Small Town & Rural

Welcome to The Bookworm Bookshop & Café, where the coffee is warm, the friendships are strong, and murder is never far from the next chapter. Join Gemma, Mavis, and the rest of Belper’s quirky residents as they turn amateur sleuths.

He ghosted me once, now he's supposed to protect me? I don't need a bodyguard—I run a small-town lavender farm, for bee's sake. But when my identical twin sister lands the movie role of a lifetime that's being shot in my hometown I get one anyway.

What About Us is Book two in the Silver Springs series. It is a hockey, friends to lovers romance...

How far would you go to bury the truth? While searching for a missing hill walker, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team uncovers a body - just not the one they were looking for....

Hunter Calloway is a small town smokeshow and the kind of man my father warned me about. He's got a reputation a mile wide, a smile that could burn through any girl's good sense, and did I mention he's also the man my sister once loved and left behind? He strolls through town like he owns it...

Blaire Monroe is the only woman I've ever loved, and the only one I've let break my heart. It's been ten years since she ran from this town, chasing a life that didn't include the cowboy next door who blurred the line between best friend and something more. Now she's back. Fresh off a busted...

Our first kiss was a lie. Our second was a mistake. And the night we spent tangled up in each other? Hot as hell, but a complete disaster.

Flower shop owner Ellie McEwan is driving home late one frosty November night when a shadowy figure leaps into the road out of nowhere. Ellie swerves to avoid him — and slams head-on into the crash barrier.

When 17-year-old Belle Smith is reported missing, the Darfield police are busy fighting one of the worst bushfires the region has ever faced.

Set in small town Montana, this romance series follows the six siblings of the Eden family as they each find love.

As a single mom rebuilding my life from scratch, I don’t need help. And I definitely don’t need the attention of a six-foot-three maple farmer with a beard and a hero complex who looks at me like I’m a problem he didn’t sign up for.

My secret workplace romance starts innocently enough at a birthday party. But when a rowdy partier knocks me into a lake and a sexy stranger comes to my rescue–my night becomes one to remember.

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds...

Detective Sergeant Nick Vada has come to the quiet coastal town of Riema for a much-deserved holiday. When a local woman is murdered, he is shocked to learn that they had met before. And that she had been keeping a secret – she was the daughter of Australia's richest man.

One hard fall in the rodeo ring. One maddeningly gorgeous cowboy. One chance at love she swore she'd never take. Billie Wallace has spent her whole life trying to prove she's more than the Wallace Ranch's "wild" only daughter. All she wants is a shot at barrel racing—and a purpose beyond...

One chance meeting on a Texas ranch. One wild, too-charming cowboy. One snowed-in night that changes everything. Wheeler Rankin isn't here for romance—she's come to Lucky River Ranch to visit her best friend, wrangle a business deal, and prove herself to everyone who ever doubted her. But when...

Knox lives alone, and he likes it that way. Unfortunately, runaway bride Naomi is about to have her life implode on his doorstep.

Introducing your new crime thriller fix: Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed. DS George Cross can be rude, difficult, and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best...

Detective Sergeant Nick Vada thought he had left the past behind when he moved to the bustling streets of Sydney. But when his sister's wedding brings him back to the sleepy farming town of Milford, he's forced to confront memories he'd rather forget.

Everyone always says that your honeymoon should be a holiday to remember… 'This is a cosy series which is like a hug, I love the main protagonists and the locations’ ★★★★★ 'The characters are what draw me back to this series, and also the humour’ ★★★★★ ***...

Dirty dancing leads to a chance at forever in this sizzling single-parent, found family, small town romance by Jessica Peterson. As a recently divorced single mom, I have zero interest in flirting with guys while on a rare girls' weekend away with my sisters. I just want to have fun, celebrate...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Kayvan Novak, Josh Cohen, Alistair Petrie, and Richard Hughes. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire...

What would you do if the life you knew was stripped away in a single night? Ava Bedford's quiet existence in Nevada shatters when she becomes the sole witness to a brutal murder linked to rising political star Congressman Richard Callahan. Forced into witness protection, Ava is relocated to...

It’s the night shift worker who finds them. Huddled in a hospital store cupboard is elderly Edith Higgins. Knifed to death. Sitting behind her is Staff Nurse Lily Frampton, a scalpel clasped in her blood-soaked hand.

He’ll help her solve a mystery, but they can’t risk their hearts.

Hunter Calloway is a small town smokeshow and the kind of man my father warned me about. He's got a reputation a mile wide, a smile that could burn through any girl's good sense, and did I mention he's also the man my sister once loved and left behind? He strolls through town like he owns it...

What About Us is Book two in the Silver Springs series. It is a hockey, friends to lovers romance...

Flora Douglas has spent thirty years running from Applemore - the remote Scottish village where she spent most of her childhood in foster care, always feeling like the odd one out. Now a bestselling novelist with writer's block, two grown children and an ex-husband who still can't work the...

At their twenty-fifth high school reunion, four former best friends discover that growing up is way messier than anticipated—and the past isn’t nearly as finished as they thought. Back in senior year, Audrey, Micah, Jasmine and Beck were the Core Four: the lucky one, the beautiful one, the...

