13 must-read romance books like By the Light of Embers by Shaylin Gandhi

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By the Light of Embers

By: Shaylin Gandhi

4.47

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

It's 1954, and twenty-two-year-old Lucia Lafleur has always dreamed of following in her father’s fo…

If you liked the romance plot in By the Light of Embers by Shaylin Gandhi , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Sacred Sins (D.C. Detectives, #1) by Nora Roberts

1. Sacred Sins (D.C. Detectives, #1)

By: Nora Roberts

3.94

Format: 344 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the lazy days of summer, a merciless heat wave is the biggest story in Washington, D.C. But the … read more

Similar categories in Nora Roberts's Sacred Sins (D.C. Detectives, #1) book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • fiction
Cover of The Stars Don't Lie by Boo Walker

2. The Stars Don't Lie

By: Boo Walker

4.14

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A man who thought he put his shattered past behind him embarks on a reflective journey home in a he… read more

Similar categories in Boo Walker's The Stars Don't Lie book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • fiction
"One day you’ll realize you worked your whole life to get to a point where you can start living, and the one regret you’ll have is you could have been living all along."

-Boo Walker, The Stars Don't Lie

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3. The American Girl

By: Rachael English

4.17

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Boston 1968. Rose Moroney is seventeen, smart, spirited – and pregnant. She wants to marry her boyf… read more

Similar categories in Rachael English's The American Girl book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Upside Down

By: Danielle Steel

4.01

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of g… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Steel's Upside Down book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • fiction
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5. A Day Like This

By: Kelley McNeil

4.20

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

What if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared? Ann… read more

Similar categories in Kelley McNeil's A Day Like This book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • fiction
"Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment. To celebrate the here and now. No life is perfect, I've learned. But if you're lucky, it can come pretty close."

-Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

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6. The Parisian Dancer (World War II Brave Women Fiction)

By: Doron Darmon

4.41

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on a true story, this is an unforgettable novel about a brave woman and her heroic actions, w… read more

Similar categories in Doron Darmon's The Parisian Dancer (World War II Brave Women Fiction) book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Lost English Girl

By: Julia Kelly

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of The Light Over London weaves an epic saga of love, motherhood, and betrayal… read more

Similar categories in Julia Kelly's The Lost English Girl book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

Similar categories in Amy Matayo's They Call Her Dirty Sally book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

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9. Night Angels

By: Weina Dai Randel

4.22

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the Mass Book Awards 2024 From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a pr… read more

Similar categories in Weina Dai Randel's Night Angels book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Olivia and the Masked Duke (Lady Charlotte's Society of Angels, #1)

By: Grace Callaway

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

He saved her life when she was a girl. Now, she is a woman determined to heal his heart... Spiri… read more

Similar categories in Grace Callaway's Olivia and the Masked Duke (Lady Charlotte's Society of Angels, #1) book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Whittiers

By: Danielle Steel

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

In this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, adult siblings… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Steel's The Whittiers book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
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12. Scarlet Carnation

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.14

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two wo… read more

Similar categories in Laila Ibrahim's Scarlet Carnation book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Road to the Breaking

By: Chris Bennett

4.26

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing survived ‘The Breaking’ unchanged; lives and fortunes, love and hate, freedom and slavery …… read more

Similar categories in Chris Bennett's Road to the Breaking book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical fiction
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14. Wild, Beautiful, and Free

By: Sophfronia Scott

4.31

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised… read more

Similar categories in Sophfronia Scott's Wild, Beautiful, and Free book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. American Gilt: Début

By: J.D. Peterson

3.99

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

ALSO AVAILABLE ON KINDLE & KOBO! “American Gilt – Début” (Vol 1) "This was the best gilded ag… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Peterson's American Gilt: Début book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Consequence of Anna

By: Kate Birkin

4.16

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

The Instant #1 BESTSELLER, reminiscent of The Thorn Birds, The Light Between Oceans, and Lady Chatt… read more

Similar categories in Kate Birkin's The Consequence of Anna book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The whole world is a hungry stomach with teeth."

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

"A face with no freckles is like a flower with no bloom."

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

"What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?"

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

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17. These Tangled Vines

By: Julianne MacLean

4.27

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale … read more

Similar categories in Julianne MacLean's These Tangled Vines book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Arkansas Summer

By: Anne Moose

4.51

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, … read more

Similar categories in Anne Moose's Arkansas Summer book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical fiction
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19. The School for German Brides

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific "bride school" to be m… read more

Similar categories in Aimie K. Runyan's The School for German Brides book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Irish Nanny

By: Sandy Taylor

4.31

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

There is a fierce wind blowing in from the sea, as I step off the boat towards my new life in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Sandy Taylor's The Irish Nanny book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Immodest

By: L.S. Einat

4.46

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world ruled by strict traditions and laws, one brave woman is willing to risk everything to ea… read more

Similar categories in L.S. Einat's Immodest book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • fiction
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22. When You're Gone

By: Brooke Harris

4.35

Format: None pages, None

‘Oh my god… stunning… must be read by everyone… made me blub like a baby and I met my grocery deliv… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Harris's When You're Gone book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Child I Never Had

By: Kate Hewitt

4.22

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

If you had to make an impossible choice to save your long-lost daughter, you would… wouldn’t you? … read more

Similar categories in Kate Hewitt's The Child I Never Had book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • fiction
Cover of Enigma (Road to the Breaking, #2) by Chris  Bennett

24. Enigma (Road to the Breaking, #2)

By: Chris Bennett

4.45

Format: 516 pages, Kindle Edition

“How can I call myself a man of good conscience, when I myself am no better than a slaver?” It’s… read more

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25. Sedition (Road to the Breaking #3)

By: Chris Bennett

4.62

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

“You dare call me traitor? It is you, sir, who is the traitor! You and all your slaver ‘friends’ sp… read more

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26. Insurrection (Road to the Breaking #5)

By: Chris Bennett

4.59

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

“I want it bloody, the bloodier the better. Teach these oath-breakers what happens to traitors and … read more

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27. Broken Leaves of Autumn: A Novel

By: Eli Hai

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An impossible love triangle on the backdrop of ultraorthodox Brooklyn. Jeff Palmer is a young Chri… read more

Similar categories in Eli Hai's Broken Leaves of Autumn: A Novel book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
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28. Invasion (Road to the Breaking #6)

By: Chris Bennett

4.67

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

“They’re saying it’s the greatest shipborne invasion force ever assembled, gentlemen,” General McCl… read more

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29. Then Home I'll Be

By: P.L. Klein

4.16

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Then Home I’ll Be When wealthy Moriah Wakefield discovers her heart is failing and her life is near… read more

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Cover of By the Light of Embers by Shaylin Gandhi

30. By the Light of Embers

By: Shaylin Gandhi

4.47

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

It's 1954, and twenty-two-year-old Lucia Lafleur has always dreamed of following in her father’s fo… read more

Similar categories in Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers book and Shaylin Gandhi's By the Light of Embers

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Breakout (Road to the Breaking Book 4) by Chris  Bennett

31. Breakout (Road to the Breaking Book 4)

By: Chris Bennett

4.63

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

"Tomorrow we march into battle, to conquer our enemies and kick open the door to freedom—or die try… read more

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Nora Roberts

3.94

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Boo Walker

4.14

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Rachael English

4.17

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Danielle Steel

4.01

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Lorraine Heath

3.97

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Amy Jarecki

4.47

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Elisa Braden

4.21

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3.80

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