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Love at First Scratch: A Nine Lives Club Romance

Love at First Scratch: A Nine Lives Club Romance - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Hazel MayesSeries:Nine Lives ClubPublish date:3/20/2026Pages:212
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Nine Lives PressISBN-13:9798987867242UPC:9798987867242Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:RomanceBook Topic:Contemporary, Romantic Comedy, Small Town & RuralSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.213Product ID:SCVFSMHH28

Book #1 in the Nine Lives Club Romance Series-a cozy, small-town romantic comedy with heat, heart, and claws.

Cali Jacobs didn't move to Autumn Ridge for love. She came for a fresh start-stacks of books, apple cider donuts, fall festivals, and maybe a stray cat curled at her feet.

Then a shaggy Maine Coon with a talent for matchmaking strolls into her life ... and right into the arms of Ethan Cross, the infuriatingly handsome construction worker who always seems to be in her way.

Ethan is temporary, just like the City Hall renovation that brought him here. He drinks his coffee black, returns library books late, and somehow always ends up exactly where Cali doesn't want him to be.

Worst of all? The Maine Coon seems to like him as much as it likes her.

Between chaotic rescues, small-town gossip, and the meddling women of the Nine Lives Club book group, Cali's quiet life begins to unravel in the best possible way. Ethan is steady. Kind. The ultimate cinnamon roll hidden under a construction hat and sawdust.

And he might just be worth risking her carefully guarded heart.

Because sometimes the cat doesn't just choose its human...

Sometimes it chooses two.

Tropes:

  • Autumn small-town romance
  • Slow-burn chemistry
  • Steamy, open-door spice
  • Cinnamon roll hero
  • Cat-assisted matchmaking
  • Found family

This feel-good contemporary romance is a complete standalone with a happily-ever-after-and the first visit to Autumn Ridge.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Nine Lives PressISBN-13:9798987867242UPC:9798987867242Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:RomanceBook Topic:Contemporary, Romantic Comedy, Small Town & RuralSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.213Product ID:SCVFSMHH28
Mayes, Hazel: - Hazel Mayes writes cozy, heart-warming, small-town romances filled with charm, banter, and just the right amount of heat. When she isn't dreaming up meet-cutes or giving her characters entirely too many cats, she's probably curled up with a mug of something warm, plotting her next fictional town-one where fall lasts forever and love always finds a way.Hazel lives in Florida with her husband and a rotating cast of rescue pets who insist on supervising her writing. Love at First Scratch is the first book in her Nine Lives Club series.
Publisher: Nine Lives Press

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Hazel Mayes

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