Tropes Small Town

Small Town

Close-knit communities where everyone knows your business. And the past is never as buried as it looks.

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    One Golden Summer cover

    One Golden Summer

    Carley Fortune · Romance

    **A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune** I never anticipated Charlie Florek.

    slow burn · second chance romance · small town · cozy vibes

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Good Spirits

    B.K. Borison · Romance

    **He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past.

    slow burn · grumpy sunshine · small town

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Theo of Golden

    Allen Levi · Literary Fiction

    “[A] word-of-mouth smash hit.” —The New York Times One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden.

    magical realism · small town

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    We Have Always Lived in the Castle

    Shirley Jackson · Literary Fiction

    Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark…

    unreliable narrator · psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere · small town · morally grey character

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    The Hive

    Melissa Scholes Young · Literary Fiction

    The Hive is a story of survival, sisters, and secrets.

    found family · coming of age · small town · survival

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Sunburn

    Chloe Michelle Howarth · Literary Fiction

    It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place.

    coming of age · small town · forbidden romance · historical fiction

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Rewind it Back

    Liz Tomforde · Romance

    Hallie When I was eleven, my family moved next door to his.

    second chance romance · slow burn · sports romance · small town

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Pumpkin Spice Café

    Laurie Gilmore · Romance

    **A spicy small-town romance and TikTok phenomenon, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer.** When Jeanie's aunt gifts her the…

    romantic comedy · cozy vibes · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    If It Makes You Happy

    Julie Olivia · Romance

    An Instant USA Today Bestseller!

    slow burn · small town · romantic comedy · cozy vibes

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Storm

    Rachel Hawkins · Mystery & Thriller

    St. Medard's Bay, Alabama, is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town; the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel…

    psychological thriller · closed circle · small town · missing person

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Frozen River

    Ariel Lawhon · Mystery & Thriller

    Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death.

    historical fiction · psychological thriller · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    We Are All Guilty Here

    Karin Slaughter · Mystery & Thriller

    Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone.

    psychological thriller · small town · closed circle

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    Wild Side

    Elsie Silver · Romance

    I’d always dreamed of my wedding day.

    enemies to lovers · marriage of convenience · forced proximity · small town · revenge plot

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    'Salem's Lot

    Stephen King · Horror

    Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own…

    gothic atmosphere · vampires · small town · haunted setting · redemption arc

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Big Girl Blitz

    Danielle Allen · Romance

    "Nothing is hotter and more fun than Danielle Allen's writing." -- Ali Hazelwood Jazmyn Payne fled the small town of Chance the minute she graduated…

    slow burn · small town · coming of age · friends to lovers

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Is This a Cry for Help?

    Emily Austin · Literary Fiction

    Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous…

    coming of age · trauma recovery · small town

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    Across the Vanishing Sky

    Catherine Cowles · Mystery & Thriller

    Braedyn Winslow never expected to return to Starlight Grove-the town that took everything from her.

    missing person · coming of age · small town · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Keeper

    Sarah Langan · Horror

    Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed.

    haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Benefactors

    Wendy Erskine · Literary Fiction

    AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL 2025 'I couldn't put this book down' Sheena Patel, author of I'm a Fan 'A powerful, moving, compelling, utterly…

    found family · coming of age · small town

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    Play Along

    Liz Tomforde · Romance

    Kennedy I’m the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors baseball team, and after years of putting up with a sexist lead doctor, I’m…

    grumpy sunshine · slow burn · small town · found family

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Done and Dusted

    Lyla Sage · Romance

    For the first time in her life, Clementine “Emmy” Ryder has no idea what she’s doing.

    friends to lovers · brothers best friend · slow burn · small town · romantic comedy

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Us Against You

    Fredrik Backman · Literary Fiction

    Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest,…

    found family · coming of age · trauma recovery · small town

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    Flesh

    David Szalay · Literary Fiction

    "Teenaged Istvâan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary.

    coming of age · forbidden romance · small town · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Beg, Borrow, or Steal

