Beau
I've spent years making myself easy to overlook. Work at the shop, go home, keep my head down.
Then my best friend's wedding sends me cross-country with the maid of honor-one truck, one cottage, and nonstop chatter I can't tune out.
Whitley Collins talks to strangers like old friends and asks the questions I've spent years avoiding. I tell myself I just have to get her there on time.
I don't just get her there. I fall for her.
But letting her in means she'll find out why I never left Lily Ridge, and I know exactly what happens once people find out.
They leave.
Whitley
I've been told I'm too loud and chatty my entire life.
So when I'm stuck on a road trip with Beau Sinclair-a man who communicates mostly in grunts and disapproving eyebrow movements-I figure he'll be begging me to take a vow of silence.
Instead, he listens. All the way through my excellent game of naming every cow we pass.
We make it to the wedding. We dance. I even get the broody guy to smile like he means it.
Then he shuts me out. No explanation.
And I'm left wondering... Was I too much after all?