Running Into The Grump

In the small town of Maple Lane Falls, the fall season is in full swing. This picturesque town is home to your next favorite Grumps and the women who manage to make them smile. You can expect pumpkins, apple cider and apple cider donuts, walks through corn mazes, and falling leaves as the wind blows, plus so much more in this author shared universe series. Welcome to Maple Lane Falls!

Being the small-town librarian wasn’t as easy as people thought. Knowing everyone—and everyone knowing everyone else’s business—made it nearly impossible to keep a straight face when patrons wandered through the doors.
Then there were the kids. There was always a parade of them, determined to interrupt whatever I was doing.
Jackson was one of the worst. Except that was also ten years ago.
These days, he still managed to bug me, only now he’d grown into a ridiculously handsome man with a permanent chip on his shoulder.
Not that I blamed him. His ex-fiancée had cleaned out his bank account, walked away without looking back, and left him with no choice but to move home. If he’d lost his faith in women, I couldn’t exactly fault him.
Although, I probably shouldn’t have known that.
Unfortunately, everyone in town treated the library like the unofficial gossip headquarters, and I was the unwilling receptionist. Jackson’s mother was one of my most reliable sources.
After the first run in at the Fall Fest where I spilled hot cocoa on him, then we both got hopelessly lost in the corn maze, I vowed to stop running into the grump.
Fate, though, was playing a different game.