    Sarah Adams · Romance

    **Two feuding second-grade teachers (and neighbors) find themselves teaming up in this rivals-to-lovers romance by the New York Times bestselling…

    enemies to lovers · small town · slow burn · opposites attract

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Releasing 10

    Chloe Walsh · Romance

    He was her anchor. She was his storm. Together, they were everything—and it still wasn't enough. From Chloe Walsh, the international bestselling…

    slow burn · second chance romance · trauma recovery · small town

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Boy's Life

    Robert McCammon · Literary Fiction

    An Alabama boy's innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song.

    coming of age · small town · trauma recovery · historical fiction

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    Land

    Maggie O'Farrell · Literary Fiction

    The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before…

    historical fiction · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    These Familiar Walls

    C. J. Dotson · Horror

    A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T.

    coming of age · haunted setting · psychological thriller · small town

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    The Gingerbread Bakery

    Laurie Gilmore · Romance

    **From the international bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café and The Cinnamon Bun Book Store, comes the highly anticipated Dream Harbor…

    small town · cozy vibes · romantic comedy · magical realism

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Holiday Ever After

    Hannah Grace · Romance

    Clara Davenport wants to solve Fraser Falls’s biggest problem.

    romantic comedy · workplace romance · small town

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Soul Searching

    Lyla Sage · Romance

    Home is where the heart is—and this one is haunted.

    paranormal romance · small town · slow burn · ghosts · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Shady Hollow

    Juneau Black · Mystery & Thriller

    The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together…

    cozy vibes · small town · closed circle

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    The Killer Question

    Janice Hallett · Mystery & Thriller

    Janice Hallett, “the new queen of crime” (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub’s weekly…

    cozy vibes · small town · closed circle · cat and mouse

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    The Sun and the Starmaker

    Rachel Griffin · Fantasy

    There once was a village so far north that most considered it the top of the world...

    slow burn · romantic comedy · magical realism · small town · paranormal romance

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Blue Castle

    L.M. Montgomery · Literary Fiction

    Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love.

    coming of age · historical fiction · small town

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    The Winners

    Fredrik Backman · Literary Fiction

    A breathtaking new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit,…

    second chance romance · found family · small town · coming of age

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Gloria Don't Speak

    Lucy Apps · Literary Fiction

    Gloria has a learning disability.

    coming of age · found family · trauma recovery · small town

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    The Girls Who Grew Big

    Leila Mottley · Literary Fiction

    Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant.

    coming of age · historical fiction · found family · small town · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Crux

    Gabriel Tallent · Literary Fiction

    Dan e Tamma sono all’ultimo anno di liceo nella loro cittadina in California, all’ombra del Joshua Tree National Park, una delle mecche mondiali…

    coming of age · psychological thriller · small town · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Garden Spells

    Sarah Addison Allen · Literary Fiction

    **In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small house in the smallest of towns, is an apple tree rumored to bear a very special…

    magical realism · small town · found family · cozy vibes

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    Get Over It, April Evans

    Ashley Herring Blake · Romance

    A summer job at a lake-town resort brings together two women with an unlikely connection in this new contemporary romance by USA Today bestselling…

    second chance romance · coming of age · small town · found family

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Wild and Wrangled

    Lyla Sage · Romance

    Camille Ashwood had always loved a plan.

    second chance romance · small town · slow burn · sports romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Betting on You

    Lynn Painter · Romance

    When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers.

    romantic comedy · coming of age · grumpy sunshine · small town

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    Middlemarch

    George Eliot · Literary Fiction

    Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines…

    historical fiction · small town · coming of age

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    The Catcher in the Rye

    Jerome David Salinger · Literary Fiction

    Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism.

    coming of age · small town · anti hero · unreliable narrator

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    Reckless

    Elsie Silver · Romance

    Theo Silva. Rowdy bull rider, notorious ladies' man, scorching hot trouble wrapped up in a drool-worthy package. And he's looking at me like I…

    romantic comedy · small town · grumpy sunshine · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Sundown Girls

