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Paperback of After the Lights Went Out by Erika Aylward

After the Lights Went Out

An After Hours Novel

When the bookshop closes for the night, some feelings become impossible to ignore.

Friends to love · Workplace Romance · Forced Proximity · Slow burn

Paperback of Just Until Morning by Erika Aylward

Just Until Morning

An After Hours Novel

Snowed in with her brother’s best friend, one room—and one night that was never supposed to change anything.

Brother’s best friend · One Bed · Forced Proximity · Snowed in

Paperback of The Wrong Blind Date by Erika Aylward

The Wrong Blind Date

A Seasons of Fenleigh Novella

She sat down with the wrong man—and had the best date of her life.

Wrong Blind dare · Village Romance · Fresh start · He falls First

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New stories, new beginnings and two very different places to fall in love.

Christmas at Holly House Post Office

A Fenleigh Chronicles Novel

A village post office she never asked for. A postman she has already decided she doesn’t like. And one weekend in Fenleigh that is about to last considerably longer than planned.

Emma arrives in Fenleigh expecting a quiet weekend with her aunt. Instead, June announces her retirement—and confidently informs the entire village that Emma will be taking over Holly House Post Office.

Village romance · Wrong first impressions · Reluctant allies · Christmas

With Christmas approaching, a post office she knows nothing about and a local postman whose view of life seems completely at odds with her own, Emma’s carefully organised weekend begins slipping beyond her control. But as they are forced to work together, both begin to discover that their first impressions may have been shaped more by assumption than truth.

Coming 5th November 2026

Forthaven Bay harbour at sunset with a vintage typewriter overlooking the sea
Snow-covered village scene with a house labeled 'Holly House Post Office,' illuminated windows, a red mailbox, a bicycle, and ducks near a pond at dusk or early evening.

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Tides & Typewriters

A Forthaven Bay Novel

Some stories arrive quietly. And some, once they begin, change everything.

Bea Whitmore likes her life exactly as it is. The library in the converted boathouse, the familiar rhythm of the village, the green outside her window and the harbour just beyond it—all of it is known, steady and carefully hers.

Then there is the man in the fisherman’s jumper.

Heath Edison has been quietly appearing in the library for weeks, borrowing books, lingering just long enough to unsettle her and somehow noticing the parts of Bea she has spent years learning not to offer too freely. He is only meant to be passing through Forthaven Bay. Bea has no intention of letting a near-stranger disturb the life she fought to feel comfortable in again.

But Forthaven has a way of drawing people in.

As an old village pub faces an uncertain future and the town begins to rally around the places it cannot bear to lose, Bea finds herself pulled closer to Heath, to the community she loves and to the possibility that safety and standing still are not always the same thing.

Slow burn · Mysterious newcomer · Bookish heroine · Coastal village

Coming Spring 2027