The Autumn We Fell in Love

Name: The Autumn We Fell in Love
Author: Poppy Parkes

108 pages

Teacher’s Pet
How do you press the restart button on life when you’re single for the first time in two decades, courting menopause, and have more wrinkles and curves than you’d prefer?

I don’t know what most people do, but I enroll in a poetry course at the local university and go to class expecting to write some angsty poems. Instead, I find myself swooning over my impossibly handsome — and decades younger — teacher, locally famed poet Rowan Keating.

He sets my heart on fire in a way I haven’t felt in years. But he's got secrets and I've got wounds. Besides, can a young man like him really love an older woman like me?

His Flirty Fondue
She’s in it to win it. He’s in it to win her.

Brie takes her fondue to the cooking competition in the big city determined to win in order to pay for her grandmother’s medical care.

But she finds something in San Francisco that she does not expect, and it all has to do with her top competition rival and newfound arch-enemy, Colby Jackson — and the way she can’t stop getting butterflies in her belly every time her looks her way…

Falling Into You
Isla was always off limits. She was my best friend’s sister. After I saw how he reacted when her high school boyfriend knocked up and then abandoned her, I knew I couldn’t risk our friendship on the chance she might have feelings for me.

But now she’s back, come so far from where she was when she left Edgewood — and she’s more beautiful than ever.

And maybe I’m crazy, but I can’t shake the sense that my feelings toward her might not be one-sided. The only question is, will I take the chance now that I didn’t before?

Boy Toy
Laurent Orville didn’t expect to follow up his graduation from Yale with a career in exotic dancing. But both his family’s vineyard and his mother’s health are failing and he needs money to keep them all afloat — fast.

Shira Meade stands to make millions off Blush, the dating app she’s designed. But before they sign on, her investors want to see if the app can work for even the most awkward, introverted of cases — her.

She needs a fake boyfriend. He needs cash. It’s a practical, platonic match made in heaven.

Unless, of course, events conspire against them, threatening to make all their plans fall to pieces…

Boo Boy
Nobody swipes right on a guy who’s built his muscles shoveling grave dirt. Running the cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota, that’s been in my family for generations pays well and gives me the freedom to live life on my terms.

But I wouldn’t mind finding somebody to share that life with.

That’s why I sign up for the Find Your Boo speed dating event. I try not to get my hopes up. At least, not until Autumn walks in — red lips, legs for days, and curves that demand to be worshipped.

I’ll stop at nothing to make her mine.