Something Wicked (Idle Reputations)

She's spent years perfecting her reputation as the town's most untouchable woman—until the one man who once destroyed her comes home and makes it his mission to ruin everything she's rebuilt.

When Celeste returns to her small hometown to save her family's struggling business, the last person she expects to find is the infuriating, broad-shouldered, entirely-too-charming man who broke her heart a decade ago. He's back. He's apparently staying. And he has the nerve to look *better*.

Their history is a landmine neither of them can stop stepping on—sharp words traded over coffee, loaded glances across crowded rooms, a push-pull tension that has everyone in town whispering. She knows better than to trust him. He knows he never deserved her. But small towns have long memories, and the chemistry between them refuses to stay buried beneath old grudges and newer wounds.

As they're forced to work together, every argument crackles with something dangerously close to wanting. Every stolen moment chips away at the carefully constructed walls she's spent years building. The problem isn't that she hates him anymore.

The problem is that she doesn't.

*Something Wicked* is a sharp, swoony second-chance enemies-to-lovers romance about the terrifying distance between holding a grudge and holding someone close—and whether some connections are worth the wreckage of being wrong about them.