Willow Alder is a liar.
When she unexpectedly comes home to Sugar Hill Hollow, everyone thinks she’s there to take some time off before she starts veterinary school, but the truth is–she didn’t get in. And how better to prove to everyone and herself that her life isn’t a complete failure than accepting the challenge to revive her family’s shuttered maple syrup store before her brothers officially close it?
Only the situation gets even stickier when Jace Miller walks back into her life. Her older brother’s best friend. The man who was always off-limits, whose gaze always lingered a little too long and who she’s carried a silent, stubborn crush on for years.
He’s back at home after being forced into early retirement by a career-ending injury. Nursing a bruised ego, and with time on his hands, Jace offers to help Willow with her shop in exchange for fixing up the town’s old ice rink.
Their arrangement should be simple, but isn’t. Willow quickly discovers that saving the shop isn’t her biggest problem. It’s falling even harder for the one man she can’t risk wanting. His smoldering eyes and the unspoken heat between them has her questioning everything she thought she knew.
Because in Sugar Hill Hollow, the sweetest things simmer slowly…and some old feelings can never stay buried.
