Haunted Hearts

I have no business wanting a man like Will Holloway.
Grumpy. Gorgeous. Maddening as hell.

He’s the architect hired to rip the heart out of the Hawthorne Bay Public Library—the one place that still feels like mine. The one place that still connects me to my mother.
And as far as Will’s concerned, I’m nothing but a thorn in his side.
Yeah, well. Feeling’s mutual.
Or at least… it was.

Because the longer we clash, the harder it gets to ignore the heat simmering between us—or the strange, charged feeling that always seems to follow him. There’s something about Will Holloway that feels almost… haunted.
And the way he looks at me? It’s like he sees straight through every defense I’ve ever built.

I just don’t know what scares me more—
Losing the library that still ties me to my mother…
Or letting this man, with all his buried secrets, close enough to break me.