Autumn at Lilac Cove: A Sweet Seaside Bookshop Romance

Felicity Reed has spent her whole life being the person a room forgets it is holding. Then a man walks in who won’t stop looking at her.

Felicity likes the margins. She works the register at The Salty Spine, notices everything, and is noticed by almost no one—exactly the way she wants it. No one knows this little harbor bookshop was once the only place that ever made her feel safe. And no one knows she fills notebooks of her own she has never shown a soul.

Then the café corner’s first author event brings Jonah Ashford to town.

He’s a city novelist renting a cottage for the fall—articulate, cynical, and certain about everything. He critiques the lighting, the chairs, the sentimental little stories on the new-releases table. He’s the kind of man who stands outside the glass and turns whatever he sees into a sentence.

Felicity doesn’t fawn. She corrects him, flatly, and goes back to her work. And for the first time in his life, Jonah is the one who can’t look away. Slowly, terrifyingly, Felicity lets herself be seen.

The only trouble? The one man who finally looks at her is also writing everything down. What happens when being known and being used start to feel like the same thing?

Autumn at Lilac Cove is a sweet, closed-door bookshop romance featuring a quiet, watchful heroine, a cynical author who learns to stop observing and start living, opposites who can’t stay away from each other, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

Perfect for readers who love:
• Cozy seaside bookshop romance in autumn
• Opposites attract: a quiet heroine and a cynical author
• Sweet clean closed-door slow burn
• Small town found family and warm community
• A guarded, cynical hero who finally lets someone in
• Books about books, second chances, and being truly seen
• A heartfelt, guaranteed HEA