Welcome to Willow Creek…a small town nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains where the air is cleaner, the stars are brighter and all the men are cinnamon rolls in disguise.
What you'll find: Strong women and caring, compassionate men who want to both protect and empower the women they love. A small town full of quirky side characters you've probably met a version of IRL. A romance book club you'll want to join! The trope "anywhere but the bed" because beds are boring! Grand gestures, lots and lots of steam and ILYs said in all the love languages.
(Although these books can be considered a series, each book tells the story of a different couple from the core friend group and can be read as a standalone.) Each book follows the love story of a member of the same friend group.
A brother's best friend, enemies to lovers, small town romance.
Once upon a time he was her brother's best friend. He taught her to put the worm on the hook. He let her follow them around. But they grew up and he broke her heart when she needed him the most. Now he's back and he owns half of her business. And he wants a chance to redeem himself. Taren wants her family’s heritage orchard and cidery to survive and Zane’s going to help her make that happen and win back her love.
Can she trust him with her family's legacy and her heart?
Available in ebook, paperback and audio.
TRIGGER AND CONTENT WARNINGS: I have experienced the loss of immediate family members and have done my best to portray grief. For those who are triggered by scenes about the emotional turmoil of death and the effects it has on those who must carry on, and those who are particularly sensitive to the grim realities of elder care, especially dementia and Alzheimer’s, please read with caution. This book also contains four very explicit intimate scenes and several instances of what could be considered foul language throughout.
A rivals to lovers, forced proximity, small town romance with social anxiety rep.
Their meet cute is a three-legged race. She suffers from social anxiety but will do anything for her friends. She’s a former soccer star who craves peace and quiet, ice cream, Guardians of the Galaxy and 90s alternative music. He’s a hot former real estate mogul who grew up in foster care and wants to make a difference in the world. He’s a gear head who loves his motorcycle, has a wicked dart game, and crochets to settle his mind. Sarah is content with her life. The last thing she needs is a distraction. Especially a distraction like Blake Armitage, the sinfully delicious man who is Willow Creek's newest savior. But now he's turning up everywhere. He's a rival coach and her newest neighbor. And he clearly wants a much more intimate relationship.
Trigger & Content Warnings: MC with social anxiety, references to gun violence, the death of a sibling and being raised in the foster care system. This book also contains three very explicit intimate scenes and several instances of what could be considered foul language throughout.
A winter holidays, best friend’s brother, small town romance…
He's her best friend's brother and they've been flirting for five years.
As much as Emma wants to climb Trevor Hayes like a tree, he's the last thing she needs in her life. She's building a life in Willow Creek so she can stay under the radar. She's in hiding, and she doesn't need the town's hottest law enforcement officer snooping around.
When her past catches up with her, he won't let her say no to his protection. She's determined to resist him until they get stranded together in the season's first freak blizzard.
Trigger & Content Warnings: Suspenseful plot that includes mention of an emotionally abusive ex, PTSD, heroine who is under surveillance and needs protection from people in her past, hero who was orphaned as a teenager and had to assume the role of parent for his younger sister. This book also contains five very explicit intimate scenes and several instances of what could be considered foul language throughout.
A best friend's sister, second chance, military, small town romance.
Dex and Marianela met in the middle of a war zone and spent a magical weekend together. Three days later she was assigned to his combat platoon as their field medic and he found out she was his best friend's little sister.
They had to act like they'd never met.
Tragedy strikes and they’re separated. Almost nine years later she's the new emergency room physician in Willow Creek. He's never stopped thinking about her and all the things he should have done. She can't forgive him for the things he couldn't say.
They both fight personal demons on a daily basis and are working through the trauma of their combat experience.
Will the shadows between them keep them apart or push them together?
Trigger & Content Warnings: This book features a couple who meet when they are both serving in Afghanistan. Although I'm a veteran I did not experience this deployment. I have spoken with those who did to capture their feelings, emotions, and the way their deployment affected them and their families. This book features what may be described as emotionally intense combat scenes, the death of a sibling, and main characters struggling with PTSD and adjusting to life with a prosthetic limb. There are at least five scenes of explicit, open door intimacy, and the occurrence of foul language throughout.
Tropes: Age Gap; Grumpy vs. Sunshine; Single Dad; Starting Over
Alaric is a driven astrophysicist who’s only in Willow Creek so he can finish his book and give his twin daughters the chance to reconnect with their aunt.
He doesn’t have time for the incovenient attraction aroused by the sassy, always glass half full niece of his eccentric innkeeper.
Farrah is in Willow Creek because it’s her last resort. She’s putting her life back together in the wake of the pandemic and she thinks her aunt’s houseguest is arrogant and annoying.
When they meet in the rain, she think he’s condescending and he thinks she’s a hot mess.
It’s anything but a perfect match.
Trigger & Content Warnings: Off page death of a parent; off page reference to death of a spouse; struggles dealing with grief, job loss and difficult relatives; public gossip and attempted shaming about family history. Several instances of foul language as part of normal conversation. THIS IS WHAT IS CONSIDERED AN OPEN DOOR ROMANCE. THERE ARE AT LEAST FIVE LENGTHY SCENES DEPICTING EXPLICIT INTIMACY.
Available on Kindle Unlimited and all other electronic book platforms. Paperbacks will soon be available on all platforms and signed paperbacks with character art will be available for purchase from this site and from my Tiktok Shop.
An opposites attract, grumpy heroine vs. golden retriever hero, age gap romance.
She grumbles at him and feeds him fried baloney sandwiches for dinner. He does everything he can to make her smile.
Roxie Greene is a ball buster, and River Montgomery isn’t used to it. When everyone warned him about signing up to be her farmhand, he assumed they were exaggerating. They weren’t.
Roxie Greene does everything she can to keep River Montgomery at a distance because she knows he’s working on her lavender farm as a last result and he’ll leave like everyone else. She’s been hurt too many times, and she’s not letting her golden retriever help get close enough to disappoint her again.
River Montgomery is just trying to claw his way back from the darkness and desperation and pain and addiction that destroyed him. He might only be twenty-eight, but he’s learned life is short and you have to do everything you can to make it sweet. He wants to take all the brittle pieces of Roxie Greene and glue them back together. If she’ll let him.