Lake Bluff Library Adult Reading Lists

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington.
(Description from Amazon)

After putting the brakes on her dead-end relationship, local veterinarian Ivey Anders is ready to soak up this summer on her own terms. The way she sees it, no dating means no disappointment. Why complicate life with anything long-term? But when she meets Corbin Meyer and his troubled young son, Justin. Ivey’s no-strings strategy threatens to unravel before she can put it into practice.
(Description from Amazon)

Young widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house. (Description from NoveList.)

After everything she worked for is destroyed, pediatrician Natasha Gray is determined to build a new life. Divorced, bankrupt and suddenly a single mom, she's ready to start over in Silver Springs on her own. She certainly doesn't need help from Mack Amos, the man who's already broken her heart twice. Although Mack has had feelings for Tash since they first met, too many things have stood in the way.
(Description from catalog)

After fleeing her hometown three years earlier, Alyssa Harrison never planned to return. Then the Silicon Valley start-up she worked for collapsed and turned her world upside down. She is broke, under FBI investigation, and without a place to go. Having exhausted every option, she comes home to Winsome, Illinois, to regroup then move on as quickly as possible. Yet, as friends and family welcome her back, Alyssa begins to see a place for herself in this small Midwestern community.
(Description from catalog)

To stay in the tiny seaside town of Margaret River, Australia, Angie Donovan, who has finally found a place to call home—and whose 6-month visa is about to run out, asks her neighbor for help in finding a man whom she can marry. (Description from NoveList)

Anticipating well-earned freedom after raising her siblings, a tough woman forges an unexpected bond with an enigmatic stranger before a massive storm and demons from the past throw everything she believes into question. (Description from NoveList.)