by Nora Roberts
First published 2012
Owen Montgomery controls every detail of his family's construction business. He manages schedules with rigid spreadsheets and makes lists for everything. The Montgomery brothers are finishing their biggest project yet: transforming a historic building into the Inn BoonsBoro. Owen has the renovation running exactly on time despite his brothers teasing him about his obsessive planning methods. Across the street, Avery McTavish runs a busy pizza restaurant. She watches the inn take shape day by day and finds herself noticing Owen in ways she never expected. They dated as children, making Owen her first boyfriend, but now adult attraction complicates their old friendship. Avery feels drawn to the man Owen has become, yet she struggles to trust these new feelings. As the inn's opening approaches, Boonsboro prepares to celebrate. Owen discovers that managing construction timelines was simple compared to navigating relationships. Avery keeps her emotional walls firmly in place. Owen must prove that their childhood romance was just the beginning of something deeper.
Genres: family, romance, contemporary, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers
Setting: Boonsboro
Period: 21st-century
319 pages · Paperback · Berkley Trade