NEWEST RELEASE!
Veronica Mills read through the email from Barrsoren management. “Is this a joke?” No one answered since she was the only person still in the office at seven in the evening. Of course, she was still there, and alone because her co-workers all had families, or at least a social life. “I’m expected to spend several weeks leading up to Christmas in some dinky town in New England?” Roni, as she was known to her family and friends, marked the missive as unread and shut down her pc for the night. Pulling on the lighter weight fall jacket she had worn that morning, she headed out to the chilly Manhattan streets. “Dickens. The town is called Dickens? How quaint.” She shook her head and jogged down the flight of stairs to the subway platform and tried to forget the email.
When Jonathan Hawthorne got dumped on New Year’s Eve, he was also left alone in the small New England town he thought would be where he proposed to his girlfriend. After a few solo days in Dickens, he decided to trade in the bustling world of metro New York City for the bucolic life he found there. For nearly two years life was genuinely peaceful until his employer temporarily relocated staff from New York City. That’s when he met the attractive buzzsaw named Veronica Mills. And now the company owner had put the smack down on them. Get along, or you’re out.
From the time they meet, angry sparks fly between Roni and Jon as they lock themselves into unexplained competition. Will the magical pull of Dickens be strong enough to heal these two broken souls and see how much they have in common?
When Jonathan Hawthorne got dumped on New Year’s Eve, he was also left alone in the small New England town he thought would be where he proposed to his girlfriend. After a few solo days in Dickens, he decided to trade in the bustling world of metro New York City for the bucolic life he found there. For nearly two years life was genuinely peaceful until his employer temporarily relocated staff from New York City. That’s when he met the attractive buzzsaw named Veronica Mills. And now the company owner had put the smack down on them. Get along, or you’re out.
From the time they meet, angry sparks fly between Roni and Jon as they lock themselves into unexplained competition. Will the magical pull of Dickens be strong enough to heal these two broken souls and see how much they have in common?
Dane Rutger, a life-time Manhattanite, spent summers as a teenager in Dickens. Memories of those idyllic days propelled him to return to that special town for a stress- free holiday. After a soul-sucking, COVID lockdown, induced divorce and overwhelming professional volatility, Dane desperately needs a break and decides to try something he hasn’t done in years, riding lessons at Creekside Riding Academy.
Mari Lincoln, a Dickens home-town girl, left at eighteen to ride showjumpers for a living. After the heart-breaking death of her husband and the slow destruction of her career, she returns to take over the floundering Creekside Riding Academy. When she walks into the barn for the first time in many years, the first person she sees is her summer crush, Dane Rutger. Little does she know Dane had always had a soft spot for her.
Fighting the signs of their rekindled attraction, Mari and Dane team up to plan the first ever Christmas Derby to raise money for the Dickens Community Center. Success could be three-fold; the community center gets funds needed for after school programs, it might just save her family's stable and maybe, she'll even get a second chance at love.
Mari Lincoln, a Dickens home-town girl, left at eighteen to ride showjumpers for a living. After the heart-breaking death of her husband and the slow destruction of her career, she returns to take over the floundering Creekside Riding Academy. When she walks into the barn for the first time in many years, the first person she sees is her summer crush, Dane Rutger. Little does she know Dane had always had a soft spot for her.
Fighting the signs of their rekindled attraction, Mari and Dane team up to plan the first ever Christmas Derby to raise money for the Dickens Community Center. Success could be three-fold; the community center gets funds needed for after school programs, it might just save her family's stable and maybe, she'll even get a second chance at love.