33 Books like Maine Characters

The Five-Star Weekend

by Elin Hilderbrand

A widow's Nantucket weekend with four friends implodes when she learns one was her husband's lover.

4.01

335k+

🌊 Bittersweet Summer 🥂 Girls' Weekend 💕 Old Flame Returns 🖤 Widow Finds Love 🔥 Secrets Among Friends

The Five-Star Weekend 93%

A widow's Nantucket weekend with four friends implodes when she learns one was her husband's lover.

by Elin Hilderbrand 2023

4.01

335k+ ratings

🌊 Bittersweet Summer 🥂 Girls' Weekend 💕 Old Flame Returns 🖤 Widow Finds Love 🔥 Secrets Among Friends

When We Believed in Mermaids

by Barbara O'Neal • 2019

An ER doctor spots her dead sister on TV and chases the truth to New Zealand.

4.17

247k+

👯 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Hidden Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Childhood Trauma 🤫 Family Secrets

When We Believed in Mermaids 94%

An ER doctor spots her dead sister on TV and chases the truth to New Zealand.

by Barbara O'Neal 2019

4.17

247k+ ratings

👯 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Hidden Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Childhood Trauma 🤫 Family Secrets

The Summer Getaway

by Susan Mallery • 2022

A divorced mother flees to her great-aunt's mansion, where the new heir makes staying irresistible.

4.07

18k+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🌱 Starting Over 🔑 Generational Secrets 💔 Mother Daughter Conflict 📜 Inheritance Drama

The Summer Getaway 94%

A divorced mother flees to her great-aunt's mansion, where the new heir makes staying irresistible.

by Susan Mallery 2022

4.07

18k+ ratings

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🌱 Starting Over 🔑 Generational Secrets 💔 Mother Daughter Conflict 📜 Inheritance Drama

The Summer Place

by Jennifer Weiner • 2022

A rushed Cape Cod wedding exposes family secrets, strains a marriage, and rekindles an old love.

3.56

76k+

🖤 Family Secrets 🏖️ Beach House 👰 Summer Wedding 🦠 Pandemic Fiction 🔄 Midlife Crossroads

The Summer Place 93%

A rushed Cape Cod wedding exposes family secrets, strains a marriage, and rekindles an old love.

by Jennifer Weiner 2022

3.56

76k+ ratings

🖤 Family Secrets 🏖️ Beach House 👰 Summer Wedding 🦠 Pandemic Fiction 🔄 Midlife Crossroads

You Have a Match

by Emma Lord • 2021

A DNA test reveals a secret sister. So Abby crashes her summer camp, sparking instant rivalry.

3.55

39k+

🏕️ Summer Camp Romance 🔍 Family Secrets 💕 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🧬 Secret Sister 👭 Sisterly Bonding

You Have a Match 92%

A DNA test reveals a secret sister. So Abby crashes her summer camp, sparking instant rivalry.

by Emma Lord 2021

3.55

39k+ ratings

🏕️ Summer Camp Romance 🔍 Family Secrets 💕 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🧬 Secret Sister 👭 Sisterly Bonding

Slow Burn Summer

by Josie Silver • 2025

An actress with nothing left pretends to write a bestseller. The lie changes her life.

3.40

10k+

📚 Publishing World 🦋 Midlife Reinvention 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🎭 Secret Identity 👯‍♀️ Sisterly Bond

Slow Burn Summer 92%

An actress with nothing left pretends to write a bestseller. The lie changes her life.

by Josie Silver 2025

3.40

10k+ ratings

📚 Publishing World 🦋 Midlife Reinvention 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🎭 Secret Identity 👯‍♀️ Sisterly Bond

Only Love Can Hurt Like This

by Paige Toon • 2023

An architect flees her broken engagement for Indiana, where a farmer's secret makes love impossible.

