The Tuckaway Falls Series

The October Girl · The November Table · The December Kept

A complete three-book sweet small-town contemporary romance series — three books fully built, ready to publish back-to-back.

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Tuckaway Falls keeps its people.

It’s a former mill town on the eastern shore of Tuckaway Lake — population 2,400, Victorian storefronts on Main Street, a bookshop with a taxidermied fox in the window, a bakery where the owner knows what you need before you order it, and a library that has been a converted Victorian house since 1923 and runs like a minor cathedral. The town has a long memory and a specific identity. It is not unkind to outsiders. It does not pretend to be something it isn’t. And it has a habit, noted by everyone who’s ever lived there, of keeping the people who need keeping.

This series follows three women — a rare books dealer, a baker, and a librarian — through three consecutive seasons, three romances, and the particular kind of reckoning that happens when you have been very careful for a very long time.

Three connected books. One shared world. A recurring found family. And every word of the build already done — three outlines, three codexes, every chapter prompted, all the marketing written — so you can write the trilogy and release it across one Halloween-to-Christmas season while it’s exactly in season.

The Books

Book 1 — The October Girl (Halloween)

Carys Weston has run Hollow & Binding for eight years. She collects things people underestimate: first editions with cracked spines, a taxidermied fox named Reginald, the entire eccentric soul of a Vermont town that runs on nostalgia and stubbornness. Then Orion Bale arrives the week before Halloween with an appraisal clipboard and a contract to liquidate the estate that could gut the heart out of her town — and Carys has ten days to stop him.

Neither of them plans to feel anything about it.

Before the fighting turns into something neither of them planned — there’s the evening he stays two hours past closing because the book was better than expected, a leather notebook left in the reading chair with an entry about her that is more careful than any appraisal has a right to be, the town’s annual Lantern Walk where two hundred paper lanterns reflect off the lake and he stops walking and just looks, and the specific silence of two people who are very practiced at not needing anything finally running out of reasons to keep practicing.

Carys has spent eight years being the person who sees what everything is worth. Orion has spent his whole career reducing things to their resale value because it was easier than staying anywhere long enough to lose something. A Vermont October in a town that refuses to be efficiently processed is about to cost them both more than they budgeted for.

Enemies to lovers. The kind of book you start on a Friday afternoon and finish at midnight because Tuckaway Falls is exactly the place you needed to be.

Book 2 — The November Table (Thanksgiving)

Britta Haig has fed Tuckaway Falls for five years. She knows what everyone needs before they ask — Hamish’s coffee, Doris’s specific shortbread, exactly what to make when someone is sad or trying to pretend they’re fine. What she hasn’t done is ask for anything back.

Then Stellan Moor inherits his father’s Vermont inn and a Thanksgiving catering contract he apparently signed eighteen months ago — which means Britta is going to be in his kitchen every day until Thanksgiving.

Before either of them works out what’s happening — there’s the recipe box in the second kitchen drawer with his father’s handwriting on the cards, the apple cake with his son’s name written in the margin the year Stellan was born, the back room he hasn’t opened since May and the afternoon she just comes in and sits with him, and a Thanksgiving table for eight that looks exactly like what his father intended and nothing like what Stellan expected to want.

Britta has been giving everything she has and calling it generosity. Stellan has been managing his grief with a marine biologist’s patience for everything except his own life. A Vermont November in a kitchen that smells like his father’s recipes is about to cost them both more than they budgeted for.

Grumpy/sunshine. The kind of book you read under a blanket with something warm in your hands and then immediately want to call someone you’ve been meaning to call.

Book 3 — The December Kept (Christmas)

Emmeline Ware has run the Tuckaway Falls Public Library for four years and has been, for twenty years, the person who shows up for everyone else. She brings books to grieving people. She listens with her full attention. She keeps her own needs in a small, tidy box she rarely opens. She has been doing this with Phelan Crowe — Tuckaway Falls’s carpenter, Carys’s older brother, the man who shows up before you ask — for twenty years, and neither of them has said the thing that would change it.

Then the Candlelight Market committee chair breaks her ankle three weeks before Christmas and the job falls to Emmeline and Phelan. Daily contact. A deadline. No careful distance left.

Before either of them works out what to do about twenty years — there’s the founding story of the market (a couple who waited fifteen years and then finally didn’t), the shelf above his workshop workbench where he has kept every book she ever recommended to him for fifteen years all facing out in chronological order, the book she has been meaning to give him for three weeks and keeps not putting in the delivery basket, and the specific quality of a man who has been patient for nineteen years running out of reasons to stay that way.

Emmeline has spent twenty years being the person who takes care of everything. Phelan has spent nineteen years showing up without pressing. A Vermont December in a town that keeps its people is the last year of both.

Second chance. Twenty years in the making. The kind of book you finish and immediately want to give to someone you lov

Why this series sells

• A year-round category home. Romance › Small Town & Rural runs hot — strong sales-to-comp and an estimated 85–110 daily sales per top-20 title — giving the series sustained discoverability between seasonal spikes.
• Three seasonal windows, every year. Halloween, Thanksgiving (the most underserved major-holiday window in romance), and Christmas (the highest-volume seasonal category) mean three promotional entry points annually — a series that’s always in season somewhere.
• Connected standalones win twice. Each book is independently findable on distinct trope searches while the shared world drives read-through; a reader who finds any one book is highly likely to buy the other two.
• Completion creates a binge event. With all three live in December — the peak gifting month — you can position it as “binge the whole series this winter,” and readers who discover it complete tend to buy all three at once.
• Maximum keyword surface area. The trilogy covers three of the highest-search contemporary-romance tropes — enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine, and long-pining hero / second chance — across the broadest possible discovery paths.
• The box set compounds it. At $9.99 for the collection vs. $14.97 for three singles, the box set is the highest-margin gifting product in the December window — and your most-recommended one.

Tropes by book

The October Girl — Enemies to Lovers · Forced Proximity · Town vs. Outsider · Books as Love Language · Hidden-Depth Hero · Grumpy/Sunshine (Reversed) · Small-Town Found Family

The November Table — Grumpy/Sunshine · Forced Proximity · Returning Hero · Found-Family Thanksgiving · One Shared Kitchen · Sunshine Who Has Depths · Reluctant Innkeeper

The December Kept — Second-Chance Romance · Best Friend’s Brother · Long-Pining Hero · Slow-Burn Payoff · Twenty Years in the Making · Small-Town Found Family · Christmas Setting

Heat level — all three books: Open Door / Medium Spice

Perfect for fans of: Erin Sterling, Emily Henry, Sally Thorne, Josie Silver, and Jenny Colgan