The Stranger on the Deed: A Slow-Burn Small-Town Romance

di Myer Simons (Autore)

MYER SIMONS, 2026

Vesper Quinnell has always trusted paper more than people. At forty-four, she is a successful Seattle attorney with bills to pay, pressure at work, and very little room left for grief. When her late great-aunt leaves her a lake house in rural Montana, Vesper believes she has been handed a way out. Sell Larkspur House, settle what needs settling, and return to the life she knows how to survive. Then she sees the deed. Rowan Calder, a man she does not remember and does not trust, owns half the property. He refuses to sell, not because the house is worth money, but because he knows what Vesper does not: her great-aunt left him there for a reason. Mercy Lake is full of old records, guarded memories, and silences that have shaped two families for decades. As Vesper and Rowan are forced into uneasy partnership, their arguments begin to uncover something deeper than a property dispute. The house has been protecting a truth. The lake has been holding a wound. And the man standing in Vesper's way may be the only person who can help her understand what her family tried to bury. Between legal pressure, small-town loyalties, and a slow-burn attraction neither of them planned, Vesper must choose whether to keep running from the past or stay long enough to learn what kind of future is still possible. The Stranger on the Deed is an emotional small-town contemporary romance about inheritance, loyalty, family secrets, mature love, and the difficult beauty of finding home after years of surviving without one.

• Autore: Myer Simons
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: MYER SIMONS
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235544802