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As we move through the weekend, I wanted to share a new series of books I found on Amazon. These books can be read on a Kindle. If you’re like me and don’t have a Kindle, you can read these books on your tablet by downloading the app on your tablet.
Snowmelt Shores (Snowmelt Shores Book 1) by Laurel Leigh (Author)
If you’ve ever been to Snowmelt Shores, you’ve probably seen Sunrise Bluff, with the glasshouses of Bramble Bridge Gardens glowing at the top, full of winter blooms.
Rachel never imagined she’d be starting over at forty-nine—divorced, uncertain, and facing the recent loss of her mother.
She decides to finally take some time off, to drive back home and figure out what to do with her family’s orchard land. When the house feels too quiet, she rides the trolley up to the gardens, expecting a little peace—and finding a crisis instead.
The moment she steps inside, she finds staff running on grit and late nights. The money’s gone, the doors may close for good, and Rachel is the one person with the history and know-how to turn things around.
She also finds Drew Ridgewell there, working hard to keep the doors open—still wearing that gruff half-smile she never quite forgot.
Then Rachel’s boss gets wind of where she is and what Bramble Bridge Gardens is worth. He gives her three weeks to frame a buyout as “help.”
Between coffee at the local café, trolley rides through town, and afternoon walks with the Loop Ladies who refuse to let Rachel disappear, she realizes the fresh start she needs might be waiting for her right here.
She has three weeks to decide. Put down roots and pitch in, or sign the papers and go back to the life she left.
Snowmelt Shores is a sweet small-town series that celebrates women starting over, second chance romance, and friendships that feel like family. The trilogy is full of fun characters and heartwarming stories. Once you arrive, you’ll want to do more than just stay on the trolley. You’ll want to keep riding, keep waving at familiar faces, and hang on for all three happily ever afters.
Hearts on the Trolley (Snowmelt Shores Book 2)
A heartwarming story of starting over, second chances, and love at fifty.
When Cleo March realizes her life has become mostly routine and grit, she tells herself she’s lucky. She has a marina diner to run and the Loop Ladies to walk with. After her divorce, Cleo shaped her days into something functional, familiar, and safe. So the last thing she wants is Snowmelt Shores deciding this is the year everything gets romantic again.
Then the trolley bell rings.
For the first time in years, Hearts-on-the-Trolley is back, and the entire town shows up. Everyone pays five bucks, writes a message on a heart, and the trolley carries them in plain sight. Cleo ends up in the middle of it all, serving bowls of her infamous chowder to family and friends, as well as neighbors who keep her laughing between ladles.
And her first love, Theo Quill, is there too, right where she can’t avoid him.
He’s running the Reservoir Roast cart, making strangers feel seen, and turning the whole thing into a public rivalry: Team Chowder vs Team Steam. It starts as a joke and quickly becomes the town’s favorite running gag. Cleo tells herself it’s just a playful Valentine stunt, not a second chance.
Until someone pulls an old heart from the archives. What it says changes everything.
It means the story Cleo’s told herself for years might not be the whole truth. Maybe she didn’t imagine what she felt back then, and Theo didn’t disappear the way she believed. Now the trolley is ringing, the whole town is watching, and the one person she never really got over is standing right in front of her.
At fifty, is Cleo ready to try again, or did she miss her chance?
Bramble Bridge (Snowmelt Shores Book 3)
She wants a second chance at love. She just doesn’t know if she’ll ever meet the man offering it.
The last thing Sara wants is to sell love stories for a living when she doesn’t believe in them.
When her husband left, she learned forever can end with one sentence she’ll never unhear. Now she has to sell the house, fight for the bookstore, and figure out who she is on her own terms.
Then she finds an unsigned note that feels like it was meant for her. With her best friend shoving a pen into her hand, Sara writes back.
Soon she’s trading notes with a man who makes her laugh when she forgot she could, who sees her clearer than anyone has in years, who feels dangerously real for someone she’s never met. Their notes become the brightest thing in Snowmelt Shores, and neither of them knows how to stop.
But how do you fall for someone you can’t name, can’t picture, can’t meet?
And when a secret her mother buried long ago finally breaks open, Sara has to decide who and what she’s willing to forgive.
Will Sara and the unnamed man ever meet, and if they do…who is he?
Meet the Author: Laurel Leigh (Author)
I write heartwarming women’s fiction and sweet, second-chance romance filled with family, friendship, and laughter. Expect small-town charm, big feelings, family drama, and satisfying happily ever afters.
My stories follow women who keep emergency chocolate in the glove box, men who swear they don’t believe in love, and all the take-the-long-way-home moments in between.
When I’m not writing, you’ll probably find me thumbing through a little free library or wandering downtown under the string lights. And every time Sandra Bullock begins her teary apology in The Proposal (you know the one) I cry straight through until Betty White does her magic. Every single time.
