Angol
She has one summer to save the inn. He has one summer to change her mind about everything.
Nora Alcott has held the Halcyon Inn together with spreadsheets, spite, and her great-grandmother's stubbornness - so the last thing she needs is the relentlessly sunny contractor her parents hired without asking her. Levi Cross whistles before eight a.m. He believes in the building. He believes in her. And he keeps finding the cracks in a woman who's spent thirty-four years making sure nobody could.
Nora doesn't have room this summer for optimism that turns out to be a marketing strategy. She has a bank deadline, a rotting west wing, and a family that mistakes managing her for loving her. Falling for the contractor is not on the ledger.
But Levi levels with her when no one else will - until the day she learns he's been sitting on the one number that could sink everything. And Nora has never once survived being decided for.
A swoony, banter-filled small-town grumpy-sunshine romance about saving a lakeside inn, an eighty-year-old secret hidden in the guest ledger, and learning that letting yourself be helped isn't the same as failing.
Book 1 of the Halcyon Cove series. Full-length, open-door, with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
Tropes: grumpy x sunshine · forced proximity · small-town · found family · he falls first · save-the-inn · only-one-summer
