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The Cottage War: A Cozy Small-Town Romance with a Grumpy Architect and a Sunshine Heroine
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A grumpy architect. A sunshine heroine. A village cottage that refuses to be quietly sold.
Lottie Bennett did not come back to Hazelwick-on-Cole to fail in public.
After London leaves her with one suitcase, no job, and a smile she has practised too carefully, Lottie returns home and throws herself into saving Briar Lane Cottage-a beloved, crumbling village landmark with a wartime past, a leaking roof, and a developer already circling.
Her plan is simple: prove the cottage still matters. Tea mornings. Garden activities. Market stalls. A history exhibit. A full Briar Lane Weekend that will show the district council this is not an empty building waiting to be sold, but a living part of the village.
There is only one problem: Arthur Hale.
Arthur is the conservation architect whose approval can make or break the entire campaign. Severe, precise, and allergic to bunting, he sees danger where Lottie sees possibility. She calls him Mr. Doom. He calls her a walking planning violation. Neither of them expects their hostile partnership to become the one thing holding the cottage-and themselves-together.
But with six weeks on the clock, a village watching every argument, and old secrets tucked inside Briar Lane's walls, Lottie and Arthur must decide whether saving the cottage is only about preserving the past... or finally making room for a future neither of them planned.
The Cottage War is a cozy small-town enemies-to-lovers romance featuring grumpy/sunshine chemistry, forced proximity, slow-burn tension, found family, village gossip, community restoration, and a heartfelt happily-ever-after.
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