Spring Reading Guide: 12 Sweet & Wholesome Closed-Door Romance Books!

I have no business falling in love with Emmett Foster.
The man is an incredibly wealthy professional baseball player who’s ten years older than me and has a daughter.

But when he hires me to take care of said daughter, I find myself catching feelings for the star pitcher.
He’s gruff, but sweet, and has a big heart that he shows in small pieces. Pieces I’d like to collect and call mine.
Unfortunately, he has no plans on marrying again after his ex-wife cheated on him then abandoned him and June.
So even though I think there’s a hint of chemistry between us, nothing will ever come of it. I’ll be stuck crushing on him in silence until we part ways.

The Double Play is a grumpy/sunshine romcom for fans of sweet sports romance. It has all the sizzling chemistry you love, without any of the explicit scenes. Check out the fourth book in the More Than a Game series, an interconnected standalone series based around four men in four different sports.

She has one rule: never fall for her brother’s best friend. He has one goal: to prove that love is worth the penalty.

I’m a former hockey hype girl, aka a puck bunny. After a big win, I fell for the center who happened to be one of my brother’s best friends. Swept into celebrating, twenty-four hours later, we were in Las Vegas getting married. I didn’t want what happened in Vegas to stay in Vegas. I thought I had my happily ever after.

Two weeks later, he ditched me. Was it love or did my brain temporarily break?

Thankfully, I have a new brain. A mom brain. Because nine months later, I have a baby girl…and an ex-husband who wants nothing to do with us, resulting in me moving back to my hometown—Hockey Town.

Rumors circulate about my fall from grace. When did this cheerleader become a homebody?

When my brother’s other best friend gets traded to our hockey team and gives me a You’ve grown up look, my inner alarm rings. Except he needs my help with a social media makeover…and maybe I could use his. Not to exact revenge on my ex. My brother took care of that.

I was in love with love, but we broke up. But I might have a crush. One the size of a jellybean. He listens instead of giving advice and is helpful without me having to ask. Will my relationship with romance be restored, this time, with my brother’s (other) best friend?

Romance channel screenwriter Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. But when her too-good-to-work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash, writing the best script of her life. When it’s picked up for the big screen and set to film at her home with former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, cast as her ex-husband, Nora’s life will never be the same.

After shooting wraps, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He’ll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. She could use the money, but it’s the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it’s the blink of an eye or an eternity, depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart.

She’s got his back.
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker.

He’s got her heart.
Jack Stapleton’s a household name―captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid.

They’ve got a secret.
When Jack’s mom gets sick, he goes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah―against her will and her better judgment―finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Even though her ex, says no one will believe it.

What could possibly go wrong?
Hannah hardly believes it, herself. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak. Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done.

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.

Zach Bryant is back in town just long enough to see his brother Ben get married and then he’s off traveling the world again. He never imagined he’d run into Charlotte Carter, his brother’s ex-fiancé, or that everyone would believe he and Charlotte are an item. He certainly didn’t dream he’d end up riding a tandem bicycle hundreds of miles with her in an attempt to raise funds for a defunct music program, but how can he say no when the prize money would help him out of his financial predicament too?

Charlotte is sure she can set aside her differences with Zach long enough to cross the finish line and win the giant cash prize . . . can’t she? A few hundred miles in, she’s questioning her deeply held assumptions about Zach and wondering if maybe tandem biking is only the start of their biggest adventure yet.

Amelia Rose, known as Rae Rose to her adoring fans, is burned-out from years of maintaining her “princess of pop” image. Inspired by her favorite Audrey Hepburn film, Roman Holiday, she drives off in the middle of the night for a break in Rome . . . Rome, Kentucky, that is.

When Noah Walker finds Amelia on his front lawn in her broken-down car, he makes it clear he doesn’t have the time or patience for celebrity problems. He’s too busy running the pie shop his grandmother left him and reminding his nosy but lovable neighbors to mind their own damn business. Despite his better judgment, he lets her stay in his guest room—but only until her car is fixed—then she’s on her own.

Then Noah starts to see a different side of Rae Rose—she’s Amelia: kindhearted and goofy, yet lonely from years in the public eye. He can’t help but get close to her. Soon she’ll have to return to her glamorous life on tour, but until then, Noah will show Amelia all the charming small-town experiences she’s been missing, and she’ll help him open his heart to more.

Amelia can’t resist falling for the cozy town and her grumpy tour guide, but even Audrey had to leave Rome eventually.

Callie Dawson had her future all mapped out…until her long-term boyfriend dumped her and left her with an eviction notice instead of a shiny engagement ring. Now she’s back in her sleepy hometown, single, jaded, and absolutely done with love.

But when her cousin, whose photography business is barely clinging to life, begs Callie to help with a romantic “blind date” photoshoot, Callie can’t say no. Even if it’s weird. And cringe. And definitely a bad idea. Bracing for an afternoon of awkward small talk and forced smiles, Callie anticipates the worst. Then he walks in—the grumpy, yet ridiculously hot, local mechanic with a knack for flipping vintage RVs—and Callie’s carefully fortified walls start to crumble.

Jensen Shepherd isn’t looking for a relationship. He wears his painful past around like armor and only agrees to do the photoshoot as a favor to a friend. But being around Callie starts to stir something in his long-shattered heart. Something he’s not sure he’s ready to feel.
And the photos from their shoot? Yeah, they go viral.