3.96

45k+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family 👯 Sisterly Bonding

Only Love Can Hurt Like This 92%

An architect flees her broken engagement for Indiana, where a farmer's secret makes love impossible.

by Paige Toon 2023

3.96

45k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family 👯 Sisterly Bonding

Otherwise Engaged

by Susan Mallery • 2025

A stuntwoman's accident and a secret engagement expose the adoption secret linking their families.

3.49

5k+

🏠 Family Saga 💕 Mother Daughter Bond 📦 Adoption Secret 🤝 Found Family 👯 Sisterly Friendship

Otherwise Engaged 93%

A stuntwoman's accident and a secret engagement expose the adoption secret linking their families.

by Susan Mallery 2025

3.49

5k+ ratings

🏠 Family Saga 💕 Mother Daughter Bond 📦 Adoption Secret 🤝 Found Family 👯 Sisterly Friendship

Meet Me at the Lake

by Carley Fortune • 2023

A perfect day, a broken promise, ten years of silence. Now he's at her mother's resort.

3.68

376k+

🕰️ Second Chance Romance 💌 Missed Connection ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏡 Family Legacy 🌊 Grief And Healing

Meet Me at the Lake 93%

A perfect day, a broken promise, ten years of silence. Now he's at her mother's resort.

by Carley Fortune 2023

3.68

376k+ ratings

🕰️ Second Chance Romance 💌 Missed Connection ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏡 Family Legacy 🌊 Grief And Healing

Whistler

by Ann Patchett

Her stepfather disappeared when she was nine; four decades later, he finds her at the Met.

4.45

62k+

🫂 Found Family 💔 Closeted Love 📖 Stories As Survival 🕯️ Elegiac 🔄 Metafiction

Whistler 93%

Her stepfather disappeared when she was nine; four decades later, he finds her at the Met.

by Ann Patchett 2026

4.45

62k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 💔 Closeted Love 📖 Stories As Survival 🕯️ Elegiac 🔄 Metafiction

The Promise of Tomorrow

by Mary Ellen Taylor • 2024

She returned to Virginia for a divorce. A mysterious stone and an old flame changed everything.

4.29

18k+

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🖤 Grief And Healing ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Estranged Spouses

The Promise of Tomorrow 92%

She returned to Virginia for a divorce. A mysterious stone and an old flame changed everything.

by Mary Ellen Taylor 2024

4.29

18k+ ratings

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🖤 Grief And Healing ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Estranged Spouses

The Wednesday Letters

by Jason F. Wright • 2007

When both parents die overnight, three siblings find decades of weekly letters and a hidden truth.

3.62

22k+

🔐 Family Secrets 🧬 Hidden Paternity 💕 Second Chance Romance 🏠 Sibling Reunion 😢 Tearjerker

The Wednesday Letters 92%

When both parents die overnight, three siblings find decades of weekly letters and a hidden truth.

by Jason F. Wright 2007

3.62

22k+ ratings

🔐 Family Secrets 🧬 Hidden Paternity 💕 Second Chance Romance 🏠 Sibling Reunion 😢 Tearjerker

Swan Song

by Elin Hilderbrand • 2025

Nantucket's new money couple hires a starry-eyed concierge, but the real currency is secrets.

4.02

162k+

🏖️ Summer Beach Town 💰 New Money Arrives 🏝️ Island Community 👀 Employee Sees Secrets 🔍 Disappearance Mystery

Swan Song 92%

Nantucket's new money couple hires a starry-eyed concierge, but the real currency is secrets.

by Elin Hilderbrand 2025

4.02

162k+ ratings

🏖️ Summer Beach Town 💰 New Money Arrives 🏝️ Island Community 👀 Employee Sees Secrets 🔍 Disappearance Mystery

Musical Chairs

by Amy Poeppel • 2020

A cellist's summer goes off-key when her grown children and aging father bring their crises home.

