The Pumpkin Patch Problem

One pumpkin patch. Four sisters. And the secret their mother risked everything to keep.

Juniper “Junie” Mercer never left Harvest Hollow. While her sisters built lives somewhere else, Junie stayed. She ran the family farm stand, raised her two children alone after she lost her husband, and became the person half the town leaned on. So when the second autumn of Rosalind’s will falls to her, Junie is sure of one thing: her season will be the easy one. She could run this farm in her sleep.

Then the county sends Micah Oswald to survey the land discrepancy. He’s a threat to everything her family built, but he’s also the first person in years who looks past the endless meals and favors to the woman underneath.

Because there’s a difference between being needed and being wanted. And Junie hasn’t let herself be wanted in a long time.

The deeper they dig into altered deeds and forged signatures, the clearer it becomes that there’s far more at stake than a crooked boundary line. What was Rosalind hiding all those years? And what if bringing it into the light could unravel lives rebuilt in Harvest Hollow long ago?

Junie has spent a lifetime looking after everyone else. This autumn, with her hands full of everything from farm ledgers to lantern strings, someone finally asks the question: what does she want?

And the answer might be everything she stopped letting herself hope for.

The Pumpkin Patch Problem is the second book in a sweet, clean cozy autumn series brimming with later-in-life romance, small-town warmth, sisterhood, and a family mystery that unfolds across four seasons.

Curl up with the Marchetti sisters tonight and immerse yourself in a town that feels like home.