If first impressions determine a relationship, my new neighbor and I should be the worst of enemies.

Not only did my cheating boyfriend threaten to call the police on my new duplex neighbor, Oscar, but I called him by the wrong name when I ran into him later that same day.

After he’d given me the double fudge muffin he’d just bought. The last one at the bakery.

I don’t get close to anyone. Letting people in means letting in their questions, their pity, their concern. I’ve gotten...
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If first impressions determine a relationship, my new neighbor and I should be the worst of enemies.

Not only did my cheating boyfriend threaten to call the police on my new duplex neighbor, Oscar, but I called him by the wrong name when I ran into him later that same day.

After he’d given me the double fudge muffin he’d just bought. The last one at the bakery.

I don’t get close to anyone. Letting people in means letting in their questions, their pity, their concern. I’ve gotten really good at pretending everything is fine, that I’m happy and my life is perfect. No one, not even my very best friend, knows the truth and I’m determined to keep it that way.

But Oscar isn’t easily scared away. And I have an undeniable desire to run my hands through his messy hair and kiss his smiling lips.

He’s the best person I know, and he doesn’t deserve someone as complicated as I am, especially when he moved to Catalpa Creek to uncomplicate his life.

Involves a genuinely good guy, a secret involving mental health, and a rescue dog.
This is the third book in the Catalpa Creek Series, but can be read as a stand-alone. There is no cliffhanger and there is a guaranteed HEA.
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