Books like When We Believed in Mermaids
If you liked When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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PS, I Love You
Because shares tags: romance, grief, contemporary fiction.
Widowed at thirty, Holly Kennedy follows ten monthly letters left by her late husband Gerry, facing grief, loving family chaos and slow…
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Wish You Were Here
Because shares tags: romance, grief.
Diana goes to the Galapagos alone when Covid keeps her boyfriend in New York, and being stranded there forces her to rethink her job and…
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The Summer of Broken Rules
Because shares tags: romance, grief.
Meredith plays Assassin at Vineyard wedding a year after sister Claire died.
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One Italian Summer
Because shares tags: romance, grief.
Grieving Katy meets her mother Carol at 30 in Positano and learns to see her as a young woman with wishes of her own.
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Message in a Bottle
Because shares tags: romance, grief.
A divorced mother finds a grieving widower's letter and seeks him in North Carolina.
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Five Feet Apart
Because shares tags: romance, grief.
Two teens with CF fall in love where six feet keeps alive and five tempts.
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Under the Whispering Door
Because shares tags: romance, grief.
Workaholic Wallace dies and must learn tea, apology, and love before crossing the upstairs door.
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Point of Retreat
Because shares tags: romance, grief.
Will and Layken keep love and two brothers together through bills, jealousy, and a pregnancy scare.
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Where She Went
Because shares tags: grief, romance.
Three years after the crash, rock star Adam Wilde spends one night in New York facing Mia and their breakup.
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Because shares tags: grief, 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, 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, grief.
Hannah Brooks, an executive protection agent grieving her mother, poses as movie star Jack Stapleton's girlfriend on his Texas family ranch.











