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Dumped by her boyfriend and her job for being 'too safe', Sophie Bennett decides it's time to rewrite her story. A viral crowdfunding campaign gives her the chance to transform a rundown lakeside boathouse into the bookshop she's always dreamed of. But Solace Springs isn't quite ready for her big plans - especially Luke Rhodes, the brooding boatbuilder next door who seems determined to challenge her every move.

Laid off by her job and dumped by her boyfriend for being "too safe," Londoner Sophie Bennett does what any sensible person would do: drink wine and launch a joke crowdfunding campaign called "Help a Boring Girl Buy a Bookshop." To her horror, the bookish corner of the internet takes it seriously, and suddenly she’s gone viral with enough donations to actually buy and renovate a ramshackle boathouse in Solace Springs, USA. Now she’s stuck following through. After all, what kind of person would she be if she let down four thousand strangers who believe in her dream?

I needed someone I could trust. Someone others would trust. Someone with no criminal record. With no previous involvement. A cleanskin. Someone to come over, do the job, and go home.... Some days, even Halley can't find the person she once was. She's changed her name and no one - least of all her husband and son - knows of her past. No one except Aidan, who turns up one day in her small Australian town and shatters the façade she's built so carefully.