Welcome to Caney Creek! Escape to a small mountain town in Eastern Tennessee and fall in love with the southern small town charm. Grab a cup of coffee from The Caney Coffee Co., pick up a few treats from Bev’s Bake Shop and get lost in the aisles of the Caney Book Nook.
No One But You
New in town, girl meets boy. Then girl meets another boy. With hearts on the line, who will she choose?
After an all but promised promotion is given to someone else, Emma Philips impulsively quits her job in the music industry. Needing to get away, she books a much needed vacation and along the way decides to open a coffee shop in a small mountain town in Tennessee.
Turns out, renovating the old law office is more of a job than she bargained for. So when the local hardware store owner Jacob offers help, she readily accepts it.
Jacob Halden has been reserved his entire life, that’s just how it is when your brother is an NBA superstar. Now he’s happy with his life in Caney Creek, taking over the family business and his grandfather’s love of woodworking, he found his place. But when it comes to love, he’s always been apprehensive. So when the new girl in town catches his attention, he should run. Instead he offers to help her. Spending so much time together, it’s no surprise he falls for Emma, but it seems he may not be the only one…
Her first day in town, Emma meets Alex Black, an aspiring country artist who rented a cabin to work on new music. Between his swoon worthy good looks and suave personality, how can she not fall for his charm?
Jacob’s been hurt by women before so when he learns about Alex, he prepares himself for heartbreak. Especially when Alex could be they key to Emma getting the promotion she wanted.
It Was Only Ever You
She fell in love with the same boy every summer. Ten years has changed a lot…but what about her heart?
Hannah Grace Havens spent most of her summers in Caney Creek, Tennessee with her Great Aunt Grace. Despite the suffocating heat and humidity, she loved her summers there. Mostly because of Carter Ellis, the boy who fished every morning in the pond outside her Aunt’s Inn.
They met when they were ten and that summer she fell in love for the first time. Then again every summer after that. Always with Carter. Her visits stopped once she started college, and part of her always regretted never telling him how she felt. But what did it matter when they lived almost a thousand miles apart?
Ten years later, she finds herself back in Caney Creek after inheriting the Inn. With a plan to sell the place, it gets harder and harder to stick to when memories of her beloved summers warm her now frozen heart. Especially when she learns that one Carter Ellis still fishes at the pond most mornings.
While she’s changed a lot over the years, this town she always loved had not. And the boy she loved?
Anyone But You
First impressions are hard to change. But what happens when they somehow do…?
Dawson Evans had been bounced around foster homes for most of his life. When almost everything in his life felt unstable, he found his love for cooking to be a constant. He also was sure of three things: first, things will always change. Second, most people don’t stay in his life very long so there’s no point in trying to impress them with a good first impression. Third, he had more experience than his job required, but Caney Creek was the closest he ever had to a home and he sure wouldn’t leave.
Avery Philips worked hard for the life she had made for herself. Nothing had been handed to her like most of her culinary schoolmates. So when she reached her goal of becoming an executive chef by thirty, she should have known something would go wrong…and it did.
After a few uncharacteristic mistakes one night, Avery was torn to pieces by the nation’s top food critic. Then fired from her job without a second chance. Overcome with grief, she goes to stay with her sister in Tennessee and quickly makes a bad first impression with the chef at a toursity steakhouse. It shouldn’t matter that much except he turns out to be her brother in law’s best friend so she can’t avoid him.
Dawson was sure he would never see the know-it-all chef again so he didn’t worry about following the classic rule that “the customer is always right”. Unfortunately, she turned out to be his best friend’s sister in law. Even worse, the more time he spends with her, the more he realizes the things he was sure of in life…may not be totally true.
Anything For You
He’d do anything for just one woman…his daughter. He wasn’t planning on making it two.
Theo Bakeman lived the life his parent’s had always dreamed of. He became a lawyer, just like all of the other men in his family. He got married young, settled down and had the perfect little girl. Then one day, his wife decided she couldn’t handle small town life anymore and his perfect little life drove off in a new BMW, never looking back.
After the divorce he never wanted, he decided his daughter was the only girl he needed in his life. He worked hard to provide for her, he made sure to be there for her when she got out of school, his world revolved around Nellie. So much so that he didn’t expect it when he developed feelings for the new first grade teacher his daughter came to love.
Claire Lehrer always knew she wanted to be a teacher. Her mom had impacted so many lives as a teacher and she wanted to do exactly that. While her version of the dream included working at the most prestigious private school in Nashville where her mother had worked, they currently had no openings. Instead, the only offer she had was for a in Caney Creek, Tennessee.
When one of the students in the other first grade class struggles with reading, Claire offers to tutor her. As they work together, her love for Nellie grows and so does her love her dad, Theo. But he has made it clear that he isn’t interested. So when Claire gets a call that her dream teaching job is finally hers, she packs her bags.
It isn’t until Claire is driving away that Theo realizes he can’t lose another woman he loves. And for this woman, he’d do anything.
Only In My Dreams of You
First loves are hard to get over. Even more when they obliterate your heart. Any chance for a fresh start?
If you asked anyone what NBA star Lucas Halden loved more than anything, they’d tell you basketball. If you asked him, he’d tell you it’s Charlotte Morgan. But no one knows this.
There was no point in talking about it when he knew his high school girlfriend would never give him a second chance. Not after how he ended things between them. He had to. But it broke his heart more than it broke hers. He doubted she’d see it that way though.
Charlotte Morgan has a secret, well two. First was her true identity because she wrote under a pen name. The second was the real secret. While she was a multi-time best selling author writing everyone’s favorite romance books, she herself had only ever been in one relationship. Loved one man. It was the love story of all love stories. Or at least it should have been.
Lucas and Charlotte, high school sweethearts. Until Lucas broke up with her the night of their high school graduation. She never saw it coming. And since then, she closed herself off from the chance of being hurt again.
Lucas avoided going back to Caney Creek as much as possible, it hurt too much. But when he got the call that his mom was in the hospital, he booked a flight home. When he’s unexpectedly reunited with Charlotte, he can’t deny it anymore. He really does love her more than anything. If only she’ll let him prove it to her.
Author Emily Parker 