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Bestseller Thayne (Snow Kissed) delivers a heartwarming double romance perfect for summer. After eight years away, single mother Emma Lucas returns to Wood Briar, Ore., with her three-year-old daughter, Olive, to help her widowed mother, Rosie, manage the Rainy Day Bookshop. Life has been difficult for Emma since her father’s death a decade prior; she rebelled against Rosie and struggled with guilt and grief. She’s also hiding a secret about her late father that could break Rosie’s heart. For her part, Rosie longs to have Emma and Olive back home for good and seeks to rebuild their relationship. When bestselling author Andrew Morgan, a widower and single father to two young children, buys and renovates Rosie’s dream home, Rosie, who also works as a contractor, oversees the project and romance blossoms. Meanwhile, builder Bryce Kendall has been in love with Emma since middle school. Now that she’s back in town, he’s eager for a second chance but unsure how to break down her walls. The author delicately handles tough emotional issues to craft a multigenerational romance about healing, forgiveness, and second chances. The combination of family and romantic drama, plus the cozy setting, will hit the sweet spot for Thayne’s fans. (June)

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Four generations of women in a family are reunited in a small coastal Oregon town when grandmother Sylvia suffers a broken ankle. Emma's mother Rosie asks her to come home to take over the bookshop for Sylvia while she heals. When Emma arrives with her three-year-old daughter, Olive, after an eight-year absence, she finds the bookshop disorganized, cluttered, and not very inviting. She hopes to revitalize it and convince her family that she is capable so she can find a place in the construction business started by her father and Rosie. Rosie is remodeling a historic home for Andrew Morgan, a widowed best-selling author with two young children who moved to Wood Briar to be near his mother. Bryce, the boy who teased Emma throughout school, is now a project manager for Lucas Construction but has volunteered to help her spruce up the bookshop. Friendships blossom with proximity, and relationships that look impossible become supports, as old hurts are examined and new problems overcome in Thayne's classic women's fiction style.