Part of Jeremy Marsh & Lexie Darnell
First published 2003
Jeremy Marsh lives the perfect New York media life. He writes for Scientific American debunking supernatural claims and just appeared on national television. When a letter arrives from Boone Creek, North Carolina, describing mysterious lights in a cemetery, Jeremy drives south to investigate what he assumes will be another hoax. In this small town, Lexie Darnell runs the local library that her late mother once managed. An accident made her an orphan, and a failed relationship that took her away from home taught her hard lessons. Now she stays close to her grandmother and the community that raised her. Jeremy plans to spend one week in rural North Carolina before returning to his city life. But when he meets Lexie, everything changes. Her quiet honesty and gentle accent captivate him in ways he never expected. Lexie finds herself drawn to this confident outsider, though she hesitates to trust again. Jeremy faces an impossible choice. He can return to his established career and Manhattan apartment, or he can abandon everything familiar for a woman and a place that have captured his heart. His decision will require the kind of faith he has spent his career dismantling.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, heartfelt, intimate, romantic, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, forced-proximity, opposites-attract, second-chance-at-love
Setting: New York, Boone Creek, North Carolina, Manhattan
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
465 pages · Paperback · Grand Central Publishing