Clean and Wholesome Romance Books 

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Wholesome romance is defined as novels that showcase a love story but are clean and essentially rated G or PG. Great for people who love love but don't need to go into explicit details. This can include christian fiction, cozy mysteries, sweet/clean romance books, and more. Parents can feel comfortable with their teenagers reading these stories with no concerns. 

Modern Romantics, Beach Readers, Cool Mom/Dad, and Young at Heart Reader Types might really enjoy some of these recommendations for wholesome romance books. 

28 clean and wholesome romance books:

Bowled Over Americano

by Carolyn Arnold

A Sara and Sean Cozy Mystery

Sara Cain isn't your typical thirty-two-year-old woman. Murder detective by day, writer and... sleuth by night? Just as long as there's enough coffee to keep her going… When her first novel gives her trouble, Sara goes for a walk to clear her writer's block and ends up stumbling right into a real-life murder mystery. Magnum, an adventurous beagle, comes running off leash toward her in the local park, and she returns him home only to find his master dead on the entry floor.

Cliff Cunningham was a championship bowler with a mean streak and a temper, and police are pegging his Golden Pin bowling trophy as the murder weapon. While any number of people could have clocked a strike by knocking him on the noggin, the prime suspect is a friend of Sara's mother-and she expects Sara to prove the woman's innocence. A tall order, as the case isn't officially hers and belongs to a rival detective.

Her Part to Play 

by Jenny Erlingsson

Desperate for extra income after her mother's passing, Adanne accepts a last-minute job as a makeup artist for a movie filming in her small Alabama hometown. She's working to save her parents' legacy and help her brother, but the money hardly seems worth having to face the actor who got her fired from her last job in Hollywood.

John Pope has made his share of mistakes over the years. But after turning his life over to God and enduring a messy breakup, he's ready to start rebuilding his career. Imagine his surprise when the woman called in to cover for his usual makeup artist is a quiet but feisty newcomer on the set--and definitely not a fan.
 

Something Old, Something New: A Sweet Contemporary Romance

by Amy Clipston

Bestselling Author

In the decade since high school graduation, Christine Sawyer has realized her dream of opening Treasure Hunting Antique Mall, the place where shoppers find gems that are new to them. Between her store, her house, and her role as a doting aunt, she's happy with her life--if a bit lonely. But she's used to being less lucky in love than her fraternal twin sister. Britney was always the popular one, the head cheerleader who dated the homecoming king and quarterback, while Christine stayed in the shadows.

Pride and Preston Lin

by Christina Hwang Dudley

In this modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice, the quick-witted and contrarian Lissie Cheng must navigate societal pressures and her growing attraction to the rich and enigmatic Preston Lin.

Lissie is the middle of three sisters, orphaned and taken in by their aunt and uncle. Both she and her older sister, Jenny, work in the family restaurant while pursuing their education and career dreams. When Lissie accidentally serves a dish containing shellfish paste to an allergic customer, she runs afoul of the wealthy Lin family. Their golden boy, Preston, star swimmer and Stanford Ph.D. student, is as handsome as he is self-righteous. Lissie hates him and everything he stands for, but circumstances keep bringing them together. Can she overcome her pride and her initial misgivings about Preston Lin and his condescending mother? Will love prevail, and will these enemies turn into lovers?

The Courtship Plan

by Kathleen Fuller

Finding a husband is serious business. And serious business requires serious planning.

Charity Raber is one of many single women who came to Birch Creek, Ohio, with one goal in mind: secure a husband from among the desperate bachelors a newspaper advertisement claimed inhabited the town. Even though that claim proved to be nothing more than a cruel prank, Charity is still hopeful that her happy ending might be within reach when she's set up on a date with Jesse Bontrager. That is until Jesse not-so-gently shares that he has no interest in a relationship with anyone--and especially not with her.

Amish Love Letters 

by Shelley Shepard Gray - Charlotte Hubbard - Rosalind Lauer

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author 

After six months of courtship, Jennie Miller has refused Matthew Lapp's proposal. Though he visits regularly, they never seem to talk deeply, and Jennie longs for real connection and romance. So she offers a solution. For one month, they'll share letters filled with their hopes and dreams. Soon, Jennie is falling for Matt in earnest . . . but will he ever propose again?

Relationtrip

by Elana Johnson

USA Today Bestselling Author 

Question: What do a reclusive author and an outgoing travel agent have in common?

Answer: Nothing.

But fate brought them together on a vacation five years ago, and as Logan and Sloane prepare for their annual get-together, there are sparks flying between them.

Two to Tango

by Kathleen Fuller

USA Today Bestselling Author 

When career-driven Olivia Farnsworth and Kingston Bedford refuse to act on their obvious chemistry, the town of Maple Falls schemes to pair the two up--and dance their way to another happy ending.

Olivia Farnsworth always has a plan and knows just what she likes. She likes her job as head librarian. She likes spending time with her aunt Bea and with her close-knit group of friends. She likes attending the cinema's monthly Vintage Movie Night. What she does not like is stepping outside her comfort zone. But when Kingston Bedford, her best friend's older brother, runs into her at the movies, that's exactly what she does. She takes a chance on the gorgeous pediatrician she's known her whole life--only to crash land her way into heartache. Twice. One year later, she's determined to avoid him forever. Aunt Bea and her Bosom Buddies, however, have other ideas. Plans that begin with ballroom dancing lessons . . . and end with one of the Bosom Buddies getting a taste of her own matchmaking medicine.

