Wrong Floor, Right Heart
She had forty-three seconds to make the elevator, and she spent them spilling oat milk latte all over the most powerful man in Midtown. Wren Calloway is a temp with a canvas tote a
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Contemporary Romance books
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Contemporary Romance on the shelf
Where the Wild Roses Bloom
A frantic phone call drags June Porter out of her fast-paced life in Knoxville and behind the wheel of her truck, racing through a mountain squall toward the Appalachian hometown s
Welding Sparks
Fourteen years after he left Magnolia Ridge with nothing but a duffel bag and a broken heart, Cameron Steel steers his rusted Ford back down the two-lane blacktop, older, lonelier,
The Inn at Crescent Cove
Daisy O'Keefe swore she'd never set foot in Crescent Cove again, but a grandmother's bequest and a crumbling seaside inn have other plans. Stepping off the Greyhound with a battere
The Accidental Fiancé
Poppy Hartwell's carefully ordered life implodes the moment an oat milk latte leaves her hand and lands on the chest of Reid Kingsley, Manhattan's most infamously private billionai
Kissing the Wrong Reyes
Gemma Reyes built her career on other people's stories. Now, with her magazine on the verge of folding and her byline about to disappear, her editor hands her one last assignment:
The Quiet Between Notes
Audrey Calloway has spent years turning heartbreak into discipline, trading the man who left for the steady pulse of her cello and her place as principal of the Hartwell Symphony.
Terms of Defiance
Eleanor Sinclair didn't expect to inherit 418 Birch Lane, a crumbling Victorian with rotting cedar trim and a history no one in the family wants to discuss. But the estate comes wi
The Shape of June
June Hartley thought she had escaped Pine Hollow, Vermont, for good, until a call about her estranged mother's failing health pulls her back to the sleepy town that never quite for
The Trouble with Thornfield
When Vivienne Mercer arrives at Thornfield Estate, she expects paperwork, dust, and a quick sale. Instead she finds a dying clause in her great-aunt Eleanor's will: she cannot inhe
Where the Starling Sings
A yellow envelope on the passenger seat is all it takes to pull Lyra Starling back to the one place she swore she'd never return: Pinegrove, Vermont. Inside is a deed, a set of key
The Wrong Twin at the Right Time
Rosemary Beckett left Maple Street twenty years ago and built a careful life a thousand miles away, but her father's final letter makes one thing clear: come home, or lose the chan
Sunshine and Other Hazards
June Calloway arrives in Heron Cove with one suitcase, a folder of legal documents, and a heart too bruised for sentiment. The beach house left to her by her late Aunt Vivi is a mo
What the Walls Remember
When Eleanor Brennan returns to the crumbling Meridian Theater after her father Tom's sudden death, she inherits more than a century-old building, she inherits every secret her fam
Terms of Engagement
Penelope Sterling has spent years carefully constructing a quiet life away from the Sterling estate's weight of old money and older grudges, so when a heavy ivory envelope arrives
The Weight of Almost
Evelyn Marsh has built a careful life in her Seattle studio, morning coffee, rain against the window, distance from everything she almost had. Then the invitation arrives, and the
Walls of Park Avenue
Behind every locked Park Avenue door lies a dynasty built on silence , and one woman determined to uncover what the Ashfords have spent generations hiding. When Seraphina Vale step
Where the Light Settles
The morning smelled of lake water and something baking from the diner two blocks over when Maren Ellis stepped off the curb at the corner of Mill Road and Fourth, her boots finding
Where the Lavender Grows
Margot Ellingham drives a rental car down a gravel road that ends at a stone cottage in Hickory Hollow, Maine , an inheritance from an aunt she barely knew, and an excuse to disapp
The Hollow Between Us
Twenty years after surrendering her newborn son to a closed adoption, Tessa Whitmore returns to the dying farmhouse in Cypress Hollow to bury her grandmother Eleanor and settle an
The Edge of Want
Two minutes late, one career on the line, and the devil himself holding the elevator doors. Sienna Delacroix has spent years rebuilding her life far from the glittering, cutthroat