Cynthia Tennent Knihy

Welcome to Truhart, Michigan, population 1300 and dropping. Where everyone knows everyone else and garage sales are front page news. Not exactly where you'd expect to find the celebrity wedding of the year. As Maid of Honor, and the famous bride's big sister, Annie has to plan a wedding suitable for America's newest sweetheart reporter on The Morning Show. But what she didn't plan on was seeing Nick Conrad again. Her older brother's best friend who left Truhart for the big city, Nick just happens to be Annie's embarrassing childhood crush. He's also the Best Man.

Set against a backdrop of summer's fleeting beauty, this story explores how a single season can transform lives. The narrative follows characters as they navigate love, loss, and self-discovery, highlighting the impact of pivotal moments and choices. As relationships deepen and secrets are unveiled, the characters confront their pasts and embrace new beginnings. The themes of hope and resilience resonate throughout, capturing the essence of growth and the power of change that summer can bring.

ADULT & CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE. Big dreams can come true in a small town...While some young women would jump through hoops to claim ownership of a bookshop, free-spirited Gertrude "Trudy" Brown wants nothing to do with the rundown store her late Aunt Gertrude left her. Having suffered from dyslexia all her life, books aren't exactly her friends. With not much more than a collie dog who's scared of his own shadow, and a rusty but trusty '74 Beetle, Trudy arrives in the tiny town of Truhart, determined to sell off her cumbersome inheritance as quickly as possible... But Trudy is not the only stranger in town. Christopher "Kit" Darlington, a professor of American Studies at Cambridge, is searching for an elusive manuscript-and he secretly thinks Trudy's ramshackle bookshop might hold the key to its discovery