Coffee and Cuffs

She came home to bury her mother and save the family coffee shop. He gave her a ticket the first time he saw her. Josephine Carter is twenty-five, broke, and back in a town she spent a decade trying to leave. Miles Reyes is forty-four, the only police sergeant Fox Hollow has, and the man who fixes your porch step and never tells you he noticed. She is a burst of color and a long list of bad ideas. He is coffee at 5 a.m., a spotless patrol car, and the silences that hold a town together. When her brother gets into the kind of trouble that could close the shop for good, Miles makes a choice that costs him his promotion and binds them together in a debt she'll spend a winter trying to repay — by cooking in his kitchen, fighting in his hallway, and learning that the man who keeps everyone safe has no one to keep him. Some people are gravity. Some people are weather. Fox Hollow is about to find out what happens when they share a table.