Sugar & Shadows

Rule #1: Never work with your enemy.

Rule #2: Definitely don't get accidentally pregnant with his baby.

Rule #3: Never get emotionally invested in a quirky small town.

Unfortunately, I've broken all three.

After a career-ending scandal sends me running home to Maplewood, Vermont, all I want is a fresh start. Instead, I find my hometown on the verge of collapse. The local economy is struggling, the beloved Maple Festival has been stolen by a rival town, and Mayor Gabriel Harding, the infuriating hometown hero I've been competing with since childhood, is facing a recall election.

Helping Gabe save Maplewood should be simple. I'm a political strategist. He's a small-town mayor. Together we should be unstoppable. It's just a temporary project. A strategic plan. A way to get my life back on track.

The problem? Gabe refuses to see me as the villain, even when I still do. Every time I push him away, he fights harder for me, for this town, and for the future neither of us saw coming.

Then I uncover a dangerous corporate conspiracy, become the target of powerful enemies, get snowed in with my childhood rival, and accidentally end up pregnant.

Now we're fighting for our future, our growing family, and the town neither of us is willing to give up on.

Because saving Maplewood might be impossible.

Heroes aren't supposed to fall in love with the villain.

Neither are they supposed to become a family.