The Mechanic Who Kept Me: 1

My car broke down in Alder Gap. The mechanic decided I was staying.I'm supposed to be starting over. After walking away from a four-year relationship and the career that consumed my life, I pack everything I own into my grandmother's Volvo and head south with one rule. For once, I'm going to choose what I want.Then my car tries to fall apart on a mountain road outside Alder Gap, North Carolina.Enter Grady Dawson. Thirty-five. Broad shoulders. Rough hands. He owns the restoration shop where my Volvo will be spending the next several days.Grady has a problem. He's already decided he wants me. While I'm trying to figure out my next move, he's showing up every afternoon, remembering things I barely remember telling him, and quietly making himself impossible to forget.The worst part?He never asks me to stay because he understands something no other man in my life ever has.The choice has to be mine.For readers who love: Instalove with an obsessed, competent hero Stranded-in-a-small-town romance Blue-collar heroes with successful businesses He falls first and fast High heat and low relationship angst Meddling townspeople and found family A heroine choosing the life she actually wants Guaranteed HEA