Ellie Palmer came to Stonebridge to renovate her late grandmother's house, sell it, and figure out what came next.

Then the kitchen caught fire.

Captain Grant Manning is older, controlled, frustratingly competent—and apparently incapable of watching Lena handle a crisis without stepping in. When Founders' Week leaves every hotel in town booked, Grant offers her the furnished apartment over his garage.

Temporarily.

That part becomes complicated fast.

Between renovation disasters, late-night dinners, stolen kisses, and Grant's increasingly obvious inability to pretend Lena doesn't matter to him, the line between helpful neighbor and irresistible fire captain disappears completely.

Ellie came to Stonebridge expecting to leave.

Grant has other ideas.