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Falling Like Leaves by Misty Wilson
Pub date Sept 2 2025
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Rating 4/5
Spice 0/5
Plot 4/5
Primary Genre YA Romance
A city girl stuck in a small town must confront her future & her old flame while the town prepares for an annual fall festival.

First post for my new blog series is live! My American Indie Book Store Tour starts out in the midwest, specifically North Dakota. Since there were only fourteen stores that I was able to dig up info on, this post is an in depth look at each store. C

The Cinnamon Spice Inn by Harper Graham Maple Falls #1
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 2/5
Plot: 3/5
Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance/Fall
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Food writer Madison has convinced herself she belongs in NYC. Then she’s called back to Maple Falls to

☠️𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐄☠️

𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗯:

𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮．
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦， 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭．
𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘴．�𝘕𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 ?

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The Goode Girls of Maple Lane by Jacqueline Firkins

Publish date: September 16, 2025

Rating: 5/5

Spice: 1.5/5

Plot: 5/5

Primary Genre: YA Sapphic Fantasy Romance

Blurb:

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A struggling vet student and a rescue golden retriever save each other in this heartwarming, Fall-themed rom-com about second chances, found family, and the wholesome side of the internet.

Cameron Goode is on the verge of giving up her dream of becoming a vet. Buried under debt and juggling two jobs with a full course load, she’s utterly overwhelmed. Then a local rescue organization reaches out about a neglected golden retriever in desperate need of help.

The last thing Cameron needs is another responsibility. But something inside her shifts when she looks into the eyes of the dog, who is so obese that she can barely move. Cameron is Aggie’s last chance. And she’s not going to let her go.

Cameron brings Aggie home, where the promise of Autumn is in the air. As the leaves begin to change, so do both Cameron and her rescue, whose recovery she chronicles on a TikTok account. Aggie’s resilience inspires Cameron to open up to the neighbors in her building, including Everett, the guy next door who dropped everything to help Cameron save Aggie. He also happens to look really good in sweaters.

When the account goes viral, Cameron finds herself faced with a choice between monetizing the best thing in her life or struggling to make rent and care for Aggie. Will Cameron be able to accept the help of a newfound family, including the first guy she’s fully given her heart to?

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Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About by Isabelle Popp

Rating: 4/5

Spice: 1.5/5

Plot: 4/5

Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance/Halloween

Blurb:

She’s a little edgy. He’s a lot of sunshine.
Love’s about to catch them completely off gourd…
Textile artist Sadie Fox did not sign up for this. When she agreed to come home to Pea Blossom, Indiana, it was to care for her father’s beloved pumpkin patch. The deal was that—just for the summer—she would grow a ginormous pumpkin, win the Indiana State Fair's pumpkin contest and finally win back her father’s (grudging) respect. Instead, a horde of wild hogs destroyed the. entire. patch. Which is precisely when the annoyingly sexy, sunshiny next-door neighbor shows up. Josh Thatcher is a tech millionaire who traded in the office for growing gourds, including experimental squash hybrids. And for the life of her, Sadie can’t understand what he sees in her sweary, tattooed, prickly self—or why he’s offering to help his biggest competitor. But a storm-fueled kiss proves there’s definitely something growing between them. Maybe it’s just attraction. Maybe it’s more. Whatever it is, it’s already bigger than Sadie’s fast-growing pumpkin…or the secret that Josh has been hiding. From showing up to glowing up, the characters in Afterglow Books are on the path to leading their best lives and finding sizzling romance along the way.

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Friends To Lovers by Sally Blakely

Rating: 5/5

Spice: 0

Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance

Plot: 5/5

Blurb: Always each other’s plus-ones, but never each other’s real dates, two childhood best friends have one last summer wedding to fall in love in this dual-narrative debut—a grown-up The Summer I Turned Pretty .

Best friends Joni and Ren have been inseparable since childhood. So when Joni moves across the country for her job, the two devise a creative way to stay in they’ll be each other’s plus-ones every year for wedding season, no matter what else is happening in their lives.

It’s a tradition that works, until a line is crossed and the friendship they once thought was forever is ruined.

Now Joni is back at their families’ shared summer home for her sister’s wedding, and she’s determined to make the week perfect, even if it means faking a friendship with Ren—and avoiding the truth of why they have to fake it in the first place. How hard can it be to pretend to be friends with the person who once knew you best?

But as sunny beach days together turn into starry nights, Joni begins to question what her life is without Ren in it. And when the wedding arrives, bringing past heartaches to the surface, she’ll be forced to decide if loving Ren means letting him go, or if theirs is a love story worth fighting for.