A Hometown Kind of Love
Janine Rosche
NEW RELEASE!
First love. Second chance. And one Friday-night-lights kiss they can’t forget.
Rowan Wilkes was eighteen the last time Lucas Hemingway kissed her at the fifty-yard line of Maple Lake High School. The next day, she drove out of town with a guitar in the back seat and a graduation tassel swinging from the rearview mirror, swearing she’d never look back.
She’s spent twelve years in Nashville keeping that promise.
Now she’s the country music star with a hit song the whole world thinks is about a fictional boy. He’s not fictional. And neither are her quiet, sleepless nights.
Lucas Hemingway is the boy who stayed.
High school football coach. Funeral home son. Quietly pouring every last dollar he has into the Maple Lake Integrative Counseling Center for Adolescents—because the kids in his town deserve a place where someone says they aren’t too broken, too small, too easily forgotten.
He’s the steady, faith-rooted, mustard-seed-and-shoulder-pads kind of man who shows up for everyone.
And waits for nobody.
Especially not the girl who broke his heart at eighteen and rode out of town to chase the spotlight.
Then Rowan’s sister calls.
Jenna Ludington has beaten cancer three times now, with more grace than Maple Lake knows what to do with—and the town has named a scholarship in her honor. The ceremony is at the homecoming football game in three weeks. Rowan is asked to be there. To sing. To stand in the lights of the field where she once kissed a boy who told her she could go anywhere—and meant it.
Three weeks at home. One Lucas Hemingway with a glow-up the rumors didn’t prepare her for. One brand-new song nobody knows is about him yet. And a quietly persistent question—the one Rowan hasn’t had the courage to face since the day she packed her car:
What if home was never the thing she had to leave behind?
Tropes you’ll love:
First love / second chance romance
Country music star × hometown football coach
The girl who left × the boy who stayed
Friday-night-lights
Coming-home
Cozy autumn small-town faith-forward romance
The Road before Us
Janine Rosche
How far would you go to fix the mistakes you’ve made and regain the trust you lost? For Jade Jessup, the answer is 2,448 miles.
Once one of Chicago’s significant financial advisors, Jade lost her credibility when her fiancé (and coworker) stole millions of dollars from their clients in a Ponzi scheme. Now she’s agreed to help one of them–an aging 1960s Hollywood starlet named Berenice “Benny” Alderidge–seek financial restoration.
Jade sets off along Route 66 with Benny and her handsome adult foster son, Bridger, who is filming a documentary retracing the 1956 trip that started the love story between Benny and her recently deceased husband, Paul. Listening to Benny recount her story draws Jade into memories of her own darker association with Route 66, when she was kidnapped as a child by a man the media labeled a monster–but she remembers only as daddy.
Together, all three of these pilgrims will learn about family, forgiveness, and what it means to live free of the past. But not before Jade faces a second staggering betrayal that changes everything.
With Every Memory
Janine Rosche
Now Available
Is the Life She Can’t Remember One She’d Rather Forget?
One year after her family was in a tragic car accident that killed her teenage son, Lori Mendenhall returns home with a traumatic brain injury that has stolen the last eight years of memories from her. She is shocked to find that the life she was leading before the accident is unrecognizable. Her once-loving husband, Michael, is a distant workaholic she isn’t sure she can trust and her once-bubbly daughter, Avery, has spent the last year hidden away in her room.
For Avery, life stopped when she lost her twin. Now, if she wants to graduate high school, she’ll have to accept help from Xander Dixon, her brother’s best friend and the boy who relentlessly teased her for years. And if Lori wants to reconnect with her husband, she’ll have to grapple with information her brain is trying to keep secret. With every memory that returns, she can’t help but wonder if the life she can’t remember is one she’d rather forget.
Dreams in Toyland: A Mistletoe Square Novella
Janine Rosche
Toy shop owner Peyton Hammond knows a secret that could take down online giant Kiljoy Toyz and its owner, Joey Kiljoy. After the two adversaries spend Christmas Eve delivering gifts for charity, will the sun rise on newfound love, or will prejudice and lost dreams keep hope in the dark?
Mistletoe Menagerie
A Madison River Romance Prequel
Is one whimsical night enough to turn sorrow into a lifetime of hope?
On Christmas Eve, Sage Matthews races through the city zoo, desperate to honor the tradition she shared with her deceased mother. Yet a simple train ride beneath twinkling lights isn’t enough to quell the ache in her heart for the kind of Christmas she used to know. As she grieves, the last person she expects to see at the helm of the zoo festivities is her childhood crush.
Growing up, Luke Tennison never had any Christmas traditions, let alone a family to share them with. Now, as the assistant general director at the zoo and a widower, he counts down the days until the strings of lights dim and the tinsel disappears. When he approves a last-minute request for the zoo to host children from a foster home on Christmas morning, he asks Sage for help, in hopes it may bring a smile not only to the kids, but to the once-joyful girl he used to know.
Together Sage and Luke spend the midnight hours wandering through the sleeping zoo and preparing a magical and merry menagerie that the children will never forget. But with heavy snowfall threatening to close the roads, they’ll need a miracle, or all their efforts will be for naught.
This Wandering Heart
Madison River Romance Series #1
In the first entry in the Madison River Romance series, Keira Knudsen gets the traveling opportunity of a lifetime, but when she reunites with her first love, Robbie, she learns that even a wandering heart needs a home….
Wildflower Road
Madison River Romance Series #2
A young widow is tempted to love again after her heartbreaking loss in this new Madison River Romance.
Glory Falls
Madison River Romance Series #3
Two people scarred by past trauma have a chance to write a new chapter in their lives, overcome loss, and find love in the third entry in the Madison River Romance series.
Aspen Crossroads
Whisper Canyon Romance Series #1
To protect those most vulnerable, Haven Haviland must trust her heart–and her regrets–to a mysterious newcomer in this moving contemporary romance.
Love’s Pure Light
A Christmas Novella Collection
Deborah Raney, Susanne Dietze, Shannon McNear, Janine Rosche
Be transported to unique time periods as you follow a treasured family nativity set through four generations of the Shepherd family.