Miracles at Promise Lodge

by Charlotte Hubbard

A season of change has blessed the Amish of Missouri's Promise Lodge, as mothers-to-be anticipate the arrival of their little miracles and one young man's life is about to take an unexpected turn as he sheds his bad boy reputation and embraces the value of faith and hard work.

Long-time residents of Promise Lodge welcome a wave of newcomers that includes a pretty potter who's come to help an expectant couple, and a hard-working dairy expert ready to manage the herds on the expanding Burkholder farm. Then there's Isaac Chupp, the handsome, charming son of a notoriously unyielding Bishop from nearby Coldstream. Isaac has recklessly rebelled against his dat, and his bad boy reputation precedes him. Now he seeks a fresh start, applying for work at Dale Kraybill's bulk store.

Dear Henry, Love Edith 

by Becca Kinzer

He thinks she's an elderly widow. She's convinced he's a grumpy old man. Neither could be further from the truth.

After a short and difficult marriage, recently widowed Edith Sherman has learned her lesson. Forget love. Forget marriage. She plans to fill her thirties with adventure. As she awaits the final paperwork for a humanitarian trip to South Africa, she accepts a short-term nursing position in a small Midwestern town. The last thing she needs is a handsome local catching her eye. How inconvenient is that?
 

When Hattie Finds Love

by Amy Lillard

USA Today Bestselling Author

The uplifting new inspirational romance featuring the "Whoopie Pie Widow's Club," a group of women who share solace, friendship, and faith in the close-knit community of Paradise Valley, Missouri. When they bet that their most outgoing member can't turn around the attitude of their most grumpy neighbor, the last thing they all expected was their wager leading to new love for Hattie! Perfect for fans of Beverly Lewis, Charlotte Hubbard, Amy Clipston, and Shelley Shepard Gray. Hattie Schrock's lively optimism makes her the Widows Club's most outgoing member. The circle has helped her through widowhood-and in building a thriving popcorn shop with her cousin. So when Elsie bets Hattie that she can't help Paradise Valley's most cantankerous man learn to be happier, Hattie tackles the challenge head-on. 

Something Borrowed Sisters

by Shirley Jump

New York Times Bestselling Author 

Ever since their mother passed, Margaret Monroe has been the rock for her two younger sisters, serving as a role model in life and in love. But Margaret is keeping a painful secret from her normally tight-knit family. 

Her sisters would be there for her if she reached out for help, but with her family concerned about their grandmother's health crisis, Margaret doesn't want to add to their worry. She'd like to be able to confide in her husband instead, but they have drifted apart, and she has no idea how they can find their way back to one another. 
Thankfully, her two sisters are now in happy marriages, and Margaret wants to make her own relationship last a lifetime too. But will she lose everyone she holds dear once she tells them the truth? 
 

Reinventing Ruthie

by Kate Lloyd

When Ruth Ann Templeton's husband, Drew, leaves her for another woman Ruthie is devastated. She seeks solace at their beach cabin in Puget Sound where she meets Victor, a neurologist who has marital problems of his own. Their relationship blossoms just as Ruthie's husband moves home asking for forgiveness. But can Ruthie trust and forgive him or any man?

My Two and Only

by Carla Malden

An interior designer and mother of two grapples with how to deal with the unexpected after her husband dies. Life isn't always a fairytale; most of the time, it's far from it. Charlotte Most learns this leson the hard way when she unexpectedly loses her husband, Paul, at the end of an unremarkable, errand-filled day. In the years that follow, Charlotte does the best that she can; she continues to raise her two children and takes on new clients for her interior design business. But love remains one area of her life that remains stagnant--until a chance encounter at a fast-food drive-thru in which a tearful Charlotte crosses paths with Brian Novak, a divorced attorney. The two strike up a friendship after Brian, who was ahead of her in line, pays for Charlotte's food and adds a milkshake to her order, which leads to a more than friendly exchange. 

15 Summers Later

by Raeanne Thayne

New York Times Bestselling Author

Ava Howell seemed to have it all. She moved away from Emerald Creek, Idaho, married the love of her life and published a bestselling memoir. But she never expected that her husband would feel so betrayed by a secret from her past--the truth of what happened to her and her sister all those years ago--that he'd walk away. Now Ava is back home and trying to move on with the only person who can truly understand...
 

When Cardinals Appear 

by Katie Eagan Schenck

She has a promise to keep. But when her plans are thrown into a tailspin, will a persistent red bird show her how to let her dreams take flight?

Lanie McAllister is ready to move on. Wrestling with her mom's death, the young woman just wants to settle the estate and soar off for good to her boyfriend in California-far away from painful memories. But she suspects the lucky cardinal she keeps seeing is trying to send a message when a flat tire puts her back in the path of the man who broke her heart.

Bluebird Bakery: A Small Town Romance

by Lee Tobin McClain

New York Times bestselling author Lee Tobin McClain returns to her Hometown Brothers series! 

A sweet new beginning on the Chesapeake Bay

Bluebird Bakery owner Taylor Harp loves how small and close-knit Teaberry Island is...except when the only response to her help wanted ad is from someone she hoped to avoid. She and Cody Cunningham shared a long-ago romance until he started dating her prettier younger sister. But though the sting of rejection remains, so do the sparks.
 

Love in Tandem

by Becca Kinzer

She's perfectly content leading a quiet life in her small hometown. He's an adventurer with unquenchable wanderlust. The two couldn't be any more opposite if they tried. But a tandem bicycle and a 500-mile road trip just might change all that.

After a failed engagement and her mother's battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter's life is finally turning around now that she's landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn't see coming was the imminent closure of the school's music program. She's determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There's no way she's chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments.