This story starts with a funeral. Sutton Tate's whole life just got turned upside down. Her mom is dead, leaving behind nothing but an apartment full of memories and a letter with a bucket list of things she hopes Sutton will do in the next year. The first thing on the list? Spend the summer with a great-uncle that she's never even heard about in the tiny town of Destiny Falls, Michigan. She's reluctant but it's just going to be a few months. She'll work at the Mystery Cabin, the tourist trap that her uncle owns, make a little bit of money and try to connect with the last bit of family that she has left on this earth. Then she gets to Destiny Falls and it's nothing like she expected. Her uncle is keeping her on her toes, there is always something to do around the shop, and the Mystery Cabin's handyman, Teller, just might be the man of her dreams. Throw in the sleazy mayor's son and some new girlfriends, and Sutton just might have a summer...

This story starts with a car crash. Lyla Winters's life is at a crossroads. She's bounced around from one job to another since she was sixteen, wanting to experience everything, but now that she's twenty-five, her lack of a plan is a little less cute. Too bad for her, she has no idea what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She's got a plan though. She'll take a year off to travel and find herself. That plan goes off the road though when she gets to Destiny Falls, Michigan, and runs into some fancy SUV. Out climbs Hudson Hayes. Restaurateur, James Beard Winner, and the man with a plan. Also, maybe the man of her dreams. She has to pay for the damage to both of their cars and just like that, there goes her savings for the year. Now she's stuck in Destiny Falls, working at the Mystery Cabin and living in the apartment above Hudson's restaurant. The plan for the year off is still in play though. She just needs to save up...

This story starts with a break in. Madelyn Freya has always had things come easy for her. She's outgoing, smart, pretty, comes from a loving family. So why isn't she happy? She thought that it was just growing pains, a side effect of growing up in a small town and that she would be able to find herself when she went off to college. Instead, she found Flynn. He broke into her dorm room one night by mistake and while she should have been terrified, she was drawn to the crazy man. Now they're graduated and back in her hometown of Destiny Falls. They're closer than ever, living together and things seem perfect. There's just one problem. She's in love with him. When Flynn gets a job offer halfway across the world, will Madelyn be able to work up the courage to tell him how she really feels before it's too late? Or will her admission ruin the friendship that they have? ***This is a 50,000...

Elijah Grove is the absolute worst. And he knows it too. Mainly because I've told him so every day since I've met him. I wish that I could just avoid him for the rest of my life but that's hard to do when we live in this small town. I thought that we were on the same page about ignoring each other but then one night he shows up at my bakery and offers me a deal. One that I promptly reject but when he jams his foot in my door and refuses to leave until I hear him out, I relent. He wants me to be his girlfriend. It would be fake, obviously. We just need to make it look good and fool his family so that they don't try to set him up while they're in town. In exchange, he'll help me get my bakery up and running. I would be an idiot to say yes, but there is a lot of work to be done and we'd only have to pretend for a few days. I can handle it. Or I thought that I could, but the...

This story starts with a theft. Iris Maeve has always had a penchant for things from the past. It's why she studied art history in college and why she opened her own antique store in Destiny Falls. She prefers the simpler things, the slower pace of life in her hometown. She has her shop, her friends, and her little cabin in the woods. Her life is going according to plan. Until, one night, her store is broken into. The thieves got away with some of her antiques and left her with a big mess to clean up. Enter Arlo Michaels. He's the bartender at The Fainting Goat Pub in town and everything that she wants in a man. And it looks like he wants her too. When Arlo starts coming around to help her pick up, she wonders if maybe she's in danger of losing something else. Like her heart. ***This is a 40,000 word secret-baby, small-town romance story that ends in a happily ever after.**