Her dog got loose in a crowded farmers market. The stranger who found him found her too.

Elena's leash snaps without warning, and her sixty-pound mutt bolts straight into the chaos of a Saturday market. An hour of panic later, a quiet stranger named Wes hands him back — unhurried, unbothered, the kind of man who simply doesn't walk past anything lost.

She doesn't even get his name that day. But a coincidence, a second meeting, and a dog who's already decided he loves this stranger draw Elena into Wes's slow, patient orbit — a woodworking shop that smells like cedar, a rescue dog of his own, and a way of paying attention that makes her wonder if she's ever actually been seen like this before.

What follows isn't a whirlwind. It's a year of showing up — through a near-miss with traffic, a hard conversation about the future neither of them saw coming, and a proposal at the exact fountain where they first found each other — building toward a love story about the quiet, deliberate choice to notice someone, and never let them get away again.

A heartfelt, slow-burn romance about the family you build one patient choice at a time — for fans of found love, quiet heroes, and stories where the dog deserves just as much credit as the humans.

Book Four of the Accidentally Married series.