Books like Second Best Fantasy by Angela Kelly

In The Name of the Wind, a young orphan named Kvothe tells the tale of his rise from street player to legendary wizard, recounting adventures, love, and loss in a richly imagined world.

The Way of Kings opens Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, a sweeping high‑fantasy saga set on the storm‑torn world of Roshar where mystical Shardblade warriors, broken kingdoms, and mysterious ancient orders collide.

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Gavin Guile, the powerful Prism who governs as high priest and emperor, must complete five impossible goals in five years while concealing a son’s existence that threatens the fragile peace of his world.

In the fractured realm of Inys, Queen Sabran the Ninth must secure her dynasty, while the hidden mage Ead watches over her and dragonrider Tané faces a fateful challenge—tension rises as ancient threats stir and eastern and western forces clash.

After leaving a teen‑celebrity career, Lindsay West returns to her Missouri hometown to rehearse a regional play, where she reunites with former co‑star Noah Patrick—who’s now trying to win her heart back amid a summer of theater, family quirks, and a chance at true love.

In 1860s Montana, Boston‑born Kate Beecher confronts frontier hardships and discovers love with independent rancher Jessie Forbes, challenging social constraints and shaping a tender tale of passion and survival.

Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye of the Special Crimes Unit pursues a serial sexual assailant, finding hope in a wounded witness whose doctor, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, must assist—testing both women’s limits as they navigate duty, demons, and evolving attraction.

Two women in 1899 England defy social expectations when a hostler falls for a schoolteacher. Their daring escape to Western Canada challenges gender, class, and prejudice as they seek a life together.

An exploration of identity and self-discovery through the lives of women in relationships with unavailable men, as told through the eyes of the author's own journey.

When Sister Jennifer Davidson is invited to a country cottage by consultant Andrew Barrett, her life takes an unexpected turn, especially when her ex‑husband, the locum orthopedic registrar Nick, returns for a second chance.

A Holiday Romance collection featuring stories by Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux, Andrea Kane, Kimberly Cates, and Judith O’Brien set in New York City, Victorian England, London, Virginia, and Newport.

Queen Georgina of Wales returns to the throne after her father's death, becoming Great Britain’s first openly gay monarch. When hospice director Beatrice Elliot partners with her, fierce chemistry and politics test whether love can bridge palace and street.

After a publicly humiliating divorce, best-selling author Emma Volant runs away to hide in the seaside English village of Amberwick, where she doesn’t know another living soul. She wants nothing more than to surrender to her broken heart in private. However, when the locals discover their newest resident is world famous, they gather at the local pub and hatch a plan to draw Emma out of her self-imposed isolation, hoping her celebrity status will elevate the village’s reputation to something more than a holiday hotspot. It doesn’t take long for them to try to rope their favorite bartender, Brogan, into the act. Born and raised in Amberwick, Brogan McKay has built a comfortable life by never overreaching. Part-time jobs and short-term flings have always been good enough for her, but when she meets her beautiful and wounded new neighbor, Brogan realizes Emma has the potential to wreck the carefully controlled expectations she uses to protect her heart. Despite their obvious attraction and growing friendship, both Emma and Brogan are in firm agreement that neither of them is in a position to look for love, but how long can they fight their fears and desires as the events and people around them all conspire to create a full English love story?