For Now

Vegan Hayes has five dollars, a dead car, and absolutely no intention of letting anyone in Guelph discover who she really is.

Then fifty-two-year-old garage owner Cal Mercer walks into the Leopard Café.

Cal has spent ten years running from his own past. Now he is back in his hometown, rebuilding the garage he left behind and determined to keep his quiet life under control. Vegan is twenty-two, reckless, glittering and exactly the kind of trouble he should know better than to touch.

So naturally, she buys a half-broken baby-blue Miata from him, dates his charming young mechanic, invades his garage, and makes staying away from her impossible.

But Vegan has been running since she was sixteen. Every time her family tries to decide her future, she escapes somewhere new, becomes someone new and builds a life that feels completely real...for now.

A funny, messy and bittersweet age-gap romance about a runaway princess, a guarded mechanic, the people who mistake intensity for permanence, and the damage left behind when one person is always free to leave.