Book description
"If you like Sweet Magnolias and Virgin River, you'll fall in love with Sweetbriar Cove!" Escape to Cape Cod with this feel-good contenporary romance!
Poppy Somerville believes in happily-ever-after. It's the reason her romance novels have won devoted readers all over the world - and why she's broken off her…
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1 author picked Meant to Be as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Meant to Be is the book that made me decide I wanted to write small town romance novels. Reading it somehow felt simultaneously like coming home and going on a beachside vacation.
When Poppy goes to her aunt’s cottage in Sweetbriar Cove, she’s seeking a solution to writer’s block, but instead she finds friendship, community, and love with the gruff contractor next door.
Cooper is that thing many romance readers (including me) seem to love: a big old grump with a marshmallow heart he’s trying to protect from the world around him.
While the romance between Poppy and Cooper is…
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