Books like The Ocean Between Us by Susan Childress

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.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

An intimate exploration of social class, marital conflict, and romantic desire set in early twentieth‑century England.

A sweeping coming‑of‑age story set on Nebraska’s prairie, following Jim Burden’s journey with his grandparents amid immigrant families, especially the Czech Shimerdas, and his complex love and friendship with Antonia.

Anne Brontë’s second novel follows Helen Huntingdon as she escapes an abusive marriage, takes on a new life, and seeks to protect her son from her husband’s harmful influence.

Don Finch, a genetics researcher with Asperger's, navigates new fatherhood, marriage, and professional chaos when his wife Rosie unexpectedly becomes pregnant, forcing him to balance science, love, and the demands of a bustling New York life.

In pre‑World War II China, Madame Wu leaves a long marriage, asks her husband to take a concubine, and sets off a chain of events that forces her family to confront tradition, communism, and Western ideas about freedom.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

A navy brat finds herself falling in love with a navy officer, but will their past prevent their happiness?

In Cedar Cove, private‑investigator Roy McAfee and his wife Corrie confront mysterious postcards while their daughter Linnette starts a new job at a local clinic and flirts with a horse‑farm worker. A cozy mystery filled with local life, romance, and family ties.

When restaurant owner Whitney Monroe struggles to keep her business afloat, the inheritance of the decaying Excelsior Hotel on North Carolina’s Outer Banks offers a chance for salvation, yet family secrets and historic ties complicate her plan.

A woman tries to rekindle her relationship with her astronaut husband while struggling with family secrets and marital conflict.

A German butcher in Detroit mirrors the infamous Himmler, secretly funneling U.S. war‑production secrets to Germany while hiding escaped German POWs—only his American wife, Honey, plans to divorce him before a Marshal’s agent bursts in.

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.

Airline Captain Connor Evans must decide whether to claim a child whose mother, a flight attendant, now needs his help after a crash, forcing him to confront a long‑hidden secret that threatens his family and the chance for forgiveness.

447 pages : 24 cm

A romance novel about a couple trying to rebuild their lives after their restaurant was destroyed by arson.

"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.

Grace, a lifelong resident of Cedar Cove and public‑library librarian, grapples with her husband Dan’s sudden disappearance while navigating family, friend, and town dynamics amid weddings, babies, and new relationships.

A story of love, loss, and reconnecting with family.

A mystery unfolds in Cedar Cove, Washington as Rosie Cox deals with her recent divorce, local gossip, and the death of a mysterious man at a bed-and-breakfast.

Millions adored Daphne Fields, for she shared their passion, their pain, their joy, and their sorrow. But America's most popular novelist remained a closed book to the world -- guarding her life with a fierce privacy no reporter could crack. Her life hides a myriad of secrets. The husband and daughter she lost in a fire. The son who barely survived it and would be deaf forever. The victories, the defeats, the challenges of facing life as a woman alone and helping her son meet the challenges of his handicap. A strong woman, she would not accept defeat, or help from anyone ... until she found she could no longer face it alone.