Books like Moon Shell Beach by Nancy Thayer

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.

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

Amid writer's block and a looming deadline, a skeptical romance novelist and a disenchanted literary author trade their craft: she must write a happy ending, he a Great American Novel, as they race to finish before summer ends.

Four women in their mid- to late-thirties meet for breakfast every Thursday at eight to share their stories and support each other through difficult times and personal growth, including forgiveness and compassion, and the challenges of rebuilding relationships and careers after divorce and other life changes.

Three sisters struggle to reconcile their faith with the world outside the convent.

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.

A Navy SEAL returns to his Massachusetts hometown for the annual Mermaid Festival, where a mysterious beach‑wreck woman who mirrors a famed mermaid painting challenges both his heart and her longing for love.

A remarkable friendship and its enduring journey of two remarkable women from the postwar era of the 1950s, told with vividly descriptive language and a relatable narrative.

461 pages ; 19 cm

Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, returns to her beloved South with Beach House Memories, the sequel to The Beach House! Autumn brings haunting beauty to the sun-soaked dunes on Isle of Palms, where Olivia “Lovie” Rutledge lives in her beloved Primrose Cottage. As the seasons change, Lovie remembers one special summer… In 1974, America is changing, but Charleston remains eternally the same. When Lovie married aristocratic, well-connected businessman Stratton Rutledge, she turned over her fortune and fate to his control. But she refused to relinquish one thing: her family’s old seaside cottage. Precious summers with her children on the barrier island are Lovie’s refuge from social expectations and her overbearing husband’s philandering. Here, she is the “Turtle Lady,” tending the loggerhead turtles that lay their eggs in the warm night sand and then slip back into the sea. Then, in the summer of ‘74, biologist Russell Bennett visits to research the loggerheads. Their shared interest brings them together, and soon it blooms into a passionate, profound love—forcing Lovie to face an agonizing decision. Stratton’s influence is far-reaching, and if she dares to dream beyond a summer affair, she risks losing her reputation, her wealth, even her children. This emotional tale of a strong woman torn between duty and desire, between tradition and change, is an empowering journey through the seasons of self-discovery. Until this autumn, this time of winds and tides, of holding on and letting go…

Abbie Fox returns to Nantucket after two years away, where her sisters Lily, Emma, and their widowed father face new challenges and unexpected connections. Amid a summer of change, the family’s bonds are tested by love, loss, and the sea's unpredictable currents.

In small‑town Minnesota, a tight‑knit book club called AWEB—Angry Wives Eating Bon Bons—holds up a lifeline for five housewives navigating love, loss, and late‑life adventures.

After a divorce and financial setback, Candida Wilton moves to London and discovers a windfall that propels her to pursue a lifelong dream: a journey with six women friends to Tunis, Naples, and Pompeii.