The Best Later in Life Romance Novels

After her husband Dan died, Pippa believed that she'd never find love again. She's lonely and wants a companion but doesn't feel ready to get over Dan. Then she opens a notebook written by her late husband and discovers that he has actually provided lots of advice on how to live without him—and fall in love again. 

With detailed instructions on everything from what to wear to how she should act on a first date, Dan has all the bases covered. He even has someone in mind for her—and in Pippa’s opinion, he couldn’t have chosen a less suitable match. So, Pippa embarks on a mission of self-discovery and second love, supported by her three kids and two best friends. But how much advice can Dan provide from beyond the grave, and can she strike it out on her own to find someone else?

Lacey Lancaster has always longed to be a wife and mother. However, after a painful divorce, she decides it's time to lay low for a while in her beautiful San Francisco home with nobody but her Abyssinian cat, Cleo, for company. Everything would be wonderful, except for her utterly impossible neighbor Jack Walker. 

When he's not arguing day and night with his girlfriend, begging her to move in with him, he's dealing with his amorous cat who has set his sights on Cleo. Well, love bloomed for someone because now her cat is pregnant and Jack's feline, confusingly named Dog, is the father. Then things get even more chaotic: Lacey learns that Jack's "girlfriend" is really his sister and he's actually interested in courting Lacy! Maybe she can allow herself to fall in love again.

Brought together at the start of the London social season, the widowed Lady Georgina and Lord Vane are immediately at odds. She finds him to be irritating with his cooler-than-cool demeanor, while he is put off by her seeming recklessness. Surely they would be a terrible match? He would try to tame her and she would upend his achingly orderly life. 

But soon they are forced together under orders of quarantine. Neither can leave or get away from one another and they're stuck together alone for the foreseeable future. It seems they are destined to be at each other’s throats, but how long before that hate morphs into something else?

Anna feels like she has a perfectly normal life until she discovers that Matthew, her husband of 22 years and the father of their three children, is having an affair. After he dies suddenly, her hopes for any kind of closure feel finished. Her confidence totally destroyed, she is tormented by the spectre of Matthew’s unknown lover, all while trying to get on with life as normal and keep the secret from her family. 

A trip to St Pierre, France, could help her sort things out and find her true self once more. Soon, the picturesque town becomes her second home and offers her a new chapter to a life she thought ended with her husband’s passing. Still, she cannot stop thinking about the other woman. Who is she? 

Hailey Genest has seen most of her friends marry and have babies, and she's happy for them, but it was a lot easier before she hit forty and found herself single year after year. She's spent her entire life in Whitford, Maine, and if she hasn't found her Prince Charming by now, she has to accept that she probably never will. When a new friend suggests they go on an adventure and embrace being single, Hailey agrees. 

Their accidental guide for the trip is game warden Matt Barnett, a man of the woods who stumbles upon two women in need and leads them back to safety. Hailey's not the outdoors type, and this rugged wilderness pain-in-the-ass guy isn't usually her type. So, why can't she stop thinking about him? And how can she avoid him when he rents the house next door to hers?

Widowed society matchmaker Mrs. Clara Sommersby has a knack for pairing up others and creating happy-ever-afters. She's less successful in her own life. When she lays eyes on Mr. William Lane, a handsome and self-made businessman, Clara thinks he's just the man for her neighbor’s overlooked daughter. Perhaps he could help bring the girl out of her shell. 

But then he turns his attentions elsewhere—to Clara herself! She thought her days of romance were over, but is this younger man intent on giving her a second chance?

When you think of the quintessential small-town girl, Tara Gumser is what comes to mind. Before she became the romance author of this very book, she fell hard and fast for Tim Barney on her first day of college. But it apparently wasn't meant to be and Tara soon married someone else who didn't make her happy. 

Many years later, an email from Tim Barney suddenly changed everything. The man whose heart she broke had never forgotten her. Now her own life has turned into one of the romances she penned, so of course she had to write it down for the world!

Marine archaeologist Charlotte Bennett is no stranger to risk, having led daring expeditions to sunken wreckages in the deepest parts of the ocean. Still, being the maid of honor in her cousin Samantha's English wedding is a whole other kind of challenge, especially for a dyed-in-the-wool nomad like her. But there's something about the tranquil town of Knights Bridge, Massachusetts, that hooks her, and soon, she's made an offer to house-sit the Red Clover Inn while her cousin is on her honeymoon. 

The quaint inn isn't open to the public yet and Charlotte will have quiet time to plan her next project. But the peace is immediately disrupted when Greg Rawlings turns up. The Diplomatic Security Service agent and single father lives a dangerous life, and he, too, wants to clear his head before his next assignment. Their living arrangement is only temporary, but soon the pair find themselves embracing the scariest thing of all: love.