Books like The Distant Hills by Lucy Walker

After suffering a war‑time injury that leaves him in a coma, Ryan Middleton awakens in Belgium, where widowed mother Alys Prevou helps him rediscover life—and love—while his fading memories threaten to undo their newfound bond.

It’s 1935, and Laurel Jackson fears the life she’s always known is about to become a memory. The government is purchasing property to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and nearly all the families in Cades Cove have decided to sell. Laurel is determined to save the land her family has lived on for a hundred years. Andrew Brady, the son of a wealthy Virginia congressman, arrives in the Cove to convince the remaining landowners to sell. Sparks fly when he meets Laurel, the outspoken young woman who is determined to thwart his every effort. Will they ever be able to put aside their differences and accept what their hearts already know?

Elizabeth Scott, a lovely, spirited young maiden from the Scottish Lowlands, is outraged to learn that she must leave the comforts of Ballantine, her ancestral home, and journey to the remote and barbaric Highlands in order to honor a marriage contract with Robert Kirkland. The arrogant and handsome Laird of Ashkirk, her intended husband, is not only a notorious womanizer, but is also a supporter of the hated Montrose in Scotland's Civil War. In Robert's wilderness fiefdom, antagonism flares between the bridal pair, and Elizabeth resolves to flee both her husband and the Highlands at the earliest possible opportunity. But the heat of conflict ignites flames of passion, melting old grievances and fusing together their proud, rebellious hearts, until the man Elizabeth has vowed to despise becomes the man she cannot live without.

When Christine Rainwood goes to stay at the pleasant old Border hotel with her friend Rachel their intention is only to take a holiday before setting about the task of deciding their future careers. But for Rachel the hotel itself provides the solution. It is for sale, and she enjoys taking over and trying to make a success of it while Christine finds an ideal forestry job nearby, helping Giles Coalville work his newly-inherited but run-down estate. Keeping Giles the employer and Giles the friend in separate compartments proves increasingly difficult for Christine, but she meets more immediate troubles when Rachel comes entirely under the sway of Neil Camberley and his too-enveloping charm. The rift which he attempts to drive between the two friends is only repaired after heartache and near-disaster, but the presence of Giles is a support for Christine which brings her eventual happiness.