The Last Nail
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A California writer with a broken routine.
A Southern contractor with steady hands and a slower kind of love.
When Aeluna moves to Louisville to renovate an old house and find her words again, the last thing she expects is Maverick - patient, grounded, and dangerously intentional.
What starts as dust-covered floors and one page a day turns into late-night dinners, back porch confessions, and a man who looks at her like she's already home.
But falling in love is easy.
Letting yourself be chosen is harder.
And Maverick doesn't do anything halfway.
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