Books like Pamela's second season by Donna Simpson

Twenty‑five year‑old Belly Conklin returns to the family summer home on the coast, where a cancer diagnosis forces her to confront love, loss, and growing up amid the familiar rhythm of beach life.

Convenient Bride for the King is a romance novel by Kelly Hunter that explores themes of love, duty, and destiny within a fictional setting.

Her father's death left Pamela an heiress at the age of ten--but his will was designed to keep her from his erring wife, who was disinherited. Pamela, precocious in many ways, loved her mother fiercely, and vowed to fight to spend time with her. As Pamela grew to be a desirable young woman, she recognized that her guardian had the power to keep her and her mother apart. And then the guardian died... Pamela gradually realizes the truth about her own past, and about the only man she's ever loved, and finally takes the only means she can find to solve her problems. - GoodReads

Young, Pamela Jean had been abused her whole life, because of her strong negro features and because of the color of her pale, light skin. At an early age when her own mother failed to stop the bullying, young Pamela took control. After finding, and reading, what was to her, a funny book called PIMP, by Iceberg Slim, Pamela decides to use the book's controlling metaphor's to put an end to her abuse. When two girls who sought to burn Pamela in a tunnel, see her sudden change, the abuse throughout her high school comes to a quick halt, as Pamela seeks counseling and is declared a winner. Later, to finance an entire anti-bullying agenda, Pamela hires high-end male Escorts under a surreptitious umbrella to fund her nationwide venture to end bullying. In the interim, Pamela finds love, and a way to make like easier for those that are left ill-unequipped to fight for self.

Psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff blends her medical career with her psychic gifts, offering personal insights and practical exercises for developing intuition and clairvoyance.