The Pact

Cedar Springs Book 1

Ava Lancaster wants one thing: to convince her best friends to move back to their hometown of Cedar Springs.

Luckily for Ava, the five girls made a pact their senior year of high school–if they all turned thirty without getting married, they would return to Cedar Springs, buy the abandoned Victorian manor on Main Street, and open a bed and breakfast together. And, because sometimes good things do happen to good people, the manor goes up for sale the same weekend Ava turns thirty. Everything is falling into place.

Until it isn’t.

Between running her bakery without help, convincing two of the girls that friendship is worth the effort of a big move, and dealing with Benjamin McKinley the Traitor (who of course is the real estate agent selling the property), Ava starts to worry that her lifelong dream is crumbling around her.

Ben McKinley believes in putting the past behind him, a mentality that’s served him well so far. Unfortunately for Ben, past mistakes that he’d hoped were long gone rear their ugly heads in the form of Ava Lancaster and her friends.

Did he break up with her best friend on prom night? Yes. Did he think it was a decision that would haunt him into adulthood? Absolutely not. Yet here he is, somehow struggling with the same problem he had fifteen years ago.

Normally, he’d just put as much distance between himself and the women as possible. Normally, he’d continue stuffing his inconvenient crush on Ava back out of reach where it belonged.

But Ben is a realtor, and the manor belonged to his grandmother.

Which means that Ben is about to spend a lot of time pretending he hasn’t always been in love with Ava.

The Pact is the first book in a cozy, spicy small-town contemporary romance series set in Cedar Springs.

The Storm

Cedar Springs Book 2

Fake dating leads to real trouble in this steamy, small-town romance.

Juliette Hart is absolutely, under no circumstances, going to fail her friends again. She’s always the one not pulling her weight, coming up short when it matters, dropping the proverbial ball.

But not this time.

This time, she will do whatever it takes to get their bed and breakfast ready to open for business in spite of the faulty electrical work. And the wallpaper that just won’t come off. And the massive guilt that weighs on her for not having a proper job.

Throw in the infuriating contractor her friends insist on hiring, and Jules has her work cut out for her.

Adrian Walters does not do ‘complicated.’ So when Jules, one of his new clients, greets him with all the warmth of a freezer, he buckles in to get the job done, with or without her cooperation. His clingy ex provides more than enough complications in his hectic life.

When Jules unexpectedly intercepts a barrage from his ex, Adrian discovers that there may be an unconventional solution to his biggest problem: fake dating Jules. Newly armed with a fake girlfriend, Adrian can do just about anything.

Except stay away from her.

He may have cleaned up one mess, but his growing crush on Jules is adding a whole new meaning to ‘complicated.’

The Storm is the second book in a cozy, spicy, small-town contemporary romance series set in Cedar Springs. The books can be read in any order.