only then, did he appear. My promise, a spell that conjured him. My determination, a challenge. My heart, the only prize he hopes to win. Christopher Life without Mallory Kent has taught me that time doesn't heal wounds. It turns them into scars. Jagged tissue that grows around your pain, covering it with raised skin that will never again be smooth to the touch. My first scar formed when I was just a child. Too young to fully understand what my mother's loss would mean for my life but old enough to remember the echo of the pain inside my empty chest. It was a unique agony. One I never expected to feel again. But that was before I loved her. Before I let things that had nothing to do with us cost me everything. It's been four years since I decided to honor her request to stay away. To move on with my life and give her a chance to move on with hers. And she might not agree, but it was more than enough time for us to try and do the impossible. The only thing our time apart has done is remind me that wherever she is, is where I'm supposed to be. Now I just have to make her believe it.

Last To KnowHe was just a boy. And I was just a girl. But if that's all there was to the story it wouldn't be very interesting, would it?Never Too LateI'd never met anyone quite like Mathias Wade. He was brooding and arrogant, but I loved him anyway. Together we were wild and uncontained--a hurricane raging. Then I had to leave, and words were exchanged that could never be undone. But now I was back, and Mathias better watch out, because this bitch wasn't finished with him. Game. Set. Match. All is fair in love and war, right?In Your HeartI thought I had found love. I thought I had found my forever. I'd never been more wrong in all my life.Take A ChanceI had life all figured out. Married with a baby on the way I stupidly believed that things were perfect. But then the good guy I fell in love with turned out to not be as good as I thought. I was left alone to pick up the pieces of my life and provide for my daughter. And then I met him. Hayes. The bad boy that just might not be so bad.Also includes 26,000 words of EXCLUSIVE bonus material

Growing up in small-town Belcrest, Maddy Jennings always thought she was destined to be with her childhood sweetheart, Trent Basso. Throughout the complicated road she has traveled with Trent, someone else has had a strong presence in Maddy's life. Trent's older brother Gabe has always been someone she could count on, therefore neither of them can be blamed when lines blur from friendship to something more. However, promises made between brothers threaten to ensure that neither of them will have a permanent place in her life. When Maddy returns to her hometown for her brother's wedding, she is forced to face both Trent and Gabe for the first time in two years. While the two Basso brothers fight to win her heart, she is busy struggling with a past that won't seem to let her go. Whether she wants to or not, Maddy must decide to either forfeit her own happiness or forever tear a family apart.

She let everyone down. He stunned the people of their small town. Can these broken souls heal each other or are some scars too deep to mend?Josie Michaels has dedicated her entire life to winning an Olympic gold medal. When an injury steals her ability to swim competitively, her entire life crashes down around her. Alex Biggs is a heartbroken father doing his best to raise a happy, healthy little girl, even though he is in the center of the biggest scandal the seaside Maine town of Brunswick Bay Harbor has ever seen--his wife, Claire, is missing and almost everyone thinks he's behind her disappearance.Josie needs a job, and the only one she's qualified for is being a nanny to Alex's adorable daughter, Hannah. Will working for the town's most notorious murder suspect bring Jo the purpose she craves, or will it prove to be a deadly mistake?Fans of Bella Andre, Marie Force, and Melissa Foster are sure to enjoy this page-turning contemporary romance series.Will Josie and Alex find a way to heal each other and move on from their tragic pasts, or has their path to happiness already been crushed beyond repair? Find out now in Shattered Diamonds.This exciting romance novel has been known to make readers desperate to dive into the next book in this binge-worthy series. You've been warned!

NAACP nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to Henry Adams, Kansas—an unforgettable place that anyone would want to call home—with a story of family, friends, and the powerful forces from our past that can irrevocably shape our future.Mayor Trent July and his wife Lily are enjoying life as newlyweds and embracing the challenges and joys that come with being foster parents to two wonderful boys. But being a foster father has inevitably forced him to think about his own birth mother. Raised by his grandmother Tamar—and in many ways the good people of Henry Adams—Trent was blessed with a childhood full of love.But now he can’t help wondering what happened to the scared teenage girl who handed him over to Tamar. And questions that he’s never voiced are now begging to be answered: Who was she? Is she still alive? Why didn’t she want him?Trent has always believed no good comes from dwelling on the past, especially when you have a loving family, a strong community, and folks who depend on him. But when the past comes to Henry Adams and Trent has no choice but to face it—and the woman who left him behind. The truth will shake his very being and everything he thought he knew about life, love, and the bonds that hold families together…yet can also tear them apart.

He was the troubled kid with a bad reputation who would chase off bullies and bring back things I’d lose out in the woods. I didn’t care what people said about his messed-up family--or him. He was my first and only crush. A decade later, seeing Cole for the first time in years, I discover he's still fighting the dark shadows of his past. And I'm still the only one defending him in our small town. He’s still dangerously intense. Still able to make my heart race with a single brooding glance. The only difference? This living, breathing thing between us is now so much more than a crush. Note: ❤️ IF WE LEAP takes place ten years prior to the IF WE FALL & IF WE FLY duet. This is the very start of Josie & Cole's deep, all-consuming love, filled with unimaginable heartache, sacrifice, and redemption. The reading order of the WHAT IF series is: - IF WE LEAP (free for a limited time) - IF WE FALL - IF WE FLY "Overflowing with swoon-worthy romance...their chemistry simply pulses off the pages." -- Kindle Friends Forever "Gut. Punch. I had prepared myself for an emotional hurricane...but I was unprepared for all the twists and turns [in this series]." -- Sarah, Goodreads "Sweet, angsty and suspenseful all at the same time! A lovely window into Josie and Cole's youth." -- The Book Hoarder "Cole and Josie's story will melt you and break you and rip you to shreds a million times over." -- Rentastic Reads

In a long, splendid life rich with struggles and satisfaction, above all Brandon Halloran treasured family. So the proud patriarch had meddled shamelessly in his darling brood's love lives…until finally the tables had turned! For the merry widower harbored a secret from the his nearest and dearest: cherished memories of sparkling, scandalous Elizabeth Forsythe, who'd once put wings to his flyboy's heart, only to vanish when he'd soared home from the war. And with Lizzy at long last on his horizon again, the one thing that could prevent his long-overdue second chance at happiness was…family! Vows: Love, Honor and Cherish—words that three generations of Halloran men vowed to live by.

A chance encounter. An undeniable connection. An unimaginable twist of fate. Kailey's life is crumbling. Her best friend and sister, Jen, is dying, leaving her young family devastated. With little hope of saving her, Kailey is forced to face a reality she never expected. Trey's life is fun and carefree. He loves the girls, his drums, and his friends. That's not to say he isn't continuously plagued by a difficult decision made years ago-one that changed the course of his life. Despite the connection they make when their paths unexpectedly cross, Kailey knows her life has no room for anyone else right now. But regardless of how many times she pushes him away, Trey only fights harder to make a place for him in her life and in her heart. Trey thought he knew heartbreak, but he had no idea until life gave him a second chance, only to snatch it away just as fast. This time he's determined to keep his place in the life of the ones he loves. Is there such a thing as fate? If so, can Kailey and Trey hold on to one another long enough to discover there's no such thing as a chance encounter?