Arden's Reach · Book One
Both Sides
of the River
Ensemble women's fiction with strong romance elements.
Nine women. Two banks. Six months to decide what is worth saving.
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The story
The buildings have names because there are people standing in them.
The Sanguine River splits Arden's Reach into two places that share a name. West bank: old money, old university, older grudges. East bank: everyone who actually lives here.
When the university's expansion plan goes public, it arrives as a press release with addresses in it. A gym. A bar. A nursery. A loft full of artists. The buildings have names because there are people standing in them.
Nine women on both banks are about to find out what they will risk—a business, a family, a career, a name they spent years building.
They are also, inconveniently, falling in love. With the appraiser whose report could condemn their building. With the reporter writing about their family. With the person who has been standing across the same bar for four years. With someone who turned up at exactly the wrong moment and stayed.
Some of them find something that holds. Some find out what it costs to ask for it. Not all of them get to keep it.
Six months to decide what is worth saving.
Content note
Both Sides of the River is an ensemble novel for adult readers. It contains explicit sexual content, and its nine storylines do not all end happily.