Posted October 25, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Connection to another series, Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance, Marietta, Marietta Montana, Modern Western Romance, Previously Published, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance, Tule Publishing / 0 Comments
Since the accident that killed his foster brother Brock Lambert, Jackson Stone has kept his distance from Coffee Creek Ranch—and from the family who might never forgive him. Especially the foster mother, who still blames him for that tragic night.
Jackson blames himself too.
When Brock’s former fiancée, Winnie Hays, returns to town with her young son, the resemblance to Brock is a constant reminder of everything Jackson lost. And everything he never allowed himself to want. Because from the moment Brock brought Winnie home, Jackson has fought a forbidden attraction he had no right to feel.
Winnie needs help settling back into life in Coffee Creek, and Jackson can’t turn her away. As their friendship deepens into something neither expected, loyalty and guilt threaten to tear them apart. Falling for his brother’s widow feels like a betrayal… yet walking away feels worse.
With Christmas approaching and the Lambert family gathered once more, forgiveness may be the only gift that makes room for love.
Titles in the Coffee Creek, Montana series include: Remember Me Always, Cowboy ~ Her Cowboy Dilemma ~ Promise from a Cowboy ~ Big Sky Christmas ~
This series was previously published in Harlequin American Romance.
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
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Posted October 16, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Christmas Romance, Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance, Marietta, Marietta Montana, Modern Western Romance, No Spice Romance, Series, Small Town Romance, Tule Publishing / 0 Comments
Josie Whitaker never planned to tell Colt Bennett the truth.
Not after he left Bentwood Creek eight years ago to chase rodeo dreams. Not after she’d rebuilt her life, her flower shop, and her heart—on her own terms, with two little boys who look more like their father every day.
When Colt returns to sell the family ranch, he doesn’t plan to stick around. Then he ends up helping Josie renovate her antique shop, and it starts to feel like forever, at least for a little while.
The closer they grow, the harder it is for Josie to keep the secret she’s held since the day he drove away.
Because Colt doesn’t know the twins are his.
Now old wounds reopen, small-town memories surface, and Colt must prove he’s no longer the man who left—before Josie decides her heart is safer without him.
Titles in the Bennetts of Bentwood Creek series include: The Cowboy’s Accidental Bride ~ The Cowboy’s Christmas Twins ~
This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.
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Posted October 16, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance, Kindle Unlimited, No Spice Romance, Series, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
She came home burned out. He’s the firefighter making it harder to leave.
Jenna Ashby comes home to Peppermint Falls with everything she owns packed in her car, and no intention of admitting she has nowhere to go.
After losing her biggest marketing client and giving up her lease, the youngest Ashby sister needs money and a fresh start. Selling Gingerbread Cottage is supposed to provide both.
Then she finds Reid checking the smoke alarms.
Reid is the local firefighter who quietly looked after the cottages for her grandmother, handling safety checks and keeping an eye on the property whenever it stood empty. He’s steady, dependable, and far too good at seeing through the jokes Jenna uses to convince everyone she’s fine.
But as snowy days at Gingerbread Cottage bring them closer, Jenna begins to question whether starting over means starting somewhere else.
Jenna knows how to sell the perfect story. But Reid is making her want something real.
Titles in the Peppermint Falls series include: Mistletoe Cottage ~ Cocoa Cottage ~ Peppermint Cottage ~
This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.
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Posted October 15, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
He has a plan to save his town. She has the power to decide if it survives. Falling for each other was not in the funding proposal.
Theo Scavo came home to Brinewick to protect it from becoming the kind of pretty coastal town where locals can no longer afford to stay. As the community development director, he has fought for every piece of the Station Renewal: the freight shed, the platform, the public green, the diner that smells like coffee and griddle onions, and the year-round people who make the town more than a postcard.
Arden Quist, the state transit liaison, oversees the final funding review. She believes public projects survive on clear budgets, durable plans, and hard choices — not sentiment, no matter how charming the town or how persuasive the man arguing across the table.
Theo thinks Arden’s caution could sand the heart out of Brinewick’s future. Arden thinks Theo’s vision could collapse under the weight of its own idealism. They are both smart. They are both stubborn. And every late-night planning session in the Salt Ledger Room makes it harder to remember why wanting each other is a terrible idea.
With the final hearing approaching, the station’s future depends on compromise neither of them wants to make. But love, like infrastructure, only lasts when it is built honestly.
Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include: Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
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Posted October 15, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
She planned to leave before anyone could ask her to stay. Then the storm hit.
Mireya Thorne returned to Brinewick for one reason: to settle a family property issue, avoid old gossip, and leave before the town started remembering things out loud. As a crisis communications consultant, she is excellent at managing other people’s disasters. Her own history with Brinewick is a problem she prefers not to brief.
Then a coastal storm slams into town, damages the station, floods the platform, and strands her exactly where she swore she would not linger.
Penn Saco is Brinewick’s emergency management anchor — calm, capable, and far too good at making people feel safe. He remembers Mireya as the girl who ran from town the first chance she got. Now he needs her to help control rumors, organize updates, and keep panic from spreading through Latchkey Lunch & News, which has become an emergency shelter with fries.
Mireya tells herself she is only staying because the town needs her. Penn tells himself he is only looking after her because that is what he does. But one storm, one borrowed cottage, and one bed that squeaks at every breath make denial difficult.
Penn knows how to offer care. Mireya knows how to survive without it. Loving each other means learning the difference between being needed, being wanted, and being brave enough to stay.
Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include: Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
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Posted October 15, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
Their relationship is supposed to be for the cameras. Too bad the private kisses are the dangerous ones.
Junie Vale knows how to sell a story. As Brinewick’s summer events consultant, she has one shot to prove the station is more than an old building with a leaking roof and a town full of opinions. The state wants public use. The tourists want charm. The locals want to avoid becoming a brochure. Junie needs a face for the campaign.
