My One and Always (Love in a Small Town)

He’s got a huge crush on the woman who runs the bakery. She’s determined to ignore him. He needs a secret weapon.

Will Garth has been flirting with me since the day he walked into my bakery. He’s charming, handsome, and entirely too persistent for his own good. So I do what any sensible woman would—I pretend not to notice.

I’ve been down this road before. I know what happens when you let someone close enough to hurt you. But then Will shows up with a scruffy rescue dog and a smile that makes my carefully built walls wobble.

He’s patient. Kind. Real. And suddenly, resisting him feels less like protection and more like fear.

Maybe love deserves a second chance to rise.