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Readers who enjoyed The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts & MacLeod Andrews also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Liam by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe’s looking for a fresh start…she finds him.Nylah Walker knows what it’s like to be protected. You don’t grow up with five brothers without having someone close by, watching your back at all times. She craves independence, and Cradle Mountain is her fresh start. Her new beginning... -
The Perfect Hope by Nora Roberts
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces you to the Montgomery brothers - Beckett, Ryder, and Owen - as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown. Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out - with a tough-as-nails outside and possibly nothing too soft underneath... -
A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed... -
South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsBlue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree... -
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Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a new suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil than they could ever imagine. . . -
Single Dad in a Kilt by Kait Nolan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say timing is everything, and for single dad Hamish Colquhoun, the timing couldn't be worse. With a new law practice to establish, a centuries-old farmhouse to restore, and the challenges of raising a tween daughter, romance is the last thing on his mind...Categorized as:
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The Kraken King and the Inevitable Abduction by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Kraken King has declared that Zenobia Fox is under his protection—and with her identity revealed, she needs that protection more than ever. But it comes with a price when Ariq demands that Zenobia reveal her secrets in return. Ariq wants nothing more than for Zenobia to trust him, and he knows exactly which sensual tricks will breach her defenses... -
A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family.Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago... -
Tiger's Daughter by Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe mate bond has never been this strong ...Connor Morrissey hits his Transition—hard—and Shiftertown braces for chaos. His transformation into a fully adult Shifter comes early and is lightning fast, heightened by Connor’s very special heritage. Connor spirals out of control, ready to fight for his place in the hierarchy, and his instincts tell him his place is very high...Categorized as:
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The Kraken King and the Iron Heart by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExperience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part VThe Kraken King and the Iron Heart With their lives and the fate of an empire at stake, Ariq is forced to leave Zenobia behind... -
Shades of Pink by Gina LaManna
One awkward billionaire. One failed psychic. A tale as old as time... Lola Pink He schedules everything. And I mean everything. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I took this job. I thought it would be simple—pretend to be Mr. Dane Clark’s personal assistant, find the missing blueprints, and get out of the Clark Castle for good... -
Something about Tomorrow by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFor the MacKade brothers, new beginnings are nothing without a happily-ever-after.The Heart of Devin MacKadeSheriff Devin MacKade has always known his destiny was to serve and protect the small town of Antietam, Maryland. And for a long while he thought that future would include Cassie Connor—the woman he’s known, and loved, forever... -
The Donovan Legacy: Charmed & Enchanted by Nora Roberts
In two tales of the Donovan family, Anastasia Donovan is afraid to reveal her true self to her intriguing new neighbor, Boone Sawyer, while Rowan Murray is fascinated by her enigmatic neighbor, Liam Donovan. - She has published 101 New York Times bestsellers as of 2003, 29 of them reaching #1... -
The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAs they continue their expedition across Australia, Ariq is determined to stay close to Zenobia and figure out what kind of game she’s playing—even as his admiration for the enigmatic woman starts to override his suspicion... -
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The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA former smuggler and thief, Ariq—better known as the Kraken King—doesn’t know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders... -
The Darkest Hour by Melissa Storm
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSofia is on a noble mission… too bad it requires breaking the law to complete it.Sofia Stepanov believes in right and wrong, but she doesn't necessarily believe in following the rules. When she finds a wolf hybrid being illegally kept and abused by its captors, she vows to come back and free him herself... -
Silent Truth by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the sizzling new adventure from New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love, a red-hot BAD boy teams up with a sexy television reporter on an explosive quest for revenge. Tough-as-nails Bureau of American Defense agent Hunter Thornton-Payne is no stranger to uncomfortable top-secret missions, but tonight takes the cake... -
Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper
Someone is stalking the little town of Silence... Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder... -
