Lian Chen has one goal: to disappear. After escaping her controlling ex, she finds herself in Hillcrest Mountain—a town so small it barely registers on maps. Perfect. The abandoned brick building beside the local garage is exactly what she needs to open her grandmother’s Chinese restaurant and rebuild her shattered life.

There’s just one problem.

Kade Storer. The six-foot-something of tattooed muscle and permanent scowl won’t rent her the space. The grumpy mechanic with engine grease under his fingernails takes one look at her designer clothes and silver Mercedes and decides she doesn’t belong in his world.

But Lian isn’t leaving without a fight. Not when she’s finally found a place that feels safe.

Who will break first?

The gruff mechanic with calloused hands and a wall around his heart, convinced she’ll bolt like his ex the second a clean-cut guy with a degree comes along?

Or the city girl wrapped in couture and old wounds, terrified to trust again, especially a man twice the size of her ex, with hands that could so easily mimic the control she just escaped?

A sweet and sizzling small-town romance featuring a protector hero who falls hard and fast, a resilient heroine finding her strength again, and the kind of chemistry that can melt steel.

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