small town

Heroine: Maddie is a single mother, scraping to get by as a maid at the McCarthy’s hotel. She’s given all the crap jobs because of her reputation as a slut. The reputation is totally unearned. The one time she had sex she got pregnant. It’s all because of her endowments in certain areas. Boys in [...]

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Keira: A Wedding in Apple Grove marks the start of a new series for you, as well as a new romance subgenre—small town romance! What drew you to writing these new books? CA: My editor asked if I’d be interested in writing a small town series for Sourcebooks, so of course I said yes! The [...]

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Guest Blog by Kelley Vitollo, author of Lucky Break When I sat down to plot out the series, I always knew the first book would be a friends to lovers story. I’m a huge fan of watching a friendship grow between characters, or knowing that the couple has known one another for most of their [...]

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Reviewed by Carla F. The heroine is DeeDee McGowan who is the owner of a car dealership in the very small town of Oyster Point. She is all ready to settle for and marry Buck Bewley, but the night before the wedding she finds out he is cheating on her. The hero is Thomas Charlemagne, [...]

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Reviewed by Lynn Reynolds Bring Me Home for Christmas is book 16 of the “Virgin River” series. Rich Timm and his sister Becca have just arrived in Virgin River to hunt and fish. Rich is there for a “guys” get-together and Becca has invited herself along. Robyn starts us off with a great interaction between [...]

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by Karin, guest reviewer from Savvythinker.com Honeysuckle Summer is a Sweet Magnolia Novel. I was given three ARCs in this series to review.  I thought I had them in order, but I believe I am reading them out of order, and it doesn’t matter to me. I loved this book from the very beginning. It [...]

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by Karin, guest reviewer from Savvy Thinker. This is book 6 in the Sweet Magnolia series, but it is the second one I have read. I am really enjoying these books. I’ve already been to the library searching out others the author has written. The characters are endearing, warm and real. I am left with [...]

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Jenna Mills tackles some very hard issues in This Time for Keeps. A miscarriage tore the hero and heroine apart and annihilated their marriage two years prior to the start of the novel. Neither one has really dealt with the fallout of their lost child. At the opening of the book the estranged couple is [...]

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