Boots and Blueprints

Nora Vance came home to run her father's construction company before it ran itself into the ground. Cole Bishop runs the rival shop across town, the one her family has hated for thirty years, and the only contractor in the county who can deliver the new library on schedule. When the board forces them into a joint venture, they spend six weeks brawling in a job-site trailer and four nights not admitting anything. In early spring, Nora finds out she's pregnant. She's already fighting her brothers for the company her mother died in; now she has to decide whether Cole is the enemy or the only person in Fox Hollow who tells her the truth. Through a framing inspection, a Fourth of July nobody survives cleanly, and one very long conversation in the rain, two families' oldest grudge has to get knocked down before anything new can be built. A small-town romance about blueprints, grudges, and choosing the other side.