Honey Creek Books in Order

Honey Creek is a small-town romance setting built around one of Adriana Locke’s favorite setups: two people who already trust each other, then have to figure out what happens when convenience starts feeling real.

The main story here is Like You Love Me. Sophie Bates is trying to save her Tennessee bed-and-breakfast, and Holden McKenzie is back in town with a problem of his own. He needs to look settled and reliable for a career opportunity. Sophie needs money fast. A temporary marriage solves both problems, at least on paper.

Paper is the easy part.

What makes the Honey Creek setup work is the shared history between Sophie and Holden. They were childhood friends, the kind who know each other’s old stories and can still fall into teasing banter without much effort. That makes the marriage-of-convenience hook feel warmer than a business deal. They are pretending, but they are not strangers.

The town matters too. Honey Creek is full of local texture: family businesses, familiar faces, the animal clinic, and a community that notices when two old friends suddenly start acting married. That pressure adds humor, but it also strips away the privacy Sophie and Holden might need to keep pretending nothing has changed.

Expect a cozy contemporary romance with a little steam, a lot of friendship, and a couple who have to decide whether the safest person in the room might also be the riskiest choice. It’s a good pick if you like small towns, fake marriage, childhood friends, and romances where “temporary” is obviously fighting a losing battle.