Road Tripping Across the USA Mini Reading Challenge: Vermont

Love, loss, heartbreak: it’s every great song ever.

One secluded winter home in the snowy woods of Vermont. Two best friends pretending to be married. One gorgeous country star trying to break free from the world’s expectations. One hit album to write. What could possibly go wrong? A secret crush, forced proximity, friends to lovers, slow burn romance.

A spicy age gap romance where one night of passion could lead to a lifetime of love

Elle Robinson’s world is literally swept away when a raging flood sends her car careening toward certain doom, only to be rescued by Angela Lane – a spirited, self-reliant, and unexpected savior who pulls Elle back from the edge of calamity.

Will this city girl bring more destruction than the flood? Or could she be the key to saving the whole town?

Christmas at Rainbow Falls is a sweet small town romance written in the style of your favorite holiday movies, so grab a cup of cocoa and snuggle in for some yuletide cheer!

When an unexpected crisis forces two women to team up to bring the town’s Christmas on Main Street festival back to life, they just might discover there’s more to the other woman than meets the eye. Could it be they’re both exactly where they need to be after all?

Will the view from the top be worth the climb, or will they both have farther to fall?

When a driven businesswoman from Boston collides with a free-spirited artist on a Vermont mountainside, they share a memorable—and steamy—night, but life soon pits them against each other over the fate of a family business.

What happens when you fall in love with a dead person?

Jordan Lewis is a research scientist in the field of spinal cord injuries. Maggie Downs owns a ranch and runs an equine rehabilitation program for disabled kids. The problem is that Maggie died more than one hundred years before Jordan’s first encounter with her.

Would you willingly give up your future for the one you love?

All My Tomorrows is the story of Jordan Lewis, who willingly traveled back in time to save the life of Maggie Downs; the woman she fell in love with through reading her diaries. All My Tomorrows is the sequel to the award-winning novel, Yesterday Once More.

What has been unraveled can’t always be woven back together, but through trial and error, Ruth and Noah try to craft something new from the wreckage they found themselves in.

Ruth is completely fine: until she takes a bottle of Tylenol for a “headache.” When she wakes en-route to a psychiatric hospital, she can’t imagine a life worth living or connections worth having. Then Noah, a frequent-flyer in the hospital, takes a chance and reaches out. Can they build something new from the wreckage they found themselves in?

Burned-out chef Sy Travino never expected to wind up on a goat farm in rural Vermont, but that’s exactly where she lands after leaving the restaurant world to become a cheese maker.

It’s a great place to flex her muscles and make a name for herself, though. Too bad the house she bought is practically unlivable.

Maddie Barrow can’t believe anyone would be dumb enough to buy a house sight unseen, but she’s not about to turn down the job of renovating it, especially since her best friend just hired Sy to turn Grumpy Old Goat into the chèvre everyone is talking about. When the estimate on the house exceeds Sy’s budget, Maddie puts her to work.

Settle in for an opposites attract, renovation-to-remember from RITA® award finalist Aurora Rey.

After years of hustling from one adjunct gig to another, Kathleen Kenney has finally hit the big time. Forget tenure, she’s got a best-selling novel under her belt. That means leaving the campus grind for rural Vermont, fixing up the old farmhouse of her dreams, and writing romance fiction from the comfort and quiet of her new home. She doesn’t believe in the happily-ever-afters they promise, but really, who does?

Liz Elliott is fast approaching forty as a successful business woman and single mother to nineteen-year-old daughter, Becca.

Becca is a freshman at Ashton, Vermont’s Chilton College. She is also a rising star for the Lady Stingers basketball team, just as her mother had been twenty-years-ago. But in those early days, a dirty little secret had collapsed Liz’s world – a secret she has kept hidden from everyone – especially her daughter.

Quiver is an enemies-to-lovers, ice queen romance about the power of love, redemption, and the choices that make us who we are.

Actress Kylie and archer Fletcher reluctantly agree to work together under the common goal of getting back to the lives they each built in spite of the other. As arrows and tempers fly, will passion burn hot enough to push Kye and Fletcher past old patterns in search of true healing?

What makes Christmas special, how you spend it, or who you spend it with?

When holiday aficionados Ava and Bex meet over Thanksgiving, it seems they might have finally found their mistletoe match, but their initial connection goes wildly awry when they realize their versions of what constitutes an ideal Christmas differ as drastically as the places they choose to spend their holidays.

Physically depleted and at a crossroads in her personal life, popular TV-personality Faythe Hamilton rents a lakeside cabin in Vermont for a much-needed vacation.

Her first day in town, Faythe receives unsolicited warnings from the locals to stay away from her neighbour, which only rouses her curiosity.

Charlie Stetko had a life to envy.

