Autumn at Hazelby Farm

After two years in prison for a crime she didn't commit, Claire Bennett has nowhere left to go.

Betrayed by the boyfriend who hid drugs in her luggage without her knowledge, Claire returns home with no job, no money, and a reputation she can't escape. Only her aunt Jo-the one person who never doubted her-offers her somewhere to stay: a quiet cottage in the English countryside and the chance to begin again.

But peace doesn't come easily in a village where everyone knows everyone else's business.

When Claire reluctantly takes a job at struggling Hazelby Farm, she finds more than honest work. She finds Tom Whitlock, a man carrying wounds of his own and fighting to save the land his grandfather left him from developers circling like vultures-and from a village that's already half-written off his chances.

Together, Claire and Tom begin turning the farm around, one market stall at a time. And slowly, Claire starts to wonder whether Little Hazelby might become more than a place to hide. It might finally become home.

But just as she begins to believe she belongs, tragedy strikes-and the past she's fought so hard to leave behind comes crashing into the light. Suddenly, the whole village knows what Claire was accused of.

But they don't know the truth.

With everything she's rebuilt threatening to unravel, Claire has a choice: run, as she has before, or stand her ground, fight for the life she's made, and trust that the man beside her means it when he says he's not going anywhere.

A cosy autumn romance about second chances, the families we choose, and discovering that home isn't always where you're born-sometimes it's where someone finally believes in you

A second chance. A failing farm. A love worth staying for.