Drawn to Stay: A Merrybrook Romance

Allison Hayes has spent her whole life taking care of everyone else. So when a job teaching art in a tiny Montana town turns up at eleven o'clock one night, she applies before she can talk herself out of it.

Merrybrook isn't on her GPS. It has a lake that goes still when something matters, a café where the coffee somehow knows how you feel, and a whole town that notices everything.

It also has Shane Colter.

The quiet, flannel-wearing owner of the hardware store doesn't say much. He just fixes things before anyone asks: the sticky window in her classroom, the crooked cabinet door in her kitchen, the loose board on the playground. The whole town can see he's falling for the new art teacher. Shane would rather fix one more thing than say so.

But Shane has spent years being useful instead of honest, and Allison has never once been the one someone chooses. When a message from her past lights up her phone, the man who never asks for anything will have to decide whether he's brave enough to ask for her.

Drawn to Stay is a cozy, slow-burn small-town romance with a curvy heroine, a hero who shows his love through what he builds, a town with a little magic in it, and open-door heat. It's Book One of the Merrybrook series.