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Hearty by Carrie Aarons is now live! They say you can always go home again, but for August Percy, that didn't apply even when she had to live there until her eighteenth birthday. After saying goodbye to a toxic childhood, she never planned to look in the rearview. Until the death of the woman who caused all her trauma forces her back to Hope Crest. With a mountain of debt and an uncertain future, August at least has a soft place to land when her former employer and surrogate big brother offers her a house that isn't chock full of nightmares from the past. What she never bargained for, though? The boy-turned-man she's always crushed hard on from afar accidentally becoming her roommate. Evan Ashton is the prodigal son who finally came home ... even if he didn't necessarily want to. As the new head chef of his family's fourth-generation restaurant, he's trying to build his own legacy in a line full of stubborn men. So when he ends up under the same roof as ...

Sizzle by Carrie Aarons is now live! Everyone knows that if there was an award for biggest small town grump, Liam Ashton would win for Hope Crest, Pennsylvania no questions asked. The reclusive, brooding farmer might be part of the family business and do anything for those closest to him, but his bark keeps almost everyone else away. Perhaps that's what happens when you fall in love at first sight but aren't allowed to be with the soulmate you didn't realize you were looking for. When the forbidden woman of his dreams blows back into town, he might finally get a shot to convince her they're destined to be together. Only, her denials and refusals won't let him get anywhere near her. Gabrielle Murphy swore she'd never return to the town where she took her first teaching job. She'd done the right thing, once upon a time, and there is no room to question what if. But when the only woman who ever understood her passes and leaves her to clean up the ...

Sizzle by Carrie Aarons is now live! Everyone knows that if there was an award for biggest small town grump, Liam Ashton would win for Hope Crest, Pennsylvania no questions asked. The reclusive, brooding farmer might be part of the family business and do anything for those closest to him, but his bark keeps almost everyone else away. Perhaps that's what happens when you fall in love at first sight but aren't allowed to be with the soulmate you didn't realize you were looking for. When the forbidden woman of his dreams blows back into town, he might finally get a shot to convince her they're destined to be together. Only, her denials and refusals won't let him get anywhere near her. Gabrielle Murphy swore she'd never return to the town where she took her first teaching job. She'd done the right thing, once upon a time, and there is no room to question what if. But when the only woman who ever understood her passes and leaves her to clean up the ...

Honeyed by Carrie Aarons is now live! Growing up in a house full of brothers, it's not a surprise that Alana Ashton is the princess of Hope Crest. Being the only female of the small town's founding family means that while she usually gets her way, she has to work doubly hard to earn and keep respect. Veering from her expected path to follow crazy dreams, like opening her own shop, not only isn't in the cards, it's also not taken seriously. So when her best friend, the ex-high school quarterback with a smile of gold and a traumatic past, proposes marriage out of the blue after years of Alana not-so-secretly pining after him, the answer isn't an automatic no. Marrying him, and the fortune they'll both inherit if she specifically says I do, could be just the thing to set her vision in motion. But can she keep their decades-long relationship strictly business, or will those long unrequited feelings fool her into thinking this union will be for life? Warren ...

Carrie Aarons has revealed the cover for Honeyed! Releasing September 22, 2023 Growing up in a house full of brothers, it's not a surprise that Alana Ashton is the princess of Hope Crest. Being the only female of the small town's founding family means that while she usually gets her way, she has to work doubly hard to earn and keep respect. Veering from her expected path to follow crazy dreams, like opening her own shop, not only isn't in the cards, it's also not taken seriously. So when her best friend, the ex-high school quarterback with a smile of gold and a traumatic past, proposes marriage out of the blue after years of Alana not-so-secretly pining after him, the answer isn't an automatic no. Marrying him, and the fortune they'll both inherit if she specifically says I do, could be just the thing to set her vision in motion. But can she keep their decades-long relationship strictly business, or will those long unrequited feelings fool her into thi...

Bittersweet by Carrie Aarons is now live! The last place Cassandra Mauer ever thought she'd step foot again was Hope Crest, Pennsylvania. But once the world famous actress gets the call that her estranged father has passed, and his only living relative will need to settle his estate, she finds herself back in the small town that sent her running once upon a time. Little do her dilapidated childhood home and her father's affairs know, Cassandra was in need of a project exactly like this to distract from the glamorous life she no longer wants or recognizes. That is, until she bumps into the man whose family is considered Main Street royalty. Patrick Ashton is the boy next door, a Hope Crest celebrity, and one of the heirs to the most famous restaurants on the East Coast. He has no problem reminding her just how much the town hated her old man ... and in turn her for sharing his last name. But when he realizes she's going to sell the land their two families have foug...