The Bluebird Inn

She crashed her car through his fence. He proposed marriage two weeks later.
Elena Hart bought the Bluebird Inn to prove she could still build a life after cancer took everything else. What she got instead was a condemned roof, a foreclosure notice, and a furious neighbor who owned half her land. Noah Bennett never wanted a wife. He wanted to keep the three siblings he's raised alone since losing everything, and the family court judge weighing his case has made one thing clear: love isn't enough. She wants stability. He needs it on paper by next week.

Their fake engagement is supposed to solve two problems with one signature: a marriage of convenience that saves Elena's inn and hands Noah the stable household his custody case demands. No feelings. Six months, tops. But forced proximity has a way of rewriting the rules neither of them planned to break, and somewhere between burnt dinners, a silent little girl who finally starts speaking again, and a secret buried in the inn's attic that will upend everything they think they know about family, this small town romance stops feeling anything like business.

When old fears and a devastating secret threaten to unravel it all, Elena and Noah have to decide whether the family they built by accident is worth fighting for on purpose, before a custody battle, a hidden truth about a child neither of them expected, and the weight of loss they've both survived once already takes it from them for good.

If you love enemies to lovers tension, a brooding single dad hero, and a found family that earns every tear along the way, The Bluebird Inn will keep you up past midnight. Grab your copy today and fall in love with Maple Ridge.