Welcome to Brighthead, Maine, a coastal town where the autumns are brilliant and the rivalries throw sparks.

Cashman Lavera will never forget the way Julie Capriotti, president of the running club, acted after he fell apart after ten miles of a half marathon. Do you want a lifelong enemy? Because that's how you get one.

As the club's vice president he still has to deal with her, but he will never run with her again. This year, they're both training for marathons, but different ones. Have a great race—over there.

Julie is training with a marathon charity team that's blessedly free of Cashman, Cashman's verbal barbs, and Cashman's arrogance. Is there nothing the man won't argue about? But when Julie catches the charity doing something underhanded, she pulls up stakes. Suddenly she doesn't have a marathon or a team.

When Julie ends up on Cashman's training team, they have to start running together. Racing twenty-six miles is never easy, but the unveiled hostility isn't going to make it any easier. The longer they train, though, the more the open road keeps opening up the secrets between them. His past…her future…and a whole lot of misunderstandings that lie between them and the finish line.

The road to love is long, and you can't always see the end.

Maddie Evans is a runner and biker. She lives in New England with her family and tropical fish, and she's always thought warm hearts are the perfect antidote to cold winters.

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