Briar Adler’s life is crumbling down around her.
Instead of confronting her complicated past and the feeling that she’s been living everyone else’s version of happiness, she does the only reasonable thing that comes to mind. She runs.
Accepting a job restoring the historic Hargrave Manor in Beaumere, South Carolina, Briar hopes that this project will provide her with the fresh start she so desperately needs. What she doesn’t expect is one Wystan Hargrave—a broody, guarded, and impossible man to ignore.
What she also doesn’t expect? A town full of nosy charm, hilarious new friends who refuse to let her work in peace, and moments of laughter that catch her off guard when she’s least prepared for them.
The longer Briar stays, the more she begins to uncover the warmth of a place that starts to feel like belonging…and the complicated sense of safety she finds with Wystan.
And somewhere between the dust, the banter, the unexpected connections, and the people who become her accidental support system, Briar realizes she isn’t just restoring a house.
She’s rebuilding herself.