The Pumpkin Spice Inn

At the Ambrose House, autumn has always meant full rooms, glowing fires, and the spiced pumpkin pudding guests return for year after year. This season, everything is different.

Nell Ambrose has spent ten years keeping her family's New Hampshire inn running-and fourteen exhausting months insisting she can manage without help. But the boiler is failing, her mother's stroke has changed the rhythm of the house, and Nell's brother has given her until mid-November to find $190,000 for his share of the property.

Then Theo Calloway appears on the porch.

Once a celebrated chef, Theo disappeared from the restaurant world after walking out in the middle of service. Nineteen years ago, Nell's mother gave him a room when he had nowhere else to go. Now he's returned to repay a debt the only way he knows how: by cooking.

Nell agrees to let him stay for one season.

As autumn settles over Ambrose Falls, breakfasts become busy again, old traditions begin to return, and Nell discovers that the man helping her save the inn may understand more about starting over than either of them is ready to admit.

But keeping a home is one thing.

Learning to let someone into it is another.

The Pumpkin Spice Inn is a warm, slow-burn small-town romance about family, fresh starts, unexpected love, and discovering that home was never meant to be carried alone.