Books like Homeport

Homeport by Nora Roberts reads as suspenseful, passionate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What Homeport is like to read

A glamorous art-world suspense with a humiliated expert forced to trust a charming gallerist whose motives are suspect — the romance and the mystery escalate in tandem. Best for: readers who want a globetrotting art-heist romantic suspense with a competent heroine.

Carolina Moon

Nora Roberts · 2000

A southern-gothic-tinged romantic suspense where a woman's return home reopens both a childhood friend's unsolved murder and the possibility of love with the victim's brother — the

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Catherine Coulter · 2007

A brisk romantic-suspense procedural: an attempted murder on a pier reopens a psychic's killing while a parallel Virginia missing-wife thread runs alongside.

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Love is Murder

Sandra Brown · 2012

Same thriller feel

The Heiress Bride

Lynne Graham · 2002

A dramatic romance centered on two strong-willed characters navigating forced marriage, secrets, and passionate connection against a backdrop of wealth and Greek society.

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Pretend You Don't See Her

Mary Higgins Clark · 1997

A tense, fast-moving thriller following a witness in hiding whose isolation and family ties become the killer's way back to her — the fear comes from exposure and pursuit rather than gore.

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All He'll Ever Be

Willow Winters · 2019

A dark, obsessive mafia retelling of Beauty and the Beast, told in alternating first-person present between a ruthless crime lord and the enemy's daughter he claims as his own.

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Guardian

Nicholas Sparks · 2003

A tender yet darkening exploration of a widow's emotional reawakening complicated by romantic choice and mounting danger; Sparks blends his signature melancholic romance with genui

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