Small Town Reunion

by Tracy Kelleher

From friends to enemies...to happily-ever-after?


Brewmaster Frank Pulaski can’t wait to open a brewpub in his hometown of Hopewell, Pennsylvania. Until Ricki Mason’s bombshell that she owns the very space — and plans to open a hardware store. A successful plumber, Ricki prides herself on her independence, but with a baby on the way and no partner in sight, she knows it’s time to put down roots and stand firm. Both are hard to do, since emotions are also involved. Ricki was Frank’s high school crush, so his olive branch for them to quit fighting and find a solution is intriguing. But can she trust that Frank, fun-loving and charming as ever, wants the best for all three of them?



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278 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 13, 2026

About the author

After graduating from Yale University, Tracy Kelleher spent the next few years working in Italy. She returned to the United States to study medieval history in graduate school at Cornell University, but decided that academic life was not for her. She migrated to the Big Apple, where she worked at an advertising agency. Fast-forward through marriage, two children, one dog, and freelance writing for newspapers and magazines. After her children entered school, she became a staff newspaper reporter and later the communications director for a non-profit organization that mediated disputes in Central and Eastern Europe. Eventually she returned to publishing as a magazine editor. Tracy sold her first romance to Kensington while she was a reporter and finally quit her day job after she found a home writing at Harlequin. Tracy values the flexible lifestyle that writing affords her. She has carried her laptop across three continents and swears that having to write in places such as Australia and Southern France has not hindered her ability to focus on her work. She currently lives in New Jersey and is hard at work on her next novel.

Reviews

[Kate Vale · Rating 4 out of 5]

First in the Return to Hopewell series, in which plumber Ricki Mason is determined to reopen the hardware shore owned by her late father in order to provide for the baby she is currently gestating. But brewmaster Frank Pulaski also has designs on the building; he wants to buy it and the one next door for a brew pub. Can they figure out a way for each to have their respective dreams without coming to blows? Or is it kisses?

Frank wants to resurrect what he'd felt for Ricki years earlier, but a lawyer who is only interested in making a major coup seems to be standing in the way. And what's going to happen when Ricki's stepmother, long gone from town, suddenly shows up with said lawyer?