Happy Place

Riley Lewis thought she'd already found her happy place.

It was a small coastal town in Maine where the ocean knew her name, where mornings smelled like espresso and bacon grease, and where she could disappear into routine-waitressing at her best friend's family restaurant while quietly figuring out what came next after a veterinary science degree and a childhood that taught her how to survive alone.

Then Seth Richardson shows up.

He's wealthy, arrogant, and everything Riley distrusts-an outsider with a black card, sharp eyes, and ties to a biotech empire she hates on principle. He orders espresso like a challenge, tips like money is a language, and refuses to stay out of her carefully constructed life. What starts as irritation turns into proximity, arguments into laughter, and tension into something Riley can't ignore.

Set against saltwater mornings, sunburned afternoons, and late-night dinners that blur the line between enemies and something far more dangerous, Happy Place is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers story about independence, intimacy, and what happens when someone threatens the quiet life you've built-by seeing you too clearly.

Because sometimes your happy place isn't where you are.

It's who you didn't expect to let in.