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When road-weary biker Derek ducks into Maple & Moonlight Books to escape an October storm, he’s only hunting a dry chair and a good ghost story. He finds Anya quiet bookstore owner, cocoa alchemist, keeper of beeswax candles and second chances. What starts as “Cocoa Bar help” and fixing squeaky hinges turns into stringing paper ghosts, reading at Ghost Stories at Dusk, and tying wishes at the lantern bridge. As the town of Maple Hollow gathers, bonfires and first flurries, Derek’s need to keep moving collides with a new need to stay put, right beside Anya. Anya’s careful routine, built after a tidy almost-love, begins to make room for a man who tends as much as he fixes. Quiet, with no pressure and natural. She finds herself drawn to him, which is not exactly what she saw for herself before now.. But sirens still tug at Derek’s past, and an old fiancé breezes in with apologies. To claim their soft, cinnamon-warm future, they’ll have to choose it out loud.
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The shop bell rings just as the rain decides it means business, none of that polite mist we...
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