Books like Message in a Bottle
If you liked Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Just for the Summer
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, small town.
Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka.
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Point of Retreat
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, grief.
Will and Layken keep love and two brothers together through bills, jealousy, and a pregnancy scare.
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Things We Left Behind
Because shares tags: contemporary, romance, small town.
Lucian Rollins returns to Knockemout to bury his father's past and collides with librarian Sloane Walton.
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Because shares tags: grief, small town, romance.
A widowed bookseller on Alice Island adopts abandoned toddler Maya, rebuilds Island Books, and finds love with sales rep Amelia before…
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The Seven Year Slip
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, grief.
A grieving publicist inherits a time slipping Manhattan apartment and falls for a chef living seven years in the past.
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The Bodyguard
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, grief.
Hannah Brooks, an executive protection agent grieving her mother, poses as movie star Jack Stapleton's girlfriend on his Texas family ranch.
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Slammed
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, grief.
Grieving Layken falls for neighbor Will, then learns he is her teacher, and poems carry them.
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Part of Your World
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, small town.
ER doctor Alexis Montgomery falls for carpenter Daniel Grant in Wakan while her surgeon family presses duty.
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Archer's Voice
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, small town.
Bree flees to Pelion, Maine and falls for Archer Hale, a mute recluse hiding a violent family past.
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All the Bright Places
Because shares tags: contemporary, grief, romance.
Grieving Violet and struggling Finch wander Indiana for a school project and each other.
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It Happened One Summer
Because shares tags: romance, small town, contemporary.
LA It girl Piper is cut off and sent to Westport where gruff captain Brendan challenges her glitter.
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Things We Never Got Over
Because shares tags: romance, small town, contemporary.
Naomi runs from her wedding to help her twin in Knockemout and clashes with Knox Morgan.
