Books like Home fires by Luanne Rice

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.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

Jo March, now Jo Bhaer, runs the progressive Plumfield school for boys with her husband, Professor Bhaer, two sons and twelve rescued orphan boys, navigating adventures and challenges that test their ideals and friendships.

Thomas Hardy’s bleak final novel follows Jude Fawley, a stonemason from rural Wessex, whose search for faith, love and independence collides with society’s harsh conventions and leads to tragedy.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

A story of a woman's search for a meaningful life, exploring personal conflicts and social critique in 1872.

Laurel, a widowed mother in Mississippi, returns home after her father's illness, witnessing his death and funeral, and must confront her past family ties to shape her future.

After a shocking accident, a celebrated children's author learns her reality is unraveling as ghostly ties force her to confront loss, psychological dread, and a haunting narrative that mirrors her own tragic story.

Rose Campbell returns to her roots in this sequel to 'Eight Cousins'.

A Chinese mother and her adopted daughter, raised by an American couple, discover how a rare native tea links their worlds and transforms their family's destiny across cultures.

A New England father and his 11‑year‑old daughter discover an abandoned infant in the snow, a moment that reshapes the girl's view of life and forces both to confront grief, love and forgiveness.

After a string of mysterious fires threatens his hometown, former action novelist Alex Jordan teams up with insurance investigator Kristin Delaney to uncover the truth, discovering that home can mean more than brick and mortar.

Emily, a refined city woman, travels to Iowa to care for her orphaned niece and finds unexpected love with Ben Cameron, a farmer and attorney. Their shared future fills the heartland with hope and family warmth.

Three sisters re‑unite at their childhood home Firefly Hill, where a mysterious man’s arrival forces them to confront a shared past and questions of love, loyalty, and healing.

Emma Roberts, a cautious researcher in France, encounters a charming new friend and falls in love with the country.

When a summer tragedy shatters a beloved lakeside family retreat, one sister strives to heal old wounds and restore the ties that once bound her sisters and nieces together.

Summer Redding thought the blindingly handsome jock who'd loved and left her years ago had died in the Washington massacre. She grieved for her lost golden boy as the rest of the country mourned their dead, until she comes home to find a very alive Jack Delvaux waiting for her with a devastating secret that turns her life upside down. No longer the carefree man he was in his youth, this Jack is dark, hard and dangerous a fifteen-year veteran of the CIA hungry for answers and hungry for her. The rich, good-looking charmer who broke her heart once before would have been easy to resist, but this man, this powerful man? Summer needs him, and he knows it. When Jack's mission uncovers evidence of government involvement in the massacre and plans for another attack he's primed for revenge. But he has more than vengeance to live for now, and when Summer's life is threatened, it's nearly Jack's undoing. Someone taking shots at his woman? That's dead man walking.

When sixteen-year-old Noa is forced to abandon her child after a forbidden pregnancy with a Nazi soldier, she discovers a boxcar of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and steals one to escape.

Young Rebecca, a talkative ten‑year‑old, moves to live with her two austere spinster aunts. Over seven formative years she learns life lessons, friendship, and kindness while navigating family, farm, and town life.