Cora Reed's Blog
September 24, 2019
They Started with a Kiss Cover Reveal!
THEY STARTED WITH A KISS is coming December 3rd (here is the beautiful cover
February 16, 2019
Exciting Things Happening in 2019
There are some big changes happening in 2019. One big thing? I’m going to be publishing more often. Starting in March (when HE WAS PLAYING FOR KEEPS comes out), books will be releasing every other month. 
December 14, 2018
Cover Reveal for He Was Playing for Keeps
The Cover for He was Playing for Keeps is Here!
Preorders are Available Everywhere and it Releases March 11
The cover for Caine and Quinn’s story–He was Playing for Keeps (Magnolia Valley book 4)–is here and it’s gorgeous. 
November 9, 2018
March 14, 2018
Dreaming of You is Available!
The debut novel in the Magnolia Valley series is here! I’m so excited to share Josie and Calvin’s story with you.
So grab a cup of coffee (Josie would insist) and enjoy.
Josie Wheeler isn’t a risk-taker. She likes her routine running the Morning Jolt cafe. The last risk she took was asking her dreamy friend Calvin out—and that failed miserably. But as her thirtieth birthday gets closer, that routine starts to feel like stagnation.
Josie knows Calvin doesn’t do forever, but she says yes to his proposition, anyway—it might be just what she needs to get him out of her system and her life out of its rut.
What Josie doesn’t expect is their exhilarating chemistry setting the sheets aflame and entangling her wary heart. But when her cafe is threatened, she has to decide what she’s willing to risk for a love beyond her wildest dreams.
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How did Magnolia Valley get its name?
At 17, Phillip Warner left Georgia with his two brothers and went to Montana in hopes of making their fortune mining. After a few years, they got lucky and struck it rich. Phillip went home to Georgia a wealthy man, but the beautiful and unforgiving landscape in Montana remained with him.
While walking in Savannah, Phillip ran into a young teacher who had stopped to admire a magnolia tree in bloom. Phillip was as mesmerized by her as she was the magnolia tree and for the next two weeks, he found ways to make sure their paths crossed.
Phillip told Enid stories about his time in the west and she fell in love with the place he described and with him. Finally, after many of these run-ins, she asked him if he ever planned to court her.
He told her he would court her for the rest of his life if she would marry him.
They were wed within the month.
Phillip and Enid moved to Montana and started a ranch. Within the year, Phillip’s brothers and their wives settled nearby to start ranches of their own.
While Enid loved Montana and Phillip, she was homesick for Georgia. After the first winter, Enid visited her parents and Phillip remained in Montana to look after their ranch. He worried she would not return, though she wrote often, always telling him how dearly she missed him and their home.
Three months after leaving, Enid came back to Montana with two surprises. The first was that she was four months pregnant with the baby they’d made just before she left, and the second was the half-dozen magnolia tree saplings in her bag. Phillip and Enid eagerly planted them beside their house.
Though none of the saplings survived the harsh Montana winter, their daughter was born five months later and she was named Magnolia Jean Warner.
When it came time to name the town the Warner clan had formed, it was agreed on unanimously. Magnolia Valley. The first action the town took was to open a school where Enid taught the children in their burgeoning community.
Phillip and Enid had many, many decades together and, as he promised her, he never stopped courting her. Some Magnolia Valley residents even claim to have seen the ghosts of Enid and Phillip Warren dancing slowly beneath the stars on particularly pleasant summer nights, the scent of magnolia blossoms in the air.
March 11, 2018
Dreaming of You is Available for Preorder!
DREAMING OF YOU is available for preorder. A friends-to-lovers small town contemporary romance sure to capture your heart.
After his marriage went up in flames, Calvin Monroe knew love wasn’t for him. Since then, every relationship he’s had has been no-strings-attached. But Calvin’s not nearly as commitment-phobic as Josie thinks he is; he just can’t find anyone that measures up to her.
Josie is vibrant, funny, smart—and Calvin’s wanted her since they first met. But he knows he’s not her type. Josie goes for wholesome guys, not divorcees with bad reputations.
An overheard conversation changes everything. Calvin realizes Josie is—was—into him, but he was too dumb to see it. If he can convince her to take another risk on him, he’ll win her heart. So, he makes her an offer she can’t turn down: Two weeks to try out anything she wants in bed.
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February 26, 2018
The Teaser for Dreaming of You is Here!
The teaser (created by Resplendent Media) for Dreaming of You is here and I’m in love. Dreaming of You, the first book in the Magnolia Valley series, is a friends-to-lovers story. It’s steamy. It’s sweet. And there’s plenty of coffee.
