Second chances with a touch of magic…
The Leafwood Falls Series
Book 1
The Next Chapter Bookshop
Charlie Whitmore’s life is all spreadsheets and fast-track promotions—until a mysterious bookshop in a sleepy Vermont town starts changing her story. With a cat who judges her reading habits, locals who treat her like family, and two very different men complicating her exit plan, Charlie’s about to find out what happens when life writes its own plot twist. A heartwarming, magical tale of second chances, unexpected love, and the stories that find you when you need them most.
Book 2
The Copper Kettle Café
Olivia Mercer likes her recipes flawless and her career on track—until scandal sends her fleeing home to run the town’s café. The espresso machine growls, the chalkboard quotes change on their own, and a maddeningly attractive farmer delivers lopsided vegetables with too much charm. As old recipes stir up new feelings, Olivia must decide if love, community, and imperfection might be the ingredients she’s been missing all along. A cozy, feel-good romance with heart, heat, and just a dash of magic.
Book 3
The Midnight Reader
Charlie Whitmore has settled into life as Oak & Ink Bookshop owner. But then someone starts breaking in but only leaves behind beautiful literary criticism. With sharp-tongued assistant Mia, poetry-quoting blacksmith Tom who makes Mia’s heart flutter, and imperious cat Hemingway dispensing literary opinions, Charlie finds herself investigating the town’s most puzzling mystery. Between budding romance and baffling clues, this gentle mystery proves that in Leafwood Falls, even break-ins can lead to unexpected discoveries about community, connection, and the power of books.
Book 4
The Tiger’s Tale
Web designer Kat Morrison has perfected caring for everyone else, her slowly fading mother Rose, teenage daughter Emma, and client demands. But when Rose’s storytelling takes unexpected turns, a cantankerous orange cat dispenses wisdom, and gentle parks worker Ben keeps appearing at right moments, Kat’s controlled world shifts. Between family secrets surfacing and her guarded heart awakening, Kat discovers that accepting help might be the bravest thing she’s done. A story about love, family, and learning to care for yourself.
Book 5
The Bookshop of Secrets
Charlie Whitmore’s October bookshop project—a Fear Jar for anonymous confessions—goes viral overnight. But when purple-haired assistant Mia discovers someone writing the same devastating fear seven times (*I’m afraid I’m invisible*), she launches a full investigation complete with conspiracy boards and Halloween masquerade dramatics. Between Mia’s chaotic sleuthing, Hemingway destroying evidence, and secrets surfacing as October winds toward its witching hour, Charlie must solve a mystery where the answer isn’t about winning, it’s about transforming loneliness into belonging. A cozy mystery about courage, community, and being brave enough to be seen.
Book 6
Just Until Christmas
Amanda arrives in Leafwood Falls just before Christmas, running from a very public failure. She clashes instantly with Finn, the reserved rare book appraiser hiding secrets behind logic and quiet rules. When a small-town matchmaker intervenes, Amanda makes an impulsive lie: **they are dating until New Year’s.** Now they must fake a Christmas romance under the watchful eye of Hemingway and an entire town determined to make their lie permanent. As the deadline approaches, they must choose between safe, lonely plans and the magic of unexpected love.
Book 7
The Snowbound Bookshop
She came in because the door was unlocked. She didn’t plan on being snowed in. She definitely didn’t plan on him.
Lucy Hale photographs weddings and believes in love. Josh Cavanaugh is a lawyer with a theory of why it fails. When a Vermont blizzard locks them inside Oak & Ink, Leafwood Falls’ beloved bookshop, they have nothing in common except a cancelled wedding, a large opinionated cat named Hemingway, and one very long night ahead.
A grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity romance about what happens when a man who knows how everything ends meets a woman who believes in beginnings.
The Northlight Picture House Series
Book 1
The Lights By The Sea
Autumn Hayes bought a crumbling 1920s cinema on impulse and a bottle of wine. Okay, mistakes were made.
But she’s done with Boston, done with burnout, ready for a fresh start in a Maine fishing village where nobody knows her name. She’s got six weeks to restore the Grand Lady before opening night and prove she can build something that lasts.
Except the town’s Police Chief won’t let her breathe at all.
Ryan Cole shows up with code violations and pointed silences. He speaks in dry harbor humor that lands just wrong enough to make her blood pressure spike. The man still tends his grandfather’s lighthouse in his off-hours and watches Autumn with those same steady keeper’s eyes, like he’s cataloging exactly how she’ll disappoint him, because Ryan Cole rations words like they cost money.
With a building that breathes and settles around her work, Gatsby, an aristocratic black cat that supervises from secret wall passages and a reclusive projectionist, Autumn just might be finding home.
Book 2
The Stories By The Sea
Four years ago, in New York, Sam Reeves did something Nora Hadley has spent every day since not thinking about. Now her magazine is sending her to profile him for eight weeks — and they have agreed, very sensibly and very professionally, not to bring it up.
The assignment is straightforward. Eight weeks in Northlight Cove, Maine, writing about maritime archaeology, independent scholarship, and the ethics of underwater salvage. Nora has the recorder. Sam has the boat — and a golden retriever named Buoy, for whom every day is the best day, ever. They have a mutual, extremely professional agreement not to discuss the thing that happened in April, four years ago, in front of everyone.
What Nora does not have a plan for is that while she might have forgotten her home town, and the bookshop she grew up in, it hasn’t forgotten her.
Brooke Skie
Brooke is the pen name of a writer of wholesome & cozy small town romance, usually involving cats with far too much attitude!
Brooke is also a cat person who somehow ended up with a dog. Go figure.
