Cara Bennett loses her job and her fiancé on the same day — and comes home to find she's locked herself out too. The locksmith who shows up at 8:15 that night doesn't just fix her door. He notices, plainly and without pity, that she's handling the worst day of her year with more grace than she's giving herself credit for.

Eli isn't looking for anything either — just another service call, another problem solved. But a sticking bathroom lock becomes an excuse to see her again, and then another, until neither of them is pretending the maintenance visits are really about hardware anymore.

What follows is a love story built the way Eli builds everything: patiently, honestly, one deliberate choice at a time. He helps her find the nerve to build her own design business from nothing. She helps him believe, for the first time in his life, that someone actually wants to stay. Between an unwelcome ex resurfacing, a corporate job offer that tests what she really wants, and a proposal delivered at the exact door where it all began, Cara and Eli build a marriage neither of them expected — sturdier, and far more theirs, than anything either could have planned.

A heartfelt, slow-burn romance about starting over, believing you deserve good things, and the people who show up to fix what's actually broken — for fans of found confidence, quiet heroes, and love stories that begin in the most unglamorous places.

Book Six of the Accidentally Married series.