Magnolia Point, SC aka Man of the Month Club Series by Andie Fenichel, Carolina Jax

JoyMaybe it’s weird that on the evening after my mom’s funeral, I’m in front of my computer typing an email to my pen pal. Okay, so I’m a grown woman with a pen pal. We got assigned to each other when we were in the third grade and his family was living overseas and my class had an arrangement with the American School. All of my friends wrote one or two letters, but Sabastian and I never stopped. Eventually, the handwritten notes became emails and text messages... moreJoyMaybe it’s weird that on the evening after my mom’s funeral, I’m in front of my computer typing an email to my pen pal. Okay, so I’m a grown woman with a pen pal. We got assigned to each other when we were in the third grade and his family was living overseas and my class had an arrangement with the American School. All of my friends wrote one or two letters, but Sabastian and I never stopped. Eventually, the handwritten notes became emails and text messages. Even though we’ve never met in person, we’re connected in a way no one else seems to understand.AidenI’ve spent my entire adult life comparing every woman I date to one I’ve never met in person. Joy is kind, smart, funny, and full of life. When she emailed to tell me her mother passed away, I regret that she waited until after the funeral to share that information. We’ve been writing long enough for me to know how devastated she is. Able to take my work anywhere, I pack up and drive from New Jersey to North Carolina. Seeing her for the first time as she stocks shelves at her bookstore, I can hardly breathe. Coming here may be the biggest mistake of my life or the smartest thing I’ve ever done. less

Twelve years. I thought I had forgotten the face of my first love, but over a decade later I would recognize those dark soulful eyes anywhere.Layton Michaels is no longer the teenage boy who asked before he kissed me. No, he’s all hulking man in flannel, with a dark beard and backward ball cap. Gone is the carefree smile, now it’s replaced by a deep scowl and I can’t help, but want to know why... moreTwelve years. I thought I had forgotten the face of my first love, but over a decade later I would recognize those dark soulful eyes anywhere.Layton Michaels is no longer the teenage boy who asked before he kissed me. No, he’s all hulking man in flannel, with a dark beard and backward ball cap. Gone is the carefree smile, now it’s replaced by a deep scowl and I can’t help, but want to know why.When his sweet grandma hires me to make her dream wedding dress I’m reluctant, if only because it would put me back in harm’s way- close proximity to the heartbreaker. The mischievous look in her eyes doesn’t help either.The suspicious feeling that I’m being set up grows stronger each time we “randomly” bump into each other. It’s confirmed the night we’re trapped in the wine cellar together.What I didn’t see coming was falling in love down there. After that night we’re inseparable. Every spare second we spend tangled together and I let myself imagine forever again.That fantasy disappears like smoke when the letter comes.It’s the chance of a lifetime, but we can’t both go…. less

Meet Nina Amore 📚💖She’s our quirky, introverted heroine who would rather sit quietly amongst the book stacks than risk falling in love. After a string of jilted first dates, immersing herself in love stories day and night has left her jaded to the idea of a HEA. The men she finds in books will never measure up to those in real life. So she’s shutting herself off from any new potential love, and ditching all her romance reads... moreMeet Nina Amore 📚💖She’s our quirky, introverted heroine who would rather sit quietly amongst the book stacks than risk falling in love. After a string of jilted first dates, immersing herself in love stories day and night has left her jaded to the idea of a HEA. The men she finds in books will never measure up to those in real life. So she’s shutting herself off from any new potential love, and ditching all her romance reads.When her best friend convinces her to move to Magnolia Point and take a job as the new librarian in town, Nina quickly learns the job is much more than stacking books. A Romance Readers Book Club is awaiting her direction and there is no hiding in the back row.In a town that loves love, Nina must find her passion for reading again and open herself to the opportunity that love will find her whether she wants it or not.Meet Jay Parker ⚓️🩵Jay is the ultimate sweetheart. He’s a local guy, having grown up in Magnolia Point, who began his own HVAC company out of high school. He’s since developed a huge presence as being the go to guy for everything anyone may need in town.Except a date.Jay is an avid undercover romance reader. His love for all things sweet and spicy has been a constant joke amongst his two closest guy friends, the only ones who know.They blame the reading of romance on why women see him and think he’s too nice. Too soft.But they don’t know the feelings he has brewing underneath, for the right woman. And finding the right one is going to unleash it.This cinnamon roll is about to turn up the heat with the new local librarian as they find passion between the sheets of a romance book they write! less