Books like It happened one autumn by Lisa Kleypas

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.

Amanda Briars, an unmarried novelist, contracts a one‑night affair with the notorious businessman Jack Devlin, only to discover that their fleeting pleasure may pave the way for a marriage that could change both of their lives.

Evangeline Jenner, the shyest of the Wallflower sisters, negotiates a perilous marriage with the notorious Viscount St. Vincent to secure her inheritance and escape traitorous relatives, insisting on a non-sexual union that challenges both hearts.

In Regency England, the free‑spirited Beatrix Hathaway must choose between a conventional life and a love that begins as a deception—when a daring soldier, Christopher Phelan, returns from war, their correspondence turns into a passionate romance.

When the Duke of Kylemore seeks to tame the celebrated courtesan Soraya, she vanishes in his hands and is taken to his Scottish hunting lodge, where a fierce, forbidden romance unfolds.

Jack Carstares, the disgraced former Earl of Wyncham, returns to Georgian England as a highwayman to rescue Diana Beauleigh from the villainous Duke of Andover, while struggling to restore his honor and love.

Kate Collison, a devoted daughter, becomes an accidental Parisian portraitist and must confront a charismatic Baron who threatens her freedom and identity.

A 19th‑century English romance where Velvet Moran, bound to a Duke’s marriage, is captured by highwayman Jason Sinclair, who seeks to clear his name and prevent the wedding that would deny him his inherited dukedom.

A British soldier and a war-weary rebel find themselves entangled in a dangerous game of espionage and passion, risking everything to be together.

Regan flees her inheritance to escape an unwanted marriage and finds herself on London’s docks, where a rugged American named Travis Stanford vows to protect her, sparking a romance that spans England’s wharves and Virginia’s mansions.

Guy deMontgomery, a Norman conqueror, falls for the beautiful Lillyth while his army ransacks England. Lillyth's enchanting beauty and fiery nature lead Guy to challenge everyone for her hand in marriage. They share a passionate love story in the heart of medieval romance.

Jessica Fox rises from London streets to become a coveted beauty in high society, yet her ambition to marry Captain Matthew Seaton threatens to unravel her past and her future.

Three women—Bethanne, her daughter Annie, and Ruth—embark on a cross-country road trip to Florida for a high‑school reunion, discovering new friendships, revisiting past loves, and confronting life‑changing decisions along the way.

After cholera leaves a 15‑year‑old Cissie Brodie orphaned, she must raise nine siblings and build a home in the 1830s, fighting poverty, workhouses and prejudice while hoping love will broaden their horizons.

A Highland romance involving a drunken abductor and his captivated captive who must overcome obstacles to win her heart.

A rough street urchin finds herself wedded to an aristocratic lord, determined to turn her into a lady and prove her worth in a scandalous bet.

Star McFarland, a young woman raised in a convent, runs away with her beloved Charles Bradford and later meets the conflicted Mexican‑American Michael Kelly amid the backdrop of the war with Mexico.

Zac Randolph owns and runs the Little Corner of Heaven Saloon in San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. He's a gambler by trade and by nature. He takes care of the girls who work for him, but no woman is as exciting as gambling, no woman means as much to him as his saloon. His life is perfect until a distant cousin, Lily Sterling, arrives from Virginia and upsets everything. Taking Zac up on a casually extended invitation, this fresh-faced beauty has fled her father and a prospective husband. She insists she doesn't want Zac to take care of her, but Zac is as good-hearted as he is selfish. He knows Lily is too innocent for San Francisco. When he can't convince her to go back to Virginia, he tries to find her a safe job. But Lily's good-heartedness continually gets her into trouble from which Zac has to rescue her. When she is caught in his bed, compromised (she wasn't, but nobody's going to believe two nearly naked people), an immediate wedding was the only solution. Lily was more than happy to believe Zac loves her, but Zac is determined to stay away from Lily so he can leave her with a clean conscience. Lily sees only the good in Zac and believes she's been sent to San Francisco to save him from himself, but Zac is determined to get Lily away from the saloon and out of his system. He should have known by now that where there's a "flower woman", there's a Randolph about to lose his heart.

Jemma, a barmaid turned society darling, navigates love, intrigue, and hidden secrets in Regency England.

A tale of passion and deception in the Regency era, where a determined woman refuses to be bought with a husband, and a charming but unrepentant man must prove his true feelings to secure her love.

Set on Britain’s rugged eastern coast, "Captain Jack's Woman" follows the seductive clash between smuggler Captain Jack and his ward, Kit Cranmer, as they trade midnight gallops for a forbidden romance amid the perils of illicit trade.

After the Civil War, Holly seeks vengeance against Northerners who destroyed her Southern home, yet an unexpected romance with a Yankee commander complicates her quest for justice.

A former indentured servant returns to her hometown in 1774 to exact revenge on the family that ruined her, only to find a powerful new owner whose presence stirs both fear and forbidden desire.