Small-Town Escapes series by Theresa Christine

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In a small town halfway around the world, she might just find her whole heart.

Tough but tender Juniper Martin should have tossed that DNA test. A frustrating workday and one too many cosmos later, she mails a sample that unearths her half-sister in Ireland. Raised in a broken home, Juniper grants trust sparingly. But when she’s assigned a career-changing article about the findings, Juniper travels to the small town of Ballygrá to meet Cara and attend her wedding.

After Aidan McCarthy’s brother died, he dropped out of postgrad to help his parents. Only his best friend Cara knows he wants to pursue photography and not pour pints at his Da’s pub forever, but duty to family comes first. He desperately needs something—or someone—to inspire him and breathe new life into his old dreams.

When Aidan and Juniper must work together and help with Cara’s wedding preparation, neither can deny the chemistry between them. But Juniper can’t stay in beautiful Ballygrá forever—and when a discovery calls into question everything she’s worked for, she must decide how much to open her heart to the family she never knew she wanted and to the man she never anticipated falling for.

The Half of It is a spicy slow-burn romance set in the small town of Ballygrá, Ireland, perfect for fans of the Irish setting in Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks, the cinnamon roll male main character in Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez, and the heart and heat of Kate Clayborn books.

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One chance to save her hotel.

One chance to save his career.
One last chance at each other.

Daisy Johnson is hell-bent on keeping her late mother’s hotel in the California desert alive, despite costly renovations and vacation rentals sucking business dry. She can handle everything on her own just fine, thank you, but she falters when her childhood best friend returns home. He’s the boy she encouraged to chase his dreams eight years ago, even though those dreams took him away from her.

After a scandal crushes Max Weber’s art curator career, he has no choice but to return to Harlow, California, and plan his comeback. Once eager to escape his hometown and disapproving parents, he always found refuge in Daisy—so he’s surprised to find her so guarded now. Even with oceans and years apart, he could never forget her. Surely, their back-and-forth voicemails were proof of that…

Max and Daisy team up to salvage her hotel and his career, and while the project only goes until the end of the summer—he’ll leave, and she’ll stay—they can’t get each other out of their systems. As they reignite a spark they’ve both long ignored, the two must face what broke them apart and what’s still holding them together.

In a Desert Daze is a spicy childhood friends to lovers romance set in a small desert town, perfect for fans of the estranged friends to lovers in It's Different This Timeby Joss Richard, the hopelessly devoted male main character in Savor It by Tarah Dewitt, and the heart and heat of Jessica Joyce books.