3.81

9k+

🔄 Midlife Reinvention 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💛 Platonic Soulmates 🤫 Family Secrets 🎻 Chamber Music

Musical Chairs 92%

A cellist's summer goes off-key when her grown children and aging father bring their crises home.

by Amy Poeppel 2020

3.81

9k+ ratings

🔄 Midlife Reinvention 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💛 Platonic Soulmates 🤫 Family Secrets 🎻 Chamber Music

More Than Enough

by Anna Quindlen

A DNA test upends her identity and sends a woman searching for what family truly means.

3.93

29k+

🧬 Family Secret 🫂 Found Family 👶 Infertility Struggle 🪴 Terminal Illness 🌈 Interracial Family

More Than Enough 92%

A DNA test upends her identity and sends a woman searching for what family truly means.

by Anna Quindlen 2026

3.93

29k+ ratings

🧬 Family Secret 🫂 Found Family 👶 Infertility Struggle 🪴 Terminal Illness 🌈 Interracial Family

A pesar de ti

by Colleen Hoover • 2019

The same crash kills her husband and sister, exposing their affair. Now her daughter is spiraling.

4.10

964k+

🎭 Mother-Daughter Drama 🔍 Family Secrets 💘 Forbidden Romance 🎸 Teenage Rebellion 🏠 Found Family

A pesar de ti 93%

The same crash kills her husband and sister, exposing their affair. Now her daughter is spiraling.

by Colleen Hoover 2019

4.10

964k+ ratings

🎭 Mother-Daughter Drama 🔍 Family Secrets 💘 Forbidden Romance 🎸 Teenage Rebellion 🏠 Found Family

How to Walk Away

by Katherine Center • 2018

A plane crash leaves a bride-to-be paralyzed. A gruff therapist refuses to let her give up.

4.08

124k+

👯‍♀️ Estranged Sisters 🔥 Slow Burn 🌤️ Grumpy X Sunshine 🩹 Catastrophic Injury 🔍 Family Secrets

How to Walk Away 93%

A plane crash leaves a bride-to-be paralyzed. A gruff therapist refuses to let her give up.

by Katherine Center 2018

4.08

124k+ ratings

👯‍♀️ Estranged Sisters 🔥 Slow Burn 🌤️ Grumpy X Sunshine 🩹 Catastrophic Injury 🔍 Family Secrets

Sisterland

by Curtis Sittenfeld • 2013

She traded premonitions for PTA, until her twin predicted a disaster on live TV.

3.38

42k+

👯 Twin Bond 🏡 Domestic Drama 🤫 Family Secrets 🏘️ Suburban Anxiety 🤱 Ambivalent Motherhood

Sisterland 92%

She traded premonitions for PTA, until her twin predicted a disaster on live TV.

by Curtis Sittenfeld 2013

3.38

42k+ ratings

👯 Twin Bond 🏡 Domestic Drama 🤫 Family Secrets 🏘️ Suburban Anxiety 🤱 Ambivalent Motherhood

The Same Bright Stars

by Ethan Joella • 2024

He never chose the family restaurant; a secret son and a lost love now choose him.

3.73

11k+

🏡 Small-Town Life 🍽️ Restaurant Fiction 🤝 Found Family 👶 Secret Child 💉 Addiction In The Family

The Same Bright Stars 92%

He never chose the family restaurant; a secret son and a lost love now choose him.

by Ethan Joella 2024

3.73

11k+ ratings

🏡 Small-Town Life 🍽️ Restaurant Fiction 🤝 Found Family 👶 Secret Child 💉 Addiction In The Family

Finding Grace

by Loretta Rothschild • 2025

A widower falls for a woman who doesn't know she is his son's egg donor.

3.83

44k+

🖤 Grief Romance 📚 Book Club Fiction 💔 Love After Loss 🔍 Secret Parentage 👨‍👩‍👦 Blended Family

Finding Grace 92%

A widower falls for a woman who doesn't know she is his son's egg donor.

by Loretta Rothschild 2025

3.83

44k+ ratings

🖤 Grief Romance 📚 Book Club Fiction 💔 Love After Loss 🔍 Secret Parentage 👨‍👩‍👦 Blended Family

Home of the American Circus

by Allison Larkin • 2025

A bar worker inherits a decaying house and a niece who needs saving from their broken family.

