Tender Heart

He's hidden himself from the world. She's desperate to escape it. But fate-and a crumbling lighthouse-has other plans.Callum McCreary has spent two decades in self-imposed exile, keeping watch over the weather-beaten lighthouse his father once tended to on a remote island off the coast. The only tether to his past is his sister Iris, who runs the cozy café on the mainland-and the only person left who hasn't given up on him. After a devastating loss and a town that turned its back on him, Callum shut the door on love for good.Now, the lighthouse that has sheltered him is falling apart-and with it, the fragile life he's built. Unless it's restored, it will be shut down for good. But the local Restoration Society couldn't care less.Evie Holland hasn't written a word of her long-awaited fantasy novel since the accident that shattered her life five years ago. With her career hanging by a thread, her editor gives her a final ultimatum: finish the book in nine months-or it's over. Her escape? A residency far from the noise, pressure, and haunting reminders of the man who's stalked her with cryptic messages and dead Monarch butterflies for years.Evie can't see past her own desperation-but something about the lighthouse, the island, and the broken man who lives there just might change her mind.