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Autumn at the Bookstore: A Sweet Grumpy vs Sunshine Small Town Romance (Plum Ridge Series Book 2)

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Autumn at the Bookstore: A Sweet Grumpy vs Sunshine Small Town Romance (Plum Ridge Series Book 2)

By: Maya Vance
Narrated by: Audra Harms
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She stopped running and started staying. He spent fifteen years watching people leave and two months wondering if she was next. When a mountain flood and an offer from her past arrive in the same week, they run out of time to keep circling what they know.Maya Vance spent months putting The Broken Quill back together: the roof, the shelves, the community calendar, and something she had not expected to rebuild at all. Herself. Plum Ridge had stopped feeling like an escape and started feeling like a life she had always been too busy to build. The autumn harvest festival is here. The bookstore is finally turning a corner. And the man who showed up before dawn with plywood and a tool belt every time something threatened to fall apart is standing on the rain-slick sidewalk with his hand at her elbow, finally out of reasons to keep his distance.Then the sirens go off.Garrett Hayes has spent fifteen years being the one who stays in Plum Ridge, fixing every crumbling building in town while bracing for the moment the city girl remembers she has better options. When a flash flood traps festival vendors in the valley south of town, he and Maya drive straight into the emergency together, and what he sees changes everything: she stands in the mud and the dark and organizes chaos like she has been doing exactly this her whole life. It does not make trusting her easier. It makes it impossible to keep pretending he has not already made up his mind.Then Julian Vale arrives with polished shoes and a contract that would put Maya back to the life she left. Garrett retreats behind the only armor he knows: a final invoice, a back door exit, and the old certainty that people like him do not get to keep good things. But Maya did not choose Plum Ridge because she ran out of better ideas. She chose it because she ran toward something real. And she is not going to let a man who has never let himself be loved decide what that means for her.©2026 Clayton Blackshear (P)2026 Clayton Blackshear
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