Not Him (Firebrook Valley Book 2)

She's had a list her whole life—qualities her perfect man must have—and he checks exactly none of them.

Firebrook Valley is the kind of small town where everyone knows your business, your history, and unfortunately, your most humiliating mistakes. When fate keeps throwing her directly into the path of the one man guaranteed to get under her skin, she does what any reasonable woman would do: she makes a rule. *Not him. Never him.*

He's too confident. Too aggravating. Too good at seeing straight through the walls she's spent years carefully constructing.

But small towns have a way of shrinking when you're trying to avoid someone. Shared friends, overlapping lives, and one unexpected crisis after another keep pushing them together until the line between irritation and attraction starts to blur dangerously. She tells herself the heat between them is just friction—two people who simply don't fit. He seems determined to prove otherwise.

The problem with fighting feelings you refuse to name is that they grow louder in the silence. And somewhere between their sharpest arguments and their most unguarded moments, she stops being certain she's right about him at all.

*Not Him* is a sharp, tender, and achingly real story about the person you swear you'd never fall for—and why they're sometimes the only one who was ever truly meant for you.