When Annie Falls in Love
(2027)A Peter Pan Inspired Small Town Romance
(The fifth book in the Enchanted Hollow series)
A novel by Monique Brasher
She believes in happy endings. He’s never believed he deserves one. Together, they’ll have to create their own.He left without a good enough reason. He came back without a good enough explanation. Now he runs the kind of bars where people don't ask questions, owns half the waterfront, and looks at me like I'm the only fixed point in a world he built entirely around moving.
I run a bookshop, manage a farm held together by magic and stubbornness, and apparently I'm next in line — the Jackson siblings are falling like dominoes, and the enchantment running through our soil has started making its opinions very clear. I sell love stories to people brave enough to believe in them. I just didn't expect to be the next one written into one.
I know the difference between a man who leaves by nature and a man who left by mistake. I let Peter go for exactly that reason.
I'm still waiting to find out which one Jax was.
Jax Blackwell used to be all wild edges and borrowed time. Now he's roots and empire and a reputation nobody questions. What he hasn't done is tell me why he came back.
He's been carrying a thimble in his pocket for eleven years and showing up at the edges of my life for six — food at the door, things fixed before I knew they were broken, zero explanation. I know the difference between a man who performs dangerous and a man who learned to protect himself with it.
When the truth finally cracks us open, it won't be pretty. It won't be the kind of love story I sell between these shelves.
But maybe that's the point. Maybe the best ones never are.
When Annie Falls in Love is a Peter Pan/Wuthering Heights inspired closed door/no spice modern romance that's inspired by "Hook" and "Wendy". This is good girl x ‘bad reputation’ MMC, he falls first, slow burn, opposites attract, tattooed bar owner, small town romance.
Enchanted Hollow reading order:
I run a bookshop, manage a farm held together by magic and stubbornness, and apparently I'm next in line — the Jackson siblings are falling like dominoes, and the enchantment running through our soil has started making its opinions very clear. I sell love stories to people brave enough to believe in them. I just didn't expect to be the next one written into one.
I know the difference between a man who leaves by nature and a man who left by mistake. I let Peter go for exactly that reason.
I'm still waiting to find out which one Jax was.
Jax Blackwell used to be all wild edges and borrowed time. Now he's roots and empire and a reputation nobody questions. What he hasn't done is tell me why he came back.
He's been carrying a thimble in his pocket for eleven years and showing up at the edges of my life for six — food at the door, things fixed before I knew they were broken, zero explanation. I know the difference between a man who performs dangerous and a man who learned to protect himself with it.
When the truth finally cracks us open, it won't be pretty. It won't be the kind of love story I sell between these shelves.
But maybe that's the point. Maybe the best ones never are.
When Annie Falls in Love is a Peter Pan/Wuthering Heights inspired closed door/no spice modern romance that's inspired by "Hook" and "Wendy". This is good girl x ‘bad reputation’ MMC, he falls first, slow burn, opposites attract, tattooed bar owner, small town romance.
Enchanted Hollow reading order:
- Sweet Nothing (prequel)
Meet Me at Midnight
'Tis the Gingerbread Season
The Lucky One
When Annie Falls in Love
Genre: Fantasy
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