Imprint
Hollow Lane Books
Contemporary romance for readers who believe in real love.
Hollow Lane Books is the romance imprint of Eight Two Publishing. We publish small-town contemporary romance — the kind with slow burns, characters who are terrible at talking about their feelings, and endings that feel earned.
Author
Jess Alderton
Jess Alderton writes contemporary small-town romance. Her debut, The Walls Between Us, is Book 1 in the Alder Ridge series. Stories full of slow burns, grumpy heroes, and sunshine heroines who refuse to be dimmed.
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Alder Ridge
Small-town romance. Big feelings.
A contemporary romance series set in a town small enough to run into your past everywhere you go. Written for readers who love second chances and characters with a lot of walls left to come down.
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The Walls Between Us
A Small-Town Grumpy Sunshine Romance
After a public career collapse in London, pastry chef Romy Vale comes home to save her grandmother's struggling bakery before the town's Fall Fair.
The only man who can fix it in time is Callan Mercer — guarded, capable, and the last person she wants to owe a favour.
Alder Ridge · Book 1
“A slow burn that earns every page.”
Part of the Alder Ridge series
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