Simply Meant to Be Box Set, Books 1-2, Heart of the Cottage Court Motel & The Moment I Saw You. Volume 1 Boxset: Sweet & Slightly Steamy Love Stories.

by Jacie Middlemann

Genres: Romance; Contemporary Romance; Later in Life Romance; Small-town Romance; Friends to lovers; Second Chance Romance; summer beach read; mystery; steamy romance; romance boxset; steamy audiobook; single mom romance; police romance; Series box set

Synopsis

Box Set that includes two stories from the Simply Meant to Be series...Heart of the Cottage Court Motel and The Moment I Saw You. Connor and Rebecca have known each other since they were children...Lucas and Emma have just met...but sometimes love finds you when least expected and is Simply Meant to Be.

Heart of the Cottage Court Motel

Rebecca has one love in her life…her young five-year-old son. Unexpectedly, after a number of sudden and unexpected changes to her well thought out plans, the single mother finds herself and her son living with her Great-Aunt Lettie in her big historic home in the small-town of Spring Falls. It isn’t long before Rebecca bumps into the grown up version of the boy who was both the bane of her childhood and a best friend she could always count on.

Sheriff Connor Patterson didn’t expect to see Rebecca again…at least not until he heard that she was moving to Spring Falls. It wasn’t as if they were enemies but the last time they’d seen each other it hadn’t ended well. He definitely didn’t expect the tidal wave of emotions that hit him sideways when he first saw her again…but knew from that first moment that everything in his life was about to change.

Lettie McDonough dearly grieved the loss of her sister and hated living alone in their big old house. She was thrilled when Rebecca, her son, and his cat came to live with her. Then only days after their arrival, Rebecca asked about her sister’s unexpected purchase of the Cottage Court Motel down the street.

The explanation was simple but Lettie knew there were other more complicated reasons behind her sister’s need to bring the property back into the McDonough family. Before her death, Cassie strongly believed that the Cottage Court Motel was at the heart of a long-hidden family secret that until recently neither she or her sister knew existed.

Perhaps it was time to find out if she was right.

The Moment I Saw You

Emma just wants the quiet and peace she needs to do her work. She believed her new home was perfect and exactly suited for what she needed…then soon found out it was far from perfect and not at all what she expected.

Lucas Patterson took pride in his reputation for being calm under pressure and prepared for anything and everything that came his way. It had served him well during his years in law enforcement and continued to when he left the department to start his own security business.

But he wasn’t prepared for Emma. And within only moments after meeting her…he knew that his life and all his current plans were about to change.

It didn’t take him long to convince her that Spring Falls was the perfect place to live in contrast to her current home. Luckily, making historical dolls wasn’t Emma’s only small business venture. Her growing genealogical research enterprise and her love of history was exactly what his brother and new sister-in-law were looking for. The mystery involving both their families tugged on Emma’s soft heart.

And before long…they were both on their way to Spring Falls.

Emma fell in love with the small town and all its charming historical homes. From the moment she walked through Lucas’s front door it felt like home. And the backyard was perfect for the garden of lushly blooming flowers that she’d never had the chance to indulge before.

But more than anything else…she fell for the man who lived there and couldn’t imagine life without him almost from the first moment she saw him.

If you enjoy clean emotional and slightly steamy women’s romantic fiction, heroes and heroines who are strong, kind and compassionate, stories that are filled with hope and laughter, and a love story that brings two people together just as they were meant to be...the Simply Meant to Be series may be the series for you.

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Release date: November 20, 2023

Print pages: 230