Lily Harper has spent her whole life leaving before anyone gets too attached.

As a foster-care survivor turned event planner, she’s built a career on fresh starts, short stays, and never calling anywhere home. So, when she arrives in Willowbrook, Ohio in the summer of 1998 to save the town’s struggling county fair, she already knows the plan:

Fix the mess. Finish the job. Leave.

Then she meets Ethan Calloway.

Gruff, guarded, and fiercely loyal to his late father’s bookstore, Ethan wants nothing to do with Lily’s big-city ideas—or the way she somehow slips past every wall he’s built around himself. But beneath the constant bickering and undeniable chemistry, Willowbrook starts to become something dangerous for them both: home.

And for the first time in her life, Lily isn’t sure she wants to run.

The only problem?
Lily never stays.
And Ethan never lets himself fall.

Perfect for readers who love small-town romance, slow-burn tension, found family, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, and 90s nostalgia, Willowbrook Wishes is a swoony closed-door romance filled with summer magic, bookstore charm, and all the feelings of coming home.