    L.S. Stratton · Mystery & Thriller

    In the tradition of Jordan Peele and Tiffany Jackson’s The Weight of Blood, a YA thriller about a Black teen whose fight for survival forces a small…

    psychological thriller · survival · small town · coming of age

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    No Place Like You

    Jillian Meadows · Romance

    Childhood friends turned high school rivals fall into a small-town fake dating scheme in this sweet, spicy, and utterly irresistible romance from the…

    friends to lovers · fake relationship · romantic comedy · small town · enemies to lovers

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    August Lane

    Regina Black · Romance

    A Black country music star who lied about writing his only hit risks his comeback to reunite with the woman he stole it from, a first love the lyrics…

    second chance romance · small town · redemption arc

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Hounding

    Xenobe Purvis · Horror

    Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on…

    gothic atmosphere · small town · haunted setting · psychological thriller · closed circle

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Good House

    Tananarive Due · Horror

    Award-winning author Due's spine tingling tale of supernatural suspense "weaves a stronger net than ever" (Kirkus Reviews") as a woman searches for…

    haunted setting · found family · small town

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    Go Gentle

    Maria Semple · Literary Fiction

    'I ADORED THIS NOVEL' NINA STIBBE 'LOADED WITH MARIA SEMPLE'S SIGNATURE WIT' BONNIE GARMUS 'SMART, FUNNY AND DEVASTATING IN A GREAT WAY' JENNETTE…

    coming of age · small town · found family

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Christmas Tree Farm

    Laurie Gilmore · Romance

    **From the author of the viral TikTok sensation, The Pumpkin Spice Café, comes the only spicy grumpy x sunshine Christmas romcom you need this…

    grumpy sunshine · romantic comedy · small town · holiday romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Story Of My Life

    Lucy Score · Romance

    THE ALL-NEW SMALL-TOWN ROMCOM FROM LUCY SCORE Hazel is given a one-two punch when she's forced to move out of her Upper East Side apartment and is…

    romantic comedy · small town · coming of age · fish out of water

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    When in Rome

    Sarah Adams · Romance

    Opposites certainly attract for the stranded pop star and small-town baker in this charming slice of romance from the author of the TikTok sensation…

    romantic comedy · opposites attract · slow burn · small town · fish out of water

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Wild Eyes

    Elsie Silver · Romance

    A rugged mountain town seemed like the perfect escape from a life in shambles.

    small town · found family · slow burn · grumpy sunshine

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Redeeming 6

    Chloe Walsh · Romance

    I'm saving you, six. Joey Lynch's life is falling apart. Obsessed with proving himself to the only person he's ever truly trusted, Joey fights to…

    coming of age · slow burn · small town

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    A Murder Is Announced

    Agatha Christie · Mystery & Thriller

    The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which read: 'A murder…

    cozy vibes · small town · twist ending

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    A Quiet Life in the Country

    T E. Kinsey · Mystery & Thriller

    Emily, Lady Hardcastle, is a widow with a mysterious and unconventional past.

    small town · historical fiction · cozy vibes

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Burn Bright

    Nancy Hall · Mystery & Thriller

    "Burn Bright" is a tale of moonlight, murders, money and mystery.

    paranormal romance · psychological thriller · werewolves shifters · small town · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Grace

    A.M. Shine · Horror

    A haunting tale of ancient evil and long-buried secrets in an isolated Irish community from the author of hit horror novel The Watchers.

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · small town · closed circle

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    Funeral Song

    Carly Racklin · Horror

    "A grotesque beauty in the vein of Guillermo del Toro, matched only by Carly Racklin's elegant prose." —Rachel Bolton, author of Please Serve Cold…

    gothic atmosphere · small town · haunted setting

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Last One Out

    Jane Harper · Mystery & Thriller

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town.

    psychological thriller · small town · closed circle

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Swift and Saddled

    Lyla Sage · Romance

    The last thing Ada Hart needs is a man to take care of her.

    forced proximity · opposites attract · small town · slow burn · romantic comedy

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Knot Before You Enter

    Tish Bouvier · Mystery & Thriller

    Maxine Gerimatter, an octogenarian is sharp as a tack and fiercely independent, even if life has landed her at Sunny Ridge Living Care Facility.

