The Sweetbriar Season: A Small-Town Romance

She is fighting to save her town. He was sent to tear it down.June Hale has run the Sweetbriar Bakery on Brightwater's harbor since she was old enough to reach the counter, and she has held her family and her whole stubborn little town together just as long. Feed people, open the shop, hold the world up, and no one ever leaves. That is the deal she made as a girl, and it has worked just fine.Then a Boston developer sends an architect to raze Harbor Street for luxury condos, and June is ready for war. She is not ready for the infuriating, quiet, entirely too handsome man who rents the room above her bakery and starts noticing things about her that no one else ever has.Theo Marchetti came to Brightwater to do a job and leave. He is very good at leaving. He did not plan on the sunny, sharp-tongued baker who slides a stranger a warm bun before she knows his name. He did not plan on falling for the one woman his blueprints would ruin. And he never planned on wanting, for the first time in his careful life, to stay.They should be enemies. His whole reason for being in town is the thing that would end hers. But the harder they fight, the harder they fall, and as the vote that will decide Brightwater's future draws near, June and Theo have to choose between the safe, lonely lives they built to protect themselves and the love that could cost them everything.The Sweetbriar Season is the first book in The Brightwater Series: warm, funny, swoony small-town romances set in a coastal town where the light sits gold on the water at the end of the day.Small-town romance, enemies to lovers, grumpy meets sunshine, forced proximity, a meddling town, and a guaranteed happily ever after.A standalone Brightwater novel with its own complete HEA. No cliffhanger. No cheating. Steamy, open-door heat.