Story of My Life (Story Lake #1)
Lucy Score
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
4.02
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 81 ratings · 528 pages · Published: 11 Mar 2025
Hazel Hart was a successful romance novelist until a breakup drives her straight into writer’s block. Having failed (and failed some more) to deliver her new manuscript, she’s hiding from the world behind a wall of old takeout containers until her publisher lays down the law. If she misses her next deadline it’s The End.
Desperate for inspiration, Hazel impulse-buys a historic home online and flees Manhattan to tiny Story Lake, PA. Upon her dramatic arrival—involving an incident with a bald eagle—she discovers the charm of her new home may have been slightly exaggerated.
The house is a wreck and the town is struggling after their biggest employer shut down. Also, since her raccoon-infested home came with a seat on the town council our introverted heroine is stuck with a front row seat to all the small-town shenanigans.
But Hazel isn’t worried. Not since all six-feet-three inches of grouchy contractor Campbell Bishop slapped a bandage on her forehead and unintentionally inspired the heck out of her. There’s only one thing to do: Hire Cam and his equally gorgeous brothers to renovate her new spider museum…er…house.
Okay two things. A fake date for “research purposes” will really put her work-in-progress on track. Before Hazel knows it, she’s writing a romance novel and living one. At least until the drywall dust settles, the town she’s falling in love with faces bankruptcy, and growly Cam remembers why he can’t live happily ever after.
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Tagged as:
- contemporary 8
- small town 7
- funny 6
- m-f romance 6
- grumpy & sunshine 4
- forced proximity 4
- found family 4
- friends with benefits 4
- secret relationship 4
- alpha male 4
- grumpy/cold hero 4
- possessive hero 4
- working class hero 4
- famous heroine 3
- cheerful/happy heroine 3
- sassy heroine 3
- enemies to lovers 2
- political/court intrigue 2
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 1
- geography
- north america 3
- usa 3
- pennsylvania 3
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 4
- first person pov 2
romance tags
The 'Story Lake' series
4.04 · 81 ratings
small town · humor · audiobook · length-long · contemporary · m-f · north-america · pennsylvania · possessive hero · cheerful heroine · first-person-pov · death · forced proximity · secret-relationship · from hate to love · famous heroine · sassy heroine · cold hero · grumpy sunshine · working class hero
Story Lake reading order and complete book list ❯
