10 Sweet Romance Authors Like Kristan Higgins

When three generations of women are brought together by crisis, they must learn the true meaning of family. Lauren's perfect life is primed to fall apart with her daughter Mack going through a turbulent adolescent phase. Jenna wants to start a family with her husband but it's just not happening. Nancy, their mother, has long been distant and not especially hands-on, but she's never told them the reasons why. 

After they're thrown together for a summer in scenic Martha's Vineyard, secrets are revealed, but as a family, they find that those dark things could open the doors for something far more beautiful.

Robyn Carr is beloved to countless romance lovers for her long-running Virgin River series, which was adapted into a popular Netflix show. The House on Olive Street is a standalone title that predates her most famous series.

Four women are drawn together after the loss of one of their closest friends. Sable is a bestselling writer with a dark past she's desperate to hide. Elly has cloistered herself in academic work, afraid to admit she's tired of being alone. Barbara Ann is a romance writer who has lost control of her career and family. Beth writes mysteries to escape from the tyranny of her abusive husband. 

The quartet's reunion helps each of them discover something new about themselves and gives them the strength to be more than what everyone else wants them to be.

Rosa Capoletti made her dreams come true by renovating a run-down pizza joint in the seaside resort town of Winslow, Rhode Island, and turning it into an award-winning restaurant. If only her personal life was so successful. She hasn't had any romance in her life since her tryst with Alexander Montgomery ended suddenly a decade ago. 

When Alexander arrives back in town and asks for her help sorting through his late mother's affairs, she can't refuse, even if she's still struggling with her feelings for her ex. But together, reunited at the beach house where they first met and fell in love, Rosa and Alexander discover that the secrets of the past are not what they seem.

Holly Morton fled Penhallow Sands nearly a year ago, eager to run away from her past and all the mistakes she'd made. It also meant getting away from Rich Turner, whom she never wanted to see again. But now an unexpected loss and financial trouble have led her back to her hometown and the family vineyard. It means picking up the pieces of her family's struggling business, confronting her errors, and letting Rich know he's now a father. 

But things seem different now, calmer and happier. Rich loves being a father to baby Luke. She's reminded of why she fell for him in the first place. She can't change her past, but the future is unwritten.

When Jillian James lands in the small-town Texas community of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay. She's there on a mission, eager to find clues about the father who abandoned her and her family. Connor Larady is a single dad who is caring for his grandmother, Eugenia, who has Alzheimer's. Her beloved quilt shop will have to close but Connor doesn't want to wipe out her legacy like that. 

Down-on-her-luck Jillian needs help, so perhaps she could help his family out for a while and do right by Eugenia's shop. The pair of them soon grow close, but is Jillian ready to give up her nomadic lifestyle and settle down in Laurel Springs? Can she get over her past heartache and let Connor into her heart?

Rosie and Nate had the perfect relationship and their lives ahead of them, but after their daughter Emmie was diagnosed with terminal cancer, their worlds fell apart. They must do everything to support their little girl, but can they stop their marriage from crumbling? 

Unbeknownst to her parents, Emmie is on a mission. She wants them to remember why they fell in love in the first place and find that romance anew. There's not much time, but the wise beyond her years Emmie knows what she has to do to make her last wish come true.

Nicole Keyes is used to being the serious and responsible one in her family. After all, she's the one who gave up her old life to return home, run the family baker, and raise her younger sibling. But with Nicole's twin sister now blissfully married and the youngest one eager to grow up fast, Nicole is ready to put herself first for once in her life. 

Enter Hawk, a gorgeous former NFL player who offers her a chance to get wild. She's interested, but not ready to give away her heart. Then again, she might not have a choice in the matter...

Nell has just moved to Humblebee Farm and started her new job as a Reception Class Teacher at Leyholme Primary. Well, it's more a ramshackle farmhouse than home sweet home, complete with a hole-ridden roof and random sheep in the front room. 

Xander Scott is one of the youngest headteachers Leyholme has ever had, and being quite shy makes dealing with wild kids and their even-scarier parents a whole new level of pain. Stevie is a widow trying to deal with life as a single mother, who thinks she's found a sliver of solace with dog-walker Deb. The four of them will find that life has more than a few surprises for them.

Max Crawford has reached the point in life where he's starting to think about settling down. Unfortunately, he's no social butterfly and doesn't get much chance to leave the house and mingle with the opposite sex. He spends so much time alone, working from home and painting gorgeous model trains, that half of the people of Whitford think he's a serial killer. 

Tori Burns, a worker at the local diner, has become intrigued by this shy, geeky, handsome man who wants to find The One. So, she decides to help mold him into every woman's dream. But have her plans worked too well? What if Tori prefers Max as he is?

Best known for the iconic The First Wives Club, Olivia Goldsmith brought glamourous vengeance to the masses! In Switcheroo, Sylvie Schiffer watches as her seemingly perfect life comes crashing down around her. Her husband Bob is cheating on her with Marla, a woman who, give or take a few years, could be her double. 

It also turns out that the mistress isn't entirely happy with the arrangement either, so the two women concoct a scheme to get revenge on the man they share. Will Bob even notice what’s going on, and what will happen if their plan is revealed?