She gets Oz Pike.
Oz is a marine mechanic, part-time charter captain, and the last man in Brinewick who wants attention. Unfortunately, one candid photo of him helping at the station turns him into the town’s reluctant summer hero. Junie offers a solution: a few public appearances, some harmless fake dating, and enough community buzz to help the Station Renewal.
Oz agrees for the town. Not for the cameras. Definitely not for Junie’s smile.
But fake dating in Brinewick is impossible when the diner regulars can spot real longing from three booths away. Public kisses turn private. Staged chemistry turns inconveniently honest. And the more Junie tries to manage the story, the more Oz makes her want something no spotlight can prove.
She needs visibility. He needs privacy. Falling in love could save the campaign — or cost them both the one thing they never meant to risk.
Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include: Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~
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Posted October 14, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
She wants the truth on record. He wants to save the town’s best story. Neither expected their arguments to get this personal.
Nola Charette returned to Brinewick to record the town’s history before the state decides the old station isn’t worth saving. As a podcast producer with a sharp eye for buried truths, she knows the official version of Brinewick’s past leaves out the people who actually kept the trains running—including her own grandfather.
Silas Rook has one job: build a clean, convincing heritage case that will help protect the station. As a preservation attorney from one of Brinewick’s most respectable families, he knows exactly how fragile public funding can be. He doesn’t need Nola digging through ledgers, challenging old plaques, and turning the town’s favorite legend into a full-scale emotional excavation.
Unfortunately, Nola is brilliant, relentless, and impossible to ignore. Silas is controlled, infuriating, and far more decent than she wants him to be.
Trapped together in dusty records rooms, diner interviews, and public listening sessions, Nola and Silas discover that history is not the only thing getting harder to contain. But when the truth threatens his family’s reputation and her family’s erasure, desire is not enough. One of them has to risk the story they have been protecting.
Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include: Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
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Posted October 14, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
The town needs a fundraiser. She needs one perfect event. He needs everyone to stop ignoring basic structural safety.
Tessa Rill can make chaos look charming. After her event business imploded in Providence, she is back in Brinewick with a headset, a clipboard, and a desperate need to prove she is still the woman who can pull off the impossible. Her new mission: produce the first major fundraiser for the Brinewick Station Renewal and make the half-restored Trackside Works look magical.
Unfortunately, Bram Lozada is in charge of making Trackside Works safe.
Bram is a historic restoration contractor with strong hands, stricter rules, and no patience for bunting, optimism, or volunteers who think “probably fine” is a safety plan. Tessa thinks he is impossible. Bram thinks she is exhausting. The town thinks they should be left alone together as often as possible, strictly for project efficiency.
But beneath Tessa’s sparkle is panic she refuses to show, and beneath Bram’s gruff competence is a man tired of being valued only when something is broken. As late nights, power outages, and one extremely inconvenient no-dating rule push them closer, their arguments start sounding a lot like foreplay.
Tessa can charm a whole town. Bram can fix almost anything. Falling for each other may be the one thing neither of them can manage under the platform’s rules.
Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include: Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~
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Posted October 13, 2026 by Marsha in Booksprout ARC, Contemporary Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series, Sexual Content, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
She stayed. He left. Now the town they both love needs them to save the place where goodbye ruined everything.
Mara Dacey knows every inch of Brinewick Station: the fogged windows, the unreliable announcement board, the commuter coffee, and the diner booth where she learned Cal Vardis was leaving town without her. Thirteen years later, she is the woman everyone counts on to keep the station running—which means she has no time for old heartbreak, especially when the state threatens to cut service and put Brinewick’s future at risk.
Then Cal steps off the train.
Now a coastal structural engineer, Cal has been hired to assess whether the station and its old freight shed can be saved. He came back to do a job, tell the truth, and leave before the town remembers too much. But Brinewick remembers everything. So does Mara.
Forced into late-night inspections, tense committee meetings, and too many emotionally dangerous breakfasts at Latchkey Lunch & News, Mara and Cal discover the years apart didn’t kill the spark between them. It only taught them how much damage silence can do.
To save the station, Cal has to stop hiding behind professional distance. To trust him again, Mara has to believe that needing someone does not mean being left behind.
Titles in the Brinewick Station After Dark series include: Last Train to You ~ Delayed by Desire ~ Platform Rules ~ Hot Under the Station Lights ~ Stranded with the Local ~ Home on the 5:42 ~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
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Posted October 13, 2026 by Marsha in Closed Doors/ Fade to Black, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Heartwarming, Modern Western Romance, Multi-Author Series, NetGalley, No Spice Romance, Series, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
His family’s legacy… Is their chance at love
Desperate for work, jockey Tamara Vaughn reluctantly agrees to train horses at the revered Blackwell Stables. She can’t escape its connection to a smaller outfit in Texas, where her career veered off course, and her romantic feelings went unnoticed.
Widowed horse breeder Nathan Blackwell never expected to work with Tamara again after the tragedy with his prized horse—but a doping scandal back home in Gold Finch, Kentucky, has left the ranch with few options.
As they’re forced to team up, an undeniable chemistry builds, especially as Tamara helps his twin boys find their stride in bluegrass country. With her reputation and the ranch’s future riding on an emotionally charged, high-stakes race, can she and Nathan also dare to become something more?
Titles in the multi-author The Bluegrass Blackwells series include: A Cowboy to Call Her Own by Cari Lynn Webb ~ A Cowboy to Remember by Melinda Curtis ~ A Cowboy To Come Home To by Carol Ross ~ A Cowboy in Uniform by Amy Vastine ~ A Cowboy by Christmas by Anna J. Stewart ~
This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.
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