The Secret Heir of Willow Creek Books
A Mountain Town Romance

About this book:

When a polished New York lawyer walks into Willow Creek Books and tells Clara Evans she's the sole heir to a $120 million Sterling fortune, her quiet life among dusty paperbacks and mountain mist shatters. Her mother, Mary, wasn't a tired waitress—she was Margaret Sterling, who fled a Greenwich mansion twenty-five years ago with nothing but a compass pendant and a promise to give her daughter a real life. Now Clara's grandfather is dead, his vindictive relatives are circling, and a probate hearing in Manhattan looms on Monday. The only anchor she has is Ben Walker: steady, rooted, and utterly hers—if she stays.

But the Sterling legacy comes with more than money. It carries her mother's final letter (*"I ran so you could be real. But if you have to go back, remember where North is"*), a diamond-set compass that matches her own, and the crushing weight of clinics and schools that will close if she walks away. As autumn turns to frost in the Blue Ridge, Clara must choose between the man who knows every trail on Willow Ridge and the birthright that could destroy everything she loves—or save the pieces of a family she never knew she had.

*Perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan and Jenny Colgan, The Secret Heir of Willow Creek Books is a sweeping, heart-wrenching romance about the lies that protect us, the truths that set us free, and the courage it takes to write your own next chapter.*