Length8h 53m
About this audiobook
She has a calendar for everything except her own life. He has a suitcase he never quite unpacks. Mayor Opal Fontaine has spent years holding Harlan Bend together with agendas, follow-up emails, and a promise she can’t afford to break: the Opera House will reopen in November. At fifty, she runs the town like a marriage and her private life like a committee that never meets. Rhys Carrick arrives early, with rolled drawings and a Chicago airport tag still on his bag. The early-retired architect has agreed to stay six months, and not a day more. Between volunteer work nights, stubborn inspectors, and a Main Street full of neighbors who notice everything, a business arrangement becomes a habit, and the habit becomes something neither expected to need. A warm, open-door BWWM small-town romance (heat 3/5) with mature love, opposites attract, and slow burn, set in the Kansas Flint Hills. A complete standalone with a happily ever after.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Airport Tag
14The Morning After the Plan
2Six Months Upstairs
15The Unscheduled Hour
3The Minutes Will Show
16Not a Visit
4The First Red Line
17The Date in Ink
5Everyone Has an Hour
18Conditions for Access
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6The Old Stair
19Two Conditions
7An Empty Square
20A Suitcase by the Door
8A Line Held
21On the Record
9Before the Doors
22Unpacking
10The Difference Between Safe and Finished
23One Evening Unclaimed
11The Saturday List
24Approved in Sections
12When the House Lights Came Up
25What Stays on Main Street
13A Night Without a Checklist
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