Books like The Paths of Summer by Iris Bromige
Josephine works as the trusted right‑hand of the renowned author Conrad Ravensburg, a role that has taken her worldwide and built a career of excitement and variety. Four years after breaking off her engagement, she returns to find her former fiancé, Mike Wexford, still harboring bitterness toward her. Their mutual friendships complicate their interactions and reveal deeper hurt. Determined to mend the situation, Josephine investigates the past four years of Conrad’s conduct. She discovers a ruthless streak in his dealings that she had been blind to. Armed with these revelations, she sets out to rectify the wrongs while confronting her own painful history, embarking on a quest that uncovers the hidden paths of her summer past.
First publish date: 1979
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Iris Bromige
★
★
★
★
★
3.7 (3 community ratings)
How are these books recommended?
The books recommended for The Paths of Summer by Iris Bromige are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.
Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier
for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.
Books similar to The Paths of Summer (15 similar books)
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.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Jack, a terminally ill widower, survives a miraculous recovery after his wife dies in a car accident and sets out to reunite his children at her South Carolina oceanfront childhood home.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
After a personal tragedy, Laura retreats to the historic Melloney Park, where memories of its former Edwardian occupants mingle with her own dreams, while her new job and an unexpected marriage proposal test her fragile peace.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Emma leaves Northumberland for a riding school in Sussex, where love and career plans clash with family expectations and unexpected opportunities, leading her to discover true love and professional fulfillment.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Caran plans a carefree summer working at Albarosa's holiday villas in Andalucia, only to find herself entangled with the suave Don Ramiro Mendosa and the temperamental Englishman Brooke Eldridge, when her flamboyant friend Julie arrives.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Melanie abandons her London secretarial job to return to her family home, now a hotel, where love and intrigue unfold as she finds herself torn between a sweet childhood friend and a weary, worldly ex‑reporter.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Interview with the Vampire; The Queen of the Damned; Vampire Lestat: A series of vampire tales featuring Anne Rice's iconic vampire protagonist Lestat, set in 19th-century Italy and America, with an interview with the vampire character.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Love and mystery resolved in the enchanting setting of the West of Ireland.
Jean had loved Adrian with the happy simplicity of a child. Four weeks before their wedding day, he was lost to her, and in circumstances which she did not understand. If the answers lay anywhere, they lay in the West of Ireland, in that enchanting country to which he had been so devoted. She went there expecting nothing beyond finding out what had really happened; only then, she felt, could she accept the situation.
By the end of the summer, a new future opened up. None of it had been easy, but now she could put the past behind her. Somehow, she had reached the point where she could truthfully say she would not have changed places with anyone in the world.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A story of romance and family life, focusing on daughters inheriting the estate and the Grenton family's journey through time and history.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Steve Kaplan volunteers with a summer job caring for Michael, a young blind boy, and discovers the profound impact of this role on his own life and the relationships around him.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Summer dreams of ballet and dedicates herself to an audition, but the quest for perfection threatens her friendships and outlook—until a boy who offers more than friendship helps her discover that true dreams come in many shapes.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In the lovely setting of the French Alps, Mary Rowan seemed to have found the happiness she though had passed her by for ever.
What a strange twist of fate it was that David, whom she had learned to love so much, should be the one man in the world she could never marry.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Some Other Similar Books
The Summer Book by Tove JanssonSummer Sisters by Meghan Abbott
The Summer of Amnesia by Wendy Kesselman
The Summer of Broken Things by Margot Livesey
The Summer of a Lifetime by Marisa de los Santos
Summer of the Big Bopper by William De Mille
Summer's End by L. M. Montgomery
Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!
Please login to submit books!