Harper Aldridge keeps the craft store lights on late, shows up for everyone in Haven Creek, and makes beautiful things designed to outlast her. It has never once occurred to her to want something she gets to keep.
Jax Chester, Mia’s brother, is only here for the summer, a renowned garden designer brought in to restore a Montana garden that's been waiting eleven years for someone to fix it. He's fluent in soil and hopeless with people. He designs gorgeous spaces, builds them, and never stays long enough to see them—or relationships—bloom.
Then there's Rufus, a beagle-basset mix who spends weeks in the back corner of his kennel with his back turned to the world. He won't let anyone touch him, so Jax sits down outside the kennel and stays. As Harper watches the two of them decide about each other, something she’s kept very carefully closed in her heart begins to open.
Can a woman who’s never let herself want anything, and a man who leaves before anyone can love him, find the courage to stay and make something beautiful they both get to keep?
A tender, slow-burn, closed-door romance about found family, second chances, and the difference between making something that lasts and staying for it.
A clean, closed-door small-town romance with a quiet, capable gardener hero who's never wanted anything for himself and a heroine who takes care of everyone but herself. Meddling-sister matchmaking, a summer of forced collaboration, and a grand gesture built out of cedar and glass. A foster-care heroine written with tenderness and respect, an anxious rescue dog who chooses his person, four sheep and one extremely opinionated ewe, found family, and all the warmth of a faith-friendly Montana summer.
Cynthia Dees is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 romances, and Sarah Dees is a lawyer and published author. Join them at Second Chance Ranch for love, laughter, found family and friends in this sweet and emotional series about strong, wounded men, rescued animals, and close-knit women getting a second chance at love.
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Cynthia Dees is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 125 books. She’s written in a variety of genres but found her forever home in clean and wholesome romance. A 2-time RITA winner and five-time RITA finalist from the Romance Writers of America, she’s also a Career Lifetime Achievement Award nominee from Romantic Times Book Club. She sets her books in small towns like the one she grew up in and fills her stories with fun, quirky characters who remind her a bit too much of her own family and friends. She lives in Texas with her husband and two big dogs that rule their house.
Sarah Dees is Cynthia’s daughter and also a writer. She published her first novel at the age of 15. When she’s not fixing her mom’s plots and writing with Cynthia, she’s a lawyer and lives in England with her husband, a cat, and a tiny dog that rules their house.
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