the Last Booth at Bluebonnet: A Lark Mesa Romance (Book 7)

She walked out of a four-hundred-dollar-a-plate gala and bought a dying diner with everything she had left. Joanne Brennan spent twenty years plating other people's celebrations. At forty-six, done pretending the food was good enough, she cashes out her severance for the Bluebonnet Diner, the beating heart of a Hill Country town she has never set foot in. The regulars want their chicken-fried steak exactly the way Rosa always made it. Jo wants to give them something worth driving in for. The town, politely, riots.Sheriff Cal Whitaker has eaten dinner at the same counter stool every night for six years, because going home to a quiet house is worse. He is the last man Jo expects to become her ally, and the first who tells her which fights are worth picking. Slowly, over plates that never make the menu, two people who stopped expecting anything start staying until close.Then an old wire in an older building sparks two weeks before the Harvest Festival, and everything Jo has is inside it. But this is Lark Mesa. And in Lark Mesa, when the walls come down, the whole town shows up with hammers. A closed-door, small-town romance where the best chapters come after forty. Book 7 in the Lark Mesa Romance series. Each book is a standalone love story with a guaranteed happy ending.