Books like Love in the valley by Susan Napier

In the early 1800s Tennessee Territory, widower Baxter Clay meets impoverished Sabina Erhardt, who seeks escape from an arranged marriage. Together they find safety, love, and the hope of a new life amid frontier challenges.

279 pages ; 20 cm

When nine‑year‑old Hazel and her family relocate to Oregon’s Hood River Valley, she navigates a storm, a new grandmother, school life, and a baby brother over the course of five years.

Barbara loved her first experience of the Canary Islands, the contrast of lush tropical beauty with starkly bare mountain peaks, the lazy Spanish charm of the people. But she could not relax and be happy, for she was there as a result of a deception - a deception that threatened to shadow her whole future.

Adelaide Pride leaves a war‑torn Southern home for a new life in California’s Napa Valley, where she must navigate love, honor, and survival as a companion to a solitary Yankee spinster.

When Nurse Linda Grey went out to Portugal to look after the motherless, four-year-old Jacinto de Filano, she was shocked to find what a sedate, repressed, unchildlike life he was leading. She also found that in her efforts to introduce a little more freedom and gaiety into his upbringing, she was up against formidable opposition: that of the boy’s great-aunt, still attached to the traditions of her youth, and of his father. It was an entirely new thing for the Marquez de Filano to find his ideas criticized or his orders steadily (though quietly) opposed, and himself occupying in a woman’s thoughts a place secondary to that of a little boy; and he began to study this young English nurse with unexpected interest. And Linda, subjected to the full impact of his personality, found it hard to maintain her original attitude of dislike and resentment.