Just One Promise

She was my first love, my first heartbreak—and now she’s back to manage the renovation of the inn I’ve spent my whole life waiting to run.


I’ve spent years waiting for the chance to take over my family’s inn.


So when my parents finally start talking about retirement, I think Hart’s Inn is about to be mine. Instead, they announce one final renovation—and hire the last person I want changing the place I love.


My high school sweetheart.


She left town years ago, determined to make a clean break from everything she’d grown up with—including me. She built a new life and never planned to come back. But after losing everything, managing the renovation at Hart’s Inn may be her only chance to start over.


There’s just one complication: the job comes with a room at the inn…and puts her back in my life after she made it clear she wanted nothing tying her to this town—or to me.


I don’t trust her plans for the inn—or the feelings that return every time we’re together. But as old memories give way to new sparks, I begin to wonder whether her homecoming could be our second chance.


She came back because she had nowhere else to go.


Convincing her to stay may be the biggest risk I’ve ever taken.