The fate of two strangers becomes part of the heartbreaking history of a celebrated painting in a novel of suspense and forbidden love by the bestselling author of The Lost Letters of Aisling. The historic art gallery Hatterfield House symbolizes hope for cancer survivor Hannah Caddell. Like the...

On the brink of death, a man comes to terms with the life he lived versus the one he never pursued in an emotionally rich novel of parallel lives, redemption, and finding purpose. On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save the patrons of a small-town...

Matthew Bailey has it all. At least, he appears to, if you don't look too close. Fast cars. Faster women. Thousands of online followers, hanging on his every word. So what if the cars are rented? So what if the women don't stay? So what if he's drowning in debt and one step ahead of disaster?...

One love. One betrayal. One last chance to put the pieces back together. Gracie learned early on that love never comes easy, but Braxton challenges that truth when he stumbles into her life. He carefully dismantles the walls she's built around her heart, and she lets him, convinced he is worth...

Oz Fake mates. Real feelings. And a town secret that changes everything. I moved to Pine Gulch for a fresh start after a toxic ex made me question everything. My life here is simple: work odd jobs, nurse my lavender latte, and stick to my table at BrewHaha Beans while I build my dream spa one...

Gris Morley is the most helpful man in Cheviot Hills. Just ask anyone. He's on every volunteer list, covers for every colleague, and has never once said no to a neighbor in need. He's a devoted husband and father, a mostly reliable friend, and the first person anyone calls in a crisis. He's also...

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an...

Prepare to meet your newest small-town obsession with this brand-new series of spicy romances full of suspense and mystery. Perfect for readers who love Catherine Cowles, Elsie Silver and Devney Perry! I swore I’d never come back to Blackstone Creek. Officially, I’m here to write a feature...

Gunner Brooks is a man of few words and even fewer smiles. As a former Navy SEAL, he's accustomed to danger and secrecy, still embroiled in covert missions alongside his trusted teammates. But when a distressing message summons him away from his team and back to his hometown, Gunner's stoic...

Este Skylar is grounded. Six months after surviving a plane crash, she's terrified to fly, leaving her promising career as a pilot in ruins. Exhausted by sleepless nights, all she wants is to switch off, and a trip to her dad's best friend's cabin in Wintermore is the perfect excuse. Nico...

A small-town series from bestselling author, Hannah Cowan! Millie I ran from the altar in a pair of heels and a white dress, chasing freedom instead of a future I never wanted. Oak Point wasn't supposed to be anything more than a place to rest for a little while. With no money, not a clue what...

A wounded soldier. A devoted fisherman. A love lost to memory and yet… "There's nothing about you I don't want." Boyhood best friends. Closer than brothers until one night changed everything. And then it was gone. Jack doesn't remember. Sol can't forget. Now they share a life in Porth Luck...

"All I have is time, and I'll spend every moment of it convincing you that we are worth the risk." Jaxon One tragic accident was all it took to turn my life upside down. Now the ranch I once loved feels like a reminder of everything I lost, and keeping people at a distance is the only thing that...

Fiercely independent naval officer, Patience Cartwright has never had a place to call home, but she knows where she doesn't belong. After an unhappy childhood and a badly broken heart, she'll never return to the country. But to save her career, Patience is forced to accept a secondment – to an environmental team working near the town where she grew up. There she encounters once more the infuriatingly attractive biologist Hugo Halstead – the very man she's sworn never to forgive.

Welcome back to Virgin River, the series that inspired the hit Netflix TV show, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary and love always finds a way Four years ago, air force sweethearts Franci Duncan and Sean Riordan reached an impasse. She wanted marriage and a family. He didn't. But a chance...

I kissed the wrong Santa. Now he wants to make my name on the naughty list permanent. Cornered beneath the mistletoe with a creepy coworker closing in, I grabbed the nearest Santa for a quick-escape kiss. Big mistake. Because the man behind the fake beard wasn't the cheerful volunteer I'd...

When it comes to men, sisters don't share! After a fake food poisoning incident in L.A., Bailey Sterling's dreams of becoming a caterer to the stars collapse faster than a soufflé. Now Bailey's face is in all the gossip rags and her business is in ruins. But the Sterling women close ranks and...

All Magnolia wants is to find love. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so, because now she has a fake fiancé and it's all based on a lie. Magnolia Hawthorne has been struggling to find her place in this world. Sometimes she worries that her dreams are too small. That wanting to find love and...

A novel of heartbreak, betrayal, and the quiet courage it takes to choose yourself. Cassidy Morgan didn't mean to fall in love. She definitely didn't mean to fall for a married man. But by the time she discovered the truth, it was already too late. She believed him when he said he was leaving...

After three years of dancing at the best club in Minneapolis, I'm forced to return to my hometown. Pregnant. Single. And my only skill is twirling around a pole. I return to my old job, dancing with one goal. To save enough money to provide for my child. But night after night, he becomes...

Levi When I let my best friend set me up on a blind date for my sister's wedding, I wasn't expecting that person to be Austin Cade, my brother's best friend and high school crush. After letting everyone believe we're together, Austin comes up with an idea. Keep up the act, let everyone believe...