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The Tomorrow We Never Planned: Black Ridge
Paperback
Series: Black Ridge, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Claire Mercer thought ending her engagement would be the biggest upheaval of her life.
She was wrong.
One impulsive night with a stranger was supposed to be exactly that-one night. No names. No promises. Nothing owed after sunrise.
A month later, Claire has traded the future someone else planned for her for one of her own: the crumbling Black Ridge Inn, a century-old mountain property she is determined to restore. But before she can even unpack, a failing retaining wall brings rugged excavation contractor Evan Cole to her door.
And there is something painfully familiar about him.
Evan knows unstable ground. He knows how to rebuild what everyone else has given up on. What he doesn't know is what to do with Claire-the stubborn, sharp-tongued innkeeper who keeps getting under his skin and somehow feels like someone he has already lost once.
Then recognition changes everything.
The anonymous night neither of them expected to repeat suddenly has consequences neither of them can ignore.
As storms roll across the mountains, the inn begins to come back to life, and the distance between Claire and Evan becomes harder to maintain. But Claire has spent too long living inside someone else's version of her future, and Evan has his own reasons for keeping careful control over his.
Falling for each other wasn't part of the plan.
Neither was the baby.
Now, with a mountain inn to save, a future arriving faster than either of them expected, and a connection that refuses to stay casual, Claire and Evan have to decide whether the life they never planned might be the one worth choosing.
The Tomorrow We Never Planned is a warm, emotional small-town mountain romance filled with sharp banter, forced proximity, unexpected pregnancy, renovation chaos, slow-building chemistry, and two people learning that the best futures aren't always the ones you planned.
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