The Hearts Collection
The Hearts collection of novellas is a heartwarming series focusing on later in life, second chances romance. The characters are mature, often overcoming past issues and wounds, to take one more chance at finding love. Love comes in unsuspected ways and from random places, but building trusts again is a challenge. The series is for those who love a happy ending and passion is behind closed doors. Each book is a standalone and they can be read in any order.
Hearts Taking Reservations
After walking away from a high-powered corporate career that nearly broke her, Johanne is ready for a fresh start. Buying her Aunt B’s charming home and turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, seems like the perfect way to rebuild her life—on her own terms. But transforming the into a thriving business is more than just a change of scenery; it’s a challenge that requires skills she’s never had to rely on before.
Enter Patrick Williams, a local marketing expert with a no-nonsense attitude and a past he’d rather forget. Tasked with helping Johanne establish an online presence for the B&B, Patrick finds himself butting heads with the big-city businesswoman who seems to think she knows best. She sees him as small-town and set in his ways. He sees her as stubborn and unwilling to loosen the grip of her corporate past. But as they work together, sparks fly in more ways than one, and neither can deny the growing attraction between them.
Just as Johanne begins to feel at home in Cornwall—and in Patrick’s company—his past returns with a vengeance. With old wounds reopened and the future of his business—and his newfound happiness—on the line, Patrick is forced to confront the past he’s spent years trying to leave behind.
As Johanne and Patrick navigate personal doubts, small-town gossip, and the ghosts of past mistakes, they must decide: Is a second chance at love worth the risk, or will their budding romance crumble under the weight of old burdens?
Set against the backdrop of a charming small town, Hearts Taking Reservations is a heart-warming and emotional story about fresh beginnings, finding love in unexpected places, and the courage to let go of the past.
Rewriting Hearts
In the cozy corners of a small-town bookstore, two wounded souls find themselves on unexpected paths to healing. Zoe, a 45-year-old widow, is starting over after losing her husband to tragedy. Taking a job at the bookstore feels like a safe haven—until she meets Ethan, the gruff and enigmatic owner with his own share of scars.
As the holidays approach, their guarded worlds collide. Zoe finds herself torn between the familiar comfort of her late husband’s family and the unpredictable sparks she feels with Ethan. Meanwhile, Ethan must decide whether to confront the shadows of his past or risk losing the chance at a future with Zoe. Will he be able to keep his cool when faced with stiff competition?
With humour, heartache, and hope, Rewriting Hearts is a tender tale of rediscovering love, embracing second chances, and finding the courage to rewrite life’s story at any age.
This is a second change at love story. A cozy, clean and wholesome romance in a workplace setting.
Rebuilding Hearts
Two broken hearts, one fixer-upper—can love be rebuilt from the ground up?In Rebuilding Hearts, fifty-year-old divorcee Carrie Harper is eager for a fresh start. Recently retired, she is ready to leave Toronto for a small town in Eastern Ontario. On the impulse, she buys a rundown house in need of repair. She hires Mark, a contractor also healing from a painful divorce. As they work side by side on the house, their attraction grows, but the emotional scars from their past marriages leave both wary of trusting again.
Carrie’s divorce was very public, and the past comes back to haunt her. What is she running from? Can Carrie and Mark mend their broken hearts, or will the weight of their past keep them from finding happiness? Rebuilding the house becomes a metaphor for the journey to rebuild their lives—and their hearts.
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