The Story Between Us: A second-chance small-town romance about the girl next door, the reclusive bestseller, and the almost-kiss they never got to ... Maple Lake Collection | Falling for Flannel)

Best friend’s older brother. The almost-kiss summer. And one bestselling manuscript that’s years overdue. Livvie Fox has spent six years being too nice for New York publishing — bringing cupcakes to the man who stole her promotion, watching senior agents take credit for the books she fought for, smiling while the bestseller list ticks past her name and lands on someone else’s. Then her agency drops the bomb: bestselling reclusive author Ian Rivers is two years past deadline. The contract is about to die. The agency is about to take a hit it can’t afford. And if Livvie can’t fix it, she’s the one out the door. Someone like the woman who knew him before he was Ian Rivers. Before the bestsellers. Before the funeral. Before the night on a Maple Lake dock when she told him exactly how she felt and he just stood there, frozen, while every star in northern Minnesota watched her heart break. Not for the publisher. Not for the lawyer. Not for the woman who walked off his sister’s dock seven years ago and took half the world with her. But Livvie Fox is back in Maple Lake. With stolen soup. With his sister’s name in her mouth.