Footloose and Fiance Free
(2027)(The first book in the Single Belles of Silver City series)
A novel by Heather Horrocks
Staying single shouldn't be this complicated.
Shelby Adams organizes other people's lives for a living. Closets, kitchens, entire houses—she can look at anyone's chaos and tell them exactly what to keep and what to let go of.Which is a little embarrassing, considering there's an unused wedding dress riding around in her trunk.
She didn't get left at the altar. She left. Turns out saying "I do" to the wrong future is a lot easier to walk away from than everyone expects—and Shelby has never felt better about a decision in her life. She's not heartbroken. She's not looking for a rebound. She is, as she keeps cheerfully informing anyone who asks, fiancé-free—and she intends to stay that way clear through the holidays.
Then a Christmas snowstorm strands her at the Who-Dun-Him Inn, along with one extremely inconvenient complication: John Reeves.
John restores historic houses for a living. He's patient, good with his hands, and entirely too easy to like. Worse, he isn't trying to change Shelby's mind about anything. He's just there—making her laugh, beating her at Clue, and making being snowed in feel suspiciously less like being stuck.
With an outrageous grandmother learning ventriloquism, nightly games of Clue, Murderously Good Chocolate Chip Cookies, and a wedding dress that refuses to stay in the trunk where it belongs, Shelby and John find themselves doing the one thing neither of them planned on:
Staying.
And maybe falling just a little.
Shelby came to Silver City delighted to be free of the future she'd almost chosen. Now she has to decide whether falling for John means giving up that freedom—or finally discovering what it feels like to choose a future she actually wants.
Grab your cocoa and settle in at the Who-Dun-Him Inn—where nobody stays just one night, Grandma Ross is probably up to something, and sometimes the best Christmas plans are the ones you never made.
Genre: Romance