Books like Renovating love by Mary Leask

Gwyneth Believes her secret son is dead, but discovers he lives in an orphanage where her new husband is a trustee, forcing her into a painful dilemma about truth, loyalty and identity.

Sandra Winslow, widowed after a mysterious accident that claims her husband Victor, struggles with suspicion in the town of Paradise. Selling her beach house, she meets Mike Malloy, whose ties to the community test her trust and reveal hidden truths.

Anna buys a tiny cottage and embarks on a romantic adventure to renovate and sell it to prove her worth as an interior decorator.

Khara Thompson inherits a house that straddles a property line with Adam Mansfield's, sparking a scheme by their parents to unite them under dramatic circumstances.

"Stacey Ballis cooks up a delicious broth of a novel about a woman whose perfect life falls apart in spectacular fashion leaving her with a house to restore, an antique cookbook (but no cooking talent), and one very unhappy schnauzer. For fans of Jen Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin. To an outside observer, Anneke Stroudt is a mess-her shirts are stained, her fingernails stubby, her language colorful. But, despite her flaws, Anneke's life is close to perfect. She has a beautiful historic house to restore and a loving fiance; who cooks like a dream. Until Anneke's charmed existence falls apart when she loses both her job and her future husband in one terrible day. In need of a new start, she packs up her disgruntled schnauzer and moves into her half-finished home, where she throws her pent-up frustration-and what little savings she has-into finishing the renovation. But at the first step into the house's overhaul, Anneke is sidetracked when she discovers a mysterious leather-bound book, long hidden away, filled with tempting recipes and steamy secrets from Emma Ditmore-Smythe, the cook for the house's original owners. Slowly, with the help of some delicious food and Emma's life lessons, Anneke begins to realize that, just like a flawless recipe, she's been waiting for the right ingredients to cook up a perfect life all along. With the perfect blend of humor and heart, Ballis's writing is powerfully honest and genuinely hilarious--

When retired romance author Sara Medlar returns to her hometown Lachlan, Florida to remodel a historic mansion, she and her niece Kate, along with a charming neighbor, uncover buried skeletons and a town’s dark secrets, forcing them to solve a mystery no one wants revealed.

Retired teacher Eleanor Bannister’s storm‑damaged home sets the stage for an unexpected romance with a traveling carpenter, unraveling a complex and passionate courtship in Florida’s quiet suburbs.

A sweeping tale of 200 years on Cape Cod, Blackbird House follows successive families as they intertwine their lives with the historic farm, exploring love, secrets, and the enduring spirit of home.

After inheriting a neglected Victorian estate in Louisiana, the Conway family discovers a dark legacy of suicide, disappearance, voodoo, and demoniac possession that turns the ancestral home into a living nightmare.