Divorced mother Lisa Bennett came to Dunford to flip her dead aunt's house and leave. Then she hired Walker Dunnigan, a carpenter half her age with rough hands and no patience for her walls, physical or emotional. Between stripped floorboards and stolen nights, she learns some foundations are worth keeping, and some men worth staying for.

This high-spice standalone novelette (12,000 words) is part of a series that need not be read in order. It will eventually be part of a series anthology. All intimacy is consensual, no characters are related, and all characters are over eighteen.