Single dads, second chances, and a Blue Ridge town that can't mind its own business. Clean, funny, and a safe place to fall in love.
The first ten books: The Dads of Laurel Ridge
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Ellie Marsh came to Laurel Ridge to fix a house, not to stay in it.
Her plan was simple: repair the cottage her grandmother left her, sell it, and move on. She gave herself six weeks. The cottage needed twelve.
She didn't plan on the carpenter.
Nate Calloway builds things to last. He raises his daughter alone, keeps his world small, and has learned not to expect people to stay. Ellie, with her questions, brand-new boots, and habit of filling every silence, is exactly the kind of complication he doesn't need.
But twelve weeks is a long time.
Long enough for a guarded man to start hoping again. Long enough for his watchful little girl to decide Ellie belongs. Long enough for Ellie to wonder whether the life she came here to leave behind might be the one she's been looking for.
Then Portland calls.
And Ellie has to decide what home really means.
A sweet, slow-burn small town romance with a guarded single dad, a sunshine heroine, a town that meddles because it cares, and the happily ever after you came for. No spice. All heart.
Tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. A town where everyone knows your truck and the diner owner knows your business before you do. The mountains are its clock and its calendar. Every book follows a new couple, and the same warm, meddling town carries through them all. The kind of place you want to move to. That feeling is the whole point.
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The heart of town, and its best source of news. Frank Bellamy knows your order, and your business, before you sit down.
It hangs outside Bellamy's. Everybody reads it. Nobody admits it.
Third week of October, all along Main Street
Cider, pie, music, and the whole town. Rain or shine.
The Save Laurel Ridge Committee needs you. Bring ideas. Bring cookies. Don't bring excuses.
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D. Trent, Chair
Porches, cabinets, anything with a hinge. Honest work, fair price. Won't talk your ear off.
Walk-ins welcome. No appointment, no fuss.
Shear Grace fixes Merle's haircuts. Right across the street!
Nobody asked, Grace. M.
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A guarded carpenter, a cottage that needs everything, and a little girl who knows exactly what she wants. Sweet, clean, and it ends happy.
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