Part of Holland Brothers
First published 2025
Avery runs a bookstore in Lake City and made one rule for herself after years of heartbreak: no names, no complications, one night only. She broke it. Now the man she walked away from is on every billboard in town, smiling down at her from ads for her rival bookstore. He is Flynn Holland, the pitcher everyone says will end the city's fifty-year championship drought. He is also her daughter's new favorite person, which is not helping. Avery knows the math. A famous athlete with his face plastered across town, selling books for the competition, is not someone she can quietly fold into her life and forget about. But Flynn is not going away. He shows up, he is patient, he is genuinely good with her kid, and every time he looks at her she loses her footing. Avery has rebuilt herself carefully. Flynn is the kind of person who makes careful feel very small. She has to decide whether protecting herself is the same thing as punishing herself.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, heartfelt, intimate, introspective, tender
Tropes: forced-proximity, second-chance-romance, single-parent-romance, slow-burn
Setting: Lake City
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
432 pages · Kindle Edition · Rebecca Jenshak