14 must-read contemporary books like This Is How It Started by Stacy Finz

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This Is How It Started

By: Stacy Finz

4.30

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

No marriage is perfect, but in Rachel Ackermann’s eyes, hers came close. From the very start, her l…

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1. Look on the Bright Side

By: Kristan Higgins

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unex… read more

Similar categories in Kristan Higgins's Look on the Bright Side book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The Best Life Book Club

By: Sheila Roberts

3.78

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

It started as a book club. It became a way to build a better life together. Karissa Newcomb is r… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Roberts's The Best Life Book Club book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • contemporary
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3. A Little Ray of Sunshine

By: Kristan Higgins

4.14

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A kid walks into your bookstore and... guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption e… read more

Similar categories in Kristan Higgins's A Little Ray of Sunshine book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • contemporary
"I had thought, once, that I couldn't ever be a mother because I'd passed at the chance to raise my own son. But this summer had shown me--Matthew and Monica had shown me--that being a mother wasn't o…"

-Kristan Higgins, A Little Ray of Sunshine

"I had a new sense of awareness now--of my own mother, of Addison and Nicole, Monica, Grammy . . . even of Grady's ex-wife. You can't have a child and not experience terror and heartache in some way. …"

-Kristan Higgins, A Little Ray of Sunshine

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4. The Sweetheart List (Sunrise Cove, #4)

By: Jill Shalvis

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

What makes life sweet? -Freshly baked bread -A cool lake on a hot summer day -The … read more

Similar categories in Jill Shalvis's The Sweetheart List (Sunrise Cove, #4) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The Love List (Hilton Head Island, #1)

By: Elana Johnson

4.16

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Beatrice Callahan loves lists. Sometimes she even makes a to-do list of things she's already done, … read more

Similar categories in Elana Johnson's The Love List (Hilton Head Island, #1) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Balancing Act (Lake in the Clouds)

By: Emily March

4.36

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

Return to Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, with this feel-good, emotional story from New York Times be… read more

Similar categories in Emily March's Balancing Act (Lake in the Clouds) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Before It's Too Late (FBI K-9, #2)

By: Sara Driscoll

4.40

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As a serial killer plays games with the FBI, a special agent and her K-9 partner refuse to follow t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Driscoll's Before It's Too Late (FBI K-9, #2) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
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8. The Rome Apartment

By: Kerry Fisher

4.14

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

As I stood on the terrace and gazed out over the most glorious view, he studied my face and said to… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Fisher's The Rome Apartment book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Good Luck Cafe (Somerset Lake, #4)

By: Annie Rains

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Moira Green is perfectly content with her life. She has a rewarding career and plenty of wonderful … read more

Similar categories in Annie Rains's The Good Luck Cafe (Somerset Lake, #4) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • contemporary
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10. His Secret Wife

By: Lisa Timoney

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when his secret wife is the only one who can save your child? Elle has the perfect … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Timoney's His Secret Wife book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • contemporary
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11. Finding Claire (Hill Country Secrets, #1)

By: Pamela Humphrey

4.24

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

She wakes up in the back of a van, and her whole world changes. ​Injured and afraid--with no re… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Humphrey's Finding Claire (Hill Country Secrets, #1) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • contemporary
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12. Rachel, Out of Office (Mommy Wars, #1)

By: Christina Hovland

4.01

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Single mom Rachel Gibson seriously needs a break. Between an absent ex-husband, rowdy twin boys, an… read more

Similar categories in Christina Hovland's Rachel, Out of Office (Mommy Wars, #1) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • contemporary
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13. The Gardener's Plot

By: Deborah J. Benoit

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman helps set up a community garden in the Berkshires, only to find a body in one of the plot's… read more

Similar categories in Deborah J. Benoit's The Gardener's Plot book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

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14. A Beach House Beginning

By: RaeAnne Thayne

4.07

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartfelt romance novel from New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne ThayneSometimes, the real … read more

Similar categories in RaeAnne Thayne's A Beach House Beginning book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
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15. Catch You Later

By: Jessica Strawser

4.05

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

One impulsive decision changes the lives of two best friends forever in a powerful novel of suspens… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Strawser's Catch You Later book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

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16. The Autumn of Ruth Winters

By: Marshall Fine

3.96

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

In this heartwarming story about second acts and second chances, a no-nonsense retiree, very much s… read more

Similar categories in Marshall Fine's The Autumn of Ruth Winters book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

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17. This Is How It Started

By: Stacy Finz

4.30

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

No marriage is perfect, but in Rachel Ackermann’s eyes, hers came close. From the very start, her l… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Take Me Home for Christmas (The Amazing Doctors of Oak Bluff #1)

By: Miranda Liasson

4.67

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

She invented Mr. Right…just in time for the holidays. Every tangled web starts with one tiny whi… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Liasson's Take Me Home for Christmas (The Amazing Doctors of Oak Bluff #1) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
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19. Over the Edge

By: Irene Hannon

4.53

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Trauma survivor Lindsey Barnes hasn't fully recovered from the ordeal that almost took her life, an… read more

Similar categories in Irene Hannon's Over the Edge book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • contemporary
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20. A Loose End (Blake Larsen #4)

By: Jack Slater

4.58

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping fourth instalment in Jack Slater's best-selling Blake Larsen crime series sees the ret… read more

Similar categories in Jack Slater's A Loose End (Blake Larsen #4) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

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21. Snowed in with Mr. Heartbreaker (Copper Valley Bro Code Book 5)

By: Pippa Grant

4.43

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

All I want for Christmas is to be alone.You’d think having a breakout Christmas song to take your p… read more

Similar categories in Pippa Grant's Snowed in with Mr. Heartbreaker (Copper Valley Bro Code Book 5) book and Stacy Finz's This Is How It Started

  • romance
  • contemporary

16 Best romance books like This Is How It Started by Stacy Finz

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Look on the Bright Side

Kristan Higgins

4.25

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Sheila Roberts

3.78

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A Little Ray of Sunshine

Kristan Higgins

4.14

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The Santa Trial

Tess Thompson

4.37

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One Big Happy Family

Susan Mallery

4.25

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Pamela M. Kelley

4.29

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Debbie Macomber

4.49

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