Soul Searching (Sweetwater Peak #1)
Lyla Sage
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
3.78
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 97 ratings · 368 pages · Published: 30 Sep 2025
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series returns with a brand-new story, featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a screeching halt . . . and the supernatural forces that bring them together.
Collins Cartwright does not want to go home. Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming, was supposed to be in her rearview mirror, but when she finds out a developer is trying to buy her parents’ antiques shop out from under them, she doesn’t have a choice—at least, that’s what she tells her family. They don’t need to know she’s lost her job and is out of money. Or that the ghosts who have always been her companions have recently gone silent.
But just because she’s returned home doesn’t mean she has to stay with her parents or crash on her twin sister’s couch. Lucky for her, the new-to-town upholsterer has a room for rent above his store. Unluckily, it is absolutely crawling with more ghosts who are freezing her out. And Collins hates being ignored.
Brady Cooper is absolutely and totally fine. Seriously, there’s no secret reason why he decided to uproot his life and suddenly move to Sweetwater Peak. He just needed a change of pace. At least that’s what he tells himself. And everyone else.
When he agrees to let the elusive Collins Cartwright stay in his spare room, he doesn’t know that she’s absolutely bonkers—constantly talking to herself and having conversations with no one—or that she looked like that. But as they begin to get closer, the lines between them start to blur, leaving both of them—and the ghosts who have been pushing them together—wondering whether their temporary arrangement could be something more permanent.
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- paranormal 19
- sweet/gentle hero 17
- contemporary 16
- m-f romance 16
- friends to lovers 16
- small town 15
- sassy heroine 15
- nerdy hero 14
- boss & employee 12
- working class heroine 12
- working class hero 12
- competent heroine 11
- forced proximity 11
- gifted/super-heroine 11
- western 7
- funny 7
- found family 5
- tortured heroine 4
- insta-love 3
- mystery 3
- childfree 2
- slow burn 2
- workplace/office 2
- take-charge heroine 2
- hurt/comfort 1
- grumpy & sunshine 1
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- death / grief 2
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- wyoming 11
- usa 8
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- audiobook
- dual pov 11
- first person pov 8
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The 'Sweetwater Peak' series
3.78 · 97 ratings
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