Books

Rule one of saving a dying orchard: do not fall for the chef who stood in your trees at six in the morning and called your apples “insufficient.”

Reader, I broke rule one.

I came home to Cider Falls to keep my family’s farm alive — not to lose a cook-off to Eli Marchetti, Boston’s most exacting, most aggravating, most unfairly handsome disgraced...

Emma Reeves has a problem: her corporate sponsor wants her to settle down, but settling down means becoming the kind of person who stays put. For a travel blogger who’s spent years running from commitment, that’s a death sentence to her brand—and her freedom. So she runs. To a remote cabin. Into a blizzard. And directly into a rock.

When Emma...

She doesn’t do cameras. He doesn’t do real. A hazmat lockdown is about to change both their minds.

Riley Blake is a firefighter at Station 9 who runs her shift like a warzone and her personal life like a vault. She doesn’t do small talk before coffee, she doesn’t do feelings before trust, and she absolutely does not do influencers. So when...

Cole Brennan has a system. Relationships are distractions. Emotional entanglement is a performance killer. So when he finds himself texting Ivy Hartley at 2 AM every night, he tells himself it’s harmless—she’s just his favorite person to talk to when he can’t sleep.The fact that she’s Trent’s little sister? Irrelevant. The fact that she’s been...

Harper Brooks has made an art of invisibility. Running her own web design business, managing her own life, staying carefully on the periphery of her brother Jax’s baseball career—she’s built a world where she’s beholden to no one. Until Owen Reed accidentally walks into her line of sight during a home game, and suddenly invisibility stops being...

Blake Donovan has spent five years maintaining careful distance from his best friend’s sister. Tyler made it clear: Sloane Abbott is off-limits. But when Blake’s apartment floods, he finds himself with nowhere to go except Sloane’s couch—and what was supposed to be a temporary arrangement becomes the most complicated decision of his life. Sloane...

All three Kingsley Cougars novels. One binge-ready set.

Three couples. Three impossible promises. One very long baseball season — and the locker room that absolutely cannot keep a secret.

Batting Practice — Fake dating, real feelings, one chaotic minor league spring.

Stealing Home — Six months of pining, one parking-lot kiss, the worst-kept secret...

Rule one of twenty years of friendship: do not notice that the quiet carpenter who fixes everything has been in love with you the whole time. Reader, I noticed. About two decades too late.

I needed three dry weeks — long enough to fix my flooded house and get the Harvest Festival open without a hitch. What I did not need was to spend them in the...

Rule one of innkeeping: never fall for a guest—especially one who’s lying about why he’s here. Reader, I gave him the nicest room in the house.

I needed two good weeks. Two weeks of my best room booked at full rate—long enough to carry the inn through October with the furnace on and get the Harvest Festival open without a hitch. What I did not...

Rule one of hiring a fake boyfriend: do not pick the man who writes book boyfriends for a living. Reader, I picked him anyway.

I needed six weeks. Six weeks of a convincing relationship—long enough to get through the Spring Harvest Kickoff and get my mother to stop seating single orthodontists next to me at dinner. What I did not need was Declan...

Clause one of the Sparky Protocol: do not fall for the firefighter who walked into your clinic carrying a half-drowned puppy and thirteen years of history.

Reader, I violated clause one. Also two through nine.

I left Sam Whitaker for vet school when we were eighteen, and I built an excellent life about it — my own clinic, a 401(k), a steam mop...