When Rayne Rose returns to Oak Stand, Texas, its not in defeat. Far from it. Shes no longer the odd duckling everyone remembers but a successful celebrity chef with a network show on the bubble. Fixing up her aunts inn as part of her brand is the perfect excuse to figure out next steps after the death of her husband. She needs a place to find her equilibrium and provide her young son with some stability.
What she doesn’t need is to find her high school crush all grown up and still living next door. Beauty in motion. That was Brent Hamilton then and now. Still carrying around a bad boy reputation, Brent is all wrong for a widowed single mom. But the handsome contractor is not all that he seems. He has a secret, and when Rayne glimpses the boy she remembers beneath the man hes become, she begins to think everyone is misjudging him…including her.
Maybe what Rayne and Brent once had is exactly what they need to build a future.now.
