Childhood sweethearts (contemporaries)

Sometimes, instead of the love at first sight, it might take years of friendship or even separation for the love to grow and deepen. These are some contemporary romance novels that deal with these issues.

Toni Blake - Tempt Me Tonight

The heroine returns to her home town as a powerful attorney, and her plans include taking revenge on the boy who had once betrayed her...

Nora Roberts - Honest Illusions

The unconventional family of traveling thieves and magicians takes in a 12-year-old runaway and pick-pocket. The nine-year-old daughter of the family is happy to have a brother, if a bit jealous of having to share her father's attention. As they grow up, their friendship gradually turns into something much more intense...

Nora Roberts - Carolina Moon

The only happy moments in the heroine's childhood were spent in the company of her best friend from the rich southern family. It was over when her friend was brutally murdered and her family had to flee the town. Many years have passed, and she's back in the town, trying to set up her business. Unexpectedly, she is becoming involved with her late friend's older brother, who'd always seemed a "prince" to her, while her psychic abilities play the key role in solving the series of gruesome murders.

Linda Howard - After the Night

She's born into a white thrash family who secretly admires a scion of the most powerful family in town, a few years her senior. When her mother supposedly runs off with his father, the whole family is made to pay by having to leave the town in disgrace. Even though she manages to build a life for herself, no one in the town is happy to see her back, and least of all her old love... not that he can't deny his attraction.

Karen Robards - Maggy's Child

He was her friend and protector when they were growing up in the Louisville projects and, eventually, her boyfriend and father of her child. She had to marry an older rich man, but now her first love is back and wants her again...

Karen Robards - Whispers at Midnight

Whenthe heroine comes back to her hometown and someone tries to break into her house, the sheriff turns out to be the very man he was crazy for in her childhood. After they'd shared a night after the senior prom he tried to avoid her...

Pamela Clare - Unlawful Contact

In high school they couldn't have been more different: a good nerdy girl and a bad boy troublemaker. He protected her from the junkies, took her virginity and left for the army. They spent the next decade trying to forget the most romantic night of their lives. Now he's serving life in prison and she might be the only person who can help him and his younger sister.

Susan Wiggs - Summer by The Sea

This is another story about love between the classes. She is a daughter of the gardener while he comes from a wealthy family. They become friends and eventually fall in love but a family secret forces him to end their relationship. When he walks into her restaurant twelve years later she realizes that she's still not over him...

Susan Wiggs - Summer at Willow Lake

When asked to help her grandmother prepare the Catskills camp, the heroine doesn't expect to meet her childhood flame - the only person to brighten the days of the rich but miserable girl in this very camp many years ago.

Rachel Gibson - Daisy's Back in Town

In her childhood, the heroine was inseparable with the two boys who both were in love with her. She was more attracted to the "bad boy" and got pregnant by him, however, was persuaded to marry the more stable friend. Fifteen years later, she is a widow returning to her hometown to make amends to the man she'd terribly wrong.

Kathleen Eagle - The Last Good Man

A beautiful model returns to her town of birth in Wyoming with her small daughter who strongly resembles her first love, the romantic Indian activist. The hero is his half-brother: he had always carried a torch for her and now he has a chance to offer her more than friendship.

Deborah Smith - A Place to Call Home

Despite very different backgrounds, the hero and heroine were meant for each other... but tragic circumstances take them apart until the time is right again.

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