Having been burned multiple times, not a single one that *says* it’ll feel like Gilmore Girls.
All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata feels a bit like a desert/Rockies version of Gilmore Girls. Aurora gets out of a bad relationship and runs away to the place she feels safest, a small town in like Colorado that she lived in for a while when she was a teenager. She rents a basement apartment except when she shows up, the owner (Rhodes) doesn’t know she’s rented it because his teenage son was the one to rent it out. He lets her stay as long as she doesn’t bother them. It turns into this slow burn thing with a bit of antagonism that’s rather reminiscent of the relationship between Lorelai and Luke. And Aurora really ingratiates her way into the town, meeting up with some new people and some she hasn’t seen in years. There’s even some background teenager romance going on with Rhodes’s kid.
No kids involved really, but small town shenanigans galore, Sarah Morgenthaler’s Moose Springs, Alaska series. Especially the first book, The Tourist Trap, with its grumpy restaurant owner and poor-best-friend-to-a-rich-girl dreamer on vacation.
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Having been burned multiple times, not a single one that *says* it’ll feel like Gilmore Girls.
All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata feels a bit like a desert/Rockies version of Gilmore Girls. Aurora gets out of a bad relationship and runs away to the place she feels safest, a small town in like Colorado that she lived in for a while when she was a teenager. She rents a basement apartment except when she shows up, the owner (Rhodes) doesn’t know she’s rented it because his teenage son was the one to rent it out. He lets her stay as long as she doesn’t bother them. It turns into this slow burn thing with a bit of antagonism that’s rather reminiscent of the relationship between Lorelai and Luke. And Aurora really ingratiates her way into the town, meeting up with some new people and some she hasn’t seen in years. There’s even some background teenager romance going on with Rhodes’s kid.
No kids involved really, but small town shenanigans galore, Sarah Morgenthaler’s Moose Springs, Alaska series. Especially the first book, The Tourist Trap, with its grumpy restaurant owner and poor-best-friend-to-a-rich-girl dreamer on vacation.