Laurel Blount 
Hometown Hope 

He’ll do anything for his daughter…Even fight to regain an old classmate’s broken trust.In the three years since her mother’s death, widower Hoyt Bradley’s daughter, Jess, hasn’t spoken-until she suddenly begs him to save her favorite bookstore from closing. Hoyt is desperate to hear his daughter’s voice again, but he and the bookstore’s pretty owner, Anna Delaney, share a less-than-friendly past. Working together is complicated enough…but can they avoid falling in love?