Books like Close to Home by Rachel Spangler

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.

Julia Álvarez’s Pulitzer‑winning memoir‑like novel chronicles the lives of four Dominican sisters who became symbols of resistance against Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship, blending history, family, and the Spanish language’s lyrical beauty.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

A seventeenth‑year college girl falls in love with a female graduate‑student teacher, discovering a deeper connection than she expected.

Rich attorney Sydney Van Allen and devoted professor Faith Fitzgerald, engaged in a complex love triangle, discover a passionate romance that challenges their careers and personal lives.

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When Alice Jordan buys The Grey House in a quiet English village, she thinks she has achieved the dream life—until a hidden truth shatters her marriage and forces her to confront love, identity, and community secrets.

A dynamic anthology of 22 essays by bisexual women, exploring the intersections of feminist theory, sexual politics, and personal experience, offering insight for anyone navigating identity in contemporary society.

Raine St. James returns to the town she has long mocked, taking a teaching job that forces her to confront old pains and the woman she left behind.

Hal, a carefree Buffalo food‑truck chef, and Quinn, a driven investment banker, clash over their visions for a new restaurant, testing whether love and ambition can coexist.

Amid a strained marriage, TV writer Georgie McCool discovers an unexpected way to communicate with her husband Neal in the past, offering a chance to reshape their future.

A werewolf and vampire team up to hunt vampires, solve crimes, and protect the non-human species from humans and rogue predators.

After a publicly humiliating divorce, best-selling author Emma Volant runs away to hide in the seaside English village of Amberwick, where she doesn’t know another living soul. She wants nothing more than to surrender to her broken heart in private. However, when the locals discover their newest resident is world famous, they gather at the local pub and hatch a plan to draw Emma out of her self-imposed isolation, hoping her celebrity status will elevate the village’s reputation to something more than a holiday hotspot. It doesn’t take long for them to try to rope their favorite bartender, Brogan, into the act. Born and raised in Amberwick, Brogan McKay has built a comfortable life by never overreaching. Part-time jobs and short-term flings have always been good enough for her, but when she meets her beautiful and wounded new neighbor, Brogan realizes Emma has the potential to wreck the carefully controlled expectations she uses to protect her heart. Despite their obvious attraction and growing friendship, both Emma and Brogan are in firm agreement that neither of them is in a position to look for love, but how long can they fight their fears and desires as the events and people around them all conspire to create a full English love story?