Windfall

Desire rarely arrives without complications.

About the story

Thirteen years away. One woman she never quite left behind.

Wren Callahan plans to settle her grandmother’s estate, sell the struggling Lakeview Inn, and return to Chicago. A developer has made an offer. There is a closing date. Coming home to Cedar Hollow should be a practical matter, however much the lake still hurts to look at.

Then she sees Elle Marsh across the fence, carrying a basket of apples and thirteen years of reasons not to trust her. The orchard is in harvest. The inn needs more than Wren can easily give it. And the woman she once promised to come back for knows exactly how quickly Wren intends to leave again.

A small-town sapphic second-chance romance steeped in autumn, old promises, and the uneasy difference between returning to a place and making a home there.

Your kind of romance?

• Sapphic second chances
• An inherited lakeside inn
• Apple-harvest atmosphere
• Old promises and a planned departure

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From the opening pages

The lake looks the same. That’s the first thing that undoes me, before I’ve even cut the engine — the water still doing that thing it does in late September, pewter and gold at once, like it can’t decide what season it wants to be.

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