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Millbrook Falls

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Welcome to a town where rival coffee shops spark romance, flower shops become matchmakers, and everyone knows your name.

Filled with charming businesses, quirky townsfolk, and slow-burn love stories, Millbrook Falls is the perfect place to escape for an afternoon.

❤️ Cozy romance
☕ Small-town charm
🌸 Happily ever afters

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Millbrook Falls Series

Got Coffee

Love, rivalry, and a secret brewed beneath their feet.

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Got Coffee is a cozy small-town grumpy-meets-sunshine romance featuring rival cafés, second chances, and a secret hidden beneath the floorboards.

When Ruby Ashworth’s corporate career crashes harder than a triple shot of espresso, she heads to Millbrook Falls and buys a foreclosed café with more charm than working mail service. Her plan? Turn unemployment into opportunity and prove she can build something of her own. What she doesn’t plan on is her new neighbor.

Jake Sullivan has kept Sullivan’s Coffee running the same way his family has for generations—steady, simple, and proudly old-school. Ruby’s arrival, with her honey-lavender lattes and bold ideas, feels like a challenge he never ordered. But when Jake’s grandmother, Rose, gives him an old box filled with logbooks, letters, and a faded blueprint, the past leads them to a forgotten piece of Millbrook Falls history—and to a partnership neither expected.

As they breathe life back into what was lost, sparks fly, loyalties blur, and Millbrook Falls gets a front-row seat to its most unexpected love story. Because sometimes the perfect blend takes a dash of chaos, a splash of history, and just the right amount of heat.

For readers who like their romance slow-burn, small-town, and served with extra foam.

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The Forged Impression

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Dr Amanda Blackwell came to Thistle Bay to disappear.

Widowed and finished with people, she restores antiques in a lighthouse keeper’s cottage on the Maine coast — because objects, unlike the living, tell you exactly what they need.

Then a collector is beaten to death with a bronze bookend Amanda sold him. When the detective hands her the murder weapon, the room drops away and she’s inside someone else’s rage: a gold ring with a red stone, expensive cologne, and a terror so complete it had nowhere left to go but violence.

Amanda doesn’t believe in visions. She believes in provenance, in evidence, in what can be proved. So she treats a murder like a forgery — and starts stripping away the layers, one careful question at a time, with the help of a growing circle of unlikely friends, one infuriatingly charming rival antiques dealer, and a very opinionated cat.

But Thistle Bay runs on beautiful things and the lies told about them. And someone she’s passed on the harbor is willing to kill to keep a much larger lie from unraveling.

A restorer whose hands read the truth of a violent thing. A murder disguised as a break-in. A seaside town where nothing is quite the provenance it claims to be.

The Forged Impression is the first Thistle & Oak Mystery—a clean, atmospheric paranormal cozy for readers who like their whodunits sharp, their small towns full of secrets, and their sleuths a little too good at telling the real thing from a fake.

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Got Coffee

Millbrook Falls Series, Book 1

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Got Flowers

Millbrook Falls Series, Book 2

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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Acres

A Romantic Comedy

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