4.06

16k+

🎭 Family Drama 💔 Generational Trauma 🫂 Found Family 👭 Sister Rivalry 😢 Bittersweet

Home of the American Circus 92%

A bar worker inherits a decaying house and a niece who needs saving from their broken family.

by Allison Larkin 2025

4.06

16k+ ratings

🎭 Family Drama 💔 Generational Trauma 🫂 Found Family 👭 Sister Rivalry 😢 Bittersweet

Our Last Vineyard Summer

by Brooke Lea Foster • 2025

A grad student returns to save her family's Vineyard home and unearths her father's double life.

3.68

3k+

🏠 Generational Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 👭 Sister Dynamics ✊ Feminist Awakening 🏖️ Martha's Vineyard

Our Last Vineyard Summer 93%

A grad student returns to save her family's Vineyard home and unearths her father's double life.

by Brooke Lea Foster 2025

3.68

3k+ ratings

🏠 Generational Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 👭 Sister Dynamics ✊ Feminist Awakening 🏖️ Martha's Vineyard

Forever, Interrupted

by Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2013

Nine days after their elopement, he dies. His mother has never heard of her.

3.64

220k+

🖤 Grief Fiction 📚 Women's Fiction 💕 Whirlwind Romance 💍 Secret Marriage 🫂 Grief Bonding

Forever, Interrupted 93%

Nine days after their elopement, he dies. His mother has never heard of her.

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2013

3.64

220k+ ratings

🖤 Grief Fiction 📚 Women's Fiction 💕 Whirlwind Romance 💍 Secret Marriage 🫂 Grief Bonding

Summers at the Saint

by Mary Kay Andrews

A fentanyl death at a Georgia resort unearths a wealthy family's buried crimes.

4.05

60k+

🏨 Resort Town Mystery ⚖️ Class Divide 🔍 Amateur Investigation 🤝 Female Solidarity 🔐 Family Secrets

Summers at the Saint 92%

A fentanyl death at a Georgia resort unearths a wealthy family's buried crimes.

by Mary Kay Andrews 2024

4.05

60k+ ratings

🏨 Resort Town Mystery ⚖️ Class Divide 🔍 Amateur Investigation 🤝 Female Solidarity 🔐 Family Secrets

The Woman in the Middle

by Milly Johnson • 2021

After her husband's affair with her best friend, Shay Bastable rebuilds a life of her own.

4.31

5k+

🦋 Midlife Reinvention 🏠 Elder Care 💔 Marital Betrayal 💕 Second Chance Romance 🔐 Family Secrets

The Woman in the Middle 92%

After her husband's affair with her best friend, Shay Bastable rebuilds a life of her own.

by Milly Johnson 2021

4.31

5k+ ratings

🦋 Midlife Reinvention 🏠 Elder Care 💔 Marital Betrayal 💕 Second Chance Romance 🔐 Family Secrets

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

by Alison Espach • 2022

A teenager loses her older sister in a crash, then spends years confessing to her ghost.

3.81

41k+

👯 Sister Bond 🪦 Sibling Loss 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Grief 💔 Complicated Love

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance Summary

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance 92%

A teenager loses her older sister in a crash, then spends years confessing to her ghost.

by Alison Espach 2022

3.81

41k+ ratings

👯 Sister Bond 🪦 Sibling Loss 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Grief 💔 Complicated Love

The Night We Lost Him

by Laura Dave • 2024

A hotel mogul's cliffside fall reunites his estranged children. The son insists it was no accident.

