Juniper Hill

Juniper Hill is a contemporary romance by Devney Perry, published in 2022 by her own imprint and part of a series set in the town of Quincy, Montana. It follows Memphis Ward, who moves across the country with a newborn baby after a collapse in her own life, and Knox Eden, a chef who has taken the house at Juniper Hill as his retreat.

Memphis arrives with no money, no support and a baby, and takes the job of cleaning the house where Knox is living. He is not looking for company and she is not in a position to refuse the work, so the novel works through the practical arrangements first: a roof, a wage, a vehicle, and the people in town who take an interest in both of them.

Perry writes small-town romance built on work and neighbours, and this book keeps the family situation in Memphis's life as the pressure the relationship has to survive. It is one of a sequence of novels set in the same town.