Pumpkin Butter

One failing farm. One stubborn grandmother. One last chance at love.

Lyla Woods did not plan on starting over at fifty-six.

Thirty years of marriage behind her and nowhere else to go, she lands on her grandmother's pumpkin farm just outside the small town of Applewood, telling herself it's only for a few weeks. But the barn is leaning, the bills are stacking up, and the surprisingly attractive sheep rancher next door has been quietly holding the place together for years.

Much to Lyla's dismay, saving the farm is going to mean trusting a man again.

Selling homemade pumpkin butter at the Saturday market, she starts to wonder if Applewood could be home. Then her ex-husband turns up on the porch asking for a second chance he has no right to expect. Now Lyla has to decide between the life she spent thirty years building and the one she never planned on finding under the deep red leaves of her grandparent's maple trees.

If only sorting out her own life were as simple as picking pumpkins off the vine.

Turns out, it's not far off.

Pumpkin Butter is a no-spice, low-angst small-town romance that serves up a heartwarming portion of happily ever after, a ninety-one-year-old grandmother who is stuck in her ways, a mayor who will not stop talking, and a heroine who is just getting started at fifty-six.

If you love cozy fall settings, slow-burn romance, and women who find themselves later in life, you'll love the first book in the Applewood Series.