Love In The Off-Season: Book 4 (Salt & Sugar)

Junavere has spent three years rebuilding the Driftwood Dahlia Inn and the life her ex-husband nearly ruined. With her savings stretched thin and trust in even shorter supply, she has no room for another disaster. Then the roof begins to fail days before the inn's most important winter booking.

Contractor Halveric arrives with a crew, a contract that runs through April, and a truck that flattens Junavere's prized dahlias. He is also a widowed single father who measures every decision and has spent four years keeping his heart safely out of reach.

When dangerous wiring forces Halveric and his eight-year-old daughter, Bea, to move into the inn, Junavere's carefully ordered world fills with pancake breakfasts, late-night coffee, construction dust, and a growing sense of family. Halveric came to rebuild a damaged wing. He never expected Junavere to make him want a future beyond his grief.

But when Junavere's manipulative ex returns with legal claims and a public version of their marriage that erases everything she has built, Halveric is forced to choose: protect his daughter by leaving, or stay and fight for a family that never expected to become one.

A warm, slow-burn small-town romance about healing after betrayal, loving after loss, and discovering that love cannot always be planned.