the Sweetness of Staying: Book Two Maple Hollow series

Lily Donovan has spent her whole life taking care of everyone but herself-so when the chance comes to finally own the bakery she's poured her heart into for years, wanting it that badly scares her more than losing it ever could. Ben Calloway knows how to survive. Four years in the army taught him that. What it didn't teach him was how to let anyone close enough to see the nights that still catch up with him - not even the steady, warm-hearted woman he's falling for one Sunday dinner at a time. They're good at loving each other carefully, from a safe distance. Its staying - all the way in, nothing held back - that neither of them knows how to do. Set in the same lakeside Vermont town as The Way Back to Maple Hollow, this slow-burn small-town romance follows two people learning that the people worth choosing are the ones you let see you completely - scars, fears, and all.