Books like The Villa by Nora Roberts

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 historical mystery set in 18th-century London that explores themes of women's empowerment and time travel in a twist of fate, featuring a precocious girl solving centuries-old murders.

Dora Conroy runs an antiques shop in Philadelphia that hosts an exciting auction of mysterious collectables, but the event draws burglaries, murders and danger—intertwining romance and suspense as former cop Jed Skimmerhorn steps in to protect her.

Maggie Concannon, gifted Irish glass designer, lives in seclusion with her late father’s memories and her sister. A visionary gallery owner invites her to international markets, sparking a passionate, career‑driven romance set against the windswept hills of County Clare.

Margo Sullivan, raised in the mansion of the Templeton hotel family, leaves home to pursue modeling and a glamorous life, only to return humbled and supported by lifelong friends who help her rebuild her career and love.

At age ninety, patriarch Daniel MacGregor is determined to marry off his three career‑focused granddaughters: cousins Laura, Gwendolyn, and Julia. With his matchmaking skills intact, he handpicks suitors to unite love with ambition.

Shawn Gallagher, a gifted songwriter whose music belies a lonely heart, finds unexpected magic that forces him to confront his feelings for the fiercely independent Brenna O'Toole.

Professionally successful in Big Sur, Kate Powell faces an ethical dilemma that forces her to confront hidden truths and a longing for a deeper purpose beyond career triumphs.

Adelia Cunnane follows her uncle’s footsteps at the famed Royal Meadows stable, where a passionate trainer’s pride clashes with her own spirited ambitions. Meanwhile, her cousin Erin faces an alluring yet notorious gambler who may hold the key to her heart.

A family’s inheritance—a silver statue from the doomed Lusitania—drives siblings Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan on a globe‑spanning treasure hunt to reunite the Three Fates, confronting myth, danger, and greed along the way.

In the Caribbean, diver Tate discovers the buried amulet "Angeliques Fluch" and meets Matthew, sparking love amid treasure hunting. A tragic accident threatens their hopes as they pursue the mysterious relic.

After a series of anonymous photographs force a successful photographer to confront her past, she returns to the island of Desire to uncover the truth about her vanished mother, while rivalries, hidden secrets and a dangerous stalker threaten to destroy her.

Rebecca Bayliss confronts a shattered past when her dying mother reveals a hidden family, leading her from a Cornwall mansion into passionate and greedy entanglements that ultimately hold the key to her future and heart.

Caroline Cliburn, soon to be married, and her brother Jody travel to Scotland in search of her missing brother Angus, only to be stranded by a spring blizzard and find unexpected love and healing.

Victoria Bradshaw’s return to an old love, now a widower with a young son, leads her on a spring journey to a Scottish castle where they rediscover romance and the complexities of human connection.

After surviving a botched kidnapping, Emma McAvoy—faced with her father's secrets and a dangerous fame—must confront memories that threaten her life and love as a former idol’s new husband hides a deadly past.

Four strangers—an opera singer, a scientist, a writer, and a gentleman—are summoned to the Villa Dante after receiving a will, only to discover that the late Beatrice Malaspina left them a life‑changing secret.

In Sicily, Flavia wrestles with family secrets and inheritance as her daughter Tess returns to their homeland, forcing the mother to confront her own past.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

A young woman's transition from a stagnant relationship to a vibrant new life, explored through themes of love, choice, and the joyful turning of life's carousel.

When small‑town librarian Emily Jane Todd is jolted into a life‑changing encounter with an angel named Michael after a car mishap, a romance that defies both heavenly rules and earthly expectations unfolds.