The Maple & Pages Bookshop: A Sweet Second-Chance Small Town Romance (Maplewood Ridge Romance #1)

Mira Walsh returns to Maplewood Ridge with nothing but a failing career, a battered Honda, and the keys to her grandmother's dusty bookshop. She's ready to start over, to build something that matters in the small town she once couldn't wait to escape. There's just one Cole Brennan, her first love and biggest regret, is running his maple syrup business in her back room. And he's not exactly thrilled to see her.

Cole has spent ten years getting over the girl who left without looking back. Now she's here, talking about renovating the bookshop into some café dream, threatening to disrupt the carefully ordered life he's built. He agrees to share the space for two weeks until the Fall Harvest Festival. Just two weeks of polite coexistence. What could possibly go wrong?

Everything. Because working side by side means remembering why they fell in love in the first place. Late nights painting walls. Stolen moments in the maple grove. The taste of reserve grade syrup that feels like coming home. But Mira's still terrified of staying, and Cole's still terrified of being left again. When her past shows up offering everything she thought she wanted, they'll both have to decide if love is worth the risk of getting hurt.

Sometimes the sweetest second chances come from the places we never thought we'd return.

This sweet, clean small town romance features a grumpy sunshine dynamic, second chance love, forced proximity, and all the cozy autumn feels. First in the Maplewood Ridge Romance Series.