https://pithybooks.com/tags/contemporary/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “contemporary”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:10 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/credence/ https://pithybooks.com/books/credence/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An orphaned teen spends a mountain winter with her guardian and his two sons, and lines blur. https://pithybooks.com/books/slammed/ https://pithybooks.com/books/slammed/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Grieving Layken falls for neighbor Will, then learns he is her teacher, and poems carry them. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-flatshare/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-flatshare/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two strangers share one bed on opposite shifts and fall in love through notes left around the flat. https://pithybooks.com/books/anna-and-the-french-kiss/ https://pithybooks.com/books/anna-and-the-french-kiss/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anna Oliphant is sent to Paris boarding school and falls for Etienne while misreading Bridget and Matt. https://pithybooks.com/books/beautiful-world-where-are-you/ https://pithybooks.com/books/beautiful-world-where-are-you/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two friends Alice and Eileen trade letters while navigating love with Felix and Simon. https://pithybooks.com/books/better-than-the-movies/ https://pithybooks.com/books/better-than-the-movies/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A rom com obsessed senior hires her annoying next door neighbor to win her crush, then finds real love is messier and kinder than any movie plot. https://pithybooks.com/books/can-you-keep-a-secret/ https://pithybooks.com/books/can-you-keep-a-secret/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Emma blurts every secret to a stranger on a turbulent flight, then finds him running her company. https://pithybooks.com/books/just-for-the-summer/ https://pithybooks.com/books/just-for-the-summer/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka. https://pithybooks.com/books/part-of-your-world/ https://pithybooks.com/books/part-of-your-world/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT ER doctor Alexis Montgomery falls for carpenter Daniel Grant in Wakan while her surgeon family presses duty. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-kiss-quotient/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-kiss-quotient/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stella Lane hires escort Michael Phan to practice dating and learns logic fails where touch and family press in. https://pithybooks.com/books/twisted-lies/ https://pithybooks.com/books/twisted-lies/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shy influencer Stella Alonso fake dates billionaire Christian Harper to save her career, until a returning stalker forces them into his penthouse. https://pithybooks.com/books/what-alice-forgot/ https://pithybooks.com/books/what-alice-forgot/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT After a gym fall erases ten years, Alice, 39, wakes as her 29 year old self and must relearn her three kids and failing marriage as a stranger. https://pithybooks.com/books/yours-truly/ https://pithybooks.com/books/yours-truly/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Divorced ER doctor Briana Ortiz fake dates anxious newcomer Jacob Maddox, trading honest letters while her brother waits for a kidney donor. https://pithybooks.com/books/all-the-bright-places/ https://pithybooks.com/books/all-the-bright-places/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Grieving Violet and struggling Finch wander Indiana for a school project and each other. https://pithybooks.com/books/archers-voice/ https://pithybooks.com/books/archers-voice/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bree flees to Pelion, Maine and falls for Archer Hale, a mute recluse hiding a violent family past. https://pithybooks.com/books/bared-to-you/ https://pithybooks.com/books/bared-to-you/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Eva starts over in New York and falls for Gideon Cross, whose past mirrors her own trauma. https://pithybooks.com/books/confess/ https://pithybooks.com/books/confess/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A young mother fighting to see her son takes a job with a Dallas artist who turns anonymous confessions into paintings. https://pithybooks.com/books/conversations-with-friends/ https://pithybooks.com/books/conversations-with-friends/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rooney's debut: Frances and Bobbi, Dublin students and ex-lovers, fall into the orbit of married Melissa and Nick, and wit turns into affair and ache. https://pithybooks.com/books/dear-john/ https://pithybooks.com/books/dear-john/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A soldier and a student trade letters through war until duty and waiting pull them apart. https://pithybooks.com/books/divine-secrets-of-the-ya-ya-sisterhood/ https://pithybooks.com/books/divine-secrets-of-the-ya-ya-sisterhood/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sidda Walker, a theater director, fights with her mother Vivi after a New York Times interview, then learns Vivi's past through the Ya-Ya scrapbook from Thornton, Louisiana.