Fall 2025 winner of the PenCraft Seasonal Book Award for Women’s Fiction!!!

It’s never too late to become your best self…After twenty years in an isolated Cape Breton commune, Charlie Tanner loses the man she thought was her soulmate—and her voice. Fleeing to a quiet Vermont cottage, she’s determined to heal, tend her garden, and start over.

When a widowed rabbi awakens feelings she thought were gone forever, Charlie must confront the truth of her choices—and chart a more confident future. Still, reverberations and rumors from her old life ripple back to her in her new home and hard as she tries, she just can’t escape the sinister truth of her last two decades. She tries to shut it out and build a new life, but Charlie’s past continues to haunt her, even to the point of threatening her life.

Finally, Charlie sees that no one will save her but herself. She must summon the courage to face the truth and speak up—be the strong woman she once wanted to be, long before she fell for lies and charismatic personalities. It’s not only her life on the line, now. If she doesn’t stand tall, she risks being silenced by the past and losing those she loves forever.

A captivating blend of romance, mystery, and emotional depth similar to Where the Crawdads Sing, I Love You, Charlie Tanner is for fans of Lucy Score and the Netflix hit Nobody Wants This. A courageous story of second chances, making peace with the past and accepting love however it shows up.

PRAISE FOR I LOVE YOU, CHARLIE TANNER..."I binged this book so fast!""A beautifully written women's fiction/mystery full of heart, twists, and what it's like to find love after loss."

"Wow, loved it!""Thank you for such an amazing and engrossing book!"

"A heartbreaking and rejuvenating novel about losing and finding yourself."

"I adored this book!"