The Last Piece

He left before either of them was ready to say goodbye. He's back to finish what his family started.

Callie Hargrove has spent years being the one everyone counts on: keeping the hardware store's books balanced, keeping her siblings' lives running, keeping the whole rebuild moving forward while everyone around her found their happy ending. She's good at it. She's also so tired of being the steady one that she barely remembers what she wanted before she started holding everyone else's life together.

Tucker Bell grew up two doors down from the Hargroves and left Millbrook Falls the summer after graduation without looking back, or so he's told himself for years. When his contracting company gets the call to finish the hardware store's final phase before its reopening, he's not prepared for how fast it feels like coming home, or how impossible it is to be around Callie and pretend he never wanted more.

With the whole town counting down to reopening day, Tucker and Callie are back on the same job site, working toward the same deadline, and running out of reasons to keep pretending the last piece missing from either of their lives isn't standing right in front of them.

• Small-town, second chance childhood-friends-to-lovers romance
• Series finale paying off the Hargrove Family's four-book hardware store arc
• Caretaker heroine learns to want something just for herself
• Connected to The Hargrove Family of Millbrook Falls series - can be read as a standalone
• Warm to steamy heat level