Something about September: A Cozy Fall Romance by McKay, Julia

Cozy up with your pumpkin spiced latte and a slice of apple pie, because it's time to fall in love in Bramley Hollow...

A fall-inspired second-chance romance about a woman who returns home after inheriting her grandmother's diner, only to discover the contractor she must hire was her high school crush.

Sweater weather is better together.

Rebecca Macintosh has always felt that there's just something about September--nostalgia, crisp mornings, and possibility. But not this year. Rebecca has thirty days to return home to fix up her late grandmother's diner or face the consequences. And the only contractor in town? Cort Adams. The man who rejected her one year ago. He's somehow even better looking as a single dad than when he was the high school football star she once tutored. She'd been hoping to avoid him forever.

As the golden leaves start to fall, Rebecca may find that there's more to her hometown--and to Cort--than she'd realized, and that the dreams she's been chasing might have been the wrong ones. Could a spark kindle hot enough in the cool autumn air to call Rebecca home for good?

Author: Julia McKay
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 08/18/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.01w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9798217180080

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2026 pg. 50
Publishers Weekly 07/27/2026

About the Author
Julia McKay is the romance-writing pen name of New York Times bestselling author Marissa Stapley, whose novel Lucky was a Reese's Book Club pick and is now a series for Apple TV starring Anya Taylor Joy. She divides her time between Toronto and Ontario cottage country.