Maple Falls: Book 5
Publication Date: August 18, 2026
Their story begins as the leaves fall… 🎃 🍂 🎃 🍂
A high-flying bookaholic with big dreams who can’t stick around. A protective, sexy single dad whose life is in Maple Falls. Right person, wrong timing… or the best plot twist ever? An utterly addictive autumn romance. Gilmore Girls + spice = 🔥
Robyn’s totally committed to her job teaching literature at Yale. Her recent heartbreak led her to escape to a small-town bookstore. But it’s only temporary, no matter how much she obsesses over its cozy nook for indulging in books and pumpkin pie… Or Tyler, its dark-haired, smouldering-eyed bookseller with an adorable little girl. NOTHING could keep her from going back to her dream career… right?
Tyler can’t help catching feelings for the cute professor hiding behind big glasses and a secretly steamy book. But watching his daughter Emma, with her pigtails and a serious llama obsession, grow attached to Robyn is a problem he didn’t see coming. Because Robyn is gorgeous, ambitious… and absolutely leaving town. Tyler can’t risk Emma’s heart getting broken, never mind his own…
But the sparks between them become impossible to resist. With Robyn’s return to Yale getting closer and Tyler falling more for her every day, can they walk away from their biggest love story yet?
Curl up with a blanket and your favourite fall drink and dive into this addictive small-town romance featuring a hot single dad, a big dash of spice, a found-family theme, and the unbeatable comfort of a cozy old bookstore. Perfect for fans of Laurie Gilmore, Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, Gilmore Girls, and all things autumn.
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Tropes:
Fall/Autumn
Bookish
Single Dad
Steamy + cozy
Small-town romance
Workplace romance
Friends to lovers
Spicy
The Pumpkin Pie Book Nook by Harper Graham is the fifth book in the Maple Falls series and the second one I’ve read. The autumnal cover drew me in with its beauty and vibrancy.
It was nice to return to the small town of Maple Falls and catch up with many of the characters we’ve met before. The story is told in alternating chapters from lead characters, Robyn and Tyler.
Tyler’s cute daughter, Emma, is a nice addition and adds another dimension to the story. Robyn is only in town temporarily to help a friend get her bookstore ready to sell when she moves overseas. She’s currently on sabbatical from Yale and plans to return to teaching, but will she? The bookstore is a nice gathering spot, and I loved the mystery of many of them searching for the missing installments of her great-grandmother’s hidden manuscript and the clues she left behind. The scavenger hunt was a nice touch, especially right before Halloween.
The descriptions are vivid and engaged all my senses. There are some steamy moments between the pages, in Robyn’s imagination and her posts on an indie fiction site that others don’t know she’s written, and definitely between Robyn and Tyler. There are a few surprises in this sometimes heartbreaking but always heartwarming story. The ending seemed rushed, but there was ultimately closure along with a few loose ends. And of course, the hint of a happily ever after.
The Pumpkin Pie Book Nook showcases small town living with camaraderie, beloved local businesses, wonderful people and the smell of autumn in the air. 
Harper Graham lives with her mischievous spaniel in a cozy small town in Connecticut. Her quirky neighbours may or may not have inspired the residents of her Maple Falls series. When she’s not hiking with her daughter, baking her grandmother’s recipes or reading in her favourite coffee shop, Harper can be found writing the sweet and spicy romance stories of her own dreams.