A penthouse in Manhattan, a beautiful girlfriend, and a high-octane marketing career. Or so she thought. When her girlfriend sends her packing, Charlie ends up unemployed. Without a place to live or money of her own, she’s forced to do the one thing she vowed she never would: go back to Shaker Falls, Vermont. Back to her parents and back to the small town life—and the people—she left behind. Back to a part-time job in the new bakery in town.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main character treatment in this YA prequel full of '90s nostalgia, mysterious murders, and a star-crossed romance, written by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Ashley Poston.

Tara Maclay isn’t thrilled to be starting her senior year of high school in a new town. But if she can just keep her head down, then maybe she can make it through this year in Hellborne, Vermont without the town living up to its name.

Of course, her plan falls apart immediately, as dead students start turning up around her, and she’s suddenly voted Most Likely To Have Murdered Them by the rest of the senior class. Oh, and the fellow new girl Tara’s crushing on? Turns out to be a witch-hunter.

In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family’s library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection—a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power.

For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements—books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect.

All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated.

Chloe Bennett has her life all planned out.

Ivy League education, check. Working her way up the corporate ladder, check. A suitable marriage with two perfect kids… maybe someday. She’s a city girl at heart, but if she survives the next six months working in a Vermont ski town for the local branch of the family business empire, she’ll be one step closer to everything she ever wanted.

Enter Quinn Kennedy, a fun-loving snowboarder looking for her next good time.

A new friendship evolves into something unexpected and extraordinary in Rainbow Overalls, a heartfelt college romance by debut author Maggie Fortuna.

All Ginny Holland wants is to skip over her dramatic coming out story and live a being out story. Arriving for her first year at an artsy, incredibly queer college in middle-of-nowhere Vermont, she’s ready to be her true bisexual self. But being out and welcomed doesn’t mean self-acceptance is so simple.

Lauren Ashburn left a promising job to help her family in Vermont take care of her dying father.

Lauren and Georgia clash at a disastrous work meeting, but Georgia’s daughter Hannah pulls them together despite themselves. As they discover new possibilities and priorities for the future, can they make room for love? Or will they have to leave each other behind—in order for them both to move forward?

Powerhouse creator TILLIE WALDEN takes on the world of ROBERT KIRKMAN’s THE WALKING DEAD in the most anticipated YA graphic novel of 2022.

In Book One, Clementine discovers new allies, new rivals, and new love. But as the group tries to build a walker-free settlement in an abandoned ski resort, they soon discover that the biggest threat to their survival… is each other.

Filled with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and breathtaking pathos, Backcast serves up a sometimes irreverent, sometimes sobering look at the hidden lives of women, and how they laugh, love, lose, and blunder through their own search for meaning.

Set on the beautiful shores of Vermont’s Lake Champlain, Backcast is richly populated with an expansive cast of endearing and outrageous characters who battle writer’s block, quirky locals, personal demons, unexpected attractions, and even each other during their two-week residency. For Barb and each of her twelve writers, the stakes in this fast-moving story are high, but its emotional and romantic payoffs are slow and sweet.

Captain Suzann Redeker earned a Bronze Star for valor, one of the highest honors given by the Marine Corps.

As leader of a Female Engagement Team that patrolled the combat zone, she took out four Taliban insurgents—but not before losing a soldier under her command and sustaining an injury that ended her military career. Now back home in rural Vermont, she’s forced to chart a new life as a civilian.

Montana rancher, Becky Miles (who decidedly drops the Becky part) is drawn into the snake pit of internalized homophobia when she travels to Vermont to find out if her gal, Jane Scott still loves her.

Jane’s life is enmeshed by old guilt and compassion for Georgia, whose horse training business is tarnished by a tragic death in her barn. Miles has little patience for Georgia, a closeted lesbian who is desperate to pass among the upper crust of the horse show world. Neither Jane nor Miles has any idea, at first, just how desperate Georgia is to pass in the straight world.

Samantha Latham is a little socially awkward and a lot brilliant.

Everything changes when Sam must suddenly withdraw from school to care for her invalid mother back in Vermont. Moving back to Stowe means no more brilliant career in medicine, and definitely no more Natalie. As she finds herself alone, faced with a life she never wanted, Sam slowly learns to recalibrate what she considers success, discovering the artistic side of Stowe, a community of lesbians she never imagined existed there, and a new woman who inspires Sam to rethink everything she thought she knew—especially about love.

Even a beast can be beautiful...

Every day, a mysterious woman comes to the diner for lunch. Mel Grim enchants Bella, and when Grim makes her an offer she can’t refuse, Bella goes to work for her.

But it seems that everyone in Paris has their secrets, and Grim’s secret might be the strangest one of all. Is their love strong enough to overcome the truth? Or are they destined for an unhappily ever after?