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A fake boyfriend. A Christmas lie. A town that never stops watching. When Lisa Simmons returns to Maple Hollow for the first Christmas without her mother, she expects quiet days helping her dad—not public humiliation. But when her ex announces his engagement at the town’s beloved holiday kickoff, panic strikes…and Lisa blurts out a lie. She is seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone who absolutely doesn’t know he’s her boyfriend. Enter Chris Blake, the quiet carpenter next door—steady, kind, and still recovering from the fire that destroyed his workshop. When Lisa’s spur-of-the-moment lie puts him in the spotlight, Chris does the unexpected: he plays along. What starts as fa...
A collection of the year's best travel writing.
Ruby Linfield believes in fresh starts. In wish lists, hopeful plans, and the kind of bright optimism that makes some people roll their eyes. So when she arrives at a snowy mountain lodge for a New Year's reflection retreat, she's ready to embrace every journaling prompt and goal-setting exercise the week throws her way. Elias Hart doesn't do resolutions. Dragged to Cedar Ridge Lodge by his well-meaning sister, he's counting the hours until he can return to his carefully controlled life—one where wanting less keeps disappointment at bay. Then a blizzard rolls in… and the retreat leader pairs them as reflection partners. Ruby's warmth shakes loose all the walls Elias has built to protect ...
Emmy Spice has everything she needs—her late grandmother’s bakery, a calendar full of pumpkin bread orders, and Maplewood’s Harvest Festival just around the corner. Everything but the courage to tell her best friend she’s been in love with him since forever. When firefighter Adam Fall returns home, Emmy’s world tilts. Their easy friendship feels different now—charged, unsteady, dangerous to her heart. But risking the truth means risking the one person she’s never wanted to lose. As autumn nights glow with bonfires and cider, Adam and Emmy must decide if friendship is enough…or if love has been waiting for them all along. Tropes: Friends to Lovers Small-town romance Childhood best friends Harvest Festival / fall community event Hero returns home after years away Bakery / foodie heroine Protective firefighter hero Slow-burn with cozy fall vibes
The mystery continues in The Homecoming - Part 5 So much drama for such a small town. Quinn has a lot to catch up on if he returns to Hidden Falls—no, when he returns, Sylvia is sure. But is he already back? Ethan is positive he accidentally captured Quinn’s image in the woods. Why would Quinn come back to town and not tell the ones who care about him most—the ones who’ve frantically worried over his disappearance? While fear of foul play still looms, long-held dreams dangle and frustration mingles with hope that the chaos of the last ten days in Hidden Falls will resolve when an astonishing story untwists. As friends and loved ones try to track Quinn down, they realize thirty years ...
Nineteen-year-old Lauren Reed has always felt peculiar. She has no memory of her past after her parents’ mysterious deaths, and her unusual emerald eyes and severe migraines reinforce her sense of being an outsider. With her sophomore year of Northwestern about to begin, Lauren can’t wait to escape her adoptive parents’ overprotectiveness and move in with her best friend, Raegan, for a fresh start. Unfortunately, her plan is thwarted when a strange note in her parents’ study leads to a frightful vision of a woman running for her life. Lauren’s other senses also start to heighten—especially after she meets the very handsome and charming Quinn Maxwell. As her visions and connection...
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Poetry. "EDGE AND FOLD comes in short couplets that have the pith of aphorisms, but dismantle any expectation of closure. They push thinking over the edge into the folds of all minds. In this amazing plural space (tenuously tethered to the white of the page) subtle discriminating intelligences unfold lyric intensity into question, wonder, mystery. EDGE AND FOLD confirms Paul Hoover as one of our important poets"--Rosmarie Waldrop.