Built for Us: A Collins Novel

Poppy Whitworth knows how to make a life look effortless. She builds beauty through details-perfect pastries, perfect plans, perfect control-because if she stops holding everything together, she's not sure what will happen. So when her kitchen counter cracks right before a major community fundraiser, Poppy treats it like a problem to solve... not a warning. Bobbi McNeil doesn't build for show. She builds for weather, time, and real life. A contractor and wood carver with calm hands and clear boundaries, Bobbi isn't impressed by perfectionism-and she isn't afraid to name what Poppy is really doing: using competence as armor. As a "simple" remodel turns into supply-chain snags, timeline pressure, and a town with plenty of opinions, Poppy and Bobbi are forced into true collaboration instead of parallel competence. The more they work side by side, the more Poppy realizes she doesn't just want a better kitchen-she wants a life that holds. And Bobbi? Bobbi wants to be the kind of steady that doesn't demand anything... except honesty. Because love isn't built on grand gestures. It's built on the quiet choice to show up-again and again-until a home (and a heart) finally feels safe to rest. Built for Us is a heartfelt contemporary romance in the Collins Series, set in the cozy coastal world of Collins, Maine.

Pagina's: 261, Paperback, Independently published