Suddenly, everyone’s talking about the “perfect” couple. As their social media fame skyrockets, so does the chemistry crackling between them. But Jensen believes he’s too broken to ever heal and Callie is convinced love is just another pretty lie.
Just when their feelings reach a breaking point, a devastating tragedy strikes, forcing them to confront the painful truths of their pasts and the undeniable connection between them.

He needs a girlfriend for Easter weekend. She needs a place to hide from her past. Pretending is supposed to be easy.
Aria Bloom arrives in Whisper Falls with one goal… disappear until Easter is over. Fresh off a broken engagement, she’s running on empty and has no intention of getting pulled into anything complicated.

Beckett Hale has built his life on control. As the owner of Whisper Falls Cabins, he keeps his distance from emotions, holidays, and anything that might disrupt his carefully ordered world.
But when his family shows up expecting him to introduce “the one,” Beckett needs a solution… fast.
One fake girlfriend. One Easter weekend. One arrangement that’s supposed to mean nothing.

Except between spring mornings, family traditions, and moments that feel a little too real, their pretend relationship starts to blur into something neither of them planned.
Now Aria must decide…
keep her heart safely out of reach, or risk believing in a love she never saw coming.
This sweet and wholesome Easter romance is a slow-burn story of fake dating, second chances, and finding hope when you least expect it.

A missing princess. A magic flute. An adventure retold.
Prince Tamric Madeus was expecting nothing more than a routine tour of the Spring Court. When an encounter with a dragon disrupts all of his carefully laid plans, his mysterious rescuers tell him the tale of a captive princess held by a powerful enchanter.

As a second-born prince with a penchant for scholarship rather than physical prowess, Tamric leaps at the chance to become the hero that he’s always wanted to be. After running away from home, Princess Mina finds herself in a bit of a bind.

Her search for the mysterious Shield of the Sun has led her to nothing but a dead end, her steps are dogged by a dark and looming figure, and the help she was hoping to enlist is nowhere to be found.
With the aid of his flute, a bird-brained companion, and a little bit of magic, will Tamric be able to rescue the princess? Or is there more to the story than first meets the eye?

Seasons of Music and Magic is a series of four retellings of fairy tales found in classic operas and ballets, each featuring a unique cast of endearing characters, sweet romance, humor, and a happily-ever-after. The stories stand alone and can be read in any order, so experience the music and magic of Faerie at any time.

Emmy Martin is sick of working in a stuffy old florist shop that won’t let her do much other than recreate 1980s wedding nightmares. But when she’s unexpectedly cut free, she’s not as happy about it as she thought she’d be…

She was dumped a week ago…
She can’t cover her rent…
And she has absolutely nowhere to go!

That is, until her Aunt Ali announces she’s off on the trip of a lifetime to Australia and offers Emmy the use of Dragonfly Cottage in Little Bamton while she’s gone. The only provisos are that she has to feed pampered puss, Charlie, and tend Ali’s precious walled garden. What could possibly go wrong?

Jon Clark thought that doing up Ali’s cottage while she was away in Australia was going to be the easiest bit of money he’d ever earned – especially as Ali has given him the loan of her spare room. But Emmy’s appearance in Little Bamton throws a spanner in the works and sends him back to square one again…

He’s living in a leaking caravan…
He’s desperate to put down some roots, this little village is his turf…
And Emmy is going to drive him mad if he has to be around her every day!

All Emmy needs to do is figure out what she’s going to do with the rest of her life, and find a way to bloom. All Jon needs to do is learn how to grow some roots. Will they find a way to help each other, or will the surprises Little Bamton has in store for them nip any friendship in the bud?

The best-laid plans are the most fun to break.
After years of disappointing her parents, Emberleigh Hayes has finally worked up the courage to run from the man and the life they chose for her (well, not actually run—southern ladies do not sweat).

Together with her best friend Ivy, she’s armed with a foolproof plan:
Step 1: Rein in the awkward.
Step 2: Find a job.
Step 3: (The most important of all) Under no circumstances let her hopeless romantic heart catch feelings…again.

Things are going swimmingly—except for one tiny hitch from her past—but then there’s Colton King. Ember knows that her new chisel-jawed employer is potentially leaving town and definitely off-limits, so it doesn’t matter that her insides flutter when he’s around. The man is basically a relationship tsunami warning.

But it turns out there’s more to Colton than his sexy surface, and he’s determined to get Ember to see it…even if it means teaching her that it’s okay to change her plans.

Unlucky in love Sophie Stewart might need a miracle to find her one true love…or maybe just a little bit of magic.

Sophie Stewart knows a lot about plants. The rooftop garden she tends and beautifies is ample evidence of that. What she doesn’t know is anything about love, not with her long track record of always picking the wrong guy.
But then a mystery flower pops up in her garden—a flower that only blooms in the presence of true love.

Never one to shy away from a little magic, Sophie convinces her best friend, Peter, to help her use the flower to find her soulmate.
But after an unexpected kiss with the one man she never thought she’d fall for, Sophie starts to wonder if she’s looking for love in all the wrong places.

The flower has a plan, but only Sophie can decide if she wants to trust it or take fate into her own hands.
Best friends turn to lovers in this heartwarming romantic comedy about love and choice and making your own destiny.

Petals and Plot Twists is a standalone book in the Only Magic in the Building series. These closed door, whimsical romance books are all set in the same historic building, which has a habit of playing matchmaker with its residents. There are light magical elements, but no spells, shifters, or dark magic of any kind.