Cute Indie Book Browse
Welcome to the Cute Indie Book Browse
This is a cosy little corner of the internet where you can discover indie romance books with cute or illustrated covers, all in one place.
Every author featured here writes romance designed to leave you feeling good: uplifting stories, engaging characters, and happily ever afters.
You’ll find a mix of mainly UK and European indie authors and a selection of cosy romance reads across different styles and spice levels (clearly labelled so you know what to expect).
If you’re looking for your next comfort read - or a new favourite indie author - you’re in the right place
Spice/ Steam Level Key:
🍬Sweet / Closed Door
🌶️Mild (slightly open-door scenes)
🌶️🌶️Moderate (open door/ not too graphic)
🌶️🌶️🌶️Explicit / High spice (possibly graphic)
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Cosy, small town romance books set in beautiful locations in Scotland including the Highlands and Islands.
4 bingeable Series to choose from, but every book can be read as a standalone.
Readers say: 'I want to move to Glenbriar. It's like coming home to old friends.'
Enjoy heart-warming romances with laughs, drama, a sprinkle of spice and guaranteed happy ever afters.
Spice level: 🌶️🌶️
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Welcome to Sweetingfield, a series of uplifting and heartwarming feel-good romances set in the heart of a close-knit English village community.
Each book tells a different story, and you will be reunited with old friends in every one of them, but those friends will never give away any spoilers, so you can read the stories in any order or as stand-alone novels.
Spice level: 🍬
Rose is offered a dream job in Venice, restoring an art collection in the Ca’ d’Ambra, a six-hundred-year-old Venetian palazzo. Despite her fears about travelling to a foreign country on her own, she is soon heading to Italy for the summer.
While she is awestruck by the breathtaking beauty of Venice, Rose finds the owner of the palazzo, the arrogant and short-tempered Luca, insufferable. When he questions her ability to do her work, she almost heads straight back to London, but decides that she won’t let herself be intimidated or driven away before she’s even had a chance to ride in a gondola.
Losing her way in Venice’s picturesque maze of canals and alleyways, the last person Rose wants to see is Luca, but when they meet by chance and, to her surprise, he offers to show her around the city, she feels it would be churlish to refuse . . .
Rose knows she can restore a damaged painting, but can she mend Luca’s damaged heart?
Spice level: 🌶️🌶️
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The Butler's Romance Series follows the Butler siblings from the fictional village of Kinshore on the Kintyre Peninsula in Scotland, a place where surf rolls onto shortbread coloured sand and news flies around faster than the wind.
The Butlers siblings are Cal, Jamie, Niall, Sean, Nate, Cara and Eilidh. The family own and operate centuries old Butlers Distillery Limited. Each story in the series follows one of the siblings, starting with Cal, then Jamie, etc.
The books are open door, emotional and have an HEA. They can be read as a standalone or part of the series.
Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Get ready for unrepentant banter and yearning in the first book of the Slow Burn Summer duology.
Stephen is on a mission to find his father as per the wishes in his mum's will. But he has no idea where to start...
When Elle, native New Yorker, daughter of a detective and desperate for a distraction from the novel she's been struggling to write, offers to help, it feels like the perfect solution.
Only these two have history and as they begin their search across NYC, it soon becomes clear that the weather isn't the only thing that's heating up.
Spice level: 🌶️🌶️
Whether you want to fake date a hot Hollywood movie star in London, jet off to Paris with a handsome billionaire, enjoy some sun, sand and sea with a gorgeous Spanish DJ in Marbella, or spend time in an idyllic seaside romance library, Olivia’s laugh-out-loud books will help you escape reality and transport you to dreamy romantic locations. No passport required!
All books can be read as standalones and are available in Kindle Unlimited, including The Romance Library trilogy, The Love Hotel series, My Ten-Year Crush series, The Middle-Aged Virgin duet and The Only When It’s Love duet.
Spice level: 🌶️🌶️
Beth Rain lives on a windswept, Scottish island and spends her days dreaming up swoony love stories for her imaginary friends.
Head to Seabury if you fancy dipping your toes in the waves. If you’re craving some quintessential English village action, choose Little Bamton. Or, you could always take a trip down the river to Upper Bamton if standalones involving a spot of wine and wool are your thing. Fancy joining Beth in the Scottish Isles instead? Hop on a flight or ferry to Crumcarey… she always has the kettle on!
If you need cosy… you’re in safe hands.
Spice level: 🍬
Australian Lori Maxwell is career focussed and happily single. But after a difficult year she takes a sabbatical and comes to Scotland to reconnect with her Scottish roots.
Divorced Scottish farmer, Aidan Thomson is focussed on saving his family’s farm and on being a foster dad. He has neither the time, nor the inclination for romantic relationships.
But when Lori arrives for an extended stay at one of the holiday cottages on Aidan’s farm in the south of Scotland, there is an attraction between them – an attraction that has them wondering if there’s a way they could be together.
Spice level: 🌶️
The Sunny Shore Bay series is set in the gorgeous seaside town of Sunny Shore Bay, where there’s drama around every corner and plenty of laughs to be had, as well as a touch of romance.
If you fancy a trip to the countryside instead, why not check out the Lily Vale Village stories, which take place in an idyllic and tight-knit village. Expect unlikely friendships, plenty of fun and yes, another hefty dollop of romance!
You can read them in order or as standalone books; it’s up to you!
Spice level: 🍬
The Playing a Round Series – You really don’t have to love golf (or even like it!) to enjoy these laugh-out-loud Scottish rom-coms about the loves and lives of a group of female professional golfers.
Readers have described the series as a refreshing take on traditional male-athlete sports romances, and they have enjoyed the fast-paced stories with laugh-out-loud moments, plenty of banter, and sizzling chemistry between the love interests.
All books are set against beautiful Scottish backdrops, have open-door descriptive spicy scenes, and deliver guaranteed Happy Ever Afters.
The Playing a Round Series is available to read in Kindle Unlimited, and each book can be read as a standalone.
Happy Reading!
Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
I write sweet-cosy-feel-good-small-town romances set in a fictional town. They're an interconnected series, but can be read as standalone books and out of order. (But I do recommend reading them in order for optimal effect) So if you're looking for books that feel like coming home, visit Lockhart Falls - "Home is where the hart is"
Spice level: 🍬
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Romantic comedy set in a village in the Derbyshire Peak District. The Book Lover's Bucket List came out on 24th April. This was my debut. Uplifting and heartwarming, with a book-loving heroine in love with her brother's best friend.
Spice level: 🍬
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Call It Fête is a cosy, British, queer summer romance about a gay single dad desperate to prove he can be a good parent. Sparks fly when he joins the PTA, and it’s not only the competition to raise the most money at stake…
Spice level: 🌶️🌶️
Heart Knows No Miles is a very cozy, optimistic love story. More like a modern day fairy tale . It's my own love story , a memoir of how I found my husband online and we ended up together, a love that crossed oceans and I didn't move an inch.
Spice level: 🍬
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One inheritance. Three sisters. 365 days to change their lives.
London sisters Megan, Rita, and Emily planned to sell their late aunt’s Tennessee ranch and leave. Instead, a "Cowboy Clause" forces them to stay for a year or lose their legacy.
Completely out of their element, the sisters face country chaos... including a moody horse, a stubborn cow, and a tyrannical chicken. Along the way, high-flying Megan, restless Rita, and quiet Emily find unexpected romance with three captivating locals.
Between the ranch dust and Nashville’s neon lights, they must decide: is their old life worth more than the love they’ve found?
Spice level: 🍬