A fresh start. A legendary collection. One old house hiding a story nobody in Keepsake is ready to hear.
For more than twenty years, Maren Dunbar was the woman behind the estate-sale business everyone associated with her husband. She priced the antiques, handled the families, sorted the closets, and knew which forgotten things were worth a second look.
Now the marriage is over, the business is hers, and at forty-nine, Maren is finally putting a name of her own on the sign.
She just needs one big sale to prove she can do this without anybody standing in front of her.
The Hewitt estate could change everything.
Walt Hewitt was a Keepsake legend, and his prized collection is headed for the biggest auction of the season. Sawyer Foxworth, third-generation auctioneer and Maren’s longtime professional rival, has the family name, the crowded auction room, and a talent for making people pay attention.
Maren has always preferred the work nobody notices.
But as she clears the Hewitt house, she begins finding things that don’t quite fit the story everyone has believed for years.
With the auction approaching, a family determined to protect its past, and Sawyer suddenly spending far more time beside her than Maren expected, staying quietly in the background may no longer be an option.
A warm Southern women’s fiction story about starting over at midlife, finding your place in a small-town community, uncovering the stories old things leave behind, and discovering that being seen might not be as frightening as disappearing.
• Midlife reinvention after divorce
• Professional rivals to romance
• Woman-owned estate-sale business
• Small-town antiques community
• Hidden history in an old family home
• Blue Ridge foothills setting
• Slow-burn Just Kisses romance
Heat Level: Just Kisses Tone: Warm, Southern, hopeful Series Type: Interconnected standalones Ending: Hopeful POV: Third Person Content Notes: Clean romance, no explicit content.
Perfect for fans of Mary Alice Monroe, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and Viola Shipman.
Pull up a chair, pour the sweet tea, and come see what Keepsake has been holding onto.
Genre: General Fiction
For more than twenty years, Maren Dunbar was the woman behind the estate-sale business everyone associated with her husband. She priced the antiques, handled the families, sorted the closets, and knew which forgotten things were worth a second look.
Now the marriage is over, the business is hers, and at forty-nine, Maren is finally putting a name of her own on the sign.
She just needs one big sale to prove she can do this without anybody standing in front of her.
The Hewitt estate could change everything.
Walt Hewitt was a Keepsake legend, and his prized collection is headed for the biggest auction of the season. Sawyer Foxworth, third-generation auctioneer and Maren’s longtime professional rival, has the family name, the crowded auction room, and a talent for making people pay attention.
Maren has always preferred the work nobody notices.
But as she clears the Hewitt house, she begins finding things that don’t quite fit the story everyone has believed for years.
With the auction approaching, a family determined to protect its past, and Sawyer suddenly spending far more time beside her than Maren expected, staying quietly in the background may no longer be an option.
A warm Southern women’s fiction story about starting over at midlife, finding your place in a small-town community, uncovering the stories old things leave behind, and discovering that being seen might not be as frightening as disappearing.
• Midlife reinvention after divorce
• Professional rivals to romance
• Woman-owned estate-sale business
• Small-town antiques community
• Hidden history in an old family home
• Blue Ridge foothills setting
• Slow-burn Just Kisses romance
Heat Level: Just Kisses Tone: Warm, Southern, hopeful Series Type: Interconnected standalones Ending: Hopeful POV: Third Person Content Notes: Clean romance, no explicit content.
Perfect for fans of Mary Alice Monroe, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and Viola Shipman.
Pull up a chair, pour the sweet tea, and come see what Keepsake has been holding onto.
Genre: General Fiction