The Little Iowa Bookshop

An abandoned bookshop. A dying small town. A long-lost love.Can they all be saved?Laid off from her tenured position at a small, private college in Iowa, historian Valerie is surprised to hear from a former student: a man who had a crush on her decades ago, despite their twenty-year age difference. When his father bequeaths her his abandoned bookstore in the tiny, dying river town of Cuisery, she ends up with a new career and a romance she never considered possible.Val discovers a family she never knew, a love she never expected, and a home in a place she never imagined. Could the resurrection of Laurent Books and Cuisery help her forget the man who proposed marriage twenty years ago but disappeared instead?The Little Iowa Bookshop is a novel about prejudice against relationships between older women and younger men; hope for dying, rural towns; and what's lost when families scatter across the country.