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A Season for Staying: A Hawkins Novel
Paperback
Series: Hawkins
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 23 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emma Thorne did not come back to Hawkins to fall in love.
She came back because her mother died too young. Because life rearranges itself whether you ask it to or not. Because three children have a way of forcing honesty into your bones.
Hawkins remembers who you are before you learn to compromise-and Emma never intended to stay long enough to be remembered.
Rowan Sinclair has trained herself not to want things.
Not because she doesn't feel attraction-but because hope complicates clean lines, and clean lines keep people safe.
When Emma and Rowan meet, the pull between them is immediate, unmistakable, and deeply inconvenient.
This is not a story about coming out.
It's not a story about fixing anyone.
And it's not a polite romance.
A Season for Staying is a quiet, emotionally intimate love story about recognition, restraint, and the kind of desire that doesn't need to announce itself to be powerful.
Set in the small town of Hawkins, this standalone romance is the first story in a series about different loves, different seasons, and the moments when people stop bracing long enough to stay.
For readers who love:
slow-burn, emotionally grounded romance
mature queer love stories
small towns that feel lived-in, not performative
intimacy that settles instead of explodes
Available now in Kindle Unlimited.
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