Starting Over

A cheating boyfriend. A control freak spa owner. A loud, cocky karate instructor who moves in upstairs.

Kelly Cole has spent years building a quiet life in the tiny Georgia mountain town of Whiskey Ridge. She runs a wellness spa out of a Victorian house on the town square. Everything is calm, serene, and exactly the way she needs it — because her childhood was the opposite. Addicted parents. A father in prison. A mother who hoards. Kelly has fought hard for her peace, and she intends to keep it.

Then Quinn Maverick opens a taekwondo studio directly above her spa.

He's loud. His students shout in Korean. The parking lot is chaos. He calls her "chick" and smirks when she threatens him in stiletto heels. He's also infuriatingly handsome, annoyingly kind, and carrying a secret connected to the roadside memorial at the edge of her property — a crash Kelly still has nightmares about.

When her mother's hoarder house burns to the ground and Edie moves in, Kelly's carefully controlled life shatters completely. Her estranged sister reappears from Paris with a hidden agenda. And the man she can't stop arguing with might be the only person who's ever made her feel safe.

But Quinn hasn't told her everything. And Kelly has to decide if she can trust a man with secrets — or if she'll spend her life choosing silence over love.

Banter sharp enough to draw blood. A hero who saves her from a bad date and baits her fishing hook without saying a word. A heroine who learns that the loudest, messiest people might be exactly what her too-quiet life needs.