Best Man, Worst Mistake

She caught her fiancé with another woman at their rehearsal dinner. Then she took the blame.

For six years, Hallie has let her family believe she was the flighty one: the runaway almost-bride who walked out with no explanation.

She couldn’t tell the truth. Not when her ex-fiancé was also her brother’s best friend, business partner, and favorite person on earth: Elias.

The fallout would have ruined her brother’s life.

So Hallie paid the bill herself. She smiled, she baked, and she kept the secret.

Now her brother is getting married on a private island, the imported wedding cake arrives destroyed, and Hallie steps in as the emergency baker. The real disaster? Her brother just drafted Elias to be her assistant.

Every night after the parties wind down, it’s the two of them alone in a resort kitchen. The last two people who should be working together, whose hands still move in a rhythm the silence never erased.

Elias isn’t going to explain himself. He’s spent years living like a man doing penance, and everyone thinks it’s just his personality.

But islands are small. Some debts don’t stay quiet forever. And the interest on that bill is about to come due."

A second-chance romance with humor and heartbreak in equal measure, about a woman who took the blame to protect the family she loves, and the man who owes her more than an apology can carry.

The cheating happens in chapter one. The rest of the book is what it costs him.