10 romance books about finding your way back to a past love

Here are 10 romance books about couples finding each other again.

A Lie For A Lie – Helena Hunting

Lainey meets Rook on a flight to Alaska where they’re both going to be staying for a while. They immediately hit it off and while they’re there and end up spending all of their time together before Rook is called away. 

A year later, they unexpectedly meet again and this time they’re forced to confront the secrets that they’ve both been keeping.

Hail Mary – Kandi Steiner

Mary and Leo meet (online) as teenagers where they both play the same video game and talk every single day. But Leo is popular while Mary is not, and when Mary tries to introduce herself, Leo ignores her and then allows his friends to make fun of her all throughout high school.

Years later, Mary needs somewhere to live and Leo has a cheap room to rent. Mary has no other options so decides to take him up on his offer – but she soon realises he has no idea who she is.

Every Summer After – Carley Fortune

Percy grew up spending every summer at her family’s lake house where she becomes close to the boy that lives next door, Sam Florek. Over six summers, Percy and Sam became inseperable and eventually fell in love before it all fell apart.

Years later, Percy has returned to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral and their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. 

Funny You Should Ask – Elissa Sussman

Chani is a journalist hired to write a profile of Gabe Parker, a movie star that’s just been cast as James Bond who needs some good press. The interview turns into a whirlwind weekend where Chani spends every moment with Gabe and when the profile goes viral it seems to the public that something might have happend between them.

10 years later, Chani has always denied that anything happened and is asked to re-do the the interview for it’s anniversary. She knows that meeting Gabe again will force feelings to the surface that she’d rather forget.

Happy Place – Emily Henry

Harriet and Wyn have been the seemingly perfect couple ever since they met in college. Except that they broke up 6 months ago and still haven’t told their friends.

When they’re both invited on the annual friend group trip, they agree to keep their relationship status a secret until the end in order to not ruin the trip so are forced to pretend that they’re still the perfect couple for the duration of the trip.

Maybe In Another Life – Taylor Jenkins Reid

At the age of 29, Hannah Martin has no idea what she wants to do with her life so she’s moving back to her hometown to live with her best friend. Shortly after getting back she bumps into her ex-boyfriend.

In 2 concurrent storylines we see how her life would’ve turned out if she decides to accept a ride home from him or decides to leave with her friend.

The Ex Hex – Erin Sterling

Viv Jones nursed a broken heart with vodka and put a curse on her horrible ex-boyfriend. But nothing happened, until 9 years later when he returns to town.

The curse has just been activated and they must stop it before it’s too late.

One True Loves – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Emma Blair married her high school sweetheart, Jesse, in her twenties and on their first wedding anniversary, Jesse’s helicopter goes down over the pacific and he is declared dead. Emma quits her job and moves back home where years later she reconnects with an old friend, Sam, and falls in love.

Emma and Sam are now engaged, until Emma receives a phone call telling her that Jesse has been found alive. Now she has a husband and a fiance, and must decide who she wants to spend her life with.

Dial A For Aunties – Jesse Q. Sutanto

Meddelin Chan accidentally kills her date on a blind date gone wrong. Instead of calling the plice she decides to call her aunties who immediately agree to help her hide the body.

But the only way they can do it is ship the body in a cooler to the wedding of a billionaire that they’re all working at. And things get even more complicated when they discover that Meddelin’s first love (and the one that got away) is also working the wedding.

Secretly Yours – Tessa Bailey

Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos hard as a teenager when they almost kissed in the vineyards of his family’s winery. 

Years later, Julian has returned to their small town but he’s now a grumpy professor nothing like the teenager that Hallie remembers – but he’s still hot. On one drunken night, Hallie writes a love letter to Julian and leaves it for him to find and as Julian wonders who his mystery admirer is he begins to get closer to Hallie…