The Best Shot

Two years ago, Sawyer Reyes wrote the sentence that nearly cost Josie Marlowe everything.

Now he’s booked at her venue for the entire wedding season.

Josie inherited her family’s lakeside orchard the way she inherited everything else — quietly, and with more responsibility than she felt ready for.

When one bad storm and one bad review nearly took the business down two years ago, she rebuilt it herself, one wedding at a time, refusing to become the cautionary tale a magazine once made her out to be.

She never expected the photographer who wrote that review to end up on her vendor list. Worse — on every couple’s vendor list, which means an entire season working alongside the one man who watched her business nearly fall apart and said so, in print, for everyone to read.

Sawyer never meant for the headline to run the way it did.

He’s spent two years regretting the paragraph he didn’t fight hard enough to stop, and an entire spring discovering that Josie Marlowe is nothing like the story he told about her.

She’s steady in a crisis. She’s funny when she lets her guard down.

And she is, infuriatingly, impossible to stop thinking about.

As the season stretches from one wedding to the next — storms, string lights, a runaway goat, and a lot of very close calls — the two of them start building something neither of them planned for.

But an old mistake doesn’t disappear just because you’ve fallen for the person it hurt.

When the past catches up to both of them at once, they’ll have to decide whether trust, once broken, is worth rebuilding twice.

A slow-burn small-town romance about second chances, showing up when it counts, and learning that the best shot isn’t always the one you plan for.