Fiction - Small Town & Rural

Welcome to Cedar Cove, where the extraordinary bonds that hold family and friends together are only the beginning. Family court judge Olivia Lockhart has seen a lot of couples in her courtroom. Most divorce petitions are open-and-shut, but when Olivia meets a young couple...

Olivia Lockhart Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, If you've been to Cedar Cove before, you've probably met my friend Grace Sherman. You can usually find her at home--she lives at 204 Rosewood Lane--or at the public library, where she works. Like me, she grew...

Olivia Lockhart Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, One thing about Cedar Cove--people sure are interested in what other people are doing. Take Zach and Rosie Cox, for instance. Everybody in town knows that they recently got a divorce. Everybody also knows that I decreed...

Olivia Lockhart-Griffin Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, Jack and I are just back from our honeymoon, and I'm eager to catch up with my friends Bob and Peggy Beldon, who run the Thyme and Tide bed-and-breakfast at 44 Cranberry Point. It's a popular place...

Olivia Lockhart-GriffinCedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, As you may have heard, we've recently had quite a shock. My daughter, Justine, and her husband, Seth, lost their business, The Lighthouse restaurant--to arson. The investigation continues. The prime suspect is a young ex-employee named Anson Butler,...

Olivia Lockhart-Griffin Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, Do you remember Teri Miller? She works at Get Nailed, the beauty salon here in town. Well, Teri got married a little while ago--to Bobby Polgar, the famous chess champion. They've moved into a beautiful house, 74...

Olivia Lockhart-Griffin Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, I'm pretty shocked by something I've just heard. Emily Flemming is afraid that her husband, Dave, might be having an affair. She apparently found an earring in his pocket--and it wasn't hers. And she says he's been...

8114 is a terrifying horror novel investigating the mysterious death of a high school friend through an embattled podcast and hallucinatory hauntings at the abandoned house of his childhood.After returning to his hometown, Paul, the beleaguered host of a small-time podcast, discovers a longtime...

Olivia Lockhart-Griffin Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, I'm sorry to say that our good sheriff, Troy Davis, has suffered a disappointment in love. He was hoping to marry his onetime girlfriend, Faith Beckwith, who recently moved back to town. Well, the latest is that...

Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher searching for second chances--only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past. Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run...

A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean "[Didion's] most ambitious project in...

Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and...

Daphne dreams of Mr. Darcy. Finn serves up pints and rock music. Can opposites attract when a tea shop princess meets her pub-owning rival? Perfect for fans of Courtney Walsh and Emma St. Clair.In the charming mountain town of Wisteria, North Carolina, Daphne Austen...

Now in paperback, in the fifth full-length novel in the beloved Harmony series Philip Gulley reunites us with the quirky cast of Quakers in Harmony, Indiana.Author: Philip GulleyPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 06/27/2006Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.37w x 0.63dISBN: 9780060834555About the AuthorGulley, Philip: -...

NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to her beloved Blessings series with a Christmas wedding in the town of Henry Adams, Kansas.Ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town of Henry Adams, her relationship with diner owner Malachi "Mal" July has...

Grab a warm blanket and cuddle up with these holiday stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber! Christmas Letters Katherine spends the most festive time of the year writing Christmas letters for other people at a cozy café, meaning that she...

Based on the lauded Achewillow fiction podcast, the perfect cozy horror of 2026 is here. "I thoroughly enjoyed A Dash of Demon - it's funny, sharp and eerily mouthwatering . . ." ―Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat Miriam DuFour is at the end of...

She needs him ...to object to her marriage. They were inseparable as kids. So when Eve returns to Seven Roads asking detective Darius Williams to stop her fake wedding, he's confused--more so when a dead body is found in the church lobby. Now there's...

DI Herbert Reardon investigates the murder of an enigmatic woman who was about to leave her comfortable life behind and mysteriously disappear in this page-turning 1930s historical mystery with gasp-worthy revelations. 1935, Templewood, Worcestershire. Judge Waring's glamorous wife Emilie is mysteriously missing and no...

A heartwarming and humorous romance in which an unlikely couple fall in love over Wordle.Twenty-seven-year-old Emily doesn't have a lot going well in her life right now. She dreams of a creative career but works as a receptionist in an auto shop. She longs...