    cozy vibes · small town · found family

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    Darkrooms

    Rebecca Hannigan · Mystery & Thriller

    'Haunting, fast-paced and unforgettable' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'Astonishing' LUCY ROSE A chilling thriller' PETER SWANSON A masterful, menacing debut' ANNA…

    psychological thriller · small town · trauma recovery

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    All the Little Houses

    May Cobb · Mystery & Thriller

    "May Cobb's most explosive book yet.

    psychological thriller · small town · twist ending

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    We Are Always Tender with Our Dead

    Eric LaRocca · Horror

    Michael McDowell’s Blackwater meets Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show in the disturbing first installment of a new trilogy of intense,…

    gothic atmosphere · found family · small town · grimdark

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    You Again

    Amanda Waters · Romance

    The summer before her senior year of high school, Rosalee fell in love with George.

    second chance romance · small town · slow burn · coming of age

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Village Diary

    Miss Read · Literary Fiction

    Here, the characters include dictatorial Amy, an old college friend, Mr Mawne, whom the village sees as a possible husband for the unwilling Miss…

    small town · historical fiction · cozy vibes

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    Miss Buncle’s Book

    D.E. Stevenson · Literary Fiction

    Who Knew One Book Could Cause So Much Chaos?

    romantic comedy · small town · coming of age

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    The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

    Deesha Philyaw · Literary Fiction

    coming of age · small town

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    You've Reached Sam

    Dustin Thao · Literary Fiction

    Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer…

    coming of age · trauma recovery · magical realism · small town · missing person

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    Anderson in Bloom

    Jennifer Dugan · Romance

    Former child star Anderson “Andy” Ducharme is hiding—has been for a long time, if she’s honest with herself, which she isn’t.

    enemies to lovers · second chance romance · romantic comedy · small town · she falls first

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Secret Haven

    Catherine Cowles · Romance

    Get ready for your next reading obsession, the spicy small-town romance filled with mystery and suspense from the bestselling author, perfect for…

    small town · romantic comedy · psychological thriller · second chance romance · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    A Pack for Autumn

    Emilia Emerson · Romance

    She was looking for quiet. She found them instead. Starlight Grove needs a new Lighthouse Keeper and Olive Autumn Harvest needs a fresh start.…

    paranormal romance · found family · slow burn · small town · fated mates

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Lovelight Farms

    B.K. Borison · Romance

    *Where the lovelight gleams …* A pasture of dead trees.

    fake relationship · romantic comedy · friends to lovers · holiday romance · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Delicate Escape

    Catherine Cowles · Romance

    Get ready for your next reading obsession, the spicy small-town romance filled with mystery and suspense from the bestselling author, perfect for…

    small town · found family · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Holiday Romance

    Jill Sanders · Romance

    Just in time for the holidays, take another wonderful trip to Oregon.

    romantic comedy · small town · holiday romance · opposites attract

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Needful Things

    Stephen King · Horror

    “There are two prices for this. Half…and half. One half is cash. The other is a deed. Do you understand?” The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen…

    grimdark · small town · psychological thriller · demons

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Blackwater

    Michael McDowell · Horror

    On the crest of the worst flood that Perdido, Alabama has ever seen, the mysterious Elinor Dammart is rescued from the topmost room of a flooded…

    gothic atmosphere · dark academia · small town

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    Washington Irving · Horror

    A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · small town · love triangle

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    Seascraper

    Benjamin Wood · Literary Fiction

    Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker.

    coming of age · small town

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    Stay with Me

    Ayobami Adebayo · Literary Fiction

    "A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for…

    coming of age · small town · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Lake Effect

    Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney · Literary Fiction

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one…

    historical fiction · found family · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    A Long Winter

    Colm Toibin · Literary Fiction

    Available for the first time in a beautiful standalone edition, one of Colm Tóibín’s finest short stories and “the most striking example of Tóibin’s…

    historical fiction · small town

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    Pick a Color

    Souvankham Thammavongsa · Literary Fiction

    Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an…

    coming of age · small town

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    Dubliners

    James Joyce · Literary Fiction

    James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to…

    historical fiction · small town

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    I Hope This Finds You Well

