Books like “The Simple Wild”

What to read after “The Simple Wild” by K.A. Tucker: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
Things We Never Got Over
Lucy Score · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Naomi arrives in the small town of Knockemout to help her estranged twin, who promptly robs her and leaves her stranded with the young niece she never knew she had. With no car, job, or home, she turns for help to Knox, the town's grumpy, bearded barber, who claims he wants nothing to do with anyone but keeps turning up as she starts over.
2
It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
After a Hollywood party scandal, Piper is cut off and sent to a rainy Washington fishing town to run her late father's bar. The town's grumpy sea captain wants her gone, but the summer pushes the socialite and the fisherman into an uneasy partnership that softens into more.
3
Book Lovers
Emily Henry · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Literary agent Nora is the cold city professional that small-town romance novels leave behind, and editor Charlie is her sharp-tongued rival in the same business. When her sister drags her to a North Carolina town for the summer, Charlie turns out to be there too, and their sparring slowly becomes something neither expected.
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From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata · 2018
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Jasmine's pairs figure-skating career is nearly over when her former partner leaves. The only skater willing to take her on is Ivan Lukov, her longtime rival, and she has no choice but to accept. Months of gruelling shared training force them past years of resentment and into reluctant trust.
5
Part of Your World
Abby Jimenez · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Small Town Romance
ER doctor Alexis is thirty-seven and boxed in by her wealthy surgical family's plans for her. In the small town of Wakan she meets Daniel, a carpenter and mayor nine years younger, and a casual fling turns into a love that neither of their separate worlds seems willing to allow.
6
Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas · 2018
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Forced Proximity
- Slow Burn
When nineteen-year-old Jordan and her boyfriend have nowhere else to go, they move in with his father, Pike. Sharing the house, she finds in the guarded older man the steadiness her life has lacked, and they both fight an attraction that is off-limits by every rule that matters.
7
The Hating Game
Sally Thorne · 2016
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Lucy and Joshua are assistants at the same publishing house, forced to share an office while competing for one promotion. Their open hostility and elaborate office games hide an attraction neither will admit, until a single reckless moment changes the rules between them.
8
The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren · 2019
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
After food poisoning strikes at her twin sister's wedding, unlucky Olive takes her sister's place on a free Hawaiian honeymoon, but her sworn enemy Ethan has to come too. Stranded together and posing as newlyweds to keep the perks, the two bicker their way toward something neither expected.
9
Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Forced Proximity
- Slow Burn
Maybell inherits her great-aunt's crumbling house in the Smoky Mountains, only to learn the grouchy groundskeeper Wesley is a co-inheritor with very different plans. Forced to renovate together, the dreamer and the shy, scowling loner slowly find in each other the safety they have always wanted.
10
Vision in White
Nora Roberts · 2009
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Slow Burn
- Found Family
Wedding photographer Mackensie has built her life and the Vows wedding business with three childhood friends, but her parents' failures have left her wary of commitment. When she meets shy English teacher Carter, a steady romance slowly teaches her to trust and to want a future of her own.
11
The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Catalina needs a date for her sister's wedding in Spain and claims she is bringing her American boyfriend. Her infuriating coworker Aaron volunteers to play the part, and the two must keep up the act through a week of family dinners, sightseeing and shared hotel rooms.
12
Bet Me
Jennifer Crusie · 2004
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Minerva overhears her ex-boyfriend bet the charming Cal that he can get her into bed within a month, so she accepts his dinner invitation to turn the tables. The sceptical actuary and the commitment-shy businessman keep colliding through meddling friends and sheer bad luck, resisting an attraction neither of them wants.