THE MAPLE PEAK TRILOGY

Three Books. Three Couples. One Mountain Town That Won’t Let Go.

Maple Peak, Colorado is the kind of town that almost gave up on itself and decided not to.

The ski resort boomed in the 90s and busted in the 2000s. What’s left is stubborn, genuine, and quietly beautiful — and the three women who grew up here are about to find out that leaving was the easy part.

Book 1 — Where the Pines Remember Callie & Noah | Friends-to-Lovers, Forced Proximity, Inheritance Plot

She inherited a crumbling inn. He’s been running it for three years. Neither of them expected the hardest part to be pretending they were only friends.

Callie Marsh came back to Maple Peak expecting a quick trip — sign some papers, settle some accounts. Instead she found a fourteen-room inn three months from insolvency, a structural repair list that would make a contractor weep, and her best friend of twenty-two years making coffee in the kitchen like he belonged there. Because he does.

The will says she can’t sell for a year. One summer to save it or shut it down. Late nights over the books. A leaky roof that puts them in the same apartment. And a decade of not saying the thing they’ve both been not saying.

Some things are easier to fix than others. The inn was the easy part.

Book 2 — The Long Way Back Wren & Declan | Second-Chance Romance, Grumpy-Sunshine, Homecoming

She spent ten years running from a boy who never chased her. Now she’s back, he’s still here, and running isn’t as easy as it used to be.

Wren Calloway left Maple Peak at eighteen because of a moment that didn’t happen with Declan Reid — a door she closed before she was sure she meant to. She’s been moving ever since, sending postcards with no return address, as if velocity is the same as living.

Now she’s home. Broke, out of options, and sleeping in her sister’s old bedroom. And the boy she never properly said goodbye to? He came back a year ago. He’s been here the whole time she wasn’t.

Some distances can’t be measured in miles.

Book 3 — Everything She Left Behind Sloane & Griffin | Hidden Vulnerability, Opposites Attract, Slow Burn

She came home to prove she didn’t need to. He’s been here for two years waiting to find out if that was true.

Sloane Calloway is the sister who had it together. The consultant in Denver with the sharp suits and the sharper boundaries. She helped from a distance — sent spreadsheets, found contractors, never visited. She had her reasons.

Then her carefully constructed life develops a crack. The partnership she kept not signing. The photo of Maple Peak on her bookshelf she couldn’t explain. The man who’s been quietly renovating his grandmother’s house on Birch Street — the same man she’s been pretending not to love for six years.

The hardest thing isn’t coming home. It’s admitting you never really left.

WHY THIS TRILOGY WILL SELL

→ Friends-to-lovers, second-chance, and slow burn are three of the highest-performing trope families in contemporary romance — this trilogy hits all three with fresh pairings

→ Sweet/clean romance is an underserved market with fiercely loyal readers who binge-buy series

→ Small-town mountain setting with strong community ensemble creates the cozy, immersive reading experience BookTok can’t stop recommending

→ Three-book trilogy with deliberate cross-book seeds, callbacks, and payoffs — built for rapid release, binge purchasing, and KU page reads

→ Every book is standalone with a complete HEA, but reading in order rewards with continuity that makes readers feel like insiders

→ Box set–ready from day one — the trilogy branding, release strategy, and read-through CTAs are already built in

TROPES ACROSS THE TRILOGY:

• Friends-to-Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Inheritance Plot
• Second-Chance Romance
• Grumpy-Sunshine
• Homecoming
• Hidden Vulnerability
• Opposites Attract
• Slow Burn
• Small-Town Romance
• Found Family
• Dual POV
• Grand Gesture

HEAT LEVEL: Sweet/Clean across all three books (Emotional intimacy focus, closed door)

Perfect for fans of: Sara Richardson, Jenny Hale, Courtney Walsh, Denise Hunter, and Abby Jimenez