Books like Barefoot bride by Dorothy Cork

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.

Sandra Cisneros’ celebrated coming‑of‑age tale follows Esperanza Cordero as she grows up in Chicago’s Mexican-American community, exploring identity through poetic vignettes.

Having lost her beloved husband, a whaling captain, to a watery grave, Molly Gallagher refuses to risk more heartbreak. Determined to keep her headstrong son from following in his father’s footsteps, she agrees to become the mail-order bride of a Montana country doctor. She tells her new husband that she can never give her love to another man; what she doesn’t tell him is that she has a young daughter and a rebellious teenage son. Molly’s ruse might have worked, but Seth Kendrick has secrets of his own: a willful daughter determined to end the marriage before it even begins—and a double life keeping his neighbors safe from outlaws. In an untamed land of vigilante justice, Molly has no choice but to trust this gray-eyed stranger whose stubbornness matches her own, whose kisses unleash flash floods of desire—and who may be the one man in a million who could win her fiery, faithful heart.

After a breakup, an engaged city woman wins the lottery and retreats to a tropical paradise, where she runs into an old flame and faces a life‑changing choice between her familiar career and a new romance.

An emotional journey that follows Caretta Rutledge as she returns to her Lowcountry roots to restore a family beach house, become a turtle volunteer, and heal the bond with her mother.

Saxon Blackwell, heir to an English estate, is forced to find a bride or lose everything. He turns to the spirited mountain girl Chickadee McBride, whose wild charm and untamed spirit challenge his rigid world.

Lilian Girvan, a young widow and single mother, balances an illustrating career, two children, and a newfound love for gardening at the Los Angeles Botanical Garden. Through composting and new friendships she learns to bloom again.

After a heartbreak, Lily Dane returns to Seaview, Rhode Island, for a carefree summer. When her old best friend and former fiancé, Nick Greenwald, arrives with his new wife Budgie, long‑hidden feelings and secrets resurface, threatening the quiet town’s harmony.

A large type book of English fiction by Mervyn Jones.

Abbie Fox returns to Nantucket after two years away, where her sisters Lily, Emma, and their widowed father face new challenges and unexpected connections. Amid a summer of change, the family’s bonds are tested by love, loss, and the sea's unpredictable currents.

An unlikely American soldier becomes the hero in this thrilling World War II story of sniper skills and survival.

When three women seek refuge on Nantucket in summer, each confronts personal crises—infidelity, career ruin, and cancer—while forming new bonds that may change their lives forever.