He came to tear it down. She came to save it.

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The series’ front door. Meet Juniper Crossing the summer before Book 1.
Enemies-to-lovers, done right. A preservation architect, the engineer sent to condemn her favorite building, and a matchmaker who’s confidently wrong.

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Written for a very specific kind of reader.

You want to fall for the town as hard as the couple — somewhere you’d genuinely move if the winters were shorter.
You’ve been burned by a book that promised sweet and then wasn’t. You want the door to actually stay closed.
You’d rather a happily-ever-after you can see coming a mile off — and enjoy every step of anyway.

Hi, I’m Elizabeth. Pull up a chair.

I write the kind of small towns you’d move to if the winters weren’t quite so long — the ones where everyone knows your business, half of them are trying to feed you, and the man next door is infuriating right up until, somehow, he isn’t.

My books are sweet and closed-door, which is a polite way of saying the tension is all still there; I just have the good manners to shut the door before things get interesting. On this side of it you’ll find grumpy-sunshine banter, found family, and a happily-ever-after you can enjoy every step of anyway.

There’s coffee on, and it’s scalding.

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