She left because he wouldn’t ask her to stay. Now she’s back for Christmas, and he’s the first person she sees.
Molly Reyes spent three years waiting for Brian Holden to talk about their future. Next spring. Next year. Someday. Then she stopped waiting and walked away.
So when a historic restoration job brings her back to Moonshire Bay for the holidays, she has one rule. Do the work, cash the check, and get out before Christmas.
Nobody told her Holden Construction had the build.
Now the historical society has named them co-leads on Baxter House, with a Christmas Eve deadline, a rotted beam, a snowstorm rolling in off the lake, and one very disloyal job-site dog who adores her.
Brian says it’s just business. His mother wants her at Sunday dinner. And every long day in that freezing old house makes it harder to remember why she left.
But Molly refuses to be anyone’s maybe again. And Brian has never taken a leap he couldn’t take back.
Can a man who always plays it safe finally risk his heart before she’s gone for good?
A sweet second chance Christmas romance about old love, small-town warmth, and finding the courage to say it out loud.
