Coming Home

A September Sisters Story

Sometimes the love you’ve been running from is the only thing that can bring you back.

A failing bookstore. A travel journalist. One Michigan town worth saving. Three weeks to choose between two worlds.

Chicago marketing executive Vivian Reynolds built her career on one principle: never look back. But when her father's stroke forces her back to Harbor Lake after eleven years, she discovers his beloved bookstore is six weeks from foreclosure—and $42,000 in debt.

The plan is simple: save the business, get Dad into recovery, return to Chicago for the promotion she's worked six years to earn. Three weeks, maximum.

Then Dylan Hayes walks through the door.

The travel journalist is covering small-town economic revival for Wanderlust Magazine—and he's also the writer Vivian secretly admires through her anonymous blog. As Dylan interviews her for his article and volunteers for the community's literary festival fundraiser, their connection deepens into something that terrifies Vivian more than any deadline: the possibility of staying.

But Harbor Lake holds memories she's spent a decade avoiding. The lake that nearly drowned her. The friends she abandoned. The life she escaped to become someone else. With developer Carson Matthews circling to demolish the bookstore for luxury condos, and her Chicago boss demanding her return, Vivian must choose between the career that saved her—and the town that might heal her.

Sweet, swoony romance without the heat. Heartwarming community rallying together. A healing journey from trauma to triumph. Found family friendships that feel like home.

✓ Return to Hometown Romance
✓ Save the Family Business
✓ Travel Writer Hero
✓ Secret Identity (Anonymous Blogger)
✓ Forced Proximity
✓ Slow Burn Romance
✓ Career Woman Fish Out of Water
✓ Found Family / Female Friendship
✓ Healing from Past Trauma

Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber's Blossom Street series, Hallmark movie romances, and anyone who loved The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan.