Blurb
In the tight-knit mountain town of Willow Creek, Colorado, everyone knows your name — and who you’re falling for.
Theodora “Theo” Ellis is starting over. Curvy, sunshine-hearted, and still healing from a painful breakup, the Boston transplant takes a teaching job at Pine Hollow Elementary, hoping for quiet classrooms, fresh mountain air, and no more heartbreak. What she gets is a charming small town that refuses to let her stay invisible.
Especially not to Sheriff Wyatt Hayes.
Brooding, divorced, and devoted to his eight-year-old son Lucas, Wyatt has spent years focusing on work and fatherhood while keeping his heart locked away. But when Lucas ends up in Miss Ellis’s class and the annual Harvest Festival committee pairs the new teacher with the sheriff to run the family games booth, their worlds collide in the best way.
From apple picking at Harvest Moon Orchard and late-night planning sessions under string lights, to quiet evenings by Willow Creek Lake and festival nights filled with music and magic, Theo’s warmth and curves slowly bring light back into Wyatt’s guarded life. As sparks turn into something deeper, both must decide if they’re brave enough to trust again.
In a town where love is hard to hide, can a curvy teacher finding her confidence and a lonely single-dad sheriff learn that sometimes the heart belongs exactly where it feels most at home?
A tender, feel-good small-town romance about healing, self-love, and second chances under harvest skies.
