The Best Thing He Never Wanted

*A Standalone MacFarland Ranch Novel*

*A heartwarming, later-in-life, grumpy-sunshine romance*

Among the MacFarlands, Blane is the big, stone-faced one who guards everyone he loves from the corner of the room—and would sooner face down an enemy combatant than admit he has feelings.

He's never wanted a wife, a cozy home, or anyone waiting up to ask why he's late.

He likes his life exactly as it is: quiet, ordered, and free of unnecessary emotions.

Then a security job takes him to London—and introduces him to Bea.

After a difficult marriage and two years of widowhood, Bea is finally free to build a life that belongs entirely to her. She's leaving England for an old house in a Cretan village above the sea, and she has no intention of letting a man shape her future ever again.

Especially not a large Montana cowboy who communicates mostly in frowns, keeps appearing whenever she needs an extra pair of hands, and seems personally offended by anything he can't fix.

Bea fills the silence. Blane pretends to object.

She makes him laugh. He denies it happened.

One unexpected day together should be harmless. Bea's moving to Crete. Blane's going home to Montana. They're old enough—and sensible enough—to resist the kiss they both want and walk away with no more than a fond memory.

Unfortunately, sensible has never stood much of a chance against the real thing.

And Blane is about to discover that everything he never wanted might be exactly what he's been missing.

*The Best Thing He Never Wanted* is a warm, funny, later-in-life romance about freedom after loss, love across an ocean, and finding the real thing when you thought your chance had passed.

Some love stories start at twenty-two. The best ones start when you've lived enough to know exactly what they're worth.

The tropes you love—with people who've lived.