Bonfire and Bliss Bookstore

Author: Brittanee Nicole

Holidays & seasonal interest

Published on 27 August 2026 by Cornerstone (Evermore) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Hope Harbor' series.

Paperback | 416 pages
127 x 198 x 27 | 290g

🌻From the superstar author Darling Daffodils Farm and The Boston Bolts hockey series, Brittanee Nicole comes a new sweet and spicy seasonal small-town romance, perfect for fans of Laurie Gilmore.

🌻Sparks fly as the leaves fall this autumn…For Penny Darling, love is best enjoyed second hand. As the owner of Bonfire and Bliss Bookstore, she’s content selling happily ever afters - just not living her own.

Then Jake “Monty” Montgomery comes home. Her best friend. A struggling author. And now unfairly attractive, with inked forearms and wicked green eyes.

When Monty proposes a fake-dating deal, Penny can’t resist temptation. The plan is simple. She’ll teach him to write the perfect book boyfriend to save his career. He’ll keep Hope Harbor’s busybodies - and their obsession with Penny's love life - at bay.

But as their lessons unfold, the line between fiction and reality grows dangerously thin.

As Hope Harbor glows with autumn, will Penny and Monty finally become more than a love story waiting to be written?-------------------------------------------------Tropes:💖Friends to lovers💖Fake dating💖small town romance 💖Writer x muse💖Slow burn💖He falls first