Books like Winter's Harbor by Aurora Rey

In Cedar Cove, private‑investigator Roy McAfee and his wife Corrie confront mysterious postcards while their daughter Linnette starts a new job at a local clinic and flirts with a horse‑farm worker. A cozy mystery filled with local life, romance, and family ties.

Marty Jamison's Broadway show may be a mistake when an unexpected meeting with author Liz Chandler brings the help she needs, but a young actress threatens to steal her lead role.

A tender romance between two lesbian partners confronting cancer and discovering hope together.

After moving to Cedar Cove, Jo Marie Rose transforms her inn and a rose garden in memory of her husband, while the town's residents—an engaged widow, a grieving businesswoman, and a growing grandmother—navigate healing, forgiveness, and new beginnings.

Mallory "Ice" James, a seasoned firefighter paramedic, leads a diverse crew of smokejumpers and must quickly train new recruits while navigating tension and attraction with troublemaker Hotshot Jac Russo during a critical 30-day training period.

"You owe $100,000 so pay up!" When Will Kendrick stormed into Erin's office threatening to shut down her "sorry excuse for a newspaper," Erin decided the man must be mad! No one was going to wrest Erin's inheritance from her--certainly not some ''obnoxious nephew" fantasizing about his "alleged aunt" Maggie and her "so-called" life savings. Unfortunately, Will wasn't fantasizing. Still, Erin had a plan. All she had to do was run the newspaper, woo reluctant advertisers, repay Maggie while discouraging her from writing an advice-to-the-lovelorn column, and manage, somehow, not to lose her heart to the impossible--and impossibly handsome--Will Kendrick.

Ray McKenna returns from the war in Iraq to find that she has attained unwanted celebrity status back home. As the only surviving American soldier of a well-publicized hostage crisis, she is the center of attention at a time when all she wants is solitude. Struggling to overcome the fear and anxiety that plague her, she relies on her psychiatric therapy dog Jagger to help her through the vicious symptoms of PTSD. Veterinarian Dr. Carly Warner hasn't yet figured out how to open her heart to the possibility of falling in love again after the death of her longtime partner. When Ray walks into the North Coast Veterinary Clinic with Jagger, she and Carly begin a friendship that takes them both by surprise. Brought together by their shared love of dogs, Ray and Carly discover that they are both capable of moving forward, if only they are brave enough to try--Publisher's description.