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Can't Help Falling

by Courtney Walsh

A bookshop owner, a firefighter, and old feelings

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A bookshop owner, a firefighter, and old feelings

Set in Harvest Hollow, the story brings together a bookshop owner who hosts a relationship-advice podcast and Owen Larrabee, her best friend’s older brother and a firefighter. Years after she confessed her love for him at his wedding, Owen returns and rescues her from a house fire, bringing their shared past back into view. Their reunion puts her romance-informed advice alongside Owen’s skepticism about relationships, while questions about his return and what he remembers link the present to the friendship they once kept secret. The setup combines a second-chance romance with the familiar complications of an off-limits crush and feelings that have not quite faded.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Romance readers interested in second-chance feelings and an off-limits love interest.
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving firefighters and small-town returns.
  • Readers drawn to bookshops, romance novels, and relationship-advice podcasts.

Themes

Old feelings and second chancesFriendship and romantic boundariesRomance and skepticism about relationshipsAdvice versus personal experience

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Book overview

Sometime all it takes to start a fire is a single match. . .

 

Owen Larrabee is not my soulmate.

He wasn't when I confessed my love to him on his wedding day, and he isn't now. I should probably say that I wasn't the bride when that happened. I don't have the best timing.

 

He's got a temper, he's moody, and he has a history of being misunderstood and making big mistakes. I, on the other hand, make pumpkin cupcakes, spend my Friday nights curled up with a beloved romance novel and long to be kissed in the rain.

 

Owen is my best friend's older, off-limits brother and the only boy I ever thought I loved. Which is laughable because he only ever saw me as his kid sister's dorky friend.

But that was a long time ago. And I'm over him.

 

Mostly.

 

Until he comes back to Harvest Hollow like some kind of hero, showing up just in time to pull me out of my burning house and make me feel all the things I told myself I'd never feel again.

 

Darn him and that brooding, intense way he looks at me.

 

But I have questions. Why is Owen back? And does he remember our secret friendship or the day I've spent the last eight years trying to forget?

 

I know better than to get hung up on Owen again. Especially now, when he's sworn off relationships and thinks romance is a farce. And I'm something of an expert-at least to the people who listen to my podcast, The Hopeful Romantic.

 

Never mind that nobody would guess their local bookshop owner is the one doling out popular weekly relationship advice.

 

Never mind that I'm basing all that advice on the hundreds, (thousands?) of romance novels I've read over the years and not on personal experience.

 

And especially never mind that Owen is making me question everything I believe about all of it.

 

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