From cozy bookshops to crisp autumn foliage, these fall-set romances are perfect to snuggle up with this season.
Fall into Place by Kristyn J. Miller
Lenore’s life is falling apart. Propelled home from Manhattan to rural Vermont to spend one final autumn at her family’s historic apple orchard before it’s sold, Lenore struggles to say goodbye. Not only to French Hill Farm, but to everything that once inspired her art. Soon enough, entries in her late grandmother’s journal reignite memories of Lenore’s childhood–and the crush on the groundskeeper’s son she’s since tried to forget.
The Cozy Nook Bookshop by Jeannie Chin
A small-town bookseller finds that fate has taken to writing romance in this cozy love story about making your own happy ending.
Bonfire & Bliss Bookstore by Brittanée Nicole
After a very public failed engagement, Penny Darling would rather cozy up by the fire with a book boyfriend than a real one any day. And as the owner of Bonfire & Bliss Bookstore, she has her pick. Then Jake “Monty” Montgomery returns home. Her high school best friend, now a struggling author with inked forearms and wicked green eyes. And he needs her help. His proposal is simple: She’ll teach him to write the perfect book boyfriend and he’ll pose as her real boyfriend, keeping Hope Harbor’s busybodies—and their obsession with Penny’s love life—at bay. But when their lessons begin, the line between fiction and reality grows dangerously thin.
Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair by Ashley Herring Blake
Sasha Sinclair, drifting after her filmmaker parents’ deaths, takes on their unfinished project about Alice Bishop in Clare Mountain, North Carolina. Margot Bishop rejects the town’s claims that her family are witches, even as they run an occult-themed park to get by. Assigned to work with Sasha on a documentary, Margot resists at first, but as they research Alice’s past and Thornrose Woods, their partnership deepens under local pressure.
Allegra Bianchi goes to Tuscany to escape a failed relationship and a derailed career. She plans to settle her eccentric grandmother’s estate and return to her life in New York. Instead, she finds a crumbling antique shop, 200 acres of leased vineyards, and a clause in the will: live and work in the shop for three months, or inherit nothing. She clashes with Matteo Lucchese, the handsome winemaker who leases her family’s land and is her exact opposite. But over time, Matteo shows her the appeal of slowing down, of staying rooted, of wanting something other than the corporate ladder. Now she isn’t sure she’s ready to leave – and the life she’s falling for comes with a looming expiration date.
The Matchmaker’s Cottage by Kat Sloane
Julia Schaeffer is teetering on the edge of a financial cliff, but Ethan Duchamp’s plan to pair up his celebrity clients at her little bed-and-breakfast will undoubtedly be good for business. But how much forced proximity can she handle with the man who abandoned her years ago? Julia’s dreamy cottage from his childhood summers is the ideal setting for playing matchmaker to Hollywood’s next power couple, and the only way to save his PR career. As Ethan and Julia grow closer, they must confront the truths they’ve both tried to bury. They’ll have to decide if they can rebuild what was lost – or if their second chance will be derailed by scars that have yet to heal.
