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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: Adult contemporary romance

Blurb:

A struggling vet student and a rescue golden retriever save each othe

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

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Everything She Does Is Magic by Bridget Morrissey

Rating: 5/5

Spice: 0/5

Plot: 5/5

Primary Genre: YA Sapphic Fantasy Romance

Blurb:

In the charming town of Fableview, every day is Halloween. Get ready to fall under the spell of this bewitching sapphic romance, perfect for fans of Gilmore Girls and Wicked!

Darcy Keller, resident ray of sunshine and town spirit princess, loves every moment of Fableview’s fall festivities. But she’s also really ready to leave for college next year, even though her parents expect her to stay and take over their Halloween empire.

Enter brooding new girl Anya Doyle, a real-life witch and almost a full member of her coven. In order to be initiated, she has to choose a mortal ally to act as her “protector.” But having moved around so much, Anya is completely friendless. So she does what any self-respecting teenage almost-witch would—she lies and tells her coven her secret crush, Darcy, is willing to do the job.

Desperate to solve their personal problems, they agree to help each other out, attending everything from a costume parade to a pumpkin patch party to an apple bobbing contest together. But with Anya’s magical powers and Darcy’s future independence on the line, the last thing they need is the added complication of pesky feelings . . .

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Old Flames and New Fortunes by Sarah Hogle

Rating: 3.5/5 (Rounding up to 4 for Goodreads, Amazon, etc)

Spice: 2/5

Plot: 3/5

Primary Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy Romance

Blurb: A small, magical town tucked away in rural Ohio, Moonville is the perfect place for flora fortunist Romina Tempest to expand her shop, where she uses the language of flowers to help the hopeful manifest their love lives. After giving up on her own big romance eleven years ago, at least she can bask in the promise of others’. So, when the shop’s potential financier shares news of his wedding, Romina jumps on the opportunity to discuss buying the business. What better place to negotiate a deal than at a wedding, even if she has to fake-date her chaotic colleague Trevor to get an invitation? But all hell breaks loose when she discovers Trevor’s soon-to-be stepbrother is none other than Alex, her high school sweetheart. Her greatest love. The boy who, eleven years ago, broke her heart, and who now thinks she and Trevor are dating. What starts as an innocent misunderstanding becomes a week-long fake dating scheme, as Romina resolves to make Alex pay for breaking her heart. The only issue? She can’t deny their still-burning connection. Caught between proving to Alex what he lost, and coming clean and risking her business, Romina must decide whether giving Alex another chance means going back on herself, or finally releasing her hold on the past.

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The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall

Rating: 4/5

Spice: 0/5

Plot: 4/5

Primary Genre: Magical Realism

Trigger Warnings: Death of a loved one on page, unaliving of oneself attempt

Blurb: For fans of Practical Magic, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic. Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to town after a decade, her carefully structured life begins to unravel. With the news of their grandmother's impending death, Sadie's estranged twin brother Seth returns to town, bringing with him deeply buried family secrets that threaten to tear Sadie's world apart. Their grandmother has been the backbone of the family for generations, and with her death, Sadie isn't sure she'll have the strength to keep the family, and her magic, together. As feelings for Jake begin to rekindle, and her grandmother growing sicker by the day, Sadie faces the last of her heartbreaks, and she has to decide: is love more important than magic? Readers who love the magic of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and the sense of community found in The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches will enjoy this warm, witchy novel.

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Brewing Up A Bad Boy by Katherine Garbera

Wicked Sisters #3

Rating: 3.75/5

Spice: 3

Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance

Plot: 4/5

Blurb: A tea shop owner good girl and a reformed microbrewer bad boy reunite in this wonderfully wicked love story.

Sometimes the second sip is sweetest.

In the cozy town of Birch Lake, tea shop owner Poppy Kitchener thought she’d left her mistakes, and her failed marriage, in the past. But when her ex-husband, Alistair Miller, turns up—as charming and irritatingly handsome as ever—those old feelings float to the surface. To top it off, he has a puzzling pretend they’re still married for his cousin’s wedding in exchange for a lucrative business deal with his family.

Easy enough, right? After all, this could be Poppy’s last chance to get closure, grow her business and use Alistair’s knowledge of microbrewing to help her finish that winning recipe for the tea competition.

But even after all this time, he still knows how to make her laugh. And he’s changed in ways that make Poppy wonder about the man he’s become… Can she trust this new Alistair with her heart, or will a second chance brew up disaster?

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Book Releases I’m Excited For This Week

So many great book releases today! There is lots of Romantasy, fantasy, witchy romance, all of the fall vibes. This isn’t every book being released this week, just a few that I found interesting. I’m linking the Amazon pages to the book covers in case something catches your eye.