When the foundation cracks, sometimes you need to rebuild from the ground up.
Hallie Thorne has spent three years turning Valentine's Verge into the "Capital of Romance"—and this year's First Date Festival is supposed to be her masterpiece. But four days before the grand opening, the town's iconic Lovers' Pavilion is literally collapsing. The rotting floor won't hold a crowd, and if she cancels, the entire town goes under.
There's only one person who can save her: Roan Blackwood, the mountain-dwelling carpenter who treats the town's romance industry with open contempt. He's brilliant, impossible, and has a heart made of sawdust—or so everyone says.
Roan builds things that last. Hallie sells fairy tales that don't. When a blizzard traps them together in a maintenance shed, working frantically to shore up the crumbling structure, their walls start coming down too. She sees the man beneath the scowl. He sees the steel beneath her ribbons.
But fixing a floor is one thing. Building a relationship when he's terrified of the spotlight and she lives in it? That might require a miracle.
Or maybe just the right foundation.
A grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity romance about the magic of structural-grade hope and the courage to stand in the light.
Genre: Romance
Hallie Thorne has spent three years turning Valentine's Verge into the "Capital of Romance"—and this year's First Date Festival is supposed to be her masterpiece. But four days before the grand opening, the town's iconic Lovers' Pavilion is literally collapsing. The rotting floor won't hold a crowd, and if she cancels, the entire town goes under.
There's only one person who can save her: Roan Blackwood, the mountain-dwelling carpenter who treats the town's romance industry with open contempt. He's brilliant, impossible, and has a heart made of sawdust—or so everyone says.
Roan builds things that last. Hallie sells fairy tales that don't. When a blizzard traps them together in a maintenance shed, working frantically to shore up the crumbling structure, their walls start coming down too. She sees the man beneath the scowl. He sees the steel beneath her ribbons.
But fixing a floor is one thing. Building a relationship when he's terrified of the spotlight and she lives in it? That might require a miracle.
Or maybe just the right foundation.
A grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity romance about the magic of structural-grade hope and the courage to stand in the light.
Genre: Romance
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