3.59

128k+

🏡 Domestic Suspense 🔒 Family Secrets 👫 Estranged Siblings 🔍 Amateur Investigation ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Night We Lost Him 92%

A hotel mogul's cliffside fall reunites his estranged children. The son insists it was no accident.

by Laura Dave 2024

3.59

128k+ ratings

🏡 Domestic Suspense 🔒 Family Secrets 👫 Estranged Siblings 🔍 Amateur Investigation ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Midnight Hour

by Eve Chase • 2024

A Notting Hill garden excavation threatens to expose the body a novelist buried at seventeen.

4.00

12k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💀 Skeleton Discovery 💕 First Love Reunited 🫂 Sibling Caretaker

The Midnight Hour 92%

A Notting Hill garden excavation threatens to expose the body a novelist buried at seventeen.

by Eve Chase 2024

4.00

12k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💀 Skeleton Discovery 💕 First Love Reunited 🫂 Sibling Caretaker

Magic Hour

by Kristin Hannah

A scandal-ravaged psychiatrist faces a mute, feral child found in a tree with a wolf.

4.16

265k+

🐺 Feral Child 👯‍♀️ Sister Reconciliation 🏡 Found Family ⚖️ Custody Battle 🏘️ Small Town Drama

Magic Hour 92%

A scandal-ravaged psychiatrist faces a mute, feral child found in a tree with a wolf.

by Kristin Hannah 2007

4.16

265k+ ratings

🐺 Feral Child 👯‍♀️ Sister Reconciliation 🏡 Found Family ⚖️ Custody Battle 🏘️ Small Town Drama

Winter in Paradise

by Elin Hilderbrand • 2018

A widow uncovers her husband's secret Caribbean life: a villa, a lover, and a daughter.

4.08

184k+

🌴 Tropical Mystery 🕵️ Secret Double Life 🔍 Domestic Suspense 💔 Love Triangle 🏝️ Caribbean Island

Winter in Paradise 93%

A widow uncovers her husband's secret Caribbean life: a villa, a lover, and a daughter.

by Elin Hilderbrand 2018

4.08

184k+ ratings

🌴 Tropical Mystery 🕵️ Secret Double Life 🔍 Domestic Suspense 💔 Love Triangle 🏝️ Caribbean Island

When You Got a Good Thing

by Kait Nolan • 2017

A funeral brings her home to face the ex-boyfriend she left ten years ago without a word.

4.21

4k+

🏡 Small Town Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 🫂 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Sister Bonds 🩹 Emotional Healing

When You Got a Good Thing 93%

A funeral brings her home to face the ex-boyfriend she left ten years ago without a word.

by Kait Nolan 2017

4.21

4k+ ratings

🏡 Small Town Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 🫂 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Sister Bonds 🩹 Emotional Healing

The Quaker Café

by Brenda Bevan Remmes • 2015

Her father's death forces Maggie Kendall to unearth the racial sins her Southern town long buried.

3.68

5k+

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🔍 Family Secrets ☕ Cozy Cafe Setting 🤝 Interracial Friendship 👤 Hidden Parentage

The Quaker Café 92%

Her father's death forces Maggie Kendall to unearth the racial sins her Southern town long buried.

by Brenda Bevan Remmes 2015

3.68

5k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🔍 Family Secrets ☕ Cozy Cafe Setting 🤝 Interracial Friendship 👤 Hidden Parentage

What Alice Forgot

by Liane Moriarty • 2010

After a fall, Alice can't remember ten years, her three kids, or why her marriage died.

4.07

518k+

🧠 Amnesia Plot 💔 Marriage In Crisis 💕 Second Chance Love 👯 Sister Bond 😄 Domestic Humor

What Alice Forgot 92%

After a fall, Alice can't remember ten years, her three kids, or why her marriage died.

by Liane Moriarty 2010

4.07

518k+ ratings

🧠 Amnesia Plot 💔 Marriage In Crisis 💕 Second Chance Love 👯 Sister Bond 😄 Domestic Humor

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