The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFrom New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a humorous, standalone mystery, The Librarian’s Vampire Assistant, Book 2. (Yep! It’s a standalone. The boring title is just to mess with you!) HOW MUCH LONGER CAN HE KEEP HIS SECRET AND HIS FAVORITE HUMAN SAFE? Michael Vanderhorst has always been a lone wolf. Or lone vampire? Whatever... -
After All the Wreckage by L.J. Evans
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhat if the future is already written? GageWhen Rory Marlowe Bishop walks out of my past and into my bar, I realize she’s not just a kid anymore. Now she’s hell on wheels and a special kind of temptation. But I can’t afford the distraction, not with the responsibility I’ve inherited...Categorized as:
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The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExperience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook... -
Touching Evil by Kay Hooper
Sometimes evil lingers so close, you can feel it.... Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals -- and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants. Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims' minds... -
Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts
Seth Quinn is finally home. It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love... -
Blood Ransom by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCLONES RACHEL AND THEO NOW LIVE THOUSANDS OF MILES APART. THEY KEEP IN TOUCH, BUT THINGS JUST AREN T THE SAME. WHEN RACHEL DISCOVERS THAT EVIL SCIENTIST ELIJAH IS STILL WORKING IN SECRET FOR A SECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND ABOUT TO MURDER DANIEL, SHE SETS OUT TO RESCUE THE LITTLE BOY, BUT HER PLANS BACKFIRE WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES... -
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Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper
Fear has never been so close... New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil. Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood... -
Hemlock by Kiersten Modglin
She thought she’d escaped her poisonous past…Thirteen years ago, Maggie Ellis left her small town and vowed to never return. In her rearview mirror were two men she loved and an ominous secret that would forever haunt her.Now, tragedy has brought her back , and she’s determined to forget that fateful night...Categorized as:
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A Ghostly Reunion by Tonya Kappes
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsEmma Lee Raines sees dead peopleProprietor of the Eternal Slumber Funeral Home, Emma Lee can see, hear, and talk to ghosts of murdered folks. And when her high school nemesis is found dead, Jade Lee Peel is the same old mean girl—trying to come between Emma Lee and her hot boyfriend, Sheriff Jack Henry Ross, all over again... -
The MacKade Brothers: Rafe and Jared by Nora Roberts
Ten years later and the bad boy of the bunch had returned home. Appealing as ever, no even lovely Regan Joners, the town's reserved antiques dealer, was immune to Rafe MacKade. Regan claimed her plans didn't include relationships with rebels, but her reaction to The Return of Rafe MacKade - and his sizzling kisses - said something quite different... -
Pale as Death by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom the dark depths of Hollywood’s past The crime scene is horrific: the corpse of a young actress, drained of blood and cut in two. LAPD Detective Sophie Manning’s new case is high-profile and difficult—there’s no evidence to work with. And it’s a disturbing echo of the infamous Black Dahlia killing... -
Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper
Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses -- all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable... Sense of Evil... -
Forged in Smoke by Trish McCallan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFaith Ansell could never be mistaken for an action hero. The scientist is content in her lab, working with her team on life-changing discoveries. But when a mysterious organization captures her colleagues, she’s forced to flee for her life with SEAL Team 7. Lieutenant Seth “Rawls” Rawlings, ST7’s corpsman, hasn’t been himself since a near-death experience in the Sierra Nevadas... -
The Next Always by Nora Roberts, MacLeod Andrews
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsThe historic hotel in Boonsboro has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it’s getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. Beckett is the architect of the family, and his social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer...Categorized as:
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Rising Tides by Nora Roberts
Of the three brothers, it was Ethan who shared his father's passion for the Maryland shore. And now with his father gone, Ethan is determined to make the family boatbuilding business a success. But amidst his achievements lie the most important challenges of his life... There is young Seth, who needs him more than ever. And there is a woman he has always loved but never believed he could have... -
The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world.Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine... -