    T.R. Mintz · Literary Fiction

    One day in early February Nancy Perkins, a nurse in a decaying marriage, receives an assignment to care for a Vietnam War veteran suffering from a…

    small town · coming of age · trauma recovery

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    Margo's Got Money Troubles

    Rufi Thorpe · Literary Fiction

    coming of age · small town · romantic comedy · friends to lovers

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Baby Dragon Café

    A. T. Qureshi · Fantasy

    magical realism · found family · small town

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    This Ain't Our First Rodeo

    Liara Tamani · Romance

    Love is a wild ride. Hold on. When life lassoes Josie and Shawn back together three years after their dreamy first date, their second chance at love…

    second chance romance · slow burn · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    It Seemed Like a Good Idea

    Lauren Blakely · Romance

    "A Lauren Blakely book is a guarantee of a good time." --Meghan Quinn, USA Today bestselling author Grumpy meets sunshine with a Hollywood twist in…

    grumpy sunshine · small town · romantic comedy · bodyguard romance · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    In a Holidaze

    Christina Lauren · Romance

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but not for Maelyn Jones.

    romantic comedy · holiday romance · love triangle · coming of age · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Secret Crush Book Club

    Karmen Lee · Romance

    A dedicated single mother and a librarian with a secret write their own sweet and sexy love story in this small-town rom-com about family,…

    romantic comedy · found family · slow burn · small town · coming of age

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Bright Side of Christmas

    Morgan Elizabeth · Romance

    From #1 Amazon best-selling author of Tis the Season for Revenge comes a new steamy, small-town grumpy sunshine romance!

    enemies to lovers · grumpy sunshine · forced proximity · romantic comedy · small town · holiday romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Long Time Gone

    Charlie Donlea · Mystery & Thriller

    On the first day of an elite two-year fellowship, Sloan Hastings receives a research assignment in the emerging field of forensic genealogy.

    psychological thriller · missing person · small town · political intrigue · cat and mouse

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    A Very Novel Murder

    Ellie Alexander · Mystery & Thriller

    Opening a detective agency above her beloved bookstore seems like the perfect business plan--until Annie Murray's first case involves a suspicious…

    cozy vibes · small town · closed circle

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    One for the Money

    Janet Evanovich · Mystery & Thriller

    Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since…

    romantic comedy · small town

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Power of the Dog

    Thomas Savage · Literary Fiction

    **NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA AWARDS** Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th…

    psychological thriller · historical fiction · small town · cat and mouse · morally grey character

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Hopeless

    Elsie Silver · Romance

    Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.

    grumpy sunshine · small town · slow burn · romantic comedy · opposites attract

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Midnight Taxi

    Yosha Gunasekera · Mystery & Thriller

    When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this…

    small town

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    The List of Suspicious Things

    Jennie Godfrey · Mystery & Thriller

    "A quietly moving and intimate tale about family mysteries in a small town." —People magazine "We'll make a list.

    coming of age · small town · cozy vibes

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    The Only One Who Knows

    Lisa M. Matlin · Mystery & Thriller

    A disgraced TV news reporter returns to her violent hometown to investigate a series of deadly shark attacks in this nail-biting suspense novel from…

    psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere · revenge plot · small town · cat and mouse

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    A Slow and Secret Poison

    Carmella Lowkis · Mystery & Thriller

    In the early 1900s, a young gardener at a lush English manor falls in love with her employer whose past is shrouded in deadly secrets—from the author…

    forbidden romance · gothic atmosphere · historical fiction · small town · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes

    Sandra Jackson-Opoku · Mystery & Thriller

    A sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago, featuring the quick-witted, unforgettable Savvy Summers, proprietor of a soul food café.

    cozy vibes · small town · closed circle

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    Nowhere

    Allison Gunn · Mystery & Thriller

    "Rachel Kennan, the new police chief of a fundamentalist southern town, relies on her job to push through the pain of losing her young son and the…

    psychological thriller · trauma recovery · small town · morally grey character

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit