The Bunny Situation

She grabbed a man in an Easter Bunny suit and told her family he was her boyfriend. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Event planner Josie Hartwell has spent ten years building a life in the city — clients, a waitlist, exposed brick. She’s back in her small hometown for exactly one weekend to manage an Easter egg hunt, survive her mother’s romantic interrogation, and leave Monday morning without complications.

Then the Easter Bunny cancels due to food poisoning, a replacement shows up in a flannel and a Dalton Construction truck, and Josie’s family corners her with questions she doesn’t want to answer.

She grabs the nearest arm. It belongs to Cole Hartley. Cole Hartley, who she hasn’t spoken to in ten years. Cole Hartley, who agrees to dinner with her family with a warmth that doesn’t sound performed and a patience that’s quietly, inconveniently real.

But when Josie finds an unopened letter tucked inside a book she packed for college and never read, everything she thought she knew about the two of them — and about herself — turns out to be wrong.

A warm, funny, emotionally grounded small-town romance about the love letters we miss, the distance we call ambition, and what it costs to finally stop leaving.