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A Ghostly Demise by Tonya Kappes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe prodigal father returns—but this ghost is no holy spirit When she runs into her friend's deadbeat dad at the local deli, undertaker Emma Lee Raines can't wait to tell Mary Anna Hardy that he's back in Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky, after five long years. Cephus Hardy may have been the town drunk, but he didn't disappear on an epic bender like everyone He was murdered... -
Born in Ice by Nora Roberts
Three modern sisters bound by the timeless beauty of Ireland... When the harsh storms of winter descended upon western Ireland, the locals stayed indoors - and visitors stayed away. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast became a cold and empty place. But that was fine with Brianna. She enjoyed the peace and quiet, even when the icy winds howled at her window... -
Absolutely, Positively by Jayne Ann Krentz
Unconventional Molly Abberwick, trustee of her late father's scientific foundation and owner of Seattle's Abberwick Tea & Spice Company, was mad enough to fire her new consultant, Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan. She'd hired him when the foundation had needed the advice of the best expert in America on new inventions... -
Captivated by Nora Roberts
These fascinating cousins share a secret that's been handed down through generations—a secret that sets them apart…CaptivatedHis interest in her was purely professional…or so he told himself. Nash Kirkland had sought out Morgana Donovan, self-proclaimed witch, to help him research his latest screenplay... -
Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts
Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins Third in the sweeping Chesapeake quartet, about three brothers who come together in a time of need. They honored their father's wish to raise young Seth as their own. And with all of the brothers home again, the Quinn family has never been so strong. But in the months to come, their strength is tested--once again... -
Tears of the Moon by Nora Roberts
With over one hundred and twelve million books in print and forty-two New York Times bestsellers to date, Nora Roberts is indisputably the most celebrated and loved women's fiction writer today. Tears of the Moon is her second book in the enchanting Irish trilogy featuring the Gallagher siblings of Ardmore, Ireland... -
Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHeather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm.Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Cafe... -
At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward.When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing—a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama—is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life... -
A Grave Search by Wendy Roberts
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsJulie Hall is finally adjusting to her new career: locating dead bodies with dowsing rods.The crime scene is drenched with blood, but the body is nowhere to be found.When a grieving mother requests Julie’s help tracking the body of her missing daughter, Julie is hesitant... -
Third Time's a Charm by Marquita Valentine
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNote: Alternate/new cover edition for ASIN# B0096TKHAO To the world, Alexander "Sasha" Romanov is a sexy, globe-trotting playboy that parties with the very rich and famous. But behind the façade exists a ruthless man willing and able to destroy anyone and anything standing in the way of his ultimate goal ...until he meets Rose Holland... -
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Her Loving Husband's Curse by Meredith Allard
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow far will you go to protect the one you love? Finally, after many long and lonely years, James Wentworth’s life is falling into place. Together with his wife, Sarah, the only woman he has ever loved, he has found the meaning behind her nightmares about the Salem Witch Trials, and now they are rebuilding the life they began together so long ago... -
Three Fates by Nora Roberts
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes an unforgettable tale of luck and love in which the fortunes of three siblings depend on a simple twist of fate.When the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief... -
Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts
The breathtaking conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Jewels of the Sun and Tears of the Moon... Darcy Gallagher has always believed in the pull of fate, the magic of legend... and the importance of money. She longs to find a rich man who will sweep her away - into a world filled with glamour and adventure, and the exotic life that is her destiny.. -
The Ghost on My Couch by L.A. Gilbert
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAlex Tanner is a male nurse who divides his time between his job and his television schedule. His idea of the perfect partner, like so many other people’s, is a tall, dark, and handsome man. Preferably alive and breathing... -
Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThere's a new psychic on the scene, and he's ready for action: introducing Lucas Jordan, the latest addition to Noah Bishop's crackerjack Special Crimes Unit. Lucas Jordan has an extraordinary psychic skill that police all over the country find invaluable: he locates missing people... -
Night Shadow by Nora Roberts
Fear casts a long shadow.... IN A CITY RULED BY FEAR... ...a solitary figure shrouded in black walked the night, determined to awaken a terrified metropolis from the nightmare of crime. There was nothing -- no bullets, and certainly not legal technicalities -- that could deter the man they called Nemesis from his mission...
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