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A tiny town. A broken tavern. And one woman searching for a place to belong.Logan Cole is used to getting her way and what she wants more than anything is for her father to get out of jail and restore her old life in New York. All she has to do is wait for his scandals to fade and the online rancor against her family to subside. Low on cash and out of options, she takes a bus north looking for anonymity and stops in the smallest town she can find: Ramsbolt, Maine.When she stumbles into Helen's Tavern, she finds a place in need of a make-over and a grandmotherly woman who could use some help. Soon, she finds herself growing fond of the bar, Helen, and the town. She's even found a friend in Grey, the local plumber. The tiny town puts her at a crossroads: keep hiding her identity to preserve her new reputation or let down her guard and reveal her true self to the people she's grown to love. But the choice is ripped from her hands when tragedy strikes the bar and saving it requires every tool at her disposal.Can Logan find a true home among the people of Ramsbolt Maine?The Collected Stories of Ramsbolt is a series by Jennifer M. Lane, award-winning author Of Metal and Earth and Stick Figures from Ramsbolt. Fresh and heart-warming, the series tells the stories of a small town looking for belonging.

Logan Cole is restless. Yes, she loves her friends, her husband Grey, and the life she''s made for herself in the tiny, cozy town of Ramsbolt, Maine. She''s comfortable in a house he thinks is too small. And she enjoys her bartending job, though it barely pays her bills. But something''s missing.She needs a hobby, a passion all her own, and when a chance comes along to open a store in a new flea market on the edge of town, all the pieces seem to fall into place.But the sketchy lease and its landlord make her nervous. And when Grey goes behind her back to buy a gorgeous, old house they can''t afford, her trust is broken. The property comes with an angry neighbor intent on making their lives impossible. And he''ll go to any lengths to see them lose their home, including reporting them for mortgage fraud.Logan''s sense of security in the town she loves is shattered.The more questions she asks, the more connections she uncovers-and the angrier Grey gets. She promises to stop her paranoid investigation, but with their home on the line, risking her marriage may be the only way to save it.

The son of a famous author, Stuart is a creative writing teacher and an expert in lifelong writer's block. While trying to write a book that could save his career and finally earn his father's respect, he finds himself seeking a breakthrough in a cottage nestled in a Maine graveyard. The village is great for inspiration, but the more he writes about zombies in the tavern basement and serial killers who make cinnamon buns, the further he gets from his truth.His heart isn't in those stories. And the thing that keeps him from getting it right is the same reason his relationships are failing, he can't connect with his father, and doesn't feel at home in his own city. While trying to craft a life that will please everyone else, he's put himself last.Just when he's at the brink, his mother exposes a family secret that changes his definition of family and forces him to ask if he really wants the approval he's been seeking all along.With the clock ticking on his sabbatical, he discovers that family isn't always what it seems, the pressures we create for ourselves can be our own undoing, and home is often where we least expect to find it.The Warmth of Fires is the sixth book in The Collected Stories of Ramsbolt.

Inside her flower shop, Adelle enjoys a quiet, drama-free life, but outside, Ramsbolt, Maine is crumbling. The town is decaying, stores sit empty, and there isn't enough money to solve the town's problems. If something isn't done, Adelle will lose her home, her shop, and the quiet life she loves.When the town manager quits, and Ramsbolt is left without leadership, rumors spread that the town could be sold, merged with another, and charged a tax no one can afford. All eyes turn to Adelle. After all, her father ran the town for decades. But he suffered for the cause. He only wanted the town to be happy, but residents wanted someone to solve their petty squabbles rather than address real problems. Adelle has no interest in that demanding lifestyle.Then suddenly, her father's old political opponent rises up again. While she resists running for office, the man who drove her father to his lowest point starts a ruthless smear campaign against her, urging town residents to support annexation and sell Ramsbolt to another town.Running for office would mean facing old grudges and confronting the man who slandered her father. But if she doesn't stand up to him, if she doesn't stand up for Ramsbolt, no one else will. And she could lose the only home she's ever known.