Cider Falls — A 5-Book Small-Town Romance Series

CIDER FALLS

A Five-Book Small-Town Culinary Romance Series

Five connected standalones · Dual POV · HEA every book

Five couples. One festival season. A town worth fighting for.

The Series

In Cider Falls, Vermont, the Harvest Festival has anchored the community for forty years—until a corporate developer threatens to buy the grounds and erase the town’s identity. Over one transformative year, two sisters and three childhood friends discover that saving what matters most means risking their carefully guarded hearts.

This is Vermont in four seasons: muddy boots, cider steam, snow-dusted orchards, and the kind of love that roots deep and refuses to let go. Each book pulls readers inside the characters’ messy, authentic inner lives—heroines who claim their power, heroes who earn their redemption, and small-town stakes that feel enormous because community is everything.

Five love stories. One year. A town worth fighting for.

What’s Included in This Package

The Five Books

Book One — Bad Apples (Nora Hollowell & Eli Marchetti)

“She grows the apples. He cooks them. Together they’ll either build something beautiful—or burn it all down.”

Bad Apples · Nora & Eli

Nora Hollowell came home to save her family’s orchard after her father’s heart attack derailed her culinary career. Now she’s knee-deep in mud, bruised fruit, and the weight of a legacy she’s terrified to lose. When the new bistro chef shows up at dawn to critique her apples, she’s ready to throw him off her land—until he challenges her to prove her fruit belongs in his kitchen.

Eli Marchetti fled Boston after a viral meltdown destroyed his restaurant and his reputation. Cider Falls is supposed to be his fresh start, but the orchard manager he needs for his opening menu is stubborn, brilliant, and refuses to let him hide behind perfect technique. When the Harvest Festival forces them to build a menu together or lose everything, they have to decide whether they’re brave enough to trust each other with more than recipes.

Culinary tension at its most intimate—two broken perfectionists learning that the best things aren’t controlled, they’re tasted. Slow burn served with caramelized apples and a side of second chances.

Featured hooks · Forced Proximity · Grumpy/Sunshine · Professional Rivals to Lovers · Second-Chance Dreams · Found Family

Book Two — Firehouse Homecoming (Priya Anand & Sam Whitaker)

“She left him once to build her life. He came back with a daughter who needs her—and a heart that never let go.”

Firehouse Homecoming · Priya & Sam

Priya Anand rebuilt her life in Cider Falls one stray animal at a time. Thirteen years after leaving for vet school—and leaving Sam Whitaker behind—she’s got her clinic, her routine, and a carefully guarded heart. Then Sam walks through her door at midnight with a dying puppy, his seven-year-old daughter, and the same face that made her run the first time.

Sam Whitaker didn’t plan to ask the woman he never got over for help. But his daughter fell in love with the injured dog, and Priya’s the only vet for fifty miles who’ll work a payment plan he can afford. Eight weeks of recheck appointments, twice a week—close enough to see what he’s become: a widower raising a little girl who names strays and asks questions about feelings he doesn’t know how to answer. When her clinic burns in a freak electrical fire, the space between them collapses.

Second-chance romance at its most tender and unflinching—what it looks like when love gets a do-over thirteen years later. They don’t get a clean slate. They get to choose each other twice.

Featured hooks · Second-Chance Romance · Single Parent · Forced Proximity · She Left, He Stayed · Found Family

Book Three — Sugar & Secrets (Maeve Sullivan & Declan Ross)

“She needs a fake boyfriend to get her family off her back. He needs a cover story to keep his fans away. Six weeks of pretending shouldn’t feel this real.”

Sugar & Secrets · Maeve & Declan

Maeve Sullivan runs the best bakery in Cider Falls and faces the worst dinner party of her life—her family’s set her up with the local hardware-store owner, her sister just announced she’s trying for a baby, and her mother looked at her like a loaf that hadn’t risen. When she climbs the back stairs to her reclusive tenant’s cottage with a bottle of wine and a desperate proposal, she doesn’t expect him to say yes.

Declan Ross, the bestselling paranormal romance author hiding from his publicist in her second-floor rental, has his own reasons for needing cover. Six weeks. A few public appearances. An arrangement with an expiration date built in. The problem is that fake dating a man who writes love stories for a living turns out to be dangerously easy—and the fictional small town he’s been building on index cards all over his cottage walls looks a lot like Cider Falls.

Small-town fake dating at its most tender and specific—a story about choosing to be found, told in four a.m. lemon bars and rewritten endings. A kiss on a balcony above Main Street, a lease signed in ink, and a vampire who finally stays.

Featured hooks · Fake Dating · Secret Identity · Forced Proximity · Grumpy/Sunshine · She Falls First, He Falls Harder

Book Four — Bloom & Burn (Cass Bloom & Marcus Reyes)

“She protects the festival grounds her town calls home. He’s been sent to turn them into luxury resort property. One of them will have to choose a different future.”

Bloom & Burn · Cass & Marcus

Cass Bloom runs the inn that’s been in her family for three generations, tends the heritage roses her grandmother planted, and serves on the committee that keeps the Cider Falls Harvest Festival alive. When Marcus Reyes checks in under his own name and starts asking careful questions about property deeds, she knows exactly what he is: a corporate scout sent to evaluate the festival grounds for development.

Marcus Reyes came to do a job—walk the site, meet the stakeholders, deliver a recommendation by the fifteenth. He did not come to fall for the innkeeper who calls him out on the courthouse steps and makes him see the town the way she does. The acquisition’s already closed, the financing window is narrow, and Cass is standing between him and the career he’s built, daring him to choose differently.

Small-town romance at its most clear-eyed—no fairy-tale saves, no corporate villain with a sudden heart of gold, just two people who want incompatible things and have to build a third option from scratch.

Featured hooks · Enemies-to-Lovers · Grumpy/Sunshine Inversion · Forced Proximity · Love Redeems · Small-Town vs. Outsider

Book Five — Festival Hearts (June Hollowell & Wes Carter) · Series Capstone

“She’s been carrying the town for years. He’s been carrying her secret for longer.”

Festival Hearts · June & Wes

June Hollowell has fourteen days to save Cider Falls’ harvest festival—and the town that depends on it. Between permit battles, vendor crises, and a corporate lawyer determined to shut her down, she’s running on caffeine and sheer will. Wes Carter has been her quiet anchor through every crisis, the carpenter who shows up before dawn with coffee and solutions she didn’t know she needed.

What she doesn’t know is that he filed the variance paperwork in February—months before anyone threatened the festival—because he’s been watching her carry this town for years, and he wasn’t going to let anyone take it from her. Then he hands her a key to his workshop—a place to sit, to breathe, to stop performing—and she finally sees what everyone else has known for years.

Friends-to-lovers at its most tender and hard-won—twenty years of quiet devotion, sawdust and stage lights, and the moment two people stop pretending proximity is enough. When she finally says the words on the stage he built for her, it’s not a beginning. It’s a homecoming.

Featured hooks · Friends-to-Lovers · Slow Burn with Sudden Recognition · Small-Town Protector Hero · Blue-Collar Hero / White-Collar Heroine · Competent Heroine

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What You Get

Five reads away from your next binge-launch series. ❤