Breakfast in bed

Sloan Fairchild has learned to guard her heart, so she channels her energy into the upscale bed-and-breakfast she runs. When her closest friend asks her to take in her fiancé for a month, Sloan agrees, and soon Carter Madison is staying under her roof at Fairchild House. He is far more unsettling than she expected, and he challenges the way she sees herself.

Sloan works hard to ignore the attraction she feels and reminds herself not to imagine a future with him. Once Carter makes his own feelings known, she must weigh her options: give in to a passing romance, leave before she gets hurt, or fight for a life that includes everything she wants.