Riverbend is a small town with a big heart where love develops in the most unusual places.
Jared Thorsen has just bought the home he escaped to each summer in the small town of Riverbend. The house, unfortunately, came with a renter installed above the garage. He doesn’t want the woman there—initially—but Honey Sweet's rental agreement was a stipulation of buying the house from his aunt. As the days go by, he can’t get the outrageously beautiful woman, who never leaves her place, to talk to him. His opinion and his heart shift. He wants her—especially since he's discovering Honey Sweet is not sweet.
Honey has grown accustomed to being inside. Her agoraphobia, exacerbated by her PTSD, has rules about contact with strangers—and her new landlord is very, exceptionally, often outrageously strange. A plumbing crisis finally forces contact, and she’s drawn to the man she’s been ogling as he paints his house and pushes her boundaries.
Within days, Jared is climbing a ladder to date Honey, and they’re both hopelessly smitten. Riverbend is sending spies with baked goods and homemade jam to find out if the black sheep summer visitor and the hometown hermit can find love and deal with the threat of her past.
Romancing Riverbend’s Rapunzel is a quirky contemporary romance novel with a happily ever after, no cheating, and a sexy-sweet heat level.
If you like small town nosy kindness, flirty banter, forced proximity, flawed characters, heroes who fall hard, and tatted heroines, you’ll love Romancing Riverbend’s Rapunzel. It also has skinny-dipping��in case you’re a fan of that. If you like romances that break your heart before healing it, moments that make you laugh loud enough to scare your pet, and, of course, a happily ever after, you’ll love Romancing Riverbend’s Rapunzel.
A note for readers: The heroine of this story has agoraphobia, which has worsened due to a traumatic experience of physical assault—an assault that she recounts briefly. As someone with agoraphobia and PTSD, the author wrote this with compassion and understanding, but anyone who has dealt with violence personally might find reading about her experience more than they can handle.
Genre: Romance
Jared Thorsen has just bought the home he escaped to each summer in the small town of Riverbend. The house, unfortunately, came with a renter installed above the garage. He doesn’t want the woman there—initially—but Honey Sweet's rental agreement was a stipulation of buying the house from his aunt. As the days go by, he can’t get the outrageously beautiful woman, who never leaves her place, to talk to him. His opinion and his heart shift. He wants her—especially since he's discovering Honey Sweet is not sweet.
Honey has grown accustomed to being inside. Her agoraphobia, exacerbated by her PTSD, has rules about contact with strangers—and her new landlord is very, exceptionally, often outrageously strange. A plumbing crisis finally forces contact, and she’s drawn to the man she’s been ogling as he paints his house and pushes her boundaries.
Within days, Jared is climbing a ladder to date Honey, and they’re both hopelessly smitten. Riverbend is sending spies with baked goods and homemade jam to find out if the black sheep summer visitor and the hometown hermit can find love and deal with the threat of her past.
Romancing Riverbend’s Rapunzel is a quirky contemporary romance novel with a happily ever after, no cheating, and a sexy-sweet heat level.
If you like small town nosy kindness, flirty banter, forced proximity, flawed characters, heroes who fall hard, and tatted heroines, you’ll love Romancing Riverbend’s Rapunzel. It also has skinny-dipping��in case you’re a fan of that. If you like romances that break your heart before healing it, moments that make you laugh loud enough to scare your pet, and, of course, a happily ever after, you’ll love Romancing Riverbend’s Rapunzel.
A note for readers: The heroine of this story has agoraphobia, which has worsened due to a traumatic experience of physical assault—an assault that she recounts briefly. As someone with agoraphobia and PTSD, the author wrote this with compassion and understanding, but anyone who has dealt with violence personally might find reading about her experience more than they can handle.
Genre: Romance
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