Books Like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Forever, Maybe

Emma Baird

What if your greatest love story is also your biggest question mark? Two decades after a chance encounter outside a Glasgow sandwich van sparks an unforgettable romance, Nell and Daniel appear to have it all. But beneath the surface, their marriage is quietly crumbling. This moving marriage fiction explores what happens when love, ambition, and regret collide in midlife.

Women's Fiction

Beneath a Tainted Sky

K.C. Mitchell

A forbidden love. A brutal war. A passion punishable by death. Georgia, 1861. Sophie Johansson has spent her life doing what is expected of her—until the man she loves marches off to war and her parents force her into marriage with a cruel plantation owner old enough to be her father. Trapped in a beautiful house that feels like a prison, Sophie discovers a world of suffering she can no longer ignore. Then she meets Hezekiah, the enslaved man her husband controls: powerful enough to frighten other men, honorable enough to protect those who cannot protect themselves, and gentle enough to awaken every part of Sophie she has been taught to silence. Their connection offers the first honest comfort either has known. Their stolen moments become a refuge. And as forbidden desire deepens into an all-consuming affair, Sophie and Hezekiah dare to imagine something the law, society, and her husband would never allow—a life chosen for themselves. But the Civil War is closing in. Her husband is growing suspicious. One careless glance could expose a love punishable by death. And when their passion creates a secret Sophie cannot hide forever, survival will demand more than deception. It will require courage, sacrifice, and a reckoning that transforms an obedient daughter into a woman determined to reclaim her body, her voice, and her future.

Historical

Everything I Told Myself. A Novel of Love, Armor, and the Courage to Be Known

Christoff Namel

Sometimes the hardest person to keep a promise to is yourself. In Everything I Told Myself, Christoff Namel delivers a tender, intimate contemporary romance that intertwines a love story with a powerful journey of personal growth and transformation. If you crave emotional realism, vulnerable characters, and a romance that heals rather than defines, this is the book that speaks to the part of you that still believes in second chances.

Contemporary

The Castaway

Stephanie Taylor

Ruby Hudson used to be America’s First Lady. Now she just wants to be left alone with her books and her regrets. After her husband—the President of the United States—dies under mysterious circumstances, Ruby is left with a lifetime of questions, a public still obsessed with her every move, and two grown daughters who think she's lost her mind. So, she runs. Not to a fancy villa or a European spa, but to a pirate-themed island called Shipwreck Key, where she opens a tiny bookshop and tries to disappear. No press. No politics. Just quiet. Until he shows up. Dexter North is too young, too intense, and way too determined to dig up every secret of her late husband's presidency—including the kind that could ruin his legacy... and Ruby’s life. He’s charming in that annoyingly earnest journalist way, and unfortunately, he’s not going anywhere. Then, as if things weren’t complicated enough, the President’s secret mistress arrives. With their twelve-year-old son. And a letter. From her husband. Written before he died. Now Ruby has to decide: does she open the letter and face the truth about the man she thought she knew? Or does she let the past stay buried and try—finally—to start over? On a quirky island full of castaways and second chances, one former First Lady is about to rewrite her own story.