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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Some
Adult language consistent with Ashley's voice
Sexual Content
A lot
Open-door sexual content — moderately explicit when it arrives
Substance Use
None
Light social drinking in contemporary settings
Emotional Intensity
Some
The emotional arc of a woman who feels she doesn't belong — in the town, in the house, in her own life — and the slow healing of that is the novel's psychological purpose
What this book is about
Josephine Malone inherits a house in Magdalene, Maine from a grandmother she barely knew — a grandmother the town adored and who apparently left a wake of opinions about Josephine before she arrived. Jake Spear, her neighbor, is not what the town gossip suggested. Ashley's first Magdalene novel is softer and more community-focused than much of her catalog — a slow-building romance about belonging and home.
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