Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover
A woman and her airline-pilot neighbor agree to a no-strings arrangement with two rules, in a heavier-than-it-sounds romance with explicit sex scenes.
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It Ends with Us follows Lily Bloom, a florist in Boston who falls for a charming neurosurgeon while a first love from her past re-enters her life. These seven books bring more emotional love stories, from tearful to lighter, and one dark thriller by the same author.
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November 9
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Two people meet the day before she moves away and keep meeting on the same date every year, while he turns their story into a novel.
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Five years after a tragic mistake sent her to prison, a young woman goes back to try to meet the four-year-old daughter she has never raised, in a tearful story of grief and forgiveness.
Verity
Colleen Hoover
A departure from the author's romances: a writer hired to finish a novelist's series stays in her home and finds an unsettling manuscript, in a thriller with explicit sex.
Me Before You
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A woman who needs a job becomes the caregiver of a paralyzed man who is bitter about his life, in a tearful adult romance about disability and end-of-life choices.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
An aging Hollywood star picks an unknown journalist to write her life story and tells of her seven marriages, in a glossy, emotional novel that touches on domestic abuse.
Beach Read
Emily Henry
A romance writer and a literary novelist who live next door make a bet to write in each other's genres, in a funny, warm story with real grief in it.
How to choose
It Ends with Us is a love story that explores domestic abuse, so decide how heavy you want to go. For more from the same author, Ugly Love, November 9 and Reminders of Him are emotional romances, while Verity is a dark thriller. Me Before You and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo are bigger-hearted stories about love and its limits, and Beach Read is the lightest of the group. Content varies a lot. It Ends with Us includes domestic violence and sexual assault, Reminders of Him deals with grief and a death in the past, Verity has explicit sex and very dark events, Me Before You takes up disability and end-of-life choices, and Evelyn Hugo touches on domestic abuse. Please check content notes first.
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