The Maple Creek
Romance Package

She fled Maple Creek at eighteen after he broke her heart. Sixteen years later, her grandmother's death brings her back — and the boy who shattered her is the contractor she needs to renovate the farmhouse. Both have spent sixteen years living in the wrong story.

Her wound: depending on anyone leads to loss. His wound: he stayed for everyone else and never asked what he wanted.

A founding family daughter hiding a financial crisis. A Manhattan banker recovering from a breakdown. A snowstorm that traps them together at the inn. The princess who lost her kingdom and the prince who discovered his was empty.

Her wound: performing an identity instead of living one. His wound: without his name and money, he has no idea who he is.

She changed her name to hide from her past. He's a widowed vet raising a daughter alone. Their children become best friends before they do. Her secret threatens to destroy the first place that has felt like home.

Her wound: her judgment can't be trusted — she chose wrong once. His wound: love was taken from him, and his identity died with his wife.

She needs a fake boyfriend for her ex's wedding. He has been in love with his sister's best friend for over a decade. The plan was simple: show up together, look happy, survive one wedding. The plan lasted approximately forty-five minutes.

Her wound: a pattern of choosing the wrong partners. His wound: always the reliable one who suppresses his own desires.

A burned-out photographer who has forgotten how to see beauty, and the grieving furniture maker who builds things that last. She dresses in black and scowls at charm. He is covered in sawdust and smiles like the world is not a disappointment.

Her wound: she stopped seeing beauty because feeling anything hurts. His wound: grief has made him gentle and terrified in equal measure.

The fierce small-town editor who built the Gazette into something worth reading, and the disgraced city journalist she is forced to hire. She leads with red lipstick and sharp questions. He leads with nothing — he has lost everything except his instinct for a story.

Her wound: sharing control means losing what she built. His wound: he destroyed his own career and does not know how to rebuild without repeating the mistake.

She has six months to get married or lose the family estate. He has a nine-year-old who needs a home. A contract that becomes a family. Webb House has survived since 1892 — it will survive them, too.

Her wound: proving she deserves something her family doubts she can handle. His wound: providing stability for his daughter by any means, even at the cost of his own heart.

She is thirty-two. He is fifty-four. She dated his son. He has not been with anyone in twenty years. The most forbidden love story in Maple Creek — and the most tender. The town will have opinions. They will choose each other anyway.

Her wound: she settles for safe until safe betrays her. His wound: twenty years of grief have convinced him his life is over.