Something Borrowed Someone New: A Closed Door Single Dad, Jilted Bride Romance (Wedding Season in Ivy Hollow)

She came to Ivy Hollow to fall apart. She didn't plan on being put back together by a man with sawdust in his hair and a six-year-old who asks too many questions.

Three weeks ago, Gemma Torres was standing in a wedding dress. Now she's standing in her best friend's borrowed cottage in a town she's never heard of, eating cereal for dinner and trying to remember how to breathe. Ivy Hollow was supposed to be a hiding place. Somewhere to lick her wounds, regroup, and definitely not interact with anyone.

Reid Sullivan is the last person who'd judge someone for a wrecked love life. The divorced contractor and single dad is rebuilding Harmony Chapel one beam at a time, and he's rebuilt himself the same slowly, carefully, with a lot of patience and not enough sleep. He doesn't need complications. His daughter Josie is his whole world, and that's enough.

But Josie has decided the sad lady next door is her new best friend. And Reid can't help noticing that the woman who showed up in Ivy Hollow looking like the world ended has paint under her fingernails, fire in her opinions, and a laugh that sounds like she's surprised she still has one.

Gemma isn't looking for love. Reid isn't offering. But somewhere between chapel renovations and finger-painting with a first grader, something borrowed starts feeling an awful lot like something that could be theirs.

A sweet, closed-door romance featuring a jilted bride who rediscovers her spark, a steady single dad who builds things because he can't fix everything, and a six-year-old matchmaker who has zero chill.