The Last First Kiss: A Small-Town Second-Chance Romance

Emma Hart swore she would never come back to Blue Ridge Falls.

She definitely swore she would never fall for Luke Bennett again.

After eleven years away, Emma returns to her small Virginia hometown to deal with the one inheritance she never asked for: Hart House Inn, her grandmother's beloved but crumbling bed-and-breakfast. The plan is simple. Fix what has to be fixed, sell the place, and get back to her carefully built life in Richmond.

Then the roof starts leaking.

And the only contractor available is Luke Bennett - her first love, her biggest heartbreak, and the one man who still knows exactly how to get under her skin.

Luke has spent years restoring old houses and pretending he no longer cares about the girl who left. But Hart House is not just another job, and Emma is not just another client. As they work side by side through broken ceilings, meddling townspeople, family memories, and one very suspicious squirrel, old feelings begin resurfacing in ways neither of them can ignore.

But Emma has a life waiting somewhere else. Luke has a heart that remembers what it felt like to lose her. And Hart House may need more than repairs - it may need Emma to decide whether coming home means getting stuck... or finally finding where she belongs.