Books like First Impressions by Nora Roberts

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

Mia Devlin returns to the Three Sisters Island hotel to win back her lost love, Sam Logan, while confronting a centuries-old curse that threatens the island. Their revived chemistry must help them defeat the dark forces looming over their destiny.

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In Nora Roberts’ contemporary romance, Caine MacGregor, a charismatic lawyer, meets the reserved Diana Blade, and their court‑room battles spark a passionate attraction that threatens the tightly bound MacGregor family.

Socialite Eden Carlbough runs a girls' camp that turns into a love affair when she meets orchard owner Chase Elliot, leading to unexpected romance amid apple trees and forbidden curiosity.

When the Giambelli wine estate in Napa Valley faces internal conflict and a plot to ruin it, siblings Sophia and Ty must set aside their differences to protect their family and their passion for winemaking.

After uncovering her father's hidden sins, Naomi reinvented herself as photographer Naomi Carson in the coastal town of Sunrise Cove. New love interests and a mysterious past pull her into a quiet heroinic struggle between safety and desire.

A princess with amnesia is rescued by an American detective, who helps her recover her memories and confront her past in this contemporary romance.

When romance writer Jackie MacNamara discovers her fictional hero Nathan Powell living next door, she must persuade his stubborn heart that love can start at home. Meanwhile, architect Cody Johnson’s passion for engineer Abra Wilson turns into an irresistible plan.

Sea Swept opens the Chesapeake Bay saga, introducing the Quinn family and their lives in Maryland’s waterfront community.

Vanessa Sexton returns to her hometown, seeking healing from a past betrayal by her high school sweetheart, Brady Tucker, who has grown into a dependable man. Their unresolved history threatens to ignite a new romance.

Montana wildfire fighter Rowan must keep her strict no‑romance rule, but the arrival of new recruit Gull Curry tests it—while a determined enemy seeks vengeance for a jumped partner’s death, forcing Rowan to rely on Gull’s help and support.

Maddy O'Hurley, a devoted dancer, brightens the austere world of recording mogul Reed Valentine, challenging his black‑and‑white view of women and sparking a romance that waltzes between ambition and love.

When songwriter Maggie Fitzgerald seeks solitude after her husband's death, she moves into a vacant home in Maryland’s Morganville. Her new landscaping partner, Cliff Delaney, uncovers a corpse, turning a peaceful retreat into a tense murder investigation.

A Hollywood legend confronts her past when a shy writer is pulled into the glittering world of film, uncovering secrets that threaten to unravel the glamorous image of an icon.

Raven Williams, a celebrated singer, and Brandon Carstairs, a talented musician, find love and artistic synergy as their passionate music takes them from acclaim to a thrilling, dangerous crescendo.

Paul Auster’s 1999 novella Timbuktu follows the inner life of a dog named Mr. Bones as his homeless master nears death, revealing the quiet resilience of animals and the melancholy of late‑20th‑century New York.

Living in her beloved Cozumel, dive shop owner Liz Palmer's world turns upside‑down when the instructor she hired is murdered, forcing her twin‑brother partner of the victim into a perilous quest for revenge amid drug smuggling and unexpected passion.

Pregnant Laura Malone is on the run, discovering refuge in a snowbound cabin where she meets the solitary Gabriel Bradley. Compelled to help, Gabriel confronts his past while a fragile bond forms amid the harsh terrain.

Cassidy St. John, fired again, discovers hope on Fisherman’s Wharf when she becomes model for the enigmatic artist Colin Sullivan. Their artistic collaboration sparks unexpected love, but Colin’s raw honesty turns every brushstroke into a revelation of Cassidy’s own heart.

Mitch Dempsey, a comic-book writer, finds himself drawn to his new downstairs neighbor, Hester Wallace, a shy single mother, as she and her 9‑year‑old son navigate a growing attraction and the idea of a heroic presence in their lives.

Conservative architect Nathan Powell faces a provocative encounter with the alluring Jackie M. MacNamara, whose arrival in his hot tub turns his quiet life into a passionate romance.

A game show producer in the 1980s discovers that the biggest challenge – and the one most coveted – may be herself, when an actor with a secret agenda courts her.

After years of distance, former child‑star Eve Hamilton and the elusive Prince Alexander de Cordina reunite when he asks her and her theatre troupe to perform in Cordina. Old romance and new danger stir as the couple confront their past and a looming threat.

Phillip Kincaid’s hunt for a film location lands him in the small town of Friendly, New Mexico, where his speeding ticket brings him face‑to‑face with Sheriff Victoria Ashton—law, love, and a surprise cast of local characters collide.

Fashion model Hillary Baxter returns to Kansas, only to find a magnetism that pulls her toward magazine mogul Bret Bardoff, while Serenity Smith discovers a hidden past on her family's Brittany estate and a reluctant aristocratic love.

Midnight Bayou (James Daniels with Sandra Burr, Sandra Burr, Jill Sovis): Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. Determined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room, relying on his own labor and skills. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. He is seeing visions of days from a century past, and experiencing sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief - sensations not his own, but those of a stranger. Only the companionship of the alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina too has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall - a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years. Chesapeake Blue (James Daniels, J.C. Howe, and Jill Sovis): Seth Quinn is finally home. Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Maryland's Eastern Shore, surrounded once again by Cam, Ethan, and Phillip, their wives and children, all the blessed chaos of the extended Quinn clan. Still, a lot has changed in St. Christopher since he's been gone - and the most intriguing change of all is the presence of Dru Whitcomb Banks. Dru's past has made her sensitive to deception - and slow to trust. And Seth's past has made him a target of blackmail - as a secret he's kept hidden for years threatens to explode, destroying his new life and his new love... Birthright (Bernadette Quigley, Laura Grafton, Matthew Christilaw): On a hot July afternoon, a worker at an Antietam Creek construction site drives the blade of his backhoe into a layer of soil -- and strikes a 5,000-year-old human skull. As an archaeologist, Callie Dunbrook knows a lot about the past. But her own past is about to be called into question. Recruited for her expertise on the Antietam Creek dig, she encounters danger -- as a cloud of death and misfortune hangs over the project, and rumors fly that the site is cursed. She finds a passion that feels equally dangerous, as she joins forces in her work with her irritating, but irresistible, ex-husband, Jake. And when a strange woman approaches her, claiming to know a secret about Callie's privileged Boston childhood, some startling and unsettling questions are raised about her very identity.

A Washington, D.C., newsroom romance between a glamorous anchorwoman and her rival reporter, set against the 1980s television landscape.