Long Shot

I'm Tank Thompson-hardware store owner, hockey coach, professional fixer of other people's problems. My life runs on small-town certainty and the comfort of low expectations. Until Kat Brooks hurricane-forces her way back to Lake Haven, buying a structural disaster masquerading as a house, and suddenly I'm sketching renovation plans at 2 AM like some lovesick teenager.

I shouldn't offer to help her. My store's bleeding money, Tommy's college tuition looms like a financial apocalypse, and Northern Pines Academy is dangling a coaching job that could fix everything if I'm willing to uproot my entire existence. Yet here I am, demolishing walls in her kitchen, watching dust settle on her cheek, wondering if at 34 it's finally time to want something for myself.

When her dinner invitation hits my phone, my thumb hovers between habit and hope. I've been in love with Kat Brooks since forever, and I'm running out of excuses not to do something about it.

Long Shot continues the Lake Haven series. Will Tank risk everything for unexpected love and the courage to rebuild more than just houses?