Second Chances & Steady Paws (A Willow Creek Romance Series)

She's back in Willow Creek for exactly six weeks—and somehow the most insufferable man in town is the only one who can save her dog.

Veterinarian Cole Merritt has spent three years building a quiet life in the small town that Nora Calloway once couldn't wait to escape. When Nora returns to settle her grandmother's estate, she has no intention of staying, no interest in revisiting old wounds, and absolutely zero plans to need Cole's help. Then her rescue mutt, Biscuit, has other ideas.

Forced together in Cole's clinic, the tension between them crackles like a live wire. He's still infuriatingly calm. She's still relentlessly restless. And the history they buried years ago refuses to stay underground. Every arguing match somehow ends with them standing too close, breathing too fast, remembering too much.

Cole believes Nora will leave again—because she always does. Nora believes staying would be surrendering—because it always felt that way. But Biscuit has a knack for steering his owner toward the things she runs from, and Willow Creek has a stubborn way of reminding people what they're missing.

*Second Chances & Steady Paws* is a slow-burn, sharp-tongued romance about the love we abandon when we're too afraid to stay, and the question that haunts them both: what if leaving was the real mistake?