MM Small-Town Romance — Coming Home, Starting Over & the Grump Next Door (2026)
Small-town MM romance is the reset button with a porch light left on: the city guy who comes home to lick his wounds, the widower defending the family shop, the grump next door who softens for exactly one person. Here are four, led by a brand-new one, ranging from cozy Vermont simmer to full inferno. Each book page has a free first chapter.
Hard Wood, Soft Landing — Jace Wilder (Single Dad/Renovation) · Just Dropped
Miles Hart can make any room beautiful — he just can’t seem to make his own life work. After a divorce, a public design disaster, and the death of the grandmother who loved him best, Miles retreats to Pine Ridge to lick his wounds and flip a house. What he does not plan on is the gruff single-dad contractor next door, the kid who adopts him on sight, or the slow, terrifying realization that this town might be the soft landing he stopped believing in. Second chance (former almosts), single dad, renovation, small town, blue-collar/white-collar, praise kink. Fresh off the press, at all major retailers — inferno heat. First chapter free →
Bookshop Daddy & Delivery Lads — Jace Wilder (Widower/Found Family)
Leonard Hawthorne is fifty years old, a widower of eight years, and the third-generation owner of a Vermont bookshop that a developer has spent thirty-four years trying to pry from his family. He spent eight years thinking his life was behind him. It was just waiting for him to look up — at the delivery lads who keep finding reasons to stay. Widower, age gap, found family, small town, why-choose polyamory, daddy kink, hurt/comfort. Available at all major retailers — inferno heat. First chapter free →
Cedar & Ink — Ames Willow (Second Chance)
Julian Thorne left Willowbend twelve years ago without looking back — Cornell law, Columbia MBA, a partnership track in Boston. Then he threw it all away over principle, and now he’s broke, unemployed, and driving through a Vermont blizzard back to the town he abandoned, to sell his inheritance and face the man he left behind. Second chance, grumpy/sunshine, snowed in, small town, found family. Free with Kindle Unlimited — a gentler cozy simmer. First chapter free →
Maple & Moth — Ames Willow (Grumpy/Sunshine)
Aiden Parker needs this fresh start to work. After losing his job and his boyfriend in the same brutal month, he stakes everything on Maple & Moth — a handmade-goods-and-coffee shop in a postcard-perfect Vermont town. His first mistake: too many fairy lights. His second: pointing them straight into the window of the hardware store next door, owned by the grumpiest man in Willowbend. Grumpy/sunshine, small town, forced proximity, opposites attract. Free with Kindle Unlimited — cozy, low-simmer heat. First chapter free →
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