The Bookshop Romance

She inherited a bookshop. He's here to take it.

Nora Whitfield never planned to come back to Cedar Run. But when her grandmother's bookshop lands in her lap, along with a mountain of debt and a leak in the poetry section, she doesn't have much choice. The plan is to fix it up, sell it off, and escape the town that remembers all her mistakes before she gets stuck.

Then he walks in.

Sam Hartley is everything she's not. Optimistic, charming, and infuriatingly persistent. He's also keeping a secret. He's here to acquire Fern & Fox for his company, which means he could be the solution to her financial ruin… or the man who destroys her grandmother's legacy.

She tells herself she hates him. He tells himself she's just a job.

Neither of them is very good at lying.

As spring arrives in Cedar Run, bringing cherry blossoms, meddling neighbors, and a town that has opinions about everything, Nora starts to wonder if some things are worth fighting for. The bookshop. The community. Maybe even the annoyingly attractive man who keeps showing up with coffee and questions.

But when the truth about Sam's mission comes out, Nora will have to choose. The safe escape she's always wanted, or the unexpected life she's starting to build?