If You Like Danielle Steel...

Scarlet Feather  by Maeve Binchy
Scarlet Feather is a new catering company formed by two friends from cooking school, Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather. Their dream is to have the best business in Dublin. Over the course of a year, we follow their lives as they meet the trails and rewards of life head on.

Being Elizabeth by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Elizabeth Deravenel rises to become the most powerful managing director in the history of the Deravenel business empire, only to find herself surrounded by corporate intrigue, takeover threats, betrayal, and scandal as she must make a choice between love and duty.

Family Tree by Barbara Delinksy
The old and illustrious New England Clarke family has a new member, and she is not what the family envisioned. Elizabeth Clarke, a beautiful daughter born to Hugh and Dana, possesses definite African American traits, leaving the parents puzzled and the extended Clarke family scandalized. On what should be a joyous occasion, Hugh and Dana struggle with issues of race, family, and trust.

Return to Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux
Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite.

Desperate Journey by Julie Ellis
Caren met Marty, an Iranian, at college. Young and idealistic, they fell in love. But when family duty recalls Marty to Tehran, he starts to change. Gradually, he turns into a tyrant. Imprisoned in a loveless marriage, in a society hostile to Western women, Caren flees. Together, she and son Danny escape to the States, where she hopes to rebuild her life, and create a loving home for Danny provided Marty cannot track her.

Pawley’s Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.

Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood
A romance moving between the glamorous cosmopolitan world of Boston and small-town Texas follows the tumultuous relationship between Jordan Buchanan and Noah Clayborne.

Thorns of Truth by Eileen Goudge
Rose Santini Griffin and Rachel MacClanahan, now grown with children of their own, once more confront the destiny that has haunted them since they were switched at birth, as Rose's son prepares to marry Rachel's daughter and a widowed Sylvie discovers that she is dying. Also try Blessing in Disguise, Second Silence and Such Devoted Sisters.

Summer Island by Kristin Hannah
Nora Bridge is a woman who walked out on her marriage and left her two daughters behind. Now she's a radio talk show host and syndicated newspaper columnist and her daughter Ruby is a comedienne who uses her mother as fuel for her humor. The tabloids unearth a scandal from Nora's past and offer Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. But first Ruby needs to know her well enough to write the story. She returns to Summer Island and finds that Nora is not the woman Ruby has imagined all these years.

A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand
Claire has followed the rules and been a reliable friend, wife and mother. All that changes when she is asked to co-chair Nantucket's annual Summer Gala by the wealthy Lock Dixon. Soon she finds herself in his arms, who offers relief from the monotony of her marriage and the demands of caring for four youngsters. The question is: Does Claire value her newfound passion more than her marriage?

Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
Macomber brings her readers back to Seattle's Blossom Street and quickly whisks us into the lives of its inhabitants. This tale begins on Valentine's Day at Anne Marie Roche's bookstore when four widows—Anne Marie, Elise, Lillie, and her daughter, Barbie, members of one of her book groups—decide to celebrate friendship together. One of them brings up the idea of making a list of wishes: things they've secretly wanted to accomplish but never did.

Up Close and Personal by Fern Michaels
On the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess, the matriarch of the Windsor family, enlists the help of lawyer Jake Forrest to find Trinity, the daughter she had given up for adoption, a desperate search that exposes dark secrets and has unexpected consequences.

Swimming Lessons by Mary Alice Monroe
Sequel to The Beach House. Toy Sooner, a single mother and marine biologist opening a turtle rehab facility with the help of a director at the South Carolina Aquarium, must find a way to deal with the return of her daughter's vindictive father, who has just been released from prison.

Looking Back by Belva Plain
When three college classmates graduate and move into careers and marriage, they remain close. But, secretly, one of them will begin a relationship that undermines their trust and alters the course of each life it touches.

Sandcastles by Luann Rice
Painter and art instructor Honor Sullivan has made a peaceful life for herself with her three daughters, until the wedding of her eldest daughter, Regis, brings her former love--and Regis's father--John back into her life from his self-imposed exile.

Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons
Her family's cottage on the coast of Maine is haunted, and that suits Lily Constable just fine. Returning to Edgewater after the death of her beloved husband, Cam, Lily takes comfort in carrying on detailed conversations with the spirit that she feels pervades the site of so much joy, and yet so much tragedy, in her life. As Lily works through her grief for her husband, mother, and old friend, she uncovers startling revelations about the very people she thought she knew best.

Charming Grace by Deborah Smith
When a Hollywood movie star comes to small-town Georgia to film the true life- and-death story of a heroic local lawman, the dead man's widow, Grace, launches a campaign to stop the filming. Also try Sweet Hush.

Small Town Girl by LaVyrle Spencer
Country music superstar Mac McPhail returns to her hometown of Wintergreen, Missouri, where she learns to appreciate her family and to open her heart to love and commitment with the man next door.

The Cinderella Hour by Katherine Stone
When she brings her radio talk show back home to Chicago, Snow is faced with a self-destructive mother, an heiress with a hidden agenda, and Ray, the troubled boy she once loved and with whom she shared a special relationship years ago.

Summer at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs
For Olivia Bellamy, Camp Kioga whose family operated the camp in the Catskills, it's all about bad memories. The only thing that kept her from being completely miserable was the arrival each summer of Connor Davis. Connor and Olivia finally have a relationship, which seems to scar her heart. Years later, a slimmed-down, professional Olivia is asked by her grandmother to prepare the camp for her fiftieth wedding anniversary. Connor is still in the area, and as soon as she hires him to help with the project, feelings arise on both sides. First book in the Lakeshore Chronicles.