Love You, Maine
Kell Luview is a new man. He left his tourist-trap small town and his dad’s business behind in rural Maine for a position at an environmental policy think tank in Washington, D.C. But a shocking betrayal shakes everything he believes in, and he must decide who to trust – especially when his best friend Rachel’s warnings about his girlfriend force him to figure out what kind of man he really is.
Five years later, Kell has returned to Love You, Maine – grumpy, reserved, and convinced Rachel betrayed him. Rachel Hart, an L.A. native, hates this small town almost as much as she hates being underestimated. When her rental car breaks down on a logging road and Kell comes to her rescue, the hot bearded lumberjack pushes all her buttons. The town’s gossip mill wrongly assumes they’re a couple. But the townsfolk aren’t wrong for long. Can Kell and Rachel fight their growing attraction in the one place in the world where you can’t avoid love?
Luke Luview has given up on love. A grieving widower and single-dad police officer, he opens a charity donation bin to find a raccoon – except the raccoon turns out to be Kylie Hood, his late wife’s best friend, who left town fifteen years ago under a cloud of scandal. She agrees to be his temporary nanny, falls hard for his sweet daughter, and even harder for Luke. But forbidden fruit comes with a contract clause, and Kylie faces an impossible choice: an exciting career in Manhattan, or an instant family in her small hometown.
Colleen Luview’s love life is cursed. After every third date she’s ever had, the guy ends up in the emergency room. Moore Mottin hates feeling like damaged goods – married and divorced twice before thirty, cheated on during his second wedding. When a freak snowstorm forces them off the road and into an old hunting cabin, two star-crossed lovers doomed by unfair reputations discover that love has been in front of their faces all along.
Ana DaSilva wanted a one-night palate cleanser. Instead she got fireworks and the perfect guy. When she discovers she’s pregnant three days later – by her sleazy ex – she stops returning Dennis Luview’s calls. Dennis, a retired Special Ops vet with PTSD, is stunned to find Ana six months later at a bridal shower in his hometown, pregnant belly and all. A public confrontation turns into a private reunion, and Dennis pursues Ana and what turns out to be another man’s baby with the conviction that love means showing up.
Kell Luview has decided to make Rachel Hart his wife. He has big plans. A lemur costume. A flash mob. His own rendition of “I Will Always Love You” on stage. When the lemur costume malfunctions in a very delicate place, the proposal becomes legend in the most Love-You-Maine way possible.
The Love You, Maine series by New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent is a six-book small-town romantic comedy series set in the fictional mountain community of Luview, Maine – where every day is Valentine’s Day. Following the Luview family and the people drawn into their orbit, each book delivers a standalone romance connected by a warm, eccentric community where love isn’t just a feeling – it’s a way of life.
Featuring enemies-to-lovers, second chances, single dads, forced proximity, nanny romances, wounded veterans, friends-to-lovers slow burns, and proposals involving malfunctioning lemur costumes, the series combines Julia Kent’s trademark humor with genuine emotional depth. The town of Love You, Maine is a character in itself – quirky, meddling, fiercely loyal, and utterly charming. Readers who love small-town romance with heart, heat, humor, and a cast of characters who feel like family will find their next favorite series here.
