She came to South Grove to disappear. He never expected she'd be the one thing he couldn't ignore.
After fleeing an abusive marriage, Lily Carrington has reinvented herself in the quiet beach town of South Grove, North Carolina. With a new name, now Ellery Townsend, a secluded cottage by the ocean, and a dream of opening her own bakery, she's determined to build a life that's finally hers. No past. No lies. No one looking too closely.
Cash Connolly is a grumpy, guarded CPA with no patience for complications-and no shortage of women trying to change his mind. But when a quiet, stubborn baker walks into his office needing help with her books and pretending she knows what a profit and loss statement is, she throws off his rhythm in all the wrong ways.
And maybe all the right ones.
But Ellery's past isn't finished with her. As sparks fly and trust builds, the truth she's worked so hard to bury comes back with a vengeance. And when the man she thought she escaped finally finds her, it will take everything-including the one person she never expected-to protect the life she's just begun to believe she deserves.