by Willa Nash
First published 2023
Wilder hates everyone and everything except his isolated house in rural Calamity and his high school teaching job. His carefully ordered world collapses when his best friend calls with an impossible request: shelter his sister Iris for two months. The shy, bookish girl Wilder remembers has transformed into a confident, curious woman who takes his breath away. She invades his peaceful sanctuary and asks too many questions about the painful past that still torments him. Despite expecting to despise this forced arrangement, Iris works her way into both his daily life and his heart. She may be his best friend's sister, but their mutual attraction might prove stronger than the forbidden boundaries that stand between them. What begins as reluctant hospitality becomes something neither of them anticipated in this story of unexpected connection.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity
Setting: Calamity
322 pages · Kindle Edition