Rough Cut Edges: A Grumpy Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Later-in-Life Small-Town Romance (Timber Ridge Restorations, Book 2)

He builds to the thousandth of an inch. Nothing alive ever measures that clean.At forty-six, veterinarian Nora Bailey has come to Timber Ridge with a rescue wolfhound, a secondhand X-ray machine, and a past in Spokane she would rather not explain. Her clinic opens in forty days - if it passes inspection. Master cabinetmaker Mark Hayes has spent ten years keeping his life square, quiet, and entirely his own. He works alone. He answers to no one. And he has a strip of yellow tape across his shop floor that nobody crosses. Then her dog comes through his door and destroys eighty hours of Honduras mahogany - and the woman who follows refuses to be intimidated by a man with a tape line and a temper. Forced together on a deadline neither of them chose, sawdust and antiseptic turn into something neither will name. But a letter is already on its way from Spokane. And when it arrives, Mark will have to decide what a life measured in straight lines is really worth. A slow-burn, later-in-life romance about two people old enough to know exactly what things cost - and stubborn enough to want them anyway. Tropes: Later-in-Life Romance - Grumpy/Sunshine - Forced Proximity - Small-Town Pacific Northwest - Found Family - Guaranteed HEA, no cheating, no cliffhanger Book Two in the Timber Ridge Restorations series. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.