She booked the cabin to be alone. So did he. Same dates, same cottage, same lockbox code — and no electricity, no running water, and absolutely nowhere else to go.
Amanda Warren is thirty-six, a dental hygienist from Kingston, and freshly divorced from a marriage that quietly fell apart because they wanted different things — she'd wanted children, a future, a person who meant it. She's not broken. She's just ready, finally, to belong to herself for a weekend.
Philip Davidson is thirty-eight, recently widowed, and selling his house and his business in the same month — everything he and his wife built together, handed off at once. He drove two hours to Sandbanks Provincial Park for four days of no one needing anything from him.
He did not expect Amanda. Amanda did not expect him.
One Victoria Day long weekend. Two strangers. A dark, cold lakeside cabin that has no running water, no power, and one cast iron skillet between them. When the caretaker shows up Saturday morning and confirms there's nothing else available for a hundred kilometres, they make a deal: split the cost, keep to their own rooms, and stay.
What they don't plan for is a candlelit dinner over reheated macaroni. Or the tulips he buys in Wellington on Saturday morning — not because they reminded him of anyone, but precisely because they didn't. Or the kind of conversation that only happens when there's no screen to retreat to and no noise to hide behind.
By Sunday they stop pretending they'd rather be alone. By Monday they're not sure how four days with a stranger became the most honest weekend of their lives.
Still Waters is a warm, unhurried clean romance for readers who believe the best love stories happen when you've stopped looking — and when the person who shows up is nothing like what you expected and everything you needed.
TROPES & THEMES
Forced proximity - Strangers to lovers - Second chance at love - Widower hero - Divorcée heroine - Cottage country - Victoria Day weekend - Sandbanks Ontario - Slow burn - HEA - Clean & sweet - No explicit contentA standalone clean romance novella. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed happy ending. Perfect for a long weekend read, or wishing you were at a cottage.
Genre: Romance
Amanda Warren is thirty-six, a dental hygienist from Kingston, and freshly divorced from a marriage that quietly fell apart because they wanted different things — she'd wanted children, a future, a person who meant it. She's not broken. She's just ready, finally, to belong to herself for a weekend.
Philip Davidson is thirty-eight, recently widowed, and selling his house and his business in the same month — everything he and his wife built together, handed off at once. He drove two hours to Sandbanks Provincial Park for four days of no one needing anything from him.
He did not expect Amanda. Amanda did not expect him.
One Victoria Day long weekend. Two strangers. A dark, cold lakeside cabin that has no running water, no power, and one cast iron skillet between them. When the caretaker shows up Saturday morning and confirms there's nothing else available for a hundred kilometres, they make a deal: split the cost, keep to their own rooms, and stay.
What they don't plan for is a candlelit dinner over reheated macaroni. Or the tulips he buys in Wellington on Saturday morning — not because they reminded him of anyone, but precisely because they didn't. Or the kind of conversation that only happens when there's no screen to retreat to and no noise to hide behind.
By Sunday they stop pretending they'd rather be alone. By Monday they're not sure how four days with a stranger became the most honest weekend of their lives.
Still Waters is a warm, unhurried clean romance for readers who believe the best love stories happen when you've stopped looking — and when the person who shows up is nothing like what you expected and everything you needed.
TROPES & THEMES
Forced proximity - Strangers to lovers - Second chance at love - Widower hero - Divorcée heroine - Cottage country - Victoria Day weekend - Sandbanks Ontario - Slow burn - HEA - Clean & sweet - No explicit contentA standalone clean romance novella. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed happy ending. Perfect for a long weekend read, or wishing you were at a cottage.
Genre: Romance
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