He doesn't let himself want things. Then she handed his kid a book.
Silas Grant builds things for a living and keeps his life small on purpose: a job site, a quiet house, and the nine-year-old nephew he's been raising since the day grief made him a father.
He was late once — for the thing that mattered most — and he's spent two years making sure he's never late again.
June Calloway runs the Pine Ridge library and a program for kids nobody else knows how to reach.
She's twenty-four, lives in her grandmother's house, writes books under a name no one in town knows, and has spent three years carefully not thinking about Silas Grant. She reads every ending before she starts a book. She knows better than to start this one.
Then Danny walks into her Quiet Program and doesn't leave. And Silas follows — straight into a library renovation he volunteers for before his brain approves the decision. Now he's showing up at 7:14 every morning with two coffees, measuring twice, and falling once. Hard. Permanent.
The kind of falling a careful man can't build his way out of.
June knows exactly what he's doing. She's a librarian. She reads everything — including him.
But Silas has a list of reasons he doesn't get to keep her. And when the wall he's built around his life finally cracks, it's a nine-year-old who decides the adults are being dumb — and does something about it.
Perfect for readers who love:
Silas Grant builds things for a living and keeps his life small on purpose: a job site, a quiet house, and the nine-year-old nephew he's been raising since the day grief made him a father.
He was late once — for the thing that mattered most — and he's spent two years making sure he's never late again.
June Calloway runs the Pine Ridge library and a program for kids nobody else knows how to reach.
She's twenty-four, lives in her grandmother's house, writes books under a name no one in town knows, and has spent three years carefully not thinking about Silas Grant. She reads every ending before she starts a book. She knows better than to start this one.
Then Danny walks into her Quiet Program and doesn't leave. And Silas follows — straight into a library renovation he volunteers for before his brain approves the decision. Now he's showing up at 7:14 every morning with two coffees, measuring twice, and falling once. Hard. Permanent.
The kind of falling a careful man can't build his way out of.
June knows exactly what he's doing. She's a librarian. She reads everything — including him.
But Silas has a list of reasons he doesn't get to keep her. And when the wall he's built around his life finally cracks, it's a nine-year-old who decides the adults are being dumb — and does something about it.
Perfect for readers who love:
- A quiet, possessive mountain man with competent hands and a grief wound
A sunshine heroine who reads him before he reads himself
Renovation forced proximity — two coffees, every morning, no explanation
A nine-year-old matchmaker who misses nothing
Instalove that ends in forever — he finally says "everything" and means it
NO cheating. NO cliffhangers. Guaranteed HEA. High heat with all the feelings.
Book 4 in the Pine Ridge Single Dads series — the finale that brings all four families together. Each book is a complete standalone with its own happily ever after.
Genre: Romance
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