Brewhouse Book Club

  • Fake It Until It’s Real

    She's afraid she's too much. He's convinced he'll never be enough.

    Maplemoor was supposed to be Jess Harper's fresh start, a quiet place to rebuild after a future that never happened. Now she has a book club that feels like family, a coffee shop that knows her order, and a life that finally feels steady again.

    What she doesn't have is a date to her best friend's wedding. The one where her ex and his brand-new fiancée will be.

    Caleb Ward is the guy everyone counts on when it matters most—reliable, steady, the first one through the door. He did everything right last time, and still ended up the man who got left behind. These days, he's not looking for love. He's not looking for anything.

    Which is exactly why saying yes to Jess Harper feels safe. It's just a fake date. One wedding, and then back to real life.

    Until it isn't.

    One weekend together. One very convincing performance. And suddenly the line between pretending and real is a lot thinner than either of them thought.

    The hard part is knowing which side of that line they're on.

  • Fight It Until We Can’t

    The wrecking ball has arrived. And she isn't moving.

    He's a property analyst hired to find the cracks.
    She's the operations manager who will make sure he doesn't.

    Carli Porter runs The Lochwell like it's hers. The coffee shop is her living room, the book club her family, and the pub her Friday night. The building belongs to someone else, and that someone just sent his best friend to decide its fate.

    Alexander Grassi is smart, annoyingly hard to hate, and has the kind of forearms that make it very difficult to stay mad at him. (She's tried. It hasn't worked.) He was supposed to write a report and leave. He wasn't supposed to start showing up to trivia night. Or turning her coffee cup so the handle faces her. Or looking at her like she's the best thing in a building full of things worth saving.

    She says his report could ruin her life.
    He says she's not wrong.
    She says that makes him the last person she should want around.
    He says he's staying anyway.

    Because some legacies and people are worth fighting for.

  • Love Him But Didn’t Mean To

    She already had her forever. He wasn't part of the plan.

    Maggie O'Connor had a marriage most people only dream about. Then she lost her husband. Now she has a classroom full of kids who almost always listen, a book club that feels like family, and a coffee shop that knows her order by heart.

    Evan Asher spent twenty years playing professional baseball. Steady. Reliable. The kind of player teams counted on. Retirement brought him back to Pennsylvania. A kayaking trip to Maplemoor brought him to The Brewhouse, where a quiet Wednesday stop wasn't supposed to mean anything.

    Until it did.

    Maggie isn't looking for a second chance. Evan isn't sure he believes in coincidence.

    What they had was a long time ago, when they were different versions of themselves.

    But the more time they spend together, the harder it is to pretend this is just two people catching up.

    Because the year Maggie lost the love of her life, Evan retired from his.

    And she's not sure she can risk building something new when she knows exactly how easily it can end

  • Hate Him But Not Really

    Vee Callahan built her life around The Brewhouse. Her coffee shop, her town, her people... all inside a building owned by a man she's never met.

    Until the morning he shows up at her counter.

    Graeme Lochwell is a Wall Street investment banker who closes nine-figure deals before lunch. Maplemoor was never part of the plan. Neither was the woman running the coffee shop inside his grandfather's building… a woman with strong opinions about absentee landlords and zero interest in keeping them to herself.

    He was supposed to solve a problem and leave. He wasn't supposed to care what she thought of him. And he definitely wasn't supposed to stay.

    She spent five years hating a name on a lease. He spent four weeks realizing his family legacy isn’t the only thing in this town worth keeping. Now Graeme’s time is up and leaving is the only deal